The Greater New York Charter as enacted in 1897

(Albany :  Weed-Parsons,  c1897.)

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656                                Municipal Courts.              [§§ 1350, 1351

Sec.  1355. Salary.

1356.  Terms.

1357.  Vacancies.

1358.  Districts.

1359.  Boroug-h of The Bronx;.

1360.  Borough of Manhattan.

1361.  Borough of Brooklyn.

1362.  Boroug'h of Queens.

1363.  Borough of Eichmond.

1364.  Jurisdiction.

1365.  Id.;  continued.

1366.  Removal.                                                                                             ■     -

1367.  Appeals.

1368.  Process.

1369.  Procedure, etc.

1370.  Actions, in what district brought.

1371.  Where held.

1372.  Seals.

1373.  Clerics and assistant clerks.

1374.  Board of justices.

1375.  Board to make rules.

1376.  Concurrence of majority.

1377.  Eules of supreme court applicalole.

1378.  Clerks to administer oaths.

1379.  Justices to administer oaths, etc.

1380.  Access to court-houses.

1381.  Delivery of papers, etc.

1382.  Disposition of causes pending in district courts, etc.

1383.  Removal.

1384.  Justices of district courts, etc., to act till February 1, 1898.

Courts, etc., abolished.

§ 1350, From and after midnight of the thirty-first day of Janu¬
ary, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the justices' courts and the
office of justice of the peace in the cities of Brooklyn and Long
Island City are abolished, and all jurisdiction, power, authority and
duty theretofore vested in said courts and justices of the peace, and
in the clerks, officers, interpreters, stenographers and employes of
said courts and justices shall cease and determine, except as pro¬
vided in the next section and section thirteen hundred and seventy-
two of this act; and from and after the passage of this act no person
shall be elected to the office of district court justice or justice of the
peace in any portion of the territory included within The City of
New York as constituted by this act.

Municipal court created.

§ 1351. On and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, the district courts of The City of New York and
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