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1 Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Local Government of the City and County of New York 1884

handle is hein.trials/repspcmtt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF NEW YORK. IN ASSEMBLY, MARCH 14, 1884. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO INVESTI. GATE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK. To the Assembly of the State of New York: Your committee appointed to investigate the local government of the city and county of New York, under the resolution passed by your body January 15, 1884, do report as follows: The first session of the committee was held on the 19th day of January, and since then we have sat in all nineteen days, often being in session without intermission from ten in the morning till five or six o'clock in the afternoon. As the resolution under which we were acting directed our attention especially to the department of public works we felt obliged to take up that department first, but we found that it. was, at this time, being investigated both by the Senate com- mittee of cities, and also by a special grand jury, and as the witnesses whom we wished to examine were before the former body, while the books and papers we wished submitted to us were in the custody.of the grand jury, we found it absolutely impossible to continue our in- vestigation into it, and accordingly turned our attention to other branches of the local government. Our inquiries were mainly carried on with a view to seeing what evils of the present system were due to bad or defective laws, and to remedying these by drawing up and presenting such bills as we deemed would, if enacted into laws, most nearly meet the emergencies of the case, but we also found many abuses which were due not to the exist. ence of bad laws, but to the non-execution, invasion or violation of good ones, and we have brought such cases to the notice of the proper prosecuting officers of the.county and State - the corporation counsel, district attorney and Attorney-General- in order that the offender might be brought to justice, believing that the surest way of having a [Assem. Doo. No. 125.1 1

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