chosen at meeting. §2. No person shall be chosen for the office of assessor at the an- No assesnual town meeting of the electors of said town to be held next after sortebat the passage of this act. The three persons now holding the office of next town assessor of said town, whose respective terms of office will not expire at the next annual town meeting of said town, shall hold their said offices until the expiration of the term for which they were respectively chosen; and thereafter, as the said terms of office as assessor of said Term of persons respectively expire, there shall be chosen at the annual town meetings a successor or successors for said office of assessor for the term of three years. In case of any vacancy in said office of assessor Vacancy, to be filled at any annual town meeting, the person who shall be how filled. chosen to fill such vacancy shall be chosen for the term of three years. office. sation. § 3. From and after the passage of this act the compensation of as- Compensessors of said town of Oswegatchie shall be the sum of two dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily occupied in the discharge of the duties of the office. § 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the foregoing act are hereby repealed. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 15. AN ACT in relation to highway commissioners of the town of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence county, and regulating the number thereof. PASSED February 8, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That hereafter there shall be but one highway commis sioner for the town of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence county. missioner to be next town § 2. No person shall be chosen for the office of highway commis- No comsioner at the annual town meeting of the electors of said town to be held next after the passage of this act, nor at any subsequent annual chosen at town meeting until the term of office of the person now holding the meeting. office of highway commissioner having the longest time to serve shall expire. That thereafter there shall be chosen at the annual town Election meeting of the electors of said town one person for highway commis- and term sioner for the term of three years. §3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the foregoing act are hereby repealed. 84. This act shall take effect immediately. of office. Firemen, ment and of. CHAP. 16. AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and eleven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Potsdam, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,' passed January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy." PASSED February 8, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter seven hundred and eleven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, being an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Potsdam, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,' passed January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. Subdivision eleven of section eight of chapter sixty-nine, laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, being an act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relative to the village of Potsdam," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 11. To appoint by writing, under the seal of the corporation, sixappoint- teen or more firemen to every engine and hose cart at any time posexemption sessed by the village, who shall hold their places during the pleasure of the trustees, and be exempt from service in the militia, except in case of war, invasion or insurrection, and upon juries and from a poll tax, and shall be entitled, while in active service, to a deduction in the assessment of their property upon the assessment-roll of said village, for village purposes to the amount of one thousand dollars. The trustees shall prescribe the time and mode of the exercise of the fire, hose and hook and ladder companies, and establish rules for their regulation, and enforce obedience to them by penalties, make new appointments of firemen and all officers whenever vacancies occur, and disband all or any of such companies. Rules for government of. Official acts legalized. § 2. All official acts of the officers of the village of Potsdam performed since the passage of the act hereby amended are declared to be of the same validity and effect as though said act had read as hereby amended to read. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 17. AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Ulster to issue bonds to meet and pay a portion of the bonds of said county falling due in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and ratifying and confirming the resolution of said board of supervisors to issue such bonds, passed at its annual session for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two. PASSED February 8, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of super $50,000 etc. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Ulster having Resolution at its annual session for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two re- visors to solved that the sum of fifty thousand dollars be borrowed on the credit borrow of the county of Ulster to pay a portion of the bonds of said county ratified, falling due on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eightythree, and that bonds be issued therefor and sold in like manner as provided by resolution of said board at their annual session for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and chapter two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, it is enacted that said first above-mentioned resolution of said board be and hereby is in all things ratified, confirmed and made valid and effectual for the purposes for which it was passed. § 2. The said board of supervisors of said county are authorized and empowered to borrow on the credit of said county the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to pay a portion of the bonds of said county falling due March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and to reissue therefor bonds of said county, payable March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for said sum of fifty thousand dollars. § 3. Said bonds shall be issued by and signed by the county treas- Bonds. urer of said county and the chairman of the said board of supervisors, and each of said bonds shall bear the seal of said county and shall be issued in such amounts or denominations respectively as the said chairman and treasurer shall deem best. Such bonds shall be in the same general form as was used in the bonds issued in pursuance of chapter two, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, and shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum, payable annually on the first day of March in each year until, the principal sum be paid. §4. The said county treasurer shall sell said bonds at public auction Sale of. at the court-house in the city of Kingston in said county, on the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and shall receive the proceeds of such sales, provided, however, that said bonds shall not be sold for less than par. Notice of such sale shall be given by advertising the same for two weeks immediately preceding such sale in the official county newspapers and such other newspapers as the said chairman of the board of supervisors and county treasurer shall deem proper or necessary. applied. § 5. With the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, said county treas- Proceeds, urer shall pay said bonds of said county so falling due as aforesaid, and how to be shall immediately cancel and destroy all such bonds as shall be paid, and shall make and file a verified certificate in the office of the county clerk of said county, showing the numbers and amounts of the bonds so canceled and destroyed and of the new bonds issued. 1 1 Proposals Tax. Board of to build new school house, etc. bonds. § 6. Said chairman of the board and county treasurer shall receive proposals for engraving and printing such bonds and shall let the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and the expense of such engraving, printing and advertising shall be paid by the county treasurer. § 7. The board of supervisors of said county shall cause to be levied by tax upon the taxable property of said county, and collected and paid annually such sums as may be necessary to pay the interest on said bonds, and shall in like manner cause to be levied and collected such sum as may be necessary to pay the principal sum of said bonds when the same shall become due, and the said county treasurer shall apply the moneys so collected and paid to him to the payment of said principal and interest. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 18. AN ACT authorizing Catskill Union Free School District, Number One, of the town of Catskill, to borrow money to erect and improve school buildings. PASSED February 8, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of education of Catskill Union Free School District, Number 1, of the town of Catskill, are hereby authorized and row $6,000 empowered to borrow, upon the credit of the district, such sum, not exceeding six thousand dollars, as shall have been, or may hereafter, within one year, be voted by a majority of the voters of the district present at any annual or special district meeting duly convened pursuant to law, for the purpose of erecting a new school building, or for improving, altering or making additions to the buildings now beMay issue longing to the district. And the said board of education are authorized and empowered to issue coupon bonds in the name of the district, to be signed by the president and clerk of the board, in sums not exceeding one thousand dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, one thousand dollars of such principal to become due annually; and to sell and dispose of said bonds at not less than their par value; and the said board of education shall cause to be assessed, levied and collected the said moneys so borrowed and interest from time to time as the same shall become due in the manner provided by law for the assessment and collection of school district taxes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 19. AN ACT to regulate and control the care and management of the town hall of the town of Oswegatchie, situate in the city of Ogdensburg. PASSED February 8, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sioners. SECTION 1. William L. Proctor, Silas W. Day, William H. Daniels, Commis John Pickens and James Eyesaman be and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the town of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence county, New York, with full power and authority to carry out the duties and trusts imposed upon William L. Proctor, Silas W. Day, and Edward C. James by an act of the board of supervisors of St. Lawrence county, passed at a special meeting of said board on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty, which act is hereby ratified. to be $2. William L. Proctor, Silas W. Day, William H. Daniels, John Powers. Pickens and James Eyesaman, commissioners herein before named shall have full power and authority over said town hall for all other than town uses (the right to the town to use said town hall for town purposes shall not be abridged or interfered with by said commissioners). The said commissioners may let any room or rooms in said town hall upon such terms and for such time, not exceeding one year, as they may deem proper. The said commissioners shall not receive any compensation for services, but they are hereby authorized to employ a clerk at an annual salary not to exceed two hundred dollars. §3. Said commissioners shall, with the money that they may realize Rents, how from the rents of said premises or any part thereof: First, pay their clerk hire. Second, pay for all expenses of heating, lighting, cleaning and other care of said premises. Third, pay for such necessary repairs and insurance of said town hall as in their judgment may be proper, and the balance, if any, pay over to the supervisor of said town of Oswegatchie for the benefit of said town. But in case the rents shall, for any cause, at any time prove insufficient to pay the expenses herein before referred to, then the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may certify such deficiency to the board of town audit, and it shall be the duty of said board of town audit to certify said deficiency to the board of supervisors, to be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes in the town of Oswegatchie, and when so collected the town collector shall pay over said sum to the said commissioners. to be § 4. Said commissioners shall annually, on the Monday prior to the Account meeting of the board of town audit of Oswegatchie, make under oath, rendered and file with the town clerk of said town, a particular and full ac- annually. count of all moneys received or paid out by them, together with vouchers for all disbursements made by them, exceeding the sum of twenty dollars in one item, during the preceding year, under the said power and trust conferred upon them under said act of the board of supervisors and by this act. 5. Said William L. Proctor shall hold said appointment and office Terms of until March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; Silas W. Day office. shall hold said appointment and office until March first, eighteen hun |