and directed to execute the same as directed by said warrant. And the said tax-roll and warrant is hereby made as valid for all purposes as if no error had occurred in taking and subscribing the oath to the said assessment-roll, and as if the said oath had been taken and subscribed by the said assessors on or after the third Tuesday of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Board of street opening and improvement, powers and duties of. Chap. 17. AN ACT to amend section nine hundred and fifty-five of title five of chapter sixteen of chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," and the acts amendatory thereof. PASSED February 20, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section nine hundred and fifty-five of title five of chapter sixteen of chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: $955. The mayor, comptroller, commissioner of public works, the president of the department of public parks, and the president of the board of aldermen shall hereafter together form a board to be known as "the board of street opening and improvement." They shall keep full records of its proceedings, and shall have all the powers and authority as to laying out, opening, widening, straightening, extending, altering and closing streets or avenues, or parts of streets or avenues, in that part of the city of New York south of Fifty-ninth street, which, on April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, were in any manner otherwise conferred and vested, or which relate to altering the map or plan of said city. The said board are authorized and empowered, whenever they may deem it for public interests so to do, after laying its proposed action before the board of aldermen and publishing full notice of the same for ten days in the City Record, to alter the To lay out map or plan of New York city so as to lay out new streets in said part of said city, and from time to time to cause maps showing the several streets or avenues so laid out, opened, widened, straightened, extended, altered or closed by them, to be certified by them and filed, one in the office of the department of public works of said city, and one in the office of the counsel to the corporation of said city, and it shall be the duty of the said counsel to the corporation, on the filing of said maps in his office, together with a requisition in writing of said board, immeProceed diately to take proceedings in the name of the mayor, aldermen and ings to ac- commonalty of said city, to acquire title for the use of the public to the quire land required for the streets or avenues so laid out, opened, widened, straightened, extended or altered, and for that purpose to make appli new streets. title. map or cation to the supreme court in the first judicial district and in such manner as the said board shall direct, for the appointment of commissioners of estimate and assessment, indicating in such application the land required for that purpose by reference to said maps on file as aforesaid; and the proceedings to acquire title to such lands shall be had pursuant to such acts as shall be then in force relative to the opening, straightening, extending, widening or altering streets, roads, avenues, and public squares and places in the city of New York, which said acts hereby are made applicable to the streets and avenues, or parts of streets and avenues, so laid out, opened, widened, straightened, extended and altered, and to the proceedings authorized hereby. The May alter said board are also authorized and empowered, whenever they may plan of deem it for public interest so to do, after laying its proposed action city. before the board of aldermen and publishing full notice of the same for ten days in the City Record, to alter the map or plan of the city of New York so as to lay out new streets or avenues, and to widen, straighten, extend, alter and close existing streets or avenues in that part of the said city lying between Fifty-ninth street and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, and south of the Harlem river, and from time to time to cause maps, showing the streets or avenues so laid out, widened, straightened, extended, altered or closed by them to be certified by them and filed, one in the office of the department of public works of said city, and one in the office of the counsel to the corporation of said city; and the proceedings to acquire title to such lands shall be had pursuant to such acts as shall be then in force relative to the opening, straightening, extending, widening, or altering of streets, roads, avenues and public squares and places in the city of New York, which said acts are hereby made applicable to the streets and avenues, or parts of streets and avenues, so laid out, widened, straightened, extended, altered and closed, and to the proceedings authorized hereby. And the said board are hereby authorized and empowered May esto fix and establish the grades of all streets and avenues so laid out, grades of widened, straightened or altered by them; and said grades shall be streets, shown and delineated on the maps made and filed by them in accordance with the provisions of this act; and the said grades when so established, and shown upon said maps, shall not thereafter be changed except by ordinance of the common council upon the petition of the owners of adjacent property as now provided by law for changes of grade in other portions of the said city. A majority of said board Quorum. shall constitute a quorum, but the vote of a majority of all the members thereof shall be necessary to any act of said board. But nothing con- Act, how tained in this act shall be taken or construed to authorize said board strued. to lay out, open, widen, straighten or extend any street or avenue in that part of the city of New York between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth streets, through any portion of the grounds belonging to the Society of the New York Hospital, and now used and occupied by it for the purposes of its Bloomingdale asylum for the care of insane patients. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. tablish etc. to be con Park in Place to be im Chap. 18. AN ACT making provision for the improvement of the park in Mission Place, in the sixth ward of the city of New York. PASSED February 25, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The department of public parks of the city of New York Mission is hereby authorized and directed to improve and repair the park in Mission Place, in the sixth ward of the city of New York, which park proved. is commonly called Paradise park, by planting trees and placing benches in said park, and by repairing and putting in order the fountain in said park, and by removing from said park the iron structure now erected and standing thereon. The said department shall complete said improvements and repairs within sixty days after the passage of this act. Appropriation therefor. Board of educa § 2. The board of apportionment of the city of New York is hereby authorized and directed, within ten days after the passage of this act, to appropriate, from any unexpended balance of an appropriation in the city treasury, the sum of one thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used and expended in making the improvements and repairs mentioned in the first section of this act. Such expenditure shall be made under the direction and supervision of said department of parks. The said board of apportionment shall annually, after the passage of this act, appropriate a sum sufficient to keep and maintain said park and its appurtenances in good repair and condition. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 19. AN ACT authorizing the board of education of the city of Poughkeepsie to sell and convey certain real estate owned by said city. PASSED March 1, 1884; 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 the city of Poughkeepsie is tion may hereby authorized to sell so much of the rear end of the lot situate on sell real the west side of North Clinton street in said city, occupied by public school number five, as the board shall determine to be unnecessary for public school purposes, but not exceeding fifty feet in depth. estate. Convey. in fee, etc. § 2. The parcel sold shall be conveyed to the purchaser or purchasers ance to be thereof in fee by deed or deeds of conveyance from the city, executed under the direction of said board and attested by its seal with the signature of its president; and the consideration therefor shall be received by said board and placed in a separate fund and be used by the board for the repair or improvement of the public school property of the city, or in the purchase of additional school property for the city, and for no other purpose. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 20. AN ACT authorizing the pavement of South Salina street in the city of Syracuse before a sewer shall be constructed therein. PASSED March 1, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Syracuse are authorized to pave South Salina street in said city, or any portion thereof, whether or not a sewer has been constructed therein; but all the provisions of the charter of said city shall apply to such pavements, excepting the requirements thereof that a sewer shall be first constructed in said street. § 2. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 21. AN ACT in relation to convict labor. PASSED March 3, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The superintendent of state prisons shall not, nor shall any other authority whatsoever, renew or extend any existing or pending contract, or make any new contract for the employment of any convicts in any of the prisons, penitentiaries or reformatories within this state. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Interest of state released. Not to impair vest Chap. 22. AN ACT to release to Ellen Travers and Johanna Corcoran PASSED March 5, 1884, by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All the estate, right, title and interest of the people of the § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair, release ed rights. or discharge any right, claim or interest of any heir at law, devisee or grantee, purchaser or creditor, by judgment, mortgages, or otherwise in and to said premises, or any part or parcel thereof. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Interest released. Chap. 23. AN ACT to release to Sarah Bennett the right, title and PASSED March 5, 1884, by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All the right, title and interest of the people of this state of state in certain real estate in the town of Oyster Bay, Queens county, of which Thomas F. Bennett died seized, known and described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the dwellinghouse, barn and store-house thereon, situated at Hicksville, in the town |