Aldermen, number of elect ing. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York," passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Passed May 21, 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 four of chapter three hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 4. The board of aldermen now in office shall hold office until the first Monday in January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventyand mode five, the same being the term for which they were elected. There shall be twenty-two aldermen elected at the general State election which shall occur in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, three of whom shall be elected in each Senate district, except the eighth Senate district, and shall be residents of the district in which they are elected, but no voter shall vote for more than two of said aldermen. In the territory comprised within the eighth Senate district, and the twentythird and twenty-fourth wards, there shall be elected four aldermen, and the aldermen to be elected in said district may reside either in said eighth Senate district or in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards, but no yoter shall vote for more than three of said aldermen. There Aldermen shall also be elected six aldermen at large to be voted for on a sepaat large. rate ballot, but no voter shall vote for more than four of the said aldermen at large, and the voters of the twenty-third and twentyfourth wards of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to vote Term of for aldermen at large. The members of the board of aldermen shall hold office for the space of one year, and shall take office on the first Monday in January, next succeeding their election, at noon. Annually thereafter, at the general State election, there shall be elected a full Vacancy, board of aldermen as hereinbefore provided. Any vacancy now existhow fill- ing or which may hereafter occur in either the board of aldermen by reason of the death or resignation, or of any other cause, of a member of either of said boards, shall be filled by election by the board in which such vacancy exists or shall arise, by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to said board; and the person so elected to fill any such vacancy shall serve until the first day of January, at noon, next succeeding the first general election occurring not less than thirty days after the happening of such vacancy, but not beyond the expiration of the term in which the vacancy shall occur; and at such election a person shall be elected to serve the remainder, if any, of such unexCommon pired term. From and after the termination of the term of office of the board of assistant aldermen as herein provided, the board of aldermen shall alone constitute the common council and shall exercise the entire legislative powers of the said city. office. ed. council, how constituted. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. So in original. Chap. 516. AN ACT to authorize the construction of a road from the road owned by the State near Chazy lake to Chateaugay lake. Passed May 21, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : locate road, SECTION 1. The commissioners hereinafter named shall, upon giving Commisthe security herein provided, proceed to locate a direct and suitable sioners to route for a highway, from the plank-road of the State at Chazy lake to route of some point upon Chateaugay lake, and cause a map and survey of such make road to be made, which map shall designate what lots, pieces or parcels map, &c. of land lie within three miles on either side of said road, and shall deposit a copy of such map in the office of the Comptroller of this State. Upon making and filing such map, and the approval thereof by such ConstrucComptroller, said commissioners shall proceed to construct such road, tion of and shall determine what kind of a highway shall be built, and if they shall deem it best, may let said road to be built by contract. tax. § 2. There shall be imposed by the Comptroller a specific tax per Specific acre, on each and every acre of land lying situated upon each side of said road, as follows: Within a distance of one mile from said road, fifty cents per each and every acre of said land; within the distance exceeding one mile and less than two miles, twenty-five cents per each and every acre of land; within a distance exceeding two miles and less than three miles, fifteen cents for each and every acre of land. Such specific How tax shall be assessed, levied and collected in the usual manner pre- and col scribed by law for raising State taxes, and shall be paid into the State lected. treasury by the county treasurer of Clinton county, for the special purpose of reimbursing the moneys expended under section one of this act. levied 3. The State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, CommisJohn H. Moffit, of Saranac, Clinton county, New York, and Charles sioners. Richardson, of Plattsburgh, New York, are hereby appointed commissioners to construct said road, and said commissioners, with the excep- Official tion of such State Engineer and Surveyor, shall severally give bonds bond. with satisfactory security to the Comptroller, in the sum of three thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of their duties under this act, before entering upon the discharge thereof. The Comptroller shall fill vacanall vacancies in the office of said commissioners, and any commissioner cies, how who shall neglect to qualify within ninety days after the passage of this act shall be deemed to have refused to serve. Said commissioners shall compenbe paid, out of the moneys received under this act, two dollars per day for each day's service actually and necessarily performed and their necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties under this act, and they shall report annually to the Comptroller under oath the Annual amount of all their receipts and expenditures. filled. sation. report. ler may 4. The Comptroller may in his discretion loan and advance to said Comptrolcommissioners such sum or sums, from time to time, as may have been advance expended by such commissioners, not exceeding, however, in the aggre- money. gate, the estimate of taxes hereby in this act authorized and imposed, and such taxes so imposed shall be strictly applied to the refunding of said loan or advance. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Water supply, common council may raise money for. bonds. Chap. 517. AN ACT to authorize the city of Buffalo to issue its bonds for the purpose of perfecting the extended system of water supply to the city and its inhabitants. Passed May 21, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the common council of the city of Buffalo, to raise an amount not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, which shall be used exclusively for the purpose of perfecting the extended system of water supply. And for such purMay issue poses it shall be lawful for the common council of said city, by a vote of two-thirds of the members thereof, from time to time to authorize the issue of the bonds of the said city to an amount not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, in addition to the amount now authorized by law to be issued, bearing interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, the interest to be paid semi-annually in the city When and of New York, and the principal at the same place; said bonds to be due and payable in not less than twenty years nor more than fifty years from their date. Said bonds to be sold at not less than their par value. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Rate of interest. where payable. Repeal. Chap. 518. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to incorporate Passed May 21, 1874; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to incorporate The Buffalo and Hamburgh Turnpike Company," passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and all acts in addition thereto and amendatory thereof are hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 519. AN ACT authorizing the trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. James, of Guilderland, to grant and convey a portion of their real estate for cemetery purposes. Passed May 21, 1874.* The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ance an SECTION 1. The trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Convey-) James, of the town of Guilderland, in the county of Albany, are hereby thorized. authorized and empowered to give, grant and convey to the trustees of the Fairview cemetery of said town of Guilderland, a plot of ground of not more than ten acres, from their church farm, to be designated by the trustees of said church, and to be used as and for a cemetery. But such gift, grant and conveyance shall be at all times subject to the Condiright of the said church to inter their poor parishioners in said plot of ground without charge by such cemetery association therefor; and shall be subject further to the condition that the property so conveyed to the said cemetery association shall forthwith revert to and become the property of said church, whenever the same shall cease to be used and appropriated by such association for cemetery purposes. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 520. AN ACT to incorporate "The Association of the Alumni of Columbia College." Passed May 21, 1874. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 66 tions. SECTION 1. Henry Drisler, Frederic De Peyster, J. Howard Van Corporat Amringe, Charles R. Swords, Henry James Anderson, William Mitchell, ors. George P. Quackenbos, Charles A. Silliman, William H. Butterworth, Joseph B. Lawrence, Henry R. Beeckman, William Bayard Cutting, James McNamee, James M. Brady, Seth Low and Stuyvesant Fish, at present forming the officers and standing committee of " The Association of the Alumni of Columbia College" together with such other persons as appear to be members of that association on the books of the treasurer of the same, and not to be in arrears more than two years for dues, and also with such other persons as shall hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created in such manner and upon such terms as shall be prescribed in the constitution or by-laws of such corporation, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic in fact and in name, by the name of " The Association of the Alumni of Colum- Corporate bia College" for the purposes mentioned in this act; and by that name they and their successors, and associates shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, and of receiving, *Certified by the presiding officer of the Assembly as having passed the Assembly, "threeAfths being present." name. Limitation of income. Objects. ships. purchasing, holding, conveying, leasing, mortgaging or otherwise disposing of any real and personal estate for the use and benefit of said corporation, which estate shall not exceed the net annual income of twenty thousand dollars. 2. The object of this corporation shall be to perpetuate the friendships and relations arising during the course of study in Columbia college, to promote the true interests, influence and efficiency of Columbia college as an institution of sound learning and practical education; Lecture and with these objects to establish lectureships, to have meetings of the members of said corporation for social and literary purposes and for the management of its business, to appoint from time to time (if the trustees of Columbia college shall consent thereto, and with such restricTrustees. tions, if any, as said trustees shall prescribe) such number of trustees of said college, as said college may, by general rules, or from time to time authorize said corporation, hereby constituted, to appoint. Consiituby-laws. 3. The said corporation, at one or more special meetings to be called tion and by its standing committee for that purpose, shall have power to frame its constitution and by-laws, with provisions therein for subsequent amendments of the same, provided the said constitution, by-laws and amendments be not inconsistent with the laws or Constitution of the United States or of this State, and that there be present at such special meetings at least thirty members. Officers. commit tee. Their powers. 4. The officers of said corporation shall be, until otherwise prescribed by their constitution, a president, vice-president, secretary and treas Standing urer, who, with twelve other members to be elected at a general or special meeting, shall be the standing committee of said corporation. 5. Such standing committee shall have such powers as shall be lawfully conferred on them by the constitution and by-laws of the corporaTerm of tion, and they and the said officers shall hold their offices for such time and in such manner as such constitution and by-laws shall prescribe. § 6. Such constitution and by-laws may declare what number of members shall constitute a quorum at meetings of the standing committee and provide for the manner of admitting and suspending and removing members and officers of the corporation. office. Constitu tion and by-laws. General rights. 7. The said corporation shall be subject to and have the rights concorporate ferred by the general provisions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, except that no Personal member of said corporation shall be liable for any debts or liabilities of the same unless on an agreement in writing to be subscribed by such member and expressly binding him. liability of members. May take 8. The said corporation hereby constituted may take real and perby devise sonal estate by will, but subject to the general provisions of the act relating to wills passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter three hundred and sixty. or bequest. associa tion to hold till successors are clected. Officers of 9. The several officers of said association existing at the time of the passage of this act shall hold their respective offices as officers of this corporation with the powers and duties prescribed by the constitution and by-laws of said association until their successors shall be elected or appointed. Further, all property, rights and interests of said associa Property tion shall by virtue of this act vest in and become the property of this tion. corporation. of associa Interest of 10. All interest of any member of said corporation in its property members shall terminate and vest in the corporation upon his ceasing to be a ty, when member thereof by death, resignation, expulsion or otherwise. in proper to termi nate. 11. The Legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act. 12. This act shall take effect immediately. |