Livro The Charter of the City of New York; With Notes Thereon. Also, a Treatise on the Powers and Duties of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Assistant Aldermen, and the Journal of the City Convention

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Michael the Archangel. The law now prevents any such difficulty, by naming as the day of election, another day in the week of the month designated. Note xxix. p. 56.?F.

F. The 14th Section relates to the Constitution and power of the Common Council, and it was materially altered by the Act of 7th April, 1830, Ch. 122, amending the charter.

Neither the Mayor or Recorder are any longer members of the Common Council, and instead of a single chamber, composed of the Aldermen and Assistants acting together, as one indivisible body, the Aldermen and Assistants meet in separate chambers, with equal rights and concurrent power, and no act, ordinance, or regulation can pass without the assent of each House or Board, nor until it has been presented to the Mayor and received his approbation, or returned with objections, and then reconsidered and passed in each Board by a majority of the members elected thereto.

The Common Council as now organized, resembles in the order of its proceedings, and in the checks imposed, a regular legislative body; and considering the great interests confided to its care, and the large discretionary powers with which it is invested, it was fit and proper that its laws and ordinances should pass with similar deliberation and solemnity.

I apprehend that the general powers of the Common Council, as described in this Section of the charter, remain in full force. The amended charter of 1830, superseded certain other powers and checks, in respect to the borrowing anil appropriation of monies, and the annual publication of detailed statements of receipts andexpenditures, during the year preceding, and in respect to the establishment of d...