How are the ordinances established by the Municipal Assembly carried into effect?

By the Executive Department of the City Government. At the head of this is the MAYOR, whose term of office is four years, and whose salary is $15,000. He is ineligible for election a second term unless one term intervene.

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In the absence of the Mayor, or in case of his disability, the duties of his office are assumed by the President of the Council. case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor the President of the Council acts as Mayor until noon of the first Monday in January succeeding the election at which the Mayor's successor shall be chosen. If there has been a vacancy in the Mayor's office for more than thirty days previous to any election at which municipal officers are chosen, a successor must be chosen to fill the office of Mayor for the unexpired

term.

The President of the Council, when acting as Mayor in case of the absence or illness of the latter, is not permitted to exercise any power of appointment or removal from office unless the absence or disability of the Mayor shall have continued ten days. While the

President of the Council is acting as Mayor, his place in the Council is taken by a vicechairman, elected by the Council from among its own members.

Every ordinance passed by the Municipal Assembly is placed before the Mayor for his approval. If the Mayor approves the ordinance he signs it; if he disapproves it he returns it, with his written objections, to the Municipal Assembly, where it may be passed over his veto, by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to each house, unless it be an ordinance involving the expenditure of money, or the laying of an assessment, or the granting of a franchise, in which case a five-sixths vote is required.

If the Mayor fail either to sign the ordinance or to return it to the Municipal Assembly within ten days, in case the Municipal Assembly be in session, then the ordinance takes effect as if he had approved it.

What other general officers, beside the Mayor and the President of the Council, are elected at the city election, and at the same time as the Mayor?

Only the Comptroller, who has charge of

the finances of the city. His term of office is four years, his salary $10,000.

How are the departmental officers appointed?

There are eighteen departments, and of all except that of Finance the heads are appointed by the Mayor.

What are the administrative Departments of the City Government?

1. The FINANCE DEPARTMENT, whose head is the Comptroller. It has control of all the financial concerns of the city. All accounts kept in or rendered to other departments are subject to the inspection and revision of the officers of this department. It contains five bureaus one for the collection of revenue accruing from rents, interest, and sales; one for the collection of taxes; one for the collection of arrears; one which audits all accounts in which the city is concerned; and one for the reception of all moneys paid into the treasury, and the payments of all moneys out of the treasury. The Comptroller appoints all officers in this department except the head of the lastnamed bureau, the City Chamberlain, who is appointed by the Mayor, and whose salary is

$12,000. The office of Chamberlain had its origin in the city in 1653. The City Chamberlain is also the Treasurer of New York County.

2. The LAW DEPARTMENT, whose head is known as the Corporation Counsel, whose term of office is four years, and whose salary is $15,000. Its main office is in Manhattan, with branches in other boroughs. The Corporation Counsel has charge of all the law business of the city departments and boards; appoints all his subordinates and fixes their compensation within the limits of the appropriation for his department. There are several bureaus in this department. An officer, formerly connected with this department, and now made a county officer, is the Public Administrator, whose duty is to take charge of the goods of all persons dying intestate within the county of New York.

Intestacy is presumed until a will is proven. The Public Administrator takes charge of the effects of persons dying at quarantine or as passengers by sea, of lodgers dying in hotels and boarding-houses, or of deceased domestic servants, and he may administer the estates of any whose relatives do not exercise a prior right. If the property exceeds $100 in value, he gives notice to the Surrogate.

3. The POLICE DEPARTMENT has at its head four Commissioners, who hold office for four years, and whose salaries are $5000 each. Not more than two of the Commissioners may belong to the same political party.

Under the Commissioners is a Chief of Police, with a salary of $6000; five deputy-chiefs, with salaries of $5000; ten inspectors, with salaries of $3500; captains, not to exceed in number one to each fifty of the total number of patrolmen, except in the rural portions of the city, salaries $2750; sergeants, not to exceed four to each fifty of the patrolmen, salaries $2000; roundsmen, the same number as the sergeants, salaries $1500; forty surgeons, salaries $3000; sufficient doormen, salaries $1000, and not less than 6382 patrolmen, whose salaries are graded in accordance with their terms of service from $800 to $1400 per year, the increase being at the rate of $50 or $100 per

year.

The Police Department includes the Bureau of Elections, having its chief office in Manhattan, and branches in other boroughs. The Superintendent receives a salary of $6000 a year, and the chiefs of the branch offices $4000 in Brooklyn, and $1500 in the other boroughs.