of the act incorporating the said company is therefore, hereby amended, so that all future elections for choosing directors of the said company shall and may be held in either of the villages aforesaid, and all notices of such elections may be published in either of said counties in the option of the board of directors of the said company. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 36. AN ACT to provide for the appraisal and payment of damages incurred by Henry G. Beach in the removal of a bridge. Passed March 13, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: how ascer § 1. The county judge, county clerk and county treas- Damages urer of Onondaga county are hereby authorised to inves- tained. tigate and ascertain the amount, if any, with interest, that is equitably due to Henry G. Beach, assignee of James L. Voorhies, under the provisions of the third and fourth sections of the act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, entitled an act to authorise James L. Voorhies to Proviso. receive tolls for passing a bridge across the Seneca river in the county of Onondaga, and in no case shall they award to said Beach a greater sum than he paid for said. bridge and interest thereon after deducting the amount of tolls received with interest, and to certify and report the same to the board of Supervisors of the county of Onondaga. Proof of 2. The officers mentioned in the first section of this act, shall have power to examine any party or witness up- damages. on oath, and to demand the production of any papers or written testimony, that in their judgment may be proper in determining the justice and equity of the claim of said Henry G. Beach. Before hearing the case, written notice shall be given by said officers of the time and place when Notice of and where the investigation will be had at least ten days before the time fixed, to said Henry G. Beach, and to the supervisors of the towns of Clay and Lysander respectively, and it shall be the duty of such supervisors to attend the hearing and guard the interests of said towns and the county of Onondaga. The said supervisors and the judge and the clerk and the treasurer of Onondaga county, shall Amount awarded how as sessed and each of them receive three dollars a day to be paid by the county for the time necessarily occupied by them in said investigation; an award signed by any two of said officers shall be sufficient and binding, provided the whole three have been notified for at least ten days before the time of hearing. § 3. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of Onondaga county to assess the sum if any there may be collected. awarded to the said Henry G. Beach under this act, with interest from the day of the award, one half thereof on the towns of Clay and Lysander according to their respective valuations, and the other half upon the whole county of Onondaga, and authorise the collection and payment thereof to Henry G. Beach or his assignees. Repeal. Alderm1, term of office of. money to for taxes, § 4. Chapter three hundred and twenty-six of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "an act for the relief of Henry G. Beach of the town of Lysander in the county of Onondaga," is hereby repealed. Chap. 37. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Schenectady. Passed March 15, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The aldermen elected at the first annual election in the several wards of the city of Schenectady, after the passage of this act, shall be classed by the clerk, and drawn by lot in the presence and under the direction of the common council of the said city at its first meeting after such election; those two aldermen, in each ward, drawing for one year, shall continue in office one year, and those two aldermen in each ward drawing for two years, shall continue in office two years; and the electors of each ward shall, annually thereafter, elect two aldermen only, who shall continue in office for two years, and until successors are elected and qualified to take their seats. Amount of 2. The common council of the said city shall yearly be raised determine the sums of money to be raised by tax, for and how making and repairing streets, highways and bridges; for expended. providing necessary apparatus and means for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; for lighting the streets of said city; for defraying the expenses of the poor of said city; for defraying the expenses of the city police and watch; and for all other necessary and contingent expenses of the said city. The sum and sums of money raised for lighting the streets, and for defraying the expenses of a night watch, shall only be levied and assessed upon, and collected from the taxable inhabitants within the police bounds of the said city. The said sum and sums of money, so to be raised, assessed, levied and collected for the purposes aforesaid, shall in no one year exceed ten thousand dollars; but it shall not be lawful for the said common council to appropriate or expend, for the purposes aforesaid, in any one year, a greater sum than is herein authorised to be raised by tax. and §3. The board of supervisors of the county of Schenec-Taxes how tady, on being served with a copy of the resolution of said collected. common council requiring the several sums of money to be raised, shall cause the same to be assessed, levied and collected, with the other taxes to be collected in said city according to law, and paid to the treasurer of the said city in the manner directed in and by this act; and shall be drawn, expended and applied under the directions of the said common council, for the purposes for which the same were raised, assessed and collected; and the treasurer of the said city is hereby required to keep separate accounts of the same, and it shall be the duty of the said city treasurer to pay over to the county treasurer the state and county taxes to be collected in said city, at the time and in the manner the town collectors are required to do. § 4. The constable elected in each ward of said city Collector. shall also be collector of taxes in his ward. He shall give bond for the faithful discharge of his duty as such collector, in such form, penalty and security as shall be approved of by the mayor of said city; and shall pay to the city treasurer all moneys assessed and to be collected in his tax list within the time required by law. But in case any such collector shall refuse or neglect to enter into the said bond, or in case of the death or removal from said ward of said collector, or being incapable of serving, then, and in such case, the mayor of said city shall appoint some other suitable person to act in his stead, who shall give the like security, and have the same powers and perform the duties required of said collectors. when to be § 5. The supervisor of each ward shall, on or before Tax list the 15th day of December in each year, deliver to the delivered said city treasurer the tax list for his ward, with the treasurer. warrant of the board of supervisors. All taxes levied, Taxes how assessed and collected in said city, shall be paid to the and when city treasurer, who is hereby constituted a receiver of to be paid. Notice. such taxes; and each and every inhabitant of said city, charged with a tax, are hereby authorized to pay his, her or their tax to said city treasurer, without any additional charge for collecting, within thirty days after said city treasurer shall have given public notice of receiving the said tax lists, in the city newspapers; which notice, it shall be his duty to give immediately after receiving said tax lists. Unpaid tax§ 6. After the expiration of the said thirty days from es how collected. the time of so publishing the said notice by the city treasurer, the said tax lists, with a warrant from the said mayor to collect the same, shall be delivered over to the said collectors of each ward, who shall collect and pay over the same to the city treasurer within the time required by law, and may charge and collect for his fees, in addition to the tax on each inhabitant, five per cent on the amount of such tax collected by him. Notice of completion of rolls. Repeal. Lines of certain tered. 7. The assessors of each ward, after completing their assessment rolls, instead of posting the notices now required to be given, shall give and publish such notices in the newspapers published in said city for the period of three weeks. § 8. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 38. AN ACT to alter the commissioners' map of the city of Brooklyn. Passed March 15, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: §1. The map made by the commissioners for laying out streets al- the streets, avenues and squares of the city of Brooklyn, and filed pursuant to the provisions of an act passed February 28, 1839, so far as concerns the northerly and southerly lines of Wyckoff street, extending from the easterly line of Sixth avenue to the southwesterly line of Flatbush avenue, and so far as concerns the northerly and southerly lines of Warren, Baltic, Butler and Douglas streets, extending from the easterly line of Fifth avenue to the south westerly line of Flatbush avenue, is hereby amended so as to con form in regard to the parts of streets as above stated, to the same as they are laid out and designated on a map filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, January 31st, 1835, by Charles Hoyt, and known as "Rose Hill Gowanus" map; but nothing in this act contained shall be construed as altering the northerly and southerly lines of Wyckoff street between the easterly line of Fifth avenue and the westerly line of Sixth avenue as laid down on the commissioners' map. §2. The streets laid down and designated on the said certain last mentioned map, as Alabama, Caroline and Virginia streets disstreets, and those parts of Wyckoff, John and Baltic streets, on the easterly side of Flatbush avenue on said map, are hereby discontinued and closed. made. §3. Three duplicate maps shall be made in conformity Three to the amendment heretofore named, of the said commis- maps to be sioners' map and the said "Rose Hill Gowanus map,' which shall be approved by the street commissioner of the city of Brooklyn, by his certificate written thereon, one of which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, one in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, and the other with the city of Brooklyn, in the office of the street commissioner, the expense of which shall be chargeable upon the property affected by the foregoing sections. closed. §4. So much of Union, President, Carroll, First and Streets Second streets as lie between Smith and Hoyt streets, as the same are designated on the map of the city of Brooklyn, and by acts of the legislature of the state of New-York, are hereby closed and discontinued, and the owners of the land within the lines of said Union, President, Carroll, First and Second streets, may use, occupy and enjoy the same as if said streets had never been laid out. ces laid 5. Four streets or places shall be laid out, and shall Four pla extend from Smith street to Hoyt street, as said streets out. are laid out on the map of the city of Brooklyn, and by acts of the legislature of the state of New-York, and shall be known and designated as Bergen Place, Secor Place, Carroll Place, and Balchen Place, and shall form and constitute a part of the map of the city of Brooklyn, and the mayor and common council of the said city shall have the same power to open, grade, pave, or perform any other act in relation thereto, as they now have by law over any other street laid down on said map, or as if the aforesaid streets or places had originally been laid down on said map. |