County GovernmentNew York State Constitutional Convention Commission, 1915 - 613 страница |
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00 Totals 1st sup'v'y dist 2d sup'v'y dist 4th sup'v'y dist administration Albany Allegany amount assessment audit auditor Averages board of supervisors Broome capita Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Class IV Class Clinton comptroller Cortland cost COUNTY CLASS county clerk COUNTY FINANCING county government county judge COUNTY Total county treasurer Delaware districts Number Dutchess election Elementary schools Equalized valuation Erie Essex expenditures expenses fees Financial statement showing Franklin Fulton funds Genesee Hamilton Herkimer included INDEBTEDNESS JANITORS Jefferson Lawrence LIBRARY Number library Value Livingston Madison maintenance Monroe Montgomery Nassau Niagara Number of school Number of volumes Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orleans Oswego Otsego paid payments by public population Putnam receipts refunding Rensselaer Rockland salary Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Secondary schools Seneca sheriff statement showing payments Steuben Suffolk Sullivan superintendent SUPERVISORY DISTRICTS TABLE 6 continued Tioga tion Tompkins town Ulster Value of schoolhouse Warren Wayne Westchester county Wyoming Yates
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Страница 79 - There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly included in a city, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law. In a city which includes an entire county, or two or more entire counties, the powers and duties of a board of supervisors may be devolved upon the municipal assembly, common council, board of aldermen or other legislative body of the city.
Страница 74 - ... other organization, private or public, needs a chief executive with appointive power over all other administrative officials. Not until all the officials have a single common superior on the job all the time, with plenty of authority over them, can they be compelled to work in mutual harmony. . . . There has been ample experience to show that the attempt to secure a good chief executive by popular election is a failure. It always gives us a transient amateur who never really learns his job, because...
Страница 73 - ... got through with it. In its form of organization the typical county is ideally bad. It is almost completely disjointed. Each officer is independent of all the rest, standing on his own separate pedestal of popular election with a full right to tell all the other county officers to go to glory. It is like an automobile with a separate motor at every wheel, each going its own gait. Nominally the board of supervisors is at the head of the county because it holds the purse-strings ; but the power...
Страница 29 - ... each town is interested, and properly so, in the valuations placed upon property by the town assessors of other towns, because each town has apportioned to it such share of the state, judicial, and armory district and county taxes as its value bears to that of the other towns within the county. The dread of an increase by county equalization tends to cause town assessors to place value so low that even if increased by equalization, the town still will escape some of its fair share and burden....
Страница 100 - ... shall receive an annual salary, to be fixed in amount by the justices of the appellate division of the second department, or a majority of them.
Страница 100 - Compensation of the deputy clerk and attendants of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department...
Страница 38 - ... supervisors may make such additional regulations and requirements, not in conflict with law, concerning the keeping and rendering of official accounts and reports of its county and town officers, and the presentation and auditing of bills presented to their board or to the town boards of their county, as they may deem necessary for the efficiency of the service and the protection of the interests of the public.
Страница 52 - The county court is presumed to be in session every day at the county seat, where there is a resident county court clerk. It should also be competent for the county judge to convene his court anywhere in the county and regular sittings should be scheduled in towns of sufficient importance.
Страница 55 - ... the justices of the peace, police magistrates and inferior courts are made by the act first district magistrates. Until otherwise directed by the council, the district magistrates exercise the judicial power of the county court in all matters within the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace, or any cause or matter within the jurisdiction of the county court, assigned especially by the county judge to the district magistrate, or any cause within the jurisdiction of the county court which the...
Страница 74 - Ibid., pp. 7&-77. the United States and pay him whatever salary they believe necessary in order to secure the requisite ability. The county manager will appoint and control all other county officials and employees, subject to civil service regulations. The county manager will have no power of his own, no independence of his superior. He is the board's executive agent. If the new board of supervisors tells him to take money out of the treasury and spend it for peanuts, he must spend it for peanuts...