city is concerned, as debtor or creditor; it shall keep an account of each claim for or against the Corporation, and of the sums allowed upon each, and certify the same, with reasons therefor, to the Comptroller. The Comptroller shall report to the Common Council, once in ninety days, the name and decision of the auditor upon the same, together with the final action of the Comptroller thereon. All moneys drawn from the city treasury shall be upon vouchers for the expenditure thereof, examined and allowed by the auditor, and approved by the Comptroller.

§ 14. Every person who shall promise, offer or give, or cause, or aid or abet, in causing to be promised, offered or given, or furnish, or agree to furnish, in whole or in part, to be promised, offered or given to any member of the Common Council, or to any officer of the Corporation after his election as such member, or before or after he shall have qualified and taken his seat, any money, goods, right in action, or other property, or any thing of value, or any pecuniary advantage, present or prospective, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, judgment, or action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may be then pending, or may by law be brought before him, in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in a State prison for a term not exceeding ten years, or shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Every officer in this section enumerated, who shall accept any such gift, or any promis or undertaking to make the same, under any agreement or undertaking that his vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question, matter, cause, or proceed

ing then pending, or which may by law be brought before him, in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be disqualified from holding any public office, trust or appointment, under the charter of the city of New York, and shall forfeit his office, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a State prison, not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Every person offending against either of the provisions of this section shall be a competent witness against any other person offending in the same transaction, and may be compelled to appear and give evidence before any grand jury, or in any court, in the same manner as other persons; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying.

§ 15. No contract by the Supervisors shall be valid unless expressly authorized by statute, and such as are authorized must be made in the manner provided in the twelfth section of this act.

§ 16. All ordinary appropriations made for the support and government of the Alms-house Department shall, before the same are finally made, be submitted by the Governors of the Alms-house to a Board of Commissioners, consisting of the Mayor, Recorder, Comptroller, the President of the Board of Aldermen, and the President of the Board of Councilmen; if the said Commissioners approve of the appropriations, they shall immediately report the same to the Board of Supervisors; if they shall disapprove of the same, they shall return them, with their objections, to the Governors of the Alms-house for reconsideration; and in

case the said Governors shall, upon a reconsideration, adhere by a vote of two-thirds of all the Governors then in office, to the original appropriations, they shall return them to the Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to report to the Board of Supervisors.

§ 17. The Board of Education shall also submit, in like manner, all appropriations required by them to the Commissioners named in the last preceding section; and said appropriations shall be subject to all the provisions of said section, so far as the same may be applicable.

§ 18. All such parts of the charter of the city of New York, and the several acts of the Legislature amending the same, or in any manner affecting the same, as are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed; but so much, and such parts thereof as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this law, shall not be construed as repealed, altered, or modified, or in any form affected thereby, but shall continue and remain in full force and effect.

19. The power now vested in the Mayor, Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen, in granting and revoking tavern licenses, together with all other powers as excise commissioners, shall be hereafter vested in the Mayor, with the Alderman and Councilman representing the district in which the premises of the party licensed or to be licensed may be located.

§20. This act shall be submitted for the approval of the electors of the city and county of New York, at an election to be held in said city, on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in June, one thousand eight hundred and

fifty-three. The tickets which shall be polled at such election shall contain either the words "In favor of Amendments to charter," or "Against Amendments to Charter;" and if a majority of all the persons voting thereon at such election shall vote the ticket "In favor of Amendments to Charter," this act shall become a law; if a majority of such electors shall vote the ticket "Against Amendments to Charter," this act shall be void.

§ 21. The Common Council are hereby authorized and directed to make all necessary arrangements, by ordinance or otherwise, for the conduct and regulation of all elections authorized under the provisions of this act, and in conformity, as far as may be, to the general election laws.

STATE OF NEW YORK,

OF NEW

Secretary's Office.

I have compared the preceding

with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.

Given under my hand and seal of office, at the city of Albany, this sixteenth day of April, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eighthundred and fifty

three.

ARCH'D CAMPBELL,
Deputy Secretary of State.

AN ACT

TO ENABLE THE SUPERVISORS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK TO RAISE MONEY BY TAX.

PASSED APRIL 15, 1853-THREE-FIFTHS BEING PRESENT. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The Board of Supervisors of the city and county of New York are hereby empowered, as soon as conveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax, on the estates real and personal, subject to taxation according to law, within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, a sum not exceeding two millions three hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars, for the objects and purposes following, to wit:

Aqueduct Repairs, eighteen thousand dollars; Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents, (building,) fifty thousand dollars; Alms-house, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; Battery Enlargement, twenty-five thousand dollars; Board of Health, ten thousand dollars; City Inspector's Department, eighty-two thousand two hundred and seventyfive dollars; Coroners' Fees, twelve thousand dollars; Cleaning Corporation Docks and Slips, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; Necessary Expenses of the County, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Necessary Expenses of the Common Council, twenty thousand dollars