CONTENTS.
 

CHAPTER I.

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HiSTOKICAL  KetEOSPEOT  OF  THE  DiSOOVEEYj SETTLEMENT  AKD  GeOWTH   OF

THE City of New Yokk..........................................      9

The Nine Leading Cities of the World—Discovery and Settlement of Man¬
hattan Island—The Dutch Regime—The Mayors of New York—The Directors-
General and Governors of New Netherlands and New York—The English Period
—Brooklyn and her Chief Magistrates—The Borough of Queens and the Mayors
of Long Island City—The Boroughs of Eichmond and the Bronx—Recapitulation.

CHAPTER 11.

The Origin and Development of the Idea of Municipal Consolidation

AND THE Causes Leadino Thereto.................................    19

Jealousy Between New York and Brooklyn—Brooklyn City Charter Opposed
on Account of the Manifest Common Destiny of New York and Brooklyn, but
Obtained in 1834—Municipal Union Proposed and Defeated in 1851 and 1856—
The Metropolitan Police Act—Andrew H, Green's Inauenee—Considerations
Leading to Consolidation—Mr. Green's Historic Communication of 1868—The
Municipal Union Society of the City of Brooklyn and the County of Kings, in
1874—Opposition in New York—Annexation on the North—Bill for an Inquiry
Commission Lost in 1889, but passed in 1890—The Inquiry Commission and its
Operations—Consolidation Bill Defeated in 1891—Referendum Bill Defeated in
1893 and Again in 1893, but Passed in 1894—The Consolidation League of
Brooklyn—Consolidation Indorsed at the Polls in November, 1894—The League
of Loyal Citizens—Bill for the Drafting of a Charter by the Inquiry Commis¬
sion Defeated in 1895—Legislative Inquiry Committee in 1896 Hears Pros and
Cons and Keeommends Consolidation—Consolidation Act Becomes a Law in
1896.

CHAPTER III.

HlSTOET OF THE FrAMING AND ADOPTION OF THE   N'eW CiTY ChAETEE AND A

RfisuME OF ITS  Peovisions.........................................   127

Personnel of the Charter Commission—Informal Conference at Governor
Morton's—Organized June 35, 1896—Sub-Committee on Draft—Tentative Draft
and Public Hearing—Divergencies of Opinion and Mutual Concessions in the
Commission—Charter Reported to the Legislature February 18, 1897; passed
March 33-35 ; Vetoed by Mayor Strong; Passed over the Veto and Signed by
the Governor May 4, 1897—A Review of the Charter.