Id.; ordinances and regulations for certain purposes.

$ 49. The board of aldermen shall have power to make, amend and repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws not inconsistent with this act, or with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, for the following purposes:

I. In relation to the inspection and sealing of weights and measures, and the keeping in use of proper weights and measures by vendors.

2. In relation to the inspection, weighing and measuring of firewood, coal, hay and straw and the cartage of the same. 3. In relation to street vagrants, beggars and mendicants. 4. In relation to the use of guns, pistols, fire-arms, firecrackers, fire-works and detonating works of all descriptions.

5. In relation to intoxication, fighting and quarreling in the streets, the breaking or extinguishing of street lamps, and the wilful breaking or defacing of windows, porches, knockers or other fixtures.

6. In relation to places of public amusement.

7. In relation to the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, sewers and pumps.

8. In relation to partition fences and walls.

9. In relation to the construction, repair, care and use of markets.

10. For the preservation and protection of all or any of the works connected with the supplying of The City of New York with pure and wholesome water.

II. To regulate the fees for searches and certificates to be charged by the collector of assessments and arrears.

12. To regulate swimming and bathing in the waters of and bounding the city, to establish and maintain such public baths and public comfort stations as they may deem necessary, and to establish suitable rules and regulations for the management of the same.

13. To prohibit and suppress all gaming-houses and places for gaming in the said city.

14. To provide for the more effectual suppression of vice or immorality, and the preserving of peace and good order in said city.

15. To enlarge or extend from time to time the limits of the fire districts of the city, and to establish additional fire districts, and from time to time to extend the same.

16. To regulate the use of every building now used or hereafter to be used as a hotel, in so far as the use thereof may involve the safety of the inmates in case of fire.

17. And the board of aldermen shall also fix the annual license fee, not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars, for each street or horse car daily operated or used in that portion of the city heretofore known as the city of Brooklyn. Every railroad company operating or using such cars shall, on or before the first day of June in each year, certify to the city clerk the average number of cars daily operated and used by said company, which certificate shall be verified by the oath of one of the managing officers of said company, and every such railroad company shall, on or before the first day of July in each year, pay to the chamberlain of The City of New York the license fee so established for the average number of cars so operated and used by said company. The said license fees shall be taken in full satisfaction for the use of the streets or avenues, but the same shall not release said company from any obligations required by law to keep such streets and avenues, or any part thereof, in repair, which said obligations and the contracts, laws or ordinances, creating and enforcing the same, are hereby continued in full force and operation. But nothing in this subdivision contained shall be construed to release any railroad company in The City of New York, as constituted by this act, from any duty or obligation existing at the time this act takes effect by virtue of any law, ordinance or contract.

Ordinances in relation to the matters mentioned in this section may provide for the enforcement thereof in the manner specified in section forty-four of this act as amended.

Id.; to regulate the use of streets, processions, etc.

§ 50. Subject to the constitution and laws of the state, the board of aldermen shall have power to regulate the use of streets and sidewalks by foot passengers, animals or vehicles; to regulate the speed at which horses shall be driven or ridden and at which vehicles shall be propelled in the streets; to regulate processions or parades occupying or marching upon any street; to prevent encroachments upon and obstructions to the streets and to authorize and require their removal by the proper officers; to regulate the opening of street surfaces for purposes authorized by law; to regulate the numbering of houses and lots in the streets and the naming of streets, except that it shall not be lawful to number or renumber any houses

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or to change the name of any street save between the first day of December in any year and the first day of May next ensuing; to regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, garbage or other filth or rubbish of any kind upon the streets; to regulate the use of the streets for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, horse-troughs, urinals, posts for telegraph or other electric wires, and other purposes; to regulate street pavements, cross-walks, curbstones, gutter-stones and sidewalks; to provide for regulating, grading, flagging, curbing, guttering and lighting the streets; to regulate public cries, advertising noises, steam whistles, and ringing bells in the streets; to regulate the exhibiting of banners, placards or flags in or across the streets or from houses or other buildings; to regulate the exhibition of advertisements or handbills along the streets; and to make all such regulations in reference to the running of stages, omnibuses, trucks and cars as may be necessary for the convenient use and the accommodation of the streets, piers, wharves or stations. Whenever the word street" or the plural thereof occurs in this section it shall be deemed to include all that is included by the terms "street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, public square and public place," or the plurals thereof respectively. Wherever the word "vehicle" or the plural thereof occurs in this section it shall be deemed to include wagons, trucks, carts, cabs, carriages, stages, omnibuses, motors, automobiles, locomobiles, locomotives, bicycles, tricycles, sleighs or other conveyances for persons or property. The board of aldermen shall not have power to authorize the placing or continuing of any encroachment or obstruction upon any street or sidewalk, except the temporary occupation thereof during the erection or repairing of a building on a lot opposite the same, nor shall they permit the erection of booths and stands within stoop. lines, except for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, fruits and soda-water, and with the consent in such cases of the owner of the premises. The board of aldermen shall not pass any special ordinance in relation to any of the matters mentioned in this section. All ordinances in relation thereto shall be general ordinances which may either apply throughout the whole city or throughout specified portions thereof, and shall provide for the enforcement thereof as specified in section forty-four of this act as amended. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the board of aldermen from providing by special ordinance for the erection or maintenance. on the streets or waters within The City of New York of foun

tains, public comfort stations, urinals, public baths, or other like structures maintained by the public authorities; for the establishment of which the said board is hereby empowered to provide. All general ordinances relating to authorized structures, encroachments or obstructions in or upon the streets or sidewalks by persons other than the authorities of The City of New York, or other public authorities, shall fix a definite license fee for every such authorized structure, encroachment or obstruction, according to the character, extent and duration thereof, and shall provide for the issuing of revocable licenses therefor, which shall be according to an established form and shall be regularly numbered and duly registered as shall be prescribed by the board of aldermen.

Id.; licensing and regulating certain trades or business; dog licenses, etc.

§ 51. Subject to the constitution and the laws of the state, the board of aldermen shall have power to provide for the licensing and otherwise regulating the business of dirt carts, public cartmen, truckmen, hackmen, cabmen, expressmen, car drivers and boatmen; of boot-blacks; of pawnbrokers, junk-dealers, keepers of intelligence offices, dealers in second hand articles, hawkers, peddlers, vendors and scalpers in coal freights; of menageries, circuses and common shows; of bone boiling, fat rendering and other noxious businesses; and shall have power to regulate or forbid the keeping of dogs. The board of aldermen shall also have power to regulate the rates of fare to be taken by owners or drivers of hackney coaches, carriages, motors, automobiles or other vehicles, and to compel the owners thereof to pay annual license fees. All ordinances in relation to any of the matters mentioned in this section shall be general, shall provide for the enforcement thereof in the manner specified in section forty-four of this act as amended, and shall fix the license fees to be paid, if any. All licenses shall be according to an established form, and shall be regularly numbered and duly registered as shall be prescribed by the board of aldermen.

Rules and regulations as to navigable waters within the city limits.

52. The board of aldermen shall have power to establish by general ordinances proper rules and regulations for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers, yachts. and all crafts taking part in regattas or races, whether as ob

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servers or participants, in the navigable waters embraced within the corporate limits of the city and for preserving the public peace and preventing undue interference with, or interruption of such regattas and races. Such rules and regulations when so adopted shall be duly published in the public newspapers and any wilful violation of the same by any person shall subject the offender to the penalties of a misdemeanor and if the holder of a license from the city to a forfeiture thereof.

Id.; to see to the faithful execution of the laws, etc.

§ 54. The board of aldermen shall have power and it shall be its duty to see to the faithful execution of the laws and ordinances of the city; and it may appoint from time to time a special committee to inquire whether the laws and ordinances of the city relating to any subject or to any department of the city government are being faithfully observed, and the duties of the officers of such department or of any officer of the city are being faithfully discharged, also to examine and report whether there are any unnecessary, inefficient or unfit employes, any excessive salaries or compensations paid, and generally in respect of any and all matters which will conduce to the orderly and economical administration of the affairs of the city government or any department thereof. Such committee shall have access to the books and records of the city or of any department or officer thereof.

Id.; security to be required from certain officers.

$ 55. It shall be the duty of the board of aldermen where no provision has been made by law in respect thereto, to provide for the accountability of all officers and other persons, save as herein otherwise provided, to whom the receipt or expenditure of the funds of the city shall be entrusted, by requiring from them sufficient security for the performance of their duties of trust, which security shall be annually renewed; but the security first taken shall remain in force until new security shall be given. In the event of a failure of the board of aldermen to fix any such bond, the heads. of the respective departments and the presidents of the several boroughs shall have power to fix such bond subject to modification by the board of aldermen.