2. To recommend every expense, no expense or matter referring to city finances being able to be adopted unless recommended by the controllers;
3. The council on the report of the controllers to be charged with the granting of franchises and privileges by regulation, resolutions, contracts, by the issue of debentures and contraction of loans;
4. The controllers were further to prepare contracts and plans, to ask for tenders, to decide all formalities relating to the latter, to receive and to open such;
5. To inspect or oversee public works;
6. To employ the money voted by the council for the purpose designed;
7. To nominate and suspend all employees, except those nominated by the council whose nomination, suspension and dismissal should be made by the council on the recommendation of the controllers;
8. No report or recommendation made by the controllers to be executed without the acceptation of the majority of the council;
9. No amendment to a report or recommendation of the controllers to be made without the approbation of two-thirds of the members of the council present at the meeting.
The work now to be given to the Board of Control was that hitherto done by eleven committees of the aldermen of seven members in each.