Thirteenth ward. Officers to be elect ed. Justices to be elected. When term to com mence. Annnal election. Common THIRTEENTH WARD. All that part of the city which lies southerly and easterly of the boundaries of the first and third wards and southerly of the fifth ward, as above described, shall be known as the thirteenth ward. § 2. The third section of title two is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3. The officers to be elected by the electors of each ward shall be two aldermen, two supervisors, and one constable. The term of office of the alderman shall be two years, and of supervisors and of constable one year, and until the successor of said several officers shall enter upon the office. One alderman and two supervisors shall be elected annually, except in the thirteenth ward, which shall elect but one supervisor. There shall be three inspectors of election in each election district, to be yearly elected by the electors thereof; but no elector shall vote for more than two inspectors. The term of office of said inspectors of election shall be one year, and they shall be inspectors of election at all elections held in said city during their term of office. 3. The fourth section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 4. There shall be a justice of the peace in the twelfth ward, to be elected by the electors thereof; and one in the thirteenth ward, to be elected by the electors thereof. The term of office of such justices shall be four years. § 4. The sixth section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 6. The term of all officers elected under this act shall commence on the first Monday of January after their election. 5. The seventh section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 7. The annual city and ward election shall be held on the same day with the State general election. 6. The eighth and ninth sections of title two of the said act are hereby amended so as to read as follows: §8. The common council shall, from time to time, divide divide the wards containing more than six hundred Marec electors into convenient election districts of not more council to wards tricts. then four hundred electors, designate the place of hold- tion dising the polls in each district, and fill vacancies in the office of inspectors of election. No alteration of the election districts shall be made within thirty days of an election. Every ward not subdivided into election districts shall be an election district. election. § 9. The city clerk shall publish in the official paper, Notice of and in three or more other daily newspapers, of the city, one or more of which shall be a German newspaper, notice of every election to be held under this act, twice a week for two weeks prior to such election, specifying the day on which the election is to be held, the time of opening and closing the polls, the officers to be elected, the boundaries of the several election districts, and the places of holding the polls therein. 7. The tenth and eleventh sections of title two of the said act are hereby amended so as to read respectively as follows: " boxes, § 10. In each district for the election of officers under Ballotthis act, there shall be a ballot-box, to be marked "city," how in which the ballots containing the names of city officers voted for, and to be indorsed "city," shall be deposited; also, a ballot-box to be marked "ward," in which the ballots containing the names of the ward officers voted for, and to be indorsed "ward," shall be deposited. When a justice of the superior court is to be elected, there shall also be a ballot-box, to be marked "superior court," in which the ballots containing the name or names of the judges of that court to be voted for, and to be indorsed" superior court," shall be deposited. Upon the closing of the polls, the inspectors shall forthwith, without adjournment, canvass the votes, and shall make and certify a statement of the result, specifying the whole number of votes given for each office; and the number of votes given for each person for each office, and shall on the next day file such statement and certificate with the city clerk. council to 11. On the second Monday after every annual Common election, the common council shall convene at their meet and usual place of meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the city clerk shall lay before them the certificates of the inspectors of election filed with him, and a tabu canvass votes. i Common appoint lar statement of their results, and the common council shall forthwith canvass the returns and determine therefrom, and certify who received the largest number of votes and are elected to the several offices. The said certificate shall be made in duplicate, one of which shall be filed in the office of the clerk of Erie county, and the other shall be filed and recorded in the city clerk's office. § 8. The eighteenth section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 18. On the first Monday of January, or as soon Council to thereafter as practicable, the common council shall by ballot appoint a city clerk, a commissioner of public buildings, clerks of the markets, a sealer of weights and measures, one or more pound-keepers, sextons, and keepers of public grounds; and may, by resolution or ballot, appoint such other agents and servants as shall be necessary. Term of city clerk officers. Annual assess be com pleted on April first. § 9. The nineteenth section of title two of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 19. The city clerk, the commissioner of public buildings and the sealer of weights and measures shall hold their office until the first Monday of January after their appointment. § 10. The forty-second section of title two of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 42. They shall prepare annual assessment rolls of ment shall each ward, which shall consist of two parts: the first part shall be the assessment of the taxable lands of the on before ward, substantially in the form in which town assessors are required to make them, except that no distinction shall be made between the lands of residents and nonresidents, but those of both shall be assessed in form as resident lands. The second part shall contain the names, in alphabetical order, of all inhabitants of the city, corporations and associations, deemed taxable in the ward upon personal estate, and opposite to such name shall be set down the amount of the personal estate assessed to them respectively. They shall complete said rolls on or before the first day of April in every year, and publish a notice in the official paper, twice a week for two weeks, that said rolls have been completed, and may be seen and examined at their. office until a certain day (not less than twenty days from the first publication of such notice) to be specified in such notice. The rolls shall, during said time, be open to public inspection. On the day specified in said notice, the assessor shall review, in the manner provided by law, the said assessment rolls, and correct the same. They shall make two copies of all the rolls, as corrected by them, and certify them. They shall, on or before the first of May, file one copy of each of them in the comptroller's office, and shall deliver to one of the supervisors of cach ward, a copy of the roll of his ward, which shall be the assessment roll of the ward for county and State purposes. § 11. The forth-sixth section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Justices o the peace and thir § 46. The justice of the peace of the twelfth ward and the justice of the peace of the thirteenth ward shall each have and execute in the wards for which they are respectively elected the powers conferred by law upon justices ward. of the peace of towns in civil actions and proceedings. §12. The sixty-second section of title two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 62. All persons appointed under this act shall, Term of unless otherwise provided, hold during the pleasure of office. the person or body by whom they were appointed. When it is provided that the appointee shall hold for one or more years, the term of office shall expire on the first Monday of January; but such person may hold over until his successor enters upon the office. § 13. The third section of title three of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: council to § 3. It shall, on the first Monday of January of each common year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, elect by ballot elect a one of its members to preside over its meetings for the presiding year, and in his absence it may choose a temporary president. § 14. The first section of title four of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: officer. council to §1. The common council shall, on the first Monday Common of January, in each year, or as soon thereafter as practi- designate cable, designate one of the daily newspapers published paper. official City clerk to advertise for proposals ing and bound blanks. in the city, as the official paper in which all matters required by law or ordinances to be published shall be published; and it shall fix the compensation, not exceeding the rates allowed by law for the publication of legal notices to be paid therefor. When any publication shall have been commenced in such paper and such paper shall cease to be the official paper before such publication shall have been completed, the same shall be completed in such paper with the like effect as if it were the official paper. § 15. The second section of title four of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. The city clerk shall, in each year, give ten days' notice by publishing the same in the official paper, and for print in two other daily newspapers published in the city, that sealed proposals for all printing (except the matter which is by law to be published in the official paper) which may be required by the city for one year, including bound blanks, will be received by him until the third Monday of December, and that such printing is to be done in the same style of execution as to type and paper as the best heretofore furnished. On the said third Monday of December, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the mayor, comptroller and treasurer, or either two of them, shall meet at the office of the mayor, and the city clerk shall deliver to them the sealed proposals which have been filed with him, and they shall publicly open the same and award such printing to the person who shall have proposed to do the same for the lowest price, and shall indorse on such lowest proposal a certificate that it is the lowest proposal and is accepted, and subscribe the same; and thereupon the said proposal shall be the contract for such printing for one year between the person making the same and the city. No proposal shall be considered unless it is subscribed by the party making it, and accompanied by an undertaking to the city with sureties in such sum as shall be prescribed by ordinance that it shall be faithfully performed; the accepted proposal and the undertaking accompanying the same shall be filed with the city clerk. The attorney shall prepare blank forms of pro |