Bills Amending the Greater New York Charter

STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER

Albany, July 26, 1907

MEMORANDUM filed with bills specified below.

NOT APPROVED

The following bills, relating to proposed amendments to the Greater New York Charter, are disapproved for the reason that they relate to matters which can appropriately be considered by the Charter Revision Commission recently appointed:

Senate bill, Introductory No. 300, Printed No. 601, entitled "An act to amend section twenty-three of chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, known as the charter of the city of New York, empowering the mayor of said city to designate the president of the board of aldermen to represent the mayor on the public boards of said city."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 330, Printed No. 531 (Assembly Reprint No. 2376), entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to the amount of annual pension to retiring members of the fire department.”

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1276, Printed No. 1569 (Senate Reprint No. 1609), entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to salary of city marshals."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1057, Printed No. 1585, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to public matrons."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1453, Printed No. 2721, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to employees of water works companies."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 238, Printed No. 1389 (Senate Reprint No. 1380), entitled "An act to amend the

Greater New York charter, relative to punishment of persons causing fire in stovepipes, chimney or flue."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 786, Printed No. 964, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to the protection of the grounds and properties of educational institutions."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 701, Printed No. 1855, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to inferior courts of criminal jurisdiction."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 954, Printed No. 2692 (Senate Reprint No. 1825), entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to the police pension fund.”

Senate bill, Introductory No. 83, Printed No. 1622, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter by the amendment of section one hundred and fifty-one, to provide for the establishment of a bureau of investigation of assessed valuations of real estate owned by the city of New York, located outside of said city."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 911, Printed No. 2063, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to territory for the accommodation and use of canal boats and barges."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 925, Printed No. 1208, entitled "An act to amend section six hundred and twelve of the Greater New York charter giving to the commissioners of parks of the city of New York jurisdiction over play grounds."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1860, Printed No. 2684, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relating to engineers."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 568, Printed No. 1285, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to the powers of the borough presidents and of the president of the board of aldermen."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1615, Printed No. 2884, entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to the appointment of teachers in the public schools."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1447, Printed No. 2378 (Senate Reprint No. 1606), entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to vacations of employees whose compensation is fixed by the day or hour."

The following bills, authorizing the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel taxes or assessments, or to refund moneys paid thereon, in the case of certain religious and charitable institutions, are disapproved There are a number of bills of this sort each year. The matter is one for which provision should be made by a suitable amendment to the Greater New York Charter, so that in proper cases liens may be canceled and moneys refunded. As a Charter Revision Commission has been appointed, it seems to me that further action upon special bills of this sort may well be postponed until they have considered the subject.

The bills above referred to are as follows:

Senate bill, Introductory No. 1013, Printed No. 1466, entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to refund certain moneys paid for taxes for the years nineteen hundred and one, nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three, affecting property situate in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, now belonging to and upon which is erected the church edifice of the Fourth Unitarian Congregational church of Brooklyn."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1764, Printed No. 2483, entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel and annul certain taxes, assessments and water rates now existing liens against and affecting property situated in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, belonging to Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic church."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1017, Printed No. 1506 (Senate Reprint No. 1568), entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel and annul certain assessments upon certain real property of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church and the Church of Saint Mary Star of the Sea in said city."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1703, Printed No. 2350, entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel and annul certain taxes for the year 1906 affecting property situate in the borough of Manhattan in the city of New York now belonging to and upon which is erected the building of the Young Women's Hebrew Association of the City of New York."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1722, Printed No. 2416, entitled "An act empowering the sinking fund commission of the city of New York to vacate and cancel certain assessments for public improvements upon the real property of the Church of Saint Nicholas Tolentine of the borough of the Bronx."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 740, Printed No. 888, entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to refund certain taxes upon property in the city of New York owned by the Harlem Presbyterian church."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1889, Printed No. 2749, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to refund to the Saint Paul's German Evangelical Reformed church or the trustees thereof, moneys paid as assessment for public improvements upon certain real property belonging to said. church in the borough of the Bronx, New York city."

Senate bill, Introductory No. 199, Printed No. 1481, entitled "An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York, in behalf of said city, to compromise, settle, cancel, annul and discharge certain taxes and assessments and interest thereon levied upon the property the legal title of which is in the name of James A. Mullin, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, in said city, situated in the twenty-third ward of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx."

The following bills are disapproved for the reason that the rules governing the admission of attorneys and counsellors should be uniformly maintained:

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 1000, Printed No. 1157, entitled "An act to enable John Montgomery to be admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law of the supreme court of the state of New York."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 196, Printed No. 196, entitled "An act relative to the admission to the state bar examinations, John C. Hackett."

Assembly bill, Introductory No. 546, Printed No. 571, entitled "An act to admit Morgan Llewellyn Griffith to the state bar examination."

(Signed)

CHARLES E. HUGHES