Valentine's Manual of the City of New York1916 - New York (N.Y.) |
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Page 206 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.
Page 206 - Peace, for the purpose of receiving and maintaining a fund or funds and applying the principal and income thereof to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States...
Page 165 - Apportionment, made up of the mayor, the comptroller, the president of the board of aldermen, and the presidents of the five boroughs, into which the city is divided.
Page 197 - Posterity a grateful remembrance of the patriotic conduct, enterprise and perseverance of MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY, who after a series of successes amidst the most discouraging Difficulties Fell in the attack on QUEBEC 31st Decbr, 1775.
Page 8 - Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York in Common Council convened and it is hereby ordained by the Authority of the same That from...
Page 180 - DISTRESSING. Left his lodgings, some time since, and has not since been heard of, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of J£nicker~boclcer.
Page 206 - York, for the purpose of receiving and maintaining a fund or funds and applying the income thereof to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States, by aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor.
Page 92 - Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate four hundred thousand dollars out of my residuary estate to the establishment of a public library in the city of New York.
Page 159 - The Department of Docks and Ferries is administered by a commissioner appointed by the Mayor. The commissioner has exclusive control, subject in certain particulars to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, of all waterfront property belonging to the city. This control includes the granting of permits for the use of wharf property and the regulation of wharfage and dockage rates (except those fixed by law). The dock commissioner may also set aside piers for recreation purposes and assign waterfront...
Page 204 - For the establishment, support, and management of an institution for the purpose of affording medical and surgical aid and nursing to sick and disabled persons of every creed, nationality, and color.