may allow ment to if no re of assess shall as pense; ex set, the trustees shall cause notice to be published in one or more of the village newspapers that such application has been made and of a time not less than ten days from the date of the publication of said notice when they will proceed to act on the prayer of said petition, and unless a remonstrance signed by a majority Trustees of the persons who will be assessed for the expense thereof shall improvebe presented to them on or before the day specified in said notice, be made, and if they shall deem the application proper, they may, on such monstrance. day specified in said notice, or as soon thereafter as may be, by a resolution, decide to allow such improveemnt* to be made and thereupon enter into a contract for the doing of the said work required for such improvement. Before giving notice of the District pendency of such application the trustees shall fix the limit or ment. district of assessment beyond which the assessment for the doing of said work mentioned in said petition shall not extend, and the description of such limit or district of assessment shall be inserted in and form a part of the notice above provided for. The Trustees trustees shall then ascertain and determine the expense of the certain said work including the costs, charges, and fees of attorneys, report. surveyors, superintendents, printing, inspectors and other proper and incidental expenses, and shall make a report in writing of the same, and the amount so ascertained by said board of trustees shall be assessed and apportioned by the said board of trus- Assesstees against the owners of property abutting on the street, avenue or highway in front of whose property it is proposed to set curb and gutter stones and lay sidewalks, in the proportion that the number of feet owned by each abutting property owner bears to the whole number of feet on both sides of the street, avenue or highway or the part or portion thereof referred to in such petition. The said trustees shall then cause a notice to be published Publicain one or more newspapers published in the said village once a notice. week for two successive weeks that they have made the assessment of the expense to be paid by the abutting or adjoining owners of the several parcels affected by the assessment or improvement, and that they have completed and deposited their report of said assessment with the clerk of the village, where the same may be seen and examined, and that they will meet at a time and place to be specified in said notice, not less than ten days from the first publication, to review their said report, and that at such time and place all parties interested can be heard. So in original. ment. tion of to assess ment to be made Objections All objections to said assessment shall be made in writing and shall be left with said trustees; the trustees shall then hear, conin writing. sider and determine all objections, and review, and if necessary, correct said report, and then confirm the same, and assess the Report of amount against the several parcels affected, and file their report, where filed. With all objections thereto, with the village clerk, and said Lien of as- assessment on such confirmation shall be a just and valid lien trustees. sessment. Trustees may cause sidewalks to be laid, etc., in streets opened. Expense how assessed. L. 1883, ch. 117, upon the said several parcels of land therein designated, and shall be collected and enforced as other assessments are enforced and collected in said village; as provided in the said charter of the said village. Whenever any street, avenue or highway shall be opened, widened, straightened or extended, as provided for in the charter of the village of Port Chester, the trustees may at the same time cause sidewalks to be laid and curb and gutter stones set on both sides of said street, avenue or highway or the part or portion thereof which may have been opened, widened or extended, and the expense of laying such sidewalks and setting such curb and gutter stones may and shall be assessed by the said board of trustees or by commissioners as the case may be, as a part of the expense of opening, widening, straightening or extending such street, avenue or highway; but the whole expense of laying such sidewalks and of setting such curb and gutter stones shall in all cases be borne by the owners of property abutting on such street, avenue or highway, on the part or portion thereof so improved as provided herein. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 7. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act to amend, consolidate and revise the charter of the village of Peekskill, and the several acts amendatory thereof," in relation to the boundaries of such village. Became a law February 18, 1915, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, 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 title one of chapter one hundred tit. 1, §1; and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as amended ch. 677, ch. 329, entitled "An act to amend, consolidate and revise the charter of by L. 1895, the village of Peekskill, and the several acts amendatory thereof," and L. 1906, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventy-seven of the laws amended. of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and chapter three hundred and twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended to read as follows: of village. § 1. All that part of the town of Cortlandt, in the county of Boundaries Westchester, embraced within the following bounds, that is to say: Beginning at the middle of the Hudson river, at a point due west of the intersection of the high-water mark of the Hudson river and the east line of Hudson avenue as laid down on a map of Verplancks, New York, made by Cyrus Latham, civil engineer, dated June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; thence running due east to the high-water mark of the Hudson river at the above mentioned intersection; thence easterly along high-water mark of the Hudson river and the southerly and westerly side of Dickey brook or creek to a point where the south line of Welcher avenue, extended, intersects the aforesaid brook or creek; thence easterly along the south line of Welcher avenue, extended, to the west exterior line of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company's right of way; thence southerly along the west exterior line of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company's right of way, to a point, said point being on a line at right angles to the monumented center line from the stone marked P. C., at station 211+091.68; thence easterly to a point where the easterly line of Albany post road intersects the northwesterly line of Reynolds lane; thence southeasterly along said Reynolds lane' to the center of Dickey brook; thence easterly and northerly along the center of said brook till it intersects the land of Willett Cornell; thence along said Cornell land and land of Mount Florence estate to land late of B. Kittridge; thence northerly along the east line of said Kittridge land and land of William McCord to the south line of Crompond road; thence easterly to a point opposite the Dayton lane; thence northerly along the center of said lane to McGregory brook; thence easterly along the center of said brook to the mouth of a small brook on the premises of Julia Nichols; thence northerly along said brook to Main street; thence due north (magnetic meridian) one thou 1 Words "the west exterior line of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company's right of way; thence thence southeasterly along said Reynolds lane," substituted for words a bend in said avenue; thence still easterly along the south line of Welcher avenue and the extension thereof," Corporate name and powers. L. 1899, ch. 517, sand feet; thence to a rock on reservoir property marked B. M. X.; thence westerly to a monument set in the center of Hillside avenue just north of milk spring of Van Cortlandt estate; thence along line between land of W. D. Southard and King and Lynch to the creek; thence along the southerly side of creek to the west side of Annsville road; thence northerly along the west side of said road to the north shore of said creek; thence westerly in part along the north shore of said creek to the south exterior line of the wood dock; thence westerly along the shore of said creek at low-water mark to the lands of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company; thence in a due west line to the center of the Hudson river; thence southerly to the place of beginning. And the inhabitants residing therein are hereby constituted and declared a municipal corporation by the name of "the village of Peekskill," and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession; and said corporation is hereby declared to be vested with and in possession of all the estate, real and personal, rights, privileges and immunities which, at the time of passing this act, appertain and belong to said village of Peekskill. Said village shall be capable of suing and being sued, complaining and defending in any court, make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and to purchase, rent, take, hold, lease and convey such real and personal estate as the purposes of said village may require. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 8. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to authorize the paving or macadamizing of streets, avenues, highways and public places in the village of Port Chester, Westchester county, and to provide for the payment of the expense of the same," with respect to re-paving or re-macadamizing any such street, avenue, highway or public place. Became a law February 18, 1915, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Sections one and two of chapter five hundred and §§ 1, 2 seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, en amended. titled "An act to authorize the paving or macadamizing of streets, avenues, highways and public places in the village of Port Chester, Westchester county, and to provide for the payment of the expense of the same," are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: etc., au 1. The trustees of the village of Port Chester, in the county Paving, of Westchester are hereby authorized and empowered to pave or thorized. re-pave or1 macadamize or re-macadamize2 any street, avenue, highway or public place in said village or any part or section thereof, including cross or intersecting streets, and to change or alter the grade of such streets, avenues, highways or public places and change and alter the lines of sidewalks; build or re-build3 culverts, bridges, manholes or outlets for surface drainage, direct curb and gutter stones to be set or re-set, as said trustees may determine to be necessary for properly paving or re-paving or macadamizing or re-macadamizing said streets, avenues, highways and public places, or any part or section thereof, and the expense of changing Certain the grade of said streets, avenues, highways, public places and building any culverts, bridges, or manholes and changing and altering the lines of any sidewalks and of laying curb or gutter stones or sidewalks shall be part of the cost of such paving or re-paving or macadamizing or re-macadamizing. expenses part of cost. tion of § 2. When the trustees of said village shall determine, by reso- Determinalution, to pave or re-pave or macadamize or re-macadamize2 any trustees. street, avenue, highway or public place in said village, and such other work mentioned in the preceding section, they shall also de termine by a majority vote of all the trustees, to be taken by recording the ayes and noes, that the same shall be done wholly at the expense of the village, or of the owners of the abutting or adjoining lands, or partly at the expense of each; and in case said trustees shall determine that said work shall be done, partly at the expense of the village, and partly at the expense of the owners of the abutting or adjoining lands, they shall fix the part or proportionate part to be paid by each, and the expense and cost of the part imposed on the village at large, shall be paid by an issue of the bonds of said village as hereinafter mentioned, and the Apportion ment and |