Reimbursement. Coroner may employ surgeons. Fees as Taxes for labor a money tax. Chap. 535. AN ACT to amend chapter eight hundred and thirtythree of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to regulate the fees of coroners." Passed May 22, 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 thirteenth paragraph of section one, chapter eight hundred and thirty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventythree, entitled "An act to regulate the fees of coroners," is hereby amended by adding thereto the words, "as shall be allowed by the board of supervisors," so that said paragraph shall read as follows: "Shall be reimbursed for all moneys paid out, actually and necessarily, by him in the discharge of official duties as shall be allowed by the board of supervisors." § 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. A coroner shall have power, when necessary, to employ not more than two competent surgeons to make post-mortem examinations and dissections and to testify to the same, the compensation therefor to be a county charge. §3. Section three of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3. Whenever, in consequence of the performance of his official duties, a coroner becomes a witness in a criminal proceeding, he shall be entitled to receive mileage to and from his place of residence, ten cents per mile, and three dollars per day for each day, or fractional parts thereof, actually detained as such witness. Chap. 536. AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Weedsport, in the county of Cayuga. Passed May 22, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All highway labor assessed by the trustees of the village highway of Weedsport upon the inhabitants or property thereof, shall be assessed at one-half of one per cent. upon the last assessed valuation, or at a less sum as the trustees may direct, and all taxes for highway labor shall be a money tax, and collected by the collector of the village and paid Trustees to the treasurer of said village as soon as collected. The trustees of may con- said village shall, in addition to the powers they now possess, have authority to construct or cause to be constructed, all sewers, culverts and drains which, in their judgment, may be necessary for the proper Expenses drainage of said village, or any of the streets thereof, one-half of the expense of all such sewers, culverts and drains to be paid by such parties as the trustees may deem such sewers, culverts and drains to have benefited, and the other half to be paid out of the highway tax of said struct sewers, &c. thereof. commis consta pany may village. The poll-tax of said village shall be one dollar each, and Poll tax. shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes. The trustees of Street said village shall have authority to appoint one or more street commis- sioners sioners, and one or more police constables, and shall likewise have the and police power to fix the compensation of such street commissioners, but such bies. compensation shall not exceed two dollars per day. The fire company Fire com of said village, or a majority of the members thereof, are hereby empow-elect chief ered to elect a chief engineer and all the other officers of the fire com- engineer. pany of said village at a public meeting of said company, to be held at the engine house in the said village upon ten days' notice of such meeting being given either in a newspaper published in Weedsport, or by three written or printed notices posted in conspicuous places in said village. The trustees of said village are hereby required to give sideten days' notice to any owner or occupants in said village to repair his, her or their sidewalks, and twenty days' notice to build new ones. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 537. AN ACT to repeal an act passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for the drainage of the swamp, bog and other low and wet lands in the village of White Plains and adjacent thereto,' passed May second, eighteen hundred and seventy-one," so far as the same relates to that portion of the town of Greenburgh lying without the limits of the village of White Plains. Passed May 22, 1874. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: walks. SECTION 1. An act passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and Repeal. seventy-two, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for the drainage of the swamp, bog and other low and wet lands in the village of White Plains and adjacent thereto,' passed May second, eighteen hundred and seventy-one" is hereby repealed so far as the same relates to or renders liable to assessment or taxation all that portion of the town of Greenburgh lying without the limits of the village of White Plains; provided, however, that nothing in this act Proviso. contained shall affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court, nor any act or thing done prior to the passage hereof, or any contract heretofore made under and pursuant to the act hereby repeal. ed, or any liability of the town of Greenburgh or the taxable property thereof for assessment or taxation on account of work heretofore done or contracted to be done under said act, or for the payment of bonds issued or which may lawfully be required to be issued to pay for such work done or contracted to be done. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Office of sheriff, clerk and and of clerk of what hours to Chap. 538. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to to the keeping open of certain public offices in the county of Kings," passed June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Passed May 22, 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 first section of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1. The office of the sheriff, county clerk and register of the county of Kings, and the office of the clerk of the city court of Brooklyn, shall register, be closed on Saturdays at three o'clock P. M., and kept open every other day in the year from nine o'clock in the forenoon till four o'clock in city court, the afternoon, except Sundays, the first day of January, commonly called New Year's day, the twenty-second day of February, the thirbe open. tieth day of May, known as Decoration day, the fourth day of July, the twenty-fifth day of December, or any day appointed or recommended by the Governor of this State or the President of the United States as a day of fast or thanksgiving, the day for holding the general State election in each year, and also any day appointed for holding any special election in the county of Kings. Whenever any of the holidays mentioned in this act shall fall upon Sunday the Monday next following shall be deemed and considered a public holiday for all or any of the purposes aforesaid. Corporat ors. name. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 539. AN ACT to incorporate the State Council of the Order of Passed May 22, 1874. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The members of the State Council of the Order of United American Mechanics of the State of New York, and such other persons as may hereafter become members thereof, are hereby created a body Corporate politic and corporate, in deed and in case, by the name, style and title of the State Council of the Order of United American Mechanics of the Board of State of New York, to be composed of a board of incorporation as folincorpora- lows: A state councillor, state vice-councillor, state council secretary, state council treasurer, state council inductor, state council examiner and state council protector, who shall be annually elected at such time and in such manner and place as the constitution and by-laws provide. tion. Corporate powers. 2. The said corporation, by that name, shall have and enjoy perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law or elsewhere in this State, and shall be able and capable, in law and equity to take, purchase, hold and receive to them and their successors, for the use of said association, any lands, tenements, goods, chattels, sum or sums of money by grant, gift, bargain and sale, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, improve or dispose of for the use of the association, and in general, to do all things which may be lawful or necessary for the well-being and proper management of said corporation; provided, that the real estate of which the Proviso. said corporation shall at any time be possessed shall not exceed the clear annual value of twenty-five thousand dollars. nate coun 3. The said corporation shall have power to grant charters to sub- Charter to ordinate councils of the Order of United American Mechanics in the subordi. State of New York, according to the regulations, by-laws, rules and cils. constitution adapted to govern the same, or may be necessary for their government and promotion of the principles of the said association; provided, that no by-laws, rules or regulations as aforesaid shall be valid if inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. how long §4. The present officers of the said corporation, constituting the cor- Present porate board, shall continue in their respective stations until an election officers, shall be held under this act, and the constitution and by-laws now in to conforce shall be good and valid until altered, amended and abrogated by once." the said corporation. tinue in 5. The said State Council of the Order of United American Mechan- Corporate ics as incorporated shall have power to make and use a common and seal. corporate seal, and to alter, destroy and renew the same at pleasure, and to elect and appoint such officers of said association as said corpo- Officers, ration may think necessary; and they shall be elected at such time and place, and in such manner, as the rules and by-laws of said corporation may direct. election of, &c. 6. The objects of this association shall be such as set forth in their Objects. constitution, namely: First. To assist each other in obtaining employment. Second. To encourage each other in business. Third. To establish a sick and funeral fund. Fourth. To establish a fund for the relief of widows and orphans of deceased members. Fifth. To aid members who, through providence, may have become incapacitated from following their usual avocations in obtaining situations suitable to their condition. §7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 540. AN ACT to amend "An act to provide for supplying the village of Flushing, Queens county, with pure and wholesome water," passed February fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Passed May 22, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: row addi SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Flushing shall have power Trustees to borrow from time to time for the purposes of "An act to provide for may bodi supplying the village of Flushing, Queens county, with pure and whole- tional sum some water," passed February fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy of money. two, upon the credit of the village of Flushing, a sum not exceeding in the whole seventy-five thousand dollars in addition to the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars authorized to be borrowed by the fifth section of said act, and upon such terms of credit, of not less than ten nor more than thirty years, as shall seem best for the interests of the village, and at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum; and to secure said additional loan said trustees are authorized to issue bonds of said village, signed by the president and clerk, and sealed with the seal thereof, which bonds shall be made of such amounts respectively as said trustees shall think expedient, Not to be and shall not be sold for less than par, and the money so borrowed on sold at less said bonds shall be appropriated by said trustees to the purpose expressed in said act and to no other purpose whatever. Rate of interest. Bonds. than par. at special Ballots. Approval 2. The said trustees shall take no steps in pursuance of the proviof voters sions of this act, until the same shall be approved by a majority of meeting. Voters of said village, voting at a special or annual village election, to be called and held by said trustees as provided in the charter of said village, after giving at least ten days' notice of such meeting, by posting the same in at least six public and conspicuous places in the said village, and by publication of such notice in all the newspapers of said village of Flushing once in each week for two weeks. The said election shall be conducted in all other respects as now provided by law for elections in said village. The ballots shall contain the words "In favor of seventy-five thousand dollars additional for water," or "Opposed to seventy-five thousand dollars additional for water." If a majority of the ballots cast at such election shall contain the words, "In favor of seventy-five thousand dollars additional for water," the approval aforeCertificate said shall be considered as given. A certificate of the result of such of result. election shall be filed by said trustees in the office of the county clerk of Queens county, within five days after such election shall be held. In case at the election so held the approval aforesaid shall not be obtained, it shall be lawful for the said trustees to call and hold subsequent elections within two years after the passage of this act, in all respects to be called and conducted as prescribed for said first election; but no succeeding election shall be held within six months of the time of holding a preceding election under this act. Subsequent election. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 541. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the location and erection of public buildings for the use of the city of Rochester," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Passed May 22, 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 ten of chapter two hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, being an act entitled "An act in relation to the location and erection of public buildings for the use of the city of Rochester," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 10. The whole amount to be expended by said commissioners under this act, shall not exceed three hundred and thirty-five thousand |