ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLA- THE CITY OF ALBANY, Chap. 1. AN ACT to authorize the city of Utica to borrow and disburse money for city purposes, and to levy and collect taxes to pay the same. PASSED January 20, 1885. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Common may bor. exceeding bonds. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the common council of the city of Utica, and they shall have power to borrow such sum as they may deem council necessary, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, upon the corporate row not bonds of the city, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per $10,000, annum, for the purpose of paying such of the debts and liabilities of and issue said city as have been audited by said common council or presented to said council, or as were not, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, represented by the bonds of said city or authorized by legislation; said bonds to be issued in the manner and form provided for in the charter of said city in the case of issuing other bonds. But none of the bonds hereby authorized to be issued shall be sold at less than their par value; and said moneys shall be used for the payment of said debts, under the direction of said common council and when audited by them, and for no other purpose. § 2. The said bonds, principal and interest, shall be made payable when as follows: One-half thereof and interest on the whole amount on the payable. first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and one-half! thereof with interest on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for the purpose of redeeming said bonds, the said common council shall, in and as a part of and in addition to the city taxes for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, cause to be levied and collected one-half the amount borrowed under the provisions of this act, and interest on the whole amount so borrowed, and, in and as a part of and in addition to the city taxes for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, said common council shall cause to be levied and collected the remaining one-half of the amount so borrowed as aforesaid and interest thereon. The money thus raised shall be applied to the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon and to no other purpose. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Office Chap. 2. AN ACT to abolish the office of railroad commissioners in and for the town of Wallkill, in the county of Orange, nd to confer the powers and duties of said commissioners upon the supervisor of said town. PASSED January 23, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The office of railroad commissioners in and for the town abolished of Wallkill, in the county of Orange, is hereby abolished. and pow ers and § 2. The powers and duties heretofore vested by law in said commisconferred sioners are hereby conferred upon and vested in the supervisor of said duties en super town. visor. Officer having charge of bonds, § 3. In addition to the powers conferred and duties imposed by law, the officers or officer having charge of the sinking fund held by them sinking or him for the redemption of the bonds issued by the said town of fund may Wallkill to facilitate the construction of the New York, Oswego and purchase Midland Railroad, may purchase the bonds of said town so issued when the same can be purchased advantageously for the pecuniary interest of said town and may invest any moneys received by them for the said sinking fund as provided by law in bonds and mortgages on unencumbered real estate located in this state, worth twice the sum t be invested. etc. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 3. AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain claims against the city of Troy. PASSED January 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: William ed and SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Troy, upon proof of the Claim of actual performance of the duties of the office of "city hall janitor" of Martin to said city by William Martin, and for the performance of which said be auditduties the said William Martin has not been paid, shall audit, in the paid. same manner as bills or accounts not emanating from heads of departments are required to be audited by said common council, the salary for the time for which the said William Martin served as such city hall janitor as aforesaid, between November nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eightythree, at the same rate as was theretofore paid the said William Martin for his salary as such city hall janitor. § 2. Upon the presentation to the comptroller of the city of Troy of the due certificate of the audit of the common council of said city of the claim of William Martin for services as janitor of the city hall of said city as aforesaid, there shall be paid, in the same manner in which other fully audited bills against said city are paid, to the said William Martin the sum so audited by the said common council for said services. § 3. The comptroller of said city, upon presentation to him of said certificate, shall countersign the same, and the chamberlain of said. city, on presentation of the same to him, shall pay the sums by this act required to be paid to the said William Martin, his heirs or assigns. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 4. AN ACT making an appropriation for continuing work on the new capitol during the winter and spring of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. PASSED January 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ated. SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is $250,000 hereby appropriated out of the balances now in the treasury of the appropri state, not otherwise appropriated, which amount shall be used for the purpose of continuing work on the capitol and purchasing materials therefor, and which shall be paid for in the manner now provided by law, to the order of the capitol commissioner, as he shall require the same. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. $5,000 appropri ated. Chap. 5. AN ACT making an appropriation to pay and provide for payment of expenses connected with New York state exhibit at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans. PASSED January 29, 1885, by a two-thirds vote. Phe People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any unexpended balances in the treasury of the state to pay the expenses and disbursements connected with the New York state exhibit at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, which shall be paid by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, to the order of the commissioner of the state of New York to said exposition, as he shall require the same for such purpose. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Board of water sioners, and duties of. Chap. 6. AN ACT to amend chapter eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to provide for a separate board of water commissioners in the village of Suspension Bridge, Niagara county, in the place of the trustees of said village, the mode and time of their election, and defining their powers, duties and terms of office, as amended by chapter three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four. PASSED January 29, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to provide for a separate board of water commissioners in the village of Suspension Bridge, Niagara county, in the place of the trustees of said village, the mode and time of their election, and defining their powers, duties and term of office," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 4. The board of water commissioners so elected shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and obligations granted to and imposed upon the board of water commissioners now organized in said village under said chapter one hundred and eightyone of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, except that the board so elected may file the bonds required of them with the board of trustees of said village on the same conditions they are now filed with the county judge; and they shall not have power to borrow, upon the credit of said village, a sum, including any indebtedness incurred under section eight of said chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and unpaid, exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. #AN ACT to release and grant the interest of the people of the state of New York in certain real estate in the town of Arcade, in the county of Wyoming and state of New York, to Simeon D. Lewis. PASSED February 2, 1885, by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of state SECTION 1. All the estate, right, title, interest and property of the Interest people of the state acquired by escheat on the death of Ellen Collins, released. late of the town of Arcade, state of New York, in and to the following described land and premises, namely: All that certain tract or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the town of Arcade, county of Wyoming, and state of New York, bounded as follows: on the north by lands deeded to Thomas McKernon, thirty-three chains and fifteen links; east by lot number twenty-two, fifteen chains and eight links; south by lot number twenty-nine, thirty-three chains and twenty links; and west by lands deeded to James Tobin, fifteen chains and eight links, containing fifty acres of land, more or less, being the same premises conveyed to Ellen Collins by George F. Tallman and the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, by deed dated February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and recorded in the office of the clerk of Wyoming county, in liber forty-eight of deeds, at page forty-seven, on the twenty-sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, is hereby released and granted to Simeon D. Lewis, his heirs and assigns, forever, and the conveyance of said land, dated the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and executed by Patrick Kirk, Rose Kirk, Bridget Kirk, Peter Kirk and Betty Quinn, heirs at law of Ellen Collins, to Simeon D. Lewis, is hereby ratified, legalized and confirmed. § 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right, title or interest Not to of any person in and to said premises as heir at law, devisee, grantee, vested or as creditor by judgment, mortgage or otherwise. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. impair rights. |