. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . nst their prestige andusefulness, concurred—rank and file—in the drawing up of the ordinanceof the thirty-first of December, 1S4. which was intended as an offset toaction at Albany. It was entitled An ordinance for the better regulationof the Firemen of the City of New York. It provided for a chief engineer, tobe elected every three years by the votes of the members of the VolunteerFire Department, the first election to be in February, 1866 ; but the electionwas simply a nominat
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . nst their prestige andusefulness, concurred—rank and file—in the drawing up of the ordinanceof the thirty-first of December, 1S4. which was intended as an offset toaction at Albany. It was entitled An ordinance for the better regulationof the Firemen of the City of New York. It provided for a chief engineer, tobe elected every three years by the votes of the members of the VolunteerFire Department, the first election to be in February, 1866 ; but the electionwas simply a nomination to the Common Council for appointment, and thesalary was fixed at five thousand dollars per annum. No chief engineer couldserve a second term. Nineteen assistant engineers, two for each district,• xcept the Ninth, which was to have three, were to be elected in a preciselySimilar manner in February, 1865, and to serve three years. Vacancies wereI o be filled by ballot within thirty days. The working force of the departmentwas to consist of such members of fire engine men, hose men, and hook and. WILLIAM 78(i OUR FIR KM EN. ladder men * * * as now ate or hereafter may be from time totime appointed in the manner required by law. Thus the Department wasLeft in the hands of the voting firemen and the dominanf Common Council,andthe system that had been 1 ho bane of the Volimtoers was continued. Apailfrom these; provisions, the ordinance pursued the best features of the oldregimes, and introduced some new regulations calculated to improve theefficiency of the Department. Discipline and deportment were insisted assistant engineers were to choose one of their number as senior, and hewas to take t he place of the chief in the event of disability or a vacancy. TheBoard of Engineers and Foremen had the power to make elections for holdingand conducting the elections. The companies chose their own foremen,assistant foremen, and secretaries, by such means and at su
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