Annual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners

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The Commissioners, 1871 - Parks

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Page 40 - The said board of commissioners shall have sole and exclusive power, by contract or otherwise, to open, grade, construct, repair and maintain the roadways of said approaches, and the assent of adjacent property owners thereto shall not be necessary ; but no such work shall be done where any part thereof is assessable, as hereinafter provided, until notice of intention to order it shall have been published in the official paper of the city, by order of said board. at least twice a week for two consecutive...
Page 41 - Commissioner or other person who may have knowledge or information of the violation of this provision, forthwith to report the same to the Mayor of the City of Rochester who shall present the facts of the case to the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The said Court shall hear in a summary...
Page 49 - AN ACT to authorize the selection and location of certain grounds for public parks in the city of Buffalo, and to provide for the maintenance and embellishment thereof.
Page 46 - All property so devised, granted, bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits, and income thereof, shall be subject to the exclusive management, direction, and control of the said Board of Park Commissioners.
Page 42 - ... and the proceeds of such leases and sales shall be deposited with the Treasurer of said city, to the credit of the said the Park Commissioners, and used by them for the improvement of the said park or parks, approaches thereto, and streets connecting the same.
Page 47 - ... shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 23 - ... by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or by both at the discretion of the court...
Page 26 - That the said company is, and at the times hereinafter mentioned was, a corporation organized pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New York, entitled 'An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical, or chemical purposes...
Page 46 - ... history, observatories or works of art, upon such trusts and conditions as may be prescribed by the grantors or donors thereof, and agreed to by the...
Page 48 - The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight of chapter five hundred and sixtynine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, known as the town law, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 38.

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