ORIGINAL ORDER FOR PUBLICATION. BY Councilman PINCKNEY: Resolved, That the Clerk of the Common Council be, and he is hereby directed to employ a competent copyist to compile all the various laws and amendments to laws, as passed by the State Legislature, and all the ordinances, amendments to ordinances, and resolutions, as passed by the Common Council, relative to the organization and regulation of the New York Fire Department, from the passage of the original law, authorizing the Common Council to "appoint firemen," passed 1813. Adopted by the Board of Councilmen, Sept. 18, 1854. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, Sept. 21, 1854. Approved by the Mayor, Sept. 22, 1854. On October 13, 1859, the following resolution was adopted by the Board of Councilmen : By Councilman BULTEEL: Whereas, At the late burning of the City Hall, a great number of bound volumes were destroyed, among which was the compilation of the laws and regulations of the Fire Department; and whereas there are daily and numerous calls for the same, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be directed to have printed and bound, without delay, 2,500 copies of the compilation of the laws of the State of New York; also, ordinances, resolutions, and orders, as established by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, relating to the Fire Department of this city. C. T. MCCLENACHAN, Clerk Board of Councilmen. PREFACE. In the following compilation of the Laws of the State, and Ordinances, &c., of the Common Council, relating to the Fire Department of the City of New York, in pursuance of a resolution of the Common Council, approved September 22, 1854, the compiler is aware, that although he has endeavored to execute the trust with faithfulness and accuracy, many defects will necessarily appear in consequence of the many imperfections in the records of the Common Council of the city, more particularly in those ordinances established anterior to 1832, which appear only in MSS. and loose and imperfect files. The compiler is indebted to the Clerk of the Common Council for permission to search the manuscript records of early date, which will be found in the following work, as much from necessity in the form of history, as of transcript of ordinances, &c. Trusting that the following compilation will fill up a blank, long and seriously felt by the Common Council, and the Fire Department generally, it is, with great deference, accordingly submitted by C. T. McCLENACHAN. |