Excerpt from Mayor Edson's Charter and the Democratic Principle Mayor Edson has sent to the Legislature at Albany the draft of a charter which would practically combine in the mayoralty the legislative (or taxing) and executive (or disbursing) power. Such a plan would amount to getting rid of the Board of Aldermen. As it is proposed to dismiss the idea of a. Local legislature as a distinctive feature of local government, it is well to note at this time how far the pendulum has swung in fifty years as regards the transfer of the seat of government from New York city to Albany. To this end I have reproduced in the following pages an article written in the spring of 1881 on the Charter Convention of 1829 - 30. It is thought worth while to direct attention thereto at this juncture. The additional articles serve to bring more clearly into relief the contrast of fifty years. The people of New York city are as well fitted for governing themselves now as in 1829, save as. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.