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It is chiefly a compilation of statistics of the various secular, benevolent and religious institu- tions, societies and associations of the City of Brooklyn, and Kings County. In making it up, the compiler has borne in mind that accuracy should be principally studied, as without it no merely statistical work would be of any value. He has, therefore, devoted great care and attention to produce a correct and reliable book for reference. This was no easy task,-to brmg together from numerous sources, the many hundred "items" necessary to complete its several parts. It will be found very copious ; it being the intention to take in a wide range of subjects, and embrace information of interest to every class of the community. The publisher hopes to receive suffi- cient inducement to issue it (revised and enlarged) annually. It IS a work of local interest, and the publisher expects a lo- cal patronage only. He trusts the enlightened citizens of the tHird City of the Union" will appreciate his efforts to con- tribute to its Statistical Literature. Aprils 1855. ^' ^- ^' INDEX. Academies, ..... Aldermen, Board of .... American Protestant Association, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Athenaeum and Beading Koom, Atlantic Dock Company, .... Attorneys, ..... Banks, ...... Banks for Savings, .... Bible Societies, ..... Board of Education, .... Botanic Physicians, .... Brooklyn Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, " Athen to o t- '-o o tp fo im i-i B O O LP tft LP Lra O us LP ir. O LI LP LP O LP O O LP O in LP 1.0 LP lO ^O t-O lO o o £' CO O "3* ^^ 5; Oa Tj* o ^ ft (H OS to -l" t/3 ^|1>.|Q|'|g'i>.-HOiS ^oicoTt '-a •■o '-o o < o vo -.o --d jo -.o -xi o o --o to --o --c '-o ■■=! in . ,_ ~, ~, — J cT 1^ to T CO — ' 0-. t^ LP TT OJ O C". t^ LP CO CM O a-. 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Combs Eliap,— real estate and general auctioneer, and regaliaa, Cowley and Haskell,— insurance agents, Cox H. AND Brotiiek,— livery and sales stable, Davenport A. B.,— real estate and insurance agent. Day Henry P.,— coal dealer, ... Dederky Charles,— cabinet maker and upholsterer, Drew William G.,— plumber, .... Eakin Henry E., — hot air and gas tight furnaces, Fish William J. M.,— St. Vitus' Dance remedy, FiTHiAN AND JoY, — sash iiiakcrs, . Foster J. H., — metal roofer, .... Fkazikr Stephen K., — coal and wood dealer, Gander J. C, — bookseller and stationer, Hampson Robert,— marble works. Haven Henry,— hot-air registers, &c., Henderson John C.,— intelligence othce, Hondlow S., — real estate broker, Kimball George, — hot-air furnaces, «fcc., Lawrence M. M.,— daguerreotypes, Lefferts Joun W.,— cabinet maker and undertalier, Market Fire Insurance Co., Maksii James, — books and stationery, Mohawk Foundry,— George G. Johnson and Co., MoRDouGH J. H.,— music teacher, Morris James,— card engi-aver, Nicolay Albert H., — auctioneer. Parsons Ann M.,— furnishing undertaker, Patrick Kobert M.,— iron safes, Peters, O. T.,— .'Stereoscopes and likenesses, . Powell Tunis J.,— house furnishing, Price Sarah,— female physician, EoGEBS William H.,— jeweler, ScuLEGELMiLCH D , — upliolstcrer and paper hanger, Sharpley S. I.,— gentlemen's funiisliing, Shipley and Loekle, — engravers and die sinkers, Smith William H.,— publisher, . Sutton Stephen, — real estate broker, Taylor William,— iron foundry, Trow John F.,— printer, Walters William B.,— wood and coal dealer, . It, hack. inside cover, hack. 5, hack. 6, front. 7, hack. 9, hack. colored leaf, hack. 1, front. 8, hack. 10, hack, colored leaf, front. b, front, b, front. 1, front. 2, hack. , 8, hack. 2, hack. 7, hack. 11, hack. 10, hack. S, front. \, front. ^, front. 1, front, outside hack cover. S,fro7it. 4, front, outside hack cover. 1, hack. 10, front. inside front cover inside hack cover, 4, hack, colored leaf, hack. 4, front. % front. 12, hack, colored leaf, front. 6, hack. Z, front. 4, front. 4, hack. 5, hack. 9, front, n, front. opp. title. 8, hack. 10, front. . opp. title. d,, front. THE CITY OF BROOKLYN 1855. Brooklyn, Kings County, is situated at the west end of Long Island, opposite to, and south-westerly of New York city, and divided from it by the East river, an arm of the sea connecting the bay of New York with Long Island sound. Its latitude is 40° 42^ N., and longitude 74° 1^ W. (Green- wich), or about 3° E. (Washington). It was first inhabited by the Dutch about the middle of the 17th century, and for a hun- dred years after was little else than a rural settlement. Subsequently it passed through the progressive stages of hamlet and village ; but did not rise to any importance till within about twenty-five years. In 1834 it became a city, and the state census of 1835 showed a population of 24,310. Since that time it has advanced with rapid and increasingly prosper- ous strides towards greatness ; but recently a mighty effort has been made in that direction, trusting soon to win the distinction. The new City Charter, taking effect January 1st, 1855, consoli- dates the original city, the city of Williamsburgh, and the town- ship of Bushwick into one municipal territory and government ; thus at once rising from the seventh to the third city of the Union in population — the number of inhabitants within its pres- ent corporate limits being estimated at 200,000. It cannot, how- ever, be claimed, that it holds the same numerical position in point of wealth, business, or commercial importance. There are several cities having considerably less population, which take rank above it in these respects. It must be confessed too, that it has not risen to its present eminence by its own inherent vigor and enterprise. Candor demands the acknowledgment that it is chiefly attributable to the overflowing prosperity and greatness of its giant neighbor. Many thousands of its counted population are scarcely more than semi-denizens. They are the merchant 12 BROOKLYN CITY AND princes and master artisans doing business in New York; and these employ other thousands as clerks, accountants, journeymen, and apprentices, and in numerous and varied capacities. Thus it holds the anomalous position of out-numbering at night its day population by tens of thousands. The exterior line of the consolidated city measures about twenty-two miles, embracing an area of 16,000 acres, or twenty- five square miles ; and is divided by the charter into eighteen wards, to which an addition is likely soon to be made, as an application is now before the legislature, to erect a nineteenth. Newtown creek, on the East river, bounds it on the north; and the town of New Utrecht, on the bay of New York, on the south. The East river and bay of New York form its western limit, and Queens County the eastern. Its extreme length, north and south, is about seven and three-fourth miles, and its ex- treme breadth five miles. The exterior line being very irregular, its average extent either way is much less. The city has eight and a half miles of water front (its entire western boundary), which is capable, with docking, of afi'ording wharfage for ship- ping. The Newtown creek, on its northern boundary, is navi- gable for a mile or two for vessels of light burthen. It is in contemplation to still further increase water communication to the city by capacious canals running up into the city from New- town creek and Wallabout and Gowanus bays, which will con- nect with commodious basins. With these facilities for com- merce, it may reasonably be expected that in a few years its trade, both inland and foreign, will be so considerable as to raise it to a city of the commercial rank that its natural advantages ought to secure. Brooklyn possesses advantages as an agreeable place of resi- dence. Being considerably elevated above tide-water, and open on all sides to the free circulation of air, its atmosphere is pure and bracing. From the south it has the invigorating salt breezes wafted from a thousand miles seaward. Being less compactly built and densely populated than New York, it is devoid of the turmoil, bustle, and confused jostling of that city. It is free, also, from many of the prominent immoralities which are apt to characterize a metropolitan city, and that ofi"end and repel a right-thinking and religious people. For this cause, and for the advantages of its air, and the general quiet and good order that prevails, as well as its proximity to the great mart for the exchange of the products of the intellect and skill, it is chosen as an eligible place for a family residence or sojourn. It has earned the cognomen of " The City of Churches ; " and we think it may justly claim it, KINGS COUNTY RECOED. as it is probable that there is not another city in enlightened Christendom that has as large a number of places for religious worship, in proportion to its population. There are one hundred and forty-two church societies, most of them having edifices of their own, and many of which are large and substantially built structures, and elegantly finished. We think it may with justness be called also " the city of schools," there being a large number of educational institutions of a high order, in which the youth may be fitted to fill and adorn any station in life. The Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, for boys — to be opened in May — and the Packer Col- legiate Institute, for girls, stand the highest. The public, or common schools, — numbering twenty-eight for whites, and three for colored, — also rank equal to any in the State. Among the prominent literary institutions of the city are the Athen^um and the Begoklyn Institute. There are also a large number of institutions having a literary character, which are not strictly public, the advantages obtained from them being mostly confined to their initiated members. Of this class are, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Hamilton Literary Association, the Franklin Debating Association, and the St. Charles Institute, in the western district; and the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Men's Association, Young Men's Literary Association, and Franklin Literary Union, in the eastern. The benevolent associations and institu- tions are numerous. There are a Hospital and two Dispensaries for medical relief, the Association for improving the Con DITION OF THE PoOR, the BROOKLYN BeNEVOLENT SoCIETY, the Industrial Schools Association, the Female Employment Society, the Church Charity Foundation, the Society for the Belief of Bespectable Aged Indigent Females, and two Orphan Asylum Societies, in the western district; a Dispensary for medical relief, the Howard Benevolent Society, the Belief Department of the City Missionary Society, and the Chil- dren's Aid Society, in the eastern. There are also several societies which have for their object the moral and religious interests of the people. These are two Bible Societies, and one Tract Society, and the Sunday School Union, of the western, and the Bible and City Mis- sionary Societies of the eastern district. The facilities for intercourse with its several parts, and with the neighboring city and adjacent country, are numerous. There are thirteen steam-ferries communicating with New York, and on several the boats ply day and night. Four city railroad lines, 14 BROOKLYN CITY ANO using horse cars, are already in use, and four more are to be completed in the course of the year. These will diverge from the ferries to the bounds of the city in every direction, giving convenient access to and from the various settled localities and rural districts of the city : thus affording peculiar facilities and inducements to those doing business in the lower part of New York, to locate a family residence on some pleasant spot within our borders. Numerous stage lines give additional facilities for intercom- munication, and to the adjacent country villages. The city is well provided with light material, three compa- nies being engaged in manufacturing the gas from which the principal streets and public buildings, and many private dwell- ings, are made to blaze in light. The Police system of the city is now on a good footing, and under the command of the efiicient Chief, John S. Folk, Esq., supported by our philanthropic and energetic Chief Magistrate, Hon. George Hall, Mayor, whose election to the mayoralty at this time (the first under the charter of consolidation) is a remarkable coincidence, as he was the first called to fill that station under the first city charter, in 1834, At that time the mayor was appointed by the Board of Aldermen. There are in the city seven Police Districts, with an aggregate force of 274 men. The eighth, ninth and eighteenth wards are not in- cluded in the districts, each having a special police at their own expense. It is proposed that the police of the city, when on duty, wear a uniform dress nearly similar to that adopted in New York. The Fire extinguishing departments are on the voluntary plan and quite effective. There are two organizations, one to each municipal district. That of the western is under command of Israel D. Velsor, and the eastern of Charles C. Talbot, Chief Engineers. The rolling machinery, apparatus and working force of the western is 20 engines, 7 hose carriages, 4 hook and ladder trucks, and 1 bucket carriage, with a total allowance of 1'715 men. That of the eastern is 10 engines, 4 hose carriages, 3 hook and ladder trucks (and 1 bucket company forming), with an al- lowance of 990 men. The number of streets and avenues opened is five hundred and sixteen. The number surveyed and laid out on the Commis- sioners' map is about seven hundred. Of parks, the only one yet completed is the '' City Park," near the Navy Yard ; it contains but a few acres. Another, and much larger one, was inclosed last year ; this is the "Washington Park," located on the site of old Fort Grreene. The grounds are to remain of the original KIJJ'GS COUNTY RECORD. 15 altitude, making a commanding eminence, from which may "be viewed in every direction a wide expanse of city and country. Other parks are contemplated in different sections of the city. It is much to be regretted, that grounds for a public park were not early set apart on the brow of the " Heights," from which there is a magnificent panoramic view of the city and harbor of New York and the circumjacent islands and shores. It would have been a place of attractive resort, and won fame for the city, and honor to its projectors. The Greenwood Cemetery, on Gowanus Heights, in the southern section of the city, is famed as a beautiful and enchant- ing resting place for the dead. This, the oldest of the great cemeteries in this vicinity, was opened for interments in 1842. The Cypress Hills Cemetery, just beyond the bounds of the city, eastward, is of more recent origin, having been opened for interments in 1849 ; and when the grounds have been opened and adorned in accordance with the plans as adopted, it will be surpassed, in beauty of arrangement and effect, by none. The third great cemetery of the vicinity is the Evergreens, lying partly within the present limits of the city (late in the town of Bushwick), at its eastern extremity. Interments were first made here in 1849. The grounds are well adapted to the purpose, and are arranged with pleasing effect. There are several cemeteries of smaller size and less note, lying in and around the city : as the Calvary, on Laurel Hill ; Mount Olivet, near Maspeth ; and the Lutheran, near Middle Village, all in Queens County ; and the Union, near the Myrtle Avenue, plank road (eighteenth ward) ; and the Friends', north of the Greenwood, in the eighth ward. The Atlantic Dock, in the south-western part of the city, a capacious basin of forty acres' water surface, affords safe winter harbor for shipping ; and the extensive warehouses on the piers, give accommodation for storing their cargoes. It is designed to construct another basin for like purposes, bordering on Gowanus bay, to be called the " Erie Basin," and of more than double the capacity of the Atlantic Dock. Several handsome edifices have been erected within the last few years. The City Hall, situated in a triangular park bounded by Fulton, Court and Joralemon streets, is the chief architectural ornament of the city. It is built of white marble, in the Ionic style, with six lofty columns supporting the roof of the portico, and surmounted by a handsome cupola. Among the principal buildings lending ornament to the city, are the Naval Hospital, County Jail, City Hospital, Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn 16 BROOKLYN CITY AND AthenEeiim, Brooklyn Institute, Montague Hall, City Central Hall, Gothic Hall, and the Odeon. Several of the principal hotels, — the Pierrepont House, Mansion House, and Globe Ho- tel, — are spacious and handsome edifices. The manufacturing carried on in the city is extensive and varied, and the capital invested amounts to several millions. Ship building is carried on to a large extent on the margin of the East river, in the eastern district. The United States Navy Yard, on the Wallabout Bay, is a work of considerable magnitude and cost, and employs a large number of men. The yard proper embraces an area of about forty-five acres, inclosed by a brick wall. The Government Dry Dock is located here. The occupation at that place of so large an area (about two hundred acres) for government uses, is con- sidered detrimental to the interests of Brooklyn, as the space could be more advantageously occupied for manufacturing, trade and commerce. A movement is on foot, asking legislative au- thority to allow the city of Brooklyn to re-purchase a large por- tion of it from the General Government. Should the city be empowered to purchase it, and the negotiation prove successful, it would result in vast benefit to that locality, and open along the water-front a more direct communication between the west- ern and eastern districts. In one important matter the city yet stands in the back ground, and that is an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water, suited to all the wants of its inhabitants. The subject has long been agitated, and various plans suggested for effecting the desired object, but none of them have secured the popular favor, and consequently the project has failed of accomplish- ment. One plan advocated is to bring the water of certain ponds and streams of Long Island into the city by means of conduits and reservoirs, at a cost of $4,500,000. Another proposes to raise it from deep and capacious wells to be constructed for the purpose. It would be a matter for congratulation should an economical and effective scheme be devised that would meet with acceptance, and its advantages be speedily secured. BEOOKLYN AS IT WAS. The first settlement of an European in the town of Brooklyn was made by George Jansen de Rapelye, a Hollander, at the Waale Bog'ht (Wallabout), in the year 1625. Between the years 1642 and 1647, patents were obtained KINGS COUNTY IlECORP. 17 from William Kieft, the Dutch director general of the then called New Netherlands, of the tract of land on the west end of Long Island, lying between the Wallabout bay and Red Hook, to which the name of Breuckelin was given — afterward modern- ized to Brooklyn, The name has undergone many orthographical changes from the original, as the following literatim examples from records of olden time will show : — Breuckelen, Breuck- len, Breukelen, Breuklen, Breucklyn, Breucklyne, Breuckland, Broockeland, Broockland, Brookland. There is extant a record of the Town Council as far back as 1671, broken only by an interval of eight years, from 1776 to 1784, the troublous period of the revolutionary war, during which no records were kept. The following statistics will be found interesting. In 1706 there were sixty-four freeholders within the precinct ; and in 1802, ninety-six years later, the number had increased to only eighty-six. In 1800 the total population was 3,298 ; in 1810, 4,402; in 1820, 7,175; in 1830, 15,292; in 1835, the first year after it was incorporated as a city, 24,310; in 1840, 36,233; in 1845, 50,574; and in 1850, 96,850. It is estimated that the census of 1855 will show an aggregate of 145,000 within the precinct of old Brooklyn. In 1823 there were but three houses for public religious wor- ship : one Protestant Episcopal, one Reformed Dutch, and one Methodist Episcopal; — in 1S34, the number had increased to fif- teen of all denominations. Since that time, churches have multi- plied so rapidly and become so numerous as to gain for the city a distinctive appellation. In 1834 the number of public schools was but three; in 1854 there were fourteen for whites, and two for colored. In 1834 there were only two ferries to New York — the Falton and Catharine — both of which ceased running at mid- night. The shores bordering on the East river and bay, for nearly their whole extent from AVallabout bay to Red Hook, were in the condition moulded by the hand of nature. At this time there were not many streets opened ; and of the then few houses, a small number were clustered about the Fulton ferry, and the remainder sparsely scattered along Fulton street, over the Heights, and in the direction of the Nav}'' Yard. The number of buildings in 1854 was 19,576, of which 13,582 were occupied solely as dwellings, and 3,225 as stores and dwellings combined. In 1832, but three streets were dimly lighted with oil lamps; the succeeding year, thirteen more were so favored. In 1849, gas was first introduced into the city, to the great convenience and advantage of the inhabitants. 18 BROOKLYN CITY AND In 1834, two weekly newspapers — the " Long Island Star,'^ and the " Patriot " — were published in the city. Little or no commerce or manufacturing was then carried on ; the business and trade of the place being what was required to meet the local wants. The total valuation of real and personal property was, in 1824, $2,600,080; 1834, $15,642,290 ; 1835, $26.390,151 ; 1836, $32,428,942; 1837, 26,895,074; 1838, $25,198,956. The ap- parent depreciation of more than $7,000,000 in two years, was doubtless owing to the high speculative value which real estate had attained in 1835-36, and the disastrous revulsion which oc- ^i curred in 1837. In consequence of this, the aggregate tax valu- 1 ation for the eight years succeeding 1838 rose but slowly; it {I being only $26,933,613 in 1846, notwithstanding the addition, ]' during those eight years, of 25,000 to the population. The total valuation in 1854 was $72,849,998— $64,665,117 real estate, and $8,184,881 personal property. The village of Brooklyn was incorporated April 10th, 1816. The corporate limits extended only a short distance from Fulton ferry, the nucleus of business. A city charter was obtained at the legislative session of 1834, after a strenuous opposition from the city of New York, The Act was passed the 8th, and went into effect the 10th of April of that year. The municipal limits extended to the boundary of the township of Brooklyn. In 1821 the village comprised one school district, and the number of children taught in the district school was 188, although there were 1280 in the district between the years of five and fifteen. The expense of conducting all the public affairs of the vil- lage from May 18th, 1821, to June 25th, 1822, was $1,878,65, and the estimated expense for the year 1830-31 was $10,000. 1 (CONSOLipATED) BROOKL Y]Sr CITY GOVERNMENT FOR 1855. MAYOR. GEORGE HALL. Office, City Hall. City Clerk and Clerk of the Common Council. William G. Bishop. Office, City Hall. Attorney and Counsellor. Nathaniel F. Waring. Office, City Hall. ALDERMEN. Daniel P. Barnard, 1st Ward. — John Cashow, 2d " Daniel T. Leverich, 3d " Daniel P. Barnard, 4th " Charles C. Fowler, 5th " William W. Gardiner, 6th " Augustus E. Masters, 7th " Alden S. Crowell, 8th " Cornelius Bennett, 9th " William T. Mills, 10th " John G. Clayton, nth " William W. Walsh, 12th " Timothy Bannon, 13th " Jared Sparks, 14th " George W. Baker, 15th " Andrew Cunningham, 16th " Edwin S. Ralphs, 17th " Ethan S. Blanck, 18th " Daniel Luyster, *^* The first lot in accordance named Alderman of each Ward serves but one year, as classified with the provision of the Charter, Title 2, sections 4 and 5. President. George L. Bennett, Edward Pell, Benjamin F. Wardwell, John K. Oakley, Robert M. Whiting, Albert B. Capwell, Cornelius R. Atwater, John V. Bergen, William H. Campbell, Smith Fancher, Edward T. Backhouse, Thomas Mulcahy, Richard H. Huntley, John Linsky, Thomas Eames, John Maerz, Job Davis, George M. Troutman. by 20 BROOKLYN CITY AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF COMMON COUNCIL. The Mayor is ex-officio, a member of all the Committees. The first named on each committee is chairman thereof. Assessiueiits. Aldermen Fowler, Campbell,, Eames, Bannon, and Barnard. Meet Fridays, 7 P. M. Claims ag'aiiist the City of Brooklyn, prior to 1855. Aldermen Backhouse, Capwell, Atwater, Mills, and Bannon. Fridays, 7 P. M. Claims ag^ainst tlie late City of Williamsbiirghi. Aldermen Atwater, Linskj, Sparks, Ralphs, and Eames. Old Hall Eastern District, Wednesdays, 7 P. M. Claims ag'aiiist the late Town of Busliwick* Aldermen Troutman, Blanck, Luyster, Davis, and Maerz. Thursdays, 7 P. M. Ferry and. Water Rigrhts. Aldermen Bergen, Fowler, Baker, Fancher, and Gr. L. Bennett. Specially called. Finance. Aldermen Huntley, Pell, Fowler, Troutman, and Backhouse. Wednesdays, 7 P. M. Fire Department, Eastern District. Aldermen Eames, Linsky, Huntley, Davis, and Baker. Old Hall, Eastern District, Fridays, 7 P. M. Fire Department^ Western District. Aldermen Fancher, Pell, Crowell, Bannon. and Walsh. Fridays, 7 P. M. Gas. Aldermen Davis, Pell, Clayton, Linsky, and Oakley. Wednesdays 7 P. M. Hospitals. Aldermen Mills, Huntley, Crowell, Walsh, and C. Bennett. 1st Tuesday of each month, 7 P. M. L.amps. Aldermen Cashow, Gardiner, Masters, Cunningham, and Eames. Thursdays, 8 P. M. liaws) and Applications to the liCgrislaturc. Aldermen Sparks, Capwell, Atwater, Baker, and Wardwell. Fridays, 7 30 P. M. markets. Aldermen Leverich, Gardiner, Oakley, Mills, and Fancher. TlmrBdays, 7 P. M. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 21 Police* Aldermen Masters, Ralphs, Whiting, Troutman, and Clayton. Meet Thursdays, 7 P. M. Printingr* Aldermen Clayton. Cunningham, Leverich, Maerz, and Oakley. Thursdays, 7 P. M. Property and Assets lield by the Cities of Brooklyn and Willicimsburg'li, and To^vn of Busliwick, prior to 1855 (purstuaut to Section 15, Title 10, of John VV. JLJraisted. Assess?nents, h. Dist. ^ Deputij, John S. Litchfield. Health Officer^ Matthew Wendell, M. D. OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL. Keeper of City Hall and Messengei' of Board, Keeper of City Parks, Sealers of Weights and Mea- sures, W. District, Sealers of Weights and Mea- sures, E. District, Inspectors of Meat, W. Dis- trict, Inspectors of Meat, E. Dis- trict, Clerk of the Markets, Inspectors of Pavements, W. District, Inspector of Pavements, E. District, Pound Master, W. District, Moses Abbott. Richard Coffin. William Utter. J. D. Brewer. Thomas Pettit. John Powell. James Smith. Valentine Carman. James Titus. Robert Reynolds. Jeremiah Coffin. Peter J. Van Dine. Samuel Doxsey. Hicks Post, John Montgomery. Louis Nichols. Daniel Brooks. Inspector of Hacks, Stages, SfC, Horace Strang. Wm. S. Wright. Stephen H. Mann Fire Wardens, W. District,-^ A. F. Campbell. Stephen Roof. Fire Wardens, E. District, Bell Ringers, W. District, Bell Ringers, E. District, [^Robert Barr, ^ William V, Hanson. \ Cornelius Woglom. C Louis Dubois, < Joseph Montross. ( Smith U. Cox. r John Jackson. J Edward Wade. I Arthur Basset. L William H. Ward. 24 BROOKLYN CITY AND Willard Day. George H. Day. Koswell Graves. Richard Butt. Silas Ludlam. John S. Stoddard, City Surveyors. Tennis G. Bergen. Leander N. Vibbard. Alfred Rolfe. John Rolfe. Sidney A. Beers. Jarvis Whitman. Thomas W. Field. L. L. Bartlett. J. V. Meserole. J. G. Morgan. J. P. Morgan. P. G. Van Alst. Josiah M. Grumman. George Stoddard. OFFICERS ELECTED. StJPEKVISOMS. 1st' Ward, William Hinman. 10th Ward, 2d '' Seth Bradford. 11th " 3d " Amos P. Stanton. 12th " 4th " Isaac Allen. 13th " 5th " Jacob B. Stryker. 14th " 6th " William C. Heaton. 15th " 7th " Edward Rowe. IGth " 8th " John Farrell. 17th " 9th " John S. Bogart. 18th " ASSESSORS. 1st Ward, George N. Mead. 10th Ward, 2d " William Mullen. 3d " Robert J. Luckey. 4th " Ezra Baldwin. 5th " Murray Whiting. 6th " *John P. Allison. 7th " Norris Evans. 8th ^' Zebulon R. Combs 9th " John Flood. George L 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th Thatcher, * President. SeC7 Benj. P. Middleton. Thomas S. Denike. John Garland. W. E. Caldwell. James Nolan. John B. Thursby. David Lindsay. H. B. Fenton. Henry D. Woodruff. Charles L. Franklin. Reuben Isdell. Thomas Courtney. Aaron V. Cannon. Philip Brady. Joseph T. Miller. John A. Saal. Amos W. Silkworth. Jacob Bennett. •etary. COMMISSIONER.S OF EXCISE. 1st Ward, Edward E. Collins. ' Hooper C. Packard. ' *Alexander Studwell. 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7 th 8th 9th George I. Bennett. Patrick Kelan. *J. Milton Smith. * James Maloy. Horace R. Fletcher. * Thomas Hamilton. 10th Ward, *Smith A. Parkes. 11th " Ambrose L. Bruen. 12th " John Flaherty. 13th *• * Jos. H. Vandewater. 14th " Patrick Gaynor. 15th " *Samuel Taylor. 16th " * John Wills. 17th " Jacob Hendrickson. 18th " *Robert Shotwell. * Serve but one year, as classified by lot, in accordance with the provision of the Char- ter, Title 8, Sections 2 and 3. KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 25 CONSTABLES. 1st Ward Henry Oakey. 10th Ward, 2d " James A. Birdsall. 11th " 3d " John Pearsall. 12th " 4th " John L. White. 13th " 5th " Thomas Fields. 14th " 6th " Wm. W. Randolph. 15th " 7th " Asa Hubbell. 16th " 8th " Carman Wilson. 17th " 9th " Peter Valentine. 18th " James Hennigar. Alfred Horton. John R. Corr. James T. Marsh. Thomas Gilroy. Oscar Myers. Nicholas Henry. Isaac Thompson. James Semlear. "Ward. DisL 5. < 2.— 1.— 2.— 13. U. INSPECTORS OF ELECTION. Charles H. Thomson, Henry Spear. •George Sweeney, Russell Kelsey. •Russell F. Hulse, Gerard M. Stevens. George W. Prince, Bernard McLaughlin. Walter Barre, Edwin H. Burnett. •John B. Stratton, William W. Dainker. William H. Wright, Edwin Beers. Ephraim Whitlock, Horatio A. Carter. Joel Conklin, Simeon A. Graves. •Cornelius Higgins, Hugh Bell. James Mackey, John H. Williams. •Patrick Keelan, Thomas Burns. ■Stephen Kidder, Dennis Hagerty. -John H. Lewis, John Blackmore. -Isaac Meserole, Jonathan Rogers. •Stephen Baldwin, Grenville Hay dock. William P. Williams, James Dorney. Bernard O'Neill, Ludlow Miller. •William H. Noe, Stephen H. Cahoone. Edwin 0. Burling, Samuel Van Wyck. ■E. Van Saun, John Hodgkin. •Amasa Thayer, William T. Skidmore. •Robert Douglass, Ezra Hyde. ■George Mitchell, True W. Rollins. •Michael Donnelly, John Schmadeke. ■Patrick E. Dillon, Jeremiah Quaid. ■Thomas J. Morrell, Peter Coffee. •Charles Wendell, Phineas Jacobs. -Patrick Wheelan, Edward Nolan. -Marcellus P. Betts, Henry Devoe. 2 26 BROOKLYN CITY AND 15. 16. 17. 18. ( 1. — Daniel Brooks, John W. Ilandford. ( 2. — James L. Wilson, Joseph Anderson. C 1. — Winthrop Wilson, James P. Cruickshank. ( 2. — Daniel H. Feeks, Charles Kiehl. James P. Hallett, John Silkworth. James Cleaveland, Joseph McCoun. LOCAIi JUDICIARY. Erastus D. Culver, City Hall. Daniel K. Smith, City Hall. *Henry C. Boswell, Cells N. Fifth st. t Jacob C. Blachly, 3d. dist. Police Station. JHenry P. Curtis, City Hall ^ Henry D. Woodworth, 6th. dist. Police St'n. ^Chamicey Perry, Franklin st. cor. Clinton av. Joseph E. Palmer, 161 S. Eighth st. II Enoch Jacobs. 129^ Grand St. Jacob L. Fenn, 281 Grand st. _ Daniel Mansfield, 347 Grand st. * Claiming: continuance in office under Williamsburgli charter. t Justice of tlie 1st District, coinprisin;^ all tliat part of the old City of Brooklyn west ot Fulton St. and south of Fnlton av., andingluding the 9th Ward. i Justice of the 2d District, coniiiri^ing; all tliatpart of the old City of Brooklyn east of Fulton St. and north of Fulton av., except the 9th Ward. § Late of the Town of Bushwick, and continued iu office. i Appointed in place of James }1. Aymar. City Judge, Police Justices, Justices of the Peace, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. ABOARD OF EDUCATION Meet 1 5^ Tuesday of every month, at 4 P. M. Office, Eed Hook Lane, between Fulton and Livingston streets. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 1855. President, CYRUS P. SMITH. Vice President, EDWARD W. DUNHAM. Superintendent and Secretary, J. W. BULKLEY. Clerk, HENRY DEAN. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. Edward Anthony. Abraham B. Bayh's. Richard W. Beebe. John Bellingham. Dehart Bergen. W. S. Dillingham. Edward W. Dunham. Thomas W. Field. John Greenwood. John Halsej. Henry R. Pierson. Theo. Polhemus, jr. Grahams PoUey. William Poole. James M. Seabury. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 27 John G. Bergen. Peter G. Bergen. Samuel Booth. J. Brinkerhoj[f. H. G. Burnham. Jonathan S. Burr. Wallace E. Caldwell. William W. Crane. John D. Cocks. Edward Copland. Stephen Crowell. William M. Harris. Henry Harteau. Stephen Haynes. James How. John W. Hunter. George W. Kelsey. C. A. Lay. F. R. Morris. James J. Murdock. John M. Phelps. J. Silkworth. Cyrus P. Smith. J. Stewart. Thomas Sullivan. Fiteh Taylor. Peter G. Taylor. John S. Thome. Robert G. Thursby. Charles F. Tuttle. * A Board of Education was first established in Brooklyn, Jan. 10th, 18S9. PRINCIPALS OF PUBIilC SCHOOLS AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL HOUSES. Lyman E. White. J. Sand. F. D. Clarke. Samuel C. Barnes. Charles B. Goodsell. David Syme, A. M. F. C. Buck. Josiah Reeve. E. Spafard. Peter Rouget. B. F. Libbey. E. S. Adams. A. B. Clarke. C. H. Kimball. Thomas S. Weeks. Henry D. Woodsworth. William A. Fitch. Thomas W. Valentine. Mrs. Charlotte D. Kelly. Kate McWilliams. Joshua B. GrifSng. J. M. Witherspoon. William M. Kerr. 1. Adams street, cor. Concord. 2. Fort^'-'Seventh street, bet. 8d. and 4th Avs. 3. Bedford av., cor. Putnam av. 4. Classon av., n. Flushing av. 6. Myrtle av., cor. Gold. 6. Warren street, n. Court. 7. York St., n. Bridge. 8. Middagh street, n. Henry. 9. Prospect Hill. 10. 18th street, n. 3d Av. 11. Washington av., n. Greene av. 12. Adelphi street, n. Myrtle av. 13. Degi'aw street, n. Hicks. 14. Concord street, cor. Navy. 15. Walworth street (not organized). 16. (late No. 1) South 3d street, cor. Fifth. 17. (late No. 2) North 5th street, cor. Fifth. 18. (late No. 3) Remsen street, n. Leonard. 19. (late No. 4) South 2d street, cor. Tenth. 20. South 4th St. n. Eighth. 21. McKibbin street, n. Ewen. 22. Union av., n. Java st. 23. Bushwick av., n. North 2d street. 24. Washington street, cor. Prospect. PRIMARY SCHOOLS. North 6th street, n. First. North 8d street, bet. Second and Third. North 1st street, bet. Third and Fourth. Ninth street, n. Ainslie. Mrs. Mary Cooper. Mrs. Ellen McMann. Mrs. S. A. Brown. COLORED SCHOOLS. 1. Willoughby street, n. Raymond. 2. Weeksville. 8. Tenth st, n. North 2d. William J. Wilson. Junius C. Morel, Samuel S. Rankins. 28 BROOKLYN CITY AND POLICE DEPARTMENT. Chief, JOHN S. FOLK. Office — 6 Basement^ City Hall. Clerkj Benjamin S. Moreliouse. i Aury Snediker. Attaches to Chief ^s office^ < Samuel Hubbs. f William M. Eaynor. CAPTAINS AND ASSISTANTS. First District, comprising 1st, 3d, and 4th "Wards. Police Station^ No. 1 Basement^ City Hall. Captain^ Joel Smith. Assistants, \ ^^"^^^ ^/^,^^^- ' { Ueorge Latham. Force 54 men. Second District, comprising 2d and 5th Wards. Felice Station, York street, cor. Jay. Captain, Thomas King. Bennett. Van Keuren. Force 36 men. Third District, comprising 6th, 10th, and 12th Wards. Police Station, Court street, n. Butler. Captain, William Vanderveer. Assistants, \ T'^^'^'^.^IT' ' I Jacob M. Stigers. Force 56 men. Fourth District, comprising 7th and 11th Wards. Police Station, cm\ Vanderhilt and Myrtle avs. Captain, Richard W. Call. AssistoMs, S^Ss^wf'- Assistants, \ j Force 46 men. KINGS COUNTY EECORD. 29 Fifth District, comprising 13th and 14th Wards. Police Station^ cor. Fifth st. and North 2d. Captain^ Henry Guischard. Assistants \ ^^^"^ ^- ^^''''^• jissisiants, ^ p^^^^ Bennett. Force 36 men. Sixth District, comprising 15th and 16th Wards. Police Station, Wyckoff street, n. Ewen. Captain^ Napthali H. Dibble. Assistants, ^'Robert Cox. ' ( Henry Jooyce. Force 36 men Seventh District, comprising 17th Ward. Police Station, F anklin street, cor. Greenpohit av. Captain, John Still well. Assistants, ^ George W Bruce. ' ( James J. King. Force — 12 men. WARD POLICE. 8th Ward— Police Station, 19th st. cor, 4th av. Force — 12 men. 9th Ward — Police Station, Fulton av. n. Bedford av. Force — 16 men. 18th Ward— Police Station. Force — 10 men. riRE DEPARTMENT. Western District. BOARD OF ENGINEERS. Chikf Engineer, ISRAEL D. VELSOR. Office, Basement, City Hall. Assistant Engineer, George Staley. " " George Atwater. " " John Taylor. " " Joseph Reeve. " " Evert B. Riell. 30 BROOKLYN CITY AND BOARD OF OFFICERS, Consisting of the Chief and 1 Assistant Engineer, and the Foreman of each Company. Meet at FiremerCs Hall, \st Thursday in March ^ June, September and Dec. Chairman, ISRAEL D. VELSOR. Sec. and Treasurer ^ Henry C. Franklin. OFFICERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND. Meet at Firemeii^s Hall. President^ Vice President Treasurer^ Secretary^ Collector. Trustees, A. J. S. Degrauw. Marius Brandegee. Elisha B. Morrell. George H. Hayward. Kicliard Smith. "The Foreman of each Engine, tHose, Hook and Ladder and Bucket Co., and a member of the Board of Engineers. FIRE WARDENS. Wm. S. Wright. Stephen H. Mann. A. F. Campbell. Ptobert Barr. Stephen Roof. The Mayor and Aldermen are Fire Wardens, ex-officio. The City Clerk is, ex-officio, Clerk of the Board of Fire Wardens. EXEMPT FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Meet at City Hall, Room Fo. 2, Basement, 1st Thursday in each month. President^ Daniel Yan Voorhis. l5^ Vice President, Greorge Hall. 2d Sd " " 4th " " 5th « '' Pec. Secretary, Cor. Secretary, Treasurer., Geo. W. A. Everitt. Morris Simonson. Walter Barre. Jacob B. Striker. Thomas B. Merccin. William E. Sprague. Henry Oakley. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 31 No. 3.- 4.- 6.- 6.- 1.- 8.- 9.- 10.- 11.- 12.- 13.- 14.- 15.- 16.- 17.- 18.- 19.- 20.- Name. -Washington, -Neptu.ne, -Franklin, -Eagle, -Union, -Pkotection, -Constitution, -Niagara, -Continental, -Columbia, -Jackson, -Phcenix, -Atlantic, -Pacific, -Hamilton, -Mount Prospect, -Brooklyn, -Independence, -Empire, -Clinton, 1. — Atlantic, 2. — Mechanic, 3. — Alert, 4. — Mont AUK, 5. — Frontier, 6. — Washington, 7. — Americus, 1. — Lafayette, 2. — Clinton, 3. — Empire, 4. excelsiok, FIRE APPARATUS. Engine Companies. Location. Prospect st, n. Main, Hicks St. n. Degraw, Henry st. n. Cranberry, High st. n. Fulton, Canton st. n. Myrtle av., Pearl st. n. Concord, Front st. n. Bridge, Jay St. n. Myrtle av., Myrtle av. cor. Vanderbilt av., Bedford av. n. Myrtle av.. Gold st. n. Concord, Graham st, n. Flushing av., Court st. n. Livingston, Pierrepont st, n. Fulton, Van Brunt st, n, Hamilton av. State st, n. Nevin, Lawrence st, n. Myrtle av. Court st. n, Butler, Bergen st, n. Court, Vanderbilt av. n. Fulton av., Hose Companies. Henry st. n. Cranberry, Jay st. n. Tillary, Hoyt st. n. Livingston, Degraw st. n. Court, Hudson av. n. York st., Adelphi st. n. Myrtle av. High st. n. Gold, Hook and liadder Companies. Henry st. n. Cranberry, Pearl st. n. Concord, Bedford av. n. Myrtle av. Bergen st. n. Court, Foremen. William Fitch. James McQueen. Robert Barre. F. B. Spinola. James McMullen. Richard Cole. James Hurley. Chas, F. Elwell. David Evans. Henry Dobson. Charles Beck. Frederick Schols. John C. Roach. James K. Legget. James Booth. Thomas Cook. Sidney Laramore. John Gedney. William Inglis. David S. Simpson. Charles Ketchum. Peter H. Taws. Farrell Ward. David C. Healey. John R. Patterson. Wm. G. Degroot. Charles McColgaru Joseph Montross. James C. Bryan. John G. Eberle. David KendalL 1. — Crystal, Backet Company. Love Lane u. Henry st. Matthew HalL Fire Alarm Bells. Citv Hall. Calvary Church, Engine House, No 12. City Armory. Eneine House, No. 15. 2d Dist. Station House. 3d Dist. Station House. 4th Dist. Station House. . BELL RINGERS, CITY HALL. Louis Dubois, Joseph Montross. Smith U. Cox. 32 BROOKLYN CITY AND FIRE DISTRICTS. Boundaries. First District. — Bounded by Montague st., Clinton st., Fulton St., Tillary st., Washington st., and East River to Mon- tague st. Second District. — Bounded by Montague st., Clinton st., Atlantic st., Court st., Gowanus bay, New York bay, and East Kiver, to Montague st. Third District. — Bounded by Court st., Atlantic st., Smith St., Fulton av., Bedford av., Atlantic av., Atlantic st., Flatbush av.. Fifth av., Thirty-sixth st., and Gowanus bay to Court st. Fourth District. — Bounded by Clinton av., Fulton a v. Jay st. to Johnson st., a straight line thence to intersection of Navy St. and Flushing av., and Flushing av. to Clinton av. Fifth District. — Bounded by "Washington st., Tillary st.. Jay St. to Johnson st., a straight line thence to south-west corner of Navy Yard, thence along Navy Yard wall to East River, and East River to Washington st. Sixth District. — Bounded by Tillary st.. Jay st., Smith st., Atlantic st., Clinton st., and Fulton st. to Tillary st. '^ Seventh District. — Bounded by Clinton av., Fulton av., Bedford av., Dekalb av., Nostrand, av., and Flushing av. to Clinton av. PUBLIC CISTERNS. 1 Comer High street and Fulton. 1 Brooklyn Market, James street 2 Second Presb. Church, Clinton street. 1 Poplar street, cor. Bugbies alley. 1 Congregational Church, Cranberry street 1 Bridge street, cor. Sands. 1 City Armory, Cranberry street 1 Junction of Washington and Fulton Bts. 1 Nassau street, cor. Bridge. 1 Orange street cor. Willow. 1 Jay street, cor. High. 1 Skilman street cor- Park av. 1 Concord street, cor. Washington. 1 Bridge street, cor. Myrtle av. 1 Catholic Church, Jay street 1 Court street n. Sackett 1 Pearl street n. Nassau. 1 Schermerhorn street n. Bond. 1 Prospect street, cor. Washington. 1 Hanover place, n. Fulton av. 1 Prospect street, cor. Jay. 1 Classon av., cor. Park av. 1 Prospect street, cor. Hudson av. 1 Poplar street, cor. W^illow. 2 Methodist Church, York street 1 Middagh street, cor. Hicks. 1 Brooklyn Garden, Fulton street. 1 Monroe pi. 1 Willow street, n. Clark. 1 Henry street cor. Harrison. 1 Henry street, cor. Love Lane. • 1 Cumberland street cor. Lafayette av. 1 Court street cor. Harrison. 1 Fulton street, cor. Henry. 1 Atlantic street cor. Smith. 1 Hicks street, cor. Fulton. 1 Baptist Church, Nassau street. 1 Pearl street cor. Tillary. 1 Hicks street, n. Mansion House. 1 Jay street cor. Johnson. 1 Degraw street, n. Cheever pi. 1 Concord street cor. Adams. 1 Henry street cor. Pacific. 1 Concord street cor. -Jay. 1 Washington av., n. Public School. 1 State street, cor. Henry. 1 Adelphi street n. Dekalb av. 1 Clinton street cor. Amity. 1 York street, n. Poarl. 1 Clinton street, cor. Joralemon. 1 Hudson av., cor. Myrtle av. 1 Court street cor. Warren. 1 Bridge street cor. Willoughby. 1 Prince street n. Myrtle av. 1 Church of the Pilgrims. Henry street 1 Myrtle av., cor. Kaymond street KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 33 1 Smith street, cor. E. Baltic. 1 Johnson street, cor. Prince, 1 Joralemon street, cor. Henry. 1 Prince street, cor. Fleet 1 Jay street, cor. Myrtle av. 1 Henry street, cor. Clark. 1 Columbia street, opposite Clark. 1 Nassau street, n. Gold. 1 Livingston street, cor. Hoyt. 1 Hicks street, cor. Luqueer. 1 Myrtle av., cor. Carlton av. 1 Clinton street, n. Fulton av. 1 Pineapple street, n. Hicks. 1 Clermont av., n. Public School, No. 12. 1 Court street, n. Atlantic. 1 Columbia street, cor. Middagh. 1 Hudson av., cor. Front street FIRE DEPARTMENT. Eastern District. BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES. Meet at Firemen's Hall^ 2d Thursday in each movXh. President, DEMAS STRONG. Vice President^ Henry G. Disbrow. Secretary^ Treasurer^ William Meekes. Collector^ BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Meet at Firemen's Hall, 1st Tltursday in Jan., March, May, and Nov, Chairman, WILLIAM V. HANSON. Secretary^ Treasurer^ William Meekes. Collector^ EXEMPT FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Meet at Firemen's Hall, \st Thursday in Jan., April, July, and Oct. President, WILLIAM V. HANSON. \st Vice President^ Charles Wall. 2d " " T. Henry Browning. Rec. Secretary, William M. Scott. Car. " W. J. Christal. Treasurer, K. H. Harding. The foregoing represent and manage the general and finan- cial business of the Department. BOARD OF OFFICERS. Consists of the Chief and 1 Assistant Engineer, and the Foreman and Assistant of each Company. Meet at Firemen's Hall, 1st Thursday in March, June, Sept., and Dec. President, CHARLES C. TALBOT. Sec. and Collector^ John J. Hallenbeck. 2* 84 BROOKLYN CITY AND BOARD OF ENGINEERS. Chief, CHARLES C. TALBOT. Assistant, Andrew J. Hinman. ii Charles Wall. ti G. B. Lane, u William Meekes. u Alfred Wallett. FIRE WARDENS. William Y. Hanson. Cornelius AVoglom. The following were Fire Wardens of the late City of Wil- liamsburgh, and claim to continue in office till expiration of term for which they were appointed. Chairman, Joseph H. Fletcher. John Holt. Gilbert Potter, jr. James Baird. Garrit B. Hanson. James D. Sparkman. William Meekes. No. Name. 1. 'WASHINGTO>r, 2. — Protection, 3. — Good Intent, 4. — United States, 6. — Northern Liberties, First st. n. North 4th, FIRE APPARATUS. Engine Companies. Location. North 2d st. n. Third, South 2d St. n. Third, Fourth st. n. South 1st, Ewen st. cor. Wyckoff, 6. — Eagle, 7. — Neptune, 8. — Pacific, 9. — Lafayette, 10. — Red Jacket, IL^Vallet Forge, 1 2. — FaiENDsmp, 1. — Marion, 2. — Atlantic, 3. — Friendship, 4. — Zephyr, Lorimer st. n. Meserole, Graham a v. n. Grand st., South 6th st. n. Fourth, South 1st n. Eleventh st., Sixth st. cor. North 4th, Washington st. G, P., Morrell st. n. Stagg, Hose Companies. South 1st n. Fifth st, Johnson st. n. Morrell, North 3d st. n. Fourth, Fifth St. n. South Third, Foremen. Hamilton Allen. William Price. Cornelius Woglom. Jos. Hallenbeck. Michael Kelly. B. Grennan. Wm. Jennings. Henry G. Disbrow. Matthew Jackson. L. R. Rhodes. Fred. J. Parsons. Rodney Thursby-, Daniel L. Dodge. Jas. P. Ciuickshank. Joseph Langcake. T. Hy. Browning. Hook and Eaddcr Companies* 1. — ^Lady Washington, North 2d st. n. Third, John Garritt. 2. — Putnam, Devoe st. n. Lorimer, Cornelius Ruddy. 8. — Young America, Third st. n. South Yth, Wash. L. Gilroy. i KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 35 BELIi RINGERS. 13th Ward, John Jackson. " " Edward Wade. 16th Ward, Arthur Bassett. " " William H. Ward. FIRE DISTRICTS; Boundaries* First District. — Bounded by East river, Newtown creek, Meeker av., and a straight line to N. 15th st., N. 15th st. and Bushwick creek to East river. Second District. — Bounded by East river, Bushwick creek, N. 15th St., a line to Union av., Union av. and Grand st. to East river. ' i v x -vr Third District. — Bounded by Union av. and a line to JN. 1 5th St., N. 15th St. and a line to Meeker av., Meeker av., New- town creek. Metropolitan av., Bushwick av., and Grand St. to Union av. -r> i • i Fourth District.. — Bounded by Grand st., Bushwick av., Metropolitan av.. city line to Division av. Division av. and Union av. to Grand st. /^ i . tt • Fifth District.— 'BoymdiQdi by East river, Grand St., Union av., and Division av. to East river. Sixth District. — Bounded by Wallabout bay. East river, Division av., Flushing av., and U. S. Hospital grounds to Wall- about bay. PUBLIC CISTERNS. No 1. Second st. cor. North 20. No. 20. South 8d st. cor. Fifth, " 2 Third St. cor. North 4th. " 21. North 2d st cor. Lorimer. " 3. Fourth St. cor. North 2d. " 22. North 6th st, cor. Seventh. " 4. Fourth st cor. South 2d. " 23. South Sth st cor. Third st. " 5. Fifth st cor. South 9th. " 24. North 6th st cor. Fifth. " 6 Tenth st cor. South 4th. " 25. Ainslie st cor. Leonard. " 7. Ewen st cor Wyckoff. " 26. South 2d st cor. Second « 8. Graham av. cor. Eemsen st » 27. Graham av. cor McKibbm St. « 9. Ewen st cor. Meserole. " 28. Leonard st cor. Meserole. « 10. Lorimer st cor. Grand. " 29. Fourth st cor North 8th. '• 11. Sixth st cor. Grand. " 80. Third St. cor. North 6th. " 12 South 3d st cor. Seventh. " 31. Junct South 9th and South 6th sts. " 13. Grand st cor. Third. " 1^. South 4th st cor. Third « 14 South 2d st cor. Eleventh. " " 33. South 6th st cor. Seventh. " 15. Johnson st cor. Ewen. " 34. North 3d. st cor. Third. » 16 South 5th st cor. 4th. " 35. Junct North 2d. and North 4th St " 17 Leonard st. cor. Marshall. " 36. Meserole st cor. Union av. " IS. Graham av. cor. Moore st " 37. Ewen st cor. Ainslie. « 19 Fourth St. n. South 1st " 3S. Junct Grand st and Union av. 89. Grand st cor. Seventh. 36 BROOKLYN CITY AND COURTS. NEW YORK SUPREME COURT. Second Judicial District. JUSTICES. Gilbert Dean, of Pouglikeepsie, time expires Dec, 1855. John W. Brown, of Newburgh, " " " 1857. Selah B. Strong, of Setauket, " " " 1859. William KocKWELL, of Brooklyn " " " 1861. GENERAL TERMS, 1855. Justices Brown, Strong, and Rockwell. Ist Tuesday in January, at the City Hall, in Brooklyn, in the County of Kings. 1st Tuesday in April, at the Court House, in Newburgh, in the County of Orange. 1st Tuesday in July, at the Court House in Poughkeepsie, in the County of Dutchcsa. Ist Tuesday in October, at the Court House, in Newburgh, in the County of Orange. Note — These terms are for civil business, generally appeals from the Circuits. TEEMS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS, AND COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER FOR 1855. For civil and criminal business. KINGS COUNTY. AT THE CITY HALL, BROOKLYN. JUSTICE ROCKWELL. 1st Monday of Feb., 3d Monday of April, 1st Monday of June. JUSTICE STRONG. 3d Tuesday of September, 4th Tuesday of November. QUEENS COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, NORTH HEMPSTEAD. JUSTICE STRONG. 1st Monday of March, 2d Monday of May. JUSTICE ROCKWELL. 4th Monday of November. SUFFOLK COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, RIVEPw HEAD. JUSTICE STRONG. 3d Monday of March, 4th Monday of May, 4th Monday of Oct. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 37 RICHMOND COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, RICHMOND. JUSTICE ROCKWELL. 3d Tuesday of May, 3d Tuesday of November. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, WHITE PLAINS. JUSTICE BROWN. 2d Monday of March, 4th Monday of November. JUSTICE STRONG. 1st Tuesday of June. JUSTICE ROCKWELL. 3d Monday of September. DUTCHESS COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, POUGHKEEPSIE. JUSTICE ROCKWELL. 2d Monday of March. JUSTICE STRONG. 3d Tuesday of June. JUSTICE BROWN. 3d Monday of September. 2d Monday of December. PUTNAM COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, CARMEL. JUSTICE BROWN. 2d Monday of May, 3d Monday of October. ROCKIiAND COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, CLARKSTOWN. JUSTICE STRONG. 4th Tuesday of April. JUSTICE BROWN. 4th Monday of October. ORANGE COUNTY. AT THE COURT HOUSE, GOSHEN. JUSTICE BROWN, 1st Monday of February. AT THE COURT HOUSE, NEWBURGH. JUSTICE BROWN, 1st Monday of June. AT THE COURT HOUSE, GOSHEN. JUSTICE BROWN. 2d Monday of November. 38 BROOKLYN CITY AND SPECIAL. TERMS, FOR MOTIONS AND LAW ISSUES, Will be held at the times and places assigned for holding the Circuit Courts, and also (when the Justices shall not be engaged in holding other Courts pursuant to the appointments made in this order), as follows : At the City Hall, Brooklyn, on the 1st Tuesday of each month, by Justices Strong and Rockwell. At the Court House, Poughkeepsie, on the 1st Monday of each month, by Justice Brown. TERMS OF THE COUNTY COURT AND COURT OF SESSIONS, OF KINGS COUNTY, FOR 1855. COUNTY COURT TERMS. HENRY A. MOORE, County Judge. Charles A. Denike, Clerk. Held at the City Hall, Brooklyn, on the first Monday of every month (except August), for \^\q trial of issues of law. and for the hearing and decision of motions, and other proceed- ings, at which no Jury will be required to attend. A special term will be held every Monday (except in the month of August), at 10 o'clock A. M., at the chambers of the County Judge, in the City Hall, Brooklyn. COURT OF SESSIONS TERMS. FOR THE TRIAL OF CRIMINAL CAUSES. HENRY A. MOORE, County Judge. Samuel S_Stryker, > j^^^.^^^ ^^ ^^^^ox,^. John A. JbiMMANS, ^ Held at the City Hall, Brooklyn, on the 2d Tuesday of March. 1st Tuesday of September. 2d " " July. 2d " " December. Both a Grand and Petit Jury will be required to attend each of the terms of the Court of Sessions. Kiciiard C. Underhill, District Attorney. John Win slow, Asssist. District Attorney. Charles A. Denike, Clerk. KINGS COUNTY RECORD.' 39 CITY COURT OF BUOOKIiYN. CITY HALL. FOR THE TRIAL OP CIVIL, AND CRIMINAL CAUSES. Held by Erastus D. Culver, City Judge, and two Supervisors. In the event of a vacancy in the judgeship, the Mayor sits with two Supervisors. Tei'ms commence 1st Monday in each month. Adrian Hegeman, Clerk. William A. Walker, Deputy Clerk, POIilCE COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT. basement, city hall. Police Justice, Daniel K. Smith. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted) from 9 A. M. to 12 M., and 2 to 5 P. M. Edward 0. Morehouse, Clerk. POIilCE COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT. AT THE CELLS, NORTH 5tH STREET. Police Justice, IHenry C. Boswell. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted) from 9 A. M. to 12 M., and 3 to 5 P. M. %* The jurisdiction of the Police Coiirts extends to Kings County. COURTS OF THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.* Justice Jacob C. Blachly's Court is held at 3d District Police Station, Court street, every day (Sundays and holidays excepted), for the trial of civil and criminal cases, opening at 9 o'clock A. M. Thomas H. Appleton, Clerk. Justice Henri'' P, Curtis's Court is held at City Hall, Basement, every day (Sundays and holidays excepted), for the trial of civil and criminal cases, opening at 9 o'clock A. M. Zachariah Voorhies, Clerk. Justice Henry D. Woodworth's Court is held at the 6th District Police Station, Ewen street, n. Meserole, every day (Sundays and holidays excepted), for the trial of civil and criminal cases, from 9 A. M. to 12 M., and 2 to 5 P. M. *The jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace extends to the County, in civil suits for sums not exceeding one hundred dollars, and with the power in criminal cases of Police Justices. 40 * BROOKLYN CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS AND ASSISTANTS. COUNTY JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. No. 4, City Hall, First floor. Law Office^ 359 Fulton street. County Judge, Henry A. Moore. Officer and Attendant. William Hyde. JUSTICES OF SESSIONS. Samuel S. Stryker, Gravesend. John A. Emmans, New Utrecht. CORONERS. Thomas H. Redding, Office, 7 City Hall, Basement. WiNANT E. Bennett, New Utrecht. James Hanford, 140 Grand St., Eastern District. SURROGATE'S OFFICE. • No. 10, City Hall, First floor. Ofiice hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Surrogate^ Kodman B. Dawson, Clerk, Judah B. Voorhees. Recording Cleric, Andrew Mercein. COUNTY CliERK'S OFFICE. No. 11, City Hall, First floor. Office hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. County Clerk^ Charles A. Denike. Deputy " Charles W. Thomas. « , ( William H. Campbell. i:^earcliers, ^ j^-^^ ^ Cornwell. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. No. 9, Court street. Office hours from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. District Attorney, Richard C. Underhill. Assistant District Attorney, John Winslow. Clerk^ Oscar Nexsen. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 41 REGISTER'S OFFICE. No. 9 City Hall, First floor. Office hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Register^ William Marshall. Deputy Register^ William Barre. Thomas R. Mercein. S. Alpheus Smith. Searchers^ ^ James Howard. I William De Vigne. L Francis Gr. Quevedo. Examining Clerk^ Chauncey M. Felt. i Cornelius Van Steenbergh. Index Clerks^ \ William H. Whitlock. ( James O'N. Crist. SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE POOR. William Rushmore, ) ^q, « >-vj. tt n t> i. T n 7>i 1 \ (Jmce, 7 City Hall Uasement. James C. lihodes, ^ ' -^ Henry E. Ripley, Office, foot S. 5th st., E. Dist. Joel Skidmore, Flatlands. Samuel Hubbard, Gravesend. SHERIFF'S OFFICE. No. 345 Fulton street. Office hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Sheriff, Englebert Lott. Under Sheriffs Rem. R. Hegeman. {Caspian A. Sparks. John Pierce. Arthur O'Brien. Alexander Duflon. COUNTY SUPERVISORS. The following, together with the Supervisors of the eighteen Wards of the City, constitute the Board. President, Amos P. Stanton. Teunis G. Bergen, New Utrecht. J. V. Schoonmaker, Flatbush, Isaac Schenck, Flatlands. William Bennett, New Lots. J. A. Wyckofl", Gravesend. 42 BROOKLYN CITY AND Standing Committees. Accounts of Sii/pcrintendcnts of the Foor, — Messrs. Caldwell, Ileaton, and Hinman. Ac''ts of County Treas. — Woodworth, Middleton, Denike. United States £)cposit Fund. — Stryker, Lindsay, and Farrell. Eq2ialization of Assessment Roll. — Hinman, Schenck, No- lan, Stanton, and Thursby. Accounts. — Bergen, Bradford, and Bennett. Jail. — Schenck, Rowe, and Thursby. Fenitentiary . — Benilie, Allen, and Bergen. Alms House. — Bogart and Caldwell. Special a7ul Loccd Taxes. — Allen, Garland, and. Woodworth. Geyiercd Taxes. — Lindsay, Bogart, and Schoonmaker. Laws ^' ApjjliccLiis to Legislature. — Bradford, Fenton, Hall. Salaries. — Ueaton, Wyckoif, and Nolan. Coufity. — Fenton, Wyckoff, and Nolan. Lunatic Asylum. — Howe, Stryker, and Schoonmaker, Roads. — Wyckoff, Bennett, and Farrell. COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE. No. 9 Court street. Office hours fron 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. County Treasurer^ James M. Seabury. Cleric^ John Price. COUNTY JAIL. Kaymond st., cor. Willoughby. Keeper., David Field. Deputy Keeper.^ Silas Lott. Fhysiciany Thomas J. Van Zandt. PENITENTIARY. Nostrand av., between Carroll and President streets. Keeper^ James Edwards. . AL3IS HOUSE AND NURSERY. Flatbush. 'Keeper., Samuel S. Myers. Matron^ Mrs. Brower. I.UNATIC ASYIiU3I. Flatbush. Resident Fhysician^ Timothy Ingraham, M. D. i KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 43 COUNTY HOSPITAL. Flatbush. Resident Physician^ Thomas Turner, M. D. REPRESENTATIVES IN THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Representing Kings County by Portions* 1st Cong. District, William W. Valk, of Flushing. 2d " " James S. T. Stranahan, of Brooklyn. 3d " " Thomas R. Whitney, of New York. The 1st District embraces the Counties of Suffolk, Queens, Richmond, and Kings (excepting the first 16 Wards of B'klyn). The 2d District embraces the first twelve Wards of Brooklyn. The 5th District embraces the 7th and 13th Wards of New York, and the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th Wards of Brooklyn. MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE FROM KINGS COUNTY. Senator (2d. District), James H. Hutchins. ASSEMBIiYMEN. 1st District, Augustus H. Ivins,* (embracing the County Towns and the 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th Wards of Brooklyn j. 2d. District, George A. Searing, (embracing the 1st, 2d, 3d, 6th, 10th, and 12th Wards of Brooklyn). 3d District, John H. Rhodes, (embracing the 4th, 5th, 7th, and 11th Wards of Brooklyn). HARBOR MASTERS. Leonard W. Brainard. Charles Kelsey. NOTARIES PUBLIC. , Badeau, Isaac Diossy, Addison S. Hinsdale, Theodore Beach, O. M. Dygert, A. J. Hutchins, Waldo Berry, John Field, George Ludewig, Hermann K Burke, Frederick "W. Godwin, Richard J. Meeker, Samuel M. Cady, Howard C. Godwin, Samuel Miller, Livingston &• Capwell. A. B. Hall, G. Bolivar Morison, Daniel Chapman, Lebbeus, jr. Hammond, William G. Myers, Theodore A. Cook, George W. Hasbrouck, Daniel B. Isorthall, Thomas J. 44 BROOKLYN CITY AND Oakey, John Oakley, John K. Ogden, Nicholas G. Palmer, Joseph E. Patterson, Edward Rice, Edwin T Saal, John A. Smith, John C. Smith, S. Alpheiis Sparks, Jared STRONG, DEMAS Stryker, Samuel G. Stndwell, Jeremiah H. Taylor, J. Brainerd Terry, Edmund THOMSON, CHAS. H. Todd, Richard J. True, Benjamin K. Voorhees, Jeremiah Walsh, Albert C. Walden, Daniel T. jr. Walker, William A. Barnes, Samuel C. ATTORNEYS. HAVING OFFICES IN BROOKLYN. Names marked thus * are such as reside or have offices In the Eastern Distric*" Arrington, Alfred W. *Atwater, C. R. Barnard, Daniel P. Baj's, Augustus F. Beams, Benjamin I. Belden, Samuel O. Bennem, Alexander W. *Berry, John *Birdsall, Henry D. Bishop, Frank G. Botts, Alexander *Boughton, Joseph *Briggs, C. Moreau Browne, B. Frank Burch, Robert A. *Burr Samuel J. Cady, Howard C. Callicot, T. Carey Campbell, James L. Carrigan, Thomas Church, Rodney S. *Cockroft, Samuel Coffin, Frederick J. Cogswell, William J. Condit, Charles *Cook, John Cooper, George H. Coweuhoven, Wm. H. Crane, Wm. W., jr. Crooke, Philip S. *Culver, Erastus D. Curtis, Henry P. Dawson, Rodman B. *Dean, John Dikeman, Frank H. Dikeman, John Dikeman, John, jr. *Doheny, M. Driscoll, Andrew Dunsback, Andrew Duryea, Harmanus B. *D3'gert, Alois J. *Egan, Charles C. *Fish, Paul J. Ford, Charles *Fox, George L. Gale, William H. *Gardiner, H. D. Gardiner, John B. Gardiner, Nathaniel Garrison, Samuel Goff, A. W. Greene, William A. Gre^ie, William H. Greenwood, John Greenwood, Joseph M. Hadden, Alexander Hagner, Alexander Hagner, Henry *Hamilton, Philip Hammond, Alonzo G. Hammond, B. G. Hammond, William G, j Harrington, Albert W. Hess, John *Hodges, William H. Howard, James Hurley, Thomas H. Ingraham, Richard Ingraham, Wm. M. Jack, Charles J. *Jackson, Theodore F. ■^Jennings, Ebenezer, jr. Johnson, Samuel E. King, John B. Kingsland, Thorne S. Kissam, Seabury Lefferts, John L. Lewis, Sylvanus D. Lomas, John Lott, Abraham Lott, John A. Lowre}', Charles Low rev, Charles J. Lj'nde, Charles R. *Marcellns, J. Lawrence *Marx, M. *Maurice, James McCue, Alexander *]\Ieeker, D. Edward *Meeker, Samuel M. Millard, A. Orville *Miller, Gustav Moore, Henry A., County Judge Morehouse, Benjamin S. *Morgan, George W. Morris, Samuel D. Morse, Nathan B. Murphy, Henry C. Myers, Peter H. r.Northall, Thomas J. *0'Brien, Nicholson P. *Palmer, Joseph E. Pray, Joseph M. Price, Charles P. Reed, Stephen *Reeve, Isaac T. *Remsen, Peter V. Reynolds, George G. Reynolds, L. ^Richards, William Rockwell, William Rolfo, John P. *Sackett, Joseph T. Schumaker, John G. Seymour, Henry KINGS COUNTY BECORD. 45 Shepherd, Edward Sidell, Augustus H. Smith, Cyrus P. Smith, Jesse C. Smitti John C. Smith, William E. *.Soper, Abraham D. *Spark3, Jared Bpooner, Alden J, Stanton, Philip V. R. *Stearns, John M. Stevens, Gerard M. *Storer, David Story, William H. Sutherland, James, jr. Taylor, John N. Thatcher, George L. Thomas, Charles W, *Thompson, George Topping, D. H. Topping, Robert E. Trembly, Daniel Troy, James Troy, John P. Tucker, Richard H. Underbill, Richard C. Vanbrunt, Nicholas Vanderbilt, John *Vaudeverg, George Van Nostrand, Jas. W. Voorhees, Jeremiah Waring, Charles M. Waring, Nathaniel F. Waring, William H. *Willmarth, Abell C. Wiuslow, David C. Winslow, John ATTORNEYS. HAVING OFFICES IN NE"W YORK, AND RESIDING IN BROOKLYN. Abbott, Austin Abbott, Beniamin V. Ackley, Willliam B. Aitken, John Andrews, Dwight Baker, D. Ira Bavard, William M. Beadle, Delos W. Beebe, Thomas Benedict, Robert D. Birdseye, Lucien Black-well, William B. Blake, Cornelius D. Blanke, George C. Bliss, Francis C. Boardman, Andrew Bovee, C. N. Brainard, Roswell C. Briusmade, James B. jr. Brophy, Stephen B. Burke, Frederic W. Busteed, George W. Cady, Howard C. Callicot, T. Carey Capwell, Alberts. Chapman. Lebbeus, jr. Chester, George F. Claargett, Rufus Clark, Peter Clark, James D. Clarke, Stewart X Clegg, John C. Coit, William M. Comstock, Nathan, jr. Cook, George W. Cooper, John M. Cooper, Stephen P. Cornwall, Augustus Curtis, George Curtis, John Beach Cutter, William T. Dana, Alexander H. Dean, John Demill, Richard Diossy, Addison S. Disbrow, William F. Dougherty, Charles H. Doyle, John Drinker, William W. Dunn, William H. Dyott, Anthony R. Embree, Robert C. i\ Evans, Charles D. Field, Theodore W. Fincke, F. Gustav Fogarty, John B. Frank, Aaron Fuller, Henry Gardeuier, Lawrence Gardiner, Oliver C. Geissenhainer, F. W., jr. Gellatly, Francis Gilbert, Jasper W. Glover, Charles H. Goodrich, William Gridley, James Hart, Adolphus M. Harrington, Madison G. Hastings, George G. Hickson, James J. Higenbotam, Sam. B. Hills, James R. Hillyer, William A. Hinsdale, Theodore Homans, William M. Hornfager, William C. Humphrey, James Huntington, B. W. Hurst, Lewis Hutchins, Waldo Jenks, Grenville T. Jessup, James R. Jones, Charles Kaufmann, Sigismund Kendall, S. Austin Kendrick, Cha?. E. Kirkham, Benjamin W. Lansing, L. J. Lane, Arthur Lane, Frederick A. Lovell, Joseph Loomis, J. V. Ludewig, Hermann E. Lyon, Samuel B. Lyons, David J. Marvin, Dan McCloskey, Edward McDonough, T. R. McKinley, John H. McKinstry, Charles Miller, Augustus C. Miller, Livingston K. Mills, Ethelbert S. More, Edwin Morris, John Newman, Clement D. Nichols, Charles A. Niles, George W. 46 BROOKLYN CITY AND O'Gorinan, Richard O'Rourko, John Ostrander, Peter W. Parsons, George W. Parsons, Samuel M. Partridge, George S. Pattei'son, Edward Payne, Thatcher T. Pell, Joshua L. Peet, William Pert, Luther B. Pierson, Henry R. Pike, Robert G. Pinckney, J. H. Hobart Pinckney, Thomas C. Prentise, Charles W. Prime, William C. Rankin, John, jr. Reed,Lewis B, jr. Reid, Robert Rice, Edwin T. Ridgway, James Ridgway, Joseph S. Riggs, Marcus C. Ringland, David C. Robinson, James F. ■Robinson, John O. Romeyn, Theodore Sanford, Addison Sanxaj^ Skeffiugton Saxton, Samuel Sherwood, Thomas D. Scoville, Cliarles E. Sessions, John Seymour, Edward Silliman, Benjamin D. Stallknecbt, Frederick S. Storrs, James H. Stoughton, Edwin W. Sylvester, Edward Taylor, George Taylor, John D. Taylor, John G. Taylor, Thomas J, Terry Edmund Thayer, Stephen H. Townsend, M. L. Troy, John P. True, Benjamin K. Van Cott , Joshua M. Van Orden, H. D. Van Wagenen, Garret G Vanwert, Merritt Wait, W. Howard Walden, Daniel T., jr. Wallace, Dillon Welsh, Charles Wells, J. Fairchild Westervelt, Harman C. Whittaker, Henry Wilson, William "M. Wortendyke, Isaac WoodhuU, Caleb S. jr. Wright, J. Butler Young, Elisha S. Y'oung, Isaac. ATTORNEYS. HAVING OFFICES IN NEW YORK, AND RESIDING IN KINGS COUNTY. Bogardus, Cornelius S. Kimball, Elijah H. Oakey, John, Flathush. Flatlands. Flatbush. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. APPOINTED FOR THE CITY OF BROOKLYN FOR 1855-56. C. H. THOMSON, FOR TWENTY-SEVEN STATES, No. 9 Court Sti-eet. DEMAS STRONG, FOR ALL THE STATES AND TERRI- TORIES, No. 141 Fourth Street, E. District. Arthur, Chester A. Badeau, Isaac Barnes, Samuel C. Bar re, William Belden, Laurel 0.' Bennem, Alex. W. Bergen, Peter G. Berry, John Birkbeck, Abraham W. Birdsall, Henry D. BISHOP WILLIAM G. Blake, Cornelius D. Boerura, William M. Brinkerhoff, Isaac Britton, Winchester Broach, John Browne, B. Frank Burch, Robert A. Burke, Frederic W. Burke, J. Edmund BURR, SAMUEL J. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 47 Burrows, Jasper A. T3urtis, .John Byrne, Daniel K. Capwell, Albert B. Carter, Horatio A. Chapman, Lebbeus, jr. Clark, Thomas M. Cogswell, Samuel F. Comstock, Nathan, jr. Condit, Charles Conselyea, "William, jr. Cooper, George H. Cornwell, John M. Cornwell, Samuel H. Corr, John R. Gowenhoven, TVm. H. Crowell, Alden S. Crowell, Stephen Curtis, John Davis, David Davis, William J. Daj^ton, Augustus J. De Vigne, William Devoe, Henry Dikeman, Frank H. Driscoll, Andrew Dunsback, Andrew Dygert, Alois J. Earle, Francis B. Eberle, John G. Ellsworth, Jeremiah W. Ellsworth, "William Ely, William L. Fairman, James B. FAUROT, OLIVER Feeks, Daniel H. Felt, Chauncey M. Finn, John Fox, Geoi'ge L. Frost, Charles E. Gale, Alonzo H. Garrison, Samuel Gibbons, Michael T. Greene, William H. Greenwood, Joseph M. Hagner, Henry Hall, George Hammond, Wm. G., jr. Harding, Gardiner S. Harris, William M. HEGEMAN, PETER R. Hennessy, John F. Henshaw, William W. Herbert, William C. Hickcox, William H. Hobley, Jesse Hodges, William H. Howard, James Ingraham, William M. Jackson, Coe D. Jackson, Theodore F. Jenks, Frank Johnson, Henry Jones, Orville 0. Kalbfleisch, Martin Kearney, James V. Kelsey, Charles, jr. King, John B. Lawrence, William P. Leech, Charles Leslie, Thomas F. Lomas, John Lowrey, Charles Lowrey, Charles J. Lyman, James L. Lynde, Charles R. Lynde, M. T, I^iackey, William Malbone, Joseph Malboue, Ralph Manning, John J, McCabe, Daniel McCormick, John H. McCue, Alexander Meeker, David E. Meekes, William Merceiu, Thomas R. Miller, Joel, jr. Mix, Major G. Morehouse, Benjamin S, Morehouse, Edward C. Morrell, Francis V. Nexsen, Oscar Norris, George W. Northall, Thomas J. Oakley, John K. Oakley, Wakeman B. Osborn, Albert H. Palmer, Joseph E. Parkes, Joseph Parsons, George W. Peed, Charles N. Perry, Jotham E, Perrin, Robert P. Pierson, Henry R. Pray, Joseph M. Quevedo, Francis G. Remsen, Peter V. Rice, Edwin T. Richards, William Ripley, Henry E. Rolfe John P. Runcie, John T. Saal, John A. Sackett, Joseph T. • Sanxa}^, Skeffington Seymour, Edwai'd Shanley, John K. Shute, Peter Sidell, Augustus H, Simonson, Charles B. Smith, John C. Smith, Joseph Smith, S. Alpheus Sparks, Caspian A. Stearns, John M. Stevens, Gerard M. Stewart, David Stone, Aaron Street, Henry Strong, Demas Taber^ Henry T. Taylor, Samuel Taylor, Thomas J. THOMAS, CHARLES W. Thompson, George Thomson, Charles H. Todd, Richard J. Toombs, Richard F. Topping, David H. Trembley, Daniel Tucker, Richard H. UfFord, Levi W. Underhill, Robert S. Vandervorst, Jacob W. Vandeverg, George, jr. Van Nostrand, James W. VAN STEENBERGH, C. Voorhees, Judah B. Voorhees, Mathew H. Voorhies, Jeremiah Voorhies, Zachariah Walden, Daniel T., jr. Walker, George Walker, William A Walter, Anthony Ward, George W. Waring, Charles M. Waring, William H. Whelen, Patrick Willmarth, Abel C. Winslow, David C. Wright, William H' Zimmer, Jacob 48 BROOKLYN CITY AND MILTTAHY. The number of enrolled militia in the Stfe°f Now York ia 1834, «as-Uniformed, 22,143; unun.formod, 295,5b3, making a totil of 317,706, organized and comprised m 8 Divisions, 32 Brigades, and 75 llcgiments. HIS EXCELLENCY MYRON II. CLArJC. GOVERNOE, CoH.MANDER-IN-ClIIEF. Adjutant General, R- H- I'"'};"- tdpeetor General, B™»min 1. Bruce. Engineer -in- Chief, J- J. C..ambers Judge Advocate General, O Vandenburgh. 0«arte»-»iasies L. Mitchell. PaymcMcr- General, E. K Kendrick. &„geo;t General, A. ll. Ho^^^;^^^^^^^^_ ^i7m^. Lieut. D. Lynch, Rec. Secrearv Henry S:^t2. Vice President ^^^^^^ ^^ ^"'^^^' '^'''^''^-' MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. ORGANIZED 1806. Meets annually, 1st Tuesday in February, at Albany. OFFICERS FOR 1855. President, Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, of Buffalo. Vice President, Dr. Thomas Hunn, of Albany Secretary, Dr. Howard Townsend, of Albany Treasurer, Dr. Peter Van O'Linda, of Albany. CENSORS FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT, (New York.) Dr. John C. Clieeseman. Dr. William Rockwell. Dr. Joel Foster. 54 • BKOOKLYN CITY AND Permanent Member from Kings County^ Dr. Charles S. J. Goodricli. Delegate from Kings County^ Dr. John Ball. This Society is composed of as many members from each County Medical Society as there are Members of Assembly from the County ; and delegates from Medical Colleges and In- stitutions of the State. The Society may elect Permanent Members^ but not more than one from each Senatorial District annually, and must be a person who has served as a delegate. The Society may also elect Honorary Meynhers, but not more than two annually from the State at large. It may also, by a two third vote, confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine on not more than four persons in any one year, who must be at least forty-five years of age. MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS. ORGANIZED, MARCH, 1822. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. President, Andrew Otterson, M. D. Vice President, Horatio S. Smith, M. D. Secretary, Robert R. Rhodes, M. D. Treasurer, L. C. McPhail, M. D. * Delegate to State Medical Society, elected 1854, John Ball. DELEGATES TO AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Dr. Lucius Hyde. Dr. Sam. J. Osborn. " John Ball. " Andrew Otterson. " Horatio S. Smith. " L. C. McPhail. CENSORS. Daniel E. Kissam, M. D. Augustus Bobbins, M. D. William H. Williams, M. D. Samuel J. Osborn, M. D. John Ball, M. D. *^* For Members of the Society, see list of Physicians and Surereons, page 61. Annual Meeting, 2d Monday in April ; Quarterly Meeting, 2d Monday in April, July, October, and January. * Elected every four years. KINGS COUNTY RECOED. 55 williamsburgh medical society i:n^stituted 1852. OFFICERS FOR 1855. President, Dr. C. H. Schapps. Vice President, Dr. Ernest Krackowitzer. Cor. Secretary, Dr. E. Macfarlan. P.ec. Secretary, Vacant. Treasurer, Dr. John Walsh. This Society is composed of the Regular Physicians, resid- ing in the late city of Williamsburgh and vicinity. It aims to elevate the character and increase the usefulness of the medical profession, by a fraternal interchange of opinions, and the united exertions of its members for mutual improvement by discussions and contributions to medical literature, and the collateral sciences. The regular Meetings are held on the first Monday evening in each month. BROOKLYN CITY HOSPITAL. Kaymond st. n. Dekalb av. CHARTERED MAY 8th, 1845. Present Building opened April 28th, 1852. OFFICERS FOR 1S55. President, John Haslet t. Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Robert Nichols. Alex. M. White. John Blunt. Arthur W. Benson. Charles E. Bill. Hamlin Blake. Conklin Brush. Horace B. Claflin. Georeje Cotrgeshall, Peter C. Cornell TRUSTEES. Hanson K. Corning. Alfred Edwards. Richard Field. J. H. Frothingham. John Greenwood. George Hall. John Halsey. Fred'eric H. Hebard. Abiel A. Low. George D. Morgan. Henry E. Pierrepont. Robert SherwelL Cyrus P. Smitli. 56 BROOKLYN CITY AND PHYSICIANS. James Crane. D. S. Landon. Henry J. Cullen. Horatio S. Smith. SURGEONS. John Cochran. Daniel E. Kissam. De Witt C. Enos. James M. Minor. Hesidefit Fhysician^ S. W. Carmichael. Resident Suigeon^ W. H. Babcock. Sitperintendent^ John Morgan. BROOKLYN DISPENSARY. No. 109 Pineapple st. INCORPORATED UNDER THE GENERAL ACT, 1850. Open daily from 11 A. M. to 2 P. M. President^ Arthur W. Benson. Vice Presidents^ Luther B. Wyman, Alanson W. Trask. Secretary J William W. Henshaw. Treasurer^ Iverson W. Knapp. TRUSTEES. Samuel Barber. Benj. "W, Delamater. George G. Sampson. David B. Baylis. Isaac H. Frothingham. Robert Sherwell. Arthur W, Benson. Iverson W. Knapp. Samiiel Sloan. Benj. B. Blydenburgh. Anson Laphani. Gerrit Smith. John Bullard. Richard H. Manning. John Smith. John D. Chase. John T. Martin. John J. Studwell. Hanson K. Corning. James McBride. Alanson Trask. Jasper E. Corning. Robert Nichols. Luther B. Vfyman. Aaron L. Reid. CONSULTING PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Daniel E. Kissam, M. D. Leonard C. McPhail, M. D. Horatio S. Smith, M. D. ATTENDING PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. John Ball, M. D. Joseph B. Jones, M. D. S. H. Catlin, M. D. Alexander Little, M. D. James Hibben, M. D. E. A. Whaley, M. D. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 57 Established for the purpose of dispensing gratuitous medical advice and remedies to the destitute sick. It has been in ope- ration nearly nine years. The Institution, having no estab- lished fund to rely upon, is entirely dependent for support upon voluntary contributions. The appeals made to the public on behalf of this Charity have not been entirely in vain. The Trustees have been able to deal out to multitudes its blessings and advan- tages year after year with open hand, yet the support extended to it has not been commensurate with either the degree of benevo- lence animating its conductors, or the character of our city, as a ''' City of Churches." BROOKLYN (HOMCEOPATHIO) DISPENSARY, No. 52 Coui't street, Ope7t daily from 12 M. to 1 P. M. Incorporated Dec. 1852, under the General Laws of the State of New York, and established for the purpose of dispensing gratuitous medical relief to the destitute sick, by means of Homoeopathic advice and remedies. OFFICERS FOa 1855. President^ Edward "W. Dunham. Vice President and Treasurer^ Alfred S. Barnes. Secretary^ Oliver P. Mills. Pharmaceutist^ J. T. P. Smith. TRUSTEES. Alfred S. Barnes. Arthur W. Benson. James A. Cowig. John A. Dayton, John W. Degraii"W. John M. Doubleday. Edward "W. Dunham. James L. Dunham. Rufus R. Graves. James McBride. Oliver P. Mills. Jeremiah P. Robinson. Reuben "W. Ropes. Benjamin M. Sherman. D. Walter Smith. Charles A. Townsend. Sylvanus S. Townsend. ATTENDING PHYSICIANS. John Barker. A. C. Burke. Stephen B. Doty. John Duffin. Carrol Dunham. Joseph B. Elliott. Bernhai'dt Fincke. "Warren Freeman. Samuel S. Guy. Oliver R. King. 3* Benjamin C. Macy. Horace May. Henry Minton. R. C. Moffat. 58 BROOKLYN CITY AND Surgeon Dentist^ Asa A. Wheeler. Annual election for Trustees, 1st Tuesday in December. EXTRACT FROxlI THE BY-IiAWS. Art. 1. Any person who shall contribute annually to the funds of the Association a sum not less than Two Dollars, shall be a member thereof; and the payment of Thirty Dollars at any one time, shall constitute a member for life. Art. 2. Any member of the Association may have the privi- lege of sending patients in indigent circumstances to the Dispen- sary for medical or surgical treatment. EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. Established 1S51, No. 109 Pineapple street. Open daily from 1 1 A. M. to 2 P. M. For list of officers, see Brooklyn Dispensary. -WILLIAMSBURGH DISPENSARY. Fifth street, cor. South 1st. Open daily, except Sundays, from 8 A. M. to 4.30 P. M., from the 1st of October to the 1st of March ; and during the remainder of the year, from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. On Sundays the Dispensary is open from 9 to 10 A. M., and from 1 to 2 P. M. OFFICERS FOR 1855. President^ Samuel Groves. Vice Presidents^ John J. Hicks, Timothy Coffin. Secretary J John Broach. Treasurer^ Daniel Maujer. TRUSTEES. Joseph H. Adamg. Tliomas M. Clark. Samuel Groves. George E. Baker. Timothy Coffin. John Hamilton. O. M. Beach. Levi Darbee. W. T. Hemmenway. Nathaniel Briggs. Charles H. Fellows John J. Hicks. John Broach. George Field. Daniel Maujer. William Bunting. Thomas W. Field. Thomas C. Moore. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 59 Henry Oltmans. Henry E. Ripley. "William "Wall. E. S. Porter. Ei chard Ten Eyck. James M. "Waterbury Charles Reynolds. Chai-les F, Tuttle. John D. Wells. Thomas J. Van Sant. Consulting Fhysicians. Consulting Surgeons. S. Wade, M. D. A. J. Berry, M. D. 0. H. Smith, M. D. F. M. Lorett, K D. Attending Physicians. John A. Brady, M. D. IS'elson L. K'orth, M. D. Spencer H. Brown, M. D. Apothecary. . Hiram P. Hardcastle. Established in 1851 for the gratuitous medical and surgical relief of citizens and strangers. The original territorial limits of the Dispensary extended to the entire city of Williamsburgh. Twenty-five trustees are elected from the body of members annually on the 1st Wednesday of February. The Trustees elect the Officers from their own number annually, on the 1st succeeding monthly meeting (2d Thursday) ; and also appoint the Committees, and Visiting, Attending and Counselling Phy- sicians and Surgeons, and an Apothecary. The payment of three dollars, for the benefit of the Institution, will constitute any adult person a member for one year ; and the payment of twenty-five dollars, a member for life. HYDROPATHY, OS WATR CURE. GrEGRGE F. Adams, M. D., No. 141 Amity Street. See advertise- ment^ last white page hack, Archibald Fraser, No. 2 Pacific street, near Court street. Mrs. Amelia W. Lines, No. 50 South 8th street., E. District. 60 BROOKLYN CITY AND ORTHOP-SGDIC INSTITUTION, For the Cure of Bodily Deformities and Diseases of THE Joints. 457, 459, and 461 Pacific street, Sontb Brooklyn. This Establishment has been founded by Louis Bauer, M. D., within the last two years, and is the only one of the kind in the United States. It occupies three houses, and comprises all facilities and auxiliary means for its special object, a gymna- sium for exercises, baths, factory for orthopa3dic apparatus, &c. About 50 indoor patients can be accommodated. The rooms are well ventilated, spacious, lighted with gas, comfortably and neatly furnished, and are kept in excellent condition. As the title of the Institution indicates, it admits but pa- tients afflicted with deformities of the frame and articular dis- eases, as for instance : Spinal Curvature^ Rickety Wryneck^ Bowleg, Knock-knee, Flat and Club-foot, or distortions of the limbs^ consequent on paralysis, onuscular contractions, etc. There are two classes of patients, viz., such as have their own rooms and nurses, and others who share their wards and attendants in common with other patients. The latter pay ten dollars per week, which sum includes nursing, medical treat- ment, and medicine. The washing of body-linen and the supply of such orthopaedic apparatus are not included, which are for special purpose and made for the patient's special use. The In- stitution admits also out-door patients to the treatment and tho use of the Gymnasium, and the poor gratuitously on TuesdaysJ and Fridays, from 3 to 6 P. M. During the period above stated to March first, 135 patients have been received or attended to in the Institution, and pro- vided with orthopaedic instruments. Occasionally Dr. L. Bauer delivers Clinical Lectures at the Institution on his speciality. According to the rules professional visitors are received at any time, but the in-door patients can be seen only on Tuesdays and Fridays, P. M. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 61 PUYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. ^VESTERN DISTRICT. Those marked thus * are members of the Kings Co. Medical Society. Abernethy, John J. Arming, William * Ay res, Daniel Ayres, Gabriel D. Babcock, W. H. Bache, Benj. R, u. s. n. Baley, L. W. ^•Ball, George C. *Ball, John Barthelmess, Richard Bassett, Benjamm F. Bauer, Louis Beebe, George R. Beer?, George W. *Belden, R. Bell, A. Nelson Benedict, William C. ^Benjamin, H. L. *Bennet, George I. Bernardy, Peter *B,etts, John A. *Bett9, William C. Biggam, William Blackmore, John Bleek, Philip C. *Boyd, Samiiel Braeunlich, Gustav BrinkerhofF, L, u. s. N. Brodie, John A. N. *Brooks, Daniel Brooks, Geoi-ge *Brown, William K. Buell, R. M. Burge, J. H. Hobart Burge, William J. Burrows, Waters, jr. Byrne, James Byrne, John Carmiehael, S. W. *Carpenter, John •»Catlin, S. H. Champney, Samuel *Chapman, Edwin N. Chase, Charles, u. s. n. Clark, Joseph E, Cochran, Alexander Cochran, George *Cochran, John *Colgan, Joseph P. Colgan, Joseph P., jr. Conklin, J. T. *Cooke, Purcell Corbitt, Michael *Crane, James Croutherly, Augustus Cruttenden, Alexis H. *CulIen, Henry J. Davey, Adolphus Davol, William H. Dewitt, Gasherie Dillon, Landon Dodge, D. Albert Dorian, Henry Drake, Nelson S. *Dudley, William H. Duff, John H. I-)ulon, Robert Dupignac, Barzilla H. Eaton, Richardson A. *Edmonds, Robert Enos, De Witt C. Evans, Augustus C. Feer, A. Ferrier, Thomas Fisher, Richard S. Ford, Nathaniel ^Franklin, E. C. *Frink, Cyrus Gardiner, William H. ^Garrison, Nelson A. Gibbs, Edwin H. Giddings, S, M. *Gilf]l]an, George Goodwin, Francis *Grave, C. W. Gray, Tompkins D. Green, Thomas H. Hagarty, James F. Haliday, Edward Hallett, Arnold *Halsey, J. Condit Harris, Charles Hasell, Lewis Haslett, John *Henry, Thomas W. Henry, John Heuser, Wilhelm Hibben, James Homiston, Joseph Hornby, John ■^Howard, J. Hughes, James Hunter, Isaac PL *Hurd, Frederick W. *Hutchins, James H. Hutchinson, Joseph C. *Hyde, Lucius Jackson, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Jones, Joseph B. *Kalt, Augustus Keily, Thomas J. Kelley, J. Wesley King, Theodore F. *Kissam, Daniel K Landon, D, S. Law, William Leach, J. T. G. Litchfield, John *Little, Alexander Little, Moses S. L3'man, Benjamin Maebert, Edward Magill, A. H. Malone, John *Manley, G. V. Marsellas, T. Marshall, Benjamin Martindale, F. E. *Marvin, George *Mason, Theodore L. Masson, Francis Mayo, Henry 0., it. s. n. McAllister, Thomas *McClel]an, C. R. McDonnell, John McDonnell, Michael McGrath, Edward C. Mcllroy, Samuel P. *McPhail, Leonard 0. McWhinney, John 62 BROOKLYN CITY AND jSIinor, James M, *Mitcliell, Chauncey L. Moove, Robert *Morris, Frederick ]\[ulhallon, Wrn. E. Munson, James S, Murph}^ William E. IS^onis, Thomas O'Brien, Thomas ^Olmstead, Roger S. Oppenaeur, Louis *Osborn, Samuel J. *()strander, Ezekiel *Ostrander, F. W. O'Sullivan, Daniel J. *Otterson, Andrew Otterson, William C. Owen, James L. *Palmedo, Ulric Palmer, Richard H. *Parker, Bradley Peck, A. E. Peck, Edgar F. Plunkett, G. A. Potter, Francis M. *Powers, T. W. Reese, William W. *Rhodes, Robert R. Rice, Pitken *Robbins, Augustus Rotton, Edward *Rotton, Otto ^Rowland, Charles Ruddock, Asa S. Rush, Charles Schriefer, F. W. Sinclair, Thomas *Smith, Horatio S. Smith, T. L., u. s. n, Squibb, E. R., u. s. n. Steele, William, jr. Stewart, James Stolz, Frederick, Stone, A. Strong, James Swalm, Samuel J. *Swift, William Swift, Wm. u. s. N. Teller, Harrison. *Thorne, John S. Tillinghast, P. D. Todd, H, C. Tucker, Wilson Turner, Joseph M. Valentiny, Charles *Vanderveer, A. Van Ness, John Van Zandt, Charles A. Van Zandt, John W. Vethake, John W. *Wade, Timothy A. Walsh, James *Wendell, Matthew Whaley, E. A. White, Thomas (col'd.) Whitehead, William E. Whitney, Elijah *Williams, William H. *Willsher, Henry Young, John S. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. EASTERN DISTRICT. Those marked thus * are Members of the Williamsburgh Medical Society. Andrews, T. D. Bagley, J. J. *Berry, Abraham J. Blennerhasset, John Bogard, Alwyn Brady, John A. Brown, Spencer H. Campbell, James P. Carpenter, Seymour Cheeseman, J. K. Colt, E. N. *Cooke, Chauncey L. Davis, Job Devendorf, Edward Drake, James Duprell, T. W. Harris, Alexander Husband, Richard J. Jar vis, Aaron Jones, Algernon S. Jones, William H. Knauss, Louis *Kraekowitzer, Ernest Leigh, John Leonard, William D. Lorett, Francis M. *Macfarlan, E. McLee, John Myer, Aaron Newman, James Nichols, Thomas L. Nicot, Lewis North, Nelson L. Olcott, C. O'Neil, M. Palmer, J. J. *Palmer, L. N. Peer, William H. *Perry, G. B. Porter, Henry H. Ray, Peter W. (col'd.) Rivenburgh, C. V. Roehr, Harman *Schapps, C. H. Silversight, Smith, Caleb Smith, 0. H. Snell, Isaac K. Tuttle, J. W. Vermond, August' Wade, Sidney *Walsh, John Weismandel, P. White, J. A. Williams, S. J. Willis, L. A. Young, John KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 63 HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Appleton, Henry T>. Baker, Daniel Banks, H. M. Barker, John Bennett, J. B. Bryant, Joel Burke, A. C. Dinsmore, J. Pitman Doty, Stephen B. Duffin, John WESTERN DISTRICT. Dunham, Carroll Elliott, Joseph B. Fincke, Bernhardt Guy, Samuel S. Harrington, Isaac Hull, A, Cooke King, Oliver R. Lodge, Edwin A. Macy, Benjamin C. May, Horace Minton, Henry- Moffat, R. C. Newcomb, George V. Orion, J. R. Perrine, Wm. L. R. Richardson, E. T. Richter, M. A. Rosman, Robert Turner, John Wells, Parkhurst P. HOM(EOPATRIC PHYSICIANS, EASTERN DISTRICT. Handford. Samuel C. Ward, J. H. Handford, William H. Wright, Albert. Wright, William. Firth, Horatio E. Frisbie, S. W. Harrington, D. Jennings, James ECIiECTIC PHYSICIANS. Macdonald, John Stem, Ferdinand ' Macdonald, Wash'gton Stow, Benjamin J. Reynoldson, William Van Buren, Moses Smith, D. E. BOTANIC PHYSICIANS. Van Brakle, James King, S. G. ' Tobias, Isaac. HYDROPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Adams, George F. Fraser, Archibald. MEDICAL ELECTRICIANS. Benton, Henry A. Van Epps, Abraham C. CUPPERS AND LEECHERS. Brown, Mary C. Burreli, Mrs. Gregson, John W. Hall, Mrs. E. Martin, Eliza. Rhodes, Eliza. 64. BROOKLYN CITY AND FEMALE PHYSICIANS. Lines, Mrs. Amelia W., Hydropatliist, 50, South 8tli st. Moore, Lucy L. (col'd), Botanic, Division av., n. Union av. Price, Mrs. Sarah, 106 High street. See advertisement^ second white page front. Bald win, Branique, John Bridges, Samuel W. Brockway, George . , Brown, Lyman Cleveland, W. Conkling, Nathaniel Cooper, Gustavus A. Corbitt, Michael Dillingham, W. S. Dolbeare, Frederick W. Dumon, John J. Dnpignac, Barzilla H. Eagleton, Godwin J. DENTISTS. WESTERN DISTRICT. Fisher, II. P. Frink, S. C. Gregson, John W. Griffin, N. B. Harris, Charges Kimball, Gnrdon Latte, John Ledoux, J. B. Marvin, Cornelius A. Mason, Henry W. Mermier, Charles F. Miller, J. E. Mirick, II. G. Monroe, I. C. Parkhurst, Gurdon R. Piatt, Abraham Riggs, Alfred Rose, George Schaap, Richard Scott, John Smith, John W. Smith, S. W. Stratton, Ilezokiah N. Wheeler, Asa A. Wilson, E. Wood, George Woodbridge, Joseph Young, Wm. H. Bishop, Charles Burpee, H. L. Capron, A. Clark, Z. M. Davidson, D. ]\L Ashman, Mrs. Dissen, Mrs. Frederickson, Mary A. Gardner, Mrs. Kelly, Jane DENTISTS. EASTERN DISTRICT. Griswold, A. H. Hurd, William B. Slade, Lloyd Starr, W. W. NURSES. WESTERN DISTRICT. Main ay, Catharine McCudden, Elizabeth Munsen, Letitia Pinkham, Ruth Robe, Catharine" Tomlinson, Simon Ti'endelenburg, T. E. Twitchell, S. H. Weeks, Cornelius Snacks, Louisa Tinker, Miss Townsend, Juliette Williams, Mrs. E. Bancroft, Sarah Bond, Ellen Dougan, Hannah Gross, Charlotte Herring, Mrs. NURSES. EASTERN DISTRICT. Jarvis, Elizabeth Knaach, W. Martin, Eliza McCarty, Margaret McFarlaud, Harriet E. Parish, Mary Rhodes, Mrs. Upson, Rachel Young, E. KINGS COUNTY KECORD. ^5 BANES. ATLANTIC BANK. No. 55 Fulton street. Established 1836. Capital, $500,000. Shares, 10,000. Par. $50. Dividends, March and Sept. Discount days, Tuesdays and Saturdays. President^ Daniel Embury. Cashier, William C. Kuslimore. Notary, Benjamin K. True. DIRECTORS. Peter C Cornell. Jeremiah Lott. Henry K Sheldon. Daniel Embury. George D. Morgan. Samuel Smith. Lowell Holbrook. Henry C. Murphy. Brewster Valentine. William Hunter, jr. George S. Puffer. John Jager. John Scheuck. Annual Election, 2d Tuesday in June, BROOKI.YN BANK. No. 5 Front street. Established 1S36. Capital, $500,000. .Shares, 10,000. Par, $50. Dividends, 3Iarch and Sept. Discount days, Tuesdays and Fridays. President, Thomas Messenger. Cashier, Hector Morrison. Notary, Benjamin K. True. directors. John Blunt. , John Ladilaw. John Sneden. Sidney Cornell.* Thomas Messenger. Robert Speir. R B Duyckinck. Henry P. Morgan. Edward D. White. Isaac E. Haviland. Daniel A. Robbins. John P. Yelverton. Annual Election, Id Tuesday in June. central bank. Junction of Fulton and Washington streets, Established 1S53. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 4,000. Par, $50. Dividends, Jan. and July. Discount days, Mondays and Fridays. 66 BROOKLYN CITY AND President J Edward Copland. Cashier, John K. Pruyn. Edward Copland. Thomas W. Cumming. James W, Elwell. John II. Funk. Seymour L. Husted. DIRECTORS. Samuel E. Johnson. Robert L. Lane. Francis D. Mason. William M. Peck. Samuel J. Powell. John K. Pruyn. David S. Quimby. Martin Ryerson. John Spader. James Weaver. Annual £Jlection, 2d 'Monday in January. CITY BAMi. No. 146 Atlantic STREET. Established 1S50. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 6,000. Par, $50. Dividends, Feb. and Aug. Disco^mt days, Tuesdays and Fridays. President.^ John Skillman. Yice President^ Charles Christmas. Cashier, Robert P. Perrin. Garret G. Bergen. Henry Boerum. John D. Cocks, Charles Christmas. Samuel Osborne. DIRECTORS. Anthony P. Ostrom. Otto AV. Pollitz. Wm. H. Simonton. John Skillman, Ira Smith. Charles Stanton. James S. T. Stranahan. John N. Taylor. James Van Nostrand. Henry D. Young. Annual Election, \st Monday in December. FARMERS' AND CITIZENS' BANK. N. W. COR. First and S. Seventh streets, Eastern District. Established 1853. Capital, $200,000. Shares, S,000. Par, $25. Dividends, March and Sept Discount days, Tiiesdays and Fridays. President, Samuel W. Lowerre. Cashier, O. M. Beach. John Firth. Morris Fosdick. John N. Hey ward. Lewis L. James. Samuel Lord. directors. Samuel W. Lowerre. F. V. Morrell. Laurens Reeve. L. S. Richardson. John H. Seaman. Adam Stodart. David Sturtevant. William Tyson. George Vandeverg, jr Thomas J. Van Sant. A. Wesson. Annual Election, 1st Tuesday in April. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 67 LONG ISIiAND BANK. No. 53 Fulton street. Established 1843. Capital, $400,000. Shares, 8,000, Par, $30. Dividends, Feb. and Aug, Discouiit days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. President, William S. Herriman. Cashier, George L. Sampson. Notary, Benjamin K. Tyue. DIRECTORS. ^ David B. Baylis. "William S. Herriman. George L. Sampson. Edward W, Dunham. Barnet Johnson, Gerrit Smith. John S. Gerritson. Nicholas J^uqueer. John Vanderbilt, Samuel Gerritson. John Penfold. 27ie Officers and Directors of this Bank are permanent. MECHANICS' BANK. No. 8 Court street. Established 1853. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 4,000. Par, $50. Dividends, March and Sept. Offering days, Tuesdays and Fridays. Discount days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. President, Conklin Brush. Cashier, Alvah S. Mulford. Notary, Livingston K. Miller. directors. Loomis Ballard. Conklin Brush. Joseph C. Johnson. Abraham B. Baylis. Isaac Cavhart. Samuel Sloan. George W. Bergen. Daniel Chauncey. Samuel W. Slocum. John G. Bergen. Stephen Haynes. John J. Studwell, Annual Flection, 1st Monday in June. MECHANICS' BANK OF WILIilAMSBURGH. No. 18 Grand street. Established 1853. Capital, $250,000. Shares, 5,000. Par, $50. Dividends, Jan. and July. Discount days, Wednesdays and Saturdays, president, Martin Kalbfleisch. Cashier^ Erastus R. Plielps. 6S BROOKLYN CITY AND DIRECTORS. Edwin A. Johnson. Martin Kalbfleisch. Minor H. Keith. Mills P. Baker. J. Debevoise. Andrew B. Hodges. Annual Election, 1st Monday in May. Grahams Polley. Aaron C. Underhill. WIIiLIAMSBURGH CITY BANK. S. W. COR. First and S. 7th streets. Established 1S52. Capital, $320,000. Shares, 6,400. Par, $50. Dividends, Jan. and Jidy- Discount days, Tuesdays and Fridays. President^ Noah Waterbury. Cashier^ George Field. Charles L. Anthony. Richard Berry. William Covert. John A. Cross. John M. Furman. DIRECTORS. George Kitching. William Laytin. Daniel Manjer. William J. Pease. John J. Van Alst. Abraham Vandervoort. William Wall. James M. Waterbury. L'oah Waterbury. Nicholas Wyckotf. Annual Election, \st Monday in February. BANKS FOR SAVINGS. brookl.ym savings bank. Fulton street, cor. Concord. President^ Hosea Webster. Vice Presidents.^ Samuel Smith, Frederick T. Peefc. Accountant^ Jolin A. Lattimer. Comptroller^ John Blunt. trustees. William Ellsworth. R,nfus R. Graves. Elihu Harrison. Wm. Hunter, jr. John Jager. Abiel A. Low. Thomas Messenger. Henry P. Morgan. Daniel Ayres. Charles E. Bill. Jarvis Brush. William B. Cooper. Peter C. Cornell. Benj. W, Delamater. Andrew Demerest. Edward W. Dunham. Alfred Edwards. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted), from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., also on Monday evenings from 4 to 9 o'clock. The Officers and Trustees of this Bank are jtermanent. Henry C. Murph3^ Henry E. Pierrepont. Henry Shelden, Gyrus P. Smith. Peter Turner, D. W. Wetmore. Alex. M. White. Edward Whitehouse. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 69 central bank, savings department. Junction of Fulton and Washington streets. For Officers and Directors, see Central Bank. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted), from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M., and on Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 o'clock. east brookl.yn savings bank. Unorganized. FARMERS' AND CITIZENS' BANK, Savings Department. N. W. COR. First and S. 7th streets, Eastern District. For Officers and Directors, see Farmers^ and Citizens^ Bank. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted), from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M., and on Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock. Cashier^ 0. M. Beach. south brooklyn savings institution. 173 Atlantic street (Athen^um Building). President^ Ira Smith. l5^ Yice Prcs.j D. B. Baylis. '^d Vice Pres.^ George A. Jarvis. Secretary y George W. Ward. Teller^ Howard Pearsall. Comptroller^ David B. Baylis. trustees. David B. Baylis. Nehemiah Knight. Rollin Sanford. David Biiffum. G. B. Lamar. Ira Smith. Pope Catlin. Edward A. Lambert. William Spencer, John D. Cocks. Ezra Lewis. James S. T. Stranahan. Joseph W. Greene. Charles R. Marvin. John N. Taylor. Richard T. Holmes. Samuel Osborne. George P. Titus. Felix A. Huntington. Anthony P. Ostrom. James Van Nostrand. Geoi-ge A. Jarvis. Robert P. Perrin. Jonathan S. Whitney. Joseph Ketehum, jr. William Poole. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted), from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., and on Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 o'clock. Annual Flection^ \st Monday in January. 70 BROOKLYN CITY AND WII.L.IAMSBURCJH SAVINGS BANK. INCORPORATED 1851. Fourth street, cor. S. Sd, Eastern DIstrict. Securities, Jan. 1st, 1S35, $235,733 60. Viz.: Bonds and Mortgages, $170,166 58. Williamsburgh 6 per cent, stock, $5l,0&1 02. Williamsburgh 1 per cent, stock, ^8,500. President, William Wall. Vice Presidents, George Ricard, Nathaniel Driggs. Secretary, Samuel W. Truslow. "William Bunting. Jonatlian S. Burr. Timothy Coffin. Edmund Driggs. Henry P. Freeman. trustees. George D. Hubbard. Samuel M. Meeker. Henry Oltmans. Peter Shute. Richard Ten Eyck. Clerk, John Broach. Samuel W. TrusloTV. Norman Van Nostrand. James M. Waterbury. Franklin Whiting. Nicholas Wyckoflf. Interest Payable, 3d Monday in January and July. Open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted), from 3 to 7 o'clock, P. M. Deposits of five cents and upwards received iu bankable money only. Annual election, 1st Monday in January. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. ATLANTIC INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED, 1851. Offices, 140 Atlantic st., Brooklyn ; 72 Wall st.. New York. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 1,500. Par, $100. Dividends, March and September. Preside?ity John D. Cocks. Secretary^ Horatio Dorr. directors. Robert H. Berdell. Edward Bridge. Levi H. Brigham. Jar vis Brush. Seymour Burrell. Charles Christmas. John D. Cocks. John A. Davenport. Czar Dunning. John Fowler. Joseph W. Greene. Walter S. Griffith. Richard T. Holmes. Seymour L. Husted. George A. Jarvis. George L. Kent. Nehemiah Knight. Edward A. Lambert. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 71 Ezra Lewis. Electus B. Litchfield. E. Darwiu Litchfield. Curtis Noble. Samuel Osborne. Anthony P. Ostrom. Dennis Perkins. Robert P. Perrin. Joseph Petit. William Poole. Nathaniel Putnam. Camille C. Roumage. William H. Simonton. Charles Stanton. James S. T. Stranahan. Henry Snydam, jr. John N. Taylor, James Van Nostrand. John J. Van Nostrand. J. S. Whitney. William W. Wickes. Annual Election, Thursday after 1st Monday in January. BROOKLYN INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1824. Offices, 43 Fulton st., Brooklyn ; 6 Mers'. Ex., Wall st, N. Y. Capital, $102,000. Shares, 6,000. Par, $1T. Dividends, August and February. Presidoit^ "William Ellsworth. Secretary yWm. F. Leggett. Ass't Sec, Matthew H. Voorhees. DIRECTORS. Phineas T. Barnum. Robert C. Bell. John R. Briggs. John T. Bruce. Charles T. Cromwell. William Ellsworth. Jerome B. Fitzgerald. Isaac V. Fowler. Nathaniel P. Freeman. Andre Froment. George Gilfillan. Joseph M. Greenwood. Charles A. Jarvis. John A. Kennedy. Solomon Kipp. Theodore Martina. William Okell. Henry Quaekenboss. John C. Smith. Samuel F. Whiting. Philip H. Williams. Annual Election, \st Monday in June. CITIZENS'INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1836. Offices, 18 Grand si, E. Dist. ; 67 Wall st. and 58 Bowery, N. Y. Capital, $150,000. Shares, T,500. Par, $20. Dividends, June and December. President, Daniel Burtnett. Sec, James M. McLean. AssH Sec.^ Gardiner S. Harding. DIRECTORS. Alonzo A. Alvord. James C. Baldwin. Robert Barkley. Daniel Burtnett John S. Harris. Annual Election, Thursday after \st Tuesday in June, Jay Jarvis. Jacob Miller. Francis A. Palmer. John Bodine. Augustus Schell. William J. Valentine. William Wallace. James M. Waterbury. 72 BROOKLYN CITY AND FULTON INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1853. Offices, 43 Grand st, Eastern District; 40 Wall st, K"ew York. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 6,000. Par, %25, Dividends, April aoid October. President^ Andrew B. Hodges. Vice Fres.^ Rollin Sandford. *Sec., William Mulligan. James Affleck. Anthony J. Allaire. George Barnes. James S. Beams. Charles C. Betts. Bradford Blanchard. Barnet B. Boerum. Jacob B. Boerum. Joseph Boue:hton. Thomas M. Clark. William A. Cobb. William L. Couklin. John J. Crane. Timothy B. Crawford. Annual DIRECTORS. Philip S. Crooke. John L. Everett. Edwards W. Fiske. Amasa S. Foster. Andrew B. Hodges. Mai'cus F. Hodges. Sej^mom* L. Husted. Martin Kalbfleisch. Henry A. Kent. Edwin R. Livermore. James Moore. John Moore. Thomas C. Moore. James L. Morgan. Elisha B. Morrell. William Mulligan. Edv/ard Neville. Grahams Policy. George W. Prince. Richard Rayuor. Rollin Sandford. J. V. Schoonmaker. Jared Sparks. Francis B. Spinola. J. Sckenck Suydam. Asa C. Tefft. Election^ \8t TJiursday in February. liONG ISL-AND INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1853. Office, 41 Fulton street. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 4,000. Par, $50. Dividends, January and Jxdy. President^ Benjamin W. Delamater. Secretary^ William W. Henshaw. Daniel Ayres. Thomas Baylis. Charles E. Bill. Thomas W. Birdsall. William M. Bliss. Peter C. Cornell. Hanson K. Corning. Benjamin W. Delamater. Joshua C. Skidmore. Charles P. Leverich. DIRECTORS. John A. Lott. Frederick Marquand. Minturn Post. John H. Prentice. Daniel A. Robbins. Charles H. Rogers. John Schenck. Charles J. Taylor. R. V. W. Thorn e. John Vanderbilt. George S. Wiley. Smith WoodhuU. Neziah Wright. John P. Yelvertoru Henry Young. Annual Election, 2df Monday in May, KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 73 NASSAU INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1852. Offices, 10 Court st., Brooklyn ; 12 Mers'. Ex., Wall st., N. Y. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 3,000. Par, $50. Divide7ids, August and February. Preside7it^ "William M. Harris. iSecretary^ Abraham J. Beekmam. Peter Balen. Loomis Ballard. J. A. H. Bell. James C. Brevoort. Conklin Brush. William F. Bulkley. Isaac Carhart. William H. Carj. Michael Chauncey. Leonard Cooper. Hanson K. Corning. John Dimon. DIRECTORS. John French. Thomas J. Gerald. Joseph W. Harper. William M. Harris. Stephen Haynes. William Hunter, jr. Joseph C. Johnson. Elijah Lewis. Electus B. Litchfield. Abiel A. Low. Charles R. Lynde. John T. Martin. George D. Morgan. Henry C. Murphy. Daniel Richards. George L. Shaw. Samuel Smith. Thomas Stratton. John J, Studwell. Alexander Underhill. Daniel Van Voorhis. Benjamin F. Wardwell. James Weaver. Annual Election, \st Txiesday in February. PHENIX INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED 1853. Offices, 345 Fulton st., Brooklyn; 64 Wall st, New York. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 4,000. Par, $50. Dividends, March and September. President^ Stephen Crowell. Secretary^ Philander Shaw. Edward Anthony. George B. Ai'cher. Matthew Armstrong. Ezra Baldwin. Henry Bange. Nathan T. Beers. George W. Bergen. Charles C Betts. John A. Betts. Alvin C. Bradley. Alexis Bragg. S. Baldwin Chapman. Henry Collins. Henry N. Conklin. DIRECTORS. Richard L. Ci'ook. Stephen Crowell. James De Gray. Thomas S. Denike. George H. Ellery. Daniel F. Fernald. Isaac H. Frothingham. John Harper. William H. Hazard. John M. Hicks. J. D. Ingersoll. John D. Lawrence. Electus B. Litchfield. Ralph Mead, jr. Moses. F. Odell. James S. Rockwell. Gustav Schwab. Benjamin F. Seaver. George I, Seney. Andrew V. Stout, James H Taft. Alanson Trask. Sam. Van Benschoten, Wm. Vandeventer. Benj. F. Wardwell. Jotham Weeks, Annual Election, lit Monday in April. 4 74 BROOKLYN CITY AND WIIiLIAMSBURGH CITY FIRE INSUllAXCE COMPANY. CHARTERED 1852. Offices, South 7th street, cor. First, E. Dist., aud 71 Wall aud 93 Beaver, KY. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 3,000. Par, $50. Dividends, January and July. President^ Richard Ten Eyck. Secretary, John D. Burtnett. | Mills P. Baker. Richard Berry. Nathaniel Briggs. Peter Cooper. William Cooper. John A. Cross. John E. Davidson. Edmund Driggs. John E. Forbes. Henry S. Leverich. DIRECTORS. Charles H. Marshall. William Marshall. Daniel Maujer, Samuel M. Meeker. John Penfold. David Provost. Hiram Russell. Richard Ten Eyck. Horace Thayer. James L. Truslow. Thomas Truslow, jr. Aai'on C. Underhill. Jolm I. Van Alst. Abraham Vandervoort. William Wall. James M. Waterbury. Jabez Williams. Reuben K. Withers. John Woolsey. Nicholas Wyckoff. Annual Election, \st Monday in March. INSURANCE AGENTS. \ A. B. Davenport, 285 Fulton street. See advertisement^ first white page front. Cowley & Haskell, 6 Hamilton avenue. See advertisement ^ third white page front. MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. AMERICAN aiANTEL AND SL.ATE COMPANY. INCORPORATED FEB., 1854. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 4,000. Par, $50. Office, 27 Court street, Brooklyn. See advertisement J inside hack cover. \ KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 75 AMERICAN PORCEI.AIN MANUFACTURING C03IPANY. INCORPORATED SEPT., 1854. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 3,000. Far, $100. Manufactory at Greenpoint. Office, 80 Nassau street, New York. OFFICERS, 1854-5. President, Charles Cartlidge. Vice President, Myron J. Frisbie. Secretary, S. Carmichael. Treas., Charles Mulock. Annual Election, \st Tuesday in October. AMERICAN PATENT GAS COOKING AND HEATING COSIPANY. INCORPORATED OCT., 1853. Capital, $20,000. Shares. 2,000. Par, $10. Works, 38 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Office, 358 Broadway, New York. OFFICERS. President, George J. Cornell. Treasurer, Charles B. Macy. *if* Full information respecting this Company could not be obtained. AMERICAN PATENT LEATHER MANUFACTURING COMPANY. INCORPORATED AUGUST, 1854. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 6,000. Far, $50. Works on Steuben street and Park and Grand avs., East Brooklyn. Office, 260 Pearl street, New York. OFFICERS. President, Roswell Hovey. Secretary, William H. Story. Treasurer, Stephen Kidder. 76 BROOKLYN CITY AND ATIiANTIC RAILING WORKS AND FOUNDRY. INCORPORATED 1853. Capital, $50,000. Shares, 1,000. Par, §50. Works and Foundry on Imlay and Van Brunt streets, Brooklyn. OflSce, 398 Broadway, New York. OFFICEES 1854-5. President^ S. C. Foster. Agent and Treasurer^ George Foster. TRUSTEES. M. Gr. Clements. George Foster. S. C. Foster. Annual Election is held in June. FRANCIS' METALLIC LIFE-BOAT COMPANY. INCORPORATED SEPT., 1852. Capital, $250,000. Shares, 5,000. Par, $50. Manufactory at Greenpoint Office, 70 Broad street, New York. OFFICEES. President, George F. Allen. Treasurer and Agent, Marshall Lefferts. trustees. George F. Allen. Marshall Lefferts. Shepard Knapp. Paul Spofford. Frederick H. Wolcott. Superintendent of Manufactory, Joseph Francis, IRVING STEAM BOILER COMPANY. INCORPORATED AUGUST, 1854. Capital, $500,000. Shares* 5,000. Par, $100. Office, 84V Broadway, New York. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 77" OFFICERS 1854-5. President^ A. G. Story. Secretary and General Agent^ W. F. Phelpa. Treasurer^ C. N. Potter. TRUSTEES. Charles Cartlidge. D. H. Piatt. Jonathan Godfrey. Thomas E. Stewart. W. F. Phelps. A. G. Story. Calvin Townsley. Annual Election, last Tuesday in August. NEW YORK PATENT FELT COMPANY ORGANIZED MARCH, 1853. Capital, S130,000. Shares, 1,300. Par, $100. Works, William street, opposite Imlay, S. Brooklyn. [■ Saks Agents^ Doremus & Nixon, 21 Murray street, New York. OFFICERS. President J E. P. Rider. Treasurer and Secretary^ F. W. G. Bellows. WHITE LEAD COMPANIES. ATLANTIC WHITE LEAD COMPANY. ORGANIZED 1845. Capital, $100,000. Shares, 100. Par, $1,000, Works on Marshall and Gold sts., and Hudson av., Brooklyn, Office, 287 Pearl st., New York. OFFICERS 1855. President^ Robert Colgate. Secretary^ James R. Carr. Superintendent^ Robert Sherwell. 78 BROOKLYN CITY .AND TRUSTEES. ^ Edward Austen. Adam Norrie. Robert Colgate. George P. Pollen. William Colgate. Kobert Boorman. Kobert Sherwell. Annual Election^ last Monday in January. BROOKLYN WHITE LEAD COMPANY. ORGANIZED 1825. Works on Washington, Adams, Front, and Water sts., Brooklyn. Office, 160 Water st, New York. OFFICEKS. President^ David Leavitt. Secretary^ George S. Howland. Treasurer^ Fisher Howe. *^* Full information respecting tbis Company could not be obtained. UNION WHITE LEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY. ORGANIZED 1841. Capital, $100,000. Shares, 1,000. Par, $100. Works, Bridge st. cor. Front, Brooklyn. Office,, 17 5 Front st., New York. OFFICERS 1854-5. President, John Laidlaw. Secretary, Thomas Laidlaw. Sup't, James How. DIRECTORS. John C. Green. J. Winthrop Gray. John Laidlaw. Kobert Speir. Annual Election, 2d Tuesday in October. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 79 GAS COMPANIES. BROOKLYN GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. CHARTERED 1825. Capital, $3,000,000. Shares, SO, 000, Par, $35. "Works, Mai-shall st., n. Hudson av. Office, 7 Court st. OFFICERS 1855. President^ RobepwT Nichols. Secretary^ Valentine T. Hall. DIRECTORS. Joseph K. Brick. James How. Jolin Schenck. William F. Bulkley. Robert Kichols. Cyms P. Smith. Peter C. Cornell. Henry Ruggles. Benj. F. WardwelL Dividends, January and July. Anmial Election in January. Price of Gas per hundred cubic feet, thirty-five cents, subject to a de- duction of five per cent if paid within five days after presentation of bUL GREENPOINT GAS-LIGHT C03IPANY. INCORPORATED 1853. • Capital, $40,000. Shares, 800. Par, $50. Works and office, Milton st. bet. Franklin and Washington. OFFICERS 1S55. President^ Smith Cleft. Secretary and Treasurer^ Josiah Carver. DIRECTORS. George F, Allen. Robert S. Howland. Robert M. Stratton. Horatio Allen. William Kent, Thomas Ward, M. D. William B. Brown. Marshall Lefferts. Charles M. Wolcott. Smith Cleft. Thomas B. Stillman. Fred. H. Wolcott Annual Election, 1st Saturday in December. Price of Gas, forty cents, cash, per hundred cubic feet. willia:>isburgh gas-light company. INCORPORATED 1850. Capital, $337,500. Shares, 6,750. Par, $50. Works, North 'Zth street, cor. Sixth. Office, Savings Bank Buildings, Fourth st. cor. South 3d. OFFICERS 1854-5. President^ Samuel Groves. Secretary^ Charles F. Blodget. 80 BROOKLYN CITY AND DIRECTORS. Edwards W. Fiske. Thomas Price. Samuel Groves. Daniel T. Willets. B. H. Howell. Robert R. Willets. John K. Woolsey. Annual Election in June. Price of Gas, tliirty-five cents per hundred cubic feet, subject to a dis- count if paid within iive days after pi-esentation of bili PENNSYIiVANIA COAL COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1838. Capital, S3,150,000. Shares, 63,000, Par, %50. Dividends, Feb. and Aug. — An7ittal Flection in July. Office, 90 Broadway, New York. Depots, foot Gold st., and foot N. 9th, 10th, and 11th sts., E. District. OFFICERS 1S54-5. Presidejit^ John Ewen. Treasurer^ George A. Iloyt. Ass't Treas.^ E. Judson Hawley. Secretary., Edwin H. Mead. DIRECTORS. John Ewen. William F. Havemeyer. Charle? Morgan. William H. Falls. Irad Hawley. Isaac L. Piatt. William R. Griffith. George A. Hoyt. Moses Taylor. This Company brings to market the Pittston coal ; and to give the public an insight to the coal trade, we give a synopsis of the business of the Company, from the Annual Report made July, 1854. The number of tons of coal brought to market during the year 1853-4, amounted to 513,000; which yielded to the Com- pany a net profit of $353,000, equal to 11 1 per cent, on the Capital Stock. The Company expect soon to be able to supply coal to the extent of 800.000 tons annually. Annexed is a Table which exhibits the quantity in tons of anthracite coal sent to market from the dilFerent regions in KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 8L Pennsylvania, from the commencement of the trade, in 1820 to 1854, inclusive, together with the annual increase : Tears. Schuylkill. Lehigh. Lacka- wana. 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 6,500 16,767 31,360 47,284 79,973 89,984 81,854 209,271 252,971 226,692 339,508 432,045 623,152 433,875 442,608 452,291 684,692 540,892 677,295 839,934 1,083,796 1,237,002 1,583,374 1,652,835 1,605,126 1,712,007 2,184,240 2,452,026 2,470,943 2,895,208 365 1,073 2,240 6,823 9,541 28,393 31,280 32,074 30,232 25,110 41,750 40,966 70,000 123,000 106,244 131,250 148,211 223,902 213,615 221,025 225,318 143,037 272,546 267,793 377,002 429,453 523,002 643,973 680,746 801,246 722,622 989,296 1,114,026 1,080,544 1,246,418 T)u+ot« ' Other I . . ' Annual Pittston. Ecgions-, Aggregate, increase. 7,000 43,000 54,000 84,600 111,777 43,700 90,000 103,861 115,387 78,207 122,300 148,470 192,270 205,253 227,605 251,005 273,435 320,000 388,203 437,500 454,240 432,339 472,478 497,839 494,327 438,406 111,014 316,017 426,164 512,659 496,648 11,930 15,505 21,463 57,346 68,000 127,993 188,401 205,075 299,302 256,627 303,736 276,339 415,099 439,342 556.018 676,689 365 1,073 2,240 5,823 9,541 34,893 48,047 63,434 77,516 112,083 174,734 176,820 363,871 487,748 376,636 660,758 684,117 862,441 725,697 797,863 841,584 941,462 1,076,037 1,240,693 1,595,934 1,975,085 2,285,079 2,914,852 3,027,708 3,164,348 3,254,321 4,377,130 4,929,397 5,114,491 5,753,369 25,352 13,154 15,387 14,082 34,567 62,651 2,086 187,051 123,877 decrease 184,122 123,359 178,324 decrease 72,166 43,721 99,878 134,575 164,656 355,241 379,151 309,994 629,773 112,856 136,640 89,973 1,122,809 552,267 185,094 638,878 Av. Annual Delivery Av. Annual Increase Aggregate in each period of five years. for each period. each period over the preceding. 1824 19,042 3,809 1829 335,973 67,194 12,677 1834 1,579,809 815,961 49,753 1839 3,630,876 726,175 82,042 1844 5,695,710 1,139,142 82,593 1849 13,367,072 2,673,414 806,854 1854 23,428,708 4,685,741 402,465 82 BROOKLYN CITY AND OIL AND CANDLE COMPANIES. ATIiANTIC Olli COMPANY, INCORPORATED MAY, 1 853. Capital $120,000. Shares, 1,300. Par value, «^100. Works, Vandyke st., Red Hook Point. Office, 10 "Wall st., New York. OFFICEES 1S54-5. President, James Struthers. Treasurer and Secretary, J. M. Barrows. Annual Election in Hay. NEW YORK Olli MANUFACTURING COMPANY. INCORPORATED MARCH, 1851. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 3,000. Par, $100. Works, Red Hook Point, South Brooklyn. Office, 164 Front street, New York. OFFICERS 1855-6. President, James N. Wood. Treasurer arid Secretary, M. P. Robblns. DIRECTORS. J. B. Boorst. J. Brice Smith. E, R. Mason. George W. Westbrook. James N. Wood. Annual Election^ 2d Tuesday in March. ATLANTIC DOCK COMPANY. INCORPORATED JUNE, 1840. 'capital, $1,000,000. Shares, 10,000. Par, 100. Offices, 2 North Pier, Dock, and 74 Broadway, New York. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 83 OFFICERS 1855. President^ James S. T. Stranahan. Secretary^ John McCormick. DIRECTOPcS. H. Alexander, jr. George Curtis. J. S. T. Stranahan. George Beach. Charles Davis. George Taylor. John C. Beach. William H. Imlay. Asa Worthington. Annual Election, Sd Monday in January. This great work, facing Buttermilk Channel, extends from Hamilton Ferry to Red Hook Point, and comprehends about two miles in length of wharf accommodations, inclosing a Basin of forty acres water surface, of a depth sufficient for all classes of vessels. FERRY COMPANIES. UNION FEKRY COiflPANlT OF I3ROOKL.YN. INCORPORATED NOVEMBER, 1854. Capital, $800,000. Sliares, 8,000. Par, $100. Office, Fulton Ferry House, Brooklyn. OFFICERS 1854-5. President, Nathan B. Morse. Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph A. Perry. DIRECTORS. Abraham B. Baylis. Ezra Lewis. Cyrus P. Smith. Charles E. Bill. Abiel A. Low. J. tS. T. Stranahan. John Blunt. Nathan B, Morse. Charles J. Taylor. W. N. Degrauw. Joseph A. Perry. Garret G. Van "Wagener. Joseph Ketchum. Henry E. Pierrepont. H. R. Worthington. Annual Election in November. This is a new Corporation, taking the place of the Associa- tion known as the " Union Ferry Company," which existed from 1851 to November, 1854. There were previously two Associated Companies : — The " New York & Brooklyn Union Ferry Com- pany," from 1839 to 1844, and the "Brooklyn Union Ferry Company," from 1844 to 1851. The present Company are proprietors of all the Ferries be- tween that part of the city of Brooklyn lying south of the Navy Yard, and the city of New York. They are the following : — 84 BROOKLYN CITY AND GouvERNEUR STREET FERRY, from Bridge street to Grouver- neur street, N. Y. ; 2 boats from 5 A. M. to 1 P. M. Distance, 530 yards. Roosevelt street ferry, from Bridge street to Roosevelt street, N. Y. ; two boats from 5 A. M. to 1 1 P. M. One boat only on Sunday. Distance^ 1450 yards. Catharine ferry, from Main street to Catharine street, N. Y. ; 2 boats from 5 A. M. to 12 midnight. Distmicey 740 yards. Fulton ferry, from Fulton street to Fulton street, East river, N. Y. ; 4 boats continually from 4 A. M. to 9 P. M. ; and 2 boats from 9 P. M. to 4 A. M., and the entire of each Sunday. Distance^ 730 yards. Wall street ferry, from Montague street to Wall street, N. Y. ; 2 boats from 5 A. M. to 1 1 P. M. One boat only on Sunday, i^isto^icc, 1 150 yards. South ferry, from Atlantic street to Whitehall street (Bat- tery), N. Y. ; 3 boats continually from 5 A. M. to 1 1 P. M. ; and 1 boat only from 11 P. M. to 5 A. BI. JDista?ice, 1475 yards. Hamilton avenue ferry, from Hamilton avenue to White- hall street (Battery), N. Y. ; three boats from 4.30 A. M. to 12 midnight. Dlstmice^ 1765 yards. Making a total of seven Ferries, with 18 steam boats in daily use, and 4 in reserve. The boats are large and commodious, averaging about 400 tons burthen each. WIIiHAMSBURGM FERRIT COTflPANT. INCOEPORATED 1849. Capital, $130,000. Shares, 1,300, Par, $100. Oflace, foot South Ith street, E. District. OFFICERS 1865-6. Tresident^ William Laytin. Secretary and Treasurer, B. M. Demill. DIRECTORS. Henry Grossman. William Laytin. B. M. Demill. A. D. Moore. John Englis. John A. Cross. Samuel Sncden. Annual Election in May, KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 85 This Company own and conduct 3 ferries : The Grand street, Peck slip, and Division avenue. Seven boats are in daily use, and two kept in reserve. The following are the regulations of the several ferries : Grand street ferry, from foot Grand street, E. District, to foot Grand street, New York ; 2 boats daily from 5 A. M. to 10 P. M. ; and 1 boat only from 10 P. M. to 5 A. M. JDis- tance^ j&ve-eighths of a mile. Average time of passage^ three and a half minutes. r Peck slip ferry, from foot South 7th street, E. District, to Peck slip. New York ; two boats daily (Sundays excepted) from 4 to 5 A. M. ; three boats from 5 to 6 A. M. ; and 4 boats from 6 A. M. to 10 P. M. One boat only from 10 P. M. to 4 A. M. in winter, and two in summer. On Sundays 2 boats only are employed. Distance^ two miles. Average time of passage^ ten minutes. Division avenue ferry, from foot South 7th street, E. Dis- trict, to foot Grand street, New York ; one boat daily from 4 A. M. to 12 midnight. Distance, half a mile. Average time of passage^ two and a half minutes. Fa/re^ 3 cents on each ferry for foot passengers. HOUSTON STREET FEKRY ASSOCIATES. ESTABLISHED 1842. Office, foot Grand street, E. District. PROPRIETORS. Keuben Withers. James M. Waterbury. A. Winans. Treasurer^ Noah Waterbury. Agetit, G. C. Hawthorn. This ferry runs from foot Grand street, E. District, to foot Houston street, New York. Two boats are in daily use, and one kept in reserve. The following is the regulation of the ferry : Two boats run daily from 5 A. M. to 10 P. M. ; and 1 boat from 10 P. M. to 5 A. M. Distance from slip to slip, f mile. Average ti?ne of j^cissage, 3 minutes. Fare, 3 cents for adults, and 2 cents for children under 15 years of age. S6 BROOKLYN CITY AND GREENFOIIVT FERRY, ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1854. G. Lee Knapp, Proprietor. Office at the Ferry House, Greenpoint. This ferry runs from foot Greenpoint avenue, formerly L street, Greenpoint, to foot Tenth street, New York, Two boats are employed daily, leaving the slips every five minutes from 4 A. M. to 1 1 P. M. Distance^ 1 mile. Average time^ 5 minutes. Fare, 3 cents for foot passengers. CAEVARY CEMETERY FERRY. ESTABLISHED 1853. This ferry was established by the proprietors of the Calvary Cemetery for the accommodation of funeral corteges and visitors. It runs from the Cemetery landing on Newtown creek, to foot E. 23d street. New York. One boat is employed daily from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. ; and two boats from 2 P. M. until sundown. Distance^ 2f miles. Average time, 1 5 minutes. Fare, 4 cents for foot passengers. RAILROAD COMPANIES. BROOKLYN CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. INCORPORATED DEC. 17, 1853, UNDER THE GENERAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Capital, March, 1S55, $1,000,000. OFFICERS 1855. President, Henry N. Conklin. Secretary, Charles C. Betts. Treasurer, William H. Gary. Su2y^t., Montgomery Queen. Engineer, B. F. Crane. DIRECTORS. George L. Bennett. Fisher Howe. Henry C. Murphy. Thomas Brooks. George S. Howland. John Schenck. ■William H. Gary. Thomas Hunt. Amos P. Stanton. Henry N, Conklin. Seymour L. Husted. Alex. Studwell. John Kellum. Annual Election, 2d Monday in January. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 87 _ In 1853 the Corporate authorities of the city granted the privilege to certain persons and their associates to build and operate railroads through several of the principal streets and avenues. The preference being given to such bidders for the privilege as would carry passengers for the lowest price. The grantees of the several roads associated and incorporated them- selves under the general law of the State providing for such ' cases, with their present title, and a Capital of $2,500,000 ; but had permission from the Legislature at the session of this year to reduce their capital to $1,000,000. ' The Company intend to lay the rails of most of the roads to the city line or beyond. Four were so far completed as to allow the running of Cars two or three miles of their length on the 3d of July last. The following is an account of the City Railroads as they were on the 1st of April, showing the route of each road, the dis- tance they are completed, the number of cars on each, and the time allowed for the run. The Fulton street and Fulton avenue road is laid from Fulton ferry a double track through Fulton street and Fulton avenue to a distance of 3rVo miles ; time, 37 minutes up, and 33 down. 17 Cars. Contemplated extension to city line, 2 miles further. The Greenpoint road is laid from Fulton street a double track through Sands street, single track through Navy street and Hudson avenue and Nassau street, double track through Flushing and Kent avenues, and First street to N. 12th (Bush- wick Creek), Eastern District; distance, S^/o- miles; distance from Fulton ferry 4/A miles; time, 47 minutes. 16 Cars. This road is to be continued through Greenpoint, and across Newtown Creek to Hunter's Point, the terminus of the Flushing Rail- road, IjW miles further. Rails are laid from Kent avenue through Flushing avenue, to Throop avenue y^o miles, and are to be extended to Division avenue, j\\ miles further. The Cars run on this branch are principally for transferring passengers to or from the Cars on the main road, one fare only being collected. The Myrtle avenue road is laid from Fulton street a dou- ble track through Myrtle avenue to Division avenue; dis- tance, 2tVo miles ; distance from Fulton ferry SyVo miles. Time, up 32 minutes, down 31 minutes. 16 Cars. This road is com- pleted its full length. The Greenwood road is laid from Fulton street a double track through Court, Church, and Ninth streets, and Third ave- nue and 36th street to new entrance to Greenwood Cemetery ; distance, 3rVd miles ; distance from Fulton ferry ijW miles! 88 BROOKLYN CITY AND Time, 44 minutes. 18 Cars. This road is to be continued from 36th street a double track tlirough 3d avenue to 60th street (City line), 5^%% miles from Fulton ferry, and a single track from City line to Yellow Hook lane, /o^,r miles further. The Company now have 90 Cars, which number is to be increased by the addition of 30 in May next. A number of Cars are always kept in reserve for extraordinary occasions. The Company have other roads yet to build to complete their system : One from Hamilton avenue ferry, through Hamilton avenue and Church st. to Court ; one from Fulton ferry through Furman and Columbia sts., to Hamilton avenue ; one from Fulton street through Front street and Hudson avenue, to Sands street ; one from Fulton avenue through Flatbush avenue, to the City line or beyond. The City Kailroads are substantially built. The tracks are laid 4 feet 9 inches wide, and are furnished with the grooved rail. The Cars are of the newest style, and comfortably and tastefully furnished. Those of the several lines are differently colored to aid in quickly distinguishing the one desired to be taken. To each Car two persons are attached : one as Conductor to govern its movements and receive fares ; the other has charge of the propelling, which is principally by horses, ordinarily two to each car. Mules are being substituted as more economical and better adapted for the business than horses. Originally the fares were fixed at Foicr ce?its, except on the Greenpoint line, which was Five cents. Recently the Company were allowed to make it uniform on all the lines, Five cents, with the modification of charging only three cents for children (over three and under ten years of age), and all young persons going to or returning from school as pupils. L.ONG ISLAND RAII.ROAD COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1834. Office, South Ferry, Atlantic street. Capital, $3,000,000. Shares, 60,000. Par, $30. OFFICEES 1855-6. President^ William E. MorFwIS. Secretary and Treasurer ^ William S. S. Russell. DIRECTORS. Abraham B. Baylis. Charles Emory. Isaac E. Haviland. Coffin Colket. Alfred S. Fraser. Townsend Jones. KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 89 Charles J. Lowrey. Wm. S, S. Russell. William E. Morris. Cliarles J. Smith. Clement A. Buckley. Geoi'ge L. Willard. Annual Election, Id Tuesday in April. Thomas G. Talmage. Henry W. Titus. The Road belonging to tliis Company extends from Jamaica, Queens County, to Greenport, Suffolk County, the east end of Long Island, a distance of 84 miles ; also a branch road extend- ing from the main track to the village of Hempstead, 2^ miles, making the length of the road owned by the Company 86^ miles, being a single track throughout, laid chiefly with an H iron rail, weighing 56 lbs. per yard. The main track, from Jamaica to Greenport. was completed in 1844. The Road extending from Brooklyn to Jamaica. 1 1 miles in length, was built and is owned by the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad Co., and is leased to the L. I. R. R. Co. till 1870. This 1 1 miles added to the SO-i above, makes 97| miles of road operated by this Company. During the year ending March 31st, 1854, there were 311,100 passengers carried on the road, being an increase of 25,000 over the previous year. Of these nearly 25,000 were commuters, and 46,000 way passengers. The following table exhibits the receipts for five years : — YEAR. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. Ending 1st April, 1850. Ending 1st April, 1851. Ending 1st April, 1852. Ending 1st April, 1853. Ending Ist April, 1854. Passenger Fare, . . Freight Unloading Freight, Mails, $110,901 78 45,770 S6 5,303 75 1,467 45 $126,666 07 52,899 17 4,329 00 637 55 $134,564 59 53,550 05 4,329 GO $150,139 32 63,097 91 4,329 00 $168,520 S7 72,533 15 989 09 6,567 93 Express, Increase, per annu $163,443 84 n $184,532 69 $21,088 85 $192,443 64 7,910 95 $217,566 23 $25,122 59 9 $247,611 04 $30,044 81 BROOKL.YN AND JAMAICA RAIILROAD COMPANY. INCORPORATED JUNE, 1832. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 6,000. Par, $50. Office, 57 Merchants' Exchange, "Wall st., New York. Dividends, February and August. 90 BROOKLYN CITY AND OFFIOEES 1854-5, President, John A. King. Treasurer, Robert Ray. Sec, H. J. Southmayd. The Road of this Company was built in 1832, and extends from the South Ferry, Atlantic St., to Jamaica, Queens County, 11 miles in length, double track, and cost $440,000. It is rented till 1870, the full term of its incorporation, to the Long Island Railroad Co. at an annual rental of 1 1 per cent on the entire income of both roads, which in 1853-4 amounted to over 8 per cent, on its outstanding capital, $284,850. PLANK ROADS. BROOKLYN, GREENWOOD, AND BATII PL.ANK ROAD COMPANY. INCORPORATED MARCH, 1852. Capital, $12,000. Shares, 340. Par, $50. PAID IN AND EXPENDED, $9,750. OflSce, 3d Avenue, bet. 33d and 34th streets. OFFICEPvS 1S55-6. President and Treasurer, Garret G. Bergen. Secretary, J. V. B. Martense. # DIRECTORS. Garret G. Bergen. J. V. B. Martense. John Van Pelt John Cowenhoven. Andrus Monfort. Jacobus J. Voorhees. John A. Emmans. Joseph M. Partridge. Moses Wanser. AnnxioX Election, \&t Monday in February. This Road is 4 miles in length, commencing at the junction of 36th street, Fourth avenue, and Martense's Lane, or at the Visitors' entrance of the Greenwood Cemetery, and terminates at the Bath House in the town of New Utrecht. It shortens the route between Brooklyn and Bath about 1 mile. The Roadway is laid out 60 feet wide, with a single planked track 9 feet wide. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 91 MYRTLE AVENUE AND JAMAICA PI.ANK ROAD COMPANY. INCOEPORATED FEB., 1853. Original capital, $25,000. Increased to $55,000. Shares, 2,200. Par value, $25. PAID IN AND EXPENDED, $38,167. Office of the Company, No. 341 Fulton street, OFFICEKS 1855. President^ William Coit. Treasyrer^ John Debevoise. Secretary^ William J. Cogswell. DIRECTORS. William J. Cogswell. John Debevoise. Samuel E. Johnson. William Coit. Seymour L. Husted. John C. Stoothoff. John A. Cross. Earnet Johnson. Joseph Tompkins. Annual Election, \st Monday in December. This Road is 5| miles in length, extending easterly from Divi- sion avenue, opposite the termination of Myrtle avenue, to Ja- maica and Brooklyn Plank Road, uniting with the same near the residence of Eldert Bergen, Esq., about 1 mile west of Jamaica village. It was formally opened for travel on the 1st of June, 1854. The Roadway is laid out a width of 70 feet, with two planked tracks, each 9 feet wide, and a centre earth grade track of the same width. The distance from the City Hall, Brooklyn, to Jamaica via this road, is 9^ miles, shortening the distance formerly travelled about ig- miles. BUILDING AND LAND ASSOCIATIONS. ATLANTIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1852. Meet at 128 Atlantic street, 1st Tuesday after 1st Monday in each month. OFFICERS 1S55. President^ George Curtis. Vice President^ Walter Kelsey. Secretary ^ T. Ingraham Jones. 92 . BROOKLYN CITY AND TRUSTEES. Nostrand Bennit. S. D. Lewis. R V. R. Schuyler. Gerald H. Dwenger. Henry Phillip. B. Stephens. Charles Kelsey, jr. John Phillip, Robert Varick. Ultimate value of shares, $800.— Value Jan., 1855, $314 23. Annual Mection, od Ifonday in January. BROOKLYN ACCUMULATING FUND ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED JUNE, 1846. Meet at 9 Court street. Room lY, 2d Thursday in each month. OFFICEES 1854-5. Tre&iclent^ Stephen Crowell. Secretary^ John D. Lawrence. *^*Tljis xVsisociation is about closing, having nccumulated a Fund nearly equal to the Par Value of the remaining unredeemed shares. BROOKIiYN MECHANICS' BUILDING AND MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED FEB., 1852. Meet at 142 Atlantic street, 2d Wednesday in each month. OFFICERS 1855-6. Preside?it, Joseph H. Shepard. Vice President^ John Dixon. Secretary^ J. S. Denmo,n. TRUSTEES. William Arthur. D. A. Goodyear. diaries Pni-sons. James Bennett. Patrick Monaghan. Alex. W. Thompson. AttornieSf Barnard & Parsons. Ultimate value of shares, $500.— Value April, 1855, $204 62. Annual Section, 2d Wednesday in April. CITY BUILBING ASSOCIATION OF AVILLIAMSBURGII. ORGANIZED MARCH, 1852. Meet at 111 Fourth street, E. District, 3d Tuesday in each month. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 93 OFFICEES 1855. JPresident^ William H. Butler. Vice President, Washington L. Gilroj. Sec. Wm. L. Haskins. Ultimate value of shares, $800.— Value at last report, $216 49. Dues, $3 per month. COLiUIttBIA BTJIIiDING ASSOCIATIOIV. ORGANIZED FEB., 1852. Meet at 142 Atlantic street, 2d Tuesday in each month. OFFICEES 1855-6. President^ Daniel P. Barnard. Yke President, Henry Jones. Secretary, J. S. Denman. TRUSTEES. J. B. Bennett. H. H. Jones. J. Shann. D.Dieckmano. John F. Pupke. Henry "Warner. Attorney, George W. Parsons. Ultimate value of shares, $500.— Value April, 1855, $220 80. Annual Election, 2d Tuesday in April. EAST BROOKLTN ACCUIfIUl.ATING FUND ASSOCIATIOIV. ORGANIZED JAN., 1850. Meet at Temperance Hall, E. Brooklyn, 4th Monday in each month. OFFICEES 1S55. President, William A. Cobb. Vice President, Frederick Sclioles. Sec. Samuel C. Barnes. DIRECTORS. George Blatchford. James W. Clark. Job Johnson. Thomas Burroughs. John Hegeman. John M. Phelps. Ultimate value of shares, $600. Annual Election, 4th Monday in January. %*This Association is paying $25 per share over the amount of dues paid m, to all who wish to cancel their shares. 94 ' BROOKLYN CITY AND FRANIiLIlV BUII.I>ING AND SAVINGS FUND ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED SEPT., 1850. Meet at 8 Tillarj street, 2d Monday in each month, OFFICERS 1854-5. President^ John F. Solomon. Vice President^ Richard J. Kicliards. Sec.^ John F. Hennessy. directors. Abia C. Entriken. Jeremiah Mimdell. John J, Walton. Thomas F. Leslie. Charles E. Noble. Ezra Young. Ultimate value of shares, $600.— Value Sept., 1854, $318 74. An7itial Election, 2d Monday in September. HAMILTON BUIL.DING ASSOCIATION^ ORGANIZED OCT., 1851. Meet at 8 Tillary street, 4th Thursday in each month. OFFICERS 1854-5. President^ Jeremiah Mundell. Vice President^ Richard J. Richards. Sec.^ Thomas F. Leslie. DIRECTORS. Nathaniel Bonnell. E. H. C. Dohrman. John J. "Walton. Samuel Broweiv Timothy A. Wade. Francis Weeks. Ultimate value of shares, $600.— Value Sept., 1854, $276 43. Annual Election, 4th TJiursday in September. LEXINGTON BUILDING AND ACCUMULATING FUND ASSO- CIATION. ORGANIZED APRIL, 1852. Meet at Granada Hall, 3d Thursday m each month. OFFICERS 1856-6. President^ Edwin Swanton. Vice p7'es.j John Young. Sec, Isaac Badeau. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 95 TRUSTEES. Jacob Cook. Pardon W. Kenyon. Francis D. Mason, James B. Bennett. Horace E. Ivetehum. Henry Warner. Surveyor, Ezra F. Hyde. Attornies, Barnard and Parsons Ultimate value of Shares, S^OO.— Value April 1864, ^191 40. Annual Election, Zd Thursday in April. - liONG ISLAND ACCUMUI.ATING FUND ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED SEPTEMBER, 1847. Meet at 9 Court street, Room 17, 3d Wednesday in each month. OFFICEES FOE 1854-5. • President, Gabriel Franchere. Vice Pres., James Bennett. Sec, Samuel C. Barnes. directors. Bernard Campbell. Michael Dunn. John Mulligan Owen Cavanagh. Joseph Frost. Edward L. White. Attorney, Daniel P. Barnard. Ultimate value of Shares, $600. Annual Election, Zd Wednesday in November. MAGNOLIA LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1850. OFFICEES FOE 1854-5. President, Lawrence Powers. Secretary, Henry W. Earn. Treasurer, Chas. H. Dibble. trustees. Jolin Bradford. G. B. Dupuy. Peter Reid. permanent trustees. James Chatham. G. B. Dupuy. Peter Reid. ♦«* Full information relative to this Association could not be obtained. 96 BROOKLYN CITY AND NASSAU BUIL.DIXG AND ACCUMUI.ATING FUND ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED JUNE, 1851. Meet at 9 Court street, 4th Tuesday in each month. OFFICERS FOR 1854-5. President^ John I). Lawrence. Vice Pres.^ Edwiu Beers. Secretary^ Steplien Crowell. DIRECTOllS. Ezra Baldwin. Elias H. Day. • George W. Bergen. Claudian Gr. Morse George AVlnttington. AUornieSj Barnard and Parsons. Ultimate value of Shares, $600.— Value, June 1851, $248 25. Annual Election, 4th Ttiesday in June. SECOND SOUTH WIIililAMSBURGH VIIiliAGE ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED OCT. 1853. Meet at 187 Bowery, N. Y., every Tuesday evening. OFFICERS FOR 1854-5. President, John "Wilson. Vice President, B. W. Wilson. Rec. Sec. J Chas. Young. Fin. Sec, Wm. M. Thompson. Treasurer, David S. Holmes. TRUSTEES. Alpheus Banning. John Scott. Isaac C. Taylor. L. D. Tice. M. A. Wilkes. There are 500 shares in this Association, each share con- sisting of one lot, valued at $150, in the plot of the " Village," which is in Queens Co., on the Cypress Hills plank road, and near the north-eastern entrance to the Cemetery of the Evergreens. Anrnial Election in August. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 97 SOUTH BROOKL.YN BUIIiDING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED MARCH, 1850. Meet at 9 Court street, Room 17, 2d Tuesday in each month. OFFICEES FOE 1854-5. President^ Gabriel Franchere. Secretary^ Walter Bridge. ♦:^* Full information of this Association could not be obtained. SUN BUILDING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1852. Meet at 9 Court street, Room 17, 1st Monday in each month. OFFICEES FOE 1S54-5. Fresideyit^ Nathan Lane. Secretary^ Walter Bridge. *i* Full information concerning this Association could not be obtained. UNION BUIIiDING AND MUTUAI^ LOAN ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED Meet at Union Hall, Court street. OFFICEES FOE 1854-5. President^ James E. Sguthworth. Secretary^ Lindsey J. Wells. trustees. James Ashfield. William Everitt, Ephraim B. Shaw. John Barter. Charles Granger. James E. Southworth. Samuel Cocks. George Remsen. Lester Wilcox. Attorney^ Albert B. Capwell. *** By mutual arrangement with the Members of this Association, the Trustees have determined to close it, and divide among the holders of unredeemed shares, a pro-rata dividend of the assets of the Association as fast as its securities are liquidated. First divi- dend paid $21 per share. L. J. Wells, Secretary, 5 98 BROOKLYN CITY AND UNITED FREEMEN'S L.AND ASSOCIATION, No. 3. Meet at City Hotel, 1st Tuesdny in each month, OFFICERS. President^ John A. Lawrence. Vice President^ Romeo Friganza. Rec. Sec. J Jolin M. Harrington. Fin. Sec, "William Mackey. TRUSTEES. Charles S. Frost. J. W. Higgins. Hezekiah Russell. DIRECTORS. James Boyd. Valentine Boyd. Charles Foster. Aury Snediker. John Stoothoff. Attorney, Clarence D. Sackett. Officers elected semi-annually, at a regular meeting. The land of this Association is in the village of South Greenfield, L. I. WASHINGTON BUILDING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED JUNE, 1853. Meet at 9 Court street. Room 17, 3d Tuesday in each month. OFFICERS FOE 1854-5. President, Gabriel Franchere. Secretary, Walter Bridge. *#* Full information respecting this Association could not be obtained. WILIilAMSBURGH MUTUAL, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1849. Meet at 104 Grand street, 3d Monday in each month. OFFICERS FOR 1854-5. President, Peter Shute. VicePres.^ George B. Magrath. Sec.^ "William Meekes. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 99 DIRECTORS. FOR THREE TEARS. FOR TWO YEARS. FOR ONE YEAR. John K. Git tens. Ezra Rodgers. "William E. Bailej. John G. Gunn. Andrew H. Griswold. William H. S. Werry. The Board of Directors consists of the President and Vice President, who hold office permanently, and six Directors, two of whom are elected annually in August. The ultimate value of shares is $300, the whole amount of which is loaned to shareholders. The value of shares in August, 1854, was $95 75. WINDSOR TERRACE LAND ASSOCIATION. Meet at City Hotel, 3d JVIonday in each month. OFFICERS FOE 1854-5. President, Hezekiah Russell. Vice Fresident, Aaron L. West. Rec. Sec, John M. Harrington. Fin. Sec, William McBride. LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. THE BROOKLYN ATHEN^UM AND READING ROOM. INCORPORATED 1852. OFFICERS FOR 1855. President, Chandler Starr. Treasurer, Ira Smith. Cor. Sec, Ed. A. Lambert. Fee Sec, A. Cooke Hull. trustees. David B. Baylis. Gassaway B. Laraar. Ira Smith. Daniel Chauneey. Edward A. Lambert. Chandler Starr, "Wm. S. Herriman. James Van Nostrand. J. S. T. Stranahan. A. Cooke Hull. John Schenck. Thomas Sullivan. George A. Jarvis. Samuel Sloan. John N. Taylor. Librarian, Ethan Allen Doty. The Brooklyn Athen^um and Reading Room is the re- sult of a public meeting of the young men of Brooklyn, held oa . L.of C. 100 BROOKLYN CITY AND the evening of the 31st of January, 1852, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a reading room, library, museum, literary and scientific lectures, and other means of promoting moral and intellectual improvement. It was apparent that an institution of the character contemplated, where young men might assemble for instruction and find the means of innocent relaxation from the busy pursuits of work-day life, was demand- ed in the locality of South Brooklyn. Measures were immediately taken to incorporate the Insti- tution under the general Act applicable, and to raise by sub- scription, funds to carry out its object. This was so promptly and liberally responded to, that the Trustees were enabled to pur- chase the site and erect the handsome and commodious edifice on the corner of Atlantic and Clinton streets, and which was for- mally opened on the 19th of April, 1853, fourteen and a half months after the initiatory movement. Since then the Athe- naeum has moved onward on a full tide from experiment to success. The Library contains over 3,000 volumes. The number will be gradually increased, and its popularity augmented. There are at present about 400 readers. Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Periodicals are taken from all parts of our Country, and to these are added the leading European Journals. The citizen or stranger cannot spend an hour more pleas- antly than in inspecting this Institution, which forms one of the proudest ornaments of our City. The rooms are open daily, Sundays excepted, from 8 A. M. till 10 P. M. Terms of privilege to Library and Reading Room, $1 initia- ation fee, and $2 for six months, or $3 a year thereafter. The payment of $50 at one time will entitle the payer to the privileges perpetually, and the payment of Si 00 will entitle the payer and the family of whom the person may be the head, to all the privileges perpetually. The rights acquired in the last two cases are transferable. Capital of the Institution, $60,000. Shares, 2,400. Par, $25. A dividend of 8 per cent, per annum only can be declared out of the profits, the remainder being devoted to the improvement of the Institution. Annual Meeting of the Association, 2d Tuesday, and annual election, 3d Tuesday in January. BROOKLYN INSTITUTE AND YOUTHS' FREE LIBRARY. 184 "Washington street, near Concord. ESTABLISHED 1823. CHARTERED 1824. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 101 OFFICERS FOR 1S55. Fresidcnt^ Rollin Sanford. Yice President^ Peter Gr. Taylor. Treas.^ Gerrit Smith. Secretary^ John W. Pray. DIRECTORS. Chester Coleman. "William M. Ingraham, Sam'l Loiinsbury. John T. Conklin. Ambrose A. Lane. Austin Melvin. Oliver Hull. Elias Lewis, jr. Thomas Woodward. TRUSTEES Of the Real Estate and Trust Fund of the Institute. Arthur W. Benson. Robert Nichols. Charles Congdon. Rollin Sanford. Gerrit Smith. TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO. Mayor of the City. President of the Brooklyn Savings Bank.. This was formerly the " Apprentices' Library " and changed to its present name in 1840, with an amended charter. It was endowed in 1 852 by Augustus Graham, Esq. The Library is open for Boys every Monday and Saturday from 2 to 7.30 P. M., and every Tuesday and Fridav from 5 to 7.30 P. M. ^ Open for Females every Thursday from 2 to 5 P. M. Open to Members of the Institution all of the above days. An Annual Course of Lectures is given under the direction of the Lecture Committee. The Directors are in session every Saturday evening. The Annual election takes place the second Monday of January. *^* For a more extended account, see " History of the Brooklyn Insti- tute," published by the Directors. HAMILTON lilTERARY ASSOCIATION. FOUNDED 1830. Meet at Brooklyn Athenaeum every Monday evening from 1st September to 1st May. President, James D. Clark. Vice President, Lewis B. Reed. Secretary, George Heydecker. Treasurer^ Henry E. Schackerly. 102 BROOKLYN CITY AND COMMITTEE ON CRITICISM. George N. Cleaveland. Edgar M. Smith. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ■William B. Ackley. Alden J. Spooner. William Backus. James Thorne, jr. Joshua M. Van Cott. LIBRARY COMMITTEE. Howard C. Cady. Rodman B. Dawson. George "Wright. The object of this Association is the moral and intellectual improvement of its members by means of Debates, Original Com- positions, Lectures, &c. To become a member the Candidate must be at least seven- teen years of age, and pay an initiation fee of three dollars, and for each term (of four months) of his connection with the Associ- ation, he shall pay the sum of two dollars. Honorary members, who are not required to pay initiation or other fees, are also received into the Association. OflBcers are elected for each term of four months of the session. FRANKLIN DEBATING ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED FEBRUARY, 1852. Meet at the Academic Rooms (Marble Buildings), Cor. Court and Jorale- mon sts. (entrance in Joralemon), Tuesday evenings. The object of this Association is the mental improvement of its Members by Deba'tes, Recitations, Essays, Extracts, etc. Its Officers are elected quarterly, at a regular meeting. Candidates for Membership must be at least fifteen years of age, and upon being received into the Association, shall pay an initiation fee of fifty cents, and five cents per week thereafter. Honorary Members are also received into the Association, but they are allowed only the privileges of the literary exer- cises. The following gentlemen were the founders of the Associa- tion : — Messrs. Isaac Nichols, Samuel Seabury, William Ben- ram, Wilbur Gilbert, James L. Little, William Nichols, and William M. Little. It now numbers about 36 members. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 103 ST. CHARLES INSTITUTE. ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER, 1854. Meet at City Academy, cor. Court and Joralemon sts., every "Wednesday. OFFICEKS 1854-5. Prendent^ Thomas D. Hugo. Yice Tresident^ D. Mahoney. Rec. Sec, Wm. Ahern. Cor. Sec, E. T. Young. Sergeant at Arms, J. McLaughlin. Annual Election in November. Established for the intellectual improvement of its Members by means of Debates, Discussions, Essays, etc. Courses of Lec- tures are given before the Society and the Public. The proceeds of the Lectures are devoted to benevolent pur- poses. YOUNG MEN'S LITERARY ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1854. Meet at Savings Bank Building, Fourth st, cor. South 3d., E. District, every Wednesday evening. OFFICEES 1855. . President, Joseph L. Marshall. Vice President, Theodore F. Jackson. Treasurer^ John F. Duncan. Secretary, James W. Smith. DIRECTORS. J. E. Berry. Edwin M. Daniels. L. L. Jones. Wm. H. Crocker. Sam. B. Higenbotam. John G. Marshall. The object of the Young Men's Literary Association, is the improvement of its Members in their moral, intellectual, and social condition, by the means of Debates, Lectures, etc. The Library of the Association is but a germ as yet of what may be expected. The number of volumes will be gradually increased, and its popularity augmented. To become a Member it is requisite that the candidate be of a good moral character, at least seventeen years of age, and pay 104 BROOKLYN CITY AND an initiation fee of $2. The regular dues of the Association are $4 per annum, payable semi-annually in advance. Officers are elected at the first regular meeting in January. ECCIiESTON LITERARY ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED FEBRUARY, 1854. Public Literary Exercises every Monday evening, at the Lecture Room of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church. OFFICERS 1S55. President^ exofficio^ The Pastor of Sts. Peter, and Paul's Church. \st Vice Fresident^ James J. Rogers. 2^ " " James Langan, jr. Rec. Secretary^ John Gallagher. " Cor. Sec.^ Valentine Brown. Tr easier er^ Michael Cavenay. Editor^ John H. Murphy. Assistant Editor^ Hugh P. Rogers. CHRISTIAN LITERARY AND BENEFIT SOCIETIES. BROOKLYN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED SEPT., 1853. Rooms, AVashington Building, Court st, cor. Joralemon, entrance, 22 Court. OFFICERS AND MANAGERS 1S54-5. President y Andrew A. Smith. Vice Presidents^ Yv^illiam Backus. John A. Nexsen. William A. Gellatly. Samuel M. Parsons. James McGee. Robert S. Slocum. Cor. Sec, Fred. Smith. Rec. Sec., Jos. M. Pray. Treasurer, John S. Carr. Register, James Ridgway. Librarian, James P. Root. Assistant Librarian, John Lonsr. KINGS COUNTY RECOED. 105 MANAGERS. Baptist. — Thomas B. Atkins, John F. Davis, J. L. De Graw, H. S. Deshon, John D. W. Grady, Wm. M. Price. Congregational. — Benj. V. Abbott, George A. Bell, Geo. W". Bowers, Fred. A. Lane, Chas. H. Parsons, Jas. H. Storrs. Episcopal. — S. M. Giddings, Geo. Taylor, J. T. Young. Methodist. — Wm. Edsall, John E. Hanford, S. IT. F. Odell, Sam. J. Stopford, Kobert M. Whiting. Presbyterian. — C. F. Hayes, William W. Nearing, J. E. Read, A. L. Van Buren, Stephen H. Wheeler. Reformed Dutch. — Henry J. Brandegee, Wm. D. Miller, Peter J. Ten Eyck, Peter Van Saun, Stephen B. Young. This Society originated in the desire of thoughtful men to combine the Christian influence, and stimulate the piety of the young men of the city and vicinity, and promote the growth of evangelical religion among us. To effect this object, the origi- nators thought it advisable to form themselves into an Associa- tion, to unite their means and influence. The Society has increased in popularity and usefulness, and now numbers among its members some of the best young men of the city, connected with the principal evangelical denominations of Christians. The principal means used for improving the spiritual, intellectual, and social condition of themselves and others, are. Devotional Meetings, diffusion of Christian Literature, Lectures, Essays, Discussions, Classes for Instruction, etc. Persons under forty years of age, in good standing in an Evangelical Church, are eligible to an Active Membership, and when over that age, and in the same standing, are eligible as Counselling Members, but any man of good moral character may become an Associate Member. The annual payment of two dollars entitles a member to all the privileges of the Asso- ciation. The Association meets at its rooms on the second Tuesday evening of each month, and annually on the third Tuesday evening of October. The Reading Room is open, free to all, from 4 to 10 P. M., daily, except Sundays. The first Anniversary Meeting of the Association was held in the Plymouth Church, on Thursday evening, Nov. 2d, 1854. 106 BROOKLYN CITY AND willia:>isburgh young men'S christian association. ORGANIZED 1854. Established for the purpose of social, intellectual, moral, and religious improvement, by means of a Library and Reading Room, also Lectures, Addresses, Essays, Discussions, Devotional Meetings, etc. Library and Reading Rooms, Savings Bank Building, Fourth street, cor. South od, E. District. OFFICERS 1854-5. President^ John Truslow. Vice Vresidents^ Dr. Lloyd Slade, H. W. Banks, Cor. Sec, John E. Rhees. JR.ec. Sec, G. P. Payson. Treasurer, Wm. Gr. McCutchen. Librai'ian, D. R. James. Fresident of Board of Managers, W. Ferris. Secretary of the Board, Gr. P. Payson. The Association consists of four classes of Members ; Active, Counselling, Associate and Honorary. To become an Active member, the candidate must be under forty years of age, and a member in good standing of an Evangelical Church : this class only holds office. Counselling members are such as have been active members, but by reason of age have become ineligible to office. Active and Counselling members only, are entitled to a vote. Any man of good moral character may become an Asso- ciate member. Honorary members may be elected by the Association. Honorary and Associate members are entitled to all the privileges of the Association except voting and holding office. Active and Associate members upon being voted in the Association, are required to pay one dollar semi-annually in advance. An Associate member may become a Life member by the payment of $20 at one time. Regular Meetings of the Association are held on the first Thursday of each month. The one held in April is the Annual Meeting, at which time Officers are elected for the ensuing year. The Library and Reading Rooms are open every evening, Sundays excepted. The best religious and literary newspapers, and the standard reviews and magazines of this country and Great Britain are regularly received. Citizens and strangers will be cordially welcomed. ^ KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 107 YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1853. Meet at the Presbyterian Church, cor. South 3d and Fifth streets, Eastern District, 2d and 4th Wednesdays of each month. OFFICERS FOE 1855. President, Edward A. Collier. Vice Pres.^ James A. Trussell. Rec. Sec., John B. Thomas. Co?: Sec, Charles Strong. Treasure?', Henry S. Burger. Librarian, Ellis B. Thomas. This Association is composed chiefly of young men con- nected with the South 3d street Presbyterian Church (E. Dis- trict). Its object is the moral, intellectual, and social improve- ment of its members by means of Debates, Lectures, Essays, Be- views, &c. Also by social study of the Scriptures, a Library, and Contributions for benevolent purposes. The Library con- tains upwards of 350 volumes of standard works, which will be gradually increased. The requisites necessary to become an Active member of this Association are, that the candidate be a member of the Bible Class, and under forty years of age. Any person of good moral character under forty years of age, may become an Associate member after having been proposed at a previous meeting and a majority of votes cast in his favor. Initiation fee, 50 cents. Monthly dues, 12^ cents. The Annual election is held on the 2d Wednesday evening in December. BROTHERHOOD OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. CHURCH OF BROOIiXYN. ORGANIZED 1852. RE-ORGANIZED 1854. OFFICERS 1854-5. President, Bailey J. Hathaway. IstVice Pres., Ferd. Walker. 2c? Vice Pres., W. W. RusselL Treasurer, Thomas K. Lees. Cor. Secretary, Lewis Morris. Rec. Sec, Charles S. Stone. 108 BROOKLYN CITY AND TRUSTEES. Charles H. Birney. John Hamlett. L. R. Chcsbrough. J. R. Brockelman. Sauiuel B. Caldwell. John W. Moore. J. Manley Halsey. C. M. Livingston. H. A. Spafard. This Association was originally known as the *• Protestant Mutual Benefit Society of Brooklyn." At a general convention of societies of this class in New. York, in June, 1853, it was agreed that a uniform style of name should be adopted for all, adding to the general title, the locality of each. In accord- ance therewith, the P. E. M. B. S. of Brooklyn was re-organ- ized April, 1854. The objects of the society are, " The mutual care and relief of its members in time of sickness or accident ; the burial of its deceased ; the succor of their widows and orphans, and the pro- motion of Christian fellowship and love ; — and, also, to aid dis- tressed members of the Church generally." Persons eligible to a membership of the " Brotherhood " are Clergymen of the P. E. Church, in good standing, able to attend to the duties of his office ; and laymen over 1 8 years of age, capa- ble of acquiring a livelihood, members of, and in good standing in the Church. All members are required to reside in the city. The initiation fee is three dollars if the person be under 55 years of age, and five dollars if 55 years or over. Monthly dues are seventy-five cents. The stated meetings of the Society are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the City Academy, corner Court and Joralemon streets. THE liAW lilBRARY IN BROOKLYN. Room 8, Second Floor, City Hall. FOUNDED JAK, 1850. OFFICEES 1855. Chairma7i, Alonzo Gt. Hammond. Treasurer^ John P. Bolfe. Secretary^ James L. Campbell. TRUSTEES. Daniel P. Barnard. Henry Hagner. James L. Campbell.- Alonzo Gr. Hammond. John Greenwood. Nathan B. Morse. John P. Bolfe. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 109 LIBRARY COMMITTEE. Daniel P. Barnard. Philip S. Crooke. Henry Hagner. Annual Election, 1st Tuesday of January. The initiatory step for the establishment of this Library was a subscription of $1,850 by 24 practitioners at law, residents of Kings County, who associated and incorporated themselves January 8th, 1850, under the law of Uie State providing for the establishment of Libraries by associations of persons, passed April 1st, 1796. The Library consists principally of Law Re ports; the number of volumes on the 8th of March was 215, to which additions are constantly being'made. Regular meetings of the Board of Trustees are held quar- terly on the 1st Tuesday of April, July, October, and January. New members may be admitted by the Board at any legal meeting. Each member is entitled to one share in the library for every sum of Fifty Dollars paid by him. Every member (except Honorary) is required to pay an annual charge of Ten Dollars, payable semi-annually. Honorary members may be elected by the Trustees, with the privileges and subject to the same regulations as other members, except annual charges. Persons not shareholders may have the use of the Library on the payment of Ten Dollars a year, semi-annually in advance. It is provided that the members of the Association, strangers introduced by members, Judges of Courts of Record, the Mayor, City Clerk, Street Commissioner, Comptroller, and the members of the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn, may have the use of the books in the Library at all times when it shall be open. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. FOUNDED FEB., 1855. President., Abraham B. Clark. Vice Presideniy H. D. Woodworth. Sec. and Treas.^ P. Rouget. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Josiah Reeve. Edward C. Seymour. David Syme, A. M. This Association is composed of Male Teachers of Public Schools in the City, associated for the better promotion of their 110 BROOKLYN CITY AND interests as a class, and for mutual edification and improvement in all that pertains to their calling. Regular meetings of this Association are held the first Thursday of every month at the Board of Education Rooms, Bed Hook lane, Western District. SCHOOLS. PACKER COL.L.EGIATE INSTITUTE. TOR GIRLS. (Formerly Brooklyn Female Academy.) Joralemon street, bet. Court and Clinton. OFFICERS. President. G. G. Van "Wagenen. Treasurer^ John H. Prentice. Secretary^ Joseph W. Harper. TRUSTEES. Ex- Officio, The Mayor of the City of Brooklyn. Peter Balen. Peter C. Cornell. Joshua M. Van Cott Loomis Ballard. Oliver H. Gordon. G. G. Van Wagenen. Abraham B. Baylis. Joseph W. Harper Abiel A. Low. Arthur W. Benson. Cyrus P. Smith. J. H. Prentice. David Coope. J. SulHvan Thorne. Benj. D. SilHman. FACULTY. Alonzo Crittenden, A. M., Principal. Darwin G. Eaton, A. M., Professor of the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, &c. i Frederick T. Winkelmann, D. Ph., A. M., Professor of ' Latin. German, and French. Juan Bartiiello, Professor of the Spanish Language. Mary Brinsmade, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics. M'lle Mathilde L. Raymond, of Paris, Teacher of the French Language. Miss Jane P. Hart, Teacher of Drawing and Painting. Miss Susan A. Bandelle, Teacher of Composition. Miss Josephine W. Ballard, " " " Jonathan C. Woodman, Professor of Music. . Thomas P. Dolbear, Professor of Penmanship. | KINGS COUNTY RECORD. HI TEACHERS OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. Miss Elizabeth J. Smith, Miss Mary Carey, Miss Catalina Wendall, Miss Harriet Backus, Miss Caroline J. Coffin, Miss Ellen Garahan, Miss Cordelia Warner, Miss Cordelia Hale. Miss Jessie A. Kelly, Miss Abby D Goodell, Miss Margaret Molineaux, Miss Jeanette M. Simonson, Miss Isabella S. White. The Packer Collegiate Institute dates its commencement the second Monday (ilth) of September, 1854. It supersedes the late Brooklyn Female Academy, which, after a successful career of eight years, was, by special act of the Legislature, merged into it. Through the large hearted liberality of a lady of this city, Mrs. Wm. S. Packer, the Institution was endowed with the munificent sum of Sixty-five Thousand Dollars, and the pro- mise of an additional sum of Twenty Thousand if needed, by means of which the Trustees were enabled to erect the spacious and elegant Edifice occupied for the purposes of the Institution on the site of the former Academy in Joralemon street. The new edifice is more than a third larger than the former, and its cost three times as great. It has a Chapel, Library, and Laboratory; Rooms for Lectures, Recitations, Painting, Drawing, &c. ; and a large apartment for Calisthenic exercises. A principal feature of the Institute is an Observatory. In connection with the building, a Tower was erected, on which has been placed a revolving Dome, fitted with a complete suit of Astronomical instruments, including a Telescope of high power. The Academic year commences in September, and ends in July. The course of Studies has three departments : — Prepara- tory, Academic, and Collegiate. BROOKLYN COIiLEGIATE AND POIiYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. FOR BOYS. Livingston street, bet. Court and Boerum. OFFICERS, 1854-5. President^ Isaac H. Frothingham. Secretary, Josiah 0. Low. Treasurer^ John T. Martin. TRUSTEES. Charles S. Baylis. Isaac H. Frothingham. George S. HowJand. Simeon B. Chittenden. JSiadison G. Harrington. D. S. Landon. Horace B. Claflin. James How. Josiah 0. Low. 112 BROOKLYN CITY AND John T. Martin. James E. Southworth. Heniy R. Worthington. Charles R. Marvin. J. S. T. Stranahan. Luther B. Wymau. James L. Putnam. R. Sands Tucker. Annual Election, 1st Tuesday in October. This is intended to be a school of high order, replete with every appliance to make it equal to any in the State. It will be a counterpart to the " Packer Institute " in this city. The B. C. and P. I. is incorporated as a Stock Company, with a Capital of $75,000. Cost of the site, $16,000. Esti- mated cost of building, $40,000. It is expected to complete the Edifice in time for opening the Institution and the admission of Pupils in May. There will be accommodations for 150 Pupils. ACADEMY FOU YOUNG LADIES. 68 South 9th street, E. District. ESTABLISHED 185L Silas Metcalf, A. M., Principal. The school has three Departments :— Elementary, Interme- diate, and First. The Academic year begins in September. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SExlIINARY. FOR GIRLS. 88 and 90 Montague Place. ESTABLISHED 185L The school is divided into Three Principal Departments : — The Primary, Junior, and Senior. The academic year begins in September. TEACHERS. Alonzo Gray, A. M., Principal and Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Nehemiah Cleaveland, a. M., Professor of Rhetoric and Criticism. Miss Aretiiusa Hall, Teacher of Composition and English studies. Mrs. Julia A. Davis, Miss Amanda M. Knight, Teachers of Latin and English studies. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 113 Mrs. R. S. Harvey, Mips Mary E. Warren, Miss Anne L. Sewall, Teachers of Englisli studies. Mrs. Emilie Christern, Teacher of French and German. Miss Jane Dudgeon, Teacher of Drawing and Painting. M. Louis Selle, Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Mde. Annetta Stephani, Teacher of Vocal Music. Mde. De Villiers, Teacher of Instrumental Music. Mr. D. F. Brown, Teacher of Penmanship. Rev. S. T. Spear, D. D., instructs the Senior Class in Intel- lectual and Moral Philosophy, and Butler's Analogy. Rev. R. S. Storrs, jr., D. D., lectures on the Evidences of Christianity. William K. Brown, M. D., lectures on Anatomy and Phy- siology. CITY ACADE3IY, FOR BOYS, Corner of Court and Joralemon streets. ESTABLISHED 1851. A select English and Classical School for young gentlemen in their more advanced studies. Charles S. Stone, A. M., Proprietor, and Principal Teacher of the Classics and the Natural Sciences. John V. Lewis, A. B. Assistant, and Teacher of Mathe- matics. D. F. Brown, Teacher of Penmanship and Bookkeeping. Robert W. Hume, Teacher of Drawing and Elocution. Mons. J. Gustave Keetels, Teacher of the French and Ger- man Languages. CITY ACADEMY, A commercial and classical institute for boys, With a Primary Department attached. 132 South 6th street, Eastern District. ESTABLISHED 1851. Wm. H. Palmer, ) r^ - - i John M. Wolcott, \ ^^'^^W^^- (Successors to Rev. A. A. Marcellus.) Miss Louisa M. Skinner, Teacher of Primary Department. 114 BROOKLYN CITY AND CITY GRAMMAR SCHOOIi, FOR. BOYS, 166 Fulton street. ESTABLISHED 1845. Horatio Gr. Abby, A. B., Principal. A Classical Institution in which young men are fitted for College or the Counting House, under the direct charge of the Principal. CLINTON STREET ACADEMY, FOR BOYS, Clinton street, near Pierrepont. ESTABLISHED 1842. W. H. BiGELOW, Principal. J. GusTAVE Keetels, Tcacher of the French Language. Pupils receive a Classical education, and are prepared for College or the Counting House. COLLEGE GRAITlilIAK SCHOOL., FOR BOYS, Corner of Atlantic and Clinton streets. ESTABLISHED 1850. Rev. Levi Wells Hart, A. M., Kector, Classical and Mathematical Departments and Higher English Studies. H. M. Lilly, A. B., Sub-Rector, Ordinary English Course. J. Gustave Keetels, Professor of Modern Languages. R. W. Hume, Professor of Drawing, Penmanship, and Elo- cution. . KINGS COUNTY KECORD. II5 COI.I.EGE SCHOOI., FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, No. 166, Livingston street. ESTABLISHED 1852. Henry H. Carpenter, Principal. ^ COMIJVGS AND TAYtOR'S, SCHOOL FOR BOYS, 180 Hicks St., cor. Montague place. ESTABLISHED I80O. Samuel E. Comings, ) ^^ . . Stephen G. Taylor, [ i^^^^cipals. Prof. J. G. Keetels, Instructor in French and German. V.h. Brown Teacher of Penmanship and Drawin- for JtHnrr'% ^^f^-uction embraces all branches necessary professional life. The Academic year begins on the 1st Monday of September, and comprises four terms of eleven weeks each. COraHERCIAL AN© MATHEMATICAL SCHOOE, FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, Corner Little and Water streets. ESTABLISHED 1825. Samuel H. Coleman, Proprietor and Principal. DUDI.EY CLASSICAL SCHOOL, FOR BOYS, Ko. 155 Atlantic street. ESTABLISHED 1852. Robert Foster, A. M., Principal. 116 BROOKLYN CITY AND DWIGHT'S HIGH SCHOOIi, A CLASSICAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE FOR BOYS, No. 2 Livingston street, near Sidney place. ESTABLISHED 1846. Benj. W. Dwight, Proprietor. EAGIjISH and CliASSICAIi SCHOOIi, FOR, BOYS, No. 9 Court St., Lowe's Buildings. ESTABLISHED 1853. Alexander Watson, A. M., Principal. ExNGLISn AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL, FOR BOYS, Corner Henry and Atlantic streets. ESTABLISHED 1853. Joshua Huntington, Principal. ENGLISH AN© MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, FOR BOYS, No. 241 "Washington street. ESTABLISHED 1826. Eleazer Kingsley, Proprietor and Principal. FRENCH ANI> ENGLISH ACAUEMY, FOR BOYS, No. 130 Remsen street. ESTABLISHED 1850. A. BouRSAUD, Proprietor and Principal. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 117 INSTITUTION FOR YOUNG LABIES, ON BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, 106 Pierrepont st., corner of Clinton. Alfred- Greenleaf, A. M., Proprietor and Principal. ESTABLISHED MAY, 1837, AT AN OUTLAY OF $30,000. Has two Departments, Junior^ and Senior, each consisting of three classes. The Principal is aided by Ten competent and thoroughly qualified teachers, beside lecturers. The course of study embraces all the branches of a thorough English Educa- tion, Mathematics, the Natural Sciences, the Ancient and Modern Languages, Music, Drawing, etc. The Libraries and Apparatus to illustrate and facilitate the studies of the pupils, are very select and valuable. The School year commences in September and closes in July. THE MISSES FIEI^B'S INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG liABIES, No. 49 South 8th street, E. District. ESTABLISHED 1852. The School year commences the first Monday in September, and comprises four terms of eleven weeks each. 118 BROOKLYN CITY AND 1tiai.e aiv© femaiie acajdemy, (in separate departments,) Fulton av., cor. Classon a v. ESTABLISHED 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Snow, Principals. Miss S. J. Hawley, Assistant in Female Department. MONS. AND MME. BERTAU>S FRENCH AND ENGLISH DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL, FOR YOUNG LADIES, 'No. 43 Pierrepont street. .ESTABLISHED 1846. MR. AND MADATHE CRUCY'S FRENCH AND ENGLISH BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, FOR YOUNG LADIES, No. 209 Henry street. ESTABLISHED 1853. PARK. INSTITUTE, FOR BOYS. Cumberland street, near Lafayette avenue. ESTABLISHED 1852. Holmes B. Hall, Proprietor and Principal. ST. PAUL'S ACADEMY, FOR YOUNG LADIES Basement St. Paul's Church, Union avenue, cor. S, 2d st, E. District. ESTABLISHED 1853. Under the direction of Rev. H. F. Roberts and Lady. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 119 SCHOOL FOR YOUNG I.ADIES, IsTo. 188 Dean street, ESTABLISHED 1854. Misses E. and M. A. Tisdale, Principals. The school is in session from September 10th to July 4th, SEIiECT CliASSICAIi AND ENGIilSH SCHOOIi, FOR BOYS, VTLTB. A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT FOR GIRLS, Corner Clinton and Baltic streets. ESTABLISHED 1848. J. K. Andrews, Proprietor, and Principal of Male Depart- ment. Mrs. J. R. Andrews, Principal of Female Department. SEIiECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, Cumberland street, near Lafayette Av. Rev. Baynard R. Hall, D. D,, Principal. Assisted by the Misses Hall. SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES, 90 Orange street, cor. Henry. ESTABLISHED 1853. Rev. Harvey Newcomb and Lady, Principals. E. N. Bates, A. B., Assistant Teacher. Miss Sophia W. Newcomb, Teacher of Music, Drawing, and Painting. Miss Ellen Newcomb, Teacher. \I^ILLIAinSBURGH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOR BOYS, Fourth street, cor. South 9th. I^^STITUTED 1847. 120 BROOKLYN CITY AND Samuel Reynolds, > . • i. x) • • i llIOMAS U-. feCHRIVER, ) ^ The school has Four Departments : — Primaryj Junior, Se- nior, and Classical. INSTRUCTORS. Samuel Reynolds, if o - t n^ ^.-^ ^ r\ 4. „, ,->, CI t oenior and (Jlassical Departments. Thomas (Jr. bcHRivER, ^ ^ J. Y. Godfrey, Junior Department. Miss Smith, Primary Department. Prof. P. Abadie, French and Drawing. Prof. Hume, Elocution. Prof. J. Hyatt, Lecturer on Astronomy, Philosophy, Phy- siology, &c. The school year begins in September. WII.i:.IAMSBUKC}M IIVSTITUTE, A commercial and classical academy for boys, Sixth street, near South 4tli. ESTABLISHED 1850. Rev. William Hamilton, Principal. E. J. Hamilton, A. B., First Assistant. The Academic year begins in September. WII^LIAMSBURGH YOUNG LADIES' COIiliEGIATE IN- STITUTE, Fourth street, near South 9th. ESTABLISHED 1847. instructors. MoNS. p. Abadie, Principal and Professor of the French Language, Literature, and Drawing. B. Seymour, A. M., Ancient Literature, Philosophy, His- tory, Logic, and llhetoric, Thomas G-. Schriver, A. M., Professor of Mathematics. Prof. James Hyatt, Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, Geology, Chemistry, and Botany. Mrs. P Abadie, Principal of the Academic Department. Miss M. L, BuNCE, Principal of the Primary Department. Miss M. MuNsoN, Assistant. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 121 On Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Arts, weekly Lectures will be delivered by liev. Dr. Fiulay and Prof. James Hyatt. L. A. Benjamin, Vocal Music. The Institution has three Departments : — Primary, Acade- mical, and Collegiate. Pupils who complete the Collegiate Course of three years to the satisfaction of the Faculty^ will receive the Diploma of the ' Institution. The Annual commencement takes place in the first week of July. ■»■»»- ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. St. Alphonsus' School, for Girls, at Church of the Holy Trinity, Eastern District. Conducted by the Nuns of the Or- der of St. Dominic. Sister, Witzlhofer, Siq^erioress. 300 Pupils. St. James' School, 195 and 197 Jay street. Under the charge of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Brother Isaiah, Superior. 600 Pupils. St. Paul's School, for Girls, at St. Paul's Church, Court street. Conducted by the Sisters of Charity. Sister Constan- TiA, Sr. Servant. 600 Pupils. Free School, for Boys and Girls, at St. Peter's and St. Paul's Church, E. District. 1,000 Pupils. Free School, for Boys, at Church of the Holy Trinity, Eastern District. 300 Pupils. Free School, for Boys, at St. Paul's Church, Court street, cor. Congress. 250 Pupils. Fr,ee School, at St. Joseph's Church, Pacific street, n. Yan- derbilt avenue, 170 Pupils. Free School, for Girls, at St. James' Cathedral, Jay street, 150 Pupils. Free School, at Church of the Assumption, York street. Free School, at St. Patrick's Church, Kent avenue. 6 122 BROOKLYN CITY AND BROOKLYN ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE CON- DITION OF THE POOR. OFFICERS 1S54-5. President, Stephen Crowell. Vice Presidents. John H. Brower. Abiel A. Low. Horace B. Claflin. Thomas H. Sandford. George L. Willard. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Arthur "W. Benson. James How. William Poole, Isaac IT. Frothingliam. AVilliam H. Mellen. Calvin P. Sanger. John W. Goin. Austin Melvin. Treasurer^ John Blunt. Rec. Sec, Edward A. Nichols. Cor. Sec. and General Agent, L. Eames. Office, 88 Hicks st. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. First Ward. — Henry Kowland, Luthur Eames, William H. Mellen, Isaac H. Frothingham, James Freeland. Second Ward. — Daniel T. Leverich, Nathan T. Beers, Wm. C. Rushmore, John T. Davenport, Wm. H. Prindle. Third Ward. — Thomas C. Fanning, Richard P. Buck, John J. Studwell, Andrew Wesson, Adam D. Wheelock. Fourth Ward. — T. H. Sandford, Samuel Van Benschoten, William Edsell, Eleazer Kingsley, A. B. Davenport. Fifth Ward. — Rev. William Burnett, John Avila, Arthur Wellwood, Dr. Frederick Morris, Rufus R. Belknap. Sixth Ward. — Jeremiah P. Tappan, Leonard N. Dellicker, J. W. Green, Dr. H. S. Smith, Dr. James Crane. Seventh Ward. — John Rhodes, Alfred Smith, James De Gray, Silas Davenport, H. W. Mead. Tenth Ward.— J. Milton Smith, Arthur W. Benson, Alex- ander Bingham, William G. Mott, A. L. Van Buren Eleventh Ward. — Lewis N. Baldwin, James H. Taft, George Gault, Daniel S. Darling, Isaac Carhart. This is a voluntary Association of benevolent persons united not for purposes of general benevolence, but to render tem- porary aid to worthy destitute persons and families (not paupers), who have by infirmity, sickness, age, or unavoidable misfortune, been brought to want, and who would prefer to suffer before ap- KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 123 plying for aid to the City or County Superintendents of the poor. The Society has been ten years in existence, and has been the means of great and untold benefit ; appearing to many as the " Good Samaritan " in their extremity, relieving their bodily wants, and filling their hearts with joy and gratitude. It is de- serving the patronage of every person able to contribute a " mite.'''' The receipts for 1854 have been $8,238 92 cts. There has been distributed during the past year 600 tons of coal, 14 loads of wood, 29.896 lbs. of Indian meal, 14,434 lbs. of rice, 124 bushels of beans, 127 quintals of codfish, 547 lbs. of tea, 5,277 lbs. of sugar, 685 gallons of molasses, 1,681 lbs. of fresh meat, 1,467 loaves of bread, 239 pairs of shoes, and 400 pieces of clothing. BROOKLYN SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF RESPECT- ABLE, AGED, INDIGENT FEMALES. (Graham Institute.) The Home, Corner "Washington and Dekalb avenues. ESTABLISHED 1850. OFFICIAIi BOAED FOR 1855. First Directress^ Second " Cor. Secretary^ Rec. " Treasurer.. Mrs. Rev. Dr. Lansing. " James Shelden. " Isaac R. St. John. " George L. Cornell. " David M. Stone. Mrs. "Wm. C. Bowers. •' R. P. Buck. " Wm. F. Bulkley. '* Ann Burrows. " Wm. W. Crane. " Wm. J. Davidson. " Thomas Day. " John A. Dayton. " Wm. W. Greene. " A. W. Harper. " J. F. Herriman. " Welch. MANAGERS. Mrs. L. Holbrook. " Joseph Howard. " David Johnson. " Rev. 0. B. Judd. " Wm. Kent. " J. D. Ledyard. " J. W. McCluney. " Henry W. Mead. " Theo. Polhemus, jr. " Ward Raymond. *' Reed. " Alex.' M. White. Mrs. Jas. S. Rockwell. " Jarvis R. Rolph. " Jas. E. Soutli worth. " S. B. Stilwell. " J. S. T. Strauahan. " J. R Tappan. " Adam Tiebout. " Alanson Trask, Miss Dodge. Miss Duryea. Miss E. Hubbard. Matron^ Mrs. Caroline Wright. Physician^ Dr. Vanderveer. 124 BROOKLYN CTTT AND BOARD OF ADVISERS. His Honor the Mayor, Ex-officio. Geo. S. Howland, Esq. Edward Dunham, Esq. Elijah Lewis, Esq. John Halsey, Esq. Hon. Cyrus P. Smith. Rev. Dr. J. L. Hodge. Alex. M. White, Esq. As its name indicates, this Society was instituted for the purpose of providing a Home for the class of persons coming within the province of its care. Through the liberality of the late John B. Graham, Esq., a stately edifice has been erected, surrounded by ample grounds, which afford a free ventilation. By this noble charity an agreeable Home, replete with every comfort, has been provided, wherein many a weary traveller, de- scending the hill of life, may take refuge, and find rest from the toils attending their steps, and a shelter from the rude blasts of adversity, blessing meanwhile, the heart that conceived the noble design, and the hand that so generously accomplished it. The Institution has no fund for its support. Its income is dependent on what is received as admission fees, payments for life membership, annual subscriptions, and irregular contributions from the benevolent. There were thirty beneficiary inmates of the Home during last year, and six boarding inmates. To become a Beneficiary inmate of the Home, the regulations require that the applicant should be at least sixty years of age, though the Committee have discretionary power to admit at a less age. The applicant, or her friends, must also pay an admis- sion fee of sixty dollars, and be provided with a bed, bedding, and furniture for a room. To become a Member of the society requires the payment of One dollar or more, annually ; to become a Life Member^ the payment of Twenty Dollars ; to become a Benefactor^ the pay- ment of Fifty dollars ; to become a Patron of the society, the payment of One Hundred dollars. BROOKLYN FEMALE EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY. ORGANIZED MARCH, 1854, Meet 1st "Wednesday in each month, at 65 Court st, 11 A. M. Office for Employment and Sales-Room, 65 Court st. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 125 OFFICIAL BOARD. Tresident^ Mrs. Nicholas Luquer. Vice Fresident^ Mrs. Abiel A. Low. Sec.^ Mrs. Tlieo. Eomeyn. Treasurer^ Miss Julia S. Kirk. Mrs. John Brownson. " Chesbrough. " James Crane. " Alex. H. Dana. " N. W. Everleigh. " Chas. M. Fry. " Oliver H. Gordon. " Wm. M. Harris. '• Geo. G. Hastings. " David Johnson. " Daniel J. Ledyard. MANAGERS. Mrs. Elijah Lewis. " John Martin. " M. F. Odell. " Wm. S. Packer. " Chas. Parsons. " Joshua L. Pope. " Nathaniel Putnam. " Geo. H. Sampson. " Wm. Spencer. " Horatio Smith. " Peter G. Taylor. Mrs. Luke W. Thomas. " Frank Vincent. " Horace Waters. '• Andrew Wesson. Miss Arnold. " Julia Grey. " Kittredge. " Elizabeth Manning. *' Nelson. " Martha Renouf. •' Emily Stansbury. Caleb Barstow. Robei't Dugan. Jose|)h W. Greene. Solomon H. Hanford. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Abraham W. Leggett. Samuel Sloan. George G. Spencer. William Spencer. John N. Taylor. Luke W. Thomas. This Society is well worthy of being classed with the Benefi- cent Institutions of the city. It is an Association of Ladies, and its primary object is to provide employment at needle-work, to respectable, educated, and refined females who may have been reduced from comfort or even affluence to a state of want or suffering ; but through delicacy, or the want of the habit of self- dependence, are prevented from soliciting needle employment through the ordinary channel of the shops^ though willing to devote their energies to the sustenance of themselves and their dependents ; to such self-dependent needle women as may for the time being be unable to procure work ; to poor females, widows, or married women, that may be thrown upon their own resources to procure the necessaries of life. A just and prompt remuneration is afforded for the labor performed. The Work and Sales Room of the Society is at 65 Court street. The Ladies design also, to the extent of their ability, to aid reputable household servants in procuring employment in families of respectability. Any person, by the payment of five dollars, may become a member of the Society for one year, or one hundred dollars will constitute any person a member for life. It is endeavored, as 126 BROOKLYN CITY AND far as possible, to make the enterprise self-sustaining ; but for wliat it may lack in that respect the Managers look to the con- tributions they hope to obtain from a liberal-hearted public. BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED APRIL 4x0, 1854. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. No. 1. — Concord street, near Hudson av. No. 2. — Huntington st., bet. Court and Clinton. First Directress^ Mrs. Fisher Howe, 110 Willow st. Seco7icl, " " Jesse C. Smith, 79 Hicks st. Treasurer^ *' Andrew Wesson, 23 Monroe pi. Secretary^ " Horatio W. Shipman, 50 High st. Mrs. Peter Balen. " Orville Bissell. " Jarvis Brush. " Sam'l Burrill. " Alfred Clapp. " David Clarkson. " Connover. « Wm. J. Cutting. Miss L. I. Bedell. MANAGERS. Mrs. Davison. " John P. Elwell. « John E. Hanford. " Dr. C. Harris. " John B. Hillard. " Henry R. Hough. " Wm. W. Hurlburt. " Henry G. Nichols. ♦' Ed. J. Ovington. Miss P. Burtis. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Mrs. Richard Sharp. " J. Sheldon. " G. C. Snialley. " Henry T. Tabar. " Luke W. Thomas. " S. Tliompson. " J. Wiuchelhausen. " Abraham Wyckolf. Miss M. Hubbard. Joseph W. Harper. Abiel A. Low. Calvin F. Howe. Thomas H. Messenger Cyrus P. Smith. This Association is one of a New Order. It is supported by voluntary subscriptions and donations. It is managed by Ladies, with an advisory Committee of Gentlemen. In making up the Board of Managers, it is designed to have every church in the city represented in the person of at least one Manager. The Board meets for the transaction of business at 10 A. M., on the first Tuesday of each month, at the Rooms of the Hamilton Literary Association, Brooklyn Athenagum. Any person contributing one dollar or more annually to the support of the Society, shall be a member thereof and entitled to KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 127 vote at the Annual Meeting which is held on the third Tuesday of November. The subjects of this Beneficent Institution are found in the humblest walks, — the sub-stratum of civilized life, children of parents in the lowest condition of poverty and degradation, — to reclaim them from ignorance and vice, and train them to useful- ness in society, teaching them habits of cleanliness, industry, educating the mind, and shaping the moral tendencies. For this purpose the Managers, through their visitors, seek out and invite to their schools, for a few hours daily, such neg- lected female children as do not attend any school, and are utterly deprived of any moral training. There they are first familiarized to the sanitary influence of cleanliness, taught the use of the needle, employing also a por- tion of the time instructing them in the rudiments of learning. The bodily wants of the little ones are not overlooked, as they are provided with clothing, and a daily dinner of plain whole- some food. The Managers have met with encouraging success since they entered upon their self-denying and responsible work, and look to an enlightened and benevolent public to sustain them. CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, EASTERN DISTRICT. ORGANIZED FEBRUARY, 1854, For the Establ^hment of Industrial Schools. School No. 1, North 2d st., near Fourth. Mrs. Chauncey Pierce, Male Department. Mrs. H, Brown, Female Department. OFFICERS AND MANAGERS, 1855. President^ Kev. Wm. W. Halloway. Vice President^ Rev. John D. Wells. Treasurer^ Dr. E. N. Colt. Secretary^ Manning Merrill. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. George H. Andrews. Dr. E. N. Colt. William Duvall. John Broach. Robert Crowley. J. C. Gandar. J. W. Bulkiey. R. T. Duff. John K. Gittena. 128 BROOKLYN CITY AND Rev. Wm. W. Halloway.Manning Merrill. J. H. Vandewater. John Hamilton. John Thompson, Benj. J. Warner, jr. James Hull. Robert G. Thursby. Rev. John D. Wells. Enoch Jacobs. Samuel Truslow. Richard White. Jeremiah Johnson. Richard Trussell. Octavius Longworth. L. W. Ufford. OFFICERS OF BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS. l5^ Directress, Mrs. James Hall. 2d " " Robert Crowley. dd, " " William Duvall. Secretary^ " Cooper. Anmial Election, in March. The Children's Aid Society had its origin in the bencv^a- lent movements of ladies connected with the Williamsbnrgh City Mission, who, in the fulfilment of their ofl&ce as VisiiorSy occasionally witnessed in a family that came in their way, such cases of extreme poverty, deplorable ignorance, and miserable degradation combined, as to excite their compassionate regard, more especially for the children of the abject parents. It was regarded as possible to save the children at least, could some plan be adopted by which they might be taken for a part of the day from the contemplation of and contact with such a state of things, and brought to see and experience a better and happier condition. With this object in view, they appealed to the benevolent to aid them to open an " Industrial School," on the plan which had proved successful in other cities. Their call was responded to, and they opened their first school on the seventh of March, 1854, in the old " North American," in North Second street, near Fourth, with five children in attendance. The progress of the enterprise thus far has inspired the Managers with confidence in its ultimate success, as an effective means of amelioration to multitudes of the poorer and hitherto neglected children of the city. A happy change has been wrought in the morals and manners of the children under the care of the Matron, and it is confidently hoped that any good efi'ected in them will reflect in the family circle, inspiring its members with hopes of a more exalted character, and induce efi"orts for a reform. The children are provided with tidy and comfortable apparel, and are treated daily to a warm and nourishing dinner. The Society is wholly dependent on contributions from the benevolent to defray the expenses of the enterprise ; the Mana- gers therefore make a standing appeal to the public to sustain this good work so auspiciously begun. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 129 The Schools are under the immediate direction of a body of twelve ladies, elected annually. These annually elect from their number a first, second, and third Directress, and a Secre- tary, and appoint such Committees as they may think proper ; and with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees, may appoint such Teachers as are necessary, and otherwise govern the School except in matters of supply and expenditure. There is a Board of twenty-five Trustees, elected annually, who act as Advisers or Counselling Managers in the afi"airs of the Society. The Board of Trustees annually elect from their own number a President. Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, and appoint Committees. The Treasurer holds the funds of the Society, and makes disbursements on orders signed by at least two of the Finance Committee, or by one of the committee and the 1st Directress. Regular Monthly Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month. THE CHURCH CHARITY FOUNDATION. INCORPORATED MARCH, 1851. OFFICEKS, 1S55-6. President^ Bev. Francis Yinton, D. D. Vice Presidents. Rev. E. H. Cranfield. Bev. Jacob W. Diller. Bev. Wm. H. Lewis, D. D. Treasurer^ William B. Douglas. Sec, Bichard Wood. The intent or business of this Society is to found and es- tablish Institutions for the relief and care of respectable indi- gent aged persons, sick or infirm indigent persons ; orphan, half orphan, and other children that may be left in a destitute and unprotected condition ; seamen, boatmen, and their families , and for the dispensing of general charity. It is provided, that in the administration of the benefits of the Charities of this Society, the preference be given to such as are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, or are connected with, or have peculiar claims upon those who are members. In furtherance of the plans of the Society, three buildings on Carlton avenue near Fulton avenue, are temporarily rented : one 6* 130 BROOKLYN CITY AND is the Home for the Aged ; the second, a Hospital for the Sick; and the third, the Orphan House. The Society contemplates establishing, as early as the state of its funds will permit, a Training House for servants and nurses, a Church, and a Home for Seamen and Boatmen and their families. The Society is altogether dependent for its funds on the liberality of the benevolent. The affairs of the Society are conducted by a Board of Managers, assisted by a Board of Lady Associates. The Annual Election is held on the Festival of the Presenta- tion of Christ in the Temple, or if it occur on a Sunday, then on the day following. BROOKLYN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. HARTERED MAY, 1845. ORGANIZED AUGUST, 1845. Office, No. 66 Amity street. OFFICERS, 1855-6. President^ Archbishop Hughes. Secretary, Alderman Timothy Bannon. Treasurer^ Charles Harvey. TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO. Most Bev. John Hughes, D. D., Archbishop of New York. Hon. George Hall, Mayor of Brooklyn. Life Trustees. A^mual Trustees. James Friel. Peter O'Hara. T. James Glover. James Bennett. John G. Gottsberger. Timothy Bannon. William H. Peck. Charles Harvey. A. G. Spencer. Christopher Johnston, Agent. The Brooklyn Benevolent Society was instituted to carry out the benevolent designs of the late Cornelius Heeney, who, ^during life, generously contributed for charitable purposes a larffe amount of property, consisting of 151 lots of land_ lying between Hicks, Columbia, Congress, and Amity streets, m the city of Brooklyn. The founder and donor designed this beneficence more par- KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 131 ticularly for the relief of Roman Catholics, but others are not excluded. One fifth of the income derived from the property of the Society is required to be annually expended in supplying the poor with fuel during winter ; one tenth in supplying poor children attending school with clothing during winter, and $250 a year in payment of teacher of said poor children, in spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic ; the whole clear surplus of an- nual income to be applied to the maintenance and education of poor orphan children from four to fourteen years of age. The Orphans receiving the patronage of the Society are those under the care of the Roman Catholic Asylum Society, at the corner of Congress and Clinton streets, connected with which is the school the teacher of which receives the sum above named. The Cash Receipts of the Society for the year ending March 1st, 1855, amounted to $8,325 81, of which sum there was expended : — For fuel furnished 953 families, consisting of 3,812 persons, • $1,800 00 " Shoes and stockings, 1,150 pairs of each to poor children 901 43 " Teacher to poor children, - - - . . 250 00 " Agent's Salary, 400 00 *' Assessments - - . _ . . . 329 gg " Incidental expenses, including |410 for repairs to house 587 46 ** Support and maintenance of orphan children, - - 4,057 24 Total, 18,325 81 The affairs of the Society are managed by a Board of eleven Trustees, five of whom are elected for life. The Archbishop of New York, and Mayor of the City of Brooklyn are Trustees, ex- officio. The four remaining ones are elected annually. The payment of three dollars annually will constitute a per- son an Associate Member of the Society, and will entitle them to a vote at the Annual Election for Trustees, which takes place on the 17th of March. The Trustees meet on the first Wednes- day of every month. HOWARD BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, Connected with the Third Unitarian Congregational Church, South 8th street, between 4th and 5th streets, E. District. ORGANIZED DEC, 1854. 132 BROOKLYN CITY AND OFFICERS, 1855. President^ Mrs. Charles J. Bowen. Vice Fresident^ Mrs. Wm. H. Jenkins. Sec.^ Mrs. E. J. Grerry. Treasurer^ Mrs. William Duvall. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Rev. Charles J. Bowen. Alfred Hall. AVilliam Duvall. Wm. H. Jenkins. Henry B. Sbute. The purpose of this Society is to seek out and render assist- ance in various ways to such deserving persons in the com- munity as may be in embarrassed circumstances induced by sickness, want of employment, or any misfortune. It is a recent organization, yet in the short period of its existence it has accom- plished much good. Through its medium many have been tem- porarily relieved. The class of persons assisted were those who do not willingly ask aid, but prefer to suffer rather than solicit alms, yet have gratefully accepted the proffered help. The Society is depend- ent on the voluntary contributions of the benevolent to enable it to carry out its designs. Meetings for the transaction of the business of the Society are held at the houses of the members alternately, every Tuesday evening. Any person contributing Fifty cents or more to the funds of the Society, becomes a member thereof. Donations may be sent to the Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. Duvall, No. 5 Fourth street. ROMAN CATHOLIC BENEFICIAIi SOCIETY OF ST. PE- TER'S AND ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, Eastern District. ORGANIZED JUNE, 1850. OFFICERS, 1855. President^ John McCann. Yice Premlent^ William Brown. Secretary, McCarthy Reidy. Treasurer, Peter Gr. Brennan. Annual Election in June. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 133 Established for the purpose of giving assistance to the Sun- day Schools, and promoting the usefulness and extension of the Library ; also for the support of members when sick or infirm, and their interment after death ; and, by acts of mutual kind- ness and benevolence, to cement more closely the sacred bonds of Union and Charity that should ever exist among fellow Catholics. All persons under 45 years of age, of a good moral character, are eligible to a membership in the Society. Persons over that age are admitted as Honorary members ; but are not entitled to any pecuniary benefits. The initiation fee is $3 ; monthly dues, 25 cents ; sick allowance, $3 per week ; burial allowance, $25. Regular meetings of the Society are held on the last Monday of each month. The Annual meeting, at which the Officers are elected, is held on the Sunday succeeding the 29th of June, or Festival of St. Peter and St. Paul. PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM SOCIETY. mSTITUTED 1833. INCOEPORATED 1835. Asylum, Cumberland street, near Myrtle avenue. OFFICERS FOR 1855. First Directress^ Mrs. C. H. Richards. Second " Mrs. Phebe Butler. Cor. Sec.j Mrs. Joseph Steele. Rec. Sec.^ Miss Anne Wood. Treasurer J Miss Mary CornelL MANAGERS. Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Gascoigne. Mrs Peck. " Allen. (( Gibbs. (( Rockwell. *' Ayres. u Gilbert. <( Rosenbaum. " Cox. u Gordon. (( Saudford. " Cutler. 11 Gracie. (( Sands. " Dana. u Henry. {( Thorne. " Dorrance. u Howe. (( F. Tucker. " Doughty. (( Kellogg. a T. Tucker. " Dunning. u Lamar. u Van Antwerp " Freeland, <( Lewis. (( Van Sinderen. '' Fry. Litchfield. Ostrander. (( Wesson. 134 BROOKLYN CITY AND BOARD OF ADVISORS. Mr. Alex. H. Dana. Mr. J. B. Graham. Mr. Cyrus P. Smith. " Daniel Embury. " John Halsey. " Joseph Steele. " Sandford. Matron, Mrs. Wakefield. The declared object of this Society is to protect, relieve, and instruct Orphan and destitute children in the City of Brooklyn. A large and commodious building was erected for the purposes of the Institution on Cumberland street, between Myrtle and Park avenues. The number of children under the care of the Society became so large that the original building was found too limited for their accommodation, and in 1851 a Wing was added to the main edifice, on the North ; it being the intention of the Society to also add a South Wing when required. The Society are in possession of twelve lots, six on Cumberland street, with six abutting on Carlton avenue. The grounds are ample enough to give room for buildings to accommodate a very large number, and at the same time alBford a thorough ventilation, opening as it does on two streets. The play ground for the exercise of the children is by no means stinted ; besides which a large play house has been erected for indoor exercise when the state of the weather prevents their usual outdoor pastimes. The number of Children in the care of the Society at the present time is about 130. Regular meetings of the Managers are held monthly. The Annual meeting of the members of the Society is held on the third Wednesday of May, at which time the Officers and Managers for the ensuing year are elected. ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM SOCIETY. INSTITUTED 1829. CHARTERED 1834. Asylum for Boys, Clinton street, cor. Congress. " " Girls, Congress street, near Clinton. Number of Orphans, April 1st, 1855, 290. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. Fresident, Rt. Rev. Bishop Lougiilin. Ut Vice Fres., Cornelius Dever. 2d Vice Fres., J. 0. Manney. Secretary, Michael H. Murphy. Assistant Secretary, Michael Burke. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 135 DIRECTORS. Timothy Bannon. Edward Roach. Jeremiah O'Donnell. Cornelius Dever. James Tiner. Thomas Dillon. Francis Turner. The Society have erected two spacious brick buildings — one for Boys and the other for Girls. The Asylums receive their principal support through the " Trustees and Associates of the Brooklyn Benevolent Society," who hold in trust a large amount of property for benevolent pur- poses by deed of gift from the late Cornelius Heeney. The amount received for the year ending March 1st, 1855, was over $4,000. The " Emerald Benevolent Society " of Brooklyn give the proceeds of an annual Ball to the support of the Asylums. THE WILLIAMSBURGH CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ORGANIZED MARCH, 1853. OFFICEES, 1S55. President^ Henry McKinstry. Vice Presidents^ Several Gentlemen of different denominations. Secretary^ J. W. Bulkley. Treasurer^ H. P. Freeman. Missionary^ Bev. "Wm. H. Johnson. The object of this Society is to provide religious instruction for the neglected and destitute, and to look into the temporal wants of the poor. The business is directed by a Board of Managers, consisting of the Pastor and a lay member of each of the churches represented in the Society. All Evangelical Ministers of the Gospel in the city, who are not Pastors, are Honorary members of the Board. Any person contributing to the funds of the Society, becomes a member thereof. The Society has now in its organization, nine different denom- inations, and more than a dozen churches. The basis is so broad, as to embrace all who love the Saviour and the souls of their fellow- men. In 1853, about 150 Bibles and 875 Testaments were dis- tributed. 136 BROOKLYN CITY AND The General Kelief Department of this Society was or- ganized in October, 1853, by the appointment of nine gentlemen as a committee to supervise the giving relief of the temporal ne- cessities of the poor. The Committee for the present year consists of seven laymen of difierent denominations : J. Hamilton, Chairman ; J, W. Bulkley, Secretary ; Rev. J. D. Wells, Treasurer. The city (Williamsburgh) has been divided into Districts, which have been visited by persons appointed for that purpose. A soup house has been opened, in connection with the depository, where relief is daily afforded to those in want. The Committee hold a regular weekly meeting for the pur- pose of carrying out their work. Provisions to the amount of $250 to $300 per week, are distributed to the poor, besides a large amount of clothing. The City Missionary Society and the Relief Depart- ment are among the most important agencies for doing good in the City. The first, in looking after the neglected, who are without the means of grace ; the second, in affording temporal relief to those who are destitute. To the poor the Gospel is preached, — the sick are visited, — the hungry fed, — and the naked clothed. BROOKLYN CITY BIBLE SOCIETY: Auxiliary to the American Bible Society. ESTABLISHED 1841, For the distribution of the Sacred Scriptures without note or comment, — free to tlie des- titute poor, — and otherwise, in this city. Depositary of the Societ^^, C. C. Mudge, 48 Court street. OFFIOEES, 1855. Fresiclent^ Chandler Starr. Vice Presidents^ The Mayor of Brooklyn, ex-officio. Daniel Ayres. Daniel H. Arnold. Kichard P. Buck. Joseph Sands. Alfred Edwards. Walter Bicker. Wm. C. Rushmore. Charles Clark. Treasurer^ Bonj. W. Delamater. Cor. Sec, Rev. J. E. Rockwell. Rec. Sec, Charles C. Mudge. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 137 The following statement of tiie operations of the Society during the year 1854, shows that not a few families residing in the famed " City of Churches" were found without the Bible in their houses. VOLUMES DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY. By Tract Visitors, ... 2 354 To Sabbath Schools, .... 337 '' Females' Bible Society, . . 5(32 " Public Institutions, . , .179 " Individuals, Residents, . . 201 " " Strangers, . . 140 3,775 Volumes sold, 1 126 Total distributed, 5,001 The Receipts of the Society for the year were $3,169 88 Of this sum $408 40 was received from the Females' Auxiliary Society. "^ Any person paying fifty cents or more annually into the funds of the Society may be a member thereof; and the payment of ten dollars at one time, will constitute a person a hfe mem- ber ; and the payment of twenty dollars at one time will consti- tute a person a life manager. All Churches making annual collections for the funds of the Society, are entitled to Bibles for the use of the Sunday Schools attached to such Churches. Donations may be left with either of the Managers, or with the Treasurer at the office of the Long Island Insurance Co. The Annual Meeting of the Society is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January. BROOKLYN FEMALES' BIBLE SOCIETY: Auxiliary to the Brooklyn City Bible Society. ESTABLISHED 1850, I^wk'^'t."'^ purpose of collecting funds from the Female Members of Churches renresento,! \>7 the Parent bociety, and from others; also to distribute Bibles."-CoiIS«ON' 138 BROOKLYN CITY AND OFF^BeRS, 1S55. First Directress^ Mrs. G. C. White. Second " " D. J. Ledyard. Secretary^ " Rev. J. E. Ptockwell. Treasurer^ " A. H. Dana. The Managers of the Society for the present year consist of thirty-four ladies connected with sixteen Evangelical Churches in the city. The Society during the year ending December, 1854, paid into the funds of the Parent Society $408 40, of which sum $300 was appropriated to make Rev. J. E. Rockwell and Mr. C. C. Mudge, Life Directors of the American Bible Society. The number of Bibles and Testaments distributed during the same period was 562. Any person contributing to the Society to the amount of fifty cents annually, may be a member thereof; and any one contributing ten dollars at one time, may be a life member. The Society holds its Anniversary in December. "WILLIAMSBURGH BIBLE SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED 1845. OFFICERS, 1S55. President^ Rev. John D. Wells. Vice President, Jonathan S. Burr. Cor. Sec, Rev. H. B. Elliott. Rec. Sec, John Truslow. Trecisiirer, William Morgan. Depositary, Nathaniel Briggs, 99 South 5th street. The following Table shows the operations of the Society from its organization to 1853, inclusive : Population of Williainslnirjih . . . Families Ibund destitute of the Bi- ble No. of Churches contributing Amount of con- tributions 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 11,000 1 in 34 13,000 Place not ex- plored. 16,000 1 in 22 21,000 not ex- plored. 26,000 not ex- plored. 31,000 1 in 10 85,000 not ex- plored. 40,000 1 in 10 50,000 not ex- plored. 8 9 9 9 9 10 11 17 15 $153 $173 ©222 $227 $300 $804 $5G5 18 $723 8S $700 00 The Annual Meeting of the Society for 1854, was held on the evcnin": of the 29th of December last. KINGS COU NTY KECORD. I39 BROOKLYN CITY TRACT SOCIETY: Auxiliaiy to the American Tract Society. ESTABLISHED 1830, General Agent, Charles C. Mudge, No. 48 Court st. OFFICERS, 1855. President, Kev. Bex\j. C. Cutler, D. D. t Vice Presidents, C01: Sec, Rev. N. P. Pierce. Rec. Sec, Henry Rowland. Treasurer, William W. Wickes. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. James P. Wallace, Chairman. W. Bicker. John V. Harriott. Orrin Swift Edward L Brown. Frederick J. Hosford. Ala" son Trask Jasper E. Corning. Edward A I aml.prt ^^\ ^ irask. E. Edwards. ^ John W LesHe kT^^ w'"''"" scKsr s-iSi ^its^ TRACTS DISTRIBUTED. To Families and others, in the Citv - ' „^-'^03 •'' ' " - 258,036 Total Distributed, 348,529 Copies of Child's Paper distributed, - - o /... Bibles supplied to the destitute - . ' " ^4,000 Testaments, " " ' . " - - 990 Children gathered into Sunday Schools. - ' - " ' ■^'??J Ditto, ditto, Public Schools, . . . * ^J^ 140 BROOKLYN CITY AND Persons induced to attend Church, . - - - 492 Temperance Pledges obtained, . _ . _ 893 Prayer Meetings held, - . - - - * 642 Family Visitations by the Missionaries, . - - 5,493 Backsliders reclaimed, ------ 14 Hopeful Conversions, - - - - - * .44 United with Evangelical Churches, ... - 25 The number of Tract Distributors co-operating witb the Society during the year was 474. The B. C. T. Society is composed of such persons as con- tribute annually to its funds, or are actively engaged in pro- moting its objects, together with the Life Members and Directors. Forty-five or more Directors are chosen annually, who, with the Ofl&cers, constitute a Board to conduct the business of the Society. The fund of the Society is made up from contributions by the Churches, annual subscriptions, and occasional donations. Contributions or donations to the Society may be made through the Treasurer or any Member of the Executive Committee. The Anniversary of the Society is held on the last Monday of January, at which the Annual Report of the Board is read, and the Officers and Directors for the ensuing year elected. THE BROOKLYN SABBATH SCHOOL UNION. ORGANIZED ISS^. RE-ORGANIZED 1855. Established to encourage and assist tbose engaged in the superintendence and instnic- tion of Sabbath Sciiools; to iuiprove the method of teaching; to promote the establish- lishment of new schools— especially for the destitute of the city— and to unite the Christian sympathies, counsels, and labors of persons of ditterent evangelical denominations, in thi3 benevolent enterprise.— Constitution, Ajit. 2. MANAGERS. Chairman^ Albert Woodruff. Secretary^ John R. Morris. Treasurer^ Charles Clark. Peter Balen. Fisher A. Fisher. A.D.Matthews. George W. Bleecker. John V. Harriott. Charles C. Mudge. John M. B. Bogart. Thomas R. Harvey. Ellis S. Potter. William H. Brown. H. N. Holt. Sidney Sanderson. Samuel Carter. R. M. Hubbard. Robert S. Slocum. Silas Davenport. Isaac N. Judson. Andrew A. Smith. William Edsall. Christopher Lippitt. John C. Smith. Joseph W. Field. E. Marx. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 141 « > The B. S. S. U. consists of the officers and teachers of such Sabbath schools as vote to become members, and of ministers of the churches with which these schools are connected, and such other persons as contribute not less than One Dollar annually to jts funds. The affairs of the Union are conducted by a Board of twenty- three Managers, a Secretary and Treasurer. At least two of the Managers are chosen from each Evangelical Christian deno- mination represented in the Union. Regular meetings of the Board of Managers are held on the 3d Monday of each month. The Anniversary of the Schools of the Union occurs in May, and the Anniversary of the Union on the evening of the same day. A monthly Concert of Prayer for Sabbath Schools is held on the second Monday evening of every month, at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, 22 Court street. BROOKLYN PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED MAY, 1844. Meet at No. 162 Fulton st., 1st and 3d Thursdays in each month. OFFICERS, 1855. Preside7ttj Alexander Campbell. Vice President^ John Beatty. Rec. Sec, William Johnson. Pin. Sec, Samuel Morand. Treasu7-er^ John Higginbotom. Librarian^ A. Morand. Assistant Lib.^ James Gilfillan. Shepherd, T. Shields. Guardian.^ — Carrigan, 142 BROOKLYN CITY AND CLERGYMEN IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN AND COUNTY OF KINGS. Those marked thus * have no regular Pastoral charge. Name. *Atkinson, Timothy, sec, ♦Atvvatir, E. R., editor, Babcock, Edward C, Baclieler, Francis E. M., ♦Backus, Samuel, missionary, Bacon, David W. Baker, Samuel, D. D., ♦Ballard, Joseph, ^j«(i>^ii7ie>", Bayliss, Samuel, Beecher, Henry Ward, ♦Beeeher, L. F., D. D., editor, Bell, James J., *Benedict, Amzi, ♦Bergner, Peter, missionary. Berry, Samuel V. (col'd.), Betlume, George W., D. D., *Billings, L., Black, J. L. {cord.), ♦Blake, J., jr., Boh an, Andrew, Boice, Peter, ♦Booth, J., Bowen, Charles J., ♦Branch, George, Briggs, (). W., *Brigham, J. C, D. D., sec, ♦Brodhead, Jacob, D. D., Brown, J. H. Hobart, ♦Bull, Mitchell B., Buudick, Simon S. (col'd.), Burch, T. n., Burnett, William, ♦Burrows, Waters, *Bush, George, *Camp, Harvey, Caufield, Eli H. Canny, P., •Carpenter, Eber, editor, Cassidy, Eugene. *Cawthorne, John, *Church. Phar., I>. D., editor, *Clark, Sylvester H., ♦Clarke, James, P. F., Cochran, Samuel D., ♦Cowell, W., Currie, R. O., T>. D., Cutler, Benjamin C, D. D., ♦Cutting, Sewall S., editor, Davie, J. T. Marshall, *Davis, Samuel, C, Diekhaut, John C, Diller, Jacob W., Dowling J., Drowne, T. StaflFdfd, Dwight, Maurice W., D. D., *]<>ldy, Herman J., Elliott, H. B., Elmendorf, Anthony, *Evans, Charles, Dexomixation. Congregational, Reformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, Congregational, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Baptist, Congregational, Congregational, Baptist, Cong. Methodist, Congregational, Methodist, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Baptist, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Prim. Methodist, Cong. (Unitarian), Prim. Methodist, Baptist, Reformed Dutch, Reformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Independent, Methodist Episcopal, New Jerusalem, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Roman Catholic. Congregational, Roman Catholic, Prim. Methodist, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, Prim. Methodist, Reformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Baptist, Reformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Church, Protestant Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Dutch, Baptist, Congregational, Reformed Dutch, Baptist, Residence. Montague street, n. Clinton. Division av., n. Ninth St., E. D. Java Street, n. Franklin. Carlton av., n. Lafayette av. State street, n. Court. 82 York street Fifth street, cor. S. 5th, E. D. Carroll pi., n. Court street. 80 Henry street. 126 Columbia street 211 Clinton street 196 Bridge street Greene av., n. Cumberland st 805 Atlantic street 74 South 8th street E. Dist. Pierrepont st, cor. Monroe pi. Summit street, n. Hicks. 812 South 4th street, E. Dist 111 Lawrence street FMbush. Madison st, n. Franklin, E. D. 152 Sands street Bedford av., n. Clymer street. 18 Hart's alley. 126 Henry street 8 South Sth street, E. Dist Flathush. 83 Cranberry street 110 Jay street. Weeksville. 7 Harrison place. 145 High street 191 Fulton street' 204 Henry street loth, below 8d Av., E. Dist 2 Strong place. 42 South 3d street, E. Dist W. Warren street, n. Hicks. ISS Jay street. 204 Bridge street 469 Grand street E. Dist 837 Bridge street 211 Schermerhorn street 207 Bridge street Neic TJtreclit. 1 Sands street Amity street, n. Clinton. Flatlands. Graham av., n. Division av. jsfew Brooklyn. Yanderbilt av., n. Atlantic av Myrtle av., n. Ryerson street. 56 Montague street First st, bet 6th and 7th Avat Quincy street n. Clas?on av. 97 South Sth st, E. Dist Carlton av., n. Dekalb av. Gates av., n. Classon av. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 143 Name. *Evans, Thomas J., Fanning, E. K., Farley, Fred. A., D. D., Farrell, Timothy, Fashing, W., *FernaI(l, George, *Field, Julius, Finlay, J, B., LL. D., Foster. E. 8., D. D., Fox, Henry J., Francis, A. S., Freeman, Amos N. (coVd), ♦Fuller, Edward C, ♦Fuller, Henry, Garlichs. Herman, *Gerry, E. J. missionary, ♦Gilbert, Eaphael, Goins, Robert, {coVd), Goodsell, Buel, Gorse, Charles, ♦Goulden, George, Greenleaf, Jonathan, Guion, Alvah, Guion, Thomas T., *Hall, Baynard E., D. D., ♦Hamilton, William, teacher, ♦Hand, E. C., Hanks, Euel, ♦Hart, Levi W., teacher, Haskins, Samuel M., Hatfield, Eobert M., Hill, William T., Himrod, John S., Hodge, C. W., Hodife, James L., D. D., Hodge. M. G., Hogarth, William, Hollis, George, Halloway, William W., Holme, S. J., Hoyt, William B., Huber, Joseph. ♦Hutchinson, Enoch, Huzarski, Francis, Hsley, Silas, Inskip, J. S., Jocelyn, Simeon S., Johnson, Daniel Y. M,, Johnson, Evan M., Johnson, Wm. H., city misery, ♦Judd, Orrin B., ♦Kaighin, Charles, Karr, William, Keegan, W., Kellar, Bonaventura, Kindler, Jacob, King, W. W., ♦Kissam, Samuel, Kummer, J. H., Labagh, Abraham I., Labagh, Isaac P., ♦Lanison, Samuel, Landon, Seymore, Lansing, Dyrck C, D. D., ♦Latham, Henry, Law, Joseph, ♦Law, Samuel W, ♦Leavitt, Joshua, editor, Lee, Peter, (col'd), Lewis, William H., D. D., Denomination. Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Cong. (Unitarian), Eoman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Presbyterian, Presbyterian, Lutheran (Ger. Evang.), Cong., (Unitarian), Methodist Episcopal, Baptis*, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Primitive Methodist, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Congregational, Protestant Methodist, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Baptist, Baptist, Presby-terian, Methodist Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Baptist, ^Methodist Episcopal, Eoman Catholic, Baptist, Eoman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Methodist, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Presbyterian, Eoman Catholic, Eoman Catholic, Methodist Episcopal, Universalist, Eeformed Dutch, Moravian, Eeformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, African Meth. Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Eesidence. 225 South 1st street, E. Dist New Utrecht. 70 Pacific street. Yanbrunt street, cor. Sullivaru 119 Stagg street, E. Dist. 855 Hudson av. 49 South Sth street, E. Dist. Leonard St., n. Devoe, E. D. 195 Atlantic street. Fifth St., n. South 5th, E. D. 203 South 4th, E. Dist. 162 Nassau street, 248 Schermerhorn st. 21 Bond sL 117 Schermerhorn st. 115 South Sth St., E. Dist 8S5 Bridge sL Neil) York. Franklin av.. n. Park av. 115 North 6th st, E. Dist Columbia st, cor. Yine. Franklin av., n. Myrtle av. 240 South 1st st, E. Dist 291 Jay st Cumberland st, n. Dekalb av. 6 Wesley pi., 8. 2d st, E. Dist 115 Duffield St. Clinton st, cor. Atlantic. 91 South 5th St, E. Dlst 217 Washington st 289 Dean st. Jefferson st, cor. Division av. 237 Ewen st, E. Dist 13 Hanson pi. 506 Atlantic st 102 Henry st Union av. n. Java st Hewes st, n. Bedford av. Willoughby st, cor. Duffield. loth st, below. Third av. Montrose av., n. Ewen st, E. D. 17 Bond st 42 South 3d st, E. Dist Adams st, n. Wash'ton, E. D. 339 Gold st 164 Sonth 3d st, E. Dist 22 Joralemon st Johnson st, cor. Pearl. 59 Sonth 3d st, E. Dist 3 Hanson pi. 25 Talman st. 86 Sands st 82 York st Marion St., New Brooklyn. Montrose av., n. Lorimer, E, D. S. Wm'sburgh, Queeiis Co. 60 State st 263 Jay st. Gravesend. 67 Summit st 106 Willoughby st Fourth pi., n. Henry st Clinton av., n. Lafayette av. Yanbrunt st, opp Tremont Bedford av., n. Wilson st 100 South 6th st, E. Dist 81 Willow st 324 Division av. Montague st, n. Clinton. 144 BROOKLYN CITY AND Name. ♦Lockwood, B., teacher. Lf)n£:fello\v, Samuel, *Loomis, llannan, secretary^ Loui;hliii, John, D. D., Ushop, *Lyoii, IKnry, Maginn, M. Maguire. Mnpch, Malone, Sylvester S., Manning, John H., March, Daniel, *Marsh, John, D. D., sec^y, ♦Marshall, J. D., McBrair, Kobert, elder, McGlcery, Thomas, secretary, McGinness, Edward, McKeon, Francis, McLane, James, W., D. D., McLaughlin, P.. McShane, J., Meeker, Stephen H., Milcy, John, Mitchell, J. S., ^ ^ Morgan, John E. V., (col a), Nash, Albert, Neander, John, Newcomb, Harvey, teacher, Nye, II. K., Ogdcn, "William, elder, O'Neill, Patrick, O'Reilly, M., Osborn, David, Paddock, John A., Parker, H. W., ♦Parsons, "William M., Patterson, David J., Peck, Francis, Perry, James H. *Pffister, John P., *Pickard, Kichard, Pierce, Nehemiah P., ■% Pise, Charles C, D. D., •. *Platt, Ebenezer, Pohle, Charles A. J., Porter, Elbert S., Potter, Dexter, *Prime, Samuel I., editor, Eatfeiner, John, Eamsauer, Maurus, *Rand, William "W., *Eay, J., Eemington, E. F., missionary, Eemington, Stephen, Reynolds, Charles, ♦Richardson, M., Eoberts, Henry F., Rockwell, J. Edson, Eoss, "William II., (coVd), Rudder, William, Rushmore, S., Sanford, David P., Barles, John W., Sayres, S. W., Schenck, John W., Schluter, E. F., Bchneller, Joseph A., *Scofield, Michael, ♦Schroeder, John F., D. D., Seymour, John, {col'd), ♦Seymour, William W., Bhackcllord, John W., Denomination. Congregational, Cong. (Unitarian), Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, XJniversalist, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Reformed Dutch, Congregational, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, Christian Disciples, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Reformed Dutch, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, African Meth. Epis. Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian (Ger.), Presbyterian, Universalist, Christian Disciples, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Methodist Eiiiscopal, Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, Baptist, Eef. Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Baptist, Reformed Dutch, Roman Catholic, Congregational, Lutheran, (Ger. Evang.), Eeformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic, Reformed Dutch, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Episcopal, Bai»tist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Presbyterian, African Meth. Epis., Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Ger. Lutheran, Eoman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, African Meth. Epis., Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Eesidence. 12S South 4th St., E. Dist 60 Fierrepout st. Hanson pi, n, Portland av. 188 Jay st. 98 South 5th st, E. Dist J'^ort Uamilton. Myrtle av., n. Ryerson st. 4'2 South 3d st., E. Dist. 3d av., cor. 43d st. Hicks St., n. President. 129 Joralemon st. Bedford av., n, Taylor st. 153 Fulton St. 1S8 Jay St. Congress st, n. Court 17th street "• Fourth av, 12U Fourth street E. Dist 102 Remscn street, E. Dist Congress street n. Court N. 2d St., n. Graham av., E. D. 77 South 2d street, E. Dist Flushing av., n. Division av. 2^ew York. Butler street n. Smith. 87 South 1st street, E. Dist 90 Orange street 94 Carlton a v. 87 E. Baltic street Dean St., n. Washington av. Congress sti-eet n. Court. Classon av., n. Gates av. 253 Livingston. Fulton av., n. Franklin av. 199 Adams street 240 Dean street 143 Dufiield street' 76 Cumberland street. Chauncey St., n. Patchin av. 513 Grand street, E. Dist 3d Av., n. 21st street. Livingston st, cor. Sidney pi. Putnam av., n. Downing st cor. Wyckoff and Smith sts. 15 South 9th st, E. Dist. Ea.'^t A'eio York. 10 Sidney place. 126 Montrose av., E. Dist 877 Hudson av. 127 Columbia street 29 Chapel street Verandah pi., n. Clinton st Franklin av., n. Dekalb av. 85 South 9th street E. Dist 3 Astor pi., 5th street, E. Dist 74 Union av., E. Dist 270 Livingston street Flushing, L. I. Flatbush. Carroll street, n. Hicks. 4 Huntington pL, Powers st 216 Schermerhorn street 99 South 4th street, E. Dist Fulton av., n. Hunter street 244 South 1st street E. Dist Congress street, n. Court Fort Hamilton. 493 Atlantic street 139 North 2d street E. Dist 93 Columbia street Kent av., n. Myrtle av KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 145 Name. Shaw, J., Smitli, Nicholas E., Spear. Samuel T., D. D., *Storrs, George, ed. and pub. Storrs, Eichard S., D. D., Strong, Thomas M., D. D., *Syme, David, A. M., teacher, *Taylor, Benjamin F., Taylor, E. E. L., Thomas, Andrew, ♦Thomas, Nathan, (cord) *Tillman, William, {colTd), *Trlppett, John, Van Benren, John M,, Van Dyke, Henry J., *Van Kleek, R. D., teacher. Vinton, Francis, D. D,, Walker, Kobert J., Wallace, M. A., LL. D„ Ward, J. W., *Webbe, William T., Weed, L. S., Weisel, Christian J. AVells, John D., *West, Josiah, White, Sampson, (roVd), Whitecar, Charles H., ♦Whiting, N. N., Wilkes, Thomas, Wilkin, Henry S., Williams, James M., (cord), Wilson, Henry M., (cord), Wilson, T. P., Wood, J. W. B., Woodruff, G. W. Woodruff, Eobert, *Worrick, B. N. C, (coFd), * Wyckoff, Wm. II., secretary, ♦Young, Albert, Denomination. Methodist Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Presbyterian. Independent, Congregational, Eeformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Baptist, Associate Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Eeformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Eeformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, Eoman Catholic, Eeformed Dutch, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Ger. Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, New Jerusalem, Associate Eef. Pres. African Meth. Epis. Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Methodist, Protestant Methodist, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Eesidencb. FlatbusJi. 37 Sackett street. 2S Harrison street. 62 Hicks street 64 Pierrepont street. Flaihush. Adelphi street, cor. Greene av. 7th street, n. Division av. 329 Henry street. 166i South 2d street, E. Dist. Dean street, Weekmille. Weeksville. 63 Nassau street. A^eTO Lots. 66 Clioton street FlatMisJi. Grace court. Oxford street, n. Myrtle av. 42 South 3d street, E. Dist. Java street, n. Franklin. 391 Gold street. 19 High St. [E. D. Graham av., cor. Wickoff St., 92 South 3d street, E. Dist 6 Washington pi., Pacific st 11 Chapel street 229 Jay street 108 Second street, E. Dist, JSFe^o York. 8G Monroe pi. 20l Jay street. 80 High street 86 Poplar street. Grand street, cor. Ewen, E. D. 151 York street 139 North 2d street, E. Dist. 9 Hanson place. 146 South 1st st, E. Dist 146 BROOKLYN CITY AND iiS 3 ■^-ci-fl c s S •-■^tS "e4 ® « t>rl3 ••-< o_^ o in in . 1 in 3g3 County or complet ould thanli U O »r3 tH O S C-- > e.t« H i'l^ JD O v.-^-S D P !2: < ^s-s "" ^~ >< ^ >< _C t-|X! 1^ 03 (1; M c a5 > O o g-S-a (4 '*^§ n eS 3 *-■ •S2t to — r-t 41 C ^ & >^ 5 ^ a-j: H O^'-S^" M "^ .> An of orga embod of any •poimsui ^ c3 t: ;3 c t> p c3 ri< j::^ C F- O krH O ^ k_^ rt _• ^ pi S eS i-i 1^ !> O i-^ H c/2 fH CI t-ri 03 2 sa m In EC -fH 1-5 r* tJ^ Ir- (M -* CO "* as (M oooocooooocococo Tt< rt* Tj< 1— ( CO ICS lO lO lO o CO CO CO aD CO r4^. «. a- o si "IJ .s p! 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John's German ;m CO ■3^ • S c«r co" • _•> CO eS o3 i Id CO 03 a S at) 53 fe e .a s a .S: &4 • e u T a" .2 '5 t3 a B e ■^3 CO > ^ _ ^ -4J m b g EE6 &4 C5 156 BROOKLYN CITY AND ^ o H > !> > t> P3 > i ^P O ,. _-^ ._ ^p^ >^ cS ^^ o -2 '-S ^"^ o f? a !5 Atla vese: O u2 ^ ^ c3 o o East New York Flatbush (ViUai Flatlands, Gravesend (Vil New Lots, Fort Hamilton, Flatbush, Vansicklen st. East New Yo Fort Hamilton, O »c:) o O tH Jr- '"i* -^ lO lO 00 (M i:^ ^a pOpUTlOjJ 00 CO CD i- 00 CD T— ( I— 1 F— ' f— 1 l-H 1— 1 00 l-H X • ^ '^ Q Q ;s .a •s ** •t. tH s New Y ush, inds, esend, Lots, Utreeh a Cross the :alachi's atrick's S & East Flatb Flatb Grav New New S e Holy of St. M St. P, KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 157 CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY. ASSOCIATED AND INCORPORATED UNDER THE GENERAL CEMETERY ACT, AUG. 8, 1848. Opened for Interments, May 1st, 1849. Offices, 261 Broadway, N. Y"., and 6 Montague Hall, Brooklyn. OFFICEES FOE 1854-5. President, Hon. Caleb S. Woodhull. Vice President, Hon. Edmund Driggs. Treasurer, William Miles. TRUSTEES. Hon. Caleb S. Woodhull. Hon. Edmund Driggs. Algernon S. Jarvis. William Miles. Charles T. Cromwell. Robert Gr. Nellis. William J. Pease. Annual Election for Officers, 2d Tuesday in Jxily. General Superintendent^ Edmund Driggs, No. 91 South 2d st., E. District, Brooklyn. Surveyor and Keeper, Noyes G. Palmer. Agent, William H. Smith, Montague Hall, Brooklyn. The Cypress Hills Cemetery lies east of the city of Brook- lyn, on an elevated ridge of land, partly in Kings and partly in Queens Counties. It is about five miles from the Peck slip and Grand street ferries, by the Williamsburgh and Cypress Hilla plank road, leading to the West or Funeral Entrance, and seven miles from the Fulton ferry by the Myrtle avenue and Jamaica plank road, leading to the New or North Entrance. The site of the Cypress Hills Cemetery is well chosen, being entirely beyond, yet convenient to, the busy haunts of life. The Trustees acted with a wise forethought in making their selection, so that the dwellings of the dead should not mingle with those of the living. It is peculiarly favored by nature for the pur- pose ; the grounds being admirably adapted to its use by its un- dulating surface, with hill and dale, plain and slope, forest and clearing, in pleasing alternation. There are now about 400 acres inclosed by a fence seven fee$ 158 BROOKLYN CITY AND in height. When it shall become necessary the grounds may be enlarged to 500 acres. The present area is greater than that of any other Cemetery in this country or Europe. 200 acres of it is a beautiful forest, and the remainder is made up of grounds bearing a luxuriant undergrowth of all the forest trees of Long Island, and of verdant fields, on which some twenty thousand ornamental trees of almost every variety have been set out to line the carriage roads and avenues, which, when laid out in accordance with the plan adopted, will extend over fifty miles. They will climb every hill, descend into every valley, and wind around beautiful lakelets, developing the beauty of the landscape from every point of the grounds. From the high range of hills on which the Observatory is situated, are visible almost the entire grounds of the Cemetery ; but the view reaches beyond its borders, stretching far away in every direction. Southward is seen the Atlantic ocean, bearing on its bosom the white-winged Clipper and the majestic Steam- ship. Southwest are seen the highlands of Neversink, Raritan Bay, and Staten Island. To the west and northwest, the city of Brooklyn, the city and bay of New York, the shores and hills of New Jersey, the Hudson and East rivers, and to the northeast the hills of Connecticut, are in view. Eastward lies the village of Jamaica, and beyond, the fields and forests of Long Island, stretching far away in the direction of " Montauk." The Cypress Hills Cemetery may be reached by several roads. The Long Island Kailroad trains stop, going and return- ing, directly opposite the Old or South Entrance several times a day. Fare, 13 cents. The Brooklyn and Jamaica plank road passes immediately in front of the principal or South Entrance to the grounds. Omnibuses run on this road from Holder's " Three Mile House," at the present terminus of the Fulton ave- nue City Railroad, to East New York, going and returning every two hours from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M. Fare by this route, Cars, 5 cents ; Stages, 6^ cents. The Williamsburgh and Cypress Hills plank road leads directly to the West or Funeral Entrance. Stages run on this road, leaving Grand and Houston street and Peck slip ferries, every half hour. Fare, 12-^ cents. The East New York line of Stages from the Eastern District ferries, by way of Division avenue, pass the South Entrance every half hour, going and returning. Fare, 12| cents. The Myrtle avenue and Jamaica plank road passes immedi- ately by the New or North Entrance. This entrance is about one mile nearer to the ferries by this route than the old entrance. No Stages run on this road at present. KINGS COUNTY EECORD. 159 Access may also be had to the " Cypress Hills " by way of the Myrtle avenue City Railroad to Division avenue, Law- rence's " Franklin Hotel," and the Division avenue, East New York line of Stages. Fare, Cars, 5 cents; Stages, 6^ cents. The prices of Lots in this Cemetery are moderate, varying at present from $50 to $75 each, according to location. A lot con- * tains 400 superficial feet, being generally 16 by 25. Parts of a lot, but not less than a half, may be obtained at a proportionate rate ; making it within the ability of all to provide within the sacred precincts of this " City of the dead," a resting-place for the repose of their deceased, which shall be secure for all time against the invading step and ruthless hand of " progress ; " and which may not be forcibly alienated by any process of Law. The charge for a single grave for a person over twelve years of age, including opening, closing, and sodding, is $7. When less than that age, $5. The charge to owners of lots for opening, closing, and sodding a grave for a person over 12 years of age, is $3. When less than 12 years, $2. When graves are dug deeper than six feet, an extra charge is made of 25 cents for the seventh foot, 50 cents for the 8thj and in that ratio for every additional foot. All persons who bury in '• Cypress Hills " can have the use of the Receiving Tomb at the Cemetery, without extra charge, for 30 days in Winter, and 10 days in Summer. When interments are to be made, notice is required to be given six hours previous to the time of interment at the Brook- lyn or New York Office, at the residence of the Superintendent, or to the Keeper at the Cemetery. When interments are to be made on the same day that the notice is given, they must be left at the Brooklyn Office before 9, or the New York Office before 10 A. M. ; otherwise to the Keeper at the Cemetery. When interments are to be made the morning following the day of notice, they must be left at the New York Office before 11 A. M., the Brooklyn Office before 12 M., or at the residence at the Superintendent, before 1 P. M. ; otherwise to the Keeper of the Cemetery. The office hours at the New York Office are, from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.; Sundays from 9 A. M. to 12 M. Office hours at the Brooklyn Office, from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. After office hours, or on Sundays or Holidays, notices may be deposited at the Brooklyn Post Office, addressed, Box 188; or left at the re- sidence of the Agent, 419 jNlyrtle avenue, cor. Clermont avenue, Brooklyn. 160 BROOKLYN CITY AND The number of Lots disposed of up to January, 1855, was about 3,000. The number of interments up to February 1st, about 24,000. Persons or Societies desiring to avail themselves of the ad- vantages of possessing Lots in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, may make their purchases or selections through Mr. William H. Smith, Agent, Room 6 Montague Hall, City Hall Square, Brooklyn, who will attend to giving all information that is de- sired. THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY. Incorporated as a Joint Stock Company, April ]8th, 1838. Incorporated as an Association (of Lot Owners), April 11th, 1839. OPENED FOR INTERMENTS, 1842. Office, 53 Broadway, New York. OFFICERS, 1854-5. President^ Kobert Ray. Vice Preside7it^ Henry E. Pierrepont. Comptroller and Secretary^ Joseph A. Perry. TRUSTEES. William H. Aspinwall Joseph A. Perry. Russell Stebhins. Pliny Freeman. Henry E. Pierrepont. Garret G. Van Wagenen. George Griswold. John H. Prentice. Wm, S. Wetmore. Alonzo G. Hammond. Robert Ray. Wm. Augustus White. Jacob R. Le Roy. Cyrus P. Smith. Stephen Whitney. Annual Election for Officers, \st Monday in December. Surveyor^ Lindsay J. Wells. Superintendent of Interments^ William Scrimgeour, Superintendent of the Workmen^ George Gamgee. Keeper of the Gate, Nelson Bowker. The Green-wood Cemetery lies mostly within the limits of Brooklyn, on Gowanus Heights, an elevated ridge of land in KINGS COUNTY KECOED. 161 the southern part of the city. A portion lies in the town of Flatbush. The Cemetery as originally laid out, contained 175 acres, but large additions have been made, and it now comprises 360 acres. The grounds are beautifully undulating and diversified, pre- senting a continual change of surface and scenery, and are remarkably suited to the purpose for which they are appro- priated. From the higher portions within its borders are numerous and interestiDg views, embracing the bay and harbor of New York, with its islands and forts, the cities of New York and Brooklyn, the shores of the North and East rivers, New Jersey, Staten Island, the Quarantine, and numerous towns and villages in every direction, together with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, reaching from Sandy Hook to the Pavilion at Rockaway. The Avenues, or roadways extend about fifteen miles, con- ducting the visitor to every part of the Cemetery. Visitors in carriages, whose time is limited, can get the most satisfactory view of the grounds by taking the Tour, which passes in the vicinity of nearly all the principal objects of interest. Inviting foot-paths, more numerous and extensive than the roadways, wind round every hill, and explore every dell and shady nook. There are three Entrances. The old or original entrance with the small rustic lodge and bell-tower, at the head of Twenty- seventh street, is now exclusively the ingress and egress for funeral processions. A second entrance has been opened on the southern side from Martense's Lane ; and, more recently, a third, at the south-western angle of the inclosure : this is the Visitors'' Gate, it is opened daily, except Sundays and holidays, at sunrise, and closed, except for egress, at sunset. Access may be had to the Cemetery by the cars of the Brooklyn City Railroad every few minutes from Fulton Ferry, by way of Court street and Third avenue, and by stages from Ha.milton avenue Ferry. There are to be other Railroad lines with horse cars, running from Fulton, Atlantic, and Hamilton Avenue Ferries. Fa7'e, five cents. The size of a Lot in this Cemetery is 12 by 25 feet, or 300 superficial feet. A foot is added to this on all sides for inclosure purposes, making the size 14 by 27 feet, or 378 superficial feet. The price of an ordinary Burial lot is $110; a fractional part but not less than one-third of a lot may be bought at a propor- tionate rate. When four or more lots in a group are bought by one or more persons, the price of each lot is $90. There are 162 BROOKLYN CITY AND no extra charges for grading and keeping in order. Proprietors of lots, and those purchasing graves, are presented with tickets admitting themselves or families at all proper times. The charges for single graves vary according to location ; from $5 to $7 50 for children tinder ten years of age ; and from -$10 to $15 for all over that age. Two or more con- tiguous graves may be had for adults at $12 50 each. These prices include the opening and closing of the graves. The charge to lot owners for opening and closing graves is from $3 to $4 50 cents for adults, and $2 to $3 50 for children under ten years of age ; the variation in price is in consideration of the depth required to be dug. Interments in Permanent Tombs maybe had at $15 each for adults ; $5 for children under two years, and $7 50 for children over two and under twelve years of age. Notice of interments to be made is required to be given at the office, or to the superintendent of Interments at the Cemetery, on the day previous to the interment if possible. After office hours, or on Sundays and holidays, written notices may be left at Rob- ertson's Livery stable in State street, near Henry, Brooklyn. A Keceiving Tomb is provided, which is free to lot owners, and those who intend to become owners, for twenty days in summer, and if deposited in winter, may remain until spring. The number of lots sold up to April 1st, 1855, was 8,815. Number of interments to that time, 40,475. THE CEMETERY OF THE EVERGREENS. ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED AND INCORPORATED 1849. Offices, 304 Broadway, N. Y., and BoY Fulton street, Brooklyn. OFFICEES, 1855. President, Luther Bradish. Vice Presidents, William B. Crosby, Edward Copland. Treasurer, Levi Dodge. Cor^iptroller and Secretary, William M. Boerum. TRUSTEES. Sylvester M. Beard. Henry L. Cotheal. Luther Bradish. Wm. B. Crosby. Edward Copland. A. P. Cummiugs. Samuel E. Johnson. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 163 Superintendent^ P. Mullallj. Counsel, Wm. C. Prime. Topographer, H. B. Hammond. Rural Architect, J. Downing. Mo7iumental Architect, Charles Blesch. General Agent, Wm. C. Kneeland. The Cemetery of the Evergreens lies in both Kings and Queens Counties, the county lines intersecting it. A portion lies in the southeastern extremity of what was formerly the town of Bushwick and now included in the limits of the city of Brooklyn. The Cemetery comprises one hundred and twelve acres. _ The privilege was granted to increase it to five hundred acres if required ; but the Association have been authorized by the Legislature, in answer to a petition, to sell a portion of its present area. The grounds are finely located, embracing every variety of surface and soil suitable for the purpose, beautifully interspersed with hill and dale, wood and water, forest solitude, and open lawns, in a manner to convey a sense of pleasure, even in a place connected with such solemn associations. The scenery within and around it presents many charming views which cannot be surpassed in variety or beauty, and are tastefully developed by science and art. From the more elevated portions of the Cemetery are seen in near and distant prospec- tive, the cities of New York and Brooklyn, numerous villages, the ocean, a long line of sea shore, the Sound, and the Palisades of the Hudson. The roadways extend about ten miles, traversing over and around the grounds in every direction. In following them through their various windings, the visitor will have brought into view in succession, the many picturesque aspects of its internal arrangements, and the magnificent prospects beyond its borders. A gateway gives ingress on the southeast from the Brooklyn and Jamaica plank road. A broader gateway gives ingress on the northeast from the Williamsburgh plank road at the corner of Cooper avenue. The main Entrance is on the west from Bushwick Road. The Cemetery is open to visitors every day of the week. The gates are opened at sunrise, and closed (for entrance) at sunset. Schools and other large assemblages of persons are admitted to this Cemetery by special permission. The lots of this Cemetery vary in size from 100 to 400 feet in area. The price for a lot of 400 square feet is from $60 to 164 BROOKLYN OITY AND $70. Lots of less size at proportionate rates. When four full lots are taken in a group by one or more persons, a deduction of 20 per cent, will be made from the single lot price. A payment of $10 secures a lot, and a credit of three months for the balance. The payment of $20, six months' credit. The prices for single graves range from $7 to $10 for adults, and $5 to $8 for children under 10 years. The price to owners of lots for opening a grave therein is $2 50 or more, accord- ing to depth, for adults ; and $2 or more for children. The pri- vilege of the Keceiviug Tomb extends to 30 days. Of inter- ments to be made, notice should be given at the ofl&ce, or to the keeper at the Cemetery, on the day previous to the interment, if possible. After office hours, or on Sundays and holidays, appli- cation maybe made to the Comptroller, William M. Boerum, at his residence in Brooklyn, or to the keeper at the Cemetery. MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY. INCORPORATED 1850. Office, 684 Broadway, New York. OFFICERS. President^ Noah Waterbury. Vice President^ Rev. Samuel M. Haskins. Treasurer^ Hon. Jas. Maurice. Secretary and General Agent^ David Longworth. Keeper of the Grounds^ Charles Dobson. Architects^ Surveyor^ Wills & Dudley. J. Barnitz Bacon. Mount Olivet Cemetery is situated near Maspeth, Queens County, Long Island, three and a half miles distant from the Grand and Houston street ferries, Eastern District (late Williamsburgh) ; and is accessible by several roads leading out of that section of Brooklyn. The Inclosure embraces an area of about fifty acres. The grounds, at every step, present beautiful changes of surface and scenery, being pleasingly diversified with hill and dale, wood and "water, lawn and thicket. Meandering roads, walks, and paths, KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 165 laid out to suit the natural surface, traverse every part of the inclosure. The Locality is erainentlv rural, and so far retired from the busy throng of active life, as almost to exclude the possibility of any disturbance in the future from the advancing tide of a city population. ^ The size of lots is 16 by 20 feet, or 320 feet superficial meas- ure. One foot in addition is allowed all around for inclosure purposes, making the size 18 by 22, or 396 superficial feet. The price of a full lot is $55 ; half lot $35. When four or more lots are taken in a group, by one or more persons, they are sold at the rate of $45 a lot. No charges are made for grading, or the ordinary care of lots. Single graves may be had at from $8 to $12 for adults, and $5 to $7 for children under ten years of age. Permanent interments may be had in tombs provided for the purpose, at $15 each for adults, $7 50 for children under twelve years of age, and $5 for children under two years. ^ The use of a Keceiving Tomb is allowed for twenty days, $2 being charged for opening and closing it for the accommodation of the friends depositing the remains. The charge to lot owners for opening and closing a grave is from $3 to $4 50 for adults, and $2 to $3 50 for children under ten years. p^ Notices for interments to be made, may be given at the office m New York, or to the keeper at the Cemetery, the day before the interment, if possible. After office hours, or on Sundays and holidays, written notices may be left with the secretary, at No. 38 Sixth street, near South 5th, Eastern District (late vYilliamsburgh). CALVARY CEMETERY. Under the direction of the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, K Y. President^ Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., Archbishop. Office, 81 Marion street, N'ew York. The Calvary Cemetery is situated on Laurel Hill, in Queens County, Long Island, just beyond the borders of Brook- lyn, on the North side of Newtown Creek. It comprises about 166 BROOKLYN CITY AND 29 acres. The price of a full lot containing 256 superficial feet, \ is $200, a quarter section $75. For a single grave, $10. j Access is had to the Cemetery by a ferry from foot of East: 23d street, New York, to the landing near the Cemetery, oui Newtown Creek, boats running from 8 A. M. till sundown ; fare, j four cents. It may be reached by the other upper ferries fromi New York, and several roads leading from them to the vicinity of the Cemetery. CITIZENS' UNION CEMETERY. INCORPORATED NOVEMBER 8, 1851. OFFICEES 1855. President, William L. Nicholas, 67 Wall street, New York, i Vice Preside?2t, Cary N. Harris. Secretary, George H. Dixon, 117 Elizabeth street, New York. Treasurer, John Osborn. TRUSTEES. Chairman, Thomas R. Barnswell, 336 Third street, New York, and 339 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Se'cretao'y of Board, William T. Dixon, 117 Elizabeth street, New York. Thomas Jackson, Paul Pontau, John Osborn, Sylvanus Smith, Robert J. Williams. Keeper of Ground, Cary N. Harris. ^ Regular meetings of the Officers and Trustees are held on the first Thursday in each month, at 117 Elizabeth street, New York. The annual election is held at the regular meeting in November. The Citizens' Union Cemetery is about four miles from either of the Brooklyn Ferries. It is situated to the west of the Hunterfly Road, between Butler and Sackett streets, and Rochester and Ralph Avenues, in the Ninth Ward of the city of Brooklyn. The principal entrance is from Butler street, opposite Bufialo avenue, on the North. The Cemetery Association own 29| acres of ground, 12 of which are appropriated for the Cemetery ; the remainder being KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 167 designed for building lots. It is organized under the general law of the State applying to associations for the establishment of rural cemeteries, and the incorporation of the same. It was designed more particularly as a burial place for the colored, upon whom is placed the ban of the white man, debarring them from political and social equality in life, and forbidding the comming- ling of their dust in death. The cemetery is favorably located, the ground is pleasingly diversified in surface, and presents many picturesque and varied scenes from numerous points on the roads, avenues, and pathways which are laid out. The land is divided into plats, each containing 400 superficial feet. A part of the plats are subdivided into quarters and eights, lots and half lots. The prices are as follows : a plat $50 ; lot, 10 by 20 feet, fronting on an avenue, $30; the same fronting on a pathway, $25; a half lot, 10 by 10 feet, fronting on an avenue, $15 ; the same fronting on a pathway, $12 50. The charges for opening and closing graves in private lots are as follows : for adults $3, for children under ten years of age $2. For re-opening and closing a grave, adults $2, children under ten years $1 50. The Trustees with a commendable liberality proffer ground for a burial free to the poor ; the only charges made being for opening and closing the grave, as follows : adults, $3 50, children under ten years of age, $2, under one year $1 50. For re- opening and closing a grave for an adult, $2 50, children under ten years, $1 50, under one year, $1. The Trustees of this cemetery have no rule which excludes any person from sepulture within its borders, on account of com- plexion, and they cordially invite all who are without prejudice to inspect the grounds, and if pleased with its locality and ar- rangement, and the reasonable rates for lots, to unite with them and others in adorning and perpetuating the Citizens' Union Cemetery. Persons desiring to avail themselves of the advantages of this cemetery may apply to either of the trustees or Ofiicers of the association. 168 BROOKLYN CITY AND ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. most worthy grand i.odcje of the ancient and hono- rable fraternity of free and accepted jjiasons of the state of ne^v york. (under the old constitution.) Meets quarterly at No. COO Broadway, New York, on the 1st Tuesday in June (the Annual Communication), and the 1st Tuesday in September, December, and March. OFFICERS, 1S55. Grand Master ^ M. W. & Hon., Mordecai Myers, Schenectady. Dcp. G. Master, Rt. W., Nathaniel F. ^Yiil•mg, Brooklyn. F. G. Master, M. W., Isaac Phillips. Sen. G. Warden, Rt. W., James Jenkinson, Albany. Jun. G. Warden, " " Oliver C. Denslow, Westchester Co. Grand Secretary, " " James Herring, Brooklyn. Grand Treas., " '• John Horspool, Neio York. Ass^t Grand Sec, " *' Frederick W. Herring, JVew York. Grand Chaj^lain, " " & Rev. E. M. Johnson, Brooklyn. Grand Cliaplain. " " Edward Cook, New York. Grand Marshal, " " John Mansfield, Neio York. G. St\l Bearer, " "- John W. Hudswell, Neio York. G. Sword Bearer, " '• Daniel West, Neio York. rW.j John Solomons, New York. ^ , o. 7 I " Andrew Demarest, Brooklyn. Grand Stewards,^ ,, ^^ ^ Monntfort, W York. \_ " William H. 'Norris, Brooklyn. Sen. G. Deacon, " Rudolph Aeby, New York. Jun. G. Deacon, " John B. Willis, New York. Grand Tiler, " Greenfield Pote, Neio York. The Grand Stewards' Lodge of Charity, meets on the last Friday of each month. Applications for Charity may be made at the Grand Secretary's ofiice, 600 Broadway, New York, daily, when one of the Grand Stewards will be in attendance. The Permanent Funds of the Grand Lodge Invested, is about $30,000, of which sum about $12,000 is for the benefit of the Hall and Asylum Fund. KINGS COUNTY RECORB. 169 SUBORDINATE LODGES IN KINGS COUNTY. DELTA, No. 144, Meets at 166 Fulton street, 1st and 3d Fridays. George Cross, W. M. W. H. Cross, Treas. James R. Schenck, >S'. W. Rem R. Hegeman, 8. D. James Devaucene, J. W. J. F. Cross, /. D. C. W. Holdridge, Sec. James Pinckerton, Tiler. FORTITUDE, No. 19, Meets at 166 Fnlton St., 1st and 3d Wednesdays. John August, W. M. Piatt Powell, Treas. John Leach, ^. W. Andrew Dezendorff. S D ' Edwin M. Dezendorff, J. W. John Reigart, ' J. D B. Frank Browne, Sec. J. H. McCormick, Tiler. HOHENLINDEN, No. 56, Meets at 166 Fulton St., 2d and 4th Wednesdays. Edward Pell, W. M. John Harron, Treo,s. Leslie Donnelly, ^S. W. Henry Adair, S. D Wm. H. Van Voorhis, J. W. John Green, J, D.* J. Jamison, Sec. Richardson, Tiler. OLTMANS, No. 141, Oltmans' Hall, Graham av. cor. McKibbon st E. District, 1st and 3d Fridays. Henry Oltmans, W. M. Henry Platte, Treas George Distler, S. W. Charles Bethon, S. D ' John Willss, J. W. F. Moucher, J. B W. F. Reuger, Sec. A. Wilson, THer. Henry Oltmans, Rep. CLINTON ENCAiMPMENT, No. 14 of KNIGHTS TE3IPLARS, 166 Fulton street. 4th Friday in each month. John H-rron, M. E. G. C. Nathan B. Morse, Se7i. W. Lawrence Powers, Gen. James M. Twiss, Jim. W. Samuel Hart, Capt Gen. R. S. Church, Warder. William C. Lee, Prelate. Geo. L. Thatcher, Recorder. Nathaniel F. Waring, Treas. Fast Grand Comma7iders. John Van Duyne. Lawrence Powers. George L. Thatcher. Nathaniel F. Waring, Samuel Hart. 8 170 BROOKLYN CITY AND NASSAU ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER, No^ 109, ICG Fulton street, 1st Henry J. Willett, M. E. H. P. J. Theodore Brush, King. Nathan'lF. Waring, Scribe. Lawrence Powers, C. H. John August, R. -A.. C. John Harron, P. S. Andrew Demarest, M. \st V. Geo. L. Thatcher, M. 2d V. John Van Duyne, ill. M V. Geo. W. Stilwell, Sec'y. Piatt Powell, Treas. J. H. McCormick, Sentinel. GRAND I.ODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRA- TERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Meets at "Masonic Temple," Crosby Street, corner of Broome, Is^ew York, on the first Tuesday in March, June, September, and December. Grand Master, Dep. G. Master, Sen. G. Master, Jun. G. Warden, Grand Secretary, Grand Treasurer, Grand Chaplains^ Gra7id Marshal, Grand St^d Bearer, Grand Sw\l Bearer, Grand Stewards, Sen. G. Beacon, Jun. G. Deacon, Grand Organist, Grand Pursuivant, Gra7id Tiler, OFFICERS 1S54-5. M. W., Joseph D. Evans, Neio York. R. W., John L. Lewis, ^r.,Penn Yan. R. W., Finlay M. King, Port Byron. R. W., James Hyde, Richfield. R. W., James M. Austin, M.D., N. Y. R. W., Chas. L. Church, " " [R. W., & Rev. Salem Town, LL. D., Aurora. ^ R. AY., & Pvev. James H. Perry, I Brooklyn. LR. W., &Rev. John Gray, Neivburgh. R. W., Charles Scholey, Neiv York. R. W., John S. Perry, Troy. R. W., Daniel Van Riper, Williams- burgh. R. W., Jarvis M. Hatch, Rochester. W., N. C. Gridley, Neiv York. W., Julian Allen, " " W., S. H. Dickinson, Fredonia. W., Royal G. Millard, Neiv York. Rro., Henry C.Watson," " W., D. H. Van Sice, " " W., Sewall Pisk, " " KINGS COUNTY RECORD. I7l SUBORDINATE LODGES IN KINGS COUNTY. ANGI.O SAXOIV, No. 137, Freeman's Hall, Thursdays. ^i^^f l^T Walden, W. M. W. N. Woodcock, Treas. iu-v- ^'^\^.r^l ^- ^ J- ^^- Williams, S. D. Phihp E. Walden, J. W. Kichard Butler, /. D Thomas T. Outerbridge, Sec. ^Vm. W. Oakford, Tile?' Daniel T. Walden, Rej). BROOKl^irN, No. 288, corner Court and Joralemou streets, R. D^McChesney, W. M. Isaac Hall, Treas, i?."-,-^-^}'^^^^^' '^'- "^^ ^a»iel M. Cumiskey, iS. Z) Ehsha Bliss jr., J. W. Aaron A. Degrauw,/. i). John M. Beilly, &c. John T. Hackett, Tiler. Eobert D. McChesney, Rep. CENTRAI., No. 14, ^delpWjtre^^, corner Myrtle avenue, Gustavus Swan, W. M. G-. S. Haydock, Sec. Alden. S. Crowell, S W, Thomas J. Berry S D A Prescott, /. W. Thomas Wilders,'/. 2>." W. H. Husted, Treas. F. Arbona, Tiler HYATT, No. 205, Masonic Hall, E. Dist., 1st and 3d Tuesdays. Henry Wright, T^M Alexander Stiles, Treas. n ?,^^T' ^- ^ J«^^ W. Falconer, 5'. i) S^?Tw • |^^°^^<^' *^- ^- Abel C. Willmarth, /. D Kalph W. Kenyon, Sec. Henry Van Buren, Tiler ' Henry Wright, Rep. JOPPA, No. 201, ««rner^€ourt^and Joralemon streets, Robert Whidden, W. M M. A. Briggs, Treas. George W. Hand, S W. Thomas J. Humphrey, S, D. Edward Swanton, J. W. John Suydam, /. JD Richard Sharp, ^,?c. John T. Hackett, Tiler 172 BROOKLYN CITY AND I.EXINGTON. NO. 310, corner Court and Joralemon streets, ' Mondays. William C. Jones, T^ M. ^' "^'yj^\^'''Z c.^ John E. Johnson, S. W. John J Reynolds S_ D. Robert A. Wright, /. W. ?l^Vw f h TO.r Hugh S. Dunbar, Sec. John T. Hackett, Tilei. ]^IARSH, No. 188, Masonic Hall E. District, Thursdays. William H. Wood, W. M. J. P. M Higgins T.ms. William Lewis, S. W. Robert Whiting, S D. William Hoggett, /. W. David Mannering, J.D, John B. Stoothoff, Sec. Henry Van Buren, liler. D Van Riper, Charles H. Foster, Kex^s. which time, every other week. R. F. Sage, W. M. L- H. Sage Treas Thomas S. Pope, S W. D. B. Denslow 6^D. William Matthews, J. W. a. A. Hicks /i;. John P. Puffer, Sec. John T. Hackett, Tiler. SCHIEEER, No. 304, Graham avenue, corner of Mc. Kibben *^****' ' street, East District, Fridays. John J. Wolff, W. M. Henry Redenbach, Sec. Edward Roehr, S W. Fred. Engelhaupt, Treas. Philip Seitz, J. W. John J. Wolff, it^e^. STAR OF BETHEEHEM, No. 322, corner Court and Jorale- **'*^*"* mon streets, Fridays. Ames C. Page, W. M. S. C Foote, Treas. Arthur T. Boyce, S W. Benjamin Price, 5f.i^. W. A. Batcheller, /. W. J. L- Dunham, J. IX ■ John T. Hall, Sec John T. Hackett, Tzler. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 173 ENCAMPMENTS OF KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE STATE OF NETT ¥ORK. Meets annually at Albany, on the Friday succeeding the 1st Tuesday in February. J. W. Simons, G. M. Peter Brewer, G. Sen W. P. P. Murphy, D. G. M. T. S. Edwards, G. Jun. W. A. L. Sherman, G. Gen. William H. Drew, G. StM B. Leroy Farnham, G. Capt. Gen. Samuel Graves, G. Sw'd B. Salem Town, G. Prelate. M. J. Drummond, G. W. ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS. GRAND CHAPTER, Meets annually at Albany, on the 1st Tuesday in February. J. S. Perry, G. H. P. P. p. Murphy, G. K Charles L. Church, D. G. H. P. S. Gilbert, G. S. John 0. Coles, Grand Sec. I5ROOKI.YN CHAPTER, No. 148, R. Arch M., 343 Fulton St., Wednesdays, * M. J. Drummond, ilf. E. H. P. W. N. Puffer, M. \st V. Thomas R. Crocker, King. Henry Wright, M. 2d V, Bradley Parker, Scribe. John White, M. Sd V. John M. Eeilly, C. H. Lanson Boyer, Sec. William Bradley, P. S. J. E. Johnson, Treas. Edward Stearns, R. A. C. W. W. Oakford, Sentinel BE WITT CI^INTONCHAPTER, No. 142 R. Arch HI., Masonic Hall, East Bistrict, ITIondays. William T. Seaman, M.E. H. P. William M. Johnson. M. \st V. George B. Sturges, King. Henry Lewis, M. 2d V. James McGibbon, Scribe. Samuel Adams, M. Sd V. William H. Wood, C. H. Samuel D. Burras Sec Fred. Engelhaupt, R. A. C. Francis F. Laramee, Treas David Mannering, P. S, Ashley Owens, Sentinel. 174 BROOKLYN CITY AND GRAND COUNCIL OF R. & S. MASTERS, STATE OF NEW YORK Meet annually at Masonic Temple, New York, on the 1st Tuesday in June. M. P. G. Master^ M. J. Drummond. jD. p. G. Master, J. B. Yates Summers. G. T. Ill Master^ John J. Tindale. G. P. C. of W.^ H. L. F. Bunting. G. C. of G.f James H. Lane. G. Rec, Philip Pritchard. G. Treas. D. S. Sinclair. G. Chaplain, John W. Simons. G. Steward, W. W. Ward. G. Sentinel, Sewall Fisk. BROOKIiYN COUNCIIi, No. 4, of R. & S. IW[. Meets at 343 Fulton street, last Wednesday in each month. J. Theodore Brush, T, J. G. M. J. E. Johnson, C. of G. Bradley Parker, J. D. G. M. Thomas R. Crocker, G. S. William Bradley, P. c. W. Edward Stearns, Treas. Lanson Boyer, Recorder. CASSIA (Masonic) IL.OI>GE, No. 4, Grand street, corner Fifth* JB. District, Fridays. R. S. Van Tassell, W. M. John Richards, Treas. Benj. C. Martin, S. W. Henry N. Rothery, S. B. William J. Scott, J. W. Barnard Cosgrove, J. D. William M. Scott, Sec. A. S. Whitman, Tiler. R. S. Van Tassell, Rep. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. R. W. GRAND LODGE OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK. Annual Meeting, \st Wednesday in August ; Semi-annual Meeting, \st Wednesday in February ; Stated Meetings, 1st Thursday in November and May. Meet at Odd Fellows' Hall, New York City. KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 175 OFFICEES, 1854-5. M. W. G. Master, John G. Clayton. R. W. D. G. Master, D. W. C. Langdon. R. W. G. Warden, W. W. L. Voorhis. R. TV. G. Secretary, J. J, Davies. R. TV. G. Treasurer, Joseph R. Taylor. TV. Grand Chaplain, Rev. John Gray TV. Grand Marshall, J. J. Byram. TF. Grand Conductor Alvin Pease. W. Grand Guardian, George Sharp. W. Grand Herald, Samuel McDonald. R. W. Grand Rep's to G L. of U. S. Andre Froment, James W. Hale. SUBORDINATE LODGES IN KINGS COUNTY. DISTRICT NO. 3. William Turton, Dist. Dep. G. Master, Residence 106 Third street, East District. CRUSADERS , No. 61, Iiiberty Hall, E. Dist., Thursdays. Moses A. Munn, N. G. Peter Mclntyre, Sec. Thomas Leach, V. G. James Gallaudet, Treas. Andrew Smith, Rep. RFNGS COUiVTY, No. 45, North 1st, cor. Fifth, E. Dist., Wednesdays. Demas Strong, iV. G. "Wm. H. Hickcox, Sec. Richard Lewis, V. G. T. W. Boyd, Treas. Wm. H. Hickcox, Rep. MOUNT ARARAT, No. 396, Odd Fellows' Hall, Greenpoint, Wednesdays. Charles Ostrander, iV". G. George Whitney, Sec. Andrew Kemble, V. G. Henry Dickson, Treas. Edward F. Rew, Rep. WASHINGTON DEGREE, No. 14, L,iberty Hall, E. Dist., 1st and 3d Fridays. William Dunscomb, iV. G. Jas. P. Cruickshank, Sec. George Nocoll, V. G. E. Hopkins, Treas. 176 BROOKLYN CITY AND WIL.L,IA31 TELiIi, No. 347, I^iberty Hall, E. Dist., Thursdays. George Ratliman, N. G. Herman Schneider, Sec. Savier Haviland, V. G. Adam Balzer, Treas. Francis Brendle, Charles Keil, Rep^s. DISTRICT, NO. 4. Ephraim B. Shaw, Dist. Dep. G. Master^ Residence, 37 Butler IVANHOE, No. 357, 345 Fulton St., Wednesdays. Robert Kenny, N. G. James E. Warner, Sec. Thomas E. Boone, V. G. George W. Smith, Treas. A. W. 0. Spooner, Rep. MAGNOIilA, No. 166, Henry st. cor. Atlantic, Thursdays. Thomas Campsie, N. G. Henry W. Karn, Sec. James Scott, V. G. Peter Reid, Treas. J. W. Morse, Rep. MONTAGUE, No. 153, 345 Fulton St., Tuesdays. John E. Solomon, N. G. Daniel Van Yoorhis, Sec. Charles W. Hubbell, V. G. Edward Ralph, jr., Treas. H. F. Fairbank, iic/;. STIRIiING, No. 190, 345 Fulton St., Mondays. James Herring, iV. G. F. W. Herring, Sec. Thomas A. Whittaker, V. G. Horace E. Ketchum, Treas. Pardon W. Kenyon, Rep. UNION, No. 437, 246 Court st. coi-. Sackett, Tuesdays. John W. Wilson, N. G. Henry Thomas, Sec, Charles B. Fish, V. G. Wm. H. Hazzard, Treas. William H. Hazzard, Rep. DISTRICT, NO. 5. Isaiah Uffendill, Dist. Dep. G. Master ^ Residence, cor. Smith and E. Baltic. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 177 CORNUCOPIA, No. 306, Granada Hall, Wednesdays. William Uris, N. G. H. B. Davison, Sec. George W. Jones, V. G. William Bowen, Treas. James Raflford, Rep, GRANADA, No. 288, Granada Hall, Mondays. George C. Herman. iV. G. James B. Barney, Sec. A. L. Desendorf, V. G. W. H. D. Brownson, Treas. James B. Barney, Rep. tONG ISIiAND, No. 63, Adelphi Hall, Fridays. Romeo Friganza, N. G. William Hyde, Treas. George Sprague, V. G. Thomas Moody, Fer. Sec. John P. Gregson, Sec. Romeo Friganza, Rep. MYRTtiE, No, 194, Granad^ Hall, Tliursdays. Robert White, iV. G. H. S. Van Orden, Sec. George St. Clair, V. G. John Oliver, Treas. George Dick, Rep. STEUBEN, No. 133, Granada Hall, Tuesdays. Purgold St. Christian, N. G. J. C. Hufnagel, Sec. Conrad Herrwig, V. G. Frederick Ocks, Treas. Louis Gilbert, Rep. THE TVOODS, No. 345, Nctw Utrecht, Saturdays. Joel C. Aumack, N. G., Residence, Gravesend. Nicholas Ryder, V. G., " New Utrecht. Stephen Aumack, Sec, " Gravesend. George J. Kibbee, Treas. ^ " New Utrecht. Oliver Vincent, Rep., DISTRICT No. 6. M. A. BriggSj Dist. Dep. G. Master, Residence 72 Fulton st. ATJLANTIC, No. 50, Montague Hall, Mondays. W. Rawson, N. G. N. W. Van Duyne, Treas. John Young, V. G. B. Carter, Per. Sec. John P. Puffer, Sec. Edwin Swanton, J. Spaford, Rep^s. 8* 178 BROOKLYN CITY AND BROOKIilTN, No. 26, City Central Hall, Tuesdays. James Milligan, iV. G. Alexander Petrie, Treas. Matthew Pattison, F. G. John Curtis, Per. Sec. John Donald, Sec. M. A. Briggs, John Stevenson, Rep^s. FRAIVKL.IN DEGREE, No. 13, ITTontague Hall, 1st and 3d Saturdays. Edwin Swanton, N. G. John Curtis, Sec. Nicholas L. Pettit, V. G. A. W. 0. Spooner, Treas. GOWANUS, No. 423, Go\i^aniis, Tuesdays. James Tandy, iV. G. Alexander Galloway, Treas. William Ward, V. G. George Alger, Per. Sec. George Baxter, Sec. Richard Ward, Hep. inUIiTIFEORA, No. 429, City Central Hall, Mondays. James Gillispie, N. G. Henry Noe, IVeas. A. Smith, V. G. William Burrill, Per. Sec. J. Wright, Sec. William Burrill, Rep. NASSAU, No. 39, ]?Iontag:ue Hall, Thursdays. John Webber, N. G. J Ketchum, Treas. Henry Symons, V. G. G. Strong, Per. Sec. W. Y. Warner, Sec. D. H. Atkins, Re2J. GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK. Annual Session, 1st Monday in August ; Semi-annual Session, 1st Monday in February. Meet at Odd Fellows' Hall, New York City. OFPICEES, 1854-5. M. W. Grand Patriarch, Andre Froment. M. E. Grand High Priest, George Smith. R. W. Grand Senior Warden, Hiram Allen. R. W. Grand Scribe, John J. Davies. R. W. Grand Treasurer, Joseph R. Taylor. R. W. Grand Junior Warden, A. P. West. R. W. Grand Rep. to G. L. U. S.j N. B. Mountfort. Grand Guardian, Samuel McDonald. KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 17^ SUBORDINATE ENCAMPMENTS IN KINGS CO. M. A. BriggSj Dist. Dep. G. Patriarchy Residence 72 Fulton st. MIZPfM, No. 15, 345 Fulton st., 1st and 3d Fridays. Daniel Van Voorhis, C. P. Edward R. Gillespie, /. W. Henry F. Fairbank, H. P. James M. Morse, Scribe. John F. Solomon, *S. W. Pardon W. Kenjon, Fin. Scribe, mOUNT PISOAH, IVo. 26, I^iberty Hall, E. Dist., 3d and 4tb Fridays. Charles Bradmiller, C. P. Jacob Yerdeckberg, J. W. A. McKenna, H. P. William Dunscomb, Scribe. Andrew Smith, S. W. Jas. P. Cruickshank, Treas. SAJLEM, No. 5, Montague Hall, 2d and 4tli Saturdays. James Milligan, C. P. Edwin Swanton, /. W. D. W. C. Langdon, H. P. John Stevenson, Scribe. N. L. Pettit, S. W. John Curtis, Fin. Scribe. R. W. GRAND LODGE OP NORTHERN NEW TORE. Meets annually in August, at such place as may be decided by vote at a previous session. The next session will be held at Buffalo, N. Y. OFFICEES 1854-5. M. W. Grand Master^ Tracy R. Morgan. R. W. D. G. Master., Francis Seger. R. W. G. Warden, Edgar C. Dibble. R. W. G. Secretary, Wm. H. H. Prall. R. W. G. Treasurer, Sullivan N. Smith. W, Grand Chaplain. Rev. Albert W. Bruce W. Grand Marshal, Erasmus D. Robinson. W. Grand Conductor, Norwood Bowne. W. Grand Guardian, George B. Eraser, W. Grand Herald, Abraham Fredendhall. R. W. Grand Representatives to Grand Lodge of U. S. William Hopkins and John L. Lewis. 180 BROOKLYN CITY AND SUBORDINATE LODGES IN KINGS CO. Under the Jurisdiction of the R. W. G. Lodge of Northern N. Y. Cornelius A. Marvin, Dist. Dep. G. M. residence Monta- gue, corner Henry. EAGtiE, No. 94, Odd Fellows' Hall, Court street, Thursdays. Charles Beck, N. G. A. C. Entricken, P. Sec. Geo. C. Thompson, V. G. Sam'l. Henderson, Treas. Cornelius A. Marvin, Rep. FUIiTON, No. 66 , Odd Fellows' Hall , Court street, Wednesdays. George Kirk, N. G. Peter W. Birck, Sec. Henry Marsh, V. G. F. W. J. Brooks, F. Sec, Henry Brant, Treas. R. J. Whitney, Rep. MONTAUK, No. 327, Odd Felloivs' Hall, Court street, Mondays. Jeremiah Box, N. G. P. N. Hardenburgh, Sec. Ferdinand Geldowsky, V. G. John Moore, Per. Sec. John H. Lash, Treas. Bethuel Rogers, Rep. PRINCIPFiE, No. 170, Odd Fellows' Hall, Court street, Tuesdays. Walter Barre, N. G. C. H. Leistner, Sec. Robert S. Underbill, V. G. Richard Sharp, Per. Sec. Richard Cox, Treas. P. L. Taylor, Rep. R. W. GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF NORTHERN NEW YORK. Meets annually at the time and place of the Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Northern New York. OFFICEKS 1854-5. R. W. G. Patriarchy Joseph Seymour. M. E. G. High Priest^ David S. Forbes. R. W. G. Sen. Warde?t, Alvin M. Bennett. R. W. G. Scribe, Wm. H. H. Prall R. W. G. Treasurer, Richard Sharp. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 181 R. W. G. Jun. Warden, George Haskins. jK. TF. G. Representatives, \ :^^^^'^f ,!J; ^,l^^*^- ^ ' ( Edward Whalin. W. G. Sentinel, Alfred G. Bennett. W. Bep, G. Sentinel, Almon M. Wakefield. SUBORDINATE ENCAMPMENT IN KINGS CO. D. P. Gardner, Di&t. Bep. G. Patriarch, residence, 129 Carll street. BETHI.EHEM, No. 10, Odd Felloivs' Hall, Court street, ]st and 3d Fridays. C. Patriarch, Samuel Henderson. H. Priest, John E. Johnson. Sen. Warden, L. B. Bo wen. Scribe, Cornelius A. Marvin. Fin. Scribe, Richard Sharp. Treasurer, Richard Cox. ORDER UNITED AMERICANS. CHAPTEKS IN BROOKE YN. Brooklyn, No. 68, Granada Hall, Mondays. Ethan Allen, No. 20, Grand street, corner Fifth, East Dis- trict, Tuesdays. Fort Green, No. 54, 0. U. A. Hall, Montague street, corner Court, "Wednesdays. Lexington, No. 17, 0. U. A. Hall, Montague, corner Court, Mondays. Magna Charter, No. 38, Union Hall, Court street, corner Sackett, Thursdays. Marion, No. 11, 0. U. A. Hall, Montague, corner Court. Fridays. ' Montauk, No. 60, Greenpoint, Tuesdays. Nathan Hale, No. 66, Grand street, corner Fifth, East District, Thursdays. Pine Tree, No. 79, Myrtle avenue, corner Steuben street, Wednesdays. Warren, No. 3, 0. U. A. Hall, Montague street, corner Court, Tuesdays. 182 BROOKLYN CITY AND COUNTY. Jackson, No. 67, Canarsie, Flatlands, Saturdays. Seventy-Six, No. 63, New Lots, Tuesdays. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES. HIGH TENT. Meets annually at such time and place as may be designated at a previous meeting. The next meeting will be held in the City of New York, on the 2d Tuesday in Sept. J. P. H. C. R. Henry Chickering, North Adams, Mass. H. C. R. Thomas Stevenson, New York City. H, v. R. John Mills, Washington, D. C. H. C. S. Daniel Upton, Adams, Mass. H. T. James S. Keeler, Troy, N. Y. ("George C. Thompson, Brooklyn, N. Y. High Execu-j James C. Spencer, Troy, N. Y. tive Council, ] H. H. Brazee, Utica, N. Y. [_ Edwin F. Jenks, Adams, Mass. I.ONG ISLAND DISTRICT TENT ^O, 20. Meets quarterly, on the 2d Monday in February, May, August, and Novem- ber, at such place as shall be designated at a previous meeting. D. P C. R. John Blake, Brooklyn. JD. C. R. F. M. A. Wicks, Thompson's Station, L. I. jD. R. S. Jonathan W. Fowler, Brooklyn. JD. T. Benjamin Bennit, Brooklyn. PRIMARY TENTS. Brooklyn, No. 10, Myrtle Hall, Thursdays. Fort Green, No. 228, Myrtle Hall, Fridays. IsLip, No. 211, Islip, L. I., Mondays. Perseverance, No. 118, Myrtle Hall, Wednesdays. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 183 SONS OF TEMPERANCE. GRAND DIVISION OF EASTERN NEW YORK. Quarterly Sessions are held in New York City on the 2d Wednesday in January, April, and October, and at Sag Harbor in July. OFFICEES. G. Worthy Patriarchy Henry Lloyd. *' " Associate^ Alexander Campbell. " Scribe^ , Thomas Edgerley. " Treasurer J James Mackean. " Chaplain^ Rev. T. Brandt. " Conductor^ William Van Yleck. " Sentinel, 0. N. Bullis. Annual Election, 2d Wednesday in October. SUBORDINATE DIVISIONS IN KINGS CO. DISTRICT No. 9. John Beatty, Dist. Dep. G. W. Patriarchy 114 York street. Brooklyn, No. 13, 166 Fulton street, Thursdays. Washington, No. 4, 166 Fulton street, Mondays. DISTRICT No. 10. Wm. S. Dillingham, Dist. Dep. G. W. Patriarchy 1 Monroe pi. Myrtle. No. 115, Myrtle Hall, Mondays. Plymouth Rock, No. 76, City Central Hall, Tuesdays. DISTRICT No. 11. C. W. Whittemore, Dist. Dep. G. W. Patriarch. Eureka, No. 187, Fourth street, cor. South 1st, E. District, Thursdays. Greenpoint, No. 99, Odd Fellows' Hall, Greenpoint, Mondays. WilliamsburgHj No. 105, Fourth st., cor. South 1st, Mondays. 184 BROOKLYN CITY AND GREENPOINT DEGREE DIVISION. Meet at Odd Fellows' Hall, Greenpoint, every Monday. John N. Stearns, 7). R, and Prefect. J. y. Meserole, Vice Prefect, A. Berney, Auditor. W. H. Whittemore, Keeper of Keys. Wm. W. Finehout, Ut Hercdd. E. Ashby, 2d " J. C. Stearne, Inside Warden. N. Fales, Outside " CADETS OF TEMPERANCE. Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Section of Pennsylvania. SUBORDINATE SECTIONS IN KINGS COUNTY. J. H. Vandewater, Dep. G. Patron, Eesidence. 105 South Istj E. District. E. H. Rowlandson, Sec. William W. Finehout, Treas. b. H. Vandewater, Ass't Sec. G-. W. Jones. Guide, F. Davies, Watch7na?i. Greenpoint, No. 4, ) Pacific, <^ 5, [ Odd Fellows' Hall, Greenpoint, Fridays. Washington, " 6, ) t : *■ ^^j/o. WiLLiAMSBURGH, " 3, Sons of T. Hall, E. Dist., Fridays. The Sections unite in a Quarterly Meeting held in the months of January, April, July, and October, at such places as may be appomted, at which time Officers are installed; Recita- tions, Addresses, &c., delivered, and prizes distributed. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 185 AMERICAN PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Meets every Monday evening, corner Grove and Hudson sts, New York. W. G. Master, Charles Kenedy. Dep. G. Master J John Mcllroy. G. Secretary, William Cupiss. G. Treasurer,^ James Heron. G. Chaplain, Nathan Nisbet. G. Conductor, William McCloy. G. Ass^t Conductor, James Mulhern. G. Tiler^ Thomas Minnis. SUBORDINATE LODGES IN KINGS CO. Robert McCarll, District Installing Officer. BROOKLYN CITY, No. 6, 162 Fulton street, Wednesday's. Robert Ballance, W. M. Robert McCarll, Treasurer. Robert Crowthers, D. W. M. Joseph Miller, Chaplain. John Bolton, Rec. Sec. William Huggins, Conductor. William Grlassey, Fin. Sec. Thomas Dudgeon, Inside Tiler COLUMBIA, No. S, 309 Grand street, East District, Tuesdays. Robert Ferguson, W. M. W. Erwin, Fin. Sec. John Butler, D. W. M. Mark J. Rich, Treasurer. John Dalton, Rec. Sec. John Yates, Chaplain. DANIEIi WEBSTER, No. 18, Odd Fellows' Hall, Fridays. John Busby, W. M. Thomas Leary, Treasurer. Ralph Fields, D. W. 31 James Mclver, Chaplain. James Gibson, Rec. Sec. Jacob Giller, Conductor. James Livingston, Fi?i. Sec. Joseph Riely, Inside Tiler. PURITAN, No. 20, Adelphi Hall, Tuesdays. Farnham Gillespie, W. M. Isaac Kirkland, Treasurer. Young Love, D. IV. M. eTames Sweeney, Conductor. James Hamilton, Rec. Sec. John George, Outside Tiler. James Wright, Fin. Sec. 186 BROOKLYN CITY AND ANCIENT ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS. OR AND I.OIJGE OF THE STATE OF NEW liTORK. Meets at 274 Grand street, N. Y., on the third Wednesday of each month. OFFICEES. P. R. H. G. M., Henry Meisterlin. R. H. G. M, Robert Burgess. Dep. R. H. G. M, John Noe. R, IT. G. Sec^y, Herman Kornahrens. R. H. G. Treas.^ Jacob Hucker. R. H. G. Chaplain^ George Commandinger. R. H. G. Warden, John A. Tei. R. H. G. Jun. Warden. Carstan Offerman. R. H. G, Tiler, John Sundeg. SUBORDINATE LODGE IN KINGS CO. HERMAN, No. 25, Mc Kibbin street, corner Graham aveuuey East District, Wednesdays. Matthias Homan, iV. G. Herman Schneider, Sec. Charles Keil, V. G. Henry Ridenbeck, Treas. EMERALD BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED 1839. Meet on notice from the Secretary at No. 238 Fulton street. OFFICEES FOR 1S55. President, Daniel M. Kelly. Treasurer J Patrick Mooney. Sec, James Downey. The funds of this Association are raised by an Annual Ball given by the Society. The proceeds are appropriated to the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums in Congress and Clinton streets. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 187 EMMET BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. ORGANIZED 1847. CHARTERED MAY, 1848. Meet at 61 Atlantic street, 1st Tuesday in each month. OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES. President^ William H. Murphy. Vice President^ Michael Morau. Pec. Sec. J Patrick Fitzgerald. Cor. Sec, Francis Mahady. Treasurer^ Owen Kiernan. TRUSTEES. James Casey. John Halpin. John Clancy. James Nevin. James Tiner. The chief objects of the Society are, the relief of its sick or infirm, and the burial of its deceased members, and the wives of its members. To become a member it is required to be a citizen of the United States, or to have declared an intention to become such ; and also to be a resident of Brooklyn, New York, or vicinity, and not over forty years of age. Officers are elected semi-annually in June and December, Trustees are elected in December trieunially. Initiation fee, five dollars; monthly dues, twenty-five cents. Connected with this Society is a Widows' and Orphans' Fund, supported by an Annual Festival, and the payment of six and a quarter cents monthly by each member. This fund is specially appropriated to the relief of the widows and orphans of deceased members of the Society. 188 BROOKLYN CITY AND ERIN FRATERNAL BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION. CHARTERED 1835. Meets at "Second Ward Hotel," York si, 1st Monday in each month. OFFICERS, 1855-6. President^ John McLeer. \st Vice President, Patrick Bradley. ^d Vice President, James McCaffry. Treasurer, Michael Conlin. Sec.^ Simon 0. Driscoll. ^55^ Sec.^ John Hazel. Irishmen and their descendants only, are eligible to a mem- bership in this Society: its objects being to unite all classes of Irishmen in one common bond of amity and peace, burying for- ever in the feeling of kindness and charity, all sectional and tra- ditional enmities, lending mutual support to each other as sojourners in a strange land. Initiation fee, five dollars ; monthly dues, twenty-five cents ; sick allowance, three dollars per week ; burial allowance, twenty-five dollars. The Annual Election for Officers is held on the 1st Monday in April. LABORERS' UNION BENEFICIAL SOCIETY. ORGANIZED 1844. CHARTERED 1851. Meets Semi-monthly, at " Sarsfield Hall," Hudson aventie. OFFICEPwS, 1S55. President^ John Farrell. Vice President^ Joseph Dolan. Sec, Michael Ward. Ass'^t Sec, Patrick Farrell. Treasurer, Patrick Green. Check Clerks, James Farrell, James Dowd. It is declared that the object of this compact shall be Charity and National Greatness, and its acts, Union for ^I Happiness : — in other words to ameliorate the condition of the KINGS COUNTY KECORD. 189 laboring classes by infusing charity, worth, and equality. Initia- tion fee, two dollars ; monthly dues, twelve and a half cents ; and on the decease of a member, a tax of six and a quarter cents to reimburse the treasury for the expense of his burial. Sick allowance, two dollars twenty-five cents per week ; burial allow- ance, eighteen dollars. Officers elected annually in December. ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY. Meets at 238 Fnlton st., on notice from the Secretary. OFFICERS, 1855. President^ Frederick Morris, M. D. Vice President^ John F. Hennessy. f Treasurer^ Charles Riley. Secretary^ James Downey, SHAMROCK BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. ORGANIZED 1841. CHARTERED, MAY, 1848. Meets at "Second "Ward Hotel,'*' York st., 1st Monday in each month. OFFICERS, 1S54-5. President^ Patrick Higgins. Vice President^ John Elliott. Sec.^ P. Ward. Ass't Sec, John Cusack. Treasurer, P. Dunn. The Shamrock Society is composed of Sons of Ireland, who. by the bright promises of hope have been allured to the land of liberty, seeking relief from the burdens and exactions that bore so heavily upon them at home. They have therefore associated themselves together for the purpose of rendering mutual assist- ance in procuring employment when in health, and to relieve each other when in sickness or want. To become a member of this Association it is requisite to be a citizen of the United States, of good moral character, and at least twenty-one years of age, pay an initiation fee of three dollars, and twenty-five cents 190 BROOKLYN CITY AND monthly dues. The sick allowance is three dollars per week ; burial allowance, twenty-five dollars. The Annual Election for Officers is held at the Monthly- Meeting in March. THISTLE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. OEGANIZED JANUARY, 1852. Meets at Odd Fellows' Hall, Atlantic st., 2d and 4th Wednesdays. OFFICERS, 1S54-5. President^ John White. Vice President^ John Murray. Per. Sec, James Boyle. Rec. Sec, John Ellis. Treasurer, George Ingram. This is a Mutual Benefit Society, its benevolence extending only to the relief of its own members and their families. Its members are associates and companions of each other in pros- perity, and friends and supporters in adversity. To become a member it is requisite that the person be a freo white male, of sound health and good character, and be at least twenty-one years of age, and not over forty-five. The initiation fee is three dollars, unless over forty years of age, in which case it is one dollar more for every additional year. The monthly dues are twenty-five cents or more as the Society may determine. The weekly benefit to sick or disabled members is three dollars. Allowance for burial of deceased members, thirty dollars. For burial of members' wives, fifteen dollars. The Annual Election for Officers is held on the 2d Wednes- day in December. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 191 FREE GERMAN SOCIETY. ORGANIZED FOR BENEVOLENT PURPOSES, AUGUST 18th, 1851 Meets at the " City Hotel," 2d and 4th Thursdays of each month. OFFICERS. President^ Charles Moehring. Vice President^ Francis Rebstein. iSec., Adam Shaw. AssH Sec.^ Anthony Gref. Treasurer^ G. A. Brown. Semi-annual Elections for Officers, 4th TJiursday in July and December. EXEMPT FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, (western district.) REVIVED AND REORGANIZED JUNE 9, 1853. OFFICERS 1855. President^ Daniel Van Voorhis. \st Vice President^ Hon. George Hall. 2c? Vice President^ Geo. W. A. Everitt. Zd Vice President^ Morris Sim on son. ^th Vice President^ "Walter Barre. ^th Vice President^ Jacob B. Striker. Rec. Sec. Thomas R. Mercein. Cor. Sec. Wm. E. Sprague. Treasurer^ Henry Oakley. This society is composed of members of the Brooklyn Fire Department, who have received an honorable discharge^ having served the full term (in the Fire Department of Brooklyn) re- quired by law to entitle them to an exemption for ever from Fire, Military, and Jury duty. It was established for the purpose of promoting the interest and efficiency of, and cherishing kindly feelings in the Fire De- partment generally, and whenever requisite, advancing their 192 BROOKLYN CITY AND claims as Exempt Firemen. It renders pecuniary aid to indigent and disabled members, and the families of deceased members^ when in need. Any person to become a member of this association must produce a certificate signed by the city clerk, or such other evi- dence as may be satisfactory to the investigating committee, certifying that he has served the time required by law in the Brooklyn Fire Department, and pay an initiation fee of fifty cents, and twelve and a half cents monthly. The Association meets in the Court Room of D. K. Smith, No. 2, City Hall, Basement, on the first Thursday of each month. The meeting in January is the annual meeting, at which officers are elected for the ensuing year. JBZEMPT FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, (eastern district.) EEVIVED AND REORGANIZED OCTOBER 10, 1854. OFFICEES, 1855. President, William V. Hanson. \st Vice President, Charles Wall. 2d Vice President^ T. Henry Browning. Rcc. Sec, Wm. M. Scott. Cor. Sec, W. J. Christal. Treasurer, R. H. Harding. This society is composed of members of the Brooklyn Fire Department, who have received an lioyiorable discharge, having served the full term (three years of which must have been in the Fire Department of the Eastern District), required by law to entitle them to an exemption for ever from Fire. Military, iand Jury duty. it was established for the purpose of promoting the interest and efficiency of, and cherishing kindly feelings in the Fire De- partment generally, and whenever requisite, advancing their claims as Exempt Firemen. It renders pecuniary aid to indigent and disabled members, and the families of deceased ynembers, when in need. Any person to become a member of this association must produce a certificate signed by the city clerk, or such other KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 193 evidence as may be satisfactory to the investigating committee certifymg that he has served the time required by law, three years of which must have been in the Fire Department of the i^astern District, and pay an initiation fee of three dollars, and one dollar annually thereafter. The association meets at Firemen's Hall, Eastern District on the first Thursday in January, April, July, and October. ' The Meeting in January is the Annual Meeting, at which the Officers of the Association are elected. MECHANICS' EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION. ESTABLISHED 1854. Rooms of the Association, No. 9 Court street. OFFICEES, 1856. Fresident^ Hon. George Hall. Vice Pres., John French. Secretary^ John Leech. Treasurer^ George Mitchell. TRUSTEES. William Beard. Joseph Pratt. Samuel Booth. John Murray. Dwight Spencer. Initiation fee reduced to $5. ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY OF NASSAU ISLAND. ORGANIZED 1848. OrnCERS, 1855-6. President^ John A. Lott. Vice Presidents. Tunis G. Bergen. Theodorus Polhemus. William E. Cruger. John Spader. Samuel J. Garretson. Nicholas Van Brunt. Barnet Johnson. Thomas J. Van Sant. Oscar Johnson. Adriance Van Brunt. Garret L. Martense. Nicholas Wyckoff. 9 194 BROOKLYN CITY AND ^ J t j James Murphy, Postmaster. GREENPOINT POST OFFICE. Franklin st. cor. Java, Office open every day, except Sundays, from 7 A. M. to 9 P. M. in Winter, and from 6.30 A. M. to 9 P. M. in Summer. The Mail closes at 9.30 A. M. and 4.30 P. M., and arrives at 10 A. M. and 5 P. M. Isaac K. Snell, Postmaster. 208 BROOKLYN CITY AND BROOKLYN CITY EXPRESS POST. Isaac C. Snedeker, Proprietor. James A. Martin, Manager. Office, No. 6 Court street. Boxes for the reception of letters. &c., are placed in numerous localities in the Western District of the city, from which letters, &c., are taken up three times a day. Carriers leave the office for city delivery at 10 A. M. and 1 P. M. Letters to New York, 9 A. M., 12 M., and 4 P. M. Letters from New York. 9.30 A. M., 12.30 M., and 4.30 P. M. Letters from New York are delivered at 10 A. M., 1 and 4.30 P. M. POSTAGE RATES, Within the United States, and to Canada and other British North Ameri- can Provinces, as in force April 1st, 1855. RATES OF I.ETTER POSTAGE. The postage on letters, carried within the United States, is on single letters of a half ounce or under, for any distance not over 3000 miles, three cents ; for any distance over 3000 miles (which includes letters to California, and Oregon, and Washing- ton Territories), ten cents. The postage on letters sent to any place in the United States or Territories must invaribly be pre- paid by stamps or otherwise to insure their being sent, as other- wise they will not be forwarded. Double, treble, and quadruple letters, are charged double, treble, and quadruple the rate of single. Letters to and from British North American Provinces, any distance not over 3000 miles, ten cents ; for any distance over 8000 m\\Q?>.f fifteen cents — prepayment optional. Every letter or parcel not exceeding a half ounce in weight shall be deemed a single letter, and every additional half ounce, or less, is charged with an additional single postage. Drop letters, not for transmission, but for delivery only, are charged with postage at the rate of one cent each. Advertised letters are charged with one cent, in addition to the regular postage. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 209 Note. — All letters to and from foreign countries, the British. North American Provinces excepted, are charged Hvo rates for every ounce or fractional part of an ounce over the first ounce. Newspapers and periodicals to foreign countries, (particularly to the continent of Europe), must be sent in narrow bands, open at the sides or ends ; otherwise they are chargeable there with letter postage. On Transient Newspapers, Books, or othep^ printed MATTER. Each newspaper, periodical, unsealed circular, or other article of printed matter (except books), weighing three ounces or less, when sent to any part of the United States, if prepaid, one cent, and one cent additional for each ounce or fractional part of an ounce more than three. The same when 7iot prepaid, double those rates. Each newspaper or periodical, not exceeding one ounce and a half in weight, when circulated in the state where published, is subject to a postage of one half cent only. Packages of small newspapers published monthly or oftener, and pamphlets* not containing more than sixteen octavo pages, when sent to one address in packages weighing at least eight ounces, and prepaid by postage stamps, four cents, and one half cent additional for each ounce or fractional part of an ounce over eight. Small newspapers, &c., when sent in packets of less than eight ounces, or to more than one address, must be rated singly. Books, bound or unbound, not weighing over four pounds, for any distance under 3000 miles, when p)rcpaid., one cent per ounce. The same when not prepaid, one and a half cent per ounce. ' The same for any distance over 3000 miles, when prepaid two cents per ounce. The same when not prepaid, three cents per ounce. Note. — The weight of newspapers, periodicals, and other printed matter, must be taken or determined when they are in a dry state. Newspapers, periodicals, magazines, or any other printed paper or matter, must be sent without covers or wrappers, or in covers or wraj)pers open at the ends or sides, so that the charac- * By a decision of the Postmaster-general, a pamphlet is defined to be a printed but nnbonnd publication, relating solely to some subject ofiocal, ephemeral, or temporary inter- est or iiuportauce only. 210 BROOKLYN CITY AND ter of the matter contained therein may be determined without removing such wrappers. In case there is on or in any newspaper, periodical, pamphlet, or other printed matter or paper connected therewith, any manu- script of any kind by which information shall be asked for or communicated in writing, or by marks or signs (except the bills and receipts of publishers, as provided by law), or the directions herein prescribed are in any other respect not complied with, the same becomes subject to letter postage ; and it is the duty of the postmaster to remove the wrappers or envelopes from all printed matter not charged with letter postage, for the purpose of as- certaining whether there is upon or connected with such printed matter, or in such package, any matter or thing which would au- thorize or require the charge of a higher rate of postage thereon. It will be observed that except in respect to books, the post- age on all printed matter to California and Oregon, is the same as to any other part of the United States. QUARTERLY RATES OF POSTAGE. AVhen paid Quarterly or yearly in advance, on Newspapers and Periodicals sent from the office of Publicalion to actual subscribers. Weekly newspapers (one copy only) sent by the publishers to actual subscribers within the county where printed and published, free of charge. Newspapers and periodicals, not exceeding one and a half ounce in weight, when circulated in the State where published, will be charged the following rates per quarter, ^jrc/;ai<:/ — Daily, 22| cents; Six times a week, 19-| cents; tri-weekly, 9 1 cents ; semi-weekly, 6^ cents ; weekly 3^: cents ; semi-monthly, 1 ^ cents ; monthly, f cent. The same not exceeding 3 ounces in weight, sent to any part of the United States, at double the above rates. The same when weighing over 3 ounces, will be charged the same rate for each additional ounce or fractional part of an ounce as for the first three. Note. — When periodicals are printed not oftener than once a quarter, and are sent from the office of publication* to actual subscribers, the amount of postage being marked thereon as pre- paid, at the mailing office, and the name of that office with the date of mail being written or stamped thereon, will be sufficient evidence to warrant their delivery without further charge — such periodicals may be prepaid by stamps. Quarterly payments in advance, may be made either at the mailing office or the office of delivery. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 211 Publishers of newspapers and periodicals may send to each other from their respective offices of publication, free of postage one copy of each publication, and may also send to each actual subscriber, enclosed m their publications, bills and receipts for the same, free of postage. ' Postmasters are not entitled to receive newspapers free of postage under their franking privilege. If the publisher of any newspaper or periodical, after bein^ three months previously notified that his publication is not taken out of the office to which it is sent for delivery, continue to for- ward such publication in the mail, the postmaster to whose office such publication is sent will dispose of the same for the postao-e unless the publisher shall pay it; and whenever any print"ed matter of any description, received during one quarter of the fascal year, shall have remained in the office without being called torduringthe whole of any succeeding quarter, the postmaster at such office will sell the same, and credit the proceeds of such sale in his quarterly account, in the usual manner. RATE OR PRICE OF FARE FOR COACH, CARRIAGE OR CAB HIRE, IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. ' Not exceeding one mile, one Passenger, Every additional passenger, - Over one, and not exceeding two miles, Every additional passenger, - BY THE HOUR. One or more passengers, For the second hour, - - . . For every succeeding hour, BY THE DAY. One or more passengers, - . ^ - $5 00 For children between 2 and 14 years of age, half price. Children under two years of age, no charge. ^^ For asking or receiving any greater rate or price than the above, the owner or driver forfeits $10. In ease of any disagreement as to dlstaiice or price, the same Bhali be determined by the Mayor of the city. 25 cents. 25 u 50 u 25 u . $1.00 - 0.75 - 0.50 212 BROOKLYN CITY AND A LAW TO FIX AND REGULATE THE RATES OR PRICES OF CARTAGE FOR CARTMEN OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. Passed May 1st, 1854. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Brooklyn, in Com- mon Council convened, do ordain as follows :— Sec. 1. The Prices or Rates to be taken by Cartmen for the loading, conveying, or unloading of Goods, Wares, Merchandise, and other things, shall be as follows : — Ale or beer, every hogshead, from 60 to 90 gallons, | Alum or copperas, every hogshead, from 12 to 15 hun- dred weight, ------ Alum or copperas, every hogshead over one ton weight, Bread, every four tierces, - . - - Bricks, every load, ..... Bricks, every load handled and piled, ... Boards, planks, and scantling, or other timber, every load. Beef or pork, every five barrels, - - - . Cables, half shot, from 5 to 7 inches in circumference. Cables, whole shot, from 5 to 7 inches in circumference, Cables, half shot, from 7 to 10 inches in circumference, - Cables, whole shot, from 7 to 10 inches in circumference. Cables, whole shot, of 10 and not exceeding 12 inches in circumference, - . . . . Cables, whole shot, of 12 and not exceeding 14 inches in circumference, ..... Cables, half shot, of the last two preceding dimensions, - Cables, half shot, of 14 and not exceeding 15 inches in circumference, ..... Cables, whole shot, of 14 and not exceeding 15 inches in circumference, . - - . . Cables, whole shot, of above 15 inches in circumference, Calves, sheep, lambs, every load. Cider, cheese, cocoa, every load, - - - - Clay or sand, every 12 bushels, - - - - Coal, every half chaldron or ton, Coffee, in bags or barrels, every load. Coffee, every hogshead over one thousand weight, Cordage, small, every load, . . . - 37| 44 68 37i 37i 60" 371 44 44 75 871 1.75 2.00 3 00 1.50 1.75 4.00 5.00 50 371 50 68 371 44 >71 >'2 KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 213 Cotton, every three bales, Dry wood, every load. Earthenware, loose, every load, - European goods, every load, Fire wood, every load, Fish, dried, loose, every load, Flax seed, every three tierces, Flour, every 12 bags or 7 barrels, Furniture, household, housing every load. Gammons or hams, every load, Hay, in bales, bundles, or trusses, every load, Hay, loose, every load, - Heading or staves, every load, - Hemp, in bales or bundles, every load, - Hemp, loose, every twelve hundred weight. Hides, every fifty, Hoops, in bundles, every load, - Hoop poles, every load, - - - Iron hollow ware, every load, Iron bar, every load, ... Molasses, every hogshead, from 60 to 90 gallons, Molasses, every hogshead, from 90 to 140 gallons, Oil, every three barrels, - - Oysters, oyster shells or pantiles, every load. Paints or whiting, every hogshead, from twelve to fifteen hundred weight, . . . - . Paints or whiting, over one ton weight, - - - Paints, whiting, or pimento, every load, Plaster of Paris, every ton, . . - . Potash, every three barrels, .... Rum, every hogshead, . - - . . Salt, every twenty bushels, . . . - Shingles, in bundles, long cedar or pine, every load, Shingles, cypress, 22 inches, every two thousand. Stone, paving or building, every load. Stone, cut, every load, - . . - - Sugar, Havana, every three boxes. Sugar, every hogshead, from 9 to 15 hundredweight Sugar, every hogshead, over one ton weight, Tar, pitch, or turpentine, every 5 barrels, Tea, every load, ------ Tiles, or slates, every load, . . - - Tobacco, every common hogshead, ... Tobacco, every hogshead over one ton weight, Wheat or other grain, every load, 44 37i 56 50 37^ 66 37^ 1.50 37^ 37i 1.00 m 44 75 44 37i 66 44 44 44 62^ 37^ 44 44 75 37^ 37^ 37^ 50 44 37i 50 37 48 44 44 75 37^ 44 56 44 75 50 214 BROOKLYN CITY AND Wine, gin or brandy, every pipe over 100 gallons, - 62^ Wine, every four quarter cask, - - - - 50 And for every load of goods, wares, merchandise or other thing not above enumerated, - - - - 44 BROOKLYN RIDING SCHOOL, FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. College Place. (Rear of the Mansion House.) Robert H. Curtis, Proprietor. HOURS OF TUITION. For Ladies exclusively, from 9 A. M. to 12 M. For Gentlemen and Ladies, from 3 to 5 P. M. For Gentlemen, from 8 to 10 P. M. EAST BROOKLYN EQUESTRIAN INSTITUTE. 61 South 4th street. 02:)en every day except Sundays. George W. Walkefc & Co.. Proprietors. Hours for Ladies, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. " " Gentlemen, from 5 to 10 P. M. No Oentlemen admiited during the hours appropriated to Ladies. BROOKLYN GYMNASTIC AND CALISTHENIC INSTI- TUTION. Corner Fulton and Pineapple sts. Joseph B. Jones, Proprietor. Classes for Gentlemen meet daily, under the superintend- ence of Mr. Jones. Classes for Ladies and Misses, meet Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, under the superintendence of Madame Beaujeu Hawley. KINGS COUNTY RECORD. 215 GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1855.* EXECUTIVE. SALARY. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, President, - - - $25,000 Vacancy,! Vice President, 8,000 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND CABINET. William L. Marcy, l^ew York, Secretary of State, • • 8,000 James Guthrie, Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury, - - 8,000 Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, Secretary of War, - . - 8,000 James C. Dobbin, North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, - 8,000 Robert McClelland, Michigan, Secretary of the Interior, - 8.000 James Campbell, Penns3'lvauia, Postmaster-General, - - 8,000 Caleb Cushing, Massachusetts, Attorney-General, - - 8,000 NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT FOR 1855. SALART. Myron H. Clark, Governor, |4,000 l^^i>iK^ S.'RKYTsioy.T), Lieutenant-Governor, - - - - $6 a day Eli AS W. Leavenworth, Sec. State and Sup' t Coynmon Schools, 2,500 James M, Cook, Comptroller, 2,500 Elbridge G. Spaulding, Treasurer, - . . . _ 1,500 Ogden Hoffman, Attorney-General, 2,000 John T. Clark, State Engineer and Surveyor, - - . 2,500 Marius Schoonmaker, Siqy't Banking Department, - - 2,500 Henry Fitzhugh, \ Frederick Follett, >• Canal Coinmissioners, each, - - 1,'700 Cornelius Gardinier, ) Norwood Bowne, \ Darius Clark, V Inspectors of State Prisons, each, - 1,600 Thomas Kirkpatrick, ) SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF BROOK- LYN, 1855. ELECTED OFFICERS. Mayor, per year, S3, 000 Comptroller, 1,800 City Treasurer, 2,500 Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, ------ 1,500 Street Commissioner, Western District, 2,000 Ditto, Eastern District, 1,000 Auditor, 1,500 Chief of Police, 1,800 * The prepent Administration dates from the 4th of March, 1853, t Uou. Wm. 11. King, of Alabama, Vice President, died April 18, 1853. 216 BROOKLYN CITY RECORD. Collector of Taxes, Western District, 2,000 Ditto, ditto, Eastern District, 1,250 Police Justices, each, - -- 1,500 Justices of the Peace, 1st and 2d Districts, each, - - - - 1,500 Captains of l^olice, each, .-_..--. 800 Assessors, each, - - - - - - - - - -'700 APPOINTED OFFICERS. City Clerk, S2,000 Deputy City Clerk, 1,000 Assistant City Clerks, 1st, 2d, and 8d, each, 700 Mayor's Clerk, 500 Mayor's Messenger, 400 Collector of Arrears and Assessments, - 800 Deputy Comptroller, 1,000 Depiity Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, .... 800 Foreman of Repairs and Supplies, 700 Deputy Street Commissioner, -.-.-.. 1,000 Clerk to Street Commissioner, 750 Ordinance Clerk, 750 Clerk to Chief of Police, - - - ^ 500 Assistant Collector of Taxes, "Western District, - - - . 1,000 Three Clerks to Collector of Taxes, ditto, each, ... - 800 Five ditto, ditto, each, 700 Assistant Collector of Taxes, Eastern District, - - - , - 800 Clerk to ditto, - - _ 700 Two Clerks to Police Justices, each, 600 Two Clerks to Justices of the Peace, 1st and 2d District, each, - 500 Clerk of the Board of Assessors, 1,000 Clerk to Auditor, - _ - - - -^ ^ 700 Clerk to Street Commissioner, Eastern District, - - - - 500 Chief Engineer, Western District, ------- 1,100 Ditto, Eastern District, 800 Seven Bell Ringers, each, , - . 500 Five Fire Wardens, each, ...-.--- 30O Attorney and Counsellor to the Corporation, - - . - 3,000 Assistant Attorney, Western District, 1,000 Ditto, Eastern District, 1,000 Clerk to Corporation Counsellor and Attorney, - - - - 700 Attorney and Counsellor to late City of Williamsburgh, Health Officer, 750 Three Inspectors of Pavements, each, 850 Four Inspectors of Meats, each, ------- 50O Clerk of the Market, 800 Two Constables, 800 Inspector of Hacks, 300 Keeper of City Hall and Messenger of Board, - - - - 900 Sweeper of City Hall, 850 Keeper of City Park, . - . • 300 Keeper of City Buildings, Eastern District, ----- 360 Assistant Captains of Police, each S'1.87^ per day. Policemen, each $1.75 per day. Gas Lamplighters, 1^ cents per light for each night lighted. Oil and Camphene Lamplighters, 1-^ cents per light for each night lighted, including filling, trimming, and cleaning. CHARTER OF THE CONSOL1DA.TED CITY OF BROOKLYN. Passed April 17, 1854— to take effect January 1, 1855. BROOKLYI^: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM H. SMITH AT THE Office of the City Directory and City and County Record, Mootagae Hall, €oart St., City Hall Sqnarc. 1855. GENERAL INDEX. TITLES. BOFNDAKIKS OF CiTT AKD "WaEDS, Of the Co.mmox Cotkcil .... Of City Officers, their Electiox axd Duties, Of Assessmento fok Puhlic ok Local Improvements, Of the Collection of Taxes and Assessments, Of the Day and Night Police Department, Of the Fire Department, -tsiDNERS OF Excise, . . . O; - lioARD OF Health, Of the Financial Department, Miscellaneous Provisions, Abstract of assef^rnent rolls to be made. Affidavit of publication, . Affidavit of service of notice, Aldermen, board of Aldermen, classification of . Aldermen, powers of Aldermen, qnalifications of . Aldermen, terms of Aldermen to be fence viewers. Amount of surety. Annual meeting. Appointment of officers, Approach of vessels, Armory, gun-house, &c., Assessment laws. Assessment rolls, Assessment rolls, abstract to be made. Assessment-^, notice of . Assessors, election of Assessors, pay of Assessors, powers of . Assistant captains of police. Assistant collectors, . Assisuint collectors, their powers. Attorney and counsel. Auditor, .... Auditor and comptroller to examine Ballots, .... Board of aldermen, . Board of assessoi-s, president of Board of canvassers, Board of canvassers, minutes of Board of education, . , \ account of collectors annually, TiiU. Vage. , , I. 9 IL 15 . . IIL 24 IV. 34 , V. 43 VL 51 , ^ VIL 55 VIII. 59 , , IX. 61 X. 64 • XL 63 TdU. Sec. Page. V. 12 46 V. 25 49 V. 2S 50 ir. 2 16 IL 4 16 IL 5 16 II. 3 16 II. ■ 5 16 II. 20 23 III. 27 32 II. 22 23 III. 24 81 IX. 4 61 XI. 8 69 IV. 83 42 V. 10 45 V. 12 46 IV. 24 41 IV. 28 41 IV. 82 42 IV. 29 42 VI. 21 55 V. 4 44 V. 6 45 III. IS 30 III. 17 80 X. 16 67 in. 4 25 ir. 2 16 IX 31 42 III. 7 26 III. 10 27 . XL 13 70 INDEX. Board of firewardens, . . . • Board of health, . . . • Board of health, office of • • • Board of health, penalty f(»r violating rules, Board of health, powers of . • • Board of health, president of . • Boarding-house keepers to report cases of sickness Bond for licenses, . . Bonds for loans, when to be issued, Bonds of collectors, . . • ,^ • .^ a- „ Books, papers, &c., to be transferred to the city oflices Boundary of the city, Brooklyn debts, . . . • • Brooklyn sinking fund. Canvass of November, 1S54, Canvass, certificate of result, Canvass, statements of . Captains of police, . . . • Captains of police, their duties, Certain offices declared offices of record, . Certificates of indebtedness fur assessments, . Cession of lands to city. Chief of police, . .... Chief of police, his powers, , Chief of police may suspend policemen, City clerk, his duties. City court of Brooklyn, , Citv officers, . . • • • City offices, qualifications for City survey>)rs. . . . • Classification of accounts, Classification of aldermen, . Clerk of common council. Clerk of police, . • • Collectors' bonds, wiien to be sued. Collectors' duties in relation to unpaid taxes. Collectors, election of . . • Collectors, renewal of bond, *. Collectors, suspension of Collectors, their bonds, . • • Collectors to pay over moneys collected, Commissioner (>f repairs and supplies, Commissioners of excise, _ . Commissioners of excise, classified. Commissioners of excise, meetings of . Commissioners of excise, pay of • . • , Commissioners of excise, penalty for refusing to ser\ Commissioners of excise, quorum of Commissioners of excise, term of office Commissioners of excise, to grant licenses. Commissioners' notice of meeting to revise report. Commissioners, pay of . • • Commissioners' report, appeal fVom, .. Commissioners' report, confirmation of Commissioners' report, costs of appeal from . Commissioners' report, hearing of appeal, . Commissioners, report of . • • Commissioners to be sworn. Common council, . * -' v' Common council, certain disabilities of members, Common council, clerk of . . • Common council, president of Common council, quorum of . . • Common council, special powers of Common council, stated meetings of . Common council, terms of office, . Common council, vacancies how filled, . Compensation of policemen, Competency, . . . . t Complaints of crimes and ofifences, • Comptroller, . . . • • Title. Sec Page. YII. 18 59 IX. 1 61 IX. 8 61 IX. 9 63 IX. 8 62 IX. 2 61 IX. 6 62 VIII. 9 60 X. 11 66 V. 2 44 XI. 16 71 I. 1 9 X. 5 65 X. 6 65 III. 6 26 III. 9 26 III. 5 26 YI. 5 52 VI. 6 5:5 XI. 3 m X. 13 66 III. 19 30 VI. 2 52 VI. 3 52 VI. 14 54 III. 20 31 iir. 86 34 III. 1 25 III. 2 25 III. 21 81 X. 2 64 II. 4 16 II. 7 17 VI. 4 52 V. 17 47 V. 32 51 V. 1 43 V. 7 45 V. 3 44 V. 2 44 V. 13 46 III. 16 29 VIII. 1 59 VIII. 2 60 VIII. 5 60 VIII. 8 60 VIII. 4 60 VIII. 6 60 VIII. 3 60 VIII. 6 60 IV. 12 38 IV. 17 40 IV. 12 3S IV. 15 39 IV. 14 39 IV. 13 39 IV. 7 87 IV. 6 86 II. 1 16 III. 83 83 II. 7 17 II. 9 17 II. 8 17 II. 13 18 II. 12 18 II. 6 16 II. 6 16 VI. 15 54 XI. 2 68 VI. 7 53 HI. 13 23 INDEX. Constables, ...... Conveyances, . . . . • Conveyance, wljen to be made, Corpuration papers. Correction of assessment, .... Costs and fees of counsel, Crimes, report of .... , Damage for pulling down buildings, . . DamagCvS, how to be paid, . . . • Damages when a person is separated from a highway. Debts of the respective cities to be paid, . Deputy collectors, .... Deputy collectors, their powers, Destruction of buildings to arrest fires, , Districts, ...... Duties of policemen, .... Election of assessors, ..... Election of collectors, .... Election of mayor, ..... Elections, ...... Embezzlement, ..... Embezzlement or loaning of public money, Enlargement of fire limits, .... Estimate of benefits by improvements, Estimate of damage by improvements. Estimate of damage by intervening lands, Excess of estimate over expenses for improvements, Exemption of firemen. .... Existing ordinances of Brooklyn, Expense of collection of taxes and assessments, Expenses for improvements, how assessed, Ex[)enses of lamp and fire district, Expenses of local improvements, Expenses, yearly estimate of . Fees and costs of justices to be paid into the treasury Fence viewers, ..... Finances, ...... Fines and penalties, how imposed. Fines, remission of . . . . Fines, remission of . * . . Fines to be kept as a fund, .... Fire and lamp districts, .... Fire and lamp districts, expenses of . » Fire districts, ..... Fire engines and apparatus, .... Fire limits, ..... Fire limits, notice of petition to enlarge, . Fire wardens, ..... Former fire limits, .... General fund, ..... Grading and paving streets, . , , , Guardians for infants, &c., . . . Gunpowdor, ...... Health oflicer's duties, .... Hospital;:., ...... Infant and incompetent owners, . . Injured firemen, . . . . , Investment of sinking fund, . , Lamp and fire districts, .... Lamj) and fire districts, expenses of . . Laying out of streets, .... Licenses, bond for ... , Licenses, how signed, .... Lien of assessments, .... List of unpaid taxes and assessments to be published. Making and repealing ordinances. Maps of premises to be taken, . . , Mayor, duties of . . . , . Mayor, election of . . . . Mayor, to estimate yearly expenses of city, Mayor, vacancy in ofiice of . . Tn!/-. 5<<-. Page. II L 22 31 V. 33 51 V. 30 50 IL 19 23 IV. 26 41 IV. 20 40 VI. 8 53 vn. 16 58 IV. 16 40 IV. 11 38 X. 4 65 V. 5 44 V. 6 45 VIL 9 57 in. 85 34 VL 12 53 IV. 28 41 V. 1 43 IIL 11 27 in. 3 25 XL 4 68 V. 9 45 vn. 12 58 IV. 9 38 IV. 10 88 IV. 11 38 IV. IS 40 VIL 5 56 XL 9 69 V, 8 45 IV. 23 41 IL 25 24 XL 11 69 IL 21 28 YL 19 55 IL 20 23 X. 1 64 VL 20 55 IL 26 24 HI. 19 30 VIL 6 57 II. 23 28 IL 25 24 VIL 1 56 VIL 3 56 VIL 10 57 VII. 13 58 VII. 2 56 VIL 11 57 X. 3 64 IV. 22 40 IV. 19 40 VIL 8 57 IX. 10 63 IX. 8 62 V. 81 50 VIL T 57 X. 7 65 IL 23 23 II. 25 24 IV. 1 85 VIIL 9 60 VIIL 7 60 IV. 21 40 V. 24 49 IL 14 22 IV. 5 86 IIL 11 27 IIL 11 27 IL 21 23 UL 12 28 INDEX. Members of common council, certain disabilities. Moneys borrowed to be ap')lied to specific purposes, Mortjiairees, notice to .... Kewspapors to be designated, Oath of otlJce, ..... OlKcc of board of health, Officers, fljiixiintment of, .... OfHcers of police, .... Offices of record, ..... Official term of office, .... Ordinances and resolutions, how passed, . Ordinances, nirtkin<; and repealing of Ordinances, penalties for violation of Ordinances, publication of . . . Ordinances, suits how brought, Ordinances, &c., to be published In corporation papers. Paving and grading streets, . . Pay of assessors, ..... Penalty for erecting buildings contrary to law, . Penalty for not delivering over books and papers. Penalties for violation of ordinances, &c., . Penalties for violating rules of board of health, Penalties recovered payable into city treasury, . Perjury, . . ' . Permanent loans, .... Petition, ..... Petition, expenses in case prayer is denied, Petition, luoceedings on. Physicians to rejiort cases of malignant sickness. Police captains, .... Police captains, duties of Police chief, .... Police chief, his powers, Police clerk, .... Police districts. Police officers, .... Policemen, .... Policemen, duties of Policemen exempt from jury duty, Policemen may be suspended by chief. Policemen not to receive fees, Policemen, their compensation. Policemen to attend meetings of common council and at elections. Policemen to be present at fires, Policemen, ward. Power to borrow money, Powers of aldermen. Powers of assessors. Powers of board of health, . Present Avood buildings may be repaired. President of board of assessors. President of common council, . Presiding officer and clerk, . Proof of ordinances, . . . Property and debts of Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, and Bushwick, Publication of ordinances. Publication of recei[)ts and expenditures. Qualification of aldermen. Quorum of common council, Reassessment for improvements, . Eedemption of land, Kejected assessments, Rejected taxes to be relevied, Rejection of taxes for imperfect description. Remission of fines. Remission of tines. Removal of houses, . Removals, .... Report of commissioners, Rejwrt of commissioners on sinking fund, Report of committee of common council on nssesaor's report nue. Sec. Prt.v. III. 33 S3 X. 14 66 Y. 27 50 II. 19 23 in. 2S 32 IX. 3 61 III. 24 31 VI. 1 52 XI. 3 6S III. 23 31 II. 10 17 II. 14 22 II. 16 22 II. 18 22 II. 17 22 II. 19 23 IV. 22 40 IV. 32 42 VII. 15 58 III. 32 83 II. 16 22 IX. 9 63 XI. 7 69 XI. 1 68 X. 9 66 IV. 2 35 IV. 4 86 IV. 3 85 IX. 5 62 VI. 5 52 VI. 6 53 VI. 2 52 VI. 3 52 VI. 4 52 VI. 10 53 VI. 1 53 VI. 9 53 VI. 12 53 VI. 16 54 VI. 14 54 VI. 18 55 VI. 15 54 VI. 17 54 VI. 13 54 VI. 11 53 IX. 11 63 II. 5 16 IV. 29 42 IX. 8 62 VII. 14 58 IV. 31 42 II. 9 17 II. 24 24 XI. 5 63 X. 15 67 II. 18 22 II. 11 17 II. 3 16 11. S 17 V. 22 48 V. 29 50 V. 21 48 V. 20 48 V. 19 48 II. 26 24 III. 19 80 II. 15 22 III. 31 83 IV. 7 87 X. 8 65 IV. 25 41 INDEX. Report of crimes, .... Residue of lots injured, Eesignatlons and vacancies, Eights and liabilities of respective cities, . Rules and fines for fire department, Salaries, ..... Sale of lands, ..... Saving clause, .... Service of process on boats and vessels, Sick persons not to be removed from vessels, Sinking fund, ..... Sinking fund, commissioners of Special fund, ..... Special powers of common council, , Stated meetings of common council, . . Statement of canvass, Statement of votes, .... Street commissioner, . . . Streets in first five wards, . . . Streets, laying out of . , . Suits for fines,. ..... Supervisors, ..... Sureties, ...... Sureties, amount of . Sureties of constables, .... Suspension of collectors, Taxes and assessments, expense of collection, , Taxes due and unpaid, how to be applied, Taxes paid within thirty days, . Taxes paid within sixty days. Taxes unpaid after one hundred and eighty days, Taxes unpaid to be credited to collectors, . Temporary loans, .... Term of office of aldermen, . Terms of office of common council, Times when this act takes effect, . Treasurer, ..... Treasurer and comptroller may receive taxes. Unpaid assessments for want of jurisdiction, . Unpaid assessments on real estate, . Unpaid taxes and assessments, list of to be published Unpaid taxes to be credited to collectors, . Vacancies and resignations, . . Vote upon creating debt or loans, . Votes, statement of ... . Ward maps, ..... Ward policemen, .... Wards, boundaries of . . . Wards to be towns, .... Warrants of collectors, , TitU. Sec. I'ag(. VI. 8 53 IV. 8 37 III. 80 33 XI. 12 70 VII. 4 56 III. 29 33 V. 26 49 XI. 14 70 XL 6 63 IX. 7 62 X. 8 64 X. 6 65 X. 8 64 II. 13 18 II. 12 18 III. 5 26 III. 8 26 III. 14 28 IV. 34 42 IV. 1 35 VIL IT 59 III. 34 84 III. 25 32 III. 27 82 III. 26 82 V. 3 44 V. 8 45 XI. 10 69 V. 14 46 V. 14 46 V. 15 47 V. 16 47 X. 12 66 II. 6 16 II. 6 16 XI. 15 70 III. 15 29 V. 18 47 V. 22 48 V. 23 48 V. 24 49 V 16 47 III. 30 83 X. 10 66 III. 8 26 IV. 80 42 VI. 11 53 I. 2-19 9-14 I. 20 15 V. 11 46 -A.]Sr ^CT TO CON-SOLTDATE THE CITIES OF BROOKLYJT AND WILLIAMSBURGH AND THE TOWN OF BUSHWICK INTO ONE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AND TO INCORPORATE THE SAME. Passed AprU 17, 1854, three fifths being present. aJI'iT'I^' '-^l^' f;f' "^'^""'^ ^^^^' ^'presented in Senate and Assembly^ do enact as follows : TITLE L BOUNDARIES. Sec. 1. — Boundary of city. 2 to 19. Boundaries of wards. 20.— "Wards to be towns of the county. Section 1. All that part of the county of Kings at present known as the cities of Brooklyn and WiUiamsburgh and the town of Bush- wick, and which is bounded easterly by the town of Newtown, Queens county, south by the towns of New Lots, Flatbush, and New Utrecht, and west by tlie town of New Utrecht and the bay of New York, and north by the East river, shall be united into one municipal corporation, to be known and called the City of Brooklyn A'.J-^l T^^^i^stward of the said city shall comprise the following district, VIZ. : Beginning at a point on Atlantic street where the cen- ter lines of Atlantic and Hick streets intersect each other, and running iwtnn '.t^ ^ along the center of Atlantic street and k line in con? touation thereof to the East river; thence northeasterly along the ±-a8t river to a point opposite the center of Fulton street, or a line in str^pl'tTt^ ^^^^f «f5/bence southeasterly along the center of Fulton street to the center of Hicks street; and thence southerly along the center of Hicks street to the place of beginning f.? J ^'- ^^'%^^^.^^^ ^ard of said city shall comprise the following dis- nf ^'nU^' • Beginmng at a point on the East river at the cente? Hne ^L..T Ti ff ^^^^"^^' ^^d running thence southeasterly along «frp.f .t"" ''^l''''^ '^'f ^^ *^ ^ P^^"^ ^PP^^^te the center of Sandl street_ thence easterly along the center of Sands street to the center ot Bridge street; thence northerly along the center of Bridge street and a line in continuation thereof to the East river ; and thence west- erly along the East river to the place of beginning 10 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title I.— Section 4. § 4. The Third ward of said city shall comprise the following dis- trict, viz. : Beginning at a point on Fulton street where the center lines of Fulton street and Hicks street intersect each other, and run- ning thence southeasterly along the center of Fulton street and Fulton avenue to the center of Boerum street ; thence southerly along the center of Boerum street to the center of Atlantic street ; thence west- erly along the center of Atlantic street to the center of Hicks street ; and thence northerly along the center of Hicks street to the place of beginning. § 5. The Fourth ward of the said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at a point where the center lines of Sands street and Fulton street intersect each other, and running thence easterly along the center of Sands street to the center of Bridge street ; thence southerly along the center of Bridge street to the center of Fulton avenue; and thence northwesterly along the center of Fulton avenue and Fulton street to the place of beginning. § 6. The Fifth ward of said city shall comprise the following dis- trict, viz.: Beginning at a point where the center lines of Bridge street and Johnson street intersect each other, and running thence easterly along the center of Johnson street to the center of Navy street ; thence northerly along the center of IsTavy street to the north- erly side of Nassau street ; thence easterly along Nassau street to the southwesterly corner of the United States navy yard ; thence north- erly, northwesterly and northeasterly along the United States navy yard to the East river; thence westerly along the East river to a point on the continuation of the center line of Bridge street; thence southerly along the center of Bridge street to the place of beginning. § 7. The Sixth ward of said city shall comprise the following dis- trict, viz. : Beginning on the East river, at the center of Atlantic street ; thence easterly along the center of Atlantic street to the cen- ter of Court street ; thence along the center of Court street to the cen- ter of Fourth place ; thence westerly along the center of Fourth place to the center of Henry street ; thence southeasterly along the center of Henry street to the center of Coles street ; thence westerly along the center of Coles street to the center of Hamilton avenue ; thence along the center of Hamilton avenue to the East river ; thence along the East river to the place of beginning. § 8. The Seventh ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at a point formed by the intersection of the center lines of Washington avenue and Atlantic avenue, and running thence easterly along the center of Atlantic avenue to the center of Bedford Avenue ; and thence northerly along the center of Bedford avenue to the center of De Kalb avenue ; thence easterly along the center of De Kalb avenue to the center of Nostrand avenue ; thence northerly along the center of Nostrand avenue to the center of Flushing avenue ; thence easterly along the center of Flushing ave- nue to the center of Division avenue; thence northwesterly along the center of Division avenue to the intersection of South-Sixth street, in the city of Williamsburgh ; thence westerly along the line of the BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER, H Title I.— Section 9. city of Williarasbnrgli to the Wallabout bay ; thence southerly along the Wallabout bay to the center of Washington avenue ; and thence southerly along the center of Washington avenue to the place of beginning. § 9. The Eighth ward of said city shall comprise the following dis- trict, viz. : Beginning at a point where the center lines of Flatbush avenue and Fifth avenue intersect, and running thence south-easterly along the center of Flatbush avenue to the line of the town of Flat- bush ; thence southwesterly along said Flatbush line to the line of the town of New Utrecht ; thence southwesterly along said line, crossing a highway called Martense's lane ; thence southwesterly along said line to the southerly boundary of said city of Brooklyn ; thence north- westerly along the line of New Utrecht to the bay of New York ; thence northeasterly along the said bay and along Gowanus bay to the center line of First avenue ; thence northeasterly along the cen- ter of First avenue to the center of Fifth street; thence southeast- erly along the center of Fifth Street to the center of Second avenue ; thence northeasterly along the center of Second avenue to First street ; thence southeasterly along the center of First street to Fifth avenue ; ftience northerly along the center of Fifth avenue to the place of beginning. § 10. The Ninth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at a point where the center lines of Atlan- tic street and Flatbush avenue intersect each other, and running thence southeasterly along the center of Flatbush avenue to the line of the town of Flatbnsh ; thience easterly along said line and along the line of the town of New Lots to the center of Division avenue ; thence northwesterly along the center of Division avenue to the center of Flushing avenue ; thence westerly along the center of Flushing ave- nue to the center of Nostrand avenue ; thence southerly along the center of Nostrand avenue to the center of De Kalb avenue; thence" westerly along the center of De Kalb avenue to the center of Bed- ford avenue ; thence southerly along the center of Bedford avenue to the center of Atlantic avenue ; thence westerly and northwesterly along the center of Atlantic street and Atlantic avenue to the place of beginning. § 11. The Tenth ward of said city shall comprise the following dis- tricts, viz. : Beginning at a point formed by the intersection of the center of Boerum and Fulton streets ; thence easterly along the cen- ter of Fulton street and Fulton avenue to the intersection of Fulton avenue and Flatbush avenue ; thence southerly along the center of Flatbush avenue to the center of Fifth avenue ; thence southerly along the center of Fifth avenue to the center of First street ; thence north- westerly along the center of First street to the center of Second ave- nue ; thence southwesterly along the center of Second avenue to the center of Fifth street ; thence westerly along the center of Fifth street to the center of Smith street ; thence southerly along the center of Smith street to the center of Fourth place ; thence westerly along the center of Fourth place to the center of Court street ; thence along 12 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title L— Section 12. the center of Court street to the center of Atlantic street ; thence along the center of Atlantic street to the center of Boerum street ; thence northeasterly along the center of Boerum street to the place of beginning. § 12. The Eleventh ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at a point where the center lines of Fulton avenue and Bridge street intersect each other ; thence running north- erly along the center of Bridge street to the center of Johnson street; thence easterly along the center of Johnson street to the center of Navy street ; thence northerly along the center of Navy street to the center of Nassau street : thence easterly along Nassau street to the southeasterly corner of the United States navy yard ; thence north- erly along the same to the East river ; tlience easterly along the East river and tlie WallaLout bay to the center of Washington avenue, or a line in continuation thereof; thence southerly along the center of "Washington avenue to the center of Atlantic avenue; thence westerly and northwesterly along the center of Atlantic avenue and Atlantic street to a point where the central lines of Atlantic street and Flat- bush avenue intersect each other ; thence nortiiwesterly along the center of Flatbush avenue to the center of Fulton avenue, and fYoi% thence westerly along the center of Fulton avenue to the place of beginning. § 13. The Twelfth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning in the East river on the center line of Hamil- ton avenue ; thence southerly along the center of Hamilton avenue to the center of Coles street ; thence southeasterly along the center of Coles street to the center of Henry street ; thence northerly along the center of Henry street to the center of Fourth place ; thence south- easterly along the center of Fourth place to the center of Smith street ; thence northerly along the center of Smith street to the center of Fifth street ; thence southeasterly along the center of Fifth street to the center of First avenue ; thence southwesterly along the center of First avenue to Gowanus bay ; thence along the Gowanus bay and East river to the place of beginning. § 14. The Thirteenth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at the permanent water line on the easterly side of the East river, where the same would be intersected by the dividing hue between the cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh ; thence running in an easterly direction along the said dividing line to the center of Ninth street and its intersection with said line ; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center of Ninth street to the center of the intersection of Ninth and Grand streets ; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of Grand street to the per- manent line of the East river ; thence southwesterly along the perma- nent line of the East river to the dividing line between the cities of Broooklyn and Williamsburgh, the place of beginning. § 15. The Fourteenth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at the easterly permanent line of the East river, where the same would be intersected by a line drawn through BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 13 Title I.— Section 16. the center of Grand street ; thence running in a southeasterly direc- tion along the center of Grand street to the center of the intersection of Grand and Ninth streets ; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center of Ninth street to the center of the intersection of North- S Second and Ninth streets ; thence in an easterly direction along the center of North-Second street to the center of tlie intersection of North- Second street and Union avenue ; thence in a nortlierly direction along the center of Union avenue to the center of the intersection of Union avenue hy Fifth street ; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center of Fifth street to the center of the intersection of North-Fourteenth street hy Fifth street ; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of North-Fourteenth street to the center of the intersection of North-Fourteenth and First streets ; thence in a southwesterly direction along the center of First street to the center of the intersection of First and North-Thirteenth streets ; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of North-Thirteenth street to the easterly permanent line of the East river ; thence in a southwest- erly direction along the easterly permanent line of the East river to the center of Grand street, the place of beginning. § 16. The Fifteenth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at the center of the intersection of South- Second and Ninth streets ; thence running in a southeasterly direction along the center of South-Second street to the center of the intersection of South-Second street by Union avenue ; thence in a northerly direc- i tion along the center of Union avenue to the center of the intersection ! of Wyckotf street by Union avenue ; thence in an easterly direction along the center of Wyckoff street to the center of the intersection of Wyckoif street and Bushwick avenue ; thence in a northwesterly di- rection along the center of Bushwick avenue to the center of the intersection of Bushwick avenue and North-Second street ; thence in a westerly direction along the center of North-Second street to the center of the intersection of North-Second street and Smith street ; thence in a northerly direction along the center of Smith street to the center of the intersection of Smith street and Eichardson street ; thence in a westerly direction along the center of Eichardson street to the center of the intersection of Eichardson and Leonard streets ; thence in a northerly direction along the center of Leonard street to the center of the intersection of Leonard and Van Pelt streets ; thence in a west- erly direction along the center of Van Pelt street to the center of the intersection of Van Pelt street by Fifth street ; thence in a south- w^esterly direction along the center of Fifth street to the center of the intersection of Union avenue by Fifth street ; thence in a southerly direction along the center of Union avenue to the center of the inter- section of Union avenue and North-Second street ; thence in a west- erly direction along the center of North-Second street to the center of the intersection of Ninth street by North-Second street ; thence in a southwesterly direction along the center of Ninth street to the inter- section of Ninth and South-Second streets, the place of beginning. § 17. The Sixteenth ward of said city shall comprise the following 14 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title T.— Section 18. district, viz. : Beginning at the intersection of Ninth street and the dividing line between the cities of Brooklyn and "Williamsbnrgh ; thence running in a southeasterly direction along the said dividing line to the intersection with the center of the Brooklyn and New- town turnpike ; thence in an easterly direction along the center of said turnpike to the center of its intersection with Bushwick avenue ; thence in a northerly, northwesterly and northeasterly direction along the center of Bushwick avenue to the center of the intersection of "Wyckoff street and Bushwick avenue; thence westerly along the center of AVyckoff street to the center of the intersection of Wyckotf street by Union avenue ; thence in a southerly direction along the center of Union avenue to the center of the intersection of South- Second street by Union avenue ; thence in a northwesterly direc- tion along the center of South-Second street to the center of the intersection of South-Second and Ninth streets ; thence in a south- westerly direction to the center of the intersection of Ninth street and the dividing line between the cities of Brooklyn and Williams- burgh, the place of beginning. § 18. The Seventeenth ward of said city shall comprise the follow- ing district, viz. : Beginning at the easterly permanent line of the East river, Avhere the same would be intersected by a line drawn through the center of North-Thirteenth street ; thence running in a southeasterly direction along the center of North-Tliirteenth street to the center of the intersection of North-Thirteenth and First streets ; thence northeasterly along the center of First street to the center of the intersection of North-Fourteenth and First streets ; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center of North-Fourteenth street to the center of the intersection of North-Fourteenth street by Fifth street; thence along the center of Fifth street, in a northeasterly direction, to the center of the intersection of Van Pelt street by Fifth street ; thence in an easterly direction along the center of Van Pelt street to the center of the intersection of Van Pelt and Leonard streets ; thence in a southerly direction, along the center of Leonard street, to the center of the intersection of Leonard and Eichardson streets ; thence in an easterly direction along the center of Richardson street to the center of the intersection of the Newtown turnpike (or North road) by Richardson street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center of the Newtown turnpike, in all its turnings, to the center of the Newtown creek ; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of Newtown creek, in all its meandcrings, to the permanent line of the East river to a point where the permanent line of the East river would intercept the center of Newtown creek, if continued ; thence along the easterly permanent line of the East river in a southerly direction to the center of North-Thirteenth street, to the place of beginning. § 19. The Eighteenth ward of said city shall comprise the following district, viz. : Beginning at the center of the intersection of Richard- son street and Newtown turnpike ; tlience running in a northeasterly direction along the center of Newtown turnpike to the center of New- BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 15 Title I.— Section 20. town creek; thence in a southeasterly direction along the center of Newtown creek to the intersection of the center of the Williamsburgh and Jamaica turnpike ; thence in a southeasterly direction to a certain rock called " Arbitration rock ;" thence south twenty-seven degrees east one hundred and fifty-five chains to a heap of stones ; thence in the same direct line, until it is intersected by the westerly line of the town of JTew Lots ; thence in a southerly direction along said last mentioned line to the northerly line of the present city of Brooklyn ; thence northwesterly along said last mentioned Tme, and along the center of Division avenue, to the center of the intersection of Division and Flushing avenues ; thence easterly along the center of Flushing avenue to the center of the intersection of Flusliing and Bnshwick avenues ; thence in a northerly, northwesterly and northeasterly, and again northwesterly direction, along the center of Bushwick avenue, to the center of the intersection of Bushwick avenue and North- Second street ; thence westerly along the center of North-Second street to the center of the intersection of North-Second and Smith streets; thence northerly along the center of Smith street to the center of the intersection of Smith street and Eichardson street ; thence along the center of Richardson street to the place of beginning. § 20. The said several Avards of the said city, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall be considered, and are hereby declared to be, towns of the county of Kings. TITLE II. OF THE COMMOX COimCIL. Sec. 1. — Legislative power of corporation. Mayor and board of aldermen, the common council. 2. — Board of aldermen, two from each ward. 3. — Qualifications of aldermen. 4, — Classification of aldermen first elected nnder charter. 5. — Terra of office of aldermen of each class. Aldermen to direct street cleaning, and well and pump repairing. 6. — Term of office of members of common council. Vacancy in common council, filled by special election. 7. — Clerk of common council is city clerk. Assistant clerk. 8. — A majority of aldermen elected, a quorum 9. — Common council, organization, rules, &c. 10. — Ordinances and resolutions, how passed. On veto of mayor. 11.— Publication of financial affairs of city. 12. — Meetings of common council. 13. — Special powers of common council : Sub. div. 1. As to finances of city. — 2, Wharves, piers, and slips. — 3, Police and fire departments — i. License and regulation of vehicles for carrying passen- gers and merchandise ; surveyt)rs, auctioneers, pedlers, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, sweeps, and scavengers; regulation of weights and measures.— 5, Hay. — 6, Markets. — 7, Cattle, swine, &c., running at large. — 8, Keeping of cows, swine, ^ c— '^, Nuisances.— 10, Flying "kites.-ll. Bathing.— 12, Racinsr. — 1=^ Burials.— 14. Gunpowder. — 15, disorderly houses, saining, vagrants, &c.— 16, Exhibitions.— 17, Obstruction of streets.— IS, Duties of officers.— 19, Drinking liouses. — 20, Unwholesome businesse*. — 21. Erection of buildings.— 22, Side-walks.— 23, Draining and filling lots.— 24, Pavof offi- cers— 25, Cliimneys. &c.— 26, Taxes.— 27, Boat runners.— 28, Specia"l taxes. —29, Bread.— 30, Ringing of bells, &c., in street.— 31, Dangerous buildings. — 32, Duties of officers. — ^33, Currection of assessments. 16 BROOKLYN CITY CHAETER. Title 11.— Section 1. 14. —Making and repealing ordinances. 15. — Removal of houses. 16. — Penalties for violation of laws, ordinances, &c. 17. — Suits in behalf of city ; how prosecuted. 1 S. — Publication of ordinances. 19. — Corporation newspapers. 20. — Aldermen are fence viewers. Aldermen have powers of justices of the peace. 21. — Mayor to estimate yearly expenses of city. 22. — Common council and supervisors, in joint board to determine amount to be raised by tax. 23. — ^Lamp and fire districts. Apportionment of tax as to city at large, and lamp and fire districts. 24. — Presiding offioer, and clerk, of joint board. Supervisors of county, to assess city tax. 25. — Expenses of lamp and fire districts. 26. — On remission of fines. Section 1. The legislative power of said corporation shall be vested in a mayor and a board of aldermen, who together shall form the common council. § 2. The board of aldermen shall consist of two aldermen to be elected from each ward. § 3. Every alderman shall, at the time of his election, be an elector of the ward in which he shall be chosen, and shall have been a resident of the city for at least three years immediately previous thereto. § 4. The board of aldermen first elected under and by virtue of this act shall, at its first meeting, be divided into two classes, one of which shall go out in each year. One alderman of each ward shall form one class, and the other aldermen shall form the other class. The mayor shall then in open board make such classification by lot, certify the same in writing, and file it with the clerk of the board, who shall enter the same on the journal. § 5. The first of said classes of the board of aldermen shall hold office for one year ; but after the expiration of the said year, the term of office of the aldermen elected for the said class shall be two years. The second class shall hold office for two years. The aldermen in each ward shall have the power to cause the streets in their wards to be cleaned, and to make contracts for the same, and to cause the wells and pumps to be repaired ; and in case of their disagreement, the mayor shall decide between them in relation thereto, and the expense thereof shall be a charge upon such ward only. In the performance of this duty they may require the services of the commissioner of repairs and supplies. § 6. The members of the common council shall, unless removed for cause, hold office until their places are supplied by the election of new members, who shall have qualified in the manner provided by this act. In case any alderman shall, after his election or during his term of office, remove out of the ward in which he shall have been elected, his office shall be deemed vacant, and he shall no longer act as an alderman. They may also resign their respective otiices at any time, by filing written notices thereof with the city clerk, and pub- lishing a copy of such notice in the corporation newspapers ; and the BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 17 Title II.— Section 7. common council shall have power to direct a special election to supply any vacancy that may occur, but the person so elected shall hold office only for the residue of the term so vacated. § 7. The common council shall appoint a clerk, who shall perform such duties as may be prescribed for him. The clerk so appointed shall also be the city clerk, and hold his office for one year, unless re- moved for cause; and by consent of the common council he may appoint an assistant clerk, for whose acts he shall be responsible. § 8. A majority of aldermen elected shall C(mstitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members. § 9. The common council shall annuallv elect a president from its own body, and in his absence a presidentYor the time being, choose officers, appoint its times and places of meetina;, determine the rules of its own proceedings, be the sole judge of the qualifications of its members, keep a journal of its proceedings, and may punish or expel a member for disorderly conduct or a violation of its rules, or declare his seat vacated by reasons of absence, provided such absence be con- tinued for the space of two months. But no expulsion shall take place except by the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected, nor until the delinquent member shall have an opportunity to be heard in his defence. § 10. Every ordinance or resolution of the common council shall, before it takes effect, be presented, duly certified, to the mayor, and the approval of the minutes by the common council shall be conclu- sive evidence that the said ordinance or resolution has been so pre- sented to the mayor. If he approve of it, he shall sign it ; if not, he shall return it with his objections, and file it with the clerk within ten days after he received it ; the said board shall, at its first regular meeting thereafter, enter the objections at length on its journal, and cause said objections to be published in the corporation newspapers, after which pubhcation it shall proceed to consider the same, and if two-thirds of all the members elected shall then agree to pass the same, it shall take effect as a law ; but in every such case the votes shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the journal. And if such_ ordinance or resolution shall not be returned by the mayor, within ten days after he has received it, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. But no such ordinance or resolution shalHake effect, in any sense, until the day following the next regular meeting of the board, except by unanimous consent of the board ; in which case it shall take effect upon its being approved by the mayor. § 11. The common council shall at least once a year, not more than thirty nor less than twenty days before the annual election, pubhsh in such of the newspapers printed in the city as they shall designate, a full statement of all the receipts and expenditures of every description for the fiscal year ending on the 31st day of August pre- ceding such statement, including all the moneys which have passed through the hands of the comptroller or treasurer for any purpose whatever, together with the different sources of city revenue, the 18 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title II.— Section 12. amount received under each, the several appropriations made by the common council, the objects for which the same were made, and the sums expended for each ; also any moneys borrowed upon the credit of the city, whether by temporary loans or by the issue of bonds, the terms upon which they were obtained, the authority under wliich they were borrowed, and the purposes to which they were applied, and how much of the same or other city indebtedness has been paid, and by what means. The statement shall also include a detailed account of the city property, existing debts of every description, and the condition of the sinking fund, with all such other information as may be necessary for a full understanding of the financial concerns of the city, showing also the relative indebtedness and property of the portions of said city formerly included in the cities of Brooklyn, Wil- liamsburgh and the town of Bushwick. § 12. The common council shall hold stated meetings, commencing on the first Monday of January ; but the mayor, or in his absence any three aldermen, may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members of said council, served personally or left at his usual place of abode. § 13. The common council shall have power within said city to make, establish, publish and modify, amend or repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws for the following purposes : 1. To manage and regulate the finances and property, real and personal, of the city. 2. To regulate the wharves, piers and slips owned by the city, and dii'ect the atfairs thereof. 3. To establish and regulate a day and night police and fire depart- ments of the city, within the limits prescribed by law, and to define and regulate the duties and powers of firemen and police. 4. To license and regulate cartmen, porters, hack, cab, omnibus, stage and truck owners and drivers ; and all railroad cars running on any railroad established since January first, eighteen hundred and fifty- three ; carriages and vehicles used for the transportation of passengers and merchandise, goods or articles of any kind (or to authorize the mayor to grant such licenses, and to require the owners to mark tlie same in such manner as the common council shall designate) ; weights and measures, surveyors, common criers, hawkers, pedlers, pawn- brokers, junk shop keepers, sweeps and scavengers, and to fix the rates of compensation to be allowed to them, and to prohibit unlicensed persons from acting in either of such capacities. 5. To prescribe the places of selling hay, straw, and other articles from wagons or other vehicles. 6. To locate, regulate and remove slaughter houses, establish and regulate public markets, license and regulate butchers, designate the places, times and manner of selling meats, fish, fruits and vegetables, and to prohibit persons from selling without license. 7. To restrain and regulate the running at large of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, geese or other animals, and to authorize and regulate the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and cost BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 19 Title II.— Section 13. do^^^^^^^^'°^^' ^^^ *^ ^^^^ ordinances authorizing the destruction of _ 8. To regulate or prohibit the keeping of cows, swine and other animals. ' 9. To prohibit and abate all nuisances. 10. To regulate and prohibit the flying of kites or any other prac- tice having a tendency tofrighten animals or to annoy persons passing m tne streets or on the side-walks in said city. ^ & 11. To regulate or prohibit swimming or bathing in the waters of or bounding the city. 12. To prevent horse-racing and immoderate driving in said city and to authorize the stopping of any one who shall be guilty of so 13. To regulate the burial of the dead, prohibit interments within such hmits as itmay prescribe, purchase land for public burial places direct the keeping and returning bills of mortality, and to establish Htv\X'i u/^' .^r^T"^*^ '^'^^ ^^''^''^^ t^^ streets of said city as the health, quiet and good order of the city may, in their opin- ion require, or to prohibit the same entirely, if necessary 14. To prohibit or regulate the keeping and conveying of gunpow- der and other dangerous material, to provide for the forfeitui-e of the buHdingf ^'^oicudles and lights in barns, stables and othe? 15. To suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill- fame, gaming tables, ball alleys, the playing of cards or games of chance or fer^''''i ^'"^T '' ''^^ '" ^' ^^•^^^' '^ destroy^all instruments or devices employed m gaming, and to restrain and punish vagrants mendicants, street beggars and common prostitutes. vagrants, 16. io prohibit or regulate the exhibitions of common showmen or of curiosities or other public exhibitions tending to create or en- courage idleness and immorality. 17. To prevent and remove obstructions and incumbrances in and upon all wharves, streets and public places, and the throwing of dirt, filtn or rubbish on or from the same into the water adjoining ; to direct and regulate he planting, rearing, trimming and preserving of orna- mental and shade trees in the streets, parks and grounds ot^the citV to enforce the removal of snow, ice or dirt from the side walks and gutters, and to direct the sweeping and cleaning of streets by the per- sons owning or occupying the premises fronting thereon ^ dp/f?;^« o^^'^'f '^f ''''^. "^^^""^ ^^^ ^''^'^' «f ^11 ^ffi^e^-s appointed un- der this act, not otherwise prescribed for by law. 19. To regulate victualling houses or cellars, gardens and other places where ardent spirits or other intoxicating drinks may be sold iTcensed.^ ' '^" ^''^'^^ "^ '^' ^^^^' '^''^' ^^ P^'««^' duly 20 To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar tallow chandler's shop, soap factory, tannery, slaughtei4ousef sLb£, staul privy sewer, or other unwholesome or nauseous house, pl'ace or yard, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time ti time, as 20 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title II.— Section 13. often as it may be necessary for the health, comfort or convenience of the inliabitants, at the expense of the owner or occupant thereof, and to prescribe certain hmits within which it shall not be lawful to erect or establish any offensive or unwholesome manufactory or business. 21. To prevent or rep:ulate the erection or construction of any stoop, step, platform, bay window, cellar door, area, descent into a cellar or basement, sign, or any post or erection, or any projection from any building Or otlierwise, in, over or upon any street or avenue in, or the removal of any house or other building through said city, and to cause the same to be taken out and removed from such street, or avenue at the expense of the owner or occupant of the premises. 22. To cause side-walks to be flagged, and new curb and gutter stones to be put down and laid, where the same do not conform to the ordinances of the common council, except where the want of confor- mity is the result of the action of the common council or of any city officer or officers, and the expense thereof to be assessed on the adjoin- ing lots, and collected in the same manner as for regulating, grading and paving streets. 23. To direct the digging down, draining or filling up of lots, pieces or parcels of ground, in all cases in which by a vote of two- thirds they shall decide such digging down, draining, or filling up ne- cessary for preventing any damage or injury to the streets, side-walks, cross-walks, or to the adjoining property, or for abating a nuisance, at the expense of the owners thereof; to direct the fencing in or closing of vacant lands in said city, and the building and maintaining of suf- ficient brick or stone walls between any lot or piece of land and any street or avenue adjoining the same in said city, in all cases where such lots or pieces of land shall not properly conform to the level of the streets or avenues adjoining the same, and to require such wall to be built upon any lot or piece of land which shall not so conform, at the expense of the owner or owners thereof, and to be so constructed as to prevent the draining or running of water or any other thing from any street or avenue upon any such lot, and so as to maintain, uphold and preserve the side-walk of any such street or avenue, and to assess and collect the expenses thereof in the same manner as for regulating, grading and paving streets ; but before any ordinance shall be passed for any of the purposes in this, or the last preceding sub- division mentioned, ten days' notice of the application for or the intention to pass such ordinance shall be given to every person to be affected thereby, either personally or by publication in the corporation newspapers. 24. To fix and determine a reasonable compensation to be paid to any officer of said city, or other person employed by them, for any service, required of him by this act or by any ordinance or resolution passed by them, for which no specific fee or compensation is provided by this act, to be paid by the person or persons for whom such service shall be performed, for the use of the city ; and to regulate the com- pensation for the services of any officer of said city, or other person BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 21 Title II.— Section 13. employed by him, for searching the books, files or records of said city lor private persons, 25. To regulate the construction of chimneys, and to compel the sweepmg thereof; to prevent the setting up or construction of stoves, boilers ovens or other things in such a manner as to be dangerous : to prohibit the deposit of ashes in unsafe places; to authorize any city oftcer, or person or persons whom tliey may designate for that purpose, to enter upon and inspect any place or places, for the purpose ot ascertaining whether the same is or are in a safe condition, and if not, to direct or cause the same to be made so ; to regulate the carry- ing on of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires • to regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale or use of fireworks or fire- arms m said city ; to require all such further or other acts to be done, ana to regulate or prohibit the doing of all such further or other acts as they may deem proper to prevent the occurrence and provide for the extinguishment of fires in said city. ^ 26. To estimate and determine what amount of monev mav be raised to defray the annual current expenditure of the citv, and to Si ^i ^^^^^ ^^'' requisite measures for levying and collecting it 27. lo regulate and restrain runners for boats, stages, railroads taverns and other houses, and the running of engines and cars throuo-h said city on any railroad established since January first, eighteen hun- dred and fitty-three, 28. To raise by tax, annually, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, towards defraying the expenses of the city hospital, and the sum of one thousand dollars for the celebration of the anniversary of American Independence, and, in the same manner as the expenses of the fire department shall be raised, the sum of one thousand five hun- dred dollars for the fire department funds of the western and eastern districtsof said city, to be apportioned between them according to the taxable property of each of said districts, and the sum of one thousanddollars, upon the whole city, to be apportioned between the dispensaries now established in the present cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh according to the taxable property of the districts in ■which they are situated. r t- j 29. To establish assize of bread, and regulate the sale thereof 60. lo prevent or regulate the ringing and tolling of bells, blowing ot horns and crying of goods, and other things in said city. 61. lo raze or demolish any building or erection which, by reason ot fire or any other cause, may become dangerous to human life or health, or tend to extend a conflagration. f. ^^' ^? ^™'^ '?^ ^^^"""^ ^^'^ '^''^'^^ ^^'^^^^^ are by this act required «u.b'n^.f f ^7 ^^? '?^''^'^ ^^'^'^ «^ ^^'^ ^ity, and to prescribe such other or further duties to be performed by them or any of them as It may deem proper. ' 83. the common council shall have power to correct and rectifv any errors committed m any assessment as well for taxes for the vari, ous public purposes of the said city as for improvements, local and general, and may exercise such power as well before as after the con- 22 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title IT.— Section 14. •firrnation of sucli assessment, on the petition of the person or persons considering: themselves aggrieved thereby ; and they may cause to be repaid to the petitioners any excess which may appear to have been paid by them over and above their jnst and proper tax or assessment, and may also canse to be repaid any amount which the said petition- ers shall liave paid when justly and equitably they should not have paid the same. The exercise of this |)Ower shall be solely in the dis- cretion of the said common council, and they may or may not exercise the same, as in their judgment the justice and merits of the case may require. § 14. The common council shall also have power to make, estab- lish, alter, modify, amend and repeal all such other ordinances, rules, police regulations and by-laws, not contrary to the laws of this state, or of the United States, as they may deem necessary to carry into effect the ])owers conferred on it by this act, or by any other law of this state ; and such also as they may deem necessary and proper for the good government, order and protection of persons and property, and for the preservation of the public health, peace and prosperit}^ of said city and its inhabitants. § 15. The common council may allow or permit the removal of any house or other building through or over any street or avenue of said city ; but in no case shall a building be removed into a fire district. § 16. In every by-law, ordinance, or police or sanatary regulation the said common council may pass, it may impose such penalty for the violation or non-performance thereof as it may deem proper ; but no sucli by-law, ordinance or regulation shall extend in its operation beyond the territorial limits of the city. § 17. Suits may be prosecuted in the corporate name of the city against any person or persons who shall violate any provisions of any law, ordinance or regulation of the common council of said city, or who shall neglect or refuse to perform any act or duty thereby required of him or them ; and in every such action it shall be suffi- cient to state in the complaint the by-law, ordinance or regulation, and the section thereof, upon which such action is brought ; and pro- ceedings for any violation of the ordinances of the city imposing a penalty, may be commenced by warrant for the arrest of the offender, as well as by summons, to be issued by any magistrate or court having jurisdiction in the case before whom complaint shall be made, under oath, and every police justice and justice of the peace elected in said city shall have jurisdiction in all such cases. § 18. Every general ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation which may be passed by the common council, imposing a penalty, shall, after passage thereof, and before the same shall take effect, be pub- lished for ten days successively in the corporation newspapers. Proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the printer or publisher of such newspaper or papers, taken before any ofiicer authorized to administer oaths, filed in the office of the city clerk, or a copy thereof certified by said city clerk, shall be deemed conclusive evidence thereof in all BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 23 Title II.— Section 19. courts and places ; but such publication may be proved by any other competent evidence. § 19. The common council shall designate such newspapers printed in the western district in said city, not exceeding four in number, in which shall be published all ordinances, resolutions, notices and other proceedings which by this act or any other act are or may be required to be published affecting that district, except as hereinafter otherwise directed, and it may alter such designation at pleasure; but notice of such alteration shall be published in the paper or papers employed by it at the time of such alteration. Notices of tax and assessment sales in such district shall be published in the two newspapers having the largest average daily circulation. All notices of tax and assessment sales, and all ordinances, resolutions, notices and other proceedings affecting the eastern district, shall be published in the two daily news- papers printed in that district having the largest average actual circu- lation therein. § 20. The aldermen to be elected, as hereinbefore provided, shall be fence viewers within their respective wards, and shall have and exercise all the powers and authority of justices of peace of towns in criminal proceedings, except the discharge of persons in custody ; but shall not be entitled to receive compensation for any services as such justices of the peace. § 21. The mayor shall, annually, on or before the first Monday of February, present to the common council and supervisors of the city, in joint meeting, a statement in writing of the several sums of money which he shall deem necessary to be raised by tax for the va- rious purposes contemplated by this act. § 22. On that day the said common council and supervisors of the city shall meet in joint board, and then, or as soon thereafter as practicable, shall proceed to determine, by a majority of at least two- thirds of the members present, what sums, in addition to such as may be directed by the board of supervisors of the county of Kings to be raised to defray county charges and entitle the city to its distribu- tive share of the public school moneys, are necessary to defray the contingent and all other expenses of said city, including any interest due or to become due on the public debt of said city, or any portion thereof, as well as any instalments which may become due thereon, together with such sums as shall hereinafter be authorized for the use and benefit of the public schools of said city, or such as may at any time be required by law to be paid into the sinking fund of the city. § 23. The whole of said city, except the eighth, ninth and eigh- teenth wards, shall constitute a lamp and fire district, subject to the several provisions for the enlargement thereof hereinafter contained ; and in determining the amount required to be raised by tax, as pro- vided in the last preceding section, the said joint board shall apportion the aggregate amoimt thereof between the city at large and the several parts thereof, by specifying how much is to be levied upon the city at large, and how much upon the property v/ithin the lamp and fire district. 24 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title II.— Section 24. § 24. The mayor shall preside over such joint board, and the city clerk shall be the clerk thereof, who shall deliver a copy of the reso- lution, duly certified by the mayor, to the board of supervisors of the county of Kings, at their next annual meeting thereafter ; and the several amounts specified in said resolution shall be assessed and rated by said board upon and among the owners of the estate, real and personal, incorporated companies and associations in said city, in the manner herein directed. § 25. No part of the expenses of the lamp and fire district shall be raised outside of the same ; nor shall any portion of the eighth, ninth and eighteenth wards be included therein; but the common council may at any time they think proper, by a vote of two-thirds, em- brace any of the improved portions of said wards within such district, and such portions of the said wards may also be annexed to said dis- trict upon the application of a majority of the persons interested therein, if the said common council deem it proper so to annex the same. § 26. The common council shall have no power to remit fines for penalties incurred in violation of ordinances, or forfeitures for non- fulfilment of contracts for work done in cases where local assessments shall be laid, but such power may be exercised by the mayor, who shall, before the same be effective, transmit his decision to the com- mon council, with his reason therefor in writing, who shall order the publication of the same. TITLE III. OF CITY OFFICEES, THEIE ELECTION AXD DUTIES. Sec. 1. — Administrative officers. 2. — Qualification for office. 3. — Time of election of officers. Of election districts. Voters to vote in district where residing. 4. — Of elections ; ballots, how endorsed. .5. — Election returns. 6. — Board of canvassers of first election. 7. — Board of canvassers, except for first election. 8. — Statement of votes, and persons voted for. 9. — Determination of result of election; certification, 10. — Minutes of board of canvassers. Notification of persons elected. 11. — Mayor elected biennially ; qualifications; salary; is supervisor ex-officio ; has power of justices of the peace. Subdiv. 1. — ^^Duties of the mayor. 2. — Power of mayor as police magistrate ; power to arrest, &c., for violating laws and ordinances. Mayor may suspeud licenses, and warrants of office. 12. — Vacancy in mayoralty, how filled. 13. — Comptroller elected triennially ; duties and powers; of salary. 14. — Street commissioner elected triennially; duties and powers; of salary. Deputy street commissioner, liow appointed. 15. — Treasurer, elected triennally, duties and powers. 16. — Commissioner of repairs and supplies elected triennally; duties and powers ; of salary. Deputy and foreman, how appointed. 17. — Auditor elected triennially ; duties and powers. BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 25 Title III.— Section 1. 18. — Attorney and counsellor, appointed; salary; duties and power. Assistant attorney ; salary. 19. — On remission of fines and penalties. On cession of lands to city. 20. — City clerk, appointed by common council ; his duties. 21. — City surveyors, appointed by common council. 22. — Constables ; one elected in each ward annually. 23. — Oflicial terms of officers elected, when begin. 24 — Common council to appoint certain officers. 25. — Appointed officers to give bona. 26. — Constables to give bond. 27.— Of sureties. 28.— Official oath. 29. — Salaries of officers. 80. — Eesignations of officers ; vacancy, how filled. 81. — Disnnssals from office. 82.— Officers to deliver books and papers to successor; penalty. 33. — Disability of members of common council to hold what other offices. 84. — Sui)ervisors; of compensation and powers. 35. — AVestern and Eastern districts, bounds. 36. — City court; jurisdiction. City judge ; term of office six years. Section 1. The administrative powers of the said corporation shall be vested in a mayor, chief of pohce, comptroller, auditor, treasurer, street commissioner, commissioners of repairs and supplies, two col- lectors of taxes and assessments, one for the eastern and one for the western district, and such other officers as shall from time to time be created by law or appointed by virtue of this act. § 2. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office unless he be at the time of his election a resident and elector of the city, and if elected to any ward or district office, an actual resident in such ward or district ; and his removal therefrom shall vacate such office. § 3. Elections for mayor, aldermen, and such other officers as are by the provisions of this act to be elected, shall be annually held in each of tlie wards and election districts of said city, on the day of the general state election, at such places as the common council shall designate. The first election for said officers, except street commis- sioner, collectors of taxes and assessments, and commissioner of repairs and supplies, shall be held on the day of the next general election, in November next, at the same time and places and by the same inspectors as the said general election shall be held, who shall be provided with suitable boxes for the purpose by the same authori- ties, whose duty it shall be to provide boxes for such general election. The common councils of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh, respectively, and the supervisors and justices of the peace of Bush wick, shall desig- nate election districts and appoint inspectors for the said first election for the additional wards laid out by this act in their respective muni- cipalities. The electors shall vote by ballot in the district where they actually reside. § 4. On the outside of each ballot, when folded, shall appear, writ- ten or printed, one of the following words, "City," "Excise," but no ballot found in the proper box sliall be rejected for want of such en- dorsement. The ballot endorsed " City," shall contain the names of all the city and ward officers then to be chosen (except commissioners 26 BROOLKYN CITY CHARTER. Title III.— Section 6. of excise), any or either of them; and the ballot endorsed "Excise," the names of the commissioners of excise to be chosen, any or either of them; such ballots shall be deposited in separate boxes, to De provided by the city for that purpose, and all the provisions of law in respect to the election of state officers shall be deemed to apply to elections held under this act, so far as the same are applicable and consistent therewith. § 5. The original statements which shall be made of the canvass Bhall be duly certified by the inspectors. They shall deliver one copy thereof, together with a copy of the poll lists, to the city clerk, and another copy of each to the chairman of the board of canvassers within twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls, which shall remain with them until delivered to the board of canvassers, without alteration, supplement or amendment. § 6. For the purpose of canvassing the votes given for city and ward officers at the general election to be held in November, 1854, the common council of the city of Brooklyn shall appoint twelve of its number, the common council of the city of Williamsburgh shall appoint four of its number, and the inspectors of election of the two election districts of the town of Bushwick shall each appoint one of their number ; such appointments shall be made at least two weeks before said election, and the persons thus appointed shall constitute a board of canvassers for said election, with power to appoint its own chairman and clerk. Said board shall meet and organize in the com- mon council chamber of the city of Brooklyn at least one week before said election ; the statements of canvass shall be delivered to such chairman and clerk, as provided in the fifth section of this title ; and said board shall thereupon proceed to canvass such statements at the same time and in the same manner as hereinafter provided. § 7. For the purpose of canvassing the votes given for the city and ward officers at any election except the said election in November, 1854, the common council shall constitute the board of canvassers. The mayor, or in his absence the president of said board, shall pre- side, and the city clerk or his assistant shall be the clerk thereof. They shall meet at the room of the common council on the Monday next following the election, at or before five o'clock of that day, and a majority of aldermen shall constitute a quorum. The clerk shall then produce the original statements of canvass in each district, as the same shall have been delivered to him, and from them the board shall proceed to ascertain the votes given at such election for the sev- eral persons voted for thereat for the several offices mentioned in such statements. § 8. They shall make a written statement of the whole number of votes given for mayor of said city, as well as for the several other officers to be elected for said city and the several wards thereof; the names of the persons to whom such votes were given, and the number of votes given to each. § 9. Upon such statement, the board shall proceed to determine and declare what person or persons have received the highest number Mi* BKOOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 27 Title III.— Section 10. of votes for each of the offices mentioned in such statement. In case any two or more persons shall have received an equal number of votes for the same office, the board shall determine by lot between them. The statement and final declaration of the board shall be cer- tified by the presiding officer and clerk, and filed in the office of the city clerk. § 10. The clerk shall keep proper minutes of the proceedings of the board, and enter the same, with the statement and declaration of the board, in the book of minutes of the common council. Said statement and declaration shall, within one week thereafter, be published in one or more of the newspapers printed in each of the districts of said city. And within ten days after the board shall have determined what per- sons have been elected to the several offices in said city, the clerk shall cause written notices of his election to be given to each of the persons so elected. § 11. The mayor shall be elected every two years, and no person shall be eligible to that office unless he has resided in the city at least five years, and has attained the age of twenty-five years. His salary shall not be less than two thousand dollars per annum. He shall, by virtue of his office, be a supervisor of the city of Brooklyn, and shall possess all the jurisdiction and exercise all the powers and au- thority in criminal cases of a justice of the peace of said city, in addi- tion to the powers heretofore given him by this or any other act ; but shall receive no fees for his services as such justice of the peace, or for his services as supervisor. It shall be his duty : 1. To communicate to the common council, at their first meeting in the month of January, each year, and oftener if he shall deem it expedient, a general statement of the situation and condition of the city in relation to its government, finances and improvements, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. 2. To be vigilant and active in causing the laws and ordinances of the city to be duly executed and enforced, and to exercise a con- stant supervision over the conduct and acts of all subordinate officers, and to examine into all complaints preferred against them for a viola- tion or neglect of duty, and generally to perform all such duties as may be required of him by law; for which purpose he shall have and possess all the authority and power, in criminal cases, to arrest and commit for examination all offenders for offences committed within said city against the laws of this state, of a police magistrate or jus- tice of the peace of any of the towns of this state, and for the pre- servation of the peace. And shall have the power and authority to issue warrants against any and all persons violating any of the ordi- nances, by-laws or regulations of the common council or of the board of health, or to direct the proper officers to arrest such persons and summarily to hear, try and determine and dispose of the same, where the penalty imposed by said ordinance, by-law or regulation shall not exceed ten dollars. And in case the penalty imposed by said ordi- nance, by-law or regulation shall not be paid forthwith, upon such, person being adjudged guilty, then the said mayor shall have power 28 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title III.— Section 12. by warrant under his hand and seal, to commit the said offender to the county jail of Kings county for a term not exceeding thirty days, or until the fine is paid; and in cases where the penalty shall exceed ten dollars, the said mayor may, after examination, hold the parties to bail. And in all cases where such person shall hold a license or war- rant, granted by the common council or any of the officers thereof, it shall be lawful for the said mayor to suspend said licenses, or war- rant, or the person so found guilty, from the benefits and privileges of said license or warrant, until the common council shall pass upon the same. And it shall be the duty of the mayor to report the fact of such suspension, together with his reason therefor, to the common council at the next meeting thereof. And no person so suspended shall be entitled to any benefits, privileges or rights under such license or warrant until the suspension shall be removed by the common council. § 12. "Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office of mayor, or whenever the mayor shall be prevented, by absence from the city, by sickness or any other cause, from attending to the duties of his office, the president of the common council, or if the said president shall be absent or disabled, the president to be elected pro tempore, shall act as mayor and possess all the rights and powers of the mayor during the vacancy in office caused by the absence or disability of the mayor or of the president of the common council, and the said president shall receive the same compensation as the mayor, while acting in such capacity. § 13. There shall be a comptroller, who shall be elected by the city at large every three years, except as hereinafter mentioned. He shall render to the common council, as often as required, a full and detailed statement of all the receipts and disbursements of the city government from time to time, specifying the amounts expended and unexpended on each appropriation made by the common council, with the state of account, together with a general statement of the liabilities and re- sources of the city, and such other information as may be necessary to a full understanding of the financial affairs of the city. He shall also, under the direction of the common council, prepare the annual state- ment hereinbefore directed to be published, and manage all the finan- cial concerns of the corporation, in addition to such duties as may be required of him by law, and shall be entitled to receive such salary as the common council shall determine, and by consent of the common council may appoint a deputy comptroller, for whose acts he shall be responsible. He may administer an oath to any person or officer who shall be required to render any account or make any return to him, or furnish proof of his right to receive any sura of money, or any evidence of indebtedness from the said comptroller, or from the city of Brooklyn. § 14. There shall be a street commissioner, who shall be elected by the city at large every three years. Pie shall perform all such ser- vices as may be directed in relation to the opening, widening or regu- lating, grading and paving streets and avenues, with such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed for him by the common coua- BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 2^ Title III.— Section 15. cil, not inconsistent with this office. He shall receive and have charge of all maps, books and papers appertaining to his department, and shall be entitled to snch salary as the said common council shall determine ; and by consent of the common council may appoint a deputy street commissioner, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the street commissioner. The deputy street commissioner shall possess all the powers and discharge all the duties of the street commissioner, in case of the absence of that officer. The street commissioner shall also have power to appoint such other clerks and subordinates in his department as the common council shall from time to time deem necessary. § 15. There shall be a treasurer, who shall be elected by the city at large every three years, except as hereinafter mentioned, who shall receive and deposit daily, under the direction of the common council, all moneys belonging to the city in such banks, to the credit of the city, as the common council may direct, and upon such terms as the common council may determine, or in default thereof, in such banks as he may think fit, but no greater amount shall be deposited in any one bank than one-quarter of its capital. He shall countersign all warrants, also keep an accurate account of all receipts and payments, and make weekly returns thereof in such manner as the common council shall direct. The common council shall make orders for the payment of all moneys to be drawn out of the treasury, and no money shall be drawn or paid out of the treasury except in pursuance of such orders appro- priating the same, and upon warrants signed by the mayor or acting mayor and comptroller, and countersigned by the cit}^ clerk, or in his absence by his assistant. Such warrants shall specify for what pur- pose the amount therein mentioned is to be paid, the appropriation against which it is drawn, and the date of the ordinance making the same ; and the said clerk shall keep an accurate account of all orders, directing moneys to be paid by the treasurer, in a book provided for that purpose. § 16. There shall be a commissioner of repairs and supplies, who shall be elected by the city at large every three years, except as here- inafter mentioned. He shall, under the direction of the common council, have charge of all repairs and supplies of and for the public buildings, station houses and bell towers, wharves and piers belonging to the city, and of and for the pavements, sides and cross-walks, fire engines and other property of the tire department, lamps, oil and gas, fuel and stationery for the public offices of the city. He shall perform such other duties as shall from time to time be prescribed for him by said common council, not inconsistent with his office, and receive a salary to be determined by said common council ; and by consent of the common council may appoint a deputy commissioner and foreman of repairs and supplies, for whose acts he shall be responsible ; and shall have power, under the direction and by the consent of the mayor and the aldermen of the ward Avhere repairs are required to be performed immediately, to expend in such repairs an amount not exceeding fifty dollars on any such occasion. 30 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title III.— Section 17. § 17. There shall be an auditor, who shall be elected by the city at large every three years, except as hereinafter mentioned. It shall be bis duty to examine all bills presented against the city for payment. No claims against the city, or for local improvements, or otherwise howsoever, shall be paid, unless he shall certify the same to have been incurred under due authority of law, and that the services have been rendered or the materials furnished for which such bills may be pre- sented, and that the charges are just and reasonable, or according to contract. He may require the oath mentioned in section twelve of this title, and may administer the same. § 18. The common council shall appoint a suitable and proper per- son as, and who shall be the attorney and counsel for the corporation. He shall have the management, charge and control of all the law business of the corporation, and the departments thereof, and all the law business in which the city shall be interested ; draw all leases, deeds and other legal papers for the city, and shall be the legal adviser of the mayor and common council and the several departments of the corporation ; he shall have the charge, management and control of, and shall conduct all the proceedings necessary in opening, widening, altering, or closing streets, avenues, parks, roads or lanes, and all other local improvements of the same kind, and he shall have the power and authority from time to time, during his continuance in office, to authorize an attorney or other person to appear for him in his name, for and on behalf of the said corporation, and conduct and defend suits and proceedings in all courts and places. The said attor- ney and counsellor shall devote the whole of the business hours of the day to and for the use of the corporation and business above set forth. He shall receive from the common council an annual salary of three thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, exclusive of all disbursements, and in full for all services rendered or performed by him for the cor- poration, including all attorney and counsel fees arising or which may accrue on any proceedings for local improvements or otherwise ; all which fees shall belong to and be paid into the city treasury. The common council shall provide suitable apartments for the said attor- ney and counsel in the City Hall, with all the necessary furniture and stationery, and shall allow and pay the said attorney and counsel such further sum as may be necessary, not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars annually (to be paid quarterly), in full for the services of any attorney or clerk he may employ, which salary shall be in lieu of all fees and perquisites whatever as such attorney and counsellor, and he shall hold his office for the term of one year from the time of his appointment. § 1 9. No fines imposed for a violation of any of the ordinances, by- laws, or regulations of the common council shaU be remitted by the mayor until after having received the advice in writing of the said attorney and counsellor. And no deed of cession of any street or parts of streets, avenues, lanes, roads or parks, shall be accepted by the said common council until the title of the parties ceding the lands on the same shall have been examined and ascertained by the said attor- BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 31 Title III.— Section 20. ney and counsellor, and he shall report to the common council such fact in writing. The fees and expenses thereof to be paid by the par- ties executing the deed of cession, which said fees and expenses shall be paid into the treasury for the use of the city. § 20. The city clerk shall, in addition to the duties in this act re- quired of him, have charge of all the papers and documents of the city, countersign all licenses granted by the mayor or board of ex- cise, and keep the record of the proceedings of the common council. He shall perform all the duties of the clerks of the several towns of this state, not inconsistent with this act. He shall engross all the ordinances of the common council, in a book to be provided for that purpose, with proper indexes, which book shall be deemed a public record of such ordinances, and each ordinance shall be signed by the maj'or or acting mayor and said clerk. Copies of all papers duly filed in his office, and transcripts thereof, and of the records of pro- ceedings of the common council, and copies of the laws or ordinances of the said city, certified by him under the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts and places of the matters therein contained. He shall also receive and pay over to the treasurer all moneys which by any law or usage are paid to the clerk of the city. § 21. The common council shall annually appoint so many city surveyors as it shall deem proper, and fix their compensation for ser- vices in the opening or grading of any street, avenue, square, or making any other local improvement, and in all other cases in which they may be employed by the common council, and shall require from them bonds, with such penalties as they may deem sufficient to secure the faithful performance of all their duties. § 22. There shall be annually elected, in each ward, one constable, who shall perform such duties as are by law prescribed to constables in other towns and counties of the state. He shall not be considered as attached to the police force, except when specially required by the mayor, or chief of police. § 23. The official term of the several persons who shall be elected in pursuance of this act, shall commence on the first Monday of January next after their election, except the term of office of the collectors of taxes and assessments, whose term of office shall com- mence on the first day of July after their election ; and the official terms of all persons who shall be appointed to any office or place, in pursuance of this act, shall commence as follows : 1. Such as are required to give security for the performance of their duties from the time such security shall be given and approved of. 2. Such as are not required to give security from the time they shall have taken and filed the oath hereafter mentioned. § 24. The common council, in a meeting on the first Monday of January, or as soon thereafter as practicable, at which the mayor or president of the common council shall preside, and from time to time as may be necessary, shall by ballot appoint a suitable person as clerk, attorney and counsellor, one health officer, and a messenger to the said common council, and a keeper of the city hall, two inspectors of 32 BROOKLYN CFTY CHARTER. Title III.— Section 25. pavements for the western district and one for the eastern district, and shall also, by ballot or otherwise, as they may determine, ap- point so many fire-wardens, pound masters, clerks of markets, inspec- tors of meats, surveyors, sealers of weights and measures, and clerks of departments, as they shall deem it expedient to appoint. All per- sons so appointed shall hold their respective ojffices until the first Monday of January next after their appointment, and until their suc- cessors shall have been appointed and have qualified, unless sooner removed for official misconduct. § 25. The treasurer of the city, comptroller, collector of taxes and assessments, auditor, street commissioner, city clerk, the attorney and counsellor, and such other officers as the common council shall direct, shall severally execute a bond to the corporation, in such penalty as the said common council shall require, except as herein otherwise provided, with such sureties as said common council shall approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties, and for accounting and paying over all moneys by them respectively received in their official capacities. In case such officers shall re- fuse or neglect, for ten days after they are notified of their election or appointment, to execute and deliver to the city clerk the bond herein required, such neglect or refusal shall be immediately reported to the said common council, who may declare such office vacant, and forth- with proceed to appoint another in his place. § 26. The constables elected by the several wards shall also, with such sureties as the said common council shall approve, severally execute and deliver to said corporation a bond for the faithful per- formance of their duties, and for the due payment, to every person who may be entitled thereto, of all such sums of money as such con- stable may become liable to pay, by means, or on account of any execution or other process which shall be delivered to him for col- lection. § 27. The sureties referred to in the last two preceding sections shall justify in such form as the common council shall prescribe, and the bonds thereby required, after having been duly approved, shall be filed in the office of the city clerk, except that the bond of the city clerk shall be filed in the office of the comptroller, before any one of the officers required to execute the same shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices. § 28. Every person elected or appointed to any office in pursuance of this act, or of any law or ordinance of the common council, shall, before he enters upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe, before the mayor, city clerk, or some person authorized to administer the same, the constitutional oath of office of this state, and file the same in the office of the city clerk ; and if any such person shall neglect to take such oath for ten days after receiving notice of his election or appointment, or shall neglect for the like space of time to give such security as may be required of him, he shall be considered as having declined such office, and the same shall be deemed vacant ; and if, and whenever any vacancy shall occur in any of the offices to BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 33 Title III.— Section 29. which by this act the common council may make appointments, it shall proceed to appoint suitable persons to fill such vacancies. § 29. The common council shall grant and pay to the mayor, comptroller, auditor, street commissioner, chief of police, collectors of taxes and assessments, attorney and counsellor, treasurer and all other oftcers, assessors, commissioners, clerks or other subordinates, elected or appomted under or in pursuance of this act (except to aldermen and supervisors), such stated salaries as it may from time to time deem proper or shall be fixed by this act; but such salaries shall be instead of all fees and perquisites whatever, for services performed by such ofticers ; and all such fees and perquisites shall be collected and paid to the treasurer of the city for the use of the city, by every such otiicer and clerk, monthly, under oath, to be filed with the comptroller before he shall be entitled to receive any such salary; but no oflScer's salary shall be either increased or diminished after his election and during his continuance in oflfice. _ § 30. Any ofiicer elected under this act may resign his oflSce by givmg notice, in writing, of his intention to the city clerk and pub- li^mg a copy of such notice in the corporation newspapers; and any ofhcer failing to discharge the duties of his office for the space of one month shall, unless excused by the common council, be deemed to have resigned. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any of said offices except m the office of an alderman, whether caused by death, removal or otherwise, the common council may proceed, by ballot, to fill the vacancy untd the next ensuing charter election, when a person shaU be elected for the balance, if any, of the term so vacated. § 31. Any officer, except the mayor, may be removed from office lor misconduct by the resolution of the common council, provided that no such removal shall take place until the party sought to be removed has had an opportunity to be heard on his defence, nor unless two- tuircls ot all the members elected, respectively, vote therefor When- ever any such removal shall take place, the cause therefor, together with the ayes and noes upon the vote taken, shall be entered at large upon the journal of the common council. §82 If any person, having been an officer of said city, shall not, withm ten days after he shall have vacated or been removed from the office, and upon notification and request by the city clerk, or within such time thereafter as the common council shall allow, deliver over to his successor in office all the property, books and papers belonging to the city, or appertaining to such office, in his possession or under his control he shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of five hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered with costs. § 33. No member of the common council shall, during the period for which he was elected, be appointed to or competent to hold any office the emoluments of which are paid from the treasury; or be direct y or indirectly interested in any contract, work or business, or the sale ot any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paid trom the said city treasury, or by any assessment levied by any act or ordinance of the said common council; nor shall an/ such 34 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title III.— Section 34. member be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase of any real estate or property belonging to the corporation, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or become security for any oflBcer appointed by said common council, or for any contractor under the city government. § 34. There shall be elected annually in each ward, at the same time with the other city officers, a supervisor who shall possess all the powers and be entitled to the compensation of a supervisor of the county of Kings; and the said supervisor shall possess the powers and perform the duties in the city court of Brooklyn now invested by law in the aldermen of said city. § 35. That portion of the city lying south and west of the ISTavy Hospital and Flushing avenue, shall be denominated the Western District ; and the present city of Williamsburgh, and the town of Bushwick, and that portion of the city of Brooklyn lying north and east of the Naval Hospital and Flushing avenue, shall be denominated the Eastern District. § 36. The jurisdiction of " the city court of Brooklyn " is hereby extended to the city hereby incorporated, and the powers of said court and of the judge thereof shall be the same as if the city hereby incor- porated had been included in the act establishing said court and amending the same. The election of city judge shall be held at the general election in November, 1854, and at the general election every six years thereafter. TITLE ly. OF ASSESSIVIEXTS FOE PUBLIC OE LOCAL EMPEOVEMENTS. Sec. 1. — Opening and closing streets, «&c. As to lamps, cisterns, sewers, wells, &c. Assessments for opening streets, &c. 2. — Sfreets, parks, &c., opened only on petition therefor, 3. — Proceedings on petition. Commissioners of estimate and assessment, qualifications 4. — Petitioners liable for expenses, if denied. 5. — Map of premises to be assessed. 6. — Commissioners of estimate to take oath. 7.— Report of commissioners, in what manner made. 8. — Proceedings as to residue of lots injured by improvement. 9. — Estimated benefit, how assessed. 10. — Estimated damage, how assessed. 11. — On damage by intervening lands. 12. — Notice ofrevision of report of commissioners. Appeal from decision of commissioners, how made. 13. — On hearing of appeal; proceeding. 14. — Costs of appeal, how awarded in certain cases. 15. — On confirmation of commissioners' report; proceeding. 16. — Damages awarded paid by comptroller. 17. — Pay of commis-ioiiers of estimate and assessment IS. — Overestimated expense to be refunded. 19. — Guardians for infants, how appointed. 20. — Costs and fees of attorney ; amount of; to be paid into treasury. 21. — Assessments for improvements, a lien on property assessed. 22. — Of street regulating, and other improvements 23. — Expense, how assessed. 24. — Notice of assessment to be given. 25.— Eeport of committee on assessments. BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 35 Title IV. —Section 1. 26 and 27. — On corrections of assessments. 28. — Assessors; one elected in each ward biennially ; exception. Classification of assessors first elected ; one and two year terms. 29. — Power of assessors to examine persons to be assessed. 80. — Ward maps ; uses and purposes. Lands may be assessed in name of occupant. 81. — Board of assessors ; ortjanization ; president and secretary. 8'2. — On the pay of assessors and secretary. 83. — On assessment laws. 84. — On streets in first five wards. Section 1. The common council shall have power, under the re- strictions and limitations hereinafter mentioned, to cause streets and avenues to be opened and widened, and to be regulated, graded and paved, and to cause public squares and parks to be opened, regulated, ornamented and protected, and streets and avenues to be kept in re- pair, and from time to time to be repaved, or regraded and repaved ; to close up and discontinue roads, streets, lanes and avenues ; to pro- vide that lamp posts and lamps be erected, and cisterns made for the purpose of furnishing water in case of fire ; to cause sewers and drains, wells and pumps to be constructed and repaired, and generally to have such other improvements in and about such streets, avenues and squares as the public want and convenience shall require. The ex- pense of all such improvements (except for repairs) shall be assessed and be a lien on the property benefited thereby, in proportion to the amount of said benefit. In all cases where the common council shall decide upon the grading and paving any street or avenue, they shall cause a sufficient number of culverts or drains to be constructed under such street or avenue, as may be necessary to carry oW the surface water of the lands which shed their water across the line of such street or avenue. § 2. No proceedings shall be taken to open any street, park, ave- nue or square, unless upon petition, signed by a majority of the per- sons owning land situated on the line of the said improvement ; and all streets and squares now opened or used as such, and streets and squares to be opened and widened by the proceedings under these pro- visions, or to be ceded to and accepted by the common council, shall be under the jurisdiction, management and control of the said com- mon council, for the purpose of making the improvements before mentioned, as the public wants and convenience shall require, and for all purposes mentioned in or necessary for the fully carrying into effect all the provisions of this act, and the powers granted to the common council by this or any other act. § 3. AVhenever a petition for opening or widening any street, road, avenue, park or square in said city, signed by a majority of the per- sons owning land situated on the line of the same, shall be presented, the common council of said city shall cause a notice to be published, in two of the newspapers published in said city, that such application has been made, and of the time (which shall not be less than twenty days after the first publication of such notice) when they will proceed on said petition, which notice shall be pubhshed daily for two weeks Buccessively ; and unless a remonstrance, signed by a majority of the 36 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title IV.— Section 4. persons who will be assessed for the expenses thereof, shall be pre- sented to them on or before the day specified in said notice, and if they shall deem the application proper, they may, on the day specified in said notice, or as soon thereafter as may be, by a resolution, decide to allow such improvement to be made. Before giving notice of the pendency of such application, the common council shall fix the limit or district of assessment beyond which the assessment shall not extend; and a description of such limit or district shall be inserted in and form part of such notice. If the common council shall deem it proper to permit such improvements to be made, they shall cause application to be made to the county court of the county of Kings, or in case of the disability of the county judge, by reason of interest or otherwise, then to the supreme court at a special term held in the county for the appointment of three persons as commissioners to esti- mate and assess the expense of said im}>rovement, the amount of dam- ages and benefit to be sustained and derived therefrom by the owners of such lands and buildings at may be aflfected thereby. The persons so appointed shall not be interested in the improvement. The said court may also appoint another or others to act in the place of any one or more of such commissioners who may die, decline serving, remove from the city, be or become interested in the improvement, or from any cause may be disabled from serving. § 4. The persons so applying, and who shall have signed a petition for any such improvement, shall be chargeable with, and are hereby declared liable for all charges and expenses which may accrue on such application, if the same is refused by the common council ; and also for all costs, fees, damages and expenses which shall not be col- lected on any proceedings instituted under any such petition or peti- tions by the common council. § 5. The common council of the city of Brooklyn shall cause a map to be made under the direction of the street commissioner, by a com- petent surveyor, on which map shall be designated by feet and inches, as near as may be, the several pieces of land and premises necessary to be taken for the improvement, and of any residue of lots or pieces of land within the district of assessment, of which only a part will be re- quired of the same ; and also the several pieces of land and premises within the district of assessment laid out by the said common council, which said several pieces of land shall be numbered in figures from one upwards ; and the map aforesaid shall form and constitute a part of the report of the commissioners of estimate and assessment, and shall be deposited with the report for examination in the ofiice of the clerk of the county of Kings. § 6. The said commissioners shall be sworn, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and impartially to perform the duties which shall devolve upon them by virtue of said appoint- ment, and shall then proceed with all reasonable diligence to make the estimate and assessment mentioned in the preceding section ; and for this purpose they shall have power to enter upon and exam- ine any premises which, in their opinion, will be afifected by said BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 37 Title IV.— Section 7. improvement, to hear the proofs and allegations of the parties inter- ested at such time and place as they may appoint, and to continue such hearing by adjournment from time to time as they may deem proper. § 7. The report of said commissioners shall be made in a tabnlar form, with columns, in which shall be distinctly given the whole ex- pense of the proposed improvement, and the several items thereof, the number on the map of the pieces of land required for the improve- ment, and of any residue, lots or pieces of land, within the district of assessment, of which only a part will be required for the same ; the number of the pieces of land assessed for benefits ; the names of per- sons interested in the property taken or assessed for the improve- ment; the amount awarded to the different parties interested in the lands and premises required for the improvement; the amount as- sessed on each piece of land, and on the diflerent interests therein ; the balance of award to be received by the respective parties over the assessment ; the balance of assessment to be paid by each individual whose assessments amount to more than the award ; and so many and such other different columns and tabular statements as may be necessary to designate the true interests of the parties in the lands and premises required for the improvement and their liabilities in relation thereto. § 8. When a residue shall be left of any lot or lots necessary to be taken for such improvement, the said commissioners ma}^, in cases where injury or injustice would otherwise be done, and with the con- sent, in writing, of the owner or owners of such lot or lots, include the whole or any part of such residue in their report (briefly describ- ing the same), and estimate separately the value thereof. Every such residue or part of a residue, which shall be so included, shall, npon the confirmation of said report, as hereinafter provided, and the payment or tender of the amount at which the same shall be so esti- mated to the owner or owners thereof, vest in fee simple in the city of Brooklyn, who shall thereupon sell and dispose of the same, at a price or prices not less than the sum at which it shall have been so estimated, to the owner or owners of the next adjacent lands ; and if he or they shall not upon reasonable notice, to be determined by the common council of said city, elect to take the same at such price or prices, it shall be disposed of at public auction, upon such notice as the common council shall deem proper, for the best price or prices that can be obtained for the same. In case the same shall sell for a less sum than that at which its value was estimated by the commissioners, the deficiency shall be deemed a part of the general amount of loss and expense arising from the improvement. And for the purpose of pro- viding for the event of such deficiency, and for the payment of the amount thereof, the commissioners shall include, in the estimate and assessment of the expense of such improvement, the estimated value of any such residue, or part of a residue, which may be included as afore- said in their report, and upon the sale of the same, as above provided, the proceeds thereof shall be credited and allowed to each of the per- 38 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title IV.— Section 9. sons assessed, in proportion to the amount of the respective assessments against them. § 9. In other cases in which part only of the land and premises of any person or persons will be required for any such proposed improve- ment, the fair estimated benefit to be derived by him, her or them, in common with others, for the said improvement, shall be assessed and be a lien npon the residue of such land and premises, but such assessment shall in no case exceed the value of such residue ; and if in the opinion of the court to whom the said report shall be pre- sented for confirmation, as hereinafter provided, any assessment shall exceed such value, it shall be good cause against confirming the said report. § 10. When all the land and premises of any person or persons will be required for the contemplated improvement, or ivhere part only thereof will be required, and the estimated damages to be sustained by the appropriation of such part to the purposes thereof shall exceed the fair estimated benefit which, in common with others, he, she or they will derive from the said improvement, the amount of the estimated damages in the first case, and of the excess of such estimated damages in the last, shall be assessed and be a lien on other lands and premises, according to the estimated benefit to be derived from the said im- provement. § 11. The said commissioners shall also estimate in their said report any damages arising from the said improvement which may be sus- tained by the owner or owners of any land bounded on public high- way by reason of the location of the proposed street, avenue or square, in such manner as to interpose the land of any other person between such proposed street, avenue or square and the said highway ; and the amount of such estimated damages shall be assessed and be a lien on other lands and premises, according to the benefit to be derived by them respectively from the said improvement. § 12. After said report shall be completed, it shall be filed by the said commissioners in the oflSce of the clerk of the county of Kings. They shall then cause a notice to be published that the same has been completed and filed, and that they will meet at a time and place therein to be specified, not less than ten days from the first publication of such notice, to review their report. During that time the said re- port may be examined, free of expense, by all persons interested ; and at the time and place so specified any person may oifer objections in writing to the said report, and accompany the same with such aflfi- davits as he may think proper. The said commisioners shall there- upon, or as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, review their said report, and correct the same where they shall deem it proper, and shall then again file the same in the oflfice of the clerk of the said county of Kings. The common council shall then cause a notice to be published, in the newspaper or newspapers employed by the said corporation, that the said report has been so completed and filed, and that application will be made on behalf of the said common council to the county court of the county of Kings, or to the supreme court at BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 39 Title IV.— Section 13. one of the special terras thereof, the time to be specified in such notice (and m either case not less than ten days from first publication thereof), to have said report confirmed. During the said space of ten days the said report shall remain open to the inspection, free of expense, of all persons interested ; and any snch person may, within that time appeal from said report. Such appeal shall be by notice, to be served on the clerk of the said common council within the period last men- tioned, and at least six days before the time at which the said report is to be pi;esented to the court for confirmation, which notice shall be accompamed with copies of the affidavits which shall have been de- livered to the commisioners (if it shall be intended to use or to refer to copies thereof on such appeal), and also with a brief statement in writing of the grounds of objection to such report, and of the manner m which It is contended that the same ought to be altered § 13. Such appeal shall be heard by the court to which the said re- port shall be presented for confirmation, at the time the same shall be so presented. Copies of the affidavits which shall have been delivered and served as aforesaid (but no others) may be read against confirming the said report, and affidavits may be also read to sustain the same^ but no cause against such confirmation shall be heard, except an ap- peal shall have been made in the manner provided in the preceding section of this act. If no sufficient reason to the contrarv shall ap- pear to the court, they shall confirm the said report; or if, in their opmion, the same ought not to be confirmed, they may refuse so to do, and in the event of such refusal they shall in the proper cases re- fer It back for revision and correction to the same or other commission- ers, who shall proceed to revise and correct the same, and cause it, or a new report, to be filed in the office of the clerk of the said county. The common council shall thereupon cause a new notice to be pub- lished, in the manner required in the preceding section of this act, of the fihng of such report, and of their intention to apply for the confir- mation thereof. The said report may be appealed ffom within the time and m the manner provided in the said section, and such appeal shall be proceeded upon and the said report again disposed of in the manner directed by this section; and so often as any such report sha be referred back for revision and correction, the like proceedings shall be thereupon had as are provided in this section upon a fii?t reference back to the said commissioners. In cases, however, where the said court can from the nature of the case and shall direct specific alterations to be made therein, and such alterations shall be made in Its presence or during the same term, they may thereupon absolutely confirm the said report without further notice. I 14. The court to which any such report shall be presented for confirmation shall have power, in their discretion, to award costs against the appellant in cases where the appeal shall not be prosecuted or sustained. '■ § 1^. After the reports of the commissioners shall be confirmed, the said reports shaU be delivered to the common council of said city, who shaU be thereupon authorized to cause such improvements to be 40 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title TV.— Section 16. made. At such time within the space of thirty days next after the confirmation of the said report, any person from whom any assess- ment contained therein may be due may pay the amount thereof, without any additional expense for collecting, to the collectors of taxes and assessments, and in the manner herein and by this act provided. § 16. The city comptroller shall pay to the persons (or to the attor- neys or legal representatives of such persons) to whom damages may have been awarded in such report the amount of such damages, with- out any deduction therefrom by way of fee or commission. § 17. The commissioners of estimate and assessment, to be appoint- ed as aforesaid, shall be allowed two dollars for each and every day while actually and necessarily employed in and about their duties ; provided they shall each make an affidavit that they and each of them were so employed for four hours at least in each day, except the first and last days, on which they shall meet and present their account for such service, so verified, to the proper officers for taxa- tion ; and such compensation, and the fees and charges of surveyors and other persons, shall be estimated as part of the expenses of the improvement, and be afterwards taxed or certified by some officer authorized to tax costs in the supreme court of this state. § 18. If the estimate of the expenses shall exceed the amount of expenses which shall be actually incurred in making the improve- ment, such excess shall be refunded or allowed to the persons assess- ed, in proportion to the amount of their respective assessments. § 19. In any case of opening, widening or extending any street, avenue or square, road or highway, under the provisions of this act, the county court of the county of Kings, or the county judge thereof in term or vacation, or a justice of the supreme court, shall have power, on application, to appoint guardians for infants or other in»- competent persons, in the nature of guardians ad litem, to protect their interests or prosecute appeals, who shall be entitled to receive five dollars for their services and attendance before the commission- ers, and no other fees or costs, unless upon an appeal, in which case the judge who shall hear the appeal shall fix upon the further amount to be allowed them, if any, and shall certify the same. § 20. The costs and fees of the attorney and counsel in any such proceedings, exclusive of his disbursements, shall not exceed in any case the sum of two hundred dollars, unless on appeal, or when the report is sent back to the commissioners ; and in such case the j udge who heard the appeal may allow such further sum in addition to the taxed or certified bills as he may deem just and proper; and such costs and fees shall be paid into the city treasury for the use of the city. § 21. All assessments for improvements in said city, when the same shall have been confirmed according to the provisions of this act, shall constitute and be a lien upon the property assessed, from the time of such confirmation, which lien shall have priority over all other liens or incumbrances. § 22. The board of assessors shall, under such regulations as they BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 41 Title IV.— Section 23. may adopt, and by at least three of their number, apportion and assess the expense of regulating, grading and paving, or regrading and repaying streets, and of constructing wells and^ Dumps, public cisterns, sewers and drains, lamp- posts and lamps, flagging side-walks fencing and filling in lots, and of all other public improvements, ex- cept as herein otherwise directed; and the common council shall proceed in regard to the assessments therefor in the manner herein- after provided. § 23. Upon a copy of the resolution of the common council deciding to make any such improvement and fixing the amount to be assessed for the expense thereof, certified by the city clerk and approved by the mayor, being sent to the board of assessors, they shall thereupon proceed to view the premises, and shall assess the expense of said im- provement upon the several lots, pieces or parcels of land benefited, in proportion to the benefit which, in their opinion, the same shall derive from or injustice ought to be assessed for the said improve- ment. § 24. The board of assessors shall make a report, in writing, of the assessment so made, and before proceeding to sign the same shall give notice in the corporation newspapers of the district, which notice shall be published for ten days successively, of the time and place when and where the parties interested can be heard ; and after hear- ing the parties, the board of assessors shall proceed and complete the report and sign the same, and return the said report, with all objec- tions in writing which shall be presented to and left with them by any of the parties interested, to the common council, who shall refer the same, in case of any objections in writing, to the proper commit- tee of the board. The said committee shall publish a notice in the corporation newspapers of the district, for ten days successively, to the parties interested, of the time and place when and where they will meet to hear them on the objections and report. § 25. The said committee shall thereupon examine the matter and report of the common council, and shall return to them the said re- port of the board of assessors, with the objections of the parties, together with the views and opinions of the committee respecting the said report. § 26. The common council shall thereupon examine the matter, and may correct the said report and assessment, send it back to the board of assessors, or confirm the same, as they may deem just and proper, and their confirmation in the matter shall be final and con- clusive. § 27. And the like proceedings shall be had when the report of the board of assessors is sent back as in the first instance. § 28. At the annual election for charter oflicers, first to be held un- der this act, there shall be elected from each ward one assessor. The assessors so elected shall constitute a board of assessors, who shall be divided into two classes; the assessors of the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth wards shall form the first class, and the assessors of the remaining wards shall form the 42 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title IV.— Section 29. second class ; the first class shall hold office one year, and the second class shall hold office two years ; but after the first year the term of office of both classes shall be two years. § 29. The said assessors shall have power to examine, upon oath, every person whom tliey shall believe ought to be assessed for his per- sonal property, and sliall also have power to examine, under oath, such other persons, as witnesses in relation thereto, as they may deem proper, and for that purpose may administer oaths and issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses before them. Any person who shall refuse to make, under oath, a full disclosure of all the facts necessary to enable the assessors to make a fair and just assessment of his personal property, when duly called upon by the assessors to do so, or to answer such questions as may be put to him in relation thereto, shall be assessed a ^oss sum, ivhich in their judgment will be the full amount of his personal estate, and shall forfeit for one year all the rights and privileges given to persons aggrieved by the assessment of assessors by the law " for the assessment and collection of taxes." § 30. The ward maps made or to be made, shall be filed in an office to be provided by the city for the use of the board of assessors, and assessments on land in the respective w^ards shall refer to such maps, except in cases of opening streets, avenues, squares and parks; and where a portion of any lot of land laid down on said maps shall be taken for any improvement, the residue shall be deemed to be held for any assessment thereon, and land occupied by a person other than the owner may be assessed in the name of the occupant. § 31. The board of assessors shall elect one of their number president, and appoint a competent person as their secretary, who shall make out the assessment lists under the direction of said board, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by said board or the common council. The common council shall provide a suitable room for said assessors, in which they shall transact their business; and the assess- ment rolls of the several wards when completed shall be left for in- spection and examination by any person interested, and of which the assessors shall give due notice, as required by law, and the said assess- ment rolls shall be open for inspection during thirty days from the time of the first publication of such notice. § 32. The common council shall fix an annual compensation for such assessors and secretar}^, to be levied in the annual tax, and may, by or- dinance, regulate the duties under the foregoing provision, and remove such assessors for incompetency or neglect of duty. § 33. All provisions of law now applicable to the assessors of Brook- lyn, or towns of this state, in relation to the assessment and collection of taxes in said city, not inconsistent with this act, are hereby declared to apply to the assessors elected under this act. § 34. The common council shall have power to lay out streets ■within the first five wards of the cit}^, where such improvements may be deemed proper, although the same have not been laid out on any public map of the town, village or city of Brooklyn, and to extend or BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 43 Title v.— Section 1. lengthen streets heretofore laid out by law in any part of said city upon the written application of a majority of the persons owning the property on the portion of the street to be added by such extension. All provisions of law applicable to such improvements, and to the opening and subsequent improvement of streets, shall be applied to the streets to be laid out, extended or lengtliened ; and all such pro- visions are hereby extended over and applied to the land covered with water between the line of bulkhead as now actually existino- and the permanent water line as heretofore established by law, and lying north and east of the westerly line of Fulton street continued out to such water Mne ; and the city of Brooklyn shall have iuris- diction over such land covered with water for the purpose of making such improvements. TITLE V. OF THE COLLECTION OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. Sec. 1.— Two collectors of taxes and assessments, one for western and one fbr eastern district, elected triennially. 2. — Collectors to give bonds. 3.— On suspension of collectors. 4. — Assistant collectors, how appointed. 5. — Deputy collectors, how api>ointed. 6.— Powers of collectors, assistants and deputies. 7.— Eenewal of bonds; when surety may be discharged. 8.— Expense of collection to be included in tax. Salaries of collectors, assistants and deputies. 9.— Embezzlement, &c. of public money; penalty. 10. — Assessment rolls. 11. — Collectors' v,-arrants: time to run. 12.— Abstract of tax rolls, to be made. 13.— On collectors paying over and accounting. 14.— Of taxes paid within thirty days. Per centage added on neglect to pay. 15.— Collectors to account for "unpaid taxes. 16. — Urij)aid taxes credited to collectors. H"""9° ^"'^^'^'^^^■^ refusing or neglecting to pay over or account, 18. — On county treasurer and comptroller receiving taxes. 19.— Proceedings of county treasurer respecting unpaid taxes, 20.— Rejected taxes to be re-levied. 2L— Rejected assessments to be re-assessed. 22.— On assessments rejected for want of jurisdiction. On re-assessnients, excess, &c. 23.— On unpaid assessments on real estate, 24.— Unpaid taxes to be published. 25.— Aflidavit of publication, to be made by printer. 26.— On sale of lands for unpaid taxes. 27.— Notice to mortgagee of lands sold. 2S. — AfKdavit of service of notice. 29.— Redemption of lands sold, lime for 30.— Conveyance; when to be executed, oo ""o*'."' ^^ proceed when owners are infants or incompetent 32,— Co ector's duty in relation to taxes paid after limited time. (.collectors to account to treasurer for proceeds of sales, ; S3.— Collectors to make conveyances of lands sold for taxes. On grantees' right of possession, &c. Section 1. There shall be elected at the election in November 1854, and every third year thereafter, two collectors, who shall hold their office for the term of three years and until others shall be elected 44 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title v.— Section 2. in their place and be duly qualified, one of whom shall reside and keep an office in the eastern district, and be called the collector of taxes for the eastern district of the city of Brooklyn, and the other shall reside and keep an office in the western district, and be called the collector of taxes for the western district of the city of Brooklyn. The common council shall provide suitable offices, which shall be kept open for the transaction of business, during such hours as the common council shall designate, on each day in the year, except Sundays and such holidays as shall be observed by the general custom of said city, or by recom- mendation of public authority. § 2. The said collectors shall, respectively, execute a bond to the city of Brooklyn, with at least two sureties, who shall be freeholders in the county of Kings, in such penalty, not less than one hundred thousand dollars for the collector of the western district, and sixty thousand dollars for the collector of the eastern district, as tlie com- mon council shall direct, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office, and for accounting and paying over, as directed by law, all moneys which shall be received by them as such collectors. Such sureties shall severally justify, under oath, to be indorsed on said bond, in sums which, together, shall constitute at least double the amount of the penalty of the bond, to be approved by the common council. The bond shall be filed with the clerk of the county of Kings ; and if not filed within twenty days after the col- lectors shall be notified of their election, the office shall be deemed vacant ; and no collector shall enter upon the duties of his office until said bond shall be duly executed, approved and filed. The collector's sureties shall also be renewed during the term of his office, whenever and as often as the common council shall direct, and if not so renewed within twenty days after notice to the collector, his office shall be deemed vacant. § 3. The common council may, by resolution, suspend a collector for official neglect or misconduct, in which case they shall immedi- ately cause written notice, with a copy of the charges tliereof, to be left at his office ; they shall then proceed to investigate the charges against him, and if such charges are sustained may remove him from office in the manner hereinbefore provided for the removal of other officers of the city government. § 4. Each collector shall, as soon as may be after he has taken upon himself the execution of his office, appoint some proper person assistant collector of taxes and assessments, to hold his appointment during the pleasure of such collector, and he shall, as often as a vacancy shall occur in the office of assistant collector, appoint another in his place ; and whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of collector, the said assistant collector shall execute the powers and discharge the duties of collector until another collector shall be appointed. § 5. Each collector may also, with the consent of the common council, appoint as many deputies as he may think proper, who shall hold their appointment during the pleasure of the common council. Every appointment of an assistant collector, or of a deputy collector, BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 45 Title v.— Section 6. shall be in writing, under the hand and seal of the collector, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county ; and every such assist- ant or deputy shall, before he enters on the execution of the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed in the constitution, and the collector may require of him a bond and sureties for the performance of his duties. Any default or misfeasance in office of any such assistant or deputy shall be deemed to be a breach of the condition of the bond given by the collector who appointed him. § 6. Each assistant collector shall have the same power as the col- lector, except that of the appointment of deputies ; and the collector, assistant collector and deputy collectors shall have the same powers as the collectors in the several towns in this state ; but such assistants and deputies shall, in the exercise of their powers, be subject to the direction and control of the collector. § 7. If any person who shall have become surety for a collector shall, by notice in writing, to be served on the mayor or clerk of the common council, require the said collector to renew his official bond, such person shall be discharged from all future liability as such surety from and after the settlement of the accounts of the collector for moneys received prior to such discharge, who shall be required to make such settlement within thirty days after notice from the common council to that effect. § 8. There shall be added to and included in every tax and assess- ment levied and assessed in the city of Brooklyn the sum of five per cent, upon the amount of such tax and assessment for the expense of collection, which, together with the amount to be added for neglect to pay within the time specified in the warrants of the collectors, as hereinafter provided, shall be for the use of said city. The common council shall fix the salary or other compensation to be paid to the collectors, their assistants and deputies, and pay the same to them out of the moneys raised by tax for city purposes ; and neither the said collectors nor their assistants or deputies shall receive any other or further compensation for services or for other expenses of their offices ; but the common council shall provide for said collectors all necessary desks, furniture, fuel, lights, books and blank forms. § 9. If any collector, assistant collector or deputy collector shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by way of investment in any kind of property or merchandise, or shall loan, in any way, any portion of the moneys received or collected by him as such collector, assistant or deputy collector, every such act shall be deemed and adjudged to be an embezzlement of so much of said moneys as shall be thus taken, invested, used or loaned, which is hereby declared to be a felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for a term not exceeding five years. § 10. The board of supervisors of the county of Kings shall cause the corrected assessment rolls of the several wards, or fair copies thereof, with warrants for collection, to be delivered to the respective collectors on or before the first day of October, in each year ; and the common council shall cause every assessment roll made for any im- 46 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title v.— Section 11. provement in said city, or fair copies thereof, with a warrant for col- lection, to be delivered to said collectors within ten days after the same shall be finally confirmed. But no warrant for the collection of any assessment shall be issued by the common council, until all the proceedings had in laying said assessment shall have been examined and certified as correct by the street commissioner and the attorney and counsel of the city, which certificate shall be indorsed upon or annexed to the assessment roll, and shall be conclusive evidence as to the regularity of the proceedings. § 11. The warrants of the board of supervisors shall be under their hands and seals, or the hands and seals of a majority of them, and shall require the collectors, out of the moneys to be collected, to pay over to the city treasurer such sum as shall be raised for the city pur- poses, and to the county treasurer the residue of said moneys, within one hundred and eighty days from the date of such warrants. The warrants of the common council shall be signed by the mayor, and shall be under the corporate seal of the city, attested by the clerk, and shall require the collectors to pay the moneys to be collected to the city treasury within one hundred and twenty days from the date thereof ; and to collect from the several persons named in the assess- ment roll annexed thereto, the several sums mentioned in the last column of such roll opposite to their respective names, and shall not be renewable except in cases where the collection has been stayed by any legal proceedings ; and in such cases the common council shall have power, after the cessation of such stay, to cause new warrants to be issued to the collectors for the full term of one hundred and twenty days, as if no previous warrant had been issued. This pro- vision shall apply to all cases where the collection has been or here- after may be stayed by any legal process or proceedings. § 12. As soon as practicable after the annual tax rolls shall have been delivered to the collectors, they shall, in books to be provided for that purpose, prepare an abstract of said rolls, adding thereto all taxes and assessments as shall from time to time thereafter become chargeable upon such property, to the end that said abstract shall at aU times exhibit in a condensed form all existing charges against the property as accurately as practicable. § 13. The collectors shall receive the taxes and assessments men- tioned in said rolls, and shall, on the same day that they receive the same, pay over to the city treasurer all moneys which shall have been received by them for taxes and assessments for city purposes, or for local improvements, and render to the comptroller of the city a just and true account of the same. They shall also, every week, and as much oftener as required by the county treasurer, at the collector's ofiice, render a like account of moneys received for taxes payable to the county treasurer, and at the same time pay over such moneys to the said county treasurer. § 14. All taxes and assessments which shall be paid to the col- lectors within thirty da3^s after such tax or assessment roll shall have been delivered to them, shall be received by them without any ad- II'! BROOLKYN CITY CHARTER. 47 Title v.— Section 15. ditional charge; on all taxes or assessm'ents which shall be paid them after the expiration of thirty days, and within sixty days after snch delivery, they shall add one per cent, and one per cent, shall be added for* every thirty days thereafter, until such tax or assessment shall be paid ; when such per centage shall amount to ten per cent, from which time interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum shall be added. § 15. If any of the taxes mentioned in the assessment rolls annexed to the warrants from the board of supervisors shall remain unpaid at the expiration of one hundred and eighty days from the time the said assessment rolls shall be delivered to them, and the collectors shall not be able to collect the same, they shall deliver to the county trea- surer an account of the taxes so remaining due in their respective districts, with an affidavit as required by law of collectors of towns; they shall respectively be credited by the county treasurer with the amount thereof, and if any of the assessments mentioned in the as- sessment rolls annexed to their respective warrants from the common council shall remain unpaid at the expiration of the said one hundred and twenty days, and the collectors shall not be able to collect the same, they shall deliver to the comptroller of said city an account of the assessments so remaining due, with an affidavit as hereinafter mentioned. § 16. The county treasurer and comptroller respectively shall, upon receiving such account of unpaid taxes or assessments, compare the same with the original tax or assessment roll, and if he find it to be a true transcript thereof, he shall add to it a certificate showing that he had compared the account with the tax or assessment roll, and found the same correct ; and after crediting the collector with the aniount, shall, within fifteen days after receiving such account, trans- mit the account, certified as aforesaid, with the collector's affidavit, back to the collector of taxes and assessments rendering such account! § 17. If the collectors shall refuse or neglect to pay to the city treasurer or the county treasurer the sums required by their warrants respectively to be paid them, or either of them, or to account for the same if unpaid, as hereinbefore provided, within twenty days after the time when such payment ought to have been made, the common council shall, upon receiving notice thereof from the county treasurer or comptroller, cause the bond of such collector to be put in suit, and shall be entitled to recover the sum due from such collector, with costs of suit ; and the moneys recovered shall be appHed and paid by the common council in the same manner in which it was the duty of the collector to have apphed and paid the same. _ § 18. The county treasurer and comptroller, respectively, may re- ceive any tax or assessment while such accounts are in their hands, charging the additional per centage thereon, as hereinbefore provided. They shall give a receipt for such payments, and make return thereof to the respective collectors of taxes and assessments, who shall note such payment on the original tax or assessment roll, or copy thereof, in their offices. 48 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title v.— Section 19. § 19. Before any account of unpaid taxes shall be transmitted by the county treasurer to the collectors of taxes and assessments, he shall examine them, and reject all taxes which shall be found to be charged for personality, or on lands imperfectly described, and shall furnish and transmit a certified statement of the same to the comp- troller and the respective collectors of taxes and assessments, and the supervisors of the county, and shall from time to time furnish to the common council or its officers a full statement of the taxes remaining unpaid, or of the sale of any lots or pieces of land for taxes, as may be called for by the common council. § 20. The said supervisors shall cause the amount of rejected taxes to be levied, in the next assessment rolls, on the taxable property of the respective wards in which they were before levied, and shall di- rect the same to be collected with the other taxes next collected in such wards ; and the board of assessors shall cause said descriptions to be corrected in the next assessment rolls. § 21. Whenever the street commissioner and the attorneys and counsel of the city shall reject any assessments for local improvements (which they are hereby authorized and empowered to do), they shall forthwith report the same, and the reasons therefor, to the common council ; and the common council shall, in case they shall have been rejected for irregularity in the proceedings, or for the imperfect de- scriptions of the lands, cause the amount thereof to be re-assessed ; and the common council are hereby authorized and empowered to have such re-assessments made in the same manner as the original assessment should have been made ; and such re-assessment shall have the same effect as if the assessment had originally been properly made. § 22. The common council, in case any such unpaid assessments shall be rejected for want of jurisdiction in making the improvement, shall cause the expense of the proceedings and all damages conse- quent thereon, to be added to the amount directed to be laid in the next annual taxes for city purposes, and when collected, to be paid to the parties who shall be entitled thereto. Whenever any moneys shall have been paid for an assessment, and a re-assessment shall be made in pursuance of this section, the amount shall be credited on such re-assessment to the property on which the assessment was made ; and m case of any alteration on the re-assessment, whereby the amount so paid shall exceed the amount re-assessed on the same pro- perty, such surplus shall be repaid to the person who may have paid the same ; and in case it shall be insufficient to pay the amount re- assessed, the deficiency shall be collected in the same manner as other assessments. § 23. Upon affidavit being made before the comptroller, or before any other person authorized to administer oaths in the county of Kings, by the collector to wiiom any warrant for the collection of any assessments shall be delivered as aforesaid, his assistant or one of his deputies, that the sums mentioned in any such account of assess- ments, rendered to the comptroller, by him, remain unpaid, and that BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 49 Title v.— Section 24. he has not upon diligent inquiry, been able to discover any goods or chattels belonging to or in the possession of the persons residing in the city of Brooklyn charged with or liable to pay such sum whereon he could levy the same, and that within forty days after the warrant was delivered to him, he caused a written or printed notice to be served personally on or left at the place of residence of the person or persons charged with or liable to pay such assessment, if a resident of the city, or if not a resident of the city, that he has deposited a notice in one of the post offices in said city, addressed to the person or persons assessed, at his, her, or their last known place of residence, and that he has also caused a notice to be published in the corpo- ration newspapers of the district, designated as provided by this act, once a week for six weeks successively prior to the expiration of this warrant, which notice shall contain the name or title of the improve- ment, the names of the persons who have not paid, the amount due from each, the time when the warrant will expire, and that the pro- perty assessed will be returned for sale if such assessment be not paid, such collector shall be credited by the comptroller with the amount of said account. § 24. Wheneve. any tax or assessment shall remain unpaid, and the rolls containing the same shall have been re-delivered to the col- lector by the county treasurer or comptroller, as aforesaid, such col- lector of taxes and assessments shall cause a hst thereof, signed by him, to be published in thQ corporation newspapers of the district, designated as provided by this act, together with a notice requiring the same to be paid, with interest as aforesaid, and expenses, on or before a certain day, to be therein designated, w^hich shall not be less than twelve weeks from the first publication thereof. Such list and notice shall be pubhshed once a week for twelve wrecks succes- sively in the corporation newspapers, describing with all convenient certainty, the land taxed or assessed, specifying the street avenue or road on which it fronts, on which side thereof, and near or between what streets it may lie, together with the name of the person to whom the same was taxed or assessed, and the name of the present owner, w^hen known, to the collector. § 25. Every printer by whom any such hst and notice shall be pubhshed, shall, within ten days after the last publication thereof, deliver to the collector of taxes and assessments, signing the same, an affidavit of due publication, made by some person to whom the fact of publication shaU be made known. § 26. If any such tax or assessment remain unpaid on the day specified in said notice, the collector shall proceed to sell by public auction, at the city hall of said city, the property on which said tax or assessment shall have been imposed, for the lowest term of years for which any person will take the same and pay the amount of such tax or assessment, with the interest and expenses, and he shall con- tinue the sale from time to time until all such lands shall be sold. He shaU thereupon deliver to the purchaser a certificate of such sale, and note the same on the original tax or assessment rolls, and on the 50 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title v.— Section 27. abstracts hereinbefore directed to be kept in his office ; such certificate of sale sliall be recorded in the collector's office, in proper books kept for that purpose, and shall constitute a lien upon the lands and pre- mises therein described, after the same shall have been so recorded ; and no assignment of any certificate given on the sale of lands for any taxes or assessment shall have any effect until notice of the same, with the name and residence of the assignee, shall be filed in the office of the collector of taxes and assessments of the district in which the said lands are situated. § 27. No mortgagee, whose mortgage shall have been duly re- corded before sale for any tax or assessment, shall be divested of his rights in such property, unless six months' notice in writing of such sale shall have been given to him by the purchaser or of those claim- ing under him, personally, if a resident of the county of Kings, or a county adjoining thereto, and if not such a resident, then upon the owner of the premises, if he be a resident of Kings county or a county adjoining thereto, and by depositing such notice in one of the post offices of said city, directed to the mortgagee at his place of residence, as stated in the mortgage or assignment thereof; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the lien created by such sale. § 28. "Within a month after the service of such notice, it shall be the duty of the person serving or causing the same to be served, to file, in the office of the collector of taxes and assessments of the district, a copy of the notice served, together with the affidavit of some per- son, who shall be certified by the officer before whom said affidavit shall be taken to be a creditable person, proving the due service of said notice. § 29. The owner, mortgagee, occupant or any other person inter- ested in such land may, at any time within two years after the sale for either tax or assessment, redeem the said land by paying to the collector of taxes and assessments in the district in which said lands are situated, for the use of said purchaser, the said purchase money, together with any other tax or assessment which the said purchaser may have paid, chargeable on said land, and which he is hereby au- thorized to do, provided a notice thereof has been filed in the office of such collector, with fifteen per cent, per annum in addition thereto, and the certificate of such collector, stating the payment, and show- ing what land such payment is intended to redeem, shall be evidence of such redemption. The mortgagee shall have power to redeem at any time until after the expiration of the six months specified in the twenty-seventh section of this title. § 30. Upon the receipt of such moneys by such collector, he shall cause the same to be refunded to the purchaser, his legal representa- tives or assigns, and all proceeding in relation to said sale shall cease ; but if said moneys shall not be paid according to the exigency of said notice, such collector shall proceed to execute a conveyance of the property so sold, as hereinafter provided. § 81. Whenever such collector shall receive satisfactory informa- BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 51 Title v.— Section 32. tion that the land so sold belongs to an idiot or insane person, for whose estate no^ committee shall have been appointed, or to an infant having no guardian, he shall not execute a conveyance of their lands until at least one month after he shall have legal evidence that such disa- bility has been removed, or a committee or guardian of their estate has been appointed. And until the expiration of said month such committee or guardian may redeem such land, in the manner herein- before provided. § 32. The said collectors shall note all payments made to them after any account of unpaid taxes or assessments shall be sent back to them by the county treasurer or comptroller, as aforesaid, and if a sale be had they shall also note that fact on the original tax or as- sessment roll, or copy thereof, in his office, and the memorandum of payment on any tax or assessment roll, or copy thereof in the office of such collector, shall be sufficient evidence of such payment. They shall dso forthwith, upon receiving the same, render to the treasurer of the city an account of the proceeds of any sale for unpaid assessments, and of any money received or collected by them that may be paid to such treasurer, and at the same time pay over the said moneys re- ceived by them ; and said collectors shall also render to the treasurer of the county an account of the proceeds of any sale for unpaid taxes, and of any moneys received or collected by them that may be paid to such treasurer, and at the same time pay over said moneys received by them. § 33. The collector of the district where the land sold for any tax or assessment shall not have been redeemed, as by this act provided, shall execute to the purchaser or his assigns, pursuant to the terms of sale, a proper conveyance of the lands so sold by him, which shall contain a brief statement of the proceedings had for the sale of said lands, and shall be evidence that such sale and other proceedings were regularly made and had according to the provisions of this act. He shall also forthwith note the same on the assessment rolls and abstract kept in his office. The grantee shall be entitled as against all persons whomsoever to the possession of said premises, and to the rents, issues and profits thereof, pursuant to the terms of his con- veyance, and shall be entitled to obtain possession of his lands by summary proceedings, in the same manner as is provided by law for the removal of persons who hold over or continue in possession of real estate sold by vh-tue of an execution against them. TITLE YI. OF THE DAY AND NIGHT POLICE DEPAETMENT. Bec. 1. — Departraent, what to consist of. 2. — Chief, elected triennially; on salary. 3.— Powers and duties of cliief. 4. — Clerk to chief; on compensation to. 5 and 6.— Captains elected biennially; on salaries; duties. 7.— Powers of captains ; on complaints and arresta. 52 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. Title VI.— Section 1. 8. — Captains to report violations of laws and ordinances. 9. — Policemen ; tlioir nomination and appointment. Lamp-liprhters; their nomination and appointment 10. — Police districts, officers, and station bouses. 11. — Ward policemen. 12 and 13. — Duties of policemen. 14. —On suspension of policemen ; proceedings. 15. — On pay of policemen. 16. — Police exempt from military duty. 17. — On detailing policemen for special duties. 18. — Fees to police prohibited. 19. — Fees for police services to coimty to be paid into city treasury. 20. — On arrests for violations of ordinances, &c. 21. — Assistant captains of police ; powers. Section 1. The department of police shall consist of one chief, one captain for each police district, and such number of policemen under each captain as the common council may from time to time designate. § 2. The chief shall he elected by the city every three years. He shall have an office in the city hall, where he shall he in attendance at such hours as shall be fixed by the common council, and shall receive a salary to be fixed by said common council. § 3. He shall have power within the county of Kings to issue pro- cess, directed to some other proper officer, for the apprehension of persons charged with any offence, and to exercise all the powers and duties conferred upon aldermen and justices of the peace in and by title second, chapter second, part fourth of the revised statutes of the state of New York ; and in all such cases he shall proceed in the same manner and be governed by all laws relative to justices of the peace, in like cases. He shall be chief of the police department, and the medium of correspondence with the police authorities of other cities and towns. He shall receive the reports from the several captains of the districts of the city, keep all proper books, registers and records in his office, under the direction of the common council ; report to the corporation attorney all violations of city ordinances that come to his knowledge; and shall obey and cause the police department to obey the rules and regulations prescribed by the ordi- nances of the common council. He shall repair to the scenes of fire and riot, and take command of the police there present; may at any time direct all or any of the police of the city to any place where their services may be deemed necessary, and shall perform all such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the ordinances of the common council ; but nothing herein contained shall be taken to abridge the power of the mayor as the chief executive officer of the city. § 4. The common council may, if they deem it necessary, provide for the allowance of a clerk to the chief, and shall fix his compen- sation. Such clerk shall be appointed and removed at pleasure by the chief. § 5. The captains of the police districts shall be elected every two years, and shall receive a stated salary, to be fixed by the common council ; each of the captains shall keep an office at the office of the police district within which his ward shall be situated, and shall BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 53 Title VI.— Section 6. keep aU such books, registers tratii)n of firemen. 6. — Fines'atid forfeitures to be applied to fire department fund. 7. — Firemen injured in peiformance of duty ; privileges. 8. — Guni)o\vder atid combustible articles. 9. — Destruction of buildings to arrest fires. 10. — Fire limits. 11. — Former fire limits. 12. On enlargement of limits. 56 BROOKLYN CITY CHARTER. 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Patients with Acute or Chronic Diseases, in the City or County, will be faithfully attended to, at their residences. Office Consultations, from 1 1 o'clock A. M., to 2 P. M. Dr. Adams also receives a limited number of Patients and Hygeine Boarders into his family. > REFERENCES. Pv. T. Trail, M. D., Xew York ; Joel Shew, M. D., Few York ; Fowlers & Y/ells, New York ; Pvobert Pvosman, M. D., Brooklyn ; Rev. Henry AYard Beecher, Brooklyn ; Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Brooklyn ; Henry C. Bo wen, Brooklyn ; James Freeland, Brooklyn ; M. P. Brown. ST. YITUS' DAI^rCE. Those having this disease of not more than six years' standing, can be CURED WITH A CERTAINTY! by a harmless remedy, that has cured more than FOUR HUNDRED CASES, a large proportion of them of the worst form. A cure will be war- ranted, and NO CHARGE WHATEVER will be made until a cure is effected. Parents who have children afflicted with this complaint can rely upon its being a Sure Remedy. The best References ^vill be g^iven. WM. J. M. FISH, 272 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN. ADVERTISEMENTS. WILLIAM H. ROGERS, Clock, Maiclj, SiMq, i^ ^ilbxr Mm EMPOKIUM, No. 131 MYRTLE AVENUE, BROOKLYN. FORMERLY OF THE FIRM OF TICE & ROGERS. CLOCKS, \VATCHKS, & JEWELRY REPAIRED. ALSO, ENGRAVING, PLATING, GILDING, AND GALVANIZING DONE. JEWELRY MANUFACTURED TO ORDER AT SHORT NOTICE. MOHAWK FOUNDRY, CORNER ADAMS & JOHN STREETS, BKOOKLYN. S<-V '.1:15 MADE TO ORDER. AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF PATTERNS ON HAND FOR MILL GEARING, AND OTHER MACHINERY. A COMPETENT MILLWRIGHT IN ATTENDANCE. GEO. G. JOHNSON & CO. PROPRIETORS. ADVERTISEMENTS. A CARD. The Undersigned, thankful to liis numerous friends for the patron- age extended to him, while catering to their taste at 153 Adams St., would respectfully beg leave to announce that he is ready, as usual, to get up Dinners or Collations, for BallS) Pic-nic!4, Excursions, Targfet Companies, &c., &:c., AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE, and on the most liberal terms, commensurate with the times. He flatters himself that his endeavors have been appreciated by the public, and hopes still to merit their patronage and esteem. EDWAUD ARENTS, 153 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN. *^* Associations getting up Pic nic Excursions, for the coming season, can make a satisfactory arrangement for furnishing Dinners or Refreshments, in any style or quantity. D. SCHLEGELMILCH, UPHOLSTERER & PIPER HANGER, No. 6 BOERUM STREET, TWO DOORS FROM FULTON STREET, NEAR THE CITY HALL, BROOK L YN. All kinds of Furniture, Mattresses, Cushions, Feather Beds, Cur- tains, Window Shades, &c., made to order. CARPETS MADE AN» OIE-CEOTH EAID DOWN. Old Furniture, Mattresses, &c., repaired and renovated. Fitting in of old Carpets >tnd Oil Cloth. Furniture and Pictures arranged on removing, and all Upholstery attended to. CHURCH CUSHIONS MADE TO ORDER. Hp^^ Lace Curtains cleaned, good and cheap, at the shortest notice. Gilt Frames covered with gauze. Ships' Cabins and Steamboats com- pletely furnished, at the lowest prices. Agent for Iron Bedsteads^ of every dcscrijjtion. ALL WORK WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED. ADVERTISEMENTS. WILLIAM G. DREW, PRACTICAL PLUMBER, No. 64 FULLON ST., BROOKLYN. WATER CLOSETSj HOT, COLD, & SHOWER BATHS, WASH-HAND BASINS, jingle anir JloiiMe feting Jforce "^imp, m, a m m, m m 45^, ??• "M- ^ ^ \m^ II '^esS *!? Cletern^ Beei\ and Cider Ptiinps^ Boilers^ Slnks^ Banges^ AND EVERY DESCRIPTION OF ALWAYS ON HAND. Jobbing Promptly Attended to, *^* ORDERS FROM THE COUNTRY PERSONALLY ATTENDED TO. HENEY P. DAY, COAL DEALER, BROOKLYN. All Orders tliankfully received and punctually attended to* ADVERTISEMENTS. HgueiTCfitpcs aiA | LAAVRENCE'S GALLERY is one of the most splendid and ex- tensive in the world, and his pictures are not excelled either in Asia, Africa, Europe, or America, having received the highest premium, the AT THE LONDON AND NEW YORK EXHIBITIONS, OF THE "INDUSTRY OF AtL, NATIONS." Tlie flttentioTi of the public is called to his new style of Miniature, Cabinet, and Life- size PLotographs, or Daguerreotypes on paper, combining the truthfulness of tlie Daguer- reotype with the beauty of the finest Miniature and Oil Painting. Persons having small and inferior Daguerreotypes can have them copied to any desired size, and colored to nature. Those residing at a distance, by forwarding such pictures, with a description of the complexion, color of the e}'es and hair, or send a lock of the hair, can depend on having a truthful likeness. Every one coming to the city of New York should call and examine pictures made by this beautiful process. Cabinet and Life-size Photographs on Canvas, and colored in Oii. They can be taken from life, or copied from Daguerreotypes and other pictures. This style was introduced by the undersigned, and has now become very popular. RoomS) 381 Broadway, corner "IVliite Street, N. Y. M. M. LAWRENCE. ADVERTISEMENTS. MRS. A. M. PARSONS, inicral ^wniisHnis Inhrtahfr. AYAREROOM KO. 18 MYRTLE AV., BROOKLYN. (Formerly of No. 5 Myrtle Av.) Mrs. A. M. PARSONS would respectfully inform her Friends and the Public in general, that she has removed from No. 5, Myrtle A v., and can now be found at her Ne^v Stand, No. 1§, MyrtBe Avenue, (nearly opposite,) where she is prepared to execute with her usual promptness, all orders connected with her business. IN ANY GROUND OR CEMETERY. COFFINS, SHROUDS, CAPS, CAEEIAGES OR HEARSES, And every article necessary for Funeral Occasions^ Furnislied to Order ^ AT THE SHOKTEST NOTICE. WAREROOM, No. 18, MYRTLE AV., NEAR ADAMS ST., BROOKLYN. ADVERTISEMENTS. I WILLIAM BOCH & BROTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF PORCELAIN iiii ill fiiMif ill iiiii FIFTH STREET, (near Greenpoint Av.) EASTERN DISTRICT, BROOiKIjirN. AI.!. KINDS OF HOUSE, LOCK, & FURNITURE TRIMMINGS ; PORCELAIN PITCHERS, MUGS, YASES, AND OTHER FANCY WARES. ALSO, ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ M .^^ 1^ ^O ^ .^L v^-'I Tir> *^^ W ■'• v'l El «?r\ p^ <^^ AXD OTHER DECORATIONS CONSTANTLY ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER. WiLiJAM BocH, sea. AxTnoNY Boch, William Booh, jr. F. Victor Boch. ADVERTISEMENTS, J. H. MORDOUGH, ^rpnist antr froffssor at I No. 106 ORANGE ST., BROOKLYN, BetAveen Fulton and Henry Streets.) C, INSTRUCTION GIVEN ON THE PIANO FOKTE, OHOAN, MELODEON, AND ALSO, IN lluskal (J0f psitioit m\)i f Ij0mtglr §a5s* +« ^ ^" SINGING CLASSES FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Eccri/ TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY Evenings, from October Isf to July Ist. Mr. M. keeps constantly on hand, a Large and Fine Assortment of PIANO FORTES AND MELODEONS, for Sale, at the Lowest Cash Prices, all of which can T»e seen at his MUSICAL HALL, No. 106 Orange Street, near F«ilt*iA« LBJe K^ A. .f. .n\ ■\ V .- - ^ ^^> .^ <^^ -X" ^' \ o c^ ,0^ <^ j-^^/r?^"^^ %.^' %.^' V- OO^ V-. .-^^^ .~^' -^X -^^^ .\' v^. <^' ' y~. 0^ ^^' V-.. / ^s '> s ^ X ,#?-./~'>f^ * -i,*-. -v^. 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