58 59 Power of a Committing Magistrate vested in him............................. .................................... ....... SOLICITOR OF PHILADELPHIA. Election and qualification of Solicitor............. CITY TREASURER. Election and duties of City Treasurer. .... .... CITY CONTROLLER. Election and duties. CITY COMMISSIONERS. Election, duties, and powers........ To take no part in the opening of streets...... How to draw warrants for Jurors and officers....... ................ Election.... ASSESSORS. How vacancies filled Two assessors for each Ward, with certain exceptions. Certain divisions in the Nineteenth Ward to elect Assessors .....63, 64, 65 Certain divisions in the Twenty-first Ward to elect Assessors.............. .................. ......... To ascertain the dimensions of each lot of ground To ascertain the name of each taxable....... Division of Twenty-fourth Ward into two assessment districts........ BOARD OF REVISION. To make out tax bills so soon as he receives tax duplicate...... Warrants against delinquent tax payers.. To give general-notice of non-payment of taxes......... To pay daily into the City Treasury List of delinquent tax payers to be published, if the valuation exceeds $100, 87 82 SECTION Real property of railroad corporations to be taxed............................................................................................... 95 Receiver of Taxes to appoint and discharge collectors.... 97 Powers and duties of collectors...... 98 Commissions and charges to be paid by delinquent tax payers 99 Sales for taxes.. 101 Allowances for the payment of taxes during the year for which they are Each Ward a School section..... Vacancies, how filled To reside in the Ward in which elected. Salaries of Secretaries. .... Election of Controller of Public Schools............... Property of Board vested in the City. ALDERMEN. Two Aldermen for each Ward, and when elected.......... Police Magistrates, and when elected....... Aldermen in Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty- 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 ..125, 126, 127 128 Board of Highway Commissioners to recommend Supervisors 135 136 All plans to be deposited in the office of the Board.... 141 Councils to complete survey of City plot.......... 141 To alter the lines and grades of unopened streets................................ ......... ......... ......... ......................... 141 142 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 Removal of Surveyors.... Re-survey of grade of streets in Twenty-fourth Ward..... First section of Kingsessing. Survey of Blockley......... Plan of Railroads to be submitted to the Board........................ .................................... .................. .................. Repeal of certain Survey Commissions. Twelfth section of Blockley confirmed... Public plan No. 42 confirmed BUILDING INSPECTORS AND BUILDINGS, Building Inspectors to be appointed by Court of Common Pleas and Councils. .... Power to direct counter-arching...... No building to be erected on a street less than twenty feet in width Organization of Board....... Powers of Board........... Duties of Board...... Licenses required to clean cess-pools...... BOARD OF HEALTH. Abolishment of the elective Board of Health........ 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 Licenses and permits, how obtained....... Price of permit when paid......... Penalties for depositing privy filth on highways. Penalty for employing unlicensed persons. Repeal of laws appointing places of deposit and measurers of privy filth...... 187 BIRTHS-MARRIAGES-DEATHS. Books for Registration to be furnished .... Duties of Clergymen, Physicians and Health Officer.... Certificates to be obtained before burials allowed ........... Duty of persons practising midwifery.. General duties and penalties.... General duties and powers 205 Restriction of powers of Boards of Health...... .................. ......... ......... 206 And Guardians....... 206 Wardens and superintendents of prisons and penitentiaries to record the 210, 211 violation of rules by prisoners..... 212 Deductions in favor of obedient prisoners 213 Power to discharge 214 Where qualified voters shall vote....... 219 .... Power of Common Pleas to settle disputes summarily.. Duty of sheriff to give notice of elections......... ................................. ........................... .................. ........................... ......... 220 221 222 Duty of election officers.. 223 Municipal elections, how conducted... 224 Manner of making out the returns... 225 Proceedings for contesting elections.... 226 How election officers shall be appointed when a new election division is 227 Tickets, how headed...... 228 List of taxable inhabitants to be furnished to the officers of elections.......... Delivery of ballot-boxes to Mayor and Recorder. .................. .................. ............. Duty of Master Warden to remove sunk vessels in the channel way of the Councils to provide public squares... Power to appropriate areas of ground...... Selection of a public park on the west bank of the Schuykill River. 258 259 260, 261, 262, 263 Railroad subscriptions binding. Regulators of Weights and Measures.... Officers to give bond and to make returns to the City Controller.............. No officer to be interested in any contract...... Councils to sit with open doors........... Juries and Courts to be accommodated......... Contracts for new work to be approved...... Fifth street to be widened......... Relative to appropriations of public moneys.. Right of redemption.... Duty of Prothonotaries and Sheriff in regard to Fines and Jury fees.......... 280 City avenue widened...... Estimates by Heads of Departments........ Public moneys not to be used for eating, &c...... Warrants to set forth for what they are issued..... Goods and annual supplies, how bought.............. Appropriations to be itemized.. When contracts binding on the city. 281 282 283 284 284 286 287 289 City not to enter bail......... 290 Amendments of municipal claims.. 291 Pay and mileage of Jurors........ 292 Municipal election to be held on the second Tuesday in October. 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 Filbert street from the Schuykill River to Lancaster Avenue vacated.... 301 An act to authorize the Controllers of the First School District of Pennsyl- |