tion assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, to be chief of staff; to each brigade an assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, to be chief of staff; and to each regiment an adjutant, with the rank of first lieutenant. Salaries, § 167. The staff of the Commander-in-Chief (except the Adjutantcompensa General, who shall be paid an annual salary of three thousand dollars expenses. and his necessary expenses), and the assistants in the several departments (except the assistant adjutant-general whose salary shall be fixed by the Commander-in-Chief at such sum as he may deem proper, and not to exceed thirty-five hundred dollars per annum), in lieu of all compensation and allowances heretofore provided by law, in time of peace, when upon actual duty under the provisions of this act, either at drills, parades, encampments, lake and sea coast defense duty, or otherwise, shall be paid such reasonable and just compensation, not exceeding the full pay and allowances of officers of the same rank in the army of the United States, as the Commander-in-Chief shall deem proper, and in no event to exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, together with their necessary expenses and those of their departments, to be paid by the State upon the certificate of the Commander-in-Chief, showing a detailed statement of such services and expenses. Regimenttalion tial. § 196. For the trial of non-commissioned officers, musicians and prial or bat- vates, the commandant of each brigade may, at any time, appoint a court mar- regimental or battalion court-martial for any regiment or battalion in his brigade, which court shall consist of the brigade judge advocate, except as provided in section one hundred and ninety-seven of this act. § 2. Section one hundred and ninety-seven of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "Which Vacancy. vacancy shall be filled by, or new court consist of, an officer of the brigade staff whose rank is not below that of a captain." No local assess pairing avenue, except, &c. Assess § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 387. AN ACT relating to certain assessment proceedings in the city of Brooklyn, and providing for payment of work done thereunder. Passed May 8, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No local assessment shall be laid or collected for repairing ant to be Atlantic avenue, between Flatbush avenue and Classon avenue, in the laid for re- city of Brooklyn, except for the work petitioned for by the majority of Atlantic the owners of property fronting on said avenue; and if any repairing assessment shall have been laid for other work than that so petitioned for before the passage of this act, then such assessment shall be and is hereby vacated and set aside and such assessment shall be relaid in such manner, only that the expense of the work petitioned for only shall be assessed. The cost of any such work done without such petiwork to be tion therefor shall be included in the general annual taxes of said city, included in such year or years as may be determined by the board authorized by law to determine the sums necessary to defray the expenses and liabilities of said city for the ensuing calendar year. No assess- § 2. No local assessment shall be laid for the expense of removing laid for re-watermains in said avenue, or engineering or inspecting expenses con ment vacated. Cost of certain in general tax. ment to be water nected therewith; and any amount included for such purposes in any moving local assessment heretofore laid shall be stricken out, and the amount mains,&c. of said local assessment, as so reduced only shall be levied and collected. The cost of said work of relaying water-pipes or mains, and for such Cost of reengineering and inspecting shall be included in the general annual laying wa taxes imposed upon the city at large, in the same manner as is provided &c., to be for expenses so to be included in the last section. ter pipes, included in tax. ments to stall §3. The assessments for repaving said avenue between the points Assess aforesaid shall be collected in five annual installments, with interest, be collectnamely: The first installment shall be payable upon the confirmation ed in inof said assessment; the second in one year thereafter; the third in two ments. years thereafter; the fourth in three years thereafter; and the fifth at the expiration of four years thereafter; with each installment after the Interest. first, interest to be collected upon the whole amount unpaid. And said Assess assessments, as so directed to be laid, are hereby confirmed, and shall ment be valid liens, and shall be laid and collected in the manner originally ed. provided by law, except as is herein otherwise provided. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 3-8. AN ACT to incorporate the South American Trading Company. Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and confirm. SECTION 1. William H. T. Hughes, Henry A. Blyth, George H. Corpora Brewer, Townsend Scudder, and such other persons as may hereafter tors. be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the South American Trading Com- Corporate pany, to be located in the city of New York, and such company shall possess and use all powers incidental to the transaction of the business, herein provided for. name. pany. §2. The business of the company hereby created shall be that of Business trading in and between the ports of the United States of America and of comthe various ports in South America, and for the purposes thereof the said company shall have power to buy, sell, consign and receive consign- Corporate ments of such goods, wares and merchandise as shall be needed by, or powers. used in, or as may be the product of, either the United States or the various countries in South America; and for the purpose of developing the trade between these countries, the said company is authorized to buy and own, sell, charter or take up such vessels as may be necessary in the transactions of their trade. 83. The capital stock of said corporation shall be five hundred thou- Capital sand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each. Said company may stock. organize and proceed to business under its charter when two hundred When and fifty thousand dollars of the amount of its capital shall have been company subscribed and paid in, in cash. may or ganize. 84. The corporate powers of said corporation shall be exercised by a Board of board of five directors, who shall elect from their number a president, directors. and shall make the by-laws of said company; and the persons above By-laws. named as corporators shall be directors for the first year after the com Annual of affairs. To be filed. pany is entitled to do business, and until others are appointed or elected, according to the by-laws adopted by said company. 5. The said corporation hereby created shall, within twenty days statement from the first of January in each and every year of its existence, make a statement of its affairs, showing the amount of its assets, and also the amount of its liabilities, which statement shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the city and county of New York within twenty days from Individual such first day of January, and unless so made and filed the stockholders liability of said company shall be individually liable for all the debts thereof. Term of § 6. The corporation formed by this act shall continue for the period existence. of thirty years, and be subject to all the provisions of title three, chapter eighteen, part first of the Revised Statutes. §7. This act shall take effect immediately. Corpor and pow ers. Chap. 389. AN ACT to amend and supplementary to an act to incorporate the New York Eye Infirmary, passed March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, and the act amendatory thereof, passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the New York Eye Infirmary, passed March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-two," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. Such persons as now are, or hereafter may become, members of ate name the said institution shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and appointed a body corporate and politic in fact and in name by the name of the "New York Eye and Ear Infirmary," and by that name they and their successors shall and may have possession, and shall be in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of action and actions, suits, matters, complaints and causes whatsoever, and that they and their successors may have and use a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure, and also they and their successors, by the name and style of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding and convey ing real and personal estate, for the purposes of the incorporation and none other, which at any time shall not exceed the annual income of fifty thousand dollars. classifica Board of § 2. The board of directors of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary directors, are hereby authorized so to classify the members thereof, by lot or tion of, &c. otherwise, that one-third of their number shall go out of office at each annual election; that after such classification the next election of directors shall be for persons to fill the places of those only whose term of office shall, by the aforesaid classification, then expire, and for the purposes of making such classification the number of directors may be increased to twenty-four. Addition § 3. In addition to the powers now possessed by the said infirmary it al powers. is hereby further authorized to treat and cure indigent persons afflicted with diseases of the throat. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 390. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the preservation of moose, wild deer, birds and fish," passed April twentysixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of the act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the preservation of moose, wild deer, birds and fish," passed April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: moose or certain killed at traps, &c. with §1. No person shall kill or chase any moose or wild deer in any part No person of the State save only during the months of September, October and to kill November in any year. No person shall sell, expose for sale, transport, deer, exor have in his or her possession in this State after the same has been cept in killed, any moose, wild deer or fresh venison, save only during the months. mouths of September, October, November, December and January. No Fawns not person shall, at any time, in this State, kill any fawn during the time to be when it is in its spotted coat, or have in his or her possession the carcass certain or fresh skin of such fawn after the same shall have been killed. No times, &c. person shall, in any part of this State, set any trap, spring gun or other Use of device at any artificial salt lick or other place, for the of trappurpose ping and killing any moose or deer. It shall not be lawful to pursue Pursuing deer with hounds in the county of Steuben. It shall not be lawful for hounds. any person to kill or cause to be killed any wild deer in the county of In county Suffolk, except from the first day of November until the fifteenth day of Suffolk. of November in each year. It shall not be lawful for any person, at any time, to kill or cause to be killed any wild deer while standing, walking, running, swimming or laying down in any of the waters, ponds or streams of the county of Suffolk. Any person offending against any of the preceding provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each moose or wild deer or fawn so killed or pursued or trapped, and for every spring gun so set, or moose or wild deer or fawn skin or fresh venison had in his or her possession, and may be proceeded against therefor in any county of the State in which the offender or prosecutor may reside. §2. Section two of the act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the preservation of moose, wild deer, birds and fish," passed April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: geese, 82. No person shall kill or expose for sale or have in his or her pos- wild session after the same has been killed, any wild duck, goose or brant, ducks, between the first day of May and the first day of September, nor any wood duck between the first day of January and the first day of September, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each one killed or had in possession. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. &c. If collector pay over moneys col renews his for collec Chap. 391. AN ACT extending the time for collecting taxes in the village of Whitney's Point, in the county of Broome. Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. If the collector of the village of Whitney's Point in the county of Broome, shall, within ten days after the passage of this act, pay to the proper officers all the moneys collected by him upon a tax lected and roll and warrant issued to him by the board of trustees of said village bond, time on the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, tion of tax and renew his bond to the satisfaction of said board, the time for the collection of said tax shall be extended to the first day of June next, and said tax so levied, and the balance of the sum to be so collected, is hereby declared to be legal and valid, but this act shall in no way affect any suit or legal proceeding commenced or now pending, for or against said incorporation. shall be extended. § 2. This act is to take effect immediately. Chap. 392. AN ACT to reappropriate moneys for construction of new work upon and extraordinary repairs of the canals of this State, and for payments of awards made by the Canal Appraisers. Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Re-appro SECTION 1. The unexpended balance of two million one hundred and priation of eighty thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars, appropriated by act money for construc- chapter seven hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred new work, and seventy, entitled "An act to authorize a tax of one mill per dollar of valuation of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, for construction nals. of new work upon and extraordinary repairs of the canals of this State," tion of &c., on the ca Eastern division. Middle di vision. passed May ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and reappropriated by act chapter five hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, passed May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, being the sum of two hundred and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and nine cents, or so much thereof as shall remain unexpended on the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, is hereby reappropriated to the same objects on the three divisions of the canals as at present constituted, namely: For new work and extraordinary repairs on the eastern division, the sum of seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-four cents. For new work and extraordinary repairs on the middle division, the sum of thirty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-six cents. |