240 Timehri. 



siiui during every succeeding calendar month uutil such kitchen, cooking 

 house or oven shall be made and completed according to the foregoing 

 description and the lot and buildings thereon shall be liable and execut- 

 able for such tine or fines." One may be sure that there were very few 

 it' any tenement rooms in those spacious days. The poor there were. 

 however. For them allowance was made — " provided nevertheless, that 

 in case it should be made apparent to the satisfaction of the Board that 

 certain poor persons are unable to bear the expense of building kitchens 

 with brick fire-places, chimneys and ovens as before described, the 

 Hoarn shall have the power and direction of provisionally exempting 

 such persons From the compliance therewith; but in lieu thereof the 

 proprietor or renter of any such dwelling house or tenement so 

 exempted shall he bound to have an outhouse for a cooking place 

 built of such materials and in such a manner as shall be approved 

 of by the Board for such purpose and any person coming under the 

 description of this latter clause neglecting or refusing to comply 

 with the provision- thereof when the said period of three months 

 or within such further time as may be allowed by the Board, shall 

 incur a penalty of $5 in the first instance and of double that sum 

 -luring every calendar month of continuance in such neglect and the 

 lot and buildings thereon shall be liable and executable for such fine 

 or tines. '" Fireplaces in and about foundries, smithies and bakeries had 

 ro be sufficiently protected ; and any cooperage, carpenter's shop or work- 

 place, boat-building establishment or bakehouse had to be swept and 

 cleared of shavings or other combustible matter every day on leaving off 

 work, subject to a fine of $5, to be paid by the occupier or person having 

 charge of such establishment for every neglect thereof. 



In L852 the Board of Superintendence was dissolved, a new one 

 taking its place. The election of this Board was a peculiar proceeding. 

 The votes were to be in writing. " and signed bj 7 the party voting, speci- 

 fying therein at full length his or her qualification and such votes shall 

 be sealed up and shall be deposited in a locked and sealed box placed for 

 that purpose in the office of the Assistant Government Secretary in New 

 Amsterdam, who shall transmit the same to the Government Secretary to 

 be laid before the Governor and Court of Policy to be opened, and the 

 votes shall be examined and the person having the highest number of 

 legal votes in his favour shall, if duly qualified, be held and considered 

 to be the senior member of the Board of Superintendence aforesaid, and 

 the person having the next highest number of legal votes in his favour 

 shall, if duly qualified, be held and considered as next in seniority, and 

 s< i on, and the names of the elected members in such order of seniority 

 shall be duly put in the Official Gazette." As to subsequent elections 

 the procedure was much the same as it is to-day — devoid of pomp and 

 circumstance, and yet so simple as to incite even the unsophisticated to 

 be naughty, for the voter is not called upon to sign his name in the 

 presence of the Returning Officer. Nowadays the voting paper may be 

 either written or printed, but according to the 1852 Ordinance, there 

 was no reference to a printed document. So it came to pass that a 



