payable to the receiver of taxes or the county treasurer of the county of Richmond, or to any officer of any of the municipal and public corporations, or parts of municipal and public corporations, hereby consolidated with the corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, as well as all funds and moneys then held by or payable to any officer of said last-named corporation, shall be deemed to be held by and be payable to the corporation of The City of New York, constituted by this act, solely as the funds and moneys of said corporation, and upon the day aforesaid shall be delivered to the officer of said corporation entitled by this act to hold and control the same. All taxes levied against the town of Hempstead in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven shall be collectible and payable according to the provisions of the existing laws.

Expenses of the city for the years 1898 and 1902.

§ 10. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of the various municipal and public corporations consolidated by this act into The City of New York, to prepare a budget for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as required by existing law, and to levy taxes for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as required by existing law, as though such municipal and public corporations were not to be consolidated into The City of New York; and in so far as such taxes shall remain uncollected on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, they shall become valid liens due to the corporation by this act constituted, and shall be collected by it through the appropriate officers of The City of New York, as hereby constituted, pursuant in all respects to the laws under which said taxes were levied and were to be collected. On and after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the funds received by the chamberlain of The City of New York, under this act, and the proceeds of revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the taxes for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight in The City of New York, as constituted prior to the passage of this act, and the proceeds of the tax levy therein of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, may be used for the expenses of The City of New York, as constituted by this act, in such manner as the board of estimate and apportionment for that year may determine; and it shall be the duty of the board of estimate and

apportionment to apportion the said funds to the various city departments as created by this act, so that such funds shall be used as nearly as may be, for the objects for which they were raised. The board of estimate and apportionment, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall have power to direct the issue of revenue bonds of The City of New York, to be redeemed out of the tax to be paid in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for such purposes and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide for the efficient conduct of the city in all its departments, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, provided that the sums so raised in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be subject to be raised by taxation upon the various boroughs on the basis elsewhere provided in this act. Between January first and May first in the year nineteen hundred and two the board of estimate and apportionment shall have power from time to time to alter, modify and amend the budget for the year nineteen hundred and two; to change the titles, terms and conditions of appropriations contained therein; to add new appropriations and abolish any that may be found unnecessary; and in furtherance of these purposes shall have the power, if additional funds be required, to direct the comptroller to issue special revenue bonds redeemable from the tax levy of the year nineteen hundred and three.

CHAPTER II.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Legislative power; where vested.

817. The legislative power of The City of New York shall be vested in one house to be known and styled as "The Board of Aldermen of The City of New York."

Board of aldermen; president; quorum; salaries; vacancies, how filled.

§ 18. The board of aldermen shall consist of members elected one from each of the aldermanic districts hereinafter provided for and of the president of the board of aldermen and of the presidents of the several boroughs. The president of the board of aldermen shall be chosen on a general ticket by the qualified voters of the city at the same time and for the same term as herein prescribed for the mayor. He shall be known as the president of the board of aldermen, and shall, except as herein provided, possess all the rights, privileges

and powers, and perform the duties which on December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, were conferred or imposed by law upon the president of the board of aldermen of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York. The aldermen shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and one, and every two years thereafter. The term of office of each member of the board of aldermen shall commence on the first day of January after his election, and shall continue for two years thereafter. The phrase, all the members of the board of aldermen, wherever used in this act, shall be taken and held to mean all the members of said board, including the president of the board of aldermen and the presidents of the several boroughs. The phrase, members elected to the board of aldermen, wherever used in this act, shall be taken and held to mean all the members of said board, except the president of the board of aldermen and the presidents of the several boroughs. Any vacancy which may occur among the members elected to the board of aldermen shall be filled by election by a majority of all the members elected thereto, of a person who must be of the same political party as the member whose place has become vacant; and the person so elected to fill any such vacancy shall serve for the unexpired portion of the term. A majority of all the members of the board of aldermen shall constitute a quorum. The salary of the president of the board shall be five thousand dollars a year, and the salaries of the aldermen shall be one thousand dollars a year.

Aldermanic districts.

§ 19. The City of New York is hereby divided into seventy-three aldermanic districts as follows: Each of the assembly districts lying wholly or in part within said territory as the same existed on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, shall constitute a separate aldermanic district except as herein provided; the twenty-first assembly district of the county of New York is hereby divided into two aldermanic districts as follows: That portion of the twentyfirst assembly district bounded on the north by West One Hundred and First street from the Hudson river to Amsterdam avenue, to West One Hundred and Second street to Central Park west; on the south by West Eighty-ninth street from the Hudson river to Amsterdam avenue, to West Eighty-sixth street to Columbus avenue, to West Eightyfirst street to Central Park west; on the west by the Hudson river from West Eighty-ninth street to West One Hundred

and First street; on the east by Central Park west from West Eighty-first street to West One Hundred and Second street shall constitute a separate aldermanic district, and that portion of the said twenty-first assembly district bounded on the north by West One Hundred and Nineteenth street from the Hudson river to Broadway, to West One Hundred and Twentieth street to Seventh avenue, to West One Hundred and Tenth street to Fifth avenue; on the south by West One Hundred and First street from the Hudson river to Amsterdam avenue, to West One Hundred and Second street to Central Park west to West Ninety-seventh street across the Central park to Fifth avenue; on the west by the Hudson river from West One Hundred and First street to West One Hundred and Nineteenth street; on the east by Fifth avenue from West Ninety-seventh street to West One Hundred and Tenth street shall constitute a separate aldermanic district. The twenty-third assembly district of the county of New York is hereby divided into two aldermanic districts as follows: That portion of the twenty-third assembly district bounded on the north by West One Hundred and Forty-third street from the Hudson river to Seventh avenue, to the Harlem river to Fifth avenue; on the south by West One Hundred and Nineteenth street from the Hudson river to Broadway, to West One Hundred and Twentieth street to Eighth avenue, to West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street to Fifth avenue; on the west by the Hudson river from West One Hundred and Nineteenth street to West One Hundred and Forty-third street; on the east by Fifth avenue from West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street to the Harlem river shall constitute a separate aldermanic district, and that portion of the said twenty-third assembly district bounde 1 on the north by the Harlem river from the Hudson river to Spuyten Duyvil creek to the Harlem river; on the south by West One Hundred and Forty-third street from the Hudson river to Seventh avenue; on the west by the Hudson river from West One Hundred and Forty-third street to the Harlem river; on the east by the Harlem river from Spuyten Duyvil creek to Seventh avenue shall constitute a separate aldermanic district. The thirty-first assembly district of the county of New York is hereby divided into two aldermanic districts as follows: That portion of the said thirty-first assembly district bounded on the north by West One Hundred and Twenty-second street from Eighth avenue to Lenox avenue, to West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, to

East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Park avenue; on the south by West One Hundred and Twentieth street from Eighth avenue to Seventh avenue; to West One Hundred and Tenth street, to East One Hundred and Tenth street and Park avenue; on the west by Eighth avenue from West One Hundred and Twentieth street to West One Hundred and Twenty-second street; on the east by Park avenue from East One Hundred and Tenth street to East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street shall constitute a separate aldermanic district, and that portion of said thirty-first assembly district bounded on the north by West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street from Eighth avenue to Fifth avenue, to East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street to Park avenue; on the south by West One Hundred and Twenty-second street from Eighth avenue to Lenox avenue, to West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, to East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Park avenue; on the west by Eighth avenue from West One Hundred and Twenty-second street to West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street; on the east by Park avenue from East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street to East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street shall constitute a separate aldermanic district. The thirty-fourth assembly district of the county of New York is hereby divided into two aldermanic districts as follows: That portion of the said thirty-fourth assembly district which lies within the borough of Manhattan and is known as part of the twelfth ward of said borough shall constitute a separate aldermanic district, and that portion of said thirty-fourth assembly district including North Brother Island which lies within the borough of The Bronx and is known as part of the twentythird ward of said borough shall constitute a separate aldermanic district. The thirty-fifth assembly district of the county of New York is hereby divided into four aldermanic districts as follows: That portion of said thirty-fifth assembly district bounded on the north by the southern boundary Hine of the forty-second and forty-third election districts as constituted on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, from the Hudson river to Jerome avenue; on the south by East One Hundred and Forty-ninth street from the Harlem river to Park avenue, to East One Hundred and Fiftieth street to Morris avenue; on the west by the Harlem river from East One Hundred and Forty-ninth street to Spuyten Duyvil creek to Harlem river, to Hudson river, to the southern boundary line of the forty