Superintendent of the Bank Department, or of such other person as the Superintendent or the legislature may appoint as his or their agent for that purpose. Whenever any agent shall be appointed to make any Pay of such examination, he shall be paid for his services by such corporation sach sum as the Superintendent of the Bank Department shall certify to be just and reasonable. agent. tion of &c. &c., may $20. The Supreme Court may at any time, on the application of any Examinatrustee or depositor in said savings institution, and on reasonable cause invest. shown therefor to the satisfaction of said court, appoint one or more ments, persons to examine into the investments of said savings institution, and its affairs and business generally. The books, papers and business of said savings institution shall be open and subject to the examination of such person or persons, and the trustees, officers and clerks thereof, or Officers, any other person, may be examined on oath by such person or persons; be examand the same court may confer such further powers on the person or ined on persons so appointed as they may consider necessary for the more thorough and perfect examination of the affairs and business of said corporation. The said person or persons so appointed shall report the Report to result of their investigations to the said court, which, if satisfied thereby that any officer, trustee or servant of said corporation has been guilty of Power of any fraud or misconduct, may remove such person or persons, and make court to such further order, and take such further measures for securing the fands, &c. funds and property of said corporation as the said court shall deem expedient. oath. the court. secure $21. The misnomer of said corporation in any instrument shall not Misnomer vitiate or impair the same if it be sufficiently described to ascertain the noto intention of the parties. vitiate. $22. The corporation hereby created shall be subject to the provi- General sions of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statues, powers. and all other general laws affecting savings institutions, so far as the same are applicable; and this act may be repealed or altered or amended at any time hereafter. $32. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 217. AN ACT to enable the common council of the city of Passed April 20, 1874; three-fifths being present. may sell SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Yonkers are author- Common ized and empowered to sell the lands and buildings occupied as the concil headquarters of the police force of the city of Yonkers, fronting on certain Dock street and Warburton avenue, and known as lot number nine, lands. Dock street, and lot number thirty-six, Warburton avenue, on a map the late village of Yonkers, dated August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Also the lands and buildings belonging to the said city on Palisade avenue, and known as lot number eighteen, Palisade avenue, on said map, and apply the proceeds of sale of said property as hereinafter provided. $2. The sale of said property shall be by public auction, except as Sale to be herein otherwise provided; but such auction sale shall not be had until at auction. Sale, how made. Terms rity. after a notice thereof shall have been previously published for six weeks in the official city newspapers in said city. § 3. The said property may be sold in whole or in part, and in such parcels as the common council shall direct. The common council shall fix the terms of sale, and may receive a bond from the purchaser accomand secu- panied by a mortgage upon the parcel sold to such purchaser to secure the payment of a portion of the purchase-money; provided, however, that the common council shall not take more than seventy per cent. of the purchase-money upon bond and mortgage upon any one of the parcels sold, nor shall any bond and mortgage, given under the provisions of this section, run for a longer period than ten years from the time of its date. Proviso. Bonds may be issued. nation and rate of interest. Bonds to be con § 4. It shall be lawful for the said common council to issue bonds upon the credit of the city of Yonkers, to be signed by the mayor and city clerk, and to be known and designated "police station-house Amount bonds," to an amount equal to the principal of the purchase-money thereof. bond or the aggregate of the purchase-money bonds received by the Denomi- said common council pursuant to the preceding section. The police station-house bonds, in this section authorized to be issued, shall be of such denomination as the common council shall determine, and shall bear interest at the same rate and shall become payable within two years after the purchase-money bond or bonds to be received by the common council, as provided in the preceding section. The said common council shall convert said police station-house bonds, in this section authorized to be issued, into money, at not less than their par Proceeds, value, and it shall expend the proceeds thereof, together with the cash expend payments received by the city from the purchaser or purchasers of said od. property, in constructing a substantial police station-house, lock-up, lodging rooms and stables, suitable to the present and future needs of the police department of said city, upon the Manor hall grounds belongOntstand ing to said city. After the payment of the purchase-money bond or ing bonds. bonds to the said city, it shall be the duty of the said common council to use the moneys thus derived in the purchase of any outstanding bonds of said city, at par, and after their purchase, to cancel and destroy the same. verted. how to be Surplus, applied. Tax to pay deBciency. § 5. Should any surplus moneys remain after the completion of said how to be building, the said common council shall expend it in the purchase of any outstanding bonds of said city, or in the purchase of property for city purposes. In case there should not be sufficient moneys realized from the sale of said property to pay for the construction of said buildings, the common council shall have power to levy and assess a tax upon the taxable property of said city, to pay the deficiency, which tax shall be collected in the same manner, and together with the annual city taxes; provided, however, that such tax shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. Appraisers to be appointed. § 6. The common council of said city shall have the power to appoint three competent and reliable persons, residents of said city, who are acquainted with the value of real estate therein, to appraise said property herein before authorized to be sold, and it shall thereupon be the duty of said persons so appointed as appraisers to appraise said property and the several parcels thereof, as the same may be divided by the common council, at its full and just value, and certify the same to the common council. After the receipt of the certificate of said appraisers by the common council, it shall have the power to sell said property, or any one or more of the parcels thereof so appraised, at a price not less than said appraised value, to any person who will take the same upon the terms prescribed by the common council. If, however, the said com- Chap. 218. AN ACT to amend, revise and consolidate the laws in relation to the village of Seneca Falls, in the county of Seneca. Passed April 20, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The charter of the village of Seneca Falls is hereby amended so as to read as follows: TITLE I. bounda SECTION 1. That district of country in the county of Seneca, and Village town of Seneca Falls, included within the following bounds, to wit: ries. Beginning in the center of Ovid street, at the northwest corner of a farm now owned and occupied by Sering W. Edwards, and running thence easterly along the north line of said farm to the west line of the highway which runs north and south along the east side of said farm; thence northerly along the west line of said highway to a point opposite the northwest corner of a farm now owned and occupied by Mrs. Amanda Cross; thence easterly across said highway and along the north line of said last mentioned lands, to the southeast corner of land formerly owned by James A. Easton and now owned by Lawrence Muldoon; thence northerly in a direct line to the southeast corner of the Catholic cemetery; thence northerly and along the east line of said cemetery to the northeast corner thereof; thence northerly in a direct line to the southeast corner of a farm now owned and occupied by Lyman F. Crowell; thence westerly and along the south line of said Crowell's farm to the northwest corner of a farm now owned by William J. Thayer; thence westerly in a direct line, to the northeast corner of a lot of land now owned and occupied by Laurette Sherman; thence westerly along the north line of said Sherman's land, and on a direct line therewith, to the east line of the highway known as the "Black Brook road;" thence southerly along the east line of said Black Brook road to a point directly east of the southeast corner of a farm now owned and occupied by Jacob Reamer; thence westerly across said road and along the south line of said Reamer's farm to the northwest corner of lands owned by Jonathan E. Burroughs and contracted by him to be sold to the "Burrough's Farm Co-operative Building Lot Association;" thence southerly along the west line of said association's lands, and on a direct line therewith, to the center of the Seneca river; thence easterly and along the center of said river to a point south of the southwest corner of a lot now owned and occupied by William Parrish; thence southerly in a direct line to the northwest corner of land lately purchased by John A. Rumsey and Henry Hoster of John Van Rensselaer; thence southerly along the west line of said Rumsey and Hoster's land to the southwest corner Corpo rate name. Wards, number and thereof; thence in a direct line, southeasterly, to the northwest corner of a farm owned and occupied by Jacob Viele; thence east or easterly along and on a line with the north bounds of said Viele's farm to the west line of Bridge street; thence southerly along the west line of Bridge street, and in a direct line therewith, to the center of Ovid street; and thence north or northerly along the center of Ovid street to the place of beginning; shall hereafter be known by the name of, and shall be, "The Village of Seneca Falls," and the inhabitants residing therein shall be a corporation by the name of "The Village of Seneca Falls." § 2. The said village shall be divided into four wards, as follows: The first ward shall be all that part of said village lying north of the center of the Seneca river and east of a line bounded and described as bounds of follows, to wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the Seneca river, where the same would be intersected by a line drawn through the center of that part of State street which lies between Chapel street and the crosswalk in front of A. C. Gibbs' livery barn, and running thence. northerly in direct course, and through the center of that part of State street above described, to the center of Chapel street; thence westerly and along the center of Chapel street to the center of Mynderse street, and thence northerly along the center of Mynderse street, and on a direct course therewith, to the northerly bounds of said village. The second ward shall be all that part of said village lying north of the center of the Seneca river and west of the line above described as forming the western boundary of the first ward. The third ward shall be all that part of said village lying south of the center of the Seneca river and west of the reservation line. The fourth ward shall be all that part of said village lying south of the center of the Seneca river and east of said reservation line. Trustees may alter bounda ries of wards. § 3. The board of trustees may, by a unanimous vote of all the trus tees, alter the boundaries of said wards from time to time, as they may deem the same to be necessary or proper. Such division and any alteration shall at once be published in a village newspaper, once a week for a time not less than four weeks in succession. Such division or alteration shall take effect immediately after the expiration of such four weeks of publication; but said board of trustees, hereinafter provided for, shall Existing have no power to alter the number of said wards. The present board of trustees and other officers of said village shall, from and after this act cers to re- shall become a law, have all the powers and be subject to all the duties office till as provided by this act for like officers, until their successors respectively expiration shall be elected or appointed, and duly qualify as hereinafter provided, of terms. and nothing herein contained shall be construed as in any manner affecting or restricting the term of office of any of the officers of said village heretofore elected. trustees and offi main in TITLE II. Village officers. SECTION 1. The officers of the corporation shall be: 1. A president of the village, who shall hold office for two years. 2. Eight trustees, two of whom shall reside in each district, and who shall each hold office for two years. 3. A clerk, who shall hold office for two years. 4. A treasurer, who shall hold office for one year. 5. A police justice. 6. An attorney. 7. A street commissioner. 8. An assessor. 9. Two or more police constables, and as many extra police and night watchmen as the board may appoint. 10. A sexton, four fire wardens, and such other appointive officers as shall be authorized by this act. elected. §2. The president, trustees, clerk and treasurer shall be elected, as President, hereinafter provided, by the people of the corporation qualified to vote &c., to be at the annual State election. The board of trustees shall appoint the other offother officers mentioned in above section number one, and such other cers to be appoint. officers as may be hereinafter provided for; and all and every of said ed. officers thus appointed may be removed by said board of trustees at their pleasure. Every officer, whether elected or appointed, must be, and at officer all times continue to be, a resident and elector of the village and dis- must be a trict for which he is chosen, otherwise his office is vacant, and the board of trustees must so declare and provide for a new election or appointment. resident. when to §3. An election of officers of the corporation shall be held in each Election, ward of said village on the second Tuesday in January in each year, at be held. such place as the board of trustees shall appoint, of which six days' Notice previous notice shall be given, in writing, in two public places in each thereof. ward, by the clerk of the village. election. § 4. The trustees of each ward shall be inspectors of election therein. InspecIn case of the absence of any trustee, an inspector of election may be tors of appointed to fill his place, by the president of the village. The trustee Chairlast elected, or the person appointed to fill his place, shall be chairman man. of the board, and the two inspectors, with the president of the village, in case the inspectors shall not agree, shall appoint a clerk of such Clerk. election. They shall have the same powers and duties as belong to such officers at town elections. what time § 5. The polls shall be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and Polls, be kept open until four o'clock in the afternoon of the day appointed what for the election. The ballots received from the several electors shall be open. deposited in boxes provided for that purpose, and those indorsed "Ward" shall be kept separate and apart from those indorsed "Village," Ballots. but no ballot found in the right box shall be rejected for want of a proper indorsement. be certi meeting of §6. A statement of the result of the canvass shall be made and Result to certified by the inspectors of each ward, and deposited with the clerk ed of the village, on the same day of, or the next day after, the election. The clerk shall present such statements to the board of trustees at Next their next meeting, which shall be on the day succeeding the canvass. trustees. The board of trustees shall thereupon declare what persons have been Board of elected to office, and cause such persons and each of them to be notified trustees to of their election. All such persons shall hold their offices as herein- result. before provided and until others shall be elected and take the oath of office. declare oath. § 7. Every officer of this village, whether elected or appointed, shall, Official before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, take and file with the clerk of the village the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution. bonds. §8. The treasurer, police justice, street commissioner and such other Official officers as may be required by the board of trustees shall, severally, before they or either of them enter upon the discharge of the duties of their respective offices, execute and file with the village clerk, a bond to the village of Seneca Falls (approved by the board of trustees), with two or more sureties (who shall each justify in the usual form to double the amount of the bond), in such sums as the board of trustees or a 1 |