The Water Commissioners Walt Whitman Matt Cohen Ed Folsom Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Kaylen Michaelis Samantha Gilmore Kevin McMullen Karie Cobb Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities 2024 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 per.01338 This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand. Brooklyn Daily Times 19 February 1857 Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. unsignedWalt Whitman The Water Commissioners <imprint> <date sameAs="#issue"/> </imprint> <biblScope unit="pages">2</biblScope> <biblScope unit="column">1</biblScope> </monogr> <note type="project">Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue.</note> </biblStruct> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc> <textClass> <keywords scheme="original" n="series"><term>Brooklyn Daily Times</term></keywords><keywords scheme="original" n="topic"> <term>water works</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2024-03-21" who="#klc">cropped image added</change> <change when="2023-09-20" who="#km">proofed</change> <change when="2023-09-01" who="#slg">annotated</change> <change when="2023-08-03" who="#knm">added image links</change> <change when="2023-07-21" who="knm">transcribed, encoded</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile corresp="#issue"> <surface facs="per_km.00252.jpg"/> <surface facs="per_km.00253.jpg"/> <surface facs="per_km.00254.jpg"/> <surface facs="per_km.00255.jpg"/> </facsimile> <text type="periodical" corresp="#item"> <body> <pb xml:id="leaf001r" facs="per_km.00253_cropped1.jpg" type="recto"/> <head rend="center" type="main-authorial">The Water Commissioners.</head> <p>Sec. 2, of Article 10, of the State Constitution, reads as follows:</p> <q> <floatingText> <body> <p>Section 2. All county officers whose elections or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties, or appointed by the Boards of Supervisors, or other county authorities, as the Legislature shall direct. All city, town, and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some divisions thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, and all other officers whose office may hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed as the Legislature may direct.</p> </body> </floatingText> </q> <p>On this, Attorney General S. B. Cushing,<ptr target="n.00511"/> as we stated yesterday, has given the opinion that "no officer whose duties pertain to cities and villages can be appointed directly or indirectly, by the Governor or Legislature."</p> <p>A gentleman of long experience in our local affairs, and whose name if mentioned would at once ensure attention to his opinion, suggests that the opinion of Mr. Cushing is in direct conflict with the Brooklyn Water Act,<ptr target="n.00500"/> since in the latter seven commissioners, whose duties pertain to the city, are "appointed, directly, by the Legislature"—an appointment which, in Mr. Cushing's judgment, the Legislature had no power to make.</p> </body> </text> </TEI>