APPENDIX XI.
 

THE STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC ADMIN¬
ISTRATOR OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, CONTINUED IN"
FORCE BY SECTION 1585 OF GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER,
ante.

L.  1882, Ch.  410.
Public administrator.

By chapter 827 of the laws of 1895, the bureau in the law department
of the city of New York, the chief officer of which is called the public
administrator, was removed from the law department of the city of New
York, as follows:

" § 1. The bureau in the law department of the city of New York, the
chief officer of which is called the public administrator as now organized,
is hereby removed from said law department, and is continued as an inde¬
pendent bureau; the power to appoint and remove the public adminis¬
trator is hereby vested in the surrogate of the county of New York, and
the appointment and the removal of his subordinates is hereby vested in
the public administrator,

" § 2. All statutes and ordinances relating to, or in anywise affecting
the said bureau, and defining the duties and powers thereof, shall remain
in full force and effect, and shall continue to be applicable to said bureau,
" § 3. All powers and duties with respect to said bureau, except herein¬
before specified, which are now by law conferred or imposed upon the
. counsel to the corporation shall hereafter be conferred or imposed upon
said public administrator,"

Public administrator and his assistant to give bonds. Salaries of same.
§ 217, The present public administrator in the city of New York shall,
upon the passage of this act, and any person hereafter appointed to the
office of public administrator shall, before entering upon the duties of his
office, execute a bond with such sureties as shall be approved by the
mayor or recorder of the said city to the mayor, aldermen and common¬
alty thereof, in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars conditioned for
the faithful discharge of all duties enjoined on hira by law, and particu¬
larly that he will account for and pay over all moneys and property that
may come to his hands as such administrator, according to law. The
assistant public administrator shall, in addition to his other powers,
possess every power and perform all and every duty belonging to the
office of public administrator, when in the case of sickness or other dis¬
ability of the public administrator, the public administrator, or either of
Ihe surrogates of the county of New York, shall designate and authorize
him so to act, such designation and authority, to be duly filed in the