directors. Number of the first section thereof; and except the number of directors, which may be four instead of thirteen, shall apply to said grantees and their associates and assigns; and also, except the provisions of sections twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-eight, thirtynine, forty, forty-one and forty-four in said act which sections of said act shall not apply to said grantees, associates and their assigns. Cemetery larged. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 554. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Albany Cemetery Association." Passed May 4, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act to incorporate may be en- the Albany Cemetery Association," passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, is hereby amended so as to permit said association to increase their cemetery to an aggregate not exceeding five hundred acres. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Corpora tors. Chap. 555. AN ACT to incorporate the Americus Six Association of the city of New York. Passed May 4, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. John Buckbee, John McElroy, James J. Doran, Michael Woods, Jeremiah M. Barter, Francis J. Sigerson, Edward Brennen, Thomas H. King, John J. Blair, Michael Quinn, Jackson Irving, Daniel Cosgrove, John Eagan, Richard O'Reilly, Thomas Dowd, Sandy fif nd he I in rate ven ded me. 28. Craig, Frank Brady, David Welton, James Curran, name. ment of as § 2. The direction, management and control of the Manage- 3. The officers of such association shall consist of a Officers. real and 4. The said association shall have power to take, May hold now held, in associa §5. All personal property, apparatus, furniture and Property pas and liabili General provisions. sage of this act by the officers of said corporation or any of them lawfully acting in behalf of said associa tion. § 6. This corporation shall be subject to the provisapplicable. ions of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes so far as the same are applicable. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Election of commissioners of highways. Chap. 556. AN ACT to provide for the more effectual imimprovement of the roads, bridges and sidewalks in the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk. Passed May 4, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There shall hereafter be three commissioners of highways in the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, who shall be elected in the manner and for the term now prescribed by law, one for each of the highway districts herein after provided for, who shall be a resident of the district for which he shall be elected.* § 2. The office of overseer of highways in the said town highways, is hereby abolished, and the entire duty and supervision of repairing, keeping in order and generally improving the roads, bridges and sidewalks in the said town is devolved to the said commissioners. Office of overseer of abolished. Commis sioners to assess highway labor, annually. § 3. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners, within twenty days after the passage of this act, and each succeeding year within twenty days from the one on which the annual town meeting shall be held, at the place of holding the last annual meeting, to proceed with due diligence to ascertain, estimate and assess the highway labor to be performed in the said town for the ensuing Division of year, upon the basis now fixed by law; and, after having so estimated and assessed the number of days' work to be performed, they shall divide the said town into Designa three highway districts, to be designated the eastern, western and middle districts, and cause to be made out town into highway districts. tion thereof. a tax list for each of the said districts, containing the names of the persons and a description of the property so assessed in each of the said districts, with the number of days so assessed, carried out in a column opposite each such name and piece of property, and in another To make columu the amount of tax levied and to be collected on and war. such assessment, at and after a rate not to exceed the rants. sum fixed by law, as a commutation and equivalent for a day's work on the highway, and attach their warrants to the said lists for collection. out tax list ment of § 4. The said commissioners shall at the same time Appoint appoint a collector in and for each of the said districts, collectors. who shall, before receiving the said several tax lists and warrants, each execute to the said commissioners a To exebond, with one or more sureties, to be approved by one or more of the said commissioners, in a penal sum double the amount by him to be collected, for the faithful discharge of his duties. cute official bonds. warrants § 5. The warrants for the collection of such taxes Effect of shall be under the hands of the said commissioners, or by commisa majority of them, and shall have like force and effect sioners. as a warrant issued by the board of supervisors to a collector of taxes of the town, and the collectors to whom Duty of they are delivered for collection shall be authorized collectors. and required to collect, from every person in such list named and from every piece of property described, the sum set opposite his or her name and property described therein, in the same manner that town collectors are authorized to collect town and county charges. taxes. § 6. The said tax lists and warrants, as soon as com- Notice of pleted, shall be placed in the hands of the several col- receiving lectors, who shall each, upon their receipt, cause to be posted, at least five notices, in as many public and conspicuous places in his district, that he will, for two weeks after the said posting, receive such taxes as may Collection be voluntarily paid to him, with one per cent on the fees. same for his fees, at a place in the said district to be designated in said notice; and in case the whole amount shall not be so paid, he shall proceed to collect the same, with five per cent thereon for his fees, and shall Return of return tax list and warrant within thirty days to the commissioner residing in his district, and at the same warrant. Renewal of warrants. Forfeiture of duty. time pay over to him all the moneys he shall have collected on the same; and if all the said moneys shall not have been so collected, the said commissioner may, at his discretion, renew the said warrant against delinquents for thirty days. §7. If, by neglect of any collector, any moneys shall for neglect be lost to any road district, which might have been collected in the time limited in the warrant delivered to him for their collection, he shall forfeit the amount of the moneys thus lost, and shall account for and pay over the same to the commissioner residing in such district in the same manner as if they had been collected. Recovery thereof. Taxes against corpora tion, how collected and divided. Moneys to be expended in road districts. Annual § 8. For the recovery of all such forfeitures and of all balances in the hands of either the said collectors, which he shall neglect or refuse to pay over, the said commissioners, in their name of office, shall have the remedy upon the official bond of the said collector, or any action or remedy given by law. 9. The whole amount of tax assessed on the property of any railroad company or other corporation for highway labor in said town, may be by the said commissioners placed on the tax list of either the said districts for collection, and when collected shall be equally divided between the said districts. § 10. All moneys received by each of the said commissioners, under the provisions of this act, shall be faithfully expended for the general improvement of the roads, bridges and sidewalks in the district in which he resides, and they shall each make an annual statement settlement. to the board of town auditors as now required by law. Compensa The said commissioners shall each be allowed a credit in their accounts, at the rate of five dollars for each day they shall have been engaged in the duties imposed upon them by this act. tion. |