Appointed by the Board of Supervisors under the Act passed April 2,

1862.

FIRST DISTRICT-Chas. F. Watts, George J. Smith, John Contrell. SECOND DISTRICT-Patrick Collins, Wm. Thompson, Henry Murphy. THIRD DISTRICT-Thos. Cushing, Alexander Lippman, William Silbilsky.

FOURTH DISTRICT-Dominick Conlin, Michael Doody, Charles V. Lyons. FIFTH DISTRICT-John W. Somerindyke, Frederick Badenhoff, Leopold Rindskopp, Matthew Beirne.

SIXTH DISTRICT-August Sibberns, Richard M. Lush, Edward S. Malloy, Matthew Nugent.

SEVENTH DISTRICT-John R. Farrington, Patrick J. Hanbury, Micaiah M. Staniels, James B. Devoe, John T. Stewart.

EIGHTH DISTRICT-James Britt, Charles A. Clark, Henry R. Adee.
AT LARGE-Oliver Sloan Holden, John H. Hillier.

PILOT COMMISSIONERS.

Office, 69 South street.

In consequence of the repeal by the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1845, of all laws regulating pilots and pilotage for the port of New York, by the way of Sandy Hook, the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Underwriters organized a Board, consisting of five members; of whom

2 were appointed by the Chamber of Commerce;

In 1853 the Legislature passed the present law, legalizing the action of the above bodies, and creating a Board of five Commissioners.

3 to be appointed by the Chamber of Commerce; and

The Pilot Commissioners are also, by act of the Legislature of April 16, 1857, Harbor Commissioners.

MARKET COMMISSION.

Appointed in pursuance of an act passed March, 1865. Benjamin F. Manierre, President. John N. Hayward, Treasurer. Henry Beeny, Clerk.

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THEREOF, PASSED APRIL

FIFTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-
SEVEN," PASSED APRIL TENTH, EIGHT-

EEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. The act entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled An Act to Establish a Metropolitan Police District, and to provide for the Government thereof," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby amended in the following specified sections, so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The counties of New York, Kings, Westchester, and Richmond, and the towns of Newtown, Flushing, and Jamaica, in the county of Queens, are hereby constituted and territorially united, for the purpose of police government and police discipline therein, into one district,

which shall be known as, and called, the Metropolitan Police District of the State of New York.

§ 3. The powers and duties connected with and incident to the police government and discipline of the said district shall be, as hereinafter more especially provided for, vested in and exercised by Commissioners of Metropolitan Police; and a Board of Metropolitan Police, composed of said Commissioners, and by a Metropolitan Police force, composed of a Superintendent of Metropolitan Police force, Inspectors of Metropolitan Police force, Captains of Metropolitan Police, Sergeants of Metropolitan Police force, and Patrolmen of Metropolitan Police.

§ 4 Consists of sections 1 and 2 of chapter 41 of the laws of 1864, as follows:

"SEC. 1. Section 4 of chapter 259 of the laws of 1860, is hereby amended so "that it shall read as follows:

"Either of said Commissioners may at any time be removed by the Governor, "under the provisions of statutes relating to the removal from office of "Sheriffs, which provisions are hereby extended so as to relate to each one "of the said Commissioners, and in all cases where charges are made against a Commissioner, he shall have an opportunity to present evidence "in his behalf.

"SEC. 2. Sections five, seven, and eight, of chapter 259 of the laws of 1860, are "hereby repealed."

§ 5 Consists of section 3 of chapter 41 of the laws of 1864, as follows: "SEC. 3. In place of the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police, appointed under "or by virtue of chapter 259 of the laws of 1860, whose several terms of "office are hereby vacated, there are hereby appointed, respectively, as "such Commissioners, Thomas C. Acton, to hold office until the first day of "March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; Joseph S. "Bosworth, to hold office until the first day of March, A. D. one thousand "eight hundred and seventy; John G. Bergen, to hold office until the first "day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; and "William McMurray, to hold office until the first day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six."

§ 6. Any one of the said Commissioners, or any member of the police force, who shall, during his term of office, accept or hold any other place of public trust or civil emolument, or who shall, during his term of office, be publicly nominated for any office elective by the people, and shall not, within ten days succeeding the same, publicly decline the said nomination, shall be, in either case, deemed thereby to have resigned his commission, and to have vacated his office.

§ 7 Consists of sections 4 and 5 of chapter 41 of the laws of 1864, as follows:

"SEC. 4. The term of office of each Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, after "the respective determinations of the terms aforesaid, shall be eight 66 years; and the Legislature shall, in the mode prescribed by law for the

"election of Regents of the University, and within twenty days before the "expiration of the several terms of office aforesaid, elect, from the residents "of the District, a successor of the person aforesaid, as a Commissioner of "Metropolitan Police. Any vacancy occurring during the term of any "Commissioner shall be filled by appointment, by the remaining Commis"sioners, and the Commissioner so appointed shall continue in office until "his successor shall be elected by the next Legislature after said appoint"ment, and qualified.

"SEC. 5. The persons severally appointed Commissioners of Metropolitan "Police, by virtue of this act, shall, before exercising the duties thereof, "duly take and file, in the office of Secretary of State, the oath of office "prescribed for State officers. Immediately upon receiving said oath of "office, the Secretary of State shall give to each Commissioner a certificate "of his appointment, whereupon he shall possess the powers and exercise "the duties of Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, prescribed by said "chapter two hundred and fifty-nine, of the laws of eighteen hundred and "sixty."

§ 8 Consists of sections 6 and 7 of chapter 41 of the laws of 1864, as follows:

"SEC. 6. Any Commissioner whose term of office may have expired, shall

"continue to hold office until his successor shall have qualified. Three of "the said Commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the Board of Metro"politan Police.

"SEC. 7. No person shall be eligible to be appointed to, or competent to hold, "the office of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, except he be a citizen of "the Metropolitan Police District, and resident therein."

§ 9. Those portions of the Metropolitan Police District which contribute to the Police Fund, and authorize the appointment of patrolmen, shall be divided by the Board of Metropolitan Police into precincts, not exceeding in the aggregate one precinct to each fifty of the patrolmen authorized to be appointed. The said Board may appoint as many captains as precincts, and assign one captain, and as many sergeants and patrolmen as they shall deem sufficient, to each precinct. Any number of said precincts may be joined into a sub-district by the said Board, and assigned to the charge of an inspector of police force. Any number of precincts may be likewise joined into surgical districts, and assignments made thereto of Surgeons of Police by the said Board.

§ 10. The Board of Metropolitan Police, whenever vacancies occur, or the same becomes requisite, shall appoint the Superintendent of Metropolitan Police force, and the Inspectors of Metropolitan Police force, not exceeding four, and the Captains of Metropolitan Police, not exceeding one to each precinct, and the Sergeants of Metropolitan Police, not exceeding four to each precinct, and one for each special squad, and the patrolmen of Metropolitan Police, to the number authorized by this act. The Board of Metropolitan Police shall promulgate all regulations and orders to the force through the Superintendent of Police, who shall