claim; and no action or proceeding shall be maintained against the city for personal injuries, unless notice in writing of the intention to claim damages and of the time and place at which such injuries were received and the nature and extent of such injuries, shall have been filed with the corporation counsel within one month after such injury shall have been received and an omission to present such notice, within the time as above provided shall be a bar to an action thereon against the city. The city of Cortland shall not be liable for the damage or injury sustained by any person in consequence of any highway, street, sidewalk or crosswalk in said city being out of repair, defective, unsafe or dangerous or obstructed by snow, ice or otherwise unless actual notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition of said highway, street, sidewalk or crosswalk shall have been given to the mayor, or board of public works, or superintendent of public works of said city, at least twenty-four hours previous to such damage or injury. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 482. AN ACT authorizing the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, to acquire a site and building for town purposes, and to borrow money therefor. Became a law, May 17, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: to be Section 1. The electors of the town of Islip, in the county of Amount Suffolk, at a biennial town meeting or at a special town meeting expended. called for such purpose, may authorize the expenditure of not to exceed ten thousand dollars for the purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a fire proof building for town purposes. borrow issue bonds. § 2. The town board of the town of Islip is hereby authorized Town_may to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, and such additional money and sums as may be hereafter authorized by vote of the electors at any regular town meeting, for the purchase of such site and building such town hall, in the name and upon the credit of such Terms and sale of bonds. Payment of bonds. town by the issue of bonds to be signed by the supervisor of such town and attested by the town clerk. § 3. Such bonds shall be payable not more than twenty years from the date of issue, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, and shall be sold at not less than par. § 4. Such town board shall cause to be levied and collected on the taxable property of said town in each year, in the same manner as other town taxes are levied and collected the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest due upon said bonds as same shall become due and payable, as provided by general law. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Extraordinary expendi mates for. Chap. 483. 'AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Oneida," in relation to special elections. Accepted by the city. Became a law, May 17, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Subdivision twenty-five of section fifty-nine of chapter two hundred twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Oneida," as amended by chapter two hundred seventy-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, is hereby amended to read as follows: 25. Whenever the common council shall resolve, by the af tures, esti- firmative vote of a majority of all its members, that an extraordinary expenditure ought, for the benefit of the city, to be made for any specific purpose set forth in the resolution, it shall make an estimate of the sum necessary therefor and for all such purposes, if there be more than one, and state how such fund is to be raised, whether by tax in one sum or by bonding, and in case of bonding, a general statement of the manner and time of payment, and publish such resolution and estimate once in each week for three successive weeks in the official newspapers, together with a notice that at a time and place therein specified a special elec election, notice of special tion of tion of the taxpayers of the city will be held to decide whether Special the amount of such expenditures shall be raised by tax or by bonding, or the same may be submitted upon like notice at any general election. All special elections shall be held at such place Conduct of within the corporation tax district as the common council shall elections. designate in such notice to be published as aforesaid, and the council shall designate three inspectors of election, one each from three different wards within the corporation tax district, who shall act as inspectors of election and ballot clerks at such special election, and receive therefor a compensation of three dollars each. The city clerk shall act as clerk of such special election. All provisions of law describing the duties of inspectors of election and their powers with reference to preserving order at elections. and false swearing and fraudulent voting thereat shall, so far as applicable, apply to the special elections held hereunder. Every elector who shall have been assessed and taxed upon the last assessment roll of the city before said special election, or whose wife was so assessed, and no other person shall be entitled to vote at such election. But no person shall vote upon a proposition Quali where the amount thereof is to be raised entirely within said votera corporation tax district, unless he be an actual resident and he or his wife an actual taxpayer within said corporation tax district; the election shall be by ballot, and each ballot shall contain a brief statement of each purpose for which such expenditure is required and the amount thereof, and be in the form required by the election law for holding elections upon questions submitted. The inspectors shall, at the time and place designated as aforesaid for holding a special election, sit without intermission, from nine o'clock in the forenoon to four o'clock in the afternoon, to receive the ballots cast at such special election, and shall deposit the same in a special ballot box to be provided by the city. If the right to vote of any person offering to vote upou Challenges. such a question at such special or general election be challenged by any other person entitled to vote thereat, an inspector of the election shall administer to him the following oath: In case a vote be offered on a proposition to raise money by tax or issue bonds affecting the entire city, the following oath shall be administered: "You do swear that you are a resident voter within the Oaths to be city of Oneida, that you or your wife is an actual taxpayer of tered to the city of Oneida, and that you have not voted at this election." adminis voters, ,, form of. Canvass of votes cate of result. Delivery of certificate to common council. In case the vote be offered upon a proposition to raise money by tax upon property entirely within, or bonds to be paid by the corporation tax district the following oath shall be administered: "You do swear that you are a resident voter of the corporation tax district of the city of Oneida, that you or your wife is an actual taxpayer within said corporation tax district, and that you have not voted at this election." After he shall take such oath or oaths (as the case may be) and if he or his wife shall be assessed upon the assessment roll of said entire city or said corporation tax district (as the case may be) his vote shall be received. The inspectors shall canvass the votes cast immediately and certin after closing the poles* and immediately make a certificate, signed by them stating the whole number of ballots voted at such election, the whole number for each special tax, or resolution, and deliver the same forthwith to the city clerk. The city clerk shall deliver the same to the common council at its next meeting, and it shall cause the result of the election so certified to be entered in the minutes. The common council shall cause the sum or sums of money thus voted to be raised by tax to be assessed, levied and raised with and in addition to other taxes in and upon the next assessment roll, or shall issue and sell bonds so authorized in the manner provided by section ninety-six of this act and provide for their payment. After such special tax or taxes shall have been authorized as herein provided, or such bonds have been sold, the common council may proceed to authorize the expenditure of the amount thereof for the purpose or purposes specified in its published statement aforesaid and sanctioned by such election. The common council may borrow, if necessary, the amount so voted in anticipation of the collection of said tax, and the amount so raised or borrowed shall be expended only for the purpose or purposes for which the special tax was voted, or bonds issued; and such money borrowed without such bonds, shall be repaid within one year from the proceeds of the tax. The expenses of all special elections held solely within the corporation tax district shall be borne by such district and paid out of the contingent fund. Common Council may borrow amount voted in anticipation of collection of tax. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. So in original. |