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west, five chains to a stake in the fence; then north seventy-one degrees thirty minutes west, twenty-nine chains to a stake; then south eight degrees fifteen minutes west, seven chains fifty links to a stake; then south eighty-two degrees west, twelve chains forty links to the road leading from Henry Lansing's house; then south nineteen degrees thirty minutes west, sixteen chains forty links to the turnpike; then north sixty-three degrees west, twenty-five chains ten links to the west boundary line of the farm owned by the West Troy company; then due south three chains twenty links to a point in said turnpike; then south five degrees fifteen minutes west twenty-eight chains eighty links to a stake in the north line of the farm of Schuyler; then south seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes west, seven chains forty-eight links to a stake; then north twenty degrees east, eighteen links to a stake; then south thirty degrees east, eight chains to a stake in the fence; then south sixty degrees east, five chains seventy-three links to a stake; then north thirty degrees east, one chain eighty links to a stake; then south seventy-five degrees east, twenty chains eighty links to a stake; then south one degree west, two chains twenty-five links to a stake in the corner of the fence on the east side of the Fly; then south seventythree degrees twenty minutes east, twenty-three chains fifty-five links ⚫ to a stake forty feet distant from the east side of the Steinhook creek; then south seventy-seven degrees forty-five minutes east, twelve chains. eighty links to a stone in Shrimpton's fence; then south sixty-five degrees thirty minutes east, two chains seventy-five links to a stone on the west bank of the Hudson river; then south seventy-one degrees east, one chain thirty-three links in the Hudson river; then north twenty-six degrees twenty-five minutes east, forty-one chains along the east boundary line of lands under water; then north fifty degrees twenty minutes west, ten chains thirty-five links; thence north ten degrees thirty minutes west, fifteen chains twenty-one links; then north eighty-eight degrees thirty minutes west, one chain eighty-eight links to the place of beginning (which boundaries include the limits. of the village of Gibbonsville), shall hereafter be known and distinguished as "The Village of West Troy," and the inhabitants residing Corporate within the bounds aforesaid shall hereafter be a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Village of West Troy.'

name.

visions.

First

§ 2. Said village shall be divided into four wards, numbered one, Ward ditwo, three and four, and all that part of said village lying south of the lands included in said boundaries which have been ceded to the United ward. States, shall be the first ward; all that part of said village lying be- Second tween the southern boundary line of the lands ceded to the United ward. States, and a line running from the Hudson river along the northern boundary of lots number twenty-one, twenty, eleven, twenty-one and twenty, on Broad, Rochester and Champlain streets, as laid down on a map of West Troy, filed in the office of the clerk of Albany county, to the Erie canal; then southerly to the present northern boundary line of Gibbonsville; then westerly along said northern boundary line to the present west bounds of Gibbonsville, shall be the second ward; all that part of said village lying between the northern boundary line Third of said second ward and a line running westwardly from the Hudson ward. river along the center of Ontario street, as described in said map of West Troy, shall be the third ward; and all the residue of said village Fourth lying north of said third ward shall be the fourth ward.

ward.

Property of Gibbonsville

vested in village trustees.

Repeal of acts relat

§ 2. The twenty-seventh section of said chapter two hundred and thirty-three of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 27. All the estate real or personal vested in or belonging to or held in trust by the trustees of the village of Gibbonsville under their present organization, at the time this act shall take effect as a law, shall be and is hereby declared to be vested in the trustees of the village of West Troy, to be elected by virtue of this act, and their successors in office.

§ 3. The twenty-eighth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 28. All former acts and parts of acts relating to the incorporation ing to Gib. of the village of Gibbonsville are hereby repealed, but the repeal of bonsville. said act shall not affect any act done or right accrued or established, or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced previous to the time when such repeal shall take effect, but every such act, right or proceeding shall remain as valid and effectual as if said acts had remained in force.

General

and re

§ 4. The twenty-ninth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 29. Said corporation shall enjoy the privileges and be subject to privileges the restrictions contained in the third title of chapter eighteen of the strictions. first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as they may be applicable to such a corporation, and do not conflict with any of the provisions of this act or of the several acts amendatory thereof.

Docks,

piers, etc., a part of village.

§ 5. The first section of 'chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to amend an act to incorporate the village of West Troy," and for other purposes is hereby made a portion of this act, and reads as follows:

§ 1. All docks, piers, wharves and structures now, or hereafter erected, in whole or in part, in the Hudson river, and the lower sprout of the Mohawk river, adjacent to said village or any part of the same, shall, in all respects and for all purposes be deemed and taken as a part of and within the boundaries of the village of West Troy, and form a part of the respective wards of said village of West Troy oppoProviso. site thereto; but this act shall not be construed in any way so as to affect or embrace any part of Green Island in said river, or any docks, piers, wharves, structures or other property now or hereafter to be erected or placed on, or adjacent and appurtenant to said island, north of the new lower lock at West Troy.

Village officers.

Annual elections.

Notice thereof.

§ 6. The second section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The officers of said village shall be one president, eight trustees, three assessors, one chamberlain, one street commissioner, one clerk and four constables.

§ 7. The third section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 3. An election shall be held in each of the wards of said village on the first Wednesday of March in each and every year, at such place as the board of trustees shall appoint, and of which six days previous notice shall be given by posting written or printed notices of the same in at least five public places in each ward of said village, signed by the president of the village, and attested by the clerk, or signed by at Opening least three of the trustees. The polls shall be kept open unintering polls. ruptedly from ten o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the afternoon, and the said time of opening and closing the polls shall be spe

and clos

At such Election

of inspec

cified in the notice of such elections posted as aforesaid. election the electors of each ward shall be entitled to vote by ballot, P on the same ticket for other ward officers, for two electors residing in election. such ward, to be inspectors of elections, and the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes shall be two of the inspectors of elections for such ward, for charter elections during the ensuing year, and until their successors shall have been chosen. The board of trustees, at Appointtheir first meeting after the said annual election, shall appoint in and ment. for each ward, the person receiving the next highest number of votes therein for such office, as another inspector of election for such ward. No ballot for inspectors of elections shall be counted upon which more Counting than two names shall be contained.

of ballots] forinspec

§ 8. The fourth section of said last-mentioned act, as amended by tors. section one of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

cers to be elected.

§ 4. At such election there shall be elected one trustee and one con- What offstable in and for each ward, one president, one chamberlain and one street commissioner from the village at large, and every third year as hereinafter provided for, there may be voted for by each elector two candidates for assessors. The term of office of said trustee shall be Terms of two years; that of the assessors three years as hereinafter provided village for. The term of office of all other officers elected or appointed under the provisions of this act as amended shall be one year.

§ 9. The fifth section of said chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty is hereby amended so as to read. as follows:

officers.

tors and

§ 5. The inspectors of election in each ward shall meet at the time Inspec and place when and where an election shall have been appointed clerk of to be held therein, and organize themselves as a board for the pur- elections. pose of presiding at and conducting such election. They shall appoint some proper person as clerk, and shall have all the powers of inspectors at a general election, and shall conduct such election in the same manner as a general election, except as herein provided. Said in- Compenspectors of elections and clerk shall each receive in compensation for sation. the services required of them by this section the sum of three dollars. Only one statement of the result shall be drawn up and signed by the Statement inspectors, and one poll list only shall be kept by said clerk, which, on t the day following the election, shall be filed with the clerk of the village.

§ 10. The sixth, seventh and eighth sections of said last-mentioned act are hereby made a portion of this act, and read as follows:

and poll

and certi

result.

§ 6. The officers presiding at any election shall canvass the votes Canvass given thereat, and openly declare the result, and shall make and sub- of votes scribe a certificate of such canvass, which shall have the whole number ficate of of votes given, the number given for each person voted for, and the office for which he shall have been voted for; and, within two days thereafter, shall file said certificate with the clerk of the village.

voters.

§ 7. At the election in said village no person shall be entitled to vote Qualificathereat, unless at the time of offering his vote he shall be a resident of tions of the ward in which such offer shall be made, and qualified to vote at town meetings in the town of Watervliet; and no person shall be Eligibility elected an officer in said village unless he shall be entitled to vote at to office. the election at which he shall be elected. The trustees and constables shall be residents of the respective wards in which they shall be elected and hold their offices, and the assessors shall severally be freeholders within the said village. The person eligible and having the greatest

ings in

Proceed number of votes shall be declared elected, and when a greater number of persons than are entitled to be elected to an office shall have the greatest and an equal number of votes, the officer presiding at the election shall forthwith determine by lot which shall be deemed elected, and in such case the facts shall be set forth in the certificate of the result made by such officers.

case of tie vote.

Electors

ballot.

Form of ballots.

§ 8. The electors shall vote by ballot, and such person offering to to vote by vote shall deliver his ballot so folded as to conceal the contents, to one of the inspectors in the presence of the board. The ballot shall be a paper ticket, which shall contain written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the names of the persons for which the elector intends to vote, and shall designate the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen, but no ballot shall contain a greater number of names of persons designated for any office than there are persons to be chosen at the election to fill such office. On the outer side of each ballot, when folded, there shall appear written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, one of the following words: "ward," "village;" but no ballot found in the proper box shall be rejected for the want of such indorsement.

Indorse. ment.

"Ward"

ballots.

§ 11. The ninth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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§ 9. The ballot indorsed "ward" shall contain the names of the perballots. sons designated by the elector for the office of trustee, constable and "Village" inspectors of election, or any or either of them. The ballot indorsed village" shall contain the names of the persons designated for the office of president, assessors, chamberlain and street commissioner, or How de. any or either of them, to be chosen at such election, and such ballots shall be deposited in separate boxes, to be provided by the board of trustees for that purpose, with locks and keys as provided by law in respect to the election of State officers.

posited.

Chal

lenges.

Trustees

an declare

§ 12. The tenth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby made a portion of this act, and reads as follows:

§ 10. Every person offering to vote at such election may be challenged in the same manner as at a general election for State officers, and the same proceedings had thereon, as are or shall be prescribed by law in relation to general elections, so far as the same shall be applicable to a charter election.

§ 13. The eleventh section of said last-mentioned act, as amended by section two of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

§ 11. The trustees of said village shall, after being qualified by to canvass taking the oath prescribed, within ten days after the annual charter result. election, assemble, and upon the statements and certificates of the inspectors of elections in the respective wards herein provided for, shall proceed and declare what persons have been duly elected to the office of president, chamberlain, assessors and street commissioner, or any or either of them, and the persons having the greatest number of votes in the whole village for the offices mentioned in this section, shall be declared to be duly elected, and they shall cause their declaration and opinions to be entered in the minutes of their proceedings, and shall appoint one clerk, who shall be an inhabitant of said village, and qualified to vote at town elections in the town of Watervliet.

Village

clerk..

§ 14. The twelfth section of said chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

elective

lain and

consta

§ 12. Every officer elected in said village shall, within ten days after Oaths of his election, when his name shall be entered on the poll list, or if his officers. name shall not be so entered within ten days after he shall be notified of his election, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this State, and file the same with the clerk of said village, and the chamberlain and constables shall respectively, before they Chambertake the oath, give security for the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices, the said chamberlain in the sum of fifty thou- bles to give secusand dollars, and the said constables each in the sum of five hundred rity. dollars specifically for the payment of any money that may come into their hands by virtue of any tax warrants that may be delivered to them by the chamberlain of said village, and generally by a separate bond in the same manner and to the same extent as is required by law of constables elected in towns. And every person appointed to any office in Oaths of said village shall, within ten days from the time of his appointment, take appointand file with the clerk of said village the constitutional oath of office. cers. § 15. The thirteenth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

ive

ties.

to give se

§ 13. All the securities required by this act or the acts amendatory Execu thereof, except the general security given by such constables as afore- tion and delivery said, shall be executed to said village in its corporate name; said secu- of securirities shall be delivered to the board of trustees with sufficient sureties to be approved by them; and in case of any such officer omitting to Omission give the security and take the oath required by this act as amended, curity or or take the oath when security is not required in the time and man- take oath. ner provided, shall be deemed to have refused to serve and the office vacant, and he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for such refusal. The clerk of the village shall, within twenty-four hours after the election Notice of or appointment of any officer, give him notice of his election or appointappointment; where such notice is required, such notice shall be ment to served personally or by leaving the same at the residence of the person to be notified, with some responsible person belonging there.

§ 16. The fourteenth section of said last-mentioned act, as amended by section one of chapter four hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

election or

office.

of village

§ 14. At the annual charter election held in said village on the first Election Wednesday of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, assessors. and at the annual charter election held in said village every third year thereafter, the electors of said village shall be entitled to vote by ballot, on the same ticket with other village officers, for two electors, being freeholders, residing within said village, to be assessors for such village; the two persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected two of said assessors; another assessor shall be appointed by Appoint the board of trustees at their first meeting after the election from the of two persons who shall at such election have received the highest number of votes next to the two assessors so first elected, and no ballot shall be counted upon which shall be contained more than two names for said office of assessor. The said assessors so elected and appointed shall hold their offices for three years.

§ 17. The second section of chapter four hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act relative to the assessors, and their election and assessments in the village of West Troy," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

assessor.

Term of

office.

§ 2. The compensation of said assessors shall be three hundred dol- Compenlars per annum each, and shall be paid in semi-annual installments.

sation.

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