430 Secretary of state to publish amend ment and form of ballot. Taxes to be liens on real estate. laws, or which may be designated by said board to publish the said certificate. § 4. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause the said. proposed amendment to the constitution, together with the form of the ballot as herein specified, to be published in the manner provided for the publication of the certificates of the result of canvass by section three thereof, at least twice prior to such election, but no neglect or failure to publish shall impair the validity of such election. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 344. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Poughkeepsie, and to consolidate with it other acts relating to said city," as amended by chapter seventy-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty. PASSED June 10, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eight of title five of chapter four hundred and ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Poughkeepsie, and to consolidate with it other acts relating to said city," as amended by chapter seventy-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 8. Every tax or assessment, for whatever purpose imposed or charged upon any real estate within the city, by virtue of any provision of this act, or for county or state taxes and assessments, shall be a lien upon the real estate so charged, respectively, for city taxes and assessments, from the date of the signing of the warrant for the collection thereof, and for county and state taxes and assessments from the date of the signing of the warrant for the collection thereof, for two years from the signing thereof, and if any tax or assessment, or any part thereof, for city or for county and state purposes, or for either city or county and state purposes, shall be returned as unpaid by any Sale to be officer authorized to collect the same, the common council of said city shall direct the city attorney to advertise and sell such real estate in the manner hereinafter provided. The attorney conducting such ney's fees sales shall not be entitled to have or demand any fee or fees for the performance thereof, and the remedy and proceedings herein provided to enforce the collection of such city and county and state taxes shall apply to and may be used and pursued for the collection of all taxes and assessments, either for city or for county and state purposes, now due and owing from any source for city and also for county and state purposes. adver tised. No attor allowed, Order of sale to be §2. Section nine of title five of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 9. Before any such sale an order shall be made by the common made and council, which shall be entered at large in the records of the city, designating and directing the attorney to sell, and particularly describ entered. described. ing the premises to be sold, and the owner or agent thereof, so far as the same is known, to the common council, and also the street number, if any, of such premises, and the assessment or taxes for which the sale is to be made, a copy of which order shall be delivered to the officer so designated, who shall forthwith advertise the sale of said premises in the manner and for the time required in the case of sales of real estate on execution, and the sale shall be conducted in the same manner, except as herein provided. The property may be described in Property. such advertisement by naming the person to whom such property is how to be assessed and the street and number thereof, if any, and shall also designate a place within said city where a particular description of the property may be found. The expense of advertising shall in no case Expense. exceed the sum of two dollars for each parcel ordered sold. The pro- Redempceedings may be stopped at any time before sale by any person by paying the said officer the amount of the tax or assessment, with the interest allowed thereon by this act, and the expense of advertising. All sales in such cases shall be made for the shortest period for which any person will take the premises and pay the amount of the tax or assessment, interest and expenses. Two certificates of the sale of each par- Certificate cel of land so sold shall be made by said officer, one of which shall be of sale. delivered to the purchaser, and the other filed in the city chamberlain's office; such certificate shall contain a description of the property and the term for which it was sold, and state the particular tax or assessment, and the amount of the tax or assessment, interest and expenses for which the sale was made, and the time at which the right to redeem will expire. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 345. AN ACT for the appointment of commissioners to inquire and report as to the condition of the Onondaga Indians, and to negotiate with them a treaty and report the same to the legislature. PASSED June 10, 1882. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion. sioners. SECTION 1. That Charles N. Sims, John F. Seymour and Edward CommisB. Judson are hereby appointed commissioners, without compensation, to inquire and report to the legislature of this state, at its next session, as follows: contain. 1. Whether the present moral and social condition, usages, cus- What their toms and practices of the Onondaga Indians, resident upon the Onon-report to daga reservation, in Onondaga county, in this state, are compatible with the preservation and promotion of public order and virtue, both among the said Indians and the surrounding white population; and 2. Whether or how far the alleged public indecencies and immoralities among some portions of said Indians are attributable to the traditional system of tribal government now in existence among them; and 3. Whether the existing treaty obligations between the state of New York and said Indians have not been broken and annulled by said Indians; and Commissioners tiate new treaty. 4. Whether the altered relations between the parties to said treaty, and the altered circumstances since the making thereof, justify or require a modification of said treaty or the making of a new treaty; and 5. Whether the interposition of state authority is not required to prevent wrongs and to enforce rights between individuals and between parties within the tribe of said Indians; and 6. Whether there is good reason to expect that education, morality, progress and civilization would be stimulated and promoted among said Indians by an equitable division, or severalty, of the lands now held in common among them, and what, if any, legislation is proper and necessary to that end, under any new treaty which said commissioners may, by virtue of this act, negotiate and make with said Indians, and report to the legislature of this state. § 2. In addition to the duties and powers herein before imposed upon aynego- and given to said commissioners, they, the said commissioners, are hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate and make a new treaty with the said Onondaga Indians, if, upon and during their said inquiry, they shall deem such new treaty proper and necessary, and to report the same, together with their report under section one of this act, to the legislature of this state at its next session. Not to be binding until ratified by legislature. May take testimony. Name changed. Trustees. § 3. Such treaty so negotiated and made shall not be binding upon the state of New York unless and until the same is ratified by the leg islature of this state. §4. Said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to take the testimony, under oath, of Onondaga Indians and of white persons resident in Onondaga county, upon any and all of the subjects of inquiry herein before submitted to them, and to administer oaths for that purpose, and may compel the attendance of witnesses by due process of law. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 346. AN ACT to change the name of the religious corporation and society known as "The First Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego, East Charge," in the city of Oswego, to "The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego," and to legalize the acts of said corporation, society and church, and to ratify and confirm the legacies, devisee* and gifts thereto. PASSED June 10, 1882. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the religious corporation and society on the east side of the Oswego river in the city of Oswego, known as "The First Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego, East Charge," and sometimes known as The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego, East Charge, and commonly known as the East Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego, is hereby changed to and made "The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego." § 2. The existing trustees of said corporation and society, namely: So in original. legacies Alexander Cropsey, Marcus F. Carpenter, Thomas E. Faulkner, C. H. Woodruff, John Phillips, T. H. Butler, J. H. Bishop, Foster, Simpson and S. M. Coon are hereby confirmed and constituted the trustees of the said "The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego," until their successors in office shall be duly elected. All pur- Purchases, chases and sales of real estate heretofore made by said corporation, sales and society or church, by either of the names or appellations mentioned confirmed. in section one of this act, are hereby confirmed and legalized, and the title to the property of said corporation, society or church is hereby confirmed and vested in the said "The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego." And all legacies, devises or gifts heretofore or hereafter bequeathed, made or given to said corporation, society or church, by whatever name said corporation, society or church may have been or may be designated, are hereby confirmed and legalized in and to the said The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego, and the title thereto is hereby and shall be vested in the said The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Oswego. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 347. AN ACT to improve the condition of the streets and avenues of the city of Brooklyn. PASSED June 15, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: author pend streets. of mayor. SECTION 1. The commissioner of the department of city works of Commisthe city of Brooklyn hereby is authorized and empowered to expend sioner the sum of two hundred thousand dollars in improving the condi- ized to extion of the streets and avenues of the city of Brooklyn by causing re- $200,000 pairs to be made thereon, or by repaving any streets or avenues, or by improving repaving portions thereof with granite-block pavement, or partially with granite blocks and partially with cobble stones; provided Proviso as however, that no street or avenue, or any portion thereof, shall be to consent repaved with such granite-blocks or granite blocks and cobble stones unless the said commissioners shall first have obtained the consent of the mayor of the city aforesaid to such improvement; and it is further provided that no such improvement shall As to conbe made on any street or avenue over which a railroad is operated un- tribution less the owners of the franchise of such railroad shall first contribute roads. a just and reasonable proportion of the expense of such repaving, which proportionate expense shall be determined by the commissioner of the department of city works. by rail by con tract. § 2. All repaving shall be done by contract, after proposals have Repairing been advertised for in the corporation papers for ten days, and the to be done contract awarded to the lowest bidder, as now by law provided. §3. To meet the cost of the repairs, regrading and repaving to be Certifidone under the provisions of this act, certificates of indebtedness of cates of the city of Brooklyn shall be issued by the mayor, comptroller and ness to city clerk of the said city, from time to time, as may be required by meet cost. the commissioner of the department of city works, to the amount of not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, bearing in indebted issue to Tax levy. Owners of discharge taxes by paying sixty per centum terest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, and such certificates shall be so issued that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars thereof may be redeemed in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and that one-fourth of the balance of the issue of the certificates shall be redeemed in each of the four following years; and the comptroller of said city shall sell said certificates, and place the proceeds of such sales in the city treasury, to the credit of an account to be opened upon the books of his department, under the designation. of "repairs, regrading and repaving of streets." § 4. There shall be levied and collected in the tax-levy of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in and for the city of Brooklyn, upon all the estates and taxable property therein, a sum sufficient to meet one hundred thousand dollars of the amount of the aforesaid certificate on their maturity with the interest thereon, and a sum of money sufficient to redeem the remaining issue of said certificate on maturity with interest thereon shall be placed annually in each of the succeeding tax-levies of the four following years; and the Board of Estimate for the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn shall place the several amounts aforesaid in their estimates to the common council of city expenses in and for cach of the years aforesaid. § 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 318. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled An act to provide for the settlement and collection of arrearages of unpaid taxes and assessments in the city of Brooklyn and to insure a more efficient collection of taxes in future. PASSED June 15, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section seven of chapter four hundred and forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the settlement and collection of arrearages of taxes and assessments in the city of Brooklyn, and to insure a more efficient collection of taxes in future" is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 7. Any person owning or having an interest in any lands in the lands may city of Brooklyn, upon which the now unpaid taxes or assessments or both shall equal or exceed in amount sixty per centum of the present assessed valuation of such lands may extinguish such unpaid taxes or assessments or both by paying the registrar of arrears of the city of Brooklyn at any time before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, upon such lands an amount equal to sixty per centum of the assessed valuation of such lands as fixed in the year eighteen May pay in hundred and eighty-one; or such person may pay such amount in five equal annual installments with interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum computed from the date when this act, as amended, shall take effect, and the first installment shall be paid on or before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and one-fifth of of assessed value. install ments. |