CHAPTER I. ARTICLE XIII. To render an account of fees. To pay same to city treasurer. 6th. The date of the return of the execution, with a minute of the return. 7th. The issuing, delivering and return of every subsequent execution as above provided. IV. A book of taxed costs, in which he shall enter according to their proper dates, and alphabetically arranged under the names of the plaintiffs, the titles of all causes in which the costs have been taxed; the amount of which the court costs were taxed therein; the amounts advanced or paid by the plaintiffs during the progress of the action or after judgment, and the balances due the city therein. V. A cash book, in which he shall enter all moneys received by him for fees and costs in all cases, both civil and criminal, with the dates of their receipt and the titles of the actions in which they were received. § 10. He shall render, at the first regular meeting of the common council in every month, an account in detail of all fees received by him in all cases, civil and criminal, and of all balances of taxed costs in civil actions remaining_unpaid, which account shall be verified by his oath; and he shall forthwith pay over to the treasurer the amount of fees so received. 11. The treasurer of the city is hereby designated as the officer to whom each of the said justices is to pay over monthly the fines, fees, penalties and moneys collected and received by him, by virtue of his office, as required by law. Keeper solely under direction of the mayor, etc. To reside in SECTION 1. The keeper of the City Hall shall be solely under the direction of the mayor and board of aldermen, and shall have charge of the City Hall, flags, furniture and all other property of the city, in said City Hall; it shall be his duty to cause the same to be kept clean, and in good order, and he shall always be in attendance at meetings of the common council and of committees, and during the regular office and business hours. § 2. He shall reside in apartments within the City Hall appropriated and set apart for that purpose by the common council. ARTICLE XIV. §3. He shall be provided with a key for each room and And be provided office in the Hall, and shall exercise a general care and with keys. supervision over the same, for the preservation of the public property from destruction or waste. under his charge § 4. The assistant keeper of the City Hall, the keeper of Assistants to be the water closets, and all other persons employed in and and direction. about the City Hall, in cleaning and taking care of the offices occupied or used as city offices or courts, shall be under the charge and direction of the keeper of the City Hall. ARTICLE XV. SEALERS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. SEC. 1. Rates of compensation. pensation. SECTION 1. Sealers of weights and measures, appointed Rates of comby the common council in and for the city of Brooklyn, shall be entitled to demand and receive the same rate of compensation, for their services, as prescribed and established by law for the compensation of sealers of weights and measures, appointed by the supervisors of the counties of this State. ARTICLE XVI. TO REGULATE THE RECEPTION OF PROPOSALS AND AWARDING CON- 6. Proposals to be recorded. 7. Statement to be furnished city treasurer. 8. Comptroller to prepare bonds, etc. 9. Bonds or stock certificates, how to be signed. SECTION 1. Whenever proposals for furnishing supplies Form of proor doing work for the city of Brooklyn are invited by the posal, board of city works under title XVII, section one, of the city charter, said board is authorized and directed to require as a condition precedent to the reception or consideration of any proposal, the deposit with them of a certified check to the president of the board of city works or of money, (such check or money to accompany the proposal,) to an amount of at least five per cent. of the estimated cost of the supplies or work called for, when the amount of such cost is ten thousand dollars or under, and if the amount of such estimated cost shall exceed ten thousand dollars, for CHAPTER I. all sums over ten thousand dollars an additional deposit of at least three per cent on such excess, which condition shall be published with each advertisement calling for proposals. ARTICLE XVI. Penalty for neglect or refusal to enter into contract. Action when have been ac § 2. Any person offering a proposal to furnish supplies or to do work for the city whose proposal may be accepted by the board of city works, and who shall neglect or refuse to enter into a contract and furnish satisfactory sureties for the faithful performance of the contract, shall forfeit to the city the amount deposited with the said board of city works, in conformity with section one of this ordinance, which said amount shall be received and retained by said city as liquidated damages for such neglect or refusal to enter into said contract. § 3. Any check or money deposited with the board of bids shall not city works in accordance with this ordinance, shall be returned to the depositor thereof whose bid shall not have been accepted by said board of city works. cepted. Advertisement for proposals, form of. Proposals to be opened aud read. Proposals to be recorded. § 4. All advertisements published by the comptroller inviting sealed proposals for the purchase of any bonds, certificates, or stocks of the corporation of the city of Brooklyn, shall state the place where, and the day, and how, when and to which such proposals will be received. § 5. Upon the expiration of the time so limited for the reception of such proposals, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to publicly and audibly announce that fact, and thereupon, within the view and hearing of all persons present, he shall forthwith proceed to open and read the said proposals so received, and each one of them, but no such proposals shall be received after such announcement has been made, nor shall they be opened before the appointed time, or in any other place than the one so desig nated and appointed for that purpose. After being recorded, as provided in the next following section, the said proposals shall be carefully filed and preserved in the comptroller's office. § 6. All proposals or bids hereafter made to and received by the comptroller for the purchase of any description of bonds, certificates or stocks of the corporation of the city of Brooklyn, shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose in the comptroller's office, to be labelled "Proposals for city bonds, etc." Such record shall state the name of each bidder, the amount wanted, and the rate or price offered therefor, and also the awards made and declared by the comptroller, and when not in use, the same shall at all convenient times be open to public inspection. ARTICLE XVI. Statement to be § 7. It shall be the duty of the comptroller to furnish to CHAPTER I. the city treasurer, forthwith, a certified statement of all such awards so made and declared by him, and of the amount to be paid upon each, including premium and ac- furnished city crued interest thereon, if any, and all moneys hereafter paid treasurer. in settlement of such awards shall be, by the persons to whom the awards are made, paid to the city treasurer, who shall deliver proper receipts for the same. § 8. Upon the presentation to the comptroller of such Comptroller to receipts of the city treasurer for the amounts of such prepare bonds. awards, as stated in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to prepare the proper bonds, or certificates as specified therein, and cause the same to be duly executed by the proper city officials, and thereupon he shall deliver such bonds and certificates to the proper persons, taking their receipts for the same, which shall be retained in his office. certificates, how § 9. No such bonds or stock certificates for loans to said Bonds or stock corporation shall ever be signed or countersigned by the to be signed. comptroller and mayor, or either of them, unless there is presented to them such receipts of the city treasurer for an equal amount of money, and all such receipts shall be indorsed by said officers and each of them in such a manner as to show that the proper bonds or stock certificates for the amount expressed thereon have been duly executed by them. SEC. 1. ARTICLE XVII. OF DISBURSEMENTS BY THE BOARD OF POLICE. Board of police authorized to purchase a contingent fund. authorized to SECTION 1. The board of police of the city of Brooklyn Board of police are hereby authorized and empowered on behalf of the city, disburse a conto make such disbursements as are necessary and essential tingent fund. for the proper discharge of their executive duties, and which from their nature cannot be foreseen or provided for, or which are necessarily required for expenses of their detective force, or in the detection and arrest of criminals; but this ordinance shall not be deemed to authorize the expenditure of any sum beyond that from time to time raised as a contingent fund for said board. § 2. The said board shall prepare a bill quarterly, or as Bill to be rendmuch oftener as necessary, which shall be certified by the cred and paid if approved by the head of said department and shall state the items, amounts mayor. and dates of such expenditures, except so far as the public ARTICLE XVII. CHAPTER I. interest may be then prejudiced thereby, and upon the same being approved by the mayor, it shall become the duty of the auditor to audit the same, and of the financial officers to pay the amount thereof to the head of said department from the money raised for the said board. § 3. The financial officers of the city are hereby required to pay to the head of said department, the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars as a permanent fund to be used by said department in making the advances herein before referred to, and which he shall account for and pay to said city at the expiration of his term of office, or of the power hereby granted. Licenses to be mayor. CHAPTER II. AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING TO LICENSE AND REGULATING CART- The common council of the city of Brooklyn do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Licenses shall be granted by the mayor from granted by the time to time to such persons as he may deem proper, residents of the city of Brooklyn, of the age of twenty-one years, and of good moral character, and not otherwise, to carry on the business or trade, or to act in the capacity of coachmen, porters, owners and drivers of hacks, trucks, cabs, omnibuses, stages, railroad cars, express wagons, peddlers wagons and junk wagons or carts, and of common criers, hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, keepers of intelligence offices, junk shop keepers, sweeps, butchers and meat sellers. Also to license the exhibition of circuses, and the keepers of billiard tables and bowling alleys for public use. Licenses, what to contain. § 2. The licenses granted as above mentioned shall be issued by the city clerk on notice to him from the mayor, and shall respectively state the purpose for which they are |