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 Passed by the Common Council and approved 
 by His Honor, the Mayor, since the 
 publication of the Ordinances 
 in book form, June 
 1, 1912 
 
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 That Section 20 of Chapter VII of the 
 Ordinances he and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 No person shall sell or offer for sale in 
 the public markets, or elsewhere In the 
 city, any fruit, vegetables, berries or other 
 products or commodities, at, for or by any 
 weight or measure other than the weight 
 or measure required by law and duly 
 tested and stamped or certified as correct 
 by the Sealer of Weights and Measures; 
 and all meats, poultries and provisions, ex¬ 
 cept such vegetables as are, according to 
 custom, sold by the head or bunch, being 
 offered for sale in the public markets or 
 elsewhere in the city, shall be weighed or 
 measured by the scale, dry measure, 
 weight, balance or other measure duly 
 tested and stamped or certified as correct 
 by the Sealer of Weights and Measures, 
 provided, that, except where the purchaser 
 otherwise requests or desires, poultry may 
 be sold in any other manner than by 
 weight. Any lessee or occupant of a stall, 
 stand or space in any public market of the 
 city, and any other person doing business 
 on the markets or elsewhere under a li¬ 
 cense or permit from any department of 
 the city, who shall violate any of the pro¬ 
 visions of this section, shall, in addition to 
 the other penalties prescribed by statute 
 or ordinance, forfeit his or her lease, li- 
 . cense or permit, and the same shall ex¬ 
 pire, cease and determine as if the original 
 term of letting had expired by limitation 
 of time, and no stand, stall pr space in the 
 public markets shall thereafter, without 
 the consent of the Common Council, be 
 leased, rented or hired to such occupant 
 or lessee, nor to any member of his or 
 her family. Provided, however, that in 
 every case the person charged with a vio¬ 
 lation of any of the provisions of this sec¬ 
 tion shall, before the incurring of the pen¬ 
 alty herein prescribed, be notified in writ¬ 
 ing of the charge against him or her and 
 of a hearing thereon before the Mayor at 
 a time and place to be fixed in said notice; 
 <tU>c no forfeiture or other penalty pre¬ 
 scribed by this section shall be imposed or 
 incurred until after such hearing and a. 
 decision thereon by the Mayor sustaining 
 the charge or charges. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tht^t Section 18 of Chapter XXXII of 
 the Ordinances be and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 18. Application for tapping mu,st 
 be made at the office forty-eight hours 
 prior to the time requested for insertion, 
 order that proper inspection of the 
 premises may be made by an inspector 
 of the Bureau before the order is deliv¬ 
 ered to the tapper. Such application must 
 state the time when the main will be un¬ 
 covered and ready for the tapper, the si/e 
 of the taps and service pipe applied for, 
 the number of the premises, the side of 
 the street and the name of the person own¬ 
 ing the premises. 
 
 That so much of Section 1 of Chapter 1 
 of the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo 
 
 under the Department of Health, Ernest 
 Wende Hospital, be amended by adding 
 thereto the following: 
 
 1 chauffeur-mechanician.$900.00 
 
 That Section 20 of Chapter 4 of the Or¬ 
 dinances of the City of Buffalo be amended 
 so a s to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 20.—1. No wagon, car or other 
 vehicle shall be driven upon the streets or 
 highways by animal or mechanical trac¬ 
 tion, unless it shall have tires of the fol¬ 
 lowing widths: For combined weight of 
 vehicle and load from 4,000 to 5,000 pounds, 
 tires at least three inches in width. For 
 combined weight of vehicle and load ex¬ 
 ceeding 5,000 pounds, tires at least four 
 inches in width. 
 
 2. No wagon, car, truck, or machine 
 which has solid lugs, spikes or cleats at¬ 
 tached to the face of its wheels shall be 
 driven, hauled or propelled upon paved or 
 improved streets or highways, excepting 
 under restrictions prescribed by and upon 
 written permission from the Commissioner 
 of Public Works. 
 
 Provided, however, that nothing in this 
 section shall be construed to prohibit the 
 use of anti-skid chains on any automobile 
 weighing, with its load, not more than five 
 tons. 
 
 3. No machine or other contrivance In¬ 
 tended primarily for purposes other than 
 the transportation of persons or goods and 
 weighing more than five (5) tons, except¬ 
 ing road or pavement rollers, shall be 
 driven, hauled or propelled upon paved or 
 improved streets or highways, excepting 
 under restrictions prescribed by and upon 
 written permission from the Commissioner 
 of Public Works. 
 
 4. No wagon, car, truck or machine 
 upon wheels which shall weigh, together 
 with the load upon it, more than 36,000 
 pounds or have a load upon a single wheel 
 of over 10,000 pounds shall be driven or 
 propelled through the streets and high¬ 
 ways or over or upon any bridge or via¬ 
 duct upon such street or highway, unless 
 with the written permission of the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public Works. Such pro¬ 
 vision shall not apply to the operation of 
 any car over or along a fixed track prop¬ 
 erly constructed for such purpose. 
 
 5. Where permission is granted by the 
 Commissioner of Public Works for the 
 purposes set forth in Sub. Div. 2, 3 and 4 
 next above, - he may require the payment 
 of an inspection fee not to exceed $1.00 per 
 mile or fraction thereof traveled by such 
 wagon, car, truck or machine upon the 
 streets or highways, and the persons to 
 whom such permit is issued shall pay the 
 expenses of all repairs to pavements, 
 bridge roadways, manholes, sewers and 
 receivers which may be necessary by such 
 use of the streets and highways. 
 
 Every person violating the provisions of 
 sub-divisions 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this section 
 shall upon conviction be subject to a fine 
 of not less than $5.00 nor more than 
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That Section 32 of Chapter 4 of the Or¬ 
 dinances of the City of Buffalo be amended 
 so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 32. (1). It is hereby declared to 
 
 be unlawful for any person, firm or cor¬ 
 poration to attach or cause or permit any 
 of his or their or its agents or employes to 
 attach to any lamp post, electric light post, 
 telegraph, telephone, street railway or 
 other pole, or any hydrant or box covering 
 the same, or to any structure or building 
 in or upon any of the streets, avenues, 
 lanes, alleys or public places of the city, 
 any bills, posters, notices, letters, pictures 
 or characters of any kind for advertising 
 purposes It is also hereby declared to be 
 unlawful to attach any such bills, posters, 
 notices, letters, pictures or characters of 
 any kind for advertising purposes upon 
 any structure or building adjoining any of 
 the public streets, avenues, lanes, alleys 
 or places in the city, except by licensed bill 
 posters, and by them only in such manner 
 that they shall not be detached and scat¬ 
 tered upon such streets, avenues, lanes, 
 alleys or public places; provided, however, 
 that the owners or occupants of buildings 
 shall be permitted to attach securely to 
 such buildings signs advertising the busi¬ 
 ness carried on therein subject to the pro¬ 
 visions of this section. 
 
 (2). No person, firm or corporation 
 shall erect or maintain over any sidewalk 
 or over the exterior line of any street, ave¬ 
 nue, lane, alley or public place in the City 
 of Buffalo any sign for displaying the 
 name or trademark of any person, firm or 
 corporation for advertising purposes, or 
 otherwise giving notice of any business or 
 occupation, without first having obtained a 
 license therefor from the Commissioner of 
 Public Works, for which shall be paid the 
 fees fixed by this section. Provided, how¬ 
 ever, that signs projecting not more than 
 eighteen inches over such exterior line 
 may be erected and maintained without 
 license, subject to the control of the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public Works, AND THE 
 FURTHER ORDER OF THE COMMON 
 COUNCIL No sign in the City of Buffalo 
 shall extend over the exterior street line 
 beyond the curb, and in no event shall 
 any sign BE ERECTED HAVING A 
 GREATER DIMENSION THAN 10 FEET 
 IN THE DIRECTION AT RIGHT 
 ANGLES TO THE WALL OF THE 
 BUILDING. Nor shall any sign extend 
 more than 12 feet beyond the exterior 
 street line. Before any license for any 
 sign shall be granted, the person, firm or 
 corporation desiring to erect or maintain 
 the sign or signs shall file with the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public works a written ap¬ 
 plication therefor, signed by the applicant 
 and stating in detail the kind and char¬ 
 acter of the sign proposed to be erected or 
 maintained, the actual area in square feet 
 of the exterior surface of such sign, and 
 such application shall also state, in such de¬ 
 tails as the Commissioner of Public Works 
 shall require, the place where and the 
 manner in which it is proposed to erect 
 such sign or signs. The application shall 
 be signed by the person, firm or corporation 
 occupying as tenant or otherwise the prem¬ 
 ises to which the sign is to be attached 
 and whose business is to be advertised by 
 the sign, and such person, firm or corpora¬ 
 tion shall agree in the application to save 
 the city harmless from all claims for 
 damages arising in connection with such 
 
 sign. Upon the approval by the Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works of such application 
 find of the place and manner of erecting 
 the sign therein mentioned, and upon his 
 writing or stamping thereon the amount 
 of fee required for the sign applied for, 
 the applicant shall pay to the Treasurer 
 the fee prescribed by this section and ob¬ 
 tain said Treasurer’s receipt therefor. The 
 fees received by the Treasurer pursuant 
 to this section shall be paid into the Gen¬ 
 eral Fund. Upon presentation of the 
 Treasurer s receipt for any fee, the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public Works shall issue to 
 the applicant a license for the sign applied 
 for. All licenses issued hereunder shall 
 be numbered consecutively, and each such 
 license shall describe briefly the kind and 
 character of sign authorized to be erected 
 or maintained, the place where to be on, 
 the name of the applicant, the amount of 
 fee which has been paid and the dates of 
 issue and expiration of the license. 
 
 Duplicates of all licenses issued pursu¬ 
 ant to this section shall be kept on file in 
 the office of the Commissioner of Public 
 Works. 
 
 C 3). All licenses issued pursuant to 
 this section shall expire on the 30th day 
 of June next after their issuance. 
 
 The license fees for the erection or 
 maintenance of signs shall be as follows: 
 
 For illuminated signs having an area of 
 less than thirty square feet, $2 per an¬ 
 num. 
 
 For illuminated signs having an area of 
 not less than thirty nor more than forty 
 square feet, $2.50 per annum. 
 
 For illuminated signs having an area of 
 more than forty and not more than fifty 
 square feet, $3 per annum. 
 
 For illuminated signs having an area of 
 more than fifty and not more than sev¬ 
 enty-five square feet, $4 per annum. 
 
 For illuminated signs having an area of 
 more than seventy-five square feet, the an¬ 
 nual fees shall be $4 and, in addition 
 thereto, ten cents for every square foot in 
 excess of seventy-five square feet. 
 
 Permits for illuminated signs not more 
 than 75 square feet in area may be is¬ 
 sued by the Commissioner of Public 
 Works, as above provided, without the oi*- 
 der of the Common Council. In case any 
 application for permission to erect a sign 
 exceeding 75 square feet in area shall be 
 made, and the Commissioner of Public 
 Works shall determine that the same can 
 be properly and safely erected according to 
 full plans and specifications filed with 
 him, he shall report such application to 
 the Common Council with the facts and 
 reasons bearing’on the same, and the erec¬ 
 tion of such sign on the Commissioner’s 
 recommendation may then be authorized 
 by a two thirds vote of the members of 
 each Board composing the Common Coun¬ 
 cil. 
 
 For all signs which shall project more 
 than eighteen inches over the exterior 
 street line, other than illuminated signs, 
 the license fee shall be as follows: 
 
 For all signs having an area of less than 
 twenty square feet, $1 per annum. 
 
 For all signs having an area of not less 
 than twenty nor more than thirty square 
 feet, $1.50 per annum. 
 
 For all signs having an area of more 
 than thirty and not more than forty square 
 feet, $2 per annum. 
 
 No sign other than an illuminated or 
 cloth or canvas sign shall be hereafter 
 
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erected or maintained within the City of 
 Buffalo projecting more than eighteen 
 inches over the exterior street line and 
 having an area of more than forty square 
 feet, except for temporary purposes and 
 then only on resolution of the Common 
 Council. 
 
 f4). For the purpose of this section 
 an illuminated sign shall be any sign in 
 connection with which artificial light is 
 used. 
 
 The area of a sign for the purposes of 
 this section shall be construed as being 
 one-half of the total exterior surface of 
 the sign, computed in square feet. 
 
 The amount of fees to be paid under 
 this section shall be computed and fixed 
 by the Commissioner of Public Works 
 and shall be written or stamped upon the 
 applications for licenses, which applica¬ 
 tions shall be presented to the Treasurer 
 at the time of the payment of said fees to 
 him, and shall be returned to the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public Works, together with 
 the Treasurer’s receipt for the fee or fees. 
 
 Licenses for less than one year may be 
 issued upon payment in each case of a 
 fee bearing the same proportion to the 
 amount of the annual fee for such license 
 as the period of time intervening between 
 the date of such license and the 30th day 
 of June next thereafter bears to one year; 
 provided that no fee shall be accepted for 
 less than three months, and that a frac¬ 
 tion of a three months’ period shall be 
 counted as a full quarter of a year. 
 
 ( 5 ). For each and every violation of 
 any provision of this section the offender 
 shall be subject to a penalty of $10, and 
 for each day during which any sign shall 
 be maintained without a license, or in 
 any other manner in violation of any pro¬ 
 vision of this section, the offender shall be 
 subject to a separate penalty of $10 as for 
 a separate offense. 
 
 Any license issued hereunder may be 
 revoked by the Commissioner of Public 
 Works for cause, after reasonable notice 
 to the licensee and a hearing before said 
 Commissioner at his office at a time speci¬ 
 fied in such notice. The said Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works shall file a copy 
 of his determination of such hearing with 
 the City Clerk within twenty-four hours 
 after it is made. 
 
 That so much of section one of chapter 
 one of the Ordinances of the City of Buf¬ 
 falo under the head Legislative Depart¬ 
 ment as relates to the following: 
 
 1 City Clerk.$2,500.00 
 
 — be amended to read as follows: 
 
 1 City Clark..$3,000.00 
 
 The above to take effect January 1, 
 1912. 
 
 That the final paragraph of Section 84 
 of Chapter XIV of the Ordinances, as 
 amended and inserted by action of the 
 Common Council in 1911 and printed on 
 pages 140 and 141 of the printed pro¬ 
 ceedings of the Common Council for this 
 year, be and the same is hereby amended 
 so as to read as follows: 
 
 “The foregoing amendments of sections 
 83 and 84 shall take effect at the begin¬ 
 ning of the school year in September, 1911. 
 and every grade teacher, including each 
 assistant principal, department principal, 
 
 teacher of German, kindergarten teacher 
 and assistant in any special department, 
 for that year and all subsequent years 
 shall receive the salary which such teacher 
 would be entitled to receive if these 
 amendments of sections 83 and 84 had 
 been in force at the date of the appoint¬ 
 ment of such teacher; provided, however, 
 that, as to high school teachers, teachers 
 of theors' - and practice of teaching at the 
 Teachers 1 Training School, and the direc¬ 
 tors of special departments, each such 
 teacher and director shall receive during 
 the school year beginning September, 1911, 
 the increases provided by the amendments 
 adopted in the year 1911, and that for the 
 school year beginning in September, 1912, 
 and for all subsequent years, each such 
 high school teacher and each such teacher 
 of theory and practice of teaching at the 
 Teachers’ Training School, and each such 
 director of a special department, shall re¬ 
 ceive the salary which such high school 
 teacher, or which such teacher of theory 
 and practice of teaching at the Teachers’ 
 Training School, or which such director 
 would be entitled to receive if the salary 
 ordinance of 1911 by amendment of sec¬ 
 tions S3 and 84 had been in force at the 
 date of the appointment of such teacher or 
 director.” 
 
 That so much of section one of chapter 
 one of the Ordinances of the City of Buf¬ 
 falo, under the Department of Finance, 
 City Treasurer, as relates to the follow¬ 
 ing: 
 
 1 Deputy .$2,000.00 
 
 be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 1 Deputy .$2,500.00 
 
 That so much of section 1 of Chapter 
 1 of the Ordinances as creates the two 
 positions of Assistant City Attorney in the 
 Department of Law, be and the" same is 
 hereby amended so as to create three such 
 positions, as follows: 
 
 Three Assistant City Attorneys, 
 
 each.$3,000.00 
 
 That so much of Section 83 of Chapter 
 XIV of the Ordinances relating to the sal¬ 
 aries of teachers in the Department of 
 Public Instruction, as fixes the salaries of 
 the directors of special departments, be 
 and the same is.hereby amended by add¬ 
 ing thereto the following: 
 
 There shall also be an assistant director 
 of manual training, who shall receive as an 
 annual salary .' a minimum of $1,200, an 
 annual increase of $100 and a maximum 
 of $1,500 
 
 That the last sentence, as printed on 
 page 2344 of the proceedings of the year 
 1910 (No. 30), of the amendment of sub¬ 
 division 20 of Section 8 of Chapter III of 
 the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo, re¬ 
 lating to the employes of the Juvenile De¬ 
 tention Home, be and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 “Such statement must be signed and 
 sworn to by the said superintendent and 
 certified as just and correct by the judge 
 of the children’s court.” 
 
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And that said amendment of 1910 of 
 subdivision 20 of Section 8 of Chapter III 
 of the Ordinances and as hereinbefore 
 amended, be and the same is hereby 
 further amended, by adding thereto the 
 following: 
 
 “Said detention home is hereby des¬ 
 ignated as the place for the trial of chil¬ 
 dren’s cases by the children’s court.” 
 
 That the final paragraph of Section 34 
 of Chapter XIV of the Ordinances, as 
 amended and inserted by action of the 
 Common Council in 1911 and printed on 
 pages 2538 and 2549 of the printed pro¬ 
 ceedings of the Common Council for that 
 year, be and the same is hereby amended 
 so as to read as follows: 
 
 “The foregoing amendments of sections 
 
 83 and 84 shall take effect at the begin¬ 
 ning of the school year in September, 1911, 
 and every grade teacher, including each 
 assistant principal, department principal, 
 teacher of German, kindergarten teacher 
 and assistant in any special depart¬ 
 ment, for that year and all subse¬ 
 quent years shall receive the salary 
 which such teacher would be entitled to 
 receive if these amendments of sections 88 
 and 84 had been in force at the date of 
 the appointment of such teacher; pro¬ 
 vided, however, that as to high school 
 teachers, principals of grammar and pri¬ 
 mary schools, teachers of theory and prac¬ 
 tice of teaching at the Teachers’ Training 
 School, and the directors of special de¬ 
 partments, each such teacher, principal, 
 and director shall receive during the school 
 year beginning September, 1911, the in¬ 
 crease provided by the amendments 
 adopted in the year 1911, and that for the 
 school year beginning in September, 1912, 
 and for all subsequent years, each such 
 high school teacher, and each such gram¬ 
 mar and primary school principal, and 
 each such teacher of theory and practice 
 of teaching at the Teachers’ Training 
 School, and each such director of a special 
 department, shall receive the salary which 
 such high school teacher, or which such 
 grammar and primary school principal, or 
 which such teacher of theory and practice 
 of teaching at the Teachers’ Training 
 School, or which such director would be 
 entitled to receive if the salary ordinance 
 of 2 911 by amendment of sections 83 and 
 
 84 had been in force at the date of the ap¬ 
 pointment of such teacher, principal or di¬ 
 rector.” 
 
 That Section 32 of Chapter VIII of the 
 Ordinances be and the same is hereby 
 amended by adding thereto the following: 
 
 The Ohio street bridge over the Buffalo 
 River and the Hamburg turnpike bridges 
 over the Ship Canal and the Union Canal, 
 so-called, shall remain closed between the 
 hours of six-thirty and eight o’clock in 
 the forenoon and five and six-thirty 
 o’clock in the afternoon, daily; provided, 
 however, that the Ohio street bridge will 
 be opened during one hour of such period, 
 morning and night, for the passage of 
 craft engaged exclusively upon contract 
 work for the City of Buffalo, which hour 
 shall de designated and determined by the 
 Harbor Master. Each of such bridges 
 * shall be lowered immediately after the 
 passage of each vessel, craft, or tow, for 
 the purpose of allowing the traffic in said 
 
 highways both ways to pass during the 
 said hours. 
 
 That so much of Section 84 of Chapter 
 14 of the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo 
 as reads as follows: 
 
 All increases of salary provided for by 
 the foregoing amendment of Section 83 
 shall be made only at the beginning of 
 school years in September of each year, 
 except salaries of truant officers and 
 clerks in the Superintendent’s office, in¬ 
 creases in which shall begin on the first 
 day of July of each year. 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 All increases of salary provided for by 
 the foregoing amendment of Section 83 
 shall be made only at the beginning of 
 school years in September of each year, 
 except salaries of truant officers and clerks 
 in the Superintendent’s office, increases 
 in which shall begin at the end of the 
 year’s service. 
 
 That Section 77 of Chapter XXXII of 
 the Ordinances, relating to water rates, be 
 and the same is hereby amended by insert¬ 
 ing therein in place of the words “Fire 
 sprinkler connection, fire use only $10.00,” 
 the following: 
 
 Fire pipe lines or sprinkler connections, 
 fire use only, as approved by the Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works and of the type 
 approved by the Board of Fire Under¬ 
 writers in December, 1910, which ap¬ 
 proval is on file in the office of the City 
 Clerk, will be granted on special request; 
 blue print of system as granted to be filed 
 in the Bureau of Water, with a good, suffi¬ 
 cient bond in the sum of fifteen hundred 
 dollars, conditioned that the applicant, his 
 successors, assigns and lessees shall com¬ 
 ply with all the ordinances of the city and 
 the regulations of the Department of Pub¬ 
 lic Works in relation thereto; and the 
 supply to be metered; rate, $24 per an¬ 
 num, in addition to the regular meter rate 
 for all water shown by the meter to have 
 been used, except in case of fire. The pro¬ 
 visions of this paragraph shall not apply 
 to outside hose connections on buildings 
 intended for the use of the fire department 
 exclusively. 
 
 That Section 7 of Chapter III of the Or¬ 
 dinances be and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of every 
 officer, in whose favor the Common Coun¬ 
 cil shall at any time direct to be drawn 
 any order or warrant on the treasury for 
 the purpose of paying any debt or liability 
 of the City, “ or otherwise disbursing 
 moneys for the City, immediately after 
 making payment or disbursements contem¬ 
 plated to report to the Common Council a 
 detailed statement or account of the dis¬ 
 position of such order or funds and pay to 
 the City Treasury any balance in his 
 hands to the credit of the proper fund. 
 Such order or warrant and the proceeds 
 thereof, which may be so turned over to 
 any such officer, shall be and remain the 
 property and money of the City and shall 
 be used for no other purpose than that for 
 which such money was appropriated or 
 raised, or for which such order or warrant 
 was directed drawn. 
 
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That Chapter 3 of the Ordinances of the 
 City of Buffalo be amended by adding 
 thereto the following to be known as Sec¬ 
 tion 28 : 
 
 Section 28. That upon the receipt by 
 the City of the purchase price accruing 
 upon the sale of the Hamburg Canal Strip, 
 the Comptroller be and he is hereby di¬ 
 rected with such proceeds to create a sink¬ 
 ing fund to be known as “The Canal Nuis¬ 
 ance Abatement Sinking Fund,” by de¬ 
 positing such proceeds to the credit of 
 such fund in the banks designated as City 
 depositories, and that all interest received 
 from such deposits shall be placed to the 
 credit of the sinking fund herein provided 
 for. Upon the authority of the Common 
 Council, the Comptroller, from time to 
 time, may invest said sinking fund in 
 bends of the City or other securities; ar.d 
 the earnings or interest of said bonds or 
 securities shall be placed to the credit of 
 said sinking fund. Said Canal Nuisance 
 Abatement Sinking Fund shall be set apart 
 and held for the redemption of the bonds 
 which were floated in aid of the construc¬ 
 tion of sewers and the abatement of nuis¬ 
 ances in the Main and Hamburg Canal, 
 Clark and Skinner Canal, and Ohio Basin 
 Slip, as said bonds mature, and for the 
 payment of interest on said bonds as it 
 becomes payable, and the principal and 
 the incomes of said sinking fund shall be 
 used for no other pui'pose until all of said 
 bonds shall have been redeemed. 
 
 That Section 2-a of Chapter X of the 
 Ordinances of the City of Buffalo be and 
 the same is hereby amended as follows: 
 
 Sec. 2-a—The Commissioner of Public 
 Works is hereby authorized and directed 
 to extend the districts defined in Section 2 
 of this chapter, not to exceed, in the ag¬ 
 gregate, nine thousand two hundred and 
 forty feet, street measurement, in the 
 year nineteen hundred and seven; not 
 to exceed in the aggregate, eighteen 
 thousand four hundred and eighty feet, 
 street measurement, in the year nineteen 
 hundred and eight; not to exceed, in the 
 aggregate, fifteen thousand eight hundred 
 and forty feet, street measurement, in the 
 year nineteen hundred and nine; and not 
 to exceed, in the aggregate, ten thousand 
 five hundred and sixty feet, street meas¬ 
 urement, each year thereafter. On or be¬ 
 fore the first day of March in each year 
 (except in the year nineteen hundred and 
 seven) the said commissioner shall define 
 the limits of such enlarged district for 
 such year and report the same to the Com¬ 
 mon Council for its action thereon, ar.d 
 immediately upon the approval or amend¬ 
 ment, by the Common Council, of the en¬ 
 larged district so reported said Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works shall notify each 
 corporation, company or individual main¬ 
 taining telegraph, telephone or electric 
 light or other wires or cables overhead in 
 any of the streets, alleys, public ways or 
 public grounds in such district, to remove 
 such wires, cables and the poles and ap¬ 
 pliances connected therewith before the 
 first day of January following such notice, 
 or such later time as shall be not less than 
 six months from :he service thereof. Said 
 notice shall specify a date when the work 
 » of such removal must be done, which shall 
 be not less than six months from the date 
 of service of the notice. For the year 
 
 nineteen hundred and seven such enlarged 
 district shall be reported by said Commis¬ 
 sioner to the Common Council, as nearly 
 as practicable, on the first day of June and 
 after approval or amendment thereof by 
 the Common Council the notice hereby re¬ 
 quired to be given by said Commissioner 
 shall be given, as nearly as practicable 
 upon the fifteenth day of June, nineteen 
 hundred and seven. No person, company 
 or corporation shall be excused from the 
 obligation of removing the wires from 
 overhead in such enlarged district, in any 
 year, by reason of the failure of said 
 Commissioner to serve the notice hereby 
 required; from year to year the said Com¬ 
 missioner shall give preference first to the 
 territory bounded as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of Chip- 
 pewa street and Delaware avenue; run¬ 
 ning thence east along Chippewa street to 
 Washington street; thence north along 
 Washington street to the north bounds of 
 Washington Market: thence east along 
 the north bounds of Washington Market to 
 Ellicott street; thence south along Ellicott 
 street to Exchange street; thence west 
 along Exchange street to the Terrace; 
 thence continuing northwesterly along the 
 Terrace to Delaware avenue; thence north¬ 
 erly along Delaware avenue to Chippewa 
 street at the place of beginning. 
 
 The street mentioned in the foregoing 
 paragraph, or in any notice given pursuant 
 thereto, shall be deemed included in said 
 territory or in the district defined. 
 
 Upon the completion of the work in the 
 territory last above described, the said 
 Commissioner, in defining the enlarged 
 district from year to year, shall give pref¬ 
 erence to the following described territory: 
 Main street, from Chippewa street to 
 Ferry street; Main street, from Exchange 
 street to Buffalo river; Genesee street, 
 
 from Ellicott street to Fillmore avenue; 
 Broadway, from Ellicott street to Fill¬ 
 more ; William street, from Michigan 
 
 street to Fillmore avenue; Seneca street, 
 from Ellicott street to Fillmore avenue; 
 Perry street, from Main street to Chicago 
 street; Delaware avenue, from Chippewa 
 street to Gates Circle; Edward street, 
 
 from Main street to Virginia street; Elm¬ 
 wood avenue, from Virginia street to For¬ 
 est avenue; Linwood avenue, from North 
 street to Ferry street; Niagara street, 
 
 from Niagara Square to Albany street; 
 Triangle street, from Abbott road to South 
 Park avenue; South Park avenue, from 
 Triangle street to City Line; Michigan 
 street, from Scott street to Fulton street; 
 East Market street, from Scott street to 
 Fulton street; West Market street, from 
 Scott street to Fulton street; West Bennett 
 street, from William street to Clinton street, 
 East Bennett street, from "William street to 
 Clinton streetGibson street, from Broad¬ 
 way to south bounds of the Broadway 
 Market; Lombard street, from Broadway 
 to south bounds of the Broadway Market. 
 Provided, however, that said Commissioner 
 shall include in the district last above de¬ 
 fined, in the notice given for the year 1912, 
 the following streets, which shall be sub¬ 
 stituted for an approximately equal 
 amount of work in such district as herein¬ 
 before defined, and shall not be deemed 
 an additional requirement: Ferry street, 
 between Niagara and Grant streets, and 
 Grant street, between Hampshire street 
 and Forest avenue; it being hereby re¬ 
 quired that all poles and all overhead 
 
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wires, cables and appliances shall be re¬ 
 moved in the year 1912, and all such wires, 
 cables and necessary appliances shall be 
 buried during said year or as soon there¬ 
 after as practicable, without detriment to 
 the service. 
 
 Where the Commissioner of Public 
 Works is satisfied that permission for the 
 maintenance of distributing poles on pri¬ 
 vate property cannot be obtained at rea¬ 
 sonable expense, or cannot be placed in 
 public alleys, such necessary distributing 
 poles may be erected and maintained in 
 the streets, alleys and public places in lo¬ 
 cations to be designated by the Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works. Such permits of 
 the Commissioner shall be suDject to revo¬ 
 cation by the Common Council. 
 
 The refusal or neglect on the part of 
 any corporation, company or individual to 
 comply with the notice of the Commis¬ 
 sioner of Public Works herein provided 
 for, or with this section of the ordinances, 
 shall subject the offender to the penalty 
 prescribed in section one of this chapter; 
 and compliance with any such notice shall 
 be enforced, so far as practicable, by the 
 city by mandamus proceedings. 
 
 All ordinances or parts of ordinances of 
 the City of Buffalo, enacted prior to Janu¬ 
 ary 1, 1907, which are inconsistent Math 
 this section, are hereby repealed. 
 
 That pursuant to the provisions of Chap¬ 
 ter 651 of the Laws of 1911 (Title XXV 
 of the Charter), Section 1 of Chapter 1 of 
 the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo be 
 and the same Is hereby amended by add¬ 
 ing thereto the following, to take effect 
 January 1, 1912 : 
 
 The Children’s Court of Buffalo. 
 
 1 Judge .$3,600.00 
 
 1 Clerk . 1,300.00 
 
 1 Stenographer, to be confidential 
 
 secretary . 1,300.00 
 
 2 Probation Officers (men) each. 1,200.00 
 
 1 Probation Officer (woman) .... 900.00 
 
 1 Superintendent Detention Home 900.00 
 1 Attendance Officer . 900.00 
 
 All provisions of ordinances enacted in 
 the year 1909 or at any other time, creat¬ 
 ing the positions of Superintendent and 
 Assistant Superintendent of the Detention 
 Home under the jurisdiction of the City 
 Court, and fixing salaries therefor, shall be 
 repealed from and after January 1, 1912. 
 
 That Section 1« of Chapter 13 of the 
 Ordinances of the City of Buffalo be 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 16—The Board of Police Commis¬ 
 sioners shall provide all necessary livery 
 for the proper performance of the duties 
 of his office, and that of Assistant Sealers 
 of Weights and Measures. They shall also 
 provide a suitable place for the keeping 
 and storing of weights and measures used 
 by the Sealers of Weights and Measures 
 as standards. 
 
 That so much of Section 1, Chapter 1 of 
 the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo 
 under the Department of Public Works, 
 Bureau of Building, be amended by adding 
 thereto the following: 
 
 2 Plaster Inspectors, on appoint¬ 
 ment . ....$1,100.09 
 
 After 5 years’ continuous service. 1,200.00 
 After 10 years’ continuous service 1,300.00 
 After 15 years’ continuous service 1,400.00 
 
 That sections 188 and 203 of Chapter 12 
 of the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo 
 be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 188—Buildings of Class IV shall be 
 divided into two special classes. 
 
 Class IVa—Shall embrace all buildings 
 of Class IV in which no movable scenery 
 is used upon the stage thereof, excepting 
 buildings used as motion-picture theatres 
 having a seating capacity of 300 or more. 
 
 Class IVb—Shall embrace all buildings 
 of Class IV in which movable scenery is 
 used upon the stage thereof and all build¬ 
 ings used as motion-picture theatres hav¬ 
 ing a seating capacity of 300 or more. 
 
 Sec. 203—There shall be, over the stage 
 of every building of Class IVb, flues or 
 ducts extending eight (8) feet above the 
 top of the highest roof which forms a part 
 of such building, which flues or ducts shall 
 have an area of at least one-tenth (l-10th) 
 of the total area of such stage. The 
 dampers for opening and closing such 
 ducts shall be controllable from a point 
 near the proscenium opening, and shall be 
 so constructed that they will open by the 
 operation of a fusible link. These dampers 
 and ducts shall be made of incombustible 
 material and shall be properly insulated 
 as regards transmission of heat to adja¬ 
 cent combustible substances. 
 
 That Chapter X of the Ordinances of the 
 City of Buffalo be and the same is hereby 
 amended by adding thereto the following 
 sections, to be designated respectively 
 Sections 10 to 23, inclusive, and to read 
 as follows: 
 
 Sec. 10—For the sake of convenience, in 
 Setions 10 to 17, inclusive, electric light 
 and power wires, other than railway wires 
 of a potential not exceeding 700 volts, are 
 termed group “A” wires; telegraph, tele¬ 
 phone and similar wires are termed group 
 “B” wires; and railway wires of a po¬ 
 tential not exceeding 700 volts are termed 
 group “C” wires. 
 
 When wires are run horizontally on 
 cross-arms from one pole to another, their 
 distance from the center of the pole shall 
 be not less than the following: 
 
 All group “A” wires on straight runs: 
 15 inches. 
 
 All group “A.” wires on curves or corn¬ 
 ers : 12 inches. 
 
 Grout) “B” wires when attached to the 
 same pole and below group “A” or group 
 “C” attachments—On straight runs: 15 
 inches: on curves or corners: 12 inches. 
 
 Group “C” attachments when attached 
 to the same pole with the below group “A” 
 or “B” attachments—On straight runs: 12 
 inches ; on curves or corners : 9 inches. 
 
 Sec. 11—No wires of one group shall be 
 placed on the same cross-arm with wires 
 of another group. When group “A” and 
 group “B” wires, run horizontally from 
 one pole to another, are placed on the 
 same pole, the group “A” wires shall oc¬ 
 cupy the upper position on the pole and 
 the uppermost cross-arm for group “B” 
 wires, and the uppermost group “B” hori- 
 
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 feet below the lowest crossarm for group 
 “A” wires. 
 
 When group “B” and group “C” wires, 
 run horizontally from one pole to another, 
 are placed on the same pole, the group “C” 
 - wires may be placed below the group “B” 
 wires, in which case the uppermost group 
 •‘O” cross-arm shall be not less than four 
 feet below the lowest cross-arm for group 
 “B” w ires or the lowest horizontally run 
 group “B” cable. Where group ‘C” wires 
 are run above group “B” wires or other 
 group “B” attachments, they shall be 
 placed in accordance with the require¬ 
 ments for group “A” wires 
 
 Horizontally run group “C” wires shall 
 always be run below horizontally run 
 group “A” wires. 
 
 Sec. 12—Group “A,” “B” and “C” lead- 
 shsated cable shall be protected by wooden 
 molding or enclosed within a conduit of 
 solid insulating material, wherever such 
 cable shall be run vertically upon the pole 
 between a point not less than 40 inches 
 above and a point not less than six feet 
 below any wire, connection or attachment 
 of another group, except properly run 
 vertical attachments of another group. 
 
 Sec. 13—No part of any transformer 
 connected to group “A” wires shall be 
 placed less than 40 inches above or below 
 group “B” wires or attachments, except 
 vertically run group “B” attachments. 
 One side of the pole shall be kept clear of 
 transformers to permit free space for 
 climbing. 
 
 Sec. 14—Each guy attached to a pole on 
 which there are both group “A” and group 
 “B” attachments or group “B” and group 
 “C” attachments, shall contain a strain 
 insulator, placed not less than six feet 
 from the pole, said distance being meas¬ 
 ured horizontally. As far as practicable 
 each strain insulator shall have the follow¬ 
 ing qualifications: 
 
 (a) Mechanical strength equal to the 
 tensile strength of the guy in which it is 
 placed. 
 
 (b) Construction so designed that a 
 rupture of the insulating material shall 
 not result in parting the guy. 
 
 (c) Insulating properties suitable to 
 the voltage of the currents to which the 
 guy is exposed. 
 
 Sec. 15—Group “A” or group “C” wires 
 must not be placed on the same pole with 
 group “B” wires unless the voltage does 
 not exceed the following normal operating 
 values* Constant potential metallic cir¬ 
 cuits 5,000 volts; alternating current 
 series circuits 5,000 volts; direct current 
 series circuits 7,500 volts; direct current 
 railway circuits 700 volts; except that 
 where alternating or direct current series 
 circuits do not exceed 7 1-2 amperes the 
 voltage may oe increased to 10,000 volts, 
 and that all the above-mentioned wires be 
 covered when installed' with at least a 
 standard weatherproof insulation. 
 
 Nor shall any of the provisions of this 
 chapter apply to any of the poles, wires 
 and conduits used and controlled by any 
 street railroad having a grant from the 
 * City of Buffalo, excepting when and to the 
 extent that such street railroad company 
 . strings its Avires on or past the poles of 
 other companies. 
 
 Sec. 16—In all cases where metal ropes 
 or chains are used to raise and lower arc 
 lamps, a breaker shall be placed thereon. 
 
 Sec. 17—Sections 10 to 16, inclusive, 
 shall apply to all pole lines constructed 
 after the ordinance goes into effect, and to 
 existing pole lines as they are recon¬ 
 structed. 
 
 Sec. IS—There is hereby created in the 
 Bureau of Engineering of the Department 
 of Public Works the position of City Elec¬ 
 trician, who shall be appointed by the 
 Commissioner of Public Works and who 
 shall, within fifteen years previous to the 
 time of his appointment, have had not less 
 than five years’ practical experience as an 
 electrician, and not less than three years’ 
 practical experiene on work similar to the 
 work described in sections 10 to 17, inclu¬ 
 sive of this chapter provided, however, 
 that said three years’ practial experience 
 on such similar work need not be in addi¬ 
 tion to the five years’ practical experience 
 as an electrician. Subject to the control 
 of the Commissioner of Public Works, the 
 City Electrician shall inspect the wires 
 and appliances on the streets and public 
 places in the City of Buffalo, and shall be 
 charged Avith such other duties relating 
 thereto as may be imposed upon him by 
 said Commissioner of Public Works. The 
 salary of^the City Electrician shall imme¬ 
 diately be fixed by the Commissioner of 
 Public Works, with the concurrence of the 
 Common Council. 
 
 That Section 1 of Chapter 1 of the Or¬ 
 dinances of the City of Buffalo under the 
 Department of Health, Ernest Wende Hos¬ 
 pital, be amended by striking therefrom 
 the following: 
 
 Fumigators, two. each.$1,000.00 
 
 Also by striking out under the Depart¬ 
 ment of Health the following: 
 
 Clerks, five, minimum each.$ 900.00 
 
 Labor Certificate Clerk. 900.00 
 
 Fumigators, two, minimum each. 1,000.00 
 
 And by adding, under the Department of 
 Health, the following: 
 
 Clerks, six, minimum, each.$ 900.00 
 
 Clerks and Stenographers, two, 
 one for the Bureau of Vital 
 Statistics and one for the 
 
 Bureau of Plumbing and Drain¬ 
 age, minimum each. 1,000.00 
 
 Fumigators, four, minimum each. 1,000.00 
 Female attendant, psychopathic 
 
 ward . . . . 720.00 
 
 That Section 1 of Chapter 1 pf the Or¬ 
 dinances of the City of Buffalo be amended 
 by adding thereto the following: 
 
 The J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital for 
 
 Tuberculosis. 
 
 Superintendent .$2,000.00 
 
 House physician . 1,000.00 
 
 Bookkeeper and storekeeper. 1,200.00 
 
 Matron . .. 900.00 
 
 Three nurse's, each. 720.00 
 
 Stenographer .. 480.00 
 
 Chef or chief cook . 900.00 
 
 Assistant cook . 600.00 
 
 Baker . 720.00 
 
 Laundryman . 540.00 
 
 Laborer . 300.00 
 
 Farmer . 720.00 
 
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 15 waitresses, each . 240.00 
 
 Engineer, at $3.50 per day. 
 
 Fireman with second-class papers, as 
 many as necessary, at $2.50 per day. 
 
 That Section 83 of Chapter 14 of the 
 City Ordinances, so far as it relates to the 
 salary of clerks in the office of the Depart¬ 
 ment of Public Instruction be amended to 
 read as follows: 
 
 _ One Superintendent of German 
 and Secretary to the Superin¬ 
 tendent of Education, per year. $2,700.00 
 
 One Chief Clerk, per year. 1,700.00 
 
 One Director of Compulsory Edu¬ 
 cation and School Supplies.... 1,700.00 
 One Assistant Chief Clerk, per 
 
 year. 1,100.00 
 
 One Clerk, per year. 900.00 
 
 One Stenographer, per year. 900.00 
 
 The above employes will receive in ad¬ 
 dition to the sum above mentioned an in¬ 
 crease of $100.00 for every period of five 
 years not exceeding three such periods 
 during which he has been or shall here¬ 
 after be continuously in the employ and 
 service of the City, but in no event shall 
 this increase of salary exceed the sum of 
 $300.00. 
 
 Supervisors. 
 
 That so much of Sections 83 and 84 of 
 Chapter 14 as relates to supervisors be 
 and the same are hereby amended to read 
 as follows: 
 
 General Supervisors: Three gener al 
 supervisors shall receive a minimum of 
 $2,500.00, a yearly increase of $100.00 and 
 a maximum of $3,000.00. One supervisor 
 of extension work shall receive a minimum 
 of $2,500.00, a yearly increase of $100.00 
 and a maximum of $3,000.00. 
 
 The amendments affecting clerks and 
 supervisors shall take effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 'Chat so much of Section 1 of Chapter 1 
 of the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo 
 xmder Department of Finance, Comptrol¬ 
 lers office be amended so as to read as 
 follows: 
 
 The head of 'this department shall be a 
 Comptroller at a salary of $4,000.00 and 
 the subordinate employes of this depart¬ 
 ment and the annual minimum salary 
 shall be: 
 
 1 Deputy Comptroller .$3,000.00 
 
 1 Chief Bookkeeper . 2,000.00 
 
 1 Bookkeeper . 1,600.00 
 
 3 Assistant Bookkeepers, each .. 1,000.00 
 
 1 Bocal Accounts Bookkeeper .. 1,200.00 
 1 Chief Tax Sale Clerk. 1,700.00 
 
 4 Assistant Tax Sale Clerks, each 900,00 
 
 1 Warrant Clerk. 1,200.00 
 
 2 Assistant Warrant Clerks, each 900.00 
 1 Bond and Insurance Clerk .... 1,200.00 
 1 Assistant Bond and Insurance 
 
 Clerk . 900.00 
 
 And such assistant bond and insurance 
 
 •clerk, in addition to the above named 
 minimum salary, shall receive one increase 
 of $100.00 for every five years of service 
 which he shall have rendered to the city 
 or any of its departments, provided that 
 the sum total of such increases shall not 
 * exceed the sum of three hundred dollars. 
 
 1 Record Clerk.$ 900.00 
 
 1 Bank Deposit Clerk . 900.00 
 
 6 Clerks, eacii . 900.00 
 
 1 Clerk and Stenographer. 900.00 
 
 1 Auditor . 2,500.00 
 
 1 Chief Clerk to Auditor. 1,500.00 
 
 2 Clerks to Auditor, each. 900.00 
 
 And each of the following named em¬ 
 ployes, in addition to the above minimum 
 salary, shall receive one increase of 
 $100.00 a year for every period of five 
 years, not exceeding three such periods, 
 during which he has been or shall here¬ 
 after be continuously in the regular em¬ 
 ploy and service of the City: 
 
 Assistant Bookkeepers. 
 
 Bocal Accounts Bookkeeper. 
 
 Chief Tax Sale Clerk. 
 
 Assistant Tax Sale Clerks. 
 
 Warrant Clerk. 
 
 A ssistant Warrant Clerks. 
 
 Bond and Insurance Clerk. 
 
 Record Clerk. 
 
 Clerks. 
 
 Clerk and Stenographer. 
 
 Clerks to Auditor. 
 
 The Bank Deposit Clerk shall receive to 
 his minimum salary an increase of $100.00 
 after five years’ continuous service. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo under Department of Finance, 
 Comptroller’s office, as relates to the fol¬ 
 lowing : 
 
 3 Assistant Bookkeepers, each ..$ 900.00 
 
 2 Clerks to Auditor, each . 900.00 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 3 Assistant Bookkeepers, each ..$1,000.00 
 
 2 Clerks to Auditor, each. 900.00 
 
 Clerks to Auditor. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City of 
 Buffalo, under the title Department of 
 Public Instruction, as reads as follows: 
 
 “1 Superintendent of Education, $5,000.00” 
 —be and the same is hereby amended so 
 as to read as follows: 
 
 1 Superintendent of Education. .$7,500.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo, under Subdivision Treasurer’s 
 Department, as relates to the following: 
 One Clerk and Stenographer, $900.00 be 
 amended to read as follows: 
 
 One Clerk and Stenographer, minimum 
 salary, $900.00. 
 
 One Clerk and Stenographer shall re¬ 
 ceive to his or her minimum salary an in¬ 
 crease of $100.00 for every period of five 
 years, not exceeding one such period, dur¬ 
 ing which he or she has been or shall here¬ 
 after be continuously in the regular em¬ 
 ploy and service of the City, but in no 
 event shall this increase of salary exceed 
 a maximum of $100.00. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1, 
 Chapter 1, of the Ordinances of the City 
 
 of Buffalo, which reads: 
 
 Bridge Engineers, per day.$3.50 
 
 —be amended to read as follows: 
 
 Bridge Engineers, per day. $4.00 
 
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Resolved, That so much of Section 1 
 of Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo under Miscellaneous as relates 
 to the following: 
 
 1 Inspector Grand Army Relief Fund, 
 $750.00 ; be amended so as to read as fol¬ 
 lows : 
 
 1 Inspector Grand Army Relief Fund, 
 
 $ 1 , 000 . 00 . 
 
 The above to take effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That pursuant to Chapter 349 
 c f the Laws of 191*1, so much of Section 
 1 of Chapter 1 of the Ordinances, as re¬ 
 lates to salaries in the Department of 
 Public Instruction, be and the same is 
 hereby amended by the following pro¬ 
 visions, fixing the salaries of the members 
 of the Board of School Examiners at 
 $1,000.00 per annum each: 
 
 Five school examiners, each . . . .$1,000.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo under Playground Commission 
 as reads as follows: 
 
 12 Directors of Playgrounds, each 
 
 per annum.$1,020.00 
 
 12 Assistant Directors of Play¬ 
 grounds on duty six months, 
 each per annum. 390.00 
 
 12 Caretakers of Playgrounds, 
 
 each per annum. 720.00 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 13 Directors of Playgrounds, each 
 
 per annum ..$1,020.00 
 
 13 Assistant Directors of Play¬ 
 grounds on duty six months, 
 
 » ach per annum. 390.00 
 
 13 Caretakers of Playgrounds, 
 
 each per annum . 720.00 
 
 Resolved, That, in concurrence with the 
 action of the Commissioner of Public 
 Works, in fixing the salaries of the four 
 deputy commissioners in the Department 
 of Public Works at $4,000.00 per annum 
 each, so much of Section 1 of Chapter 1 
 of the Ordinances as relates to salaries in 
 tlie Department of Public Works be and 
 the same is hereby amended by inserting 
 therein the following: 
 
 1 Deputy Engineer Commissioner, 
 
 per annum.$4,000.00 
 
 1 Deputy Water Commissioner, 
 
 per annum. 4,000.00 
 
 1 Deputy Building Commissioner, 
 
 per annum. 4,000.00 
 
 1 Deputy Street Commissioner, 
 
 per annum . 4,000.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances as relates to 
 the following positions in the Department 
 of Public Works be and the same is hereby 
 amended to read as follows: 
 
 General Office 
 
 Secretary, per annum.$2,200.00 
 
 Cashier, r>er annum. 1,800.00 
 
 Bureau of Engineering. 
 Superintendent of Sanitary and 
 
 Sewage Station, per annum ... 1,400.00 
 Franchise Clerk, per annum .... 1,200.00 
 Chief Clerk, per annum. 1,400.00 
 
 Bureau of Building. 
 
 Inspector of Heating, per annum 1,400.00 
 Chief Architectural Draughtsman 1,400.00 
 Three(3) Architectural Draughts¬ 
 men, each ... 1,200.00 
 
 Chief Inspector of Buildings .... 1,600.00 
 
 Municipal Building. 
 
 Three (3) Special Odicers, each, 
 
 per day . 3.00 
 
 Three (3) Porters, each, per day 2.50 
 
 Custodian, per annum . 1,200.00 
 
 City Court Building. 
 
 Custodian, on appointment, per 
 
 annum. 1,200.00 
 
 After 5 years, per annum. 1,300.00 
 
 After 10 years, per annum. 1,400.00 
 
 Three (3) Special Officers, each, 
 
 per day . 3.00 
 
 Three (3) Porters, each, per day 2.50 
 
 9 Charwomen, each, per day . . . . • 1.75 
 
 Custodian, Convention Hall, per 
 
 annum... 1,100.00 
 
 Custodian, Arsenal, per annum . . 1,100.00 
 
 Bureau of Water. 
 
 4 Meter Inspectors, each, on ap¬ 
 pointment, per annum . 900.00 
 
 -After 5 years’ service, per annum 1,000.00 
 Supt. of Distributions, per annum 1,400.00 
 Asst. Supt. of Distributions, per 
 
 annum. 1,200.00 
 
 Meter Clerk, on appointment, per 
 
 annum ... . . 1,100.00 
 
 After 5 years, per annum . 1,200.00 
 
 After 10 years, per annum. 1,300.00 
 
 Chief Engineer, Pumping Station, 
 
 per annum. 2,800.00 
 
 1st Asst. Engineer, Pumping Sta¬ 
 tion, per annum. 1,800.00 
 
 Bureau of Streets. 
 
 Secretary. «... 1,600.00 
 
 Chief Clerk . 1,300.00 
 
 The same to take effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City of 
 Euffalo, under the heading, Department of 
 Assessment, as reads as follows: 
 
 3 Assessors, each .$4,000.00 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 3 Assessors, each .$5,000.00 
 
 The above to take effect July 1. 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo, under Department of Poor, as 
 reads as follows: 
 
 2 Special Inspectors, each.$ 800.00 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 2 Special Inspectors, each.$ 900.00 
 
 —also by adding thereto the following: 
 
 1 Clerk and Stenographer.$ 900.00 
 
 1 Nurse for Quarantined Homes. 900.00 
 
 One clerk and stenographer shall receive 
 to his minimum salary an increase of 
 $100.00 for every period of five years, not 
 exceeding three such periods, during which 
 he has been or shall hereafter be continu¬ 
 ously in the regular employ and service of 
 the City, but in no event shall this in¬ 
 crease of salary exceed the maximum of 
 $300.00. 
 
 Every such period of five years shall be 
 deemed continuous where such employe or 
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 year in the aggregate; provided that such 
 separation shall not have been or shall not 
 be due to the fault or misconduct of such 
 employe or employes. 
 
 The above to take effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo as relates to the salaries of the 
 assistant clerks and probation officers of 
 the City Court be and the same are hereby 
 amended as follows: 
 
 That the item heretofore reading “8 as¬ 
 sistant clerks, each, per annum, $900,” be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 2 Assistant Clerks, each of whom 
 shall have had not less than 
 nine 3 r ears’ experience as a 
 
 court clerk, minimum.$1,000.00’ 
 
 6 Assistant Clerks, minimum, 
 
 each . 900.00 
 
 4 Probation Officers, each per an¬ 
 num . 1,200.00 
 
 1 Chief Probation Officer, per an¬ 
 num . 1,300.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City of 
 Buffalo, under the Department of Finance, 
 
 Treasurer’s Office, as relates to the fol¬ 
 lowing : 
 
 1 Bookkeeper .$1,200.00 
 
 1 Assistant Bookkeeper. 900.00 
 
 1 Receiving Clerk. 900.00 
 
 1 Index Clerk. 900.00 
 
 —be and the same hereby is amended so 
 as to read as follows: 
 
 1 Bookkeeper .$1,300.00 
 
 1 Assistant Bookkeeper. 1,000.00 
 
 1 Receiving Clerk . 1,000.00 
 
 1 Index Clerk. 1,000.00 
 
 —the same to take effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 Resolved. That Section 83 of Chapter 14 
 of the Ordinances be amended by adding 
 the following: 
 
 Male Director of German Gym¬ 
 
 nastics ...$1,400.00 
 
 Male Assistants. 1,200.00 
 
 Resolved, That the last sentence of the 
 fourth paragraph of Section 2-a of Chap¬ 
 ter X of the Ordinances of the City of 
 Buffalo, as printed on pages 193 and 194 
 of the Proceedings of the Common Coun¬ 
 cil for the year 1912, be and the same is 
 herebj'- amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 “Provided, however, that said commis¬ 
 sioner shall include in the district last 
 above defined in the notice given for the 
 year nineteen hundred and twelve, the fol¬ 
 lowing streets which shall be substituted 
 for and approximately equal amount of 
 woi’k in such district as hereinbefore de¬ 
 fined, and shall not be deemed an addi¬ 
 tional requirement: Ferry street, between 
 Niagara and Main streets, and Grant 
 street, between Hampshire street and For¬ 
 est avenue; it being hereby required that 
 all poles and all overhead wires, cables 
 *and appliances shall be removed in the 
 year nineteen hundred and twelve, and all 
 such wires, cables and necessary appli¬ 
 
 ances shall be buried during said year, or 
 as soon thereafter as practicable, without 
 detriment to the service.” 
 
 Sec. 25. No person shall walk, stand or 
 be upon a public or private alleyway,, 
 street, sidewalk, or any public or private 
 place within the City of Buffalo for the 
 purpose of asking, soliciting or inducing 
 any person to accompany him or her to 
 any assignation house, house of prostitu¬ 
 tion, bawdy house or any other place for 
 the purpose of prostitution or other im¬ 
 moral act; nor shall any person from, in, 
 or upon any yard, steps, doorway, window,, 
 street, sidewalk or any public or private 
 place, ask, solicit or endeavor by any 
 word, act, sign or gesture whatsoever, to 
 persuade any person to go with or accom¬ 
 pany or meet him or her or any other per¬ 
 son for any such purpose. Any person 
 who shall violate any provision of this 
 section shall be guilty of disorderly con¬ 
 duct and shall, upon conviction thereof, 
 forfeit and pay a fine or penalty of not 
 to exceed fifty dollars, or shall be impris¬ 
 oned for a neriod not exceeding six months 
 for each offense, or shall suffer both such 
 fine or penalty and imprisonment. 
 
 Resolved, That Section 79 of Chapter 14 
 of the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo be 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 79. Substitutes must be supplied 
 for all absent teachers, and they shall be 
 paid at the following rate: The substitute 
 teacher in grammar or primary schools 
 shall be paid at the rate of $2.00 per day. 
 Substitutes for special teachers in the high 
 schools shall be paid at the rate to be fixed 
 by the Superintendent of Education. Act¬ 
 ing principals shall receive an addition to 
 their regular salary of $1.00 per day, to 
 be deducted with the substitute’s pay, from 
 the pay of the principal. Provided, fur¬ 
 ther, that no substitute shall receive com¬ 
 pensation for less than one-half day’s ser¬ 
 vices. 
 
 Resolved, That Section 1 of Chapter 1 of 
 the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo, un¬ 
 der the heading Children’s Court, be 
 amended by adding thereto the following: 
 
 Housekeeper - Cook, Detention 
 
 Home .$ 480.00 
 
 Maid . 180.00 
 
 Helper . 416.00 
 
 —and that so much of the above chapter 
 and section, under the heading Children’s 
 Court, as reads as follows: 
 
 1 Assistant Superintendent De¬ 
 tention Home'. ..$ 600.00 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 1 Janitor, Detention Home.$ 600.00 
 
 And that the second paragraph of sub¬ 
 
 division 20 of Section 8 of Chapter 3 be 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 That on the written requisition of the 
 Superintendent of the Juvenile Detention 
 Home the City Clerk may draw, and the 
 Comptroller countersign a warrant for any 
 such requisition not to exceed $25.00 in 
 any one month, provided that the Comp¬ 
 troller has certified in writing upon the 
 requisition that its payment will not over¬ 
 draw the amount appropriated for the ex- 
 
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penses of said home, The Superintendent 
 of said home is hereby authorized with the 
 funds thus obtained to employ the neces¬ 
 sary laundress or laundresses and char¬ 
 women at not to exceed $1.50 per day. 
 Provided that to each requisition from the 
 said Superintendent is attached a detailed 
 statement showing the expenditures of 
 I* moriey advanced upon the previous requisi¬ 
 tion with any balance remaining unex¬ 
 pended. Such statement must be signed 
 and sworn to by the Superintendent and 
 certified as just and correct by the Judge 
 of the Children’s Court. The above to take 
 ^ effect July 1, 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That Section 1 of Chapter 1 of 
 the Ordinances of the City of Buffalo, un¬ 
 der the Department of Public Instruction, 
 be amended by striking therefrom the fol¬ 
 lowing : 
 
 12 Truant Officers, at least one of whom 
 shall be able to speak the Polish lan¬ 
 guage and at least one of whom shall be 
 able to speak the Italian language, each 
 $850.00. 
 
 That so much of Section 83 of Chapter 
 14 of the Ordinances of the City of Buf¬ 
 falo as reads as follows: 
 
 Truant Officers, minimum $800; annual 
 increase, $100 ; maximum, $1,200 ; pro¬ 
 vided, however, that out of said maxi¬ 
 mum salary of $1,200 said truant offi¬ 
 cers shall pay their own transportation 
 expenses. 
 
 —be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 14 Truant Officers, at least one of whom 
 shall be able to speak the Polish lan¬ 
 guage, and at least one of whom shall 
 be able to speak the Italian language, 
 mininium, $800; annual increase, $100; 
 maximum, $1,200 ; provided, however, 
 that out of said maximum salary of 
 $1,200 said truant officers shall pay their 
 cwn transportation expenses. 
 
 The above amendments to take effect 
 July 1. 1912. 
 
 Resolved, That Chapter 12 of the Ordi¬ 
 nances of the City of Buffalo be amended 
 by adding thereto a new section to be 
 known as Section 10a and to read as fol¬ 
 lows : 
 
 Specifications for Fire Escapes. 
 Section 10a— 
 
 Escapes shall not be less than four feet 
 wide. 
 
 Brackets—Not less than *4x1 %x%-inch 
 angle iron and spaced not more than three 
 feet apart with braces not less than one 
 inch square iron and must extend two- 
 thirds the width of balcony with one-inch 
 bolt ends through wall with 5x5%-inch 
 washers and nut on inside of wall. 
 
 Top Rail—li4x%-inch iron or 1 %x%- 
 inch angle iron rail around balcony not 
 less than three feet high. 
 
 Bottom Rail — ]%xl%-inch iron, or 
 1 %xk* -inch angle iron. Rails must go 
 through wall with washers on nut on in¬ 
 side. 
 
 Connecting or Filling-in Bars—Top and 
 Aottom rails may be connected by three¬ 
 -quarter-inch square bars not more than 
 three feet apart with lx %-inch crossbars 
 
 well riveted on top and bottom rail with 
 crosses. Filling-in bars may be one-half 
 round - or square iron not more than six 
 inches apart and well riveted to top and 
 bottom rails. 
 
 Flooring—l%x%-inch iron slats riveted 
 to batten 1 %x%-inch each and spaced 
 1%-inch between slats or lx %-inch slats 
 placed edgewise not over 1%-inch apart 
 with three rows of timbers strung on 
 wrought-iron rods running through and 
 well fastened at end. Flooring to be fast¬ 
 ened to bottom rail with 1%-inch wrought- 
 iron clips not less than four feet apart. 
 
 Stairs—Stairs shall not be less than two 
 feet six inches wide and placed at an 
 angle of not less than forty-five degrees 
 nor more than sixty degrees. Stringers 
 must i*e not less than 6x%-inch iron or 
 two stringers 2x%-inch iron, one on front 
 and one on back of treads and well riveted 
 oi bolted to treads. Treads to be not less 
 than six inches wide. Riser nine inches 
 high. Treads may be constructed the 
 same as flooring with l^x^-inch angle- 
 iron noses on front of tread and to be 
 riveted to I%x3-16 inch angle iron on 
 ends that fasten to stringers. 
 
 Stairway Openings — Stairway openings 
 on each balcony shall be of size sufficient 
 to provide clear headway and in no case 
 shall they be less than twenty-one inches 
 wide and three feet six inches long. 
 
 Balance Drop Stairs—Must not be less 
 than two feet six inches wide and must be 
 balanced from a bracket above, cut 
 through the wall with a bolt in same as 
 bracket with bolt and washer and to have 
 iron sheaves on front of bracket for wire 
 cables to pass through which is attached 
 to stairs on the end and balance weight on 
 the other end. 
 
 Balcony on Top Floor—The balcony on 
 top shall be provided with a gooseneck 
 ladder leading to and above the roof and 
 securely fastened to the building. The 
 foregoing described what will be exacted 
 and deemed a suitable means of escape 
 from building but is not planned as a bar 
 to devising as efficient or perhaps better 
 escape. 
 
 Plans for escape must be forwarded to 
 the office of the State Fire Marshal, Al¬ 
 bany, N. Y., for approval. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City of 
 Buffalo under the Department of Police 
 as relates to the salary of the Superin¬ 
 tendent. be and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows, the 
 same to take effect July 1, 1912, to wit: 
 
 Superintendent .$4,500.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo under the Department of Police 
 as relates to the salaries of Precinct De¬ 
 tectives, Patrolmen first, second and third 
 grades, Pilots patrol boat, Engineers pa¬ 
 trol boat and Stokers patrol boat be and 
 the same is hereby amended so as to read 
 as follows, the same to take effect July 1, 
 1912, to wit: 
 
 Precinct Detectives.$1,350.00 
 
 Patrolmen, first grade . 1,100.00 
 
 Patrolmen, second grade. 1,000.00 
 
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Patrolmen, third grade . 900.00 
 
 Pilots, patrol boat. 1,100.00 
 
 Engineers, patrol boat . 1,100.00 
 
 Stokers, pilot boat. 1,000.00 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 1 of 
 Chapter 1 of the Ordinances of the City 
 of Buffalo as relates to positions in the 
 Department of Public Works be and the 
 same is hereby amended by the addition 
 of the following: 
 
 BUREAU OF BUILDING. 
 
 Assistant Structural Engineer ..$1,400.00 
 
 Resolved, That in accordance with the 
 recommendation of the Board of Health 
 and the Health Commissioner, Chapter 
 XXV of the Ordinances of the City of Buf¬ 
 falo be and the same is hereby amended 
 by adding thereto the following, to be 
 designated Section 161 : 
 
 Sec. 161. The Ernest Wende Hospital 
 at Spring street and Broadway and the 
 Municipal Hospital, 770 East Ferry street, 
 near Kehr street, known as the quaran¬ 
 tine hospital, shall continue to be main¬ 
 tained by the City for the care and treat¬ 
 ment of persons affected with any of the 
 infectious or contagious diseases which are 
 enumerated in Section 11 of this Chapter. 
 The Health Commissioner shall have 
 charge and control of each of said hos¬ 
 pitals. The title for the office of Super¬ 
 intendent of the Ernest Wende Hospital 
 shall hereafter be Superintendent of the 
 Ernest Wende and Municipal Hospitals, 
 and the title of the office of Physician at 
 the Municipal Hospital shall hereafter be 
 Resident Physician at Hospitals. The su¬ 
 perintendent, physicians, nurses, and such 
 other employes as' the Health Commis¬ 
 sioner shall, from time to time, designate 
 shall be required to live at the hospital at 
 which they are employed respectively and 
 their lodging and maintenance shall be fur¬ 
 nished by the city. The employes now at¬ 
 tached to either of said hospitals shall 
 continue to be so employed until removed 
 acording to law; provided, that the 
 Health Commissioner may transfer any of 
 them from one of said hospitals to the 
 other, or, in case of need, may detail them 
 temporarily to such other appropriate du¬ 
 ties as in his discretion the public health 
 shall require. 
 
 The cost of the care, treatment and 
 maintenance, and the ambulance fees, of 
 patients who are unable to pay therefor 
 and who are committed to either of said 
 hospitals by any competent officer or au¬ 
 thority within the City of Buffalo or the 
 County of Erie, shall be a charge against 
 said City or County, according to law, at 
 the prevailing and legal rates charged by 
 other hospitals. The rates to be charged 
 for the care, treatment and maintenance 
 of patients who are able to pay therefor 
 shall be fixed by regulation of the Board 
 of Health. All sums received for such 
 care, treatment or maintenance from any 
 patient or other person, or from ilie 
 County of Erie or other county or munic¬ 
 ipal corporation, or from any department 
 o: the City of Buffalo shall be placed by 
 , the Department of Finance to the credit 
 *of a fund for the maintenance of the hos¬ 
 pitals mentioned in this section. The cost 
 • of such maintenance, alteration, repaiis 
 and improvements, in excess of the in¬ 
 
 come above mentioned, shall be provided 
 in the annual estimate for the Depart¬ 
 ment of Health. Admissions to said hos¬ 
 pitals, or either of them, shall be subject 
 to the control of the Health Commissioner, 
 under regulations of the Board of Health, 
 according to the provisions of the Charter 
 of the City of Buffalo for the protection 
 of the public health” 
 
 Resolved, That so much of Section 83 
 of Chapter 14 of the Ordinances as relates 
 to the position of shop teachers in voca¬ 
 tional schools be amended as follows: 
 
 Shop teachers in vocational schools, 
 minimum $900.00, annual increase $100.00, 
 maximum, $1,500.00, 
 
 —changed to read : 
 
 Assistant teachers in vocational schools, 
 minimum $900.00, annual increase $100.00, 
 maximum $1,500.00. 
 
 Also that so much of Sections S3 and 
 84 of Chapter 14 of the Ordinances in re¬ 
 lation to salaries of grammar and pri¬ 
 mary school principals, be amended by 
 adding the following: 
 
 Principals of independent vocational 
 schools shall receive the same salary and 
 on the same basis as to attendance as 
 principals of grammar and primary 
 schools. 
 
 That such independent vocational schools 
 are to be established only with the con¬ 
 currence of the Common Council. 
 
 Resolved, That Chapter 1 of the Ordin¬ 
 ances be and the same is hereby amended 
 by adding thereto a new section, to be des¬ 
 ignated Section 8 and to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 8. The seal of the City of Buffalo 
 heretofore used for that purpose is hereby 
 officially adopted as the City Seal, and is 
 described as follows: To the left center, 
 lighthouse on pier, with ship passing it 
 into the harbor. To the lower right, canal 
 boat passing into the canal to the right, 
 surrounded in circle by the legend “City 
 of Buffalo Incorporated 1832.” 
 
 The design and description of a Munic¬ 
 ipal Flag for the City of Buffalo submitted 
 by the Mayor and Commissioner of Public 
 Works to the Common Council on June 
 10, 1912, are hereby adopted as the design 
 and description of the Municipal Flag of 
 the City. 
 
 The Coat of Arms of the State of New 
 York with the seal of the City of Buffalo 
 superimposed upon the shield of the same 
 —all in blue, upon the field of the flag in 
 Continental buff. 
 
 The design and description submitted by 
 the Buffalo Ad Club to the Common Coun¬ 
 cil at its meeting on June 24, 1912, are 
 hereby adopted as the design and descrip¬ 
 tion of the Trade Flag of the City of Buf¬ 
 falo, being a white bison in a field of blue, 
 which is surrounded by a bar of white, 
 and on the exterior a bar of red. 
 
 That Section 18 of Chapter 10 be 
 amended to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 18. There is hereby created in the 
 Bureau of Engineering of the Department 
 of Public Works the position of City Line¬ 
 man, who shall be appointed by the Com¬ 
 missioner of Public Works, and who shall 
 
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within fifteen years previous to the time 
 of his appointment, have not had less than 
 five years’ practical experience as a line¬ 
 man, and not less than three years’ prac¬ 
 tical experience on work similar to the 
 work described in Sections 10 to 17, in¬ 
 clusive, of this chapter; provided, how- 
 Pver, that said three years’ practical ex¬ 
 perience on such similar work need not be 
 addition to the five years’ practical ex¬ 
 perience as a lineman. Subject to the con¬ 
 trol of the Commissioner of Public Works, 
 
 the City Lineman shall inspect the wires 
 and appliances on the streets and public 
 places in the City of Buffalo, and shall be 
 charged with such other duties relating 
 thereto as may be imposed upon him by 
 said Commissioner of Public Works. The 
 salary of the City Lineman shall imme¬ 
 diately be fixed by the Commissioner of 
 Public Works, with the concurrence of the 
 Common Council.” 
 
 There shall be no more than two (2) 
 Linemen appointed. 
 

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