Statutes: they shall be filed; may be prosecuted, and the moneys collected shall be applied as directed in that title: and the persons receiving such licences shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of the said title.

complaints.

$ 12. The mayor, together with any alderman of the Hearing of city, may hear, in a summary way, any complaint against any person to whom a license may have been granted to sell wine or liquor, for any violation of the laws of the state or the ordinances of the corporation, and may compel the attendance of witnesses in the hearing of such complaint, in the same manner as justices of the peace in the trial of civil causes, and on such hearing may annul such license, or suspend the same for any certain time.

given.

13. At least twenty-four hours' notice of the time Notice to be and place of hearing such complaint shall be served on the person complained of; and such person may appeal from the determination of the mayor and alderman within forty-eight hours after the same shall have been made, to the common council, who shall have power to reverse or affirm the same; but such appeal shall not suspend or in any manner affect such determination, until the decision of the common council thereon.

tion to be fil

S 14. Every determination on such complaint shall be Determina forthwith filed with the clerk of the city, who shall serve ed. a certified copy thereof on the person holding a license, affected by such determination, either personally, or by leaving the same at his or her usual place of abode; and from the time of such service, such license shall be deemed to be annulled or suspended, according to the tenor of such determination, until the same shall be reversed by the common council.

$ 15. The common council may authorize the mayor Licenses to to license cartmen, hackney carriages, truckmen, porters cartmen, &c. and chimney-sweeps, and may prescribe the terms and conditions on which such licenses may be granted, and when and how forfeited, and may prescribe the fees to be paid into the city treasury on the granting of such licen

ses.

S 16. The common council shall establish and keep as Markets. many markets in the said city as they shall deem expedient, and shall regulate the same by ordinances, and prescribe the number of butchers to be licensed by the mayor, the terms on which the same shall be granted, and by what officers, and in what cases they may be revoked or suspended.

$17. The common council may establish a bridewell Bridewell or house of correction in the said city, and may pass all

confined

therein.

necessary ordinances for the regulation thereof; may ap point a keeper, and as many assistants as shall be necessary, and shall prescribe their duties and compensation, and the securities to be given by them.

Persons to be $ 18. In the said bridewell or house of correction, shall be confined all rogues, vagabonds, stragglers, idle or disorderly persons, who may be committed thereto by the mayor, or any alderman as justice of the peace in the said city; and all persons sentenced by any criminal court in the said city, or by the court of oyer and terminer or general sessions of the peace of the county of Monroe, for any assault and battery, petit larceny, or other misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, shall be kept therein in the same manner as prisoners of that description are required to be kept in county jails.

Sealers of weights and

measures.

Sealing of weights and

measures.

Public nota

ries.

Commission.

$ 19. The common council may appoint one or more sealers of weights and measures for the said city, who shall possess the like powers, and be subject to the like obligations as the sealers of the several towns of this state; and to whom, on application for that purpose, the county sealer of weights and measures for the county of Monroe shall furnish copies of the standards in his office at the expense of the said city.

$20. The common council may, by ordinance, require every merchant, retailer, trader and dealer in merchandize, or property of any description, which is sold by measure or weight, to cause their weights and measures to be sealed by the city sealer, and to be subject to his inspection, and may impose penalties for any violation of any such ordinances.

$ 21. The number of notaries public to be appointed in the said city shall be determined by the common council, in the manner prescribed in the first title of the fifth chapter, part first of the Revised Statutes, and a copy of such determination shall be transmitted, and such appointments shall be made in the manner prescribed in the said title in respect to those officers in cities. The first determination shall be made on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and the subsequent determinations shall be made once at the end of every two years thereafter.

$ 22. Two commissioners of deeds shall be appointed ers of deeds. in the said city in the same manner that commissioners of deeds are now required to be appointed in other cities of this state by the Revised Statutes, and shall hold their offices for two years, and shall possess all the powers and authority of commissioners of deeds appointed in the towns

of this state by the judges of county courts and the boards of supervisors, and may be removed in the same manner.

$23. The common council shall in like manner deter- Auctioneers. mine annually the number of auctioneers to be appointed in the said city, and shall transmit such determination to the governor, and no appointment of auctioneers for the said city shall be made, beyond the number expressed in such determination.

officers.

$ 24. The common council shall determine the salaries Salaries of or compensation to be given to the mayor, treasurer and clerk of the city, and of any other officer appointed by them, and at what times the same shall be payable; and they shall fix the compensation of the collectors of taxes in the said city, for collecting the county as well as the city taxes and assessments.

election.

$25. The common council shall appoint at least three Inspectors of inspectors in each ward, designating which of the said inspectors shall be chairman, to hold and conduct general and special elections, for state and county officers, elective by the people, and for members of congress, and electors of president and vice-president, at least ten days before any such election; which inspectors shall possess all the powers, perform all the duties, and be subject to all the obligations of inspectors of elections in towns; and for the purposes of such election, the different wards of the said city shall in all respects be deemed towns; and the expenses of such elections shall be city charges, and defrayed in the same manner as other contingent expenses of the city.

ordiuances.

$ 26. No ordinance of the common council shall be Duration of binding or have effect for any longer period than three years from the passage thereof.

TITLE IV.

Of the officers of the city, their powers and duties.

S 1. It shall be the duty of the mayor, to take care that Mayor's duty the laws of the state, and the ordinances of the common council be faithfully executed; to exercise a constant supervision and control over the conduct of all subordinate officers, and to receive and to examine into all complaints against them for neglect of duty; to recommend to the common council such measures as he shall deem expedient; to expedite all such as shall be resolved upon by them, and in general to maintain the peace and good order, and advance the prosperity of the city.

Common seal

Mayor and aldermen ex

ces.

$ 2. The mayor shall have the custody of the common seal of the city, and authenticate such acts of the common council as shall require it.

$ 3. The mayor and aldermen of the said city, by virofficio justi- tue of their offices, shall have and exercise all the power and authority of justices of the peace in criminal cases, and in enforcing the laws of this state relating to the police thereof, but shall have no jurisdiction in civil cases, other than such as by this act shall be expressly conferred upon them.

Assistant aldermen.

Supervisors.

Assessors.

Assessment roll.

Jurors.

$ 4. The assistant aldermen shall have all the powers of justice of the peace, for the purpose of preserving the public peace, by suppressing riots, dissolving unlawful and tumultuous assemblages, and directing the arrest of persons engaged in breaches of the peace, or about to commit any offence.

S 5. The supervisors elected as herein before provided, shall have and exercise all the powers, authority and functions, of supervisors of towns, except as herein otherwise provided, and shall be members of the board of supervisors of the county of Monroe.

$ 6. The assessors elected in the different wards of the city, as herein provided, shall perform all the duties hereinafter specified, in relation to the assessment of property within the city, for the purpose of levying the taxes, imposed by the common council thereof. And in their respective wards, they shall perform the duties of assessors of towns, and shall proceed therein in the manner prescribed by law respecting town assessors, and shall possess all the powers and authority of such assessors, except as hereinafter specified.

$7. On completing their assessment rolls, the assessors of the different wards shall meet together and make out a fair copy of the assessment roll of all the wards, which shall be left with one of their number; and they shall give the like notice required by law to be given by town assessors; and at the time and place specified in such notice, all the assessors of the different wards shall meet together to review their assessment, and shall proceed in the manner prescribed by law in respect to the assessors of a town: and having completed and subscribed the assessment roll, shall deliver the same to one of the supervisors of the said city, to be by him laid before the board of supervisors of the county of Monroe.

S8. The supervisors of the said city, with the assessors of the several wards, shall make out and return to the county clerk of the county of Monroe, a list of persons to

serve as petit jurors, and as grand jurors in the several courts held in the county of Monroe, at the same time and in the same manner as prescribed by law in relation to the supervisors, assessors, and town clerks of the several towns of this state, and for that purpose, they shall assemble at such place as the said supervisors shall appoint, and duplicates of the returns of jurors made by them, and duly certified by them, shall be filed in the of fice of the clerk of the city within ten days after such returns are made out.

$9. The clerk of the city shall keep the minutes of the City clerk. common council, and all papers and documents belonging to the city, except such as shall appertain to the other officers of the city; and shall be regulated in the performance of the duties of his office by the ordinances of the common council. It shall be his special duty to publish, for at least three weeks, in one of the newspapers printed in the city, all laws and ordinances passed by the common council, and all votes and resolutions, directing the payment of money, of which the first publication shall be made within eight days after the passage of such law, ordinance, vote or resolution.

sign licenses

$10. The clerk shall countersign all licenses of every To counter. description granted by the mayor, pursuant to the ordinances of the common council, and shall enter in appropriate books the name of every person to whom a license is granted, the purpose for which granted, the date, the time during which it is to be in force, and the sum paid for each license; and no license for any purpose granted by the mayor, shall be valid until countersigned by the clerk.

of assessore

tors.

$ 11. The clerk shall, annually, before the first day of To make list October in each year, certify and deliver to the supervi- alle sors elected in the said city, a list of the names of the assessors and collectors in the said city, to be laid before the board of supervisors of the county of Monroe.

$ 12, The city treasurer shall receive and keep the mo- Treasurer. ney paid into the city treasury, which he shall deposite in such bank or banks as the common council shall direct, to his credit in his official capacity. He shall keep regular accounts of all the moneys received and disbursed by him, in books to be provided by the common council, in such form as they shall direct; but the name of every person to whom money shall be paid by the treasurer, shall in all cases be entered at length, and on what account the same was paid; which books and entries shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection of any elector of the said city desiring the same.