Chap. 14. AN ACT authorizing school district number six in the town may levy § 1. It shall be the duty of the trustees of school district Trustees number six in the town of Lyons, and they shall have power tax. without any further vote of the voters or taxable inhabitants of such district, to assess, and issue their warrants according to law for collecting in three instalments, a tax upon the taxable property and inhabitants of said district, of the sum of two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and seventyeight cents, which was voted at a special meeting of the voters of said district, on the fourteenth, sixteenth and twenty-second days of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, to be raised for fuel, furniture, repairs, insurance, contingent expenses, and teacher's wages in said district, for the term of one year from the first day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine inclusive, on or before the following dates respectively to wit: for collecting the first instalment, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-two ment. cents, on or before the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; for collecting the second instalment, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-six dol- Second. lars and ninety-three cents, on or before the twenty-first day of June next; and for collecting the third instalment, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-three Third, cents, on or before the twenty-first day of October next. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. First instal Plank road may be built. May borrow money. Chap. 15. AN ACT for the relief of suitors in the supreme court, in Passed February 15, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in § 1. Whenever an action in the supreme court can not be § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 16. AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the Ogdens- Passed February 16, 1850, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in § 1. The commissioners of the road from Canton to Og- § 2. The commissioners of said road are authorized to borrow for the term of six years, at semi-annual interest, a sum, or sums of money, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, toll gates. upon the credit of the tolls and income of said road, and upon the contingent credit of the corporation of the village of Ogdensburgh, of the town of Canton, and of the town of Lisbon, as herein provided, and to issue their official bond or bonds, pledging the tolls and income of said road, with the guaranty of said village and towns as hereinafter mentioned, to secure the payment of such loan and interest. §3. Said commissioners shall faithfully expend the money May erect so borrowed, in the construction of a plank road on the Ogdensburgh and Canton road. They may erect two toll gates on said road when planked, neither of which gates shall be nearer the villages of Ogdensburgh or Canton than one mile; and may charge and receive tolls for travel on the road, not higher than the tolls authorized to be received by corporations under the act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of companies to construct plank roads," passed May 7th, 1847, and the amendments thereto. They are authorized to commute tolls on mail stages, and other regular public conveyances, on such terms as they may deem most beneficial to the road. § 4. Each of said commissioners shall, on or before the To execute first day of May next, execute a bond to the supervisors of St. Lawrence county, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with two sureties to be approved by the county judge, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of each of said commissioners respectively, which bonds shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. made up. § 5. The tolls received upon the road shall be applied Tolls how as follows: first, to the payment of repairs and expenses of applied. the road; second, to the payment of the interest of the money borrowed; third, to the payment of the principal sum borrowed for the construction of the road as above mentioned. In the month of October in each year, the com- Accounts missioners shall make up their annual account, and enter it when to be upon their book of proceedings. The balance of tolls, and other income, over expenses of the road and interest of money borrowed, shall be paid, within sixty days after, to creditors holding the bonds for money borrowed as aforesaid, if they will receive it in payment. If creditors holding such Money how bonds will not receive payment, before maturity of the invested. bonds, any such balances of income in hands of the commissioners shall be invested in loans, falling due thirty days before maturity of the said bonds, secured by mortgages upon unincumbered real estate in St. Lawrence county, of at least double the value, exclusive of buildings, of the sums so loaned. Acting commissioner. To keep book. To report annually to § 6. Said commissioners shall, annually in the month of April in each year, appoint one of their number to be acting commissioner for repair and construction of the road. They shall meet monthly, and examine the accounts and affairs of the road. They shall keep a book, in which all transactions and accounts shall be entered at each monthly meeting, shewing the items of receipts and expenditures for each previous month. The substance of all contracts made by the commissioners shall be entered in said book, including a statement of bonds issued for money borrowed, and all alterations of contracts shall also be entered. At every annual supervisors. meeting of the board of supervisors, the commissioners shall make their report for the past year as now required by law, and shall produce to the said board of supervisors the said books of entries, which shall be examined by a committee of said board, and the report of the committee shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors. The Board may said board of supervisors shall remove any of said commislinquents and sioners who may be delinquent in his duty, and may prosefill vacancy. cute the delinquent commissioner and his sureties. In case of any such removal, the supervisors shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of another person. Whenever required by resolution of the board of supervisors, said book of entries shall be deposited in the clerk's office of St. Lawrence county. remove de In case of default, tax § 7. In case of any default by said commissioners in payhow raised, ing any portion of the money borrowed by them, or the interest thereof, as provided by this act, the supervisors of St. Lawrence county are authorized and required to cause such deficiency to be raised by tax, in equal proportions in the same manner as other county taxes are levied and collected, on the village of Ogdensburgh, the town of Lisbon, and the town of Canton; and the corporation of the village of Ogdensburgh are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect their proportion of such tax in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected in said village. Instead of tax may authorize new loan. § 8. The supervisors of said county, in their discretion, instead of levying such tax, may, by resolution of their board, authorize said commissioners to make a new loan, for a term not exceeding three years, to pay such deficiencies; and if money shall be borrowed by them on such new loan, and the former loan shall have been paid and discharged, no such tax shall be levied until further default in payment Not to ex- by said commissioners. Such new loan shall not exceed the eeed $5000. sum of five thousand dollars. General supervision. § 9. The general supervision of said commissioners and said road is committed to the supervisors of St. Lawrence county, who may establish all needful rules and regulations concerning the road. to be § 10. Whenever the money and interest borrowed by said Tolls when commissioners shall have been paid by them, the tolls upon reduced. said road shall be reduced to such sum as will be sufficient to pay the expenses and keep the road in repair. Accounts § 11. Said commissioners shall each receive for their ser- Fees. vices, actually rendered, two dollars per day out of the tolls how verified. of the road, and shall annually present their accounts for the services and expenditures to the said board of supervisors, verified as other accounts are now required by law to be verified. § 12. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 17. AN ACT making appropriations in part for the expenses of government for the fiscal year commencing October first, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes. Passed February 22, 1850, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion. § 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be Appropria. authorised by law, are hereby appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and ending on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, both days inclusive, except as herein otherwise expressed, and to be paid out of the several funds herein mentioned. FROM THE GENERAL FUND. Brigade In For pay of brigade inspectors of the county of New York, for services rendered, or to be rendered, prior to the spector of first day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty, five hundred dollars. N. Y. St. Regis For expenses of agent of St. Regis Indians, twenty Indians dollars. tion of books. For transportation of the Documentary History of New Transporta York, tax books for counties, Session Laws of eighteen |