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Apply at their Coal Yard, in Columbia near Atlantic, opposite Freeman's Hall ; at their office, in Atlantic cor. Columbia, and at Wilder's Book store, 51 Fulton street.
T. Craven having resided in Brooklyn 25 years, con- fidently appeals to his fellow citizens for a share of their patronage. T. CRAVEN & CO.
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P. I. ARCULARIUS, COAL YARD, CORNER OF COLUMBIA AND PACIFIC STS
WALTER BICKER, DEALER.
Yard cor Columbia & Congress Office cor Atlantic & Furman
GEORGE H. THURSTON,
COAL DEALER Yard 236 Atlantic Street.
(between Boerum and Smith. ) Coals warranted of the first quality, delivered in any part of the city of Brooklyn or New-York. N. B --- Orders roceived by N. Thurston, No 56 Wall street, New-York, or through the dispatch post.
A. J. DOWNER, 1
Wholesale and Retail Coal Dealer, OFFICE AT THE
Atlantic Dock, near Hamilton Av. Ferry, South Brooklyn.
Anthracite Coal from the Lehigh and Schuylkill Mines : constantly on hand ; Bituminous Coal of the best quality, . for Parlor Grates, or Smith's use, deliverable in any part : of the City of Brooklyn or New York City, as cheap as the cheapest, and warranted to give satisfaction.
(G Orders promptly attended to, on application at the office, or either of the following Agents :
Fitts & Davis, corner of State and Columbia. Scranton & Co., corner of Atlantic and Henry. Asa Conklin, corner of Smith and Baltic. Tompkins .& Bunce, cor. Fulton and Nassau. J. A. Morris, 134 Henry street.
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J. ENDICOTT & Co. LACKAWANA , RD,
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FOOT of ADAMS ST.
Peach Orchard, Lehigh, Lackawana and Liverpool Coals. Constantly on hand, at the lowest Market prices
Coal and Wood Yard, COURT ST., BETWEEN WARREN & BALTIC. ISAAC SIMONSON informs the public that he has con- stantly on hand a supply of all kinds of Coal and Wood at the lowest market prices.
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JOSHUA ROGERS, KINGS COUNTY COAL YARD, Cor. of Adams & Water sts., Brooklyn. Peach Orchard & Lehigh Coals always on hand.
NICHOLAS R. VAN BR INT, oal Dealer Corner ot Pearl & Plymouth streets, and 83 Myrtle Avenue.
L. M. MUCHMORE, COAL DEALER, CORNER OF COURT AND PACIFIC STS, Brooklyn.
N. B. All orders thankfully received and punctually attended to.
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CONTENTS
OF THE
MUNICIPAL REGISTER.
Page.
Synopsis of the City Charter
3
Rules and orders of the Common Council. . 7
Extract from a law to regulate Hackney Coaches and Car- riages.
10
Extract from a law to regulate Carts and Cartmen .. 12
Extract from a law to regulate Porters and Hand Cartmen 15
Ferries
18
Table of distances in the City from the City Hall
18
Stage routes
Table of distances . on the L I Railroad.
Council of the Town of Brooklyn from 1671 to 1848.
Chronicles of Brooklyn from 1806 to 1848
Names and residences of the Mayor and Common Council Standing Committees of the Common Council for 1848 & 9 Officers of the Corporation .
Finance Department ..
Street Commissioner's Department
Physician to the Board of Health 99 City Surveyors 99
City Prison .
99
City Watch Department.
99
Lamp Department.
100
Keeper of City Park.
101
Clerk and Keeper of Public Markets 101
Counsel to the Common Council 101
101
Public Administrator.
101
City Inspectors.
101
Inspector of Hacks and Cabs
101
Inspector of Carts and Sleds
101
Printers to the Common Council 101 City Sealer . 101
Pound Masters 101
Corporation Newspapers 151
Harbor Master .. 102
Commissioners of Deeds. 102
19 19 20 38 9~ 97 98 99 99
Attorney to the Common Council
285
Ward Assessors 102
Ward Collectors 102
Ward Constables 103
Municipal Court 103
Mayor's Marshals 104
Police Court. 104
City Marshals 104
Fire-Department. 104
Officers of the Fire Department. 104
Fire Apparatus and their location. 105
Bell Ringer 106
Fire Districts. 106
Number of Fires during the past year and loss. 107
Financial condition of the Fire department. 107
Public cisterns. 107
Board of Health 108
Deaths and interments in the city in 1847.
109
Board of Education
110
Standing Committees of the Board of Education.
110
School Districts. 111
Location of Public Schools.
113
Teachers of Public Schools.
113
Expenditures for Public Schools from Jan 1, 1847 to Feb 1, 1848 ..
115
Financial condition of the city on 1st March 1848.
117
Value of Real and Personal Estate in the city of Brooklyn and County of Kings 121
Number of New Buildings erected in the city in in 1842, 43, and 44. 121
Newspapers employed by the Corporation 122
Other Newspapers in the City 122
Public Markets in the City
122
Locations of Public Officers. 122
Population of the City 1830, 35, 40, 45. 124
: Description of the City Hall. 124
General information relating to Public Institutions. 125
Public Parks. 129
Greenwood Cemetery
130
Medical Society of Kings County
131
Brooklyn City Hospital.
131
Brooklyn City Dispensary
132
Brooklyn City Library . . 133
Youth's Free Library . 134
Brooklyn Orphan Asylum
134
Brooklyn Association for improving the condition of the Poor 135
i Franklin Literary Society 136
New England Society 136
St. Nicholas Society 136
Brooklyn Institute. 137
Franklin Benevolent Association 138
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Churches in the city . 139
Tomb of the Martyrs 141 Statement of votes for Mayor 1847, 1848. 149 Statement of votes for Aldermen 1847 1848. 150 Schedule of Officers whose salaries are paid out of the City Treasury . 151
Board of Supervisors. 158
Officers of Kings County in the city 159
County Clerk's Office.
Inspectors of County Jail. 155
159
Commissioners for loaning certain monies of the U S. 159
District Attorney, Surrogate & public Administrator 160
Alms House, Asylum, Penitentiary Sup't of the Poor 160 Coroner & Physician to County Jail. 160
Sheriff's Office. 161
Judiciary. 161
Supreme Court, Circuit, County Court, Court of Sessions, and County Court. 161, 162, & 163
Municipal Court and Police Court 168
Alms House Report for 1847 164
Number of persons Committed to County Jail in 1839, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, & 48. . 167
Statement of votes for Supervisors April 1847 & 8 167
Salaries of officers paid out of the County Treasury 170
Brooklyn Post Office. 172
U S Navy Yard Department. 173
U S Dry Dock. 175
Census of Brooklyn in 1814. 176 Extracts from the Ancient Records of the Town of Breuck- len from 1625 to 1699 178
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MUNICIPAL REGISTER
OF THE
CITY OF BROOKLYN,
AND
MANUAL OF KINGS COUNTY,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD UP TO THE PRESENT TIME ; EM- BRACING VALUABLE STATISTICS OF PASSING EVENTS ; CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES; A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL OFFICERS FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT OF (THE NOW CITY) OF BROOKLYN; POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION ; THE VARIOUS OR- GANIZED SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS, LAW COURTS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING AND AMUSING REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND.
FOR THE YEARS 1848-9.
EDITED BY THOMAS P. TEALE. PUBLISHED BY E. B. SPOONER.
BROOKLYN: F. B. SPOONER, PRINTER, Franklin Buildings, corner of Fulton and Orange-streets.
1848.
Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1848, by EDWIN B. SPOONER and THOMAS P. TEALE in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
SYNOPSIS
OF THE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN.
Passed April 8, 1834.
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1. The Town of Brooklyn, shall hereafter constitute, and be known by the name of the City of Brooklyn .- The inhabitants of the said city shall be a Corporation, by the name of " The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Brooklyn."
2 The said city shall be divided into nine Wards, as follows, viz : The five districts of the Village of Brook -. lyn as they are now laid out, shall constitute the same number of wards, and shall be respectively numbered and designated as wards in the same manner as they are now numbered and designated as districts.
3. The Legislative power shall be vested in a Mayor and Board of Aldermen, who together, shall constitute and be denominated the Common Council, and a majority of the whole number shall be a quorum for the transac- tion of business.
4. Two Aldermen shall annually be elected for each Ward. Such Aldermen shall, at the time of their elec- tion, be freeholders of the said city, and residents in the Wards for which they shall respectively be chosen.
5. The Mayor shall, at the time of his election, be a freeholder, and resident of the said city. No person who shall have been elected an Alderman, shall be capable of holding the office of Mayor during the term for which he shall have been so elected an Alderman.
6. The Mayor shall preside in the Common Council, but shall have no vote therein. Every ordinance or reso- lution passed by the Board shall, before it take effect, ba
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presented to him for his approbation. If he approve, he shall sign it ; if not, he shall at the next regular or special meeting of the Board, state to the said Board his objections thereto ; whereupon they shall again vote, and if such ordinance or resolution shall again pass, it shall take effect, notwithstanding his objections ; but such objections shall be entered upon the minutes of the Board, and published in the newspaper or newspapers to be employed by said Corporation as hereinafter provided. If he shall not state his objections at the time above specified, such ordinance or resolution shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it.
7. The said Board shall elect one of their members to be President thereof, who, during a vacancy in the office of Mayor, or whenever he shall be absent from the city or be prevented by sickness or any other cause from at- tending to the duties of his office, shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of Mayor of the said city.
13. No person entitled to vote at any election to be held ยท under this Act shall be arrested on any civil process within said city on the day on which such election shall be held.
20. It shall be the duty of the Mayor to see that all the ordinances of the Common Council are complied with, and offenders against the same prosecuted. He shall be as- sisted in his duty by the Inspector or Inspectors, to be appointed under the seventeenth section of this Act, who shall report breaches of the ordinances to him or to the Attorney of the Board, as the Common Council may direct.
26. The.Common Council shall have the management and control of the finances and of all property, real and personal, belonging to the said Corporation, and shall have power within the said city to make, establish, publish, alter, modify, amend and repeal ordinances, rules, regula- tions and by-laws for the following purposes, viz :
First .-. To appoint Watchmen, and prescribe their powers and duties, to provide or construct a Watch-house or Watch-houses and to govern and regulate the same.
Second .- To regulate Cartmen, Porters, Hack Owners
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and Drivers, Measurers, Surveyors, Weighers, Guagers, Packers, Common Criers and Scavengers, and to fix the rates of compensation to be allowed to them, and to pro- hibit unlicensed persons from acting in either of such capacities.
Third .- To regulate the manner of weighing and sell- ing hay, except pressed or loaded hay ; of selling pickled and other fish, and of selling and measuring wood, lime and coal, and to appoint a person or persons to superintend. the same with such compensation and to be paid in such manner as they shall deem most expedient.
Fourth .- To regulate Butchers, and the places and manner of selling meats, and to prohibit unlicensed persons from exercising the occupation of, or acting as Butchers.
Fifth .- To restrain and regulate the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats and geese, and to au- thorize the impounding and sale of the same, and the application of the proceeds to the payment of the penalty which may have been incurred, and costs of the proceed- ings.
Sixth .- To regulate the keeping of swine and cows, and to prevent the keeping in any one place of more than such numbers as they may deem to be so kept. .
Seventh .- To prevent the running at large of dogs and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large, contrary to the ordinances.
Eighth .- To prohibit and abate all nuisances.
Ninth .- To regulate, the burial of the dead, to direct the keeping and returning of bills of mortality, and to im- pose penalties on physicians, sextons and others for any default in the premises.
Tenth .- To regulate or prohibit the flying of Kites or any other amusements or practise having a tendency to frighten horses or to annoy persons passing in the streets or sidewalks of the said city.
Eleventh .- To regulate swimming and bathing in the waters in or bounding the city.
Twelfth .- To regulate the locating and manner of keep- ing of slaughter houses, and houses for storing gun powder and other combustible and dangerous materials, and the
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use of candles, lights and fres in barns, stables and other places, peculiariy liable to take fire.
Thirteenth .- To suppress and restrain disorderly houses and groceries, houses of ill-fame, billiard tables or gaming tables of any description, nine pin alleys, (or alleys with any other number of pins) ball alleys, and gambling, and also to suppress and restrain the playing of cards, dice or other games of chance in places where liquor is sold to be drank therein, and to authorize the removal or destruction of all instruments or devices used for the purposes of gam- ing. To restrain and punish vagrants, street beggars, and common prostitutes ; to prevent and quell any riot, noise or disturbance, and to prevent and disperse any disorderly assemblages. To regulate or prohibit the exhibitions of common showmen or of curiosities, or other exhibitions, which may be likely to create or encourage idleness or immorality.
Fourteenth,-To prohibit the selling or giving away of any ardent spirits to be drank in any shop, store, grocery, out-house, yard, or garden, owned or occupied by the per- son selling or giving away the same, except by inn-keep- ers, duly licensed ; and to prohibit the selling or giving away of any ardent spirits or intoxicating liquors, to be drank by any child, apprentice or servant, without the consent of his or her parent, master or mistress.
Fifteenth .- To prevent horse racing, immoderate riding or driving, and to authorize the stopping of persons so racing or immoderately riding or driving.
Sixteenth .- To prevent obstructions and incumbrances in and upon the wharves, streets and other public places and parts of the city. To direct and regulate the planting, rearing and preserving of ornamental trees in the streets. To direct and regulate the flagging of sidewalks or laying the same with brick ; to prevent incumbrances on the same, and to compel the keeping of the same clean and free from snow, ice or dirt, and to direct the sweeping and cleaning of streets by the persons owning or occupying premises fronting thereon.
Seventeenth .- To compel the owner or occupant of any Grocery, Cellar, Tallow Chandler's Shop, Soap Factory, Tannery, Stable, Privy or Sewer, or other house or place
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which may be in an unwholesome or offensive state, or be likely to become so, to cleanse the same in such manner, and from time to time, as the said Common Council may think necessary and proper, with a view to promote the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the said city.
Eighteenth .- To regulate the Police of the said city.
Nineteenth .- To establish and regulate Public Pounds.
Twentieth -To establish, construct and regulate public Pumps, Wells, Cisterns and Reservoirs, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained.
RULES AND ORDERS
OF THE
Common Council of the City of Brooklyn. -
Rule 1st. On the appearance of a quorum, the Mayor or President shall take the chair. The members being called to order, the minutes of the preceding meeting shall be read, to the end that any mistakes therein may be cor- rected by the Board ; then the order of business shall be as follows :
1st. Presentation of Petitions and Communications.
2nd. Communications and Reports of officers of the Board.
3rd. Reports of Standing committees.
4th. Reports of Select committees.
5th. Motions, Resolutions and Notices.
6th. Special orders of the Day.
7th. Unfinished Business.
Rule 2nd. The order of business shall not be departed from except by unanimous consent.
Rule 3rd. The Presiding Officer shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide questions subject to an ap- peal to the Board-the appeal to be taken without debate.
Rule 4th. Every member previous to his speaking shall rise from his seat and address himself to the presiding officer.
Rule 5th. When two or more members rise at once, the presiding officer shall name the one to speak first.
Rule 6th. No member shall speak more than twice on the same question, nor more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken, without leave of the Board.
Rule 7th. No question or motion shall be debated or put unless the same be seconded ; it shall then be stated by the presiding officer, and every such motion shall be reduced to writing if any member desire it.
Rule 8th. Atter a motion is stated by the presiding officer, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the Board ; but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment by consent of the Board.
Rule 9th. When a blank is to be filled and different sums or times proposed, the question shall be first put on the largest sum and longest time.
Rule 10th. When a question is under debate no motion shall be raised unless for the previous question, to amend it, to lay it on the table, to commit it, to postpone it, or to adjourn.
Rule 11th. A motion to lay a question on the table shall be decided without amendment or debate ; and a motion to postpone indefinitely shall until decided preclude all amendments of the main question and without debate.
Rule 12th. A motion to adjourn shall always be in or- der, and shall be decided without debate.
Rule 13th. Every member who shall be present when a question is put, shall vote for or against the same, un- less excused by the Board.
Rule 14th. The previous question shall be as follows, " Shall the main question be now put?" and shall until decided preclude all amendments or debate.
Rule 15th. No question or motion once put and lost shall be again put unless reconsidered, and a motion for reconsideration shall not be in order unless made by a member who voted in the majority, and at the same or next meeting after that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place, except by unanimous consent.
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Rule 16th All questions relating to the priority of business, shall be decided without debate.
Rule 17th. A member called to order shall immediately sit down unless permitted to explain. All decisions of the chair on questions of order shall be conclusive unless reversed on appeal to the Board.
Rule 18th. When the yeas and nays are called for, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to enter on the minutes the names of the members voting for and against the question, and also the name of the member calling for the same.
Rule 19th. All committees shall be appointed by the Mayor, unless otherwise specially directed by the Board.
Rule 20th. The Mayor shall be ex-officio a member of all committees, provided always that it shall not be necessary for him to sign any report ; and the majority of the members of any such committee, exclusive of the Mayor, shall be sufficient to pass any report, or resolution in committee.
Rule 21st. All committees shall report in writing their opinion on all matters refered to them and a statement of facts in relation to the same.
Rule 22nd. All appointments of officers shall be made by ballot, unless dispensed with by unanimous consent ; and a majority of the votes of the members present shall be necessary to constitute a choice.
Rule 23rd. All motions or resolutions, having for their object the appropriation of public money, shall lie over until the next meeting of the Board before action, unless upon a report of a committee or for salaries of officers ap- pointed by the Board.
Rule 24th. Every petition, remonstrance or other writ- ten application, intended to be presented to the Board, must be endorsed by the member presenting the same, stating the substance of the application with the name of the applicant, and signing his name thereto, which en- dorsement only shall be read, unless a member shall require the whole to be read.
Rule 25th. The Standing committees of the Board shall consist of three members each, except that on Finance and License and Streets, which shall consist of five each, and shall be as follows :
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Ist. Laws and application to the Legislature.
2nd. On Accounts.
3rd. On Streets.
4th. On Assessments.
5th. Fire Department.
6th. Police.
7th. Markets.
8th. Finance.
9th. Lamps.
10th. Wells and Pumps.
11th. Watch.
12th. License.
13th. Ferry and Water.
14th. Public Lands and Buildings.
15th. Hospital.
16th. Common Schools.
17th. Public Cisterns.
18th. Weights and Measures.
EXTRACT
FROM A LAW TO REGULATE
HACKNEY COACHES AND CARRIAGES,
Rates and prices of fare of Hackney Coaches and Carriages. -
Sec 1. The prices or rates of fare to be taken by or paid to the owners or drivers of Hackney Coaches or Car- riages, shall be as follows, to wit :
For carrying a passenger any distance not exceeding one mile, twenty five cents ; for every additional passen- ger, twenty five cents.
For carrying a passenger any distance exceeding a mile and within two miles, fifty cents ; and for every additional passenger, twenty five cents.
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For the use of a hackney coach or carriage by the day, with one or more passengers, five dollars.
For the use of a hackney coach or carriage by the hour, with one or more passengers, with the privilege of going from place to place and of stopping as often as may be required, as follows, viz : for the first hour, one dollar ; for the second hour, seventy five cents ; and for every succeeding hour, fifty cents.
In all cases where the hiring of a hackney coach or car- riage is not at the time thereof specified to be by the day or hour, it shall be deemed to be by the mile.
For children between two and fourteen years of age, half price only is to be charged ; and for children under two years of age, no charge is to be made.
Whenever a hackney coach or carriage shall be detain- ed, excepting as aforesaid, the owner or driver shall be allowed after the rate of seventy five. cents for an hour, thirty seven and a half cents for each and every subsequent hour, and so in proportion for any part of the first subse- quent hour which the same may be so detained.
Sec. 2. In case of disagreement as to distance or price, the same shall be determined by the Mayor of the said city.
Sec. 3. The owner of any hackney coach or carriage shall not demand or receive any pay for the conveyance of any passenger, unless the number of the carriage and the rates and prices of fare shall be fixed and placed in the manner hereinafter directed by section second of title fourth of this law, at the time such passenger may be conveyed in such carriage.
Sec. 4. The owner or driver of any hackney coach or carriage shall not be entitled to recover or receive any pay from any person from whom he shall have demanded any greater price or rates than he may be authorized to re- ceive as aforesaid.
Sec. 5. Upon trial of any cause commenced for the re- covery of any of the aforesaid prices or rates, it shall be incumbent upon the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action, to prove that the number and prices or rates were placed and fixed in pursuance of the provisions of this law, at the time the services were rendered for which the suit may bs brought.
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Sec. 6. No owner or driver of any hackney coach or carriage in the city of Brooklyn, shall ask, demand or re- ceive any larger sum than he or they may be entitled to receive as aforesaid, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offence, to be sued for and recovered from the owner or owners or driver of any such hackney coach or carriage severally and respectively.
EXTRACT
FROM A LAW TO REGULATE
CARTS AND CARTMEN;
Title III of the rate and prices of Cartage.
Sec. 1. The prices or rates to be taken by Cartmen for the loading, carrying and unloading of goods, wares, mer- chandize and other things, shall be as follows, to wit : Ale or beer, every hogshead from sixty to ninety gallons, $0 25
Alum or copperas, every hogshead from twelve to fifteen hundred weight, 0 31
Alum or copperas, every hogshead over one ton weight, 0 56
Bread, every four tierces, -
0 25
Bricks, every load, - -
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0 25
Bricks, every load handed and piled, - -
0 31
Boards, planks and scantling or other timber, every load, - - -
0 25
Beef or Pork, every five barrels, - -
0 25
Cables, half shot, from five to seven inches in cir- cumference, - -
0 31
Cables, whole shot, from five to seven inches in circumference, 0 62 - Cables, half shot, from seven to ten inches in cir- cumference, 0 75
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Cables, whole shot, from seven to ten inches in . circumference, - - 1 50 Cables, whole shot, of ten and not exceeding twelve inches in circumference, 1 75
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