Class 2. Minor Departments, Boards, Offices, etc.

Mayor

EXHIBIT D.

TEXT OF CHARTER PROVISIONS AND LAWS RELATING TO COMPTROLLER'S

ACCOUNTING CONTROL.

SECTION 149. The Department of Finance shall have control of the fiscal concerns of the corporation. All accounts rendered to or kept in the other departments shall be subject to the inspection and revision of the officers of this department, which shall prescribe the forms of keeping and rendering all city accounts, and, except as herein otherwise provided, the manner in which all salaries shall be drawn, and the mode by which all creditors, officers and employees of the corporation shall be paid. All payments by or on behalf of the corporation, except as otherwise specially provided, shall be made through the proper disbursing officer of the Department of Finance, on vouchers to be filed in said department, by means of warrants drawn on the Chamberlain by the Comptroller, and countersigned by the Mayor.

SECTION 149a. * * * and shall compile and maintain in their respective offices, such system of statistical record as the Comptroller may require appertaining to all matters referred to in this section.

SECTION 1064. * * * The Board of Education shall adminis

ter all moneys appropriated or available for educational purposes in the City of New York, subject to the general provisions in this act, relating to the audit and payment of salaries and other claims by the Department of Finance.

SECTION 1550. * * *The Comptroller may require any such person or officer to make such statement and return to him, if it be not made herein provided, and may examine any such officer or person under oath, touching the amount of his fees, costs, allowances, perquisites, commissions, percentages or moneys paid to or received by him in his official capacity.

From the Board of Water Supply Act, Chapter 724 of the Laws of 1905: * * * All payments from the proceeds of the sale of such corporate stock shall be made upon proper vouchers and authorizations in accordance with the provisions of this act and with the laws, regulations and practice now in force in regard to the payment of money by the Comptroller of the City of New York.

Relating to the Public Service Commission:

From the Rapid Transit Act, Chapter 498 of the Laws of 1909: * * * It shall be the duty of the Auditor and Comptroller of any such city, after such appropriations shall have been duly made, to audit and pay the proper expenditures of said commission upon vouchers therefor, to be furnished by the said commission, which payments shall be made in like manner as payments are now made by the Auditor, Comptroller, or other public officers, of claims against and demands upon such city. * ** * * * * * * * * *

The report and accompanying resolutions were unanimously adopted.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAWS.

ANTON A. RAVEN, Chairman of the Committee on Insurance, presented the following preamble and resolution and moved that they be adopted:

Whereas, Several states of the union have enacted laws relating to Workmen's Compensation, no two of which are identical, and other states are likely, during the next sessions of their respective Legislatures, to enact laws on the same subject; and

Whereas, There is a pressing need of uniformity and justice as well as humanity in the action of the different states on this subject; therefore be it

Resolved, That there shall be appointed by the President a special committee of five to consider Workmen's Compensation Legislation,

and report to the Chamber such recommendations as it may deem proper.

EUGENIUS H. OUTERBRIDGE, Chairman of the Chamber's delegation attending the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, presented the following report:

REPORT OF DELEGATES.

To the Chamber of Commerce:

Your delegates appointed in June to represent the Chamber of Commerce report that they attend the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations held in Boston September 24th to 28th.

About 605 foreign delegates from more than 50 foreign countries and 300 delegates from the United States registered their attendance at this important gathering.

All arrangements for the Congress had been thoroughly prepared and admirably carried out under the management of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, whose executive officers were in attendance during all the sessions and were unceasing in their attentions to the visiting delegates.

After a Reception tendered to the delegates on Monday night, at which many prominent Bostonians were present, the formal proceedings opened on Tuesday morning, when addresses of welcome were made by the President of the Boston Chamber, by Honorable CHARLES NAGEL representing the Government of the United States, by Governor Foss of Massachusetts, Mayor FITZGERALD of Boston, and MR. WHEELER, President of the newly organized Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

The Programme of subjects to be presented had been prepared by a Programme Committee sitting in Brussels some time in advance, and numbered eight subjects.

A paper presenting each subject had been prepared in advance by

experts previously selected by the officers of the Congress and the Programme Committee.

The Programme itself was printed in sixteen different languages, there being delegates present from all the countries where those languages prevailed.

The official language of the Congress had been previously determined to be French, but the papers submitted by those designated as the "Reporter" on each subject were printed in the language of their respective writers.

Every delegate, however, before the Congress opened was furnished with a Portfolio containing an appropriate Badge, a copy of each of the official papers printed in the language of his own country, invitations to the Reception and to the Banquet which was to conclude the meetings, an illustrated book of the City of Boston, and coupon books for taxicab service.

Provision had been made for special electric surface cars to take large parties of the delegates during the lunch hour to visit industrial establishments in and about Boston, where they were entertained at lunch and given opportunities of viewing the plants.

A Concert was given by the Boston Symphony Society on Tuesday night, and both by public and private entertainment the members of the various delegations were kept actively and delightfully employed. The subjects considered by the Conference were as follows:

1. The communication of the President of the Congress upon the following questions:

The establishment of a fixed date for Easter, and the reform of the calendar.

Regulation of international expositions.

2. The establishment of an international court of arbitral justice for suits between individuals and foreign states.

Reporter: PROF. DR. MAX APT, Delegate of the Association "Die Altesten der Kaufmannschaft von Berlin."

3. The unification of legislation relating to checks.

Reporters: DR. HANS TRUMPLER, Syndic of the Chamber of Commerce of Frankfort-on-the-Main.

PROF. DR. MAX APT.

4. International postal reforms in view of the next conference of the Universal Postal Union in 1913.

Reporter: DR. ALF GEORG, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce of Geneva, Switzerland.

5. Commercial statistics and the immediate institution of an international office.

Reporter: MR. EUGENE ALLARD, President of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

6. The desirability of an international conference upon the validation of through-order-notify bills of lading, and of legislation and other means for making the system more effective.

Reporter: MR. CHARLES S. HAIGHT of New York City.

7. The desirablity of international uniformity of action in the matter of consular invoices.

Reporter: MR. WILBUR J. CARR, Director of the American Consular Service.

8. The desirability of an international conference on prices and the cost of living.

Reporter: PROF. IRVING FISHER of Yale University.

After the official papers were read, debate followed, each speaker being allowed ten minutes, but because of the cosmopolitan character of the assembly with their differing national and international points of view, it had been previously determined that the propositions submitted were not open to amendment and must be either adopted or rejected by the Congress.

This was possibly necessary in order to accomplish the programme within the given time, as had amendments been permissible and debatable, the proceedings might have been prolonged indefinitely.

All of the proposals submitted were adopted by the Congress, several with recommendations for further consideration, enlargement of scope and arrangement of detail by special committees to be appointed and by intervening conferences to be held before the next annual meeting.

The Banquet on Thursday night was largely attended, President TAFT being a guest of honor.

After the close of the proceedings three days were to be spent by the foreign delegates in and about Boston visiting industrial establishments and other points of interest.

Following this the foreign delegates, as guests of the United States Government, were to visit numerous cities and industries as far west as Chicago and to arrive in New York on October 17th, where they will be entertained by the associated organizations of the city. This will include a Reception at this Chamber on October 18th.

Perhaps the two subjects in which this Chamber would be most directly interested were:

A recommendation that an International Conference should be held with the view of extending the scope of proposal number two for an international court of arbitral justice to deal with differences between individuals of different countries, instead of being confined, as in the proposal, to cases between individuals and foreign states.

A proposal to this effect had been submitted to the Programme Committee by the Chairman of the Committee on Arbitration of this Chamber, but the Programme Committee was unable to adopt it for this meeting.

A similar proposal was advanced in debate by MR. SHONINGER, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, but was ruled inadmissible by the President of the Congress as an amendment, but subsequently was admitted as a suggestion for future consideration. Proposal number six was the subject of an important paper by MR. CHARLES S. HAIGHT of New York relating to the validation of through-order-notify bills of lading.