in the last preceding section, according to the order of the Supreme Chap. 74. AN ACT to authorize the city of Elmira to purchase lands for cemetery purposes, and to issue the bonds of the city in payment thereof, Passed March 23, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: City may SECTION 1. The city of Elmira is hereby authorized and empowered purchase to purchase for cemetery purposes, of Charles Heller, certain lands cemetery. adjoining Woodlawn cemetery, and not exceeding in amount forty lands for Common council may issue bonds. Form of bonds and when pay. able. Collector to renew acres. § 2. The common council of said city of Elmira is hereby authorized and empowered to cause the bonds of said city to be duly issued to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars for each acre purchased as herein above provided, the same to be known as cemetery bonds, for the sole purpose of paying the purchase price of the land aforesaid. § 3. Such bonds shall be in such form and payable in such amounts and at such times as the common council of said city of Elmira may direct, and upon annual interest, provided such bonds shall not be sold or disposed of by said common council for less than their par value. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 75. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the counties of Livingston and Richmond. Passed March 24, 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 taxes in any town in the counties of his bond Livingston and Richmond shall within ten days after the passage of within ten this act renew his bond, or give new bonds with sufficient sureties to the days. satisfaction of the supervisor of the town in a penalty at least double the amount remaining uncollected under his warrant, such approval to Collector be in writing, and upon or attached to said bond, and shall within the same time pay over to the treasurer of the said counties of Livingston neys to and Richmond, respectively, all moneys that shall have been collected treasurer. by said collector and not heretofore paid over, the time for the collection Time for of taxes in said town and for making return thereof shall be extended collection until the first day of May next. to pay over mo county extended, § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 76. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize corporations to change their names,' passed April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy. Passed March 24, 1874. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of "An act to authorize corporations to change their names," passed April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: change § 1. Any incorporation, incorporated company, society or association, Corporaorganized under the laws of this State, excepting banks, banking asso- tions may ciations, trust companies, life, health, accident, marine and fire insurance their companies and railroad companies, may apply at any special term of names. the Supreme Court sitting in the county in which shall be situated its chief business office, for an order to authorize it to assume another corporate name. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 77. AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the town of Plainfield, in the county of Otsego, appointed under and by virtue of chapter three hundred and sixty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to issue bonds, and with the proceeds thereof to pay the bonds heretofore issued by said town under and by virtue of said act, and now due. Passed March 24, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : may money. SECTION 1. The commissioners of the town of Plainfield, in the Commiscounty of Otsego, appointed under and by virtue of chapter three sioners hundred and sixty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, borrow. are hereby authorized and it shall be lawful for them to borrow, on the faith and credit of their said town, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars for a term not extending beyond the time when the bonds issued under said act were thereby limited, at a rate of interest Rate of not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, and to execute bonds therefor interest. under their hands and seals. The bonds so to be executed may be in May issue such sums, and payable at such places and at such times, not exceeding bonds. the time herein before limited, and in such form as the said commissioners and their successors may deem expedient. bonds, § 2. The said commissioners may, in their discretion, dispose of such May sell bonds or any part thereof to such persons or corporations, and upon but not at such terms as they shall deem most advantageous for their said town, a rate bebut for not less than par; and the money that shall be raised by the sale of said bonds shall by the said commissioners be applied to the low par. Bonds, how gov erned. payment of the bonds of said town, in the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, heretofore issued under and by virtue of said chapter three hundred and sixty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which became due and payable on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. §3. The bonds so issued shall in all respects be treated and regarded as though originally issued under said act, and shall be governed in all Duties of respects by the provisions of said act and the amendments thereto, and sioners in the duties of the commissioners of said town in respect thereto shall be the same in all respects as provided by said act, and the acts amendatory thereof. commis respect thereto. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 78. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and ninety-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act for the incorporation of villages." Passed March 25, 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 twenty-second and twenty-fifth subdivisions of section one, title three of the act entitled "An act for the incorporation of villages," passed April twentieth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Powers of 22. To restrain and prevent hawking and peddling in the streets; to defined regulate, restrain or prohibit sales by auction, and grant licenses to auctioneers; to regulate the use and running of all hacks, public carriages or vehicles for the conveyance of passengers, baggage or movables of any kind, for hire; to designate their places of waiting and to grant licenses to the owners or proprietors thereof. trustees Trustees, ers to repair roads, build ment of &c. Assessment of expenses. 25. To keep the roads, avenues, streets, lanes, public buildings and their pow public places of the village in good order and repair and condition; to construct culverts and drains; to make and repair all bridges which may be necessary within the bounds of the village; to regulate and ings, &c. prescribe the width, line and grade of streets, avenues, lanes and sideImprove walks; to pave, plank or flag roads, crosswalk or sidewalks; lay out and roads, open new roads and streets; to widen, alter and change the grade or avenues, otherwise improve roads, avenues, streets, lanes and sidewalks; to drain stagnant waters, and to raise or fill up low grounds, if nuisance, and assess the expense thereof upon the property benefited, in proportion to the amount of such benefit, and to regulate the water-courses, ponds and watering places in the village; to cause all necessary sewers to be built, and assess the expense thereof upon the property benefited in proportion to the amount of such benefit. The amount of the benefit in any case where the same is made the basis of assessment under this Proviso.. section, shall be determined by the president and trustees; provided, however, that no property beyond the limit of one hundred and seventyfive feet from the line terminus of any such sewer shall be liable to assessment for the expense of building the same; and provided, also, that no sewer shall be constructed under the provisions hereof, except upon a written petition signed by a majority of the persons whose property shall be liable to assessment for the said expense. All assess ments for ments for the drainage of stagnant waters, the raising or filling up of Assess low grounds, or the building of sewers under the provisions of this sec- drainage, tion, shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as assessments &c., how for the annual village tax. §2. Subdivision thirteen of section three of said chapter is hereby amended so as to read as follows: enforced. trustees. 13. To construct and maintain reservoirs and cisterns, and supply Further them with water for use at fires; to protect and preserve property at powers of fires; to establish fire limits, within the corporate bounds, by resolution of the board of trustees, describing the same by metes and boundaries, which resolution shall be filed in the office of the village clerk, and be posted in three public places within the corporate bounds, to prevent fires and provide for their extinguishment. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 79. AN ACT to legalize and confirm the proceedings of the annual town meeting of the town of Huntington, Suffolk county, held April first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, authorizing the supervisor of said town to offer a certain reward, and to provide for the payment of the same. Passed March 25, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: reward SECTION 1. The proceedings of the annual town meeting held in the offer of town of Huntington, Suffolk county, on the first day of April, one legalized. thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, whereby the supervisor of said town was authorized to offer a reward for the recovery of the body of Charles G. Kelsey, in behalf of the town of Huntington, and the subsequent reward offered by said supervisor for such recovery, are hereby legalized and confirmed. And the board of supervisors of the Amount said county of Suffolk is hereby authorized and directed, at its next sessed annual session, to cause to be raised upon the taxable property of the upon the said town of Huntington, in the same manner as other town charges Huntingare raised, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars for the paying the said reward, as advertised by the supervisor of said town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 80. to be as town of purpose of ton. AN ACT to authorize a tax for fire purposes in the village of Greene, Chenango county. Passed March 25, 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 trustees of the village of Greene, Chenango county, are hereby empowered to levy a tax of five hundred dollars, for the year Board of education amount. Amonnt 80 certi eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in addition to the amount now authorized by law to be raised, to be applied for the payment of present indebtedness and to purchase hose and other apparatus for said village. Said tax shall be assessed and collected as other village taxes are levied and collected, upon the taxable property of said village, and applied only to the purposes herein specified. 82. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 81. AN ACT to authorize the board of education of the city of Ogdensburgh to borrow money for school purposes. Passed March 25, 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 board of education of the city of Ogdensburgh is hereby authorized to borrow, on the credit of the said board, the sum of three thousand dollars. § 2. The money so borrowed shall be deposited with the treasurer of the said board of education, to the credit of the teachers' fund. § 3. The said board of education, on or before the first day of May, to certify eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall certify to the common council of the city of Ogdensburgh the sum of money necessary to be raised for the purpose of paying the said loan and the legal interest thereon; and the said common council, in addition to others* moneys raised in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for school purposes, on the taxable property and corporations in the school district under the charge of the said board of education, shall assess and collect the amount so certified, and the same, when collected, shall be paid to the treasurer of said board, and be by him applied in payment of the said loan and interest. fied to be assessed by com mon council. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 82. AN ACT to repeal chapter five hundred and eighty-eight, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, “An act to establish a commission in and for the city and county of New York, to be known and designated as the commission of charitable correction, and to define its powers and jurisdiction," passed May twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Passed March 25, 1874; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter five hundred and eighty-eight, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, "An act to establish in and for the city and So in original. |