tains, not exceeding one to each fifty patrolmen (except in the rural portion of the city); sergeants, not exceeding four to each fifty patrolmen; detective-sergeants; doormen, not exceeding two to each fifty patrolmen; forty surgeons and 6,382 patrolmen. This number may be increased by action of the Municipal Assembly, upon the recommendation of the Police Board. It is also provided that the police of Brooklyn, Long Island City and Richmond County shall be transferred to the general police force. The force is classified as follows: First

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grade, five years' service and upward; second grade, four and a half to years' service; third grade, four years to four and a half years' service; fourth grade, three to four years' service; fifth grade, two to three years' service;. sixth grade, one to two years' service; seventh grade, less than one year's service. The salary schedule is: Chief of Police, $6,000; deputies, $5,000; inspectors, $3,500; captains, $2,700; surgeon, $3,000; sergeants, $2,000; roundsmen, $1,500; doormen, $1,000; first grade patrolmen, $1,400; second grade, $1,350; third grade, $1,250; fourth grade, $1,150; fifth grade, $1,000; sixth grade, $900; seventh grade. $800.

BUREAU OF ELECTIONS-Under the control and supervision of the Police Department. Branches of the bureau are to be established in each of the boroughs. The head of the bureau is known as the Superintendent of Elections, is appointed for five years, with a salary of $6,000.

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BOROUGH OFFICERS-In each borough there is to be a president and local board, who are to be elected for a term of four years. The presidents of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn, respectively, receive $5,000 a year, and the presidents of Queens and Richmond, respectively, $3,000 a year. There are also

twenty-two districts of local improvements, each with a board to decide upon matters which may not be inconsistent with the powers of the Municipal Assembly, and to aid such assembly and departments in the discharge of the duties respecting the district governments.

BOARD OF PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS -Composed of the Mayor, Corporation Counsel, Controller, Commissioner of Water Supply, Commissioner of Highways, Commissioner of Street Cleaning, Commissioner of Sewers, Commissioner of Public Buildings, Lighting and Supplies, Commissioner of Bridges, the presidents of the several boroughs, and the president of the board. The latter is appointed by the Mayor at a salary of $8,000. COMMISSIONER WATER SUPPLY -Appointed by the Mayor, with a salary of $7,500.

COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS-Appointed by the Mayor, with a salary of $7,500.

COMMISSIONER OF STREET CLEANING-Appointed by the Mayor for six years; salary, $7,500.

COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS-Appointed by the Mayor; salary, $7,500; term, six years.

COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, LIGHTING AND SUPPLIES-Appointed by the Mayor for six years; sal

COMMISSIONER OF BRIDGES-Appointed by the Mayor for six years; salary, $7,500. He has cognizance and control of the management and maintenance of the New-York and Brooklyn Bridge, its railroads and collection of tolls and fares; the construction, repair, maintenance and management of all other bridges that may be constructed in whole or in part at the expense of the City of New-York, and of the construction, repair and maintenance of all other bridges that are or may be in whole or in part a public charge,_not included in public parks, except the East River Bridge.

PARK DEPARTMENT-Three commissioners-one for Manhattan and Richmond, one for the Bronx, and the other for Brooklyn and Queens-salary of each, $5,000.

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ART COMMISSION-Composed of Mayor, the presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Library, and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, one painter, one sculptor, one architect, and three other residents of the city, none of whom shall be a painter, sculptor or architect or member of any other profession in the fine arts.

COMMISSIONERS OF BUILDINGSAppointed by the Mayor from candidates who have had at least ten years' experience as architects or builders. Salary of the commissioner for Manhattan and the Bronx, and for Brooklyn, $7,000 a year, and for Queens and Richmond, $3,500.

COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES-Salary for the commissioner for Manhattan and the Bronx and of one for Brooklyn and Queens, is fixed at $7,500, and for the one for Richmond, $2,500.

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COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAppointed by the Mayor; salary, $7.500. FIRE COMMISSIONER-Appointed the Mayor; term, six years; salary, $7,500. He appoints a deputy commissioner for Brooklyn, one fire marshal for Manhattan, the Bronx and Richmond, and one for Brooklyn and Queens, at a salary of $3,000 each.

COMMISSIONERS OF DOCKS-Three appointed by the Mayor; terms, six years; salary, $5,000 each, with the exception of the president, elected from their number, to receive $6,000.

COMMISSIONERS OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS-Five, appointed by the Mayor; the president of the board, SO designated in the appointment, to be for six years, and the others for four years. Salary of the president, $8,000; other members, $6,000.

BOARD OF ASSESSORS-The Mayor is authorized to appoint five persons, each with a salary of $3,000 a year.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-The charter provides for the following school boards: For Manhattan and the Bronx, twenty-one members; Brooklyn, forty-five members; Queens and Richmond, each to

be of nine members. The members of the boards of education of New-York and Brooklyn are permitted to serve out their terms. The terms of all members of school boards is three years. A Board of Education for the entire city is provided, to consist of nineteen members, as follows: Of the chairman of each of the four school boards, ten elected by the board of Manhattan and the Bronx, and five elected by board of the Borough of Brooklyn, all from the membership of said boards, respectively.

BOARD OF HEALTH-President of the Police Board, Health Officer of the Port and three Commissioners of Health, appointed by the Mayor for six years. The annual salaries are: President, $7,500; commissioners, other than the president, $6,000; sanitary superintendent, $6,000; secretary, $5,000; assistant sanitary superintendents, $3,500; register of records, $4,000; assistant registers of records, $3,000; chief clerk, $3,000.

COURTS-The Justices' Courts and the office of the justices of the peace of Brooklyn and Long Island City are abolished and consolidated under the name of the Municipal Court of the City of NewYork For this court the Mayor is authorized to appoint seven additional justices. The boroughs are divided into districts, in each of which sessions of the Municipal Court are to be held. Manhattan has eleven districts; the Bronx, two districts; Brooklyn, five districts; Queens, two, and Richmond, three. The office of Police Justice of Manhattan and the Bronx, and the Court of Special Sessions of Brooklyn, are abolished. For the purposes of the administration of criminal justice, the new city is divided into two divisions. The first division embraces Manhattan and the Bronx, and the second division embraces Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond.

CORONERS-Four in Manhattan, and two each in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond.

COUNTIES AND OFFICIALS-The wards of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn are continued the same as before the consolidation. The five towns and all the incorporated villages within Richmond County are abolished, and the territory included within the towns of Castleton, Middletown, Northfield, Southfield and Westfield are to be known as Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively, of Richmond. The towns and villages in that part of Queens County included within the City of New-York are abolished and are designated as follows: Long Island City, Ward 1 of Queens; Newtown, Ward 2; Flushing, Ward 3; Jamaica, Ward 4; Hempstead, Ward 5. The Mayor is to appoint the Corporation Counsel and all the administrative and executive officers of the city except the Controller. In addition to those heretofore enumerated, the Mayor appoints two Commissioners of Accounts, three Civil Service Commissioners and a Chief of the Bureau of Municipal Statistics. It is provided that all veterans, either of the Army or Navy or the Volunteer Fire Department who may be in the service of either the municipal or public corporation, shall be retained in the service.

Organized June, 1897.-Officers: President, Robert Bleakley, New-Orleans, La.; secretary, William Harper, Philadelphia; vice-presidents for the United States, P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia; William R. Grace, of New-York, and Zina R. Carter, vice-president of the Chicago Board of Trade; vice-presidents for the Southern Republics-Brazil, Colonel Dr. Mendez; Mexico, Ferrari Perez; Argentina, Carlos Lix Klett; Uruguay, P. de Murguiondo; Chili, Carlos Rogers; Venezuela, Antonis E. Delfino; Peru, Alejandro Garland; Costa Rica, Mauro Fernandez; Salvador, Federico Mejia; British Guiana, L. H. Richter. The objects were set forth in a series of resolutions which provided that each delegate should report such full detailed information, combined with such earnest practical suggestions as shall tend to make the organization which he represents an effective aid toward the international body; that the Executive Committee prepare a programme of business to send to each affiliated institution in the United States and in foreign countries within sixty days before the delegates start for the annual congress, recommending to the several nations the importance of securing complete selections to represent the raw and national products, and all other things which could find import to the United States, and send them to the Philadelphia Museum, which is designated as the depository and the instrumentality for placing it before the manufacturers; that the delegates shall obtain for the Philadelphia Museum the best information concerning the methods of packing and transportation, and all other information which might be of aid in the exportation of goods-it being especially desired that sample packages, photographs and everything be furnished to illustrate the methods of transportation and exhibition of goods.