Boundaries of square. Chap. 65. AN ACT to alter the map of the city of New York, by laying out thereon a public place, known as Stuyvesant square. Passed March 16, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All that piece or parcel of land lying in the seventeenth ward of the city of New York, bounded on the northerly side thereof by Seventh street; on the westerly side thereof, by the Fourth avenue, formerly the Bowery; on the southerly side thereof, by Sixth street; and on the easterly side thereof, by the Third avenue, is hereby declared to be a public place, in like manner as if the same had been laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act of the legislature, entitled "An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of New York, and for other purposes," passed April 3d, 1807. Name. § 2. Such public place shall be known by the name of Annual esti mate of raised. "Stuyvesant square. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 66. AN ACT in relation to common schools in the city of Utica. The People of the State of New York, represented in § 1. The board of school commissioners of the city of money to be Utica shall annually prepare an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be raised in the said city for the then ensuing year, for the payment of teachers' wages, exclusive of the public money and the money required by law to be raised by the county and town by the act establishing free schools throughout the state, and present the same to the How levied board of supervisors of Oneida county (at their annual meeting), who shall cause the same to be levied and collected from the said city in the same manner as other town taxes; and collected but the sum to be raised by virtue of this section, shall not Proviso. in any year exceed twice the sum apportioned to the city from the state school moneys. appointed. § 2. The said board of commissioners shall appoint a Superinten superintendent of common schools for the city, to hold his dentin ba office during the pleasure of the board, and to perform such duties in the care and oversight of the schools in the city as it may charge him with. He shall be paid such compensation for his services as the board shall from time to time determine, which shall be audited and allowed as other town charges are in the said city. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 67. AN ACT to amend "An act to incorporate the village of Passed March 16, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: His salary. appointed. § 1. The sixth subdivision of the thirteenth section of the Fire compa. act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Roun-nies may be dout," passed April 4, 1849, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "To appoint one or more companies of firemen for said village, of not more than fifty members each; and one or more hook and ladder companies, of twenty members each; to appoint a chief engineer of said fire companies; to remove in their discretion the chief engineer, or any member of either of said companies, and to make rules and regulations for the government of said chief engineer, and each and every of said companies, for the performance of their respective duties; but each of said companies shall have the right to designate one member thereof a foreman of such company. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Amendment. May hold Chap. 68. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act relative to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York, passed April 3, 1811," passed February 18, 1833. Passed March 16, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The fifth section of the act entitled "An act to renew and amend an act entitled 'An act relative to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York,' passed April 3, 1811," passed February 18, 1833, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "5. The said society shall be in law capable of purreal estate. chasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use and benefit of said corporation; and said society is also authorized to take, receive and hold any donation, devise or bequest, either of real or personal estate, which may have been, or shall hereafter be made, either for the general purposes of said corporation or otherwise; provided, that the lands, tenements, hereditaments and personal estate of said corporation shall not at any one time exceed in amount the sum limited by the act aforesaid, passed April 3, 1811." Proviso. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. May hold Chap. 69. AN ACT to amend the charter of the New York Orphan Passed March 16, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The corporation created by the act entitled "An act real estate to incorporate the Orphan Asylum Society in the city of New York," passed April 7th, 1807, shall be and hereby is authorized to purchase, hold and convey any estate, real and personal, for the use of the said corporation; provided, that such estate shall never exceed in value two hundred Not exceed ing $200,000 thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purposes than those for which the said corporation was founded, any thing in the said act hereby amended to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. Chap. 70. AN ACT to amend the act incorporating the village of Passed March 16, 1850, "three-fifths being present.' The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The village of Waterloo shall hereafter include all Boundaries, that tract of territory comprised within the following boundaries: Beginning on the north bank of the Seneca outlet, at the southeast corner of military lot number ninetyseven in said town of Waterloo; thence on the east line thereof ninety-one chains and two links, to the northwest corner of the lot commonly called Scauyas or Waterloo reservation lot; thence east on the north line of said lot, fifty chains and twenty links; thence along the centre of the road called the north road, first, south sixty-three and a half degrees east eighteen chains; second, south fifty-five degrees east twenty chains; third, south fifty degrees east eighteen chains; fourth, south sixty-one degrees east fifteen chains; fifth, south seventy-three degrees east twenty-six chains, to the east line of military lot number ninety-eight in said town; thence on said east line thereof south forty-six chains and forty-eight links to the southeast corner thereof, on the north bank of said outlet; thence south to the middle of said outlet, which is the south bounds of said town of Waterloo; thence along said south bounds westerly to a point south of said place of beginning; thence north to said place of beginning. dens. § 2. The board of trustees of said village are authorized Fire Warto appoint as many fire-wardens as they may think proper, to each company; and to each hook and ladder company now organized in said village, a sufficient number of members not exceeding fifty to each company, with the consent of the individuals so to to be appointed. Collector of taxes. Collector how elected § 3. The collector of taxes of said village is authorized to exercise the same powers and pursue the same remedies in the collection of taxes, which by law are given to town collectors in this state. § 4. The collector of taxes in said village shall be elected and term of at the same time and in the same manner with the trustees office. of said village, and shall hold the office for one year, and shall take the oath of office and give the like bail as is now required by the act amending the act to incorporate the village of Waterloo, passed April, 1839. Unpaid taxes § 5. It shall be lawful for the assessors of the village to add to the tax of any individual or corporation, who shall have neglected to pay his tax of the preceding year, the amount of his tax so unpaid, stating the amount thereof opposite his name, which the collector is authorized to collect the same as other taxes. § 6. The trustees shall have power to make all necessary regulations and by-laws, requiring all persons owning or occupying real estate in said village to construct or repair the sidewalks adjoining their respective lands, pursuant to an order of said trustees, duly published, under such penalty as they may think proper, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and if any owner or occupant shall refuse or neglect to construct or repair such sidewalk, adjoining his premises, pursuant to said order, within sixty days after the time limited by said order, and due publication thereof, it shall be lawful for said trustees to construct or repair the same, as the case may be, and to collect the amount expended in said construction or repair, with costs of suit in an action in any court having cognizance thereof, from any such delinquent owner or occupant; and if such delinquent owner be a nonresident of said village, the amount so expended in said construction or repair is hereby declared to be a lien on his or her land adjoining said sidewalk so made or repaired; and said trustees are authorized to collect said amount, with interest and expenses of notice and sale, by sale of said land, in the same manner and on the same condition as they are authorized by sections forty-one, forty-two and forty-three of the act entitled "An act to amend an act incorporating the village of Waterloo," to sell real estate for the payment of taxes. § 7. The certificate of the clerk of said village, duly signed by him, and under the corporate seal of said village, of any by-laws, regulations or orders of said trustees, certifying that the same have been duly passed and published pursuant to an order of said trustees, and in what manner, |