■f§ 23, 24]    Board of Aldermen;  How Constituted.      13

.all the rights and powers of mayor during such disability or
absence. In case of a vacancy he shall so act until noon of the
first Monday of January succeeding the election at which the
mayor's successor shall be chosen; and at the next general elec¬
tion at which municipal officers shall be elected, which shall take
place more than thirty days after the occurrence of a vacancy
in the office of mayor, a successor shall be chosen, who shall hold
"for the unexpired term. It shall not be lawful for the president of
the council, when acting as mayor in consequence of the sickness
or absence from the city of the mayor, to exercise any power of
appointment to or removal from office, unless such sickness or
absence of the mayor shall have continued ten days; or to sign,
approve or disapprove any ordinance or resolution, unless such
.sickness or absence shall have continued at least nine days. The
council shall elect a vice-chairman to preside over the meetings,
who shall possess the powers and perform the duties of the presl-
■dent of the council, when said president Is sick, absent or under
.suspension, or while the president of the council is acting as
mayor, or when a vacancy occurs in said office, and who shall,
•during such time, be a member of every board of which the presi¬
dent of said council is a member by virtue of his office.

L. 1882, ch. 410, g| 33, 33.    See People ex rel. Wood v. Lacombe, 34  Hun,
409, 412: affi'd. 99 N. Y. 43.

Board of aldermen, how constituted; term, of office; vacancies, how
filled; salary.
§ 24. The board of aldermen shall be elected at the general
■election in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and every
two years thereafter, and shall consist of one member elected
from each of the assembly districts within the territory of The
City of New York, as constituted by this act, or as such assem¬
bly districts may hereafter be changed by law; provided, however,
that in the county of Queens, until otherwise provided by law,
one member of said board of aldermen shall be elected from those
■parts of said county heretofore known as Long Island City and
the town of Newtown; and one member shall be elected from
those parts of said county heretofore known as the towns of
Jamaica and Flushing and that part of the town of Hempstead
included within The City of New York, as hereby constituted;
and provided, further, that one member of the board of aldermen
shall be elected from those parts of the first and second assembly
■districts of Westchester county. Included In the borough of The