ordinances as apply to the individual boroughs of said city, together with the local ordinances of the various towns, villages and localities now included within the Greater City of New York, and such as may be grouped together because their subject matter is related. Third Miscellaneous ordinances which refer to certain subjects that cannot be classified under a general heading, and which are grouped with those ordinances to which they are more specifically related. Fourth-Obsolete ordinances, which relate to subjects that have no practical existence at the present time, and the immediate repeal of which is recommended. Fifth Ordinances that have been repealed by implication because of the fact that they referred to localities or officials, or to a condition of affairs not now existent, and the immediate re-enactment of which ordinances, with the suitable changes herein suggested, is hereby recommended. These ordinances have been reported in their proper places and connection. As the policy of the framers of the Greater New York Charter and the interests of the city demand that the ordinances, so far as possible, shall be general, your committee, in several instances, have recommended the adoption of a local ordinance as a general ordinance or as a part of the existing general ordinances. In each such instance your committee have carefully indicated that such local ordinance, although inserted in the place it should occupy among the General Ordinances, is not a part of the General Ordinances, but is a local ordinance, and that its adoption as a General Ordinance is merely recommended. Your committee believe that in all cases the suggestions made by the committee will strongly appeal to the common sense of the board. The system of corrections adopted by your committee is as follows: The corrections of all ordinances of the former City of New York and of the former City of Brooklyn, together with those of the General Ordinances, are indicated by placing a parenthesis around such words as, in the opinion of your committee, should be stricken out, and by indicating the change which your committee suggests, in the margin opposite such parenthesis, the words suggested being underscored. The corrections of the ordinances of the former City of Long Island and the other smaller municipal corporations that are now comprised within the Greater City of New York have been indicated by placing the new matter suggested for adoption in parenthesis within the ordinance itself; the former language of the ordinance, which this committee recommends should be stricken out, is placed in the margin and underscored. Your committee, in presenting this report, desire to express their thanks for the kind and valuable assistance rendered to it by the Hon. P. J. Scully, city clerk, and his deputies, Mr. Frank J. Martin and Mr. Charles R. Shopland, and also to the assistant corporation counsel assigned to the board, Mr. William H. Doherty, who is largely responsible for editing the ordinances of the smaller towns, villages and localities now incorporated in the Greater City of New York. As to these latter, your committee have included in their report all such local ordinances as they have been enabled to obtain. IX. The Erection of Barriers to Prevent Accidents.... X. The Bureau of Incumbrances: |