Chap. 29. AN ACT to repeal section four of chapter forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to extend and amend the charter of the Glen Cove Mutual Insurance Company, passed March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven." PASSED March 10, 1884. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to extend and amend the charter of the Glen Cove Mutual Insurance Company, passed March twentyninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven," is hereby repealed. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Instruction in physiol ogy and Chap. 30. *AN ACT in relation to the study of physiology and hygiene in the public schools. PASSED March 10, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Provision shall be made by the proper local school authorities for instructing all pupils in all schools supported by public money, or under state control, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference hygiene. to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. Teachers amination in. § 2. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the to pass ex- public schools of the state of New York after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. Chap. 31. AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment of an award made by the state board of audit in favor of the Western House of Refuge. PASSED March 11, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ated to award. SECTION 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, $11,185.37 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum appropri of eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty- pay seven cents, for the payment of an award made by the state board of audit in favor of the Western House of Refuge, May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for labor and materials furnished in the construction and repair of the Western House of Refuge buildings; and the further sum of six hundred and seventy-one dollars and twelve $671.12 to cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for interest on such pay interaward, which sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 32. AN ACT to annex school district number thirteen of the town of Champlain to union free school district number one of said town, and to provide for the alteration of school districts numbers three and fifteen of said town. PASSED March 11, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. School district number thirteen of the town of Champlain District in Clinton county is hereby abolished and the territory comprising said No. 13 school district is hereby annexed to and made a part of union free and made school district number one of said town. abolished part of No. 1. § 2. Said union free school district number one is hereby vested with Title to the title to all the property, both real and personal, of said school dis- property trict number thirteen, and shall be liable for all the debts and obligations No. 1. of said school district number thirteen. to vest in made. § 3. The board of education of said union free school district number Reports one is hereby authorized to make all reports relating to the affairs of to be said school district number thirteen for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, which would have been required by law from the trustee of said school district if this act had not been passed. § 4. The school commissioners of the county of Clinton shall, in their Appor of school tionment apportionment of school moneys for the year eighteen hundred and money's eighty-four, apportion to said union free school district number one all moneys apportioned or apportionable to said school district number thirteen upon reports already made by said district number thirteen. § 5. By and with the consent of the board of education of said union other dis- free school district number one and the consent of the trustee or trustees tricts may be annex of the school districts now known as numbers three and fifteen of said town, the whole or any part of said districts numbers three and fifteen, or either of them, may be annexed and made a part of said union free school district number one, by an order made by the school commissioner of the district in which said school districts are situated. When ed. § 6. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Action of special town Chap. 33. AN ACT to legalize and confirm the special town meeting held in the town of Chester, Warren county, November nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. PASSED March 11, 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 special town meeting held by the electors of the town of Chester, Warren county, on the nineteenth day of November, meeting eighteen hundred and eighty-three, authorizing the raising of the sum legalized. of four hundred and seventy-five dollars, by tax on the taxable prop erty of said town, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to be applied to and laid out on the public highway, known as the Schroon lake highway in said town, and the tax voted thereat is hereby legalized and confirmed and the tax declared as valid and of the same force and effect as if said tax had been authorized at an annual town meeting of said town provided by law. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any suit or legal proceeding now pending. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 34. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide a system of sewerage for the village of Little Falls," passed June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. PASSED March 12, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof as follows: adopt and § 8. The trustees of the village of Little Falls are hereby authorized Trustees to adopt and appropriate as a public sewer any sewer constructed and may laid in any street, or partly in a street, and to maintain, alter and appropri repair the same, and to connect the same with any other sewer or with private any drainage outlet. ate any sewer. sation 9. Upon the adoption and appropriation by the trustees of the Compenvillage of any private sewer, or sewer laid in the street by one or more therefor. persons, compensation therefor shall be made to such owners, by assessment of the value thereof, and of the expenses of the appropriation and transfer, by assessment of the same upon the property holders benefited thereby. Such assessment shall be made by three commissioners, to be appointed by the county judge of Herkimer county, as provided in the act hereby amended, and said commissioners shall hear such evidence, as to the value of said sewer, as the owners thereof shall offer, and shall ascertain the value of the same; and the value so ascertained shall be paid to the owners thereof respectively; and such value, with the expenses attending such proceeding, shall be assessed upon the property benefited, as above provided. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 35. AN ACT to define the duties and limit the powers of the trustees of the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk. PASSED March 12, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: officers, etc. SECTION 1. The trustees of the town of Brookhaven, in the county Trustees of Suffolk, shall be held to be town officers within the meaning of the to be town statutes of the state of New York, and shall take the usual oath of official oath of, office, give bonds with two or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, and submit their accounts, with vouchers, to the board of audit of said town. § 2. The per diem compensation of the said trustees shall be the Compensame as is now paid to the supervisor of said town for their services. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 3 sation. Fire limits. Chap. 36. AN ACT to amend chapter nine hundred and forty-one, PASSED March 12, 1884; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. Section three of title three of chapter nine hundred and 35. Said board of trustees shall have the power and authority to establish fire limits within the corporate boundaries of said village of Churchville, and prohibit and prevent the erection within said limits of any wooden building, and may pass and enforce rules, regulations, by-laws or ordinances, restraining and regulating the erection of any building in their said fire limits, and may regulate and control the erection thereof, the size and construction of the chimneys, the material and thickness of the walls, the materials of the building, the distance Penalties. at which walls shall be placed in such buildings, and any such person who shall violate any by-law, ordinance or regulation shall forfeit to the said village the sum of one hundred dollars, and in case of refusal or neglect to remove or demolish any building hereafter erected contrary to such ordinances an additional sum of not exceeding fifty dollars Inspec- nor less than ten dollars for each day such building remains. The said board of trustees may also inspect, or cause to be inspected, by a person appointed by them for that purpose, any building hereafter erected or in process of erection in said fire limits, to see that the same corresponds to such ordinance or regulation, and said board or person shall have authority at all reasonable hours to enter upon any premises to make such inspection, and may arrest any person violating the provisions of said ordinance or regulation, and may prohibit or put a stop to the erection of any building if in process of construction or erection within said fire limits at any time which shall not conform to such ordinances or regulations, and stop said construction until the building shall be conformed to the regulation, and for this purpose said board may employ the police constable of said village. tion of buildings. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |