Vacan cies, how filled. Duties of assessors. tion of general assessment roll. Said compensation shall be in full for all services rendered by said assessors, or required to be rendered by said board of trustees, and the said assessors shall be under the direction of the said board of trustees. Any vacancy in the office of assessor shall be filled for the unexpired term of such office by the board of trustees from the freeholders of said village. § 18. The third section of the last above-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. Whenever the electors shall, pursuant to the provisions of the charter of said village, at a general or special meeting, or the board of trustees of said village, in cases authorized by law so to do, direct any sum of money to be raised by tax, it shall be the duty of the said assessors to proceed forthwith, or when directed by the said board of trustees, to assess the same upon or among the owners of the estate, real and personal, incorporated companies and associations, in the same manner and proportion, as nearly as may be, for the,taxes in and for the town of Watervliet. The said assessors, in the performance of their duties in regard to the form and contents of their tax-roll, and to the property liable to taxation, and the place and manner in which property is to be taxed, shall perform the duties and be governed by the law, as nearly as practicable, relating to town assessors, and is not otherwise provided in this act. The several ward taxes, and taxes or assessments for highway purposes, and the general tax voted by the electors, shall be set down in every tax-roll separately from each other Comple- and from any other tax or assessment. And it shall further be the duty of said assessors to complete the general assessment-roll on or before the first of August in each year, and on completion the said assessors shall present the same to the board of trustees of said village, whose duty it shall be to place the same in the hands of the chamberCollection lain. The said chamberlain shall proceed to the collection of taxes, of taxes. beginning with the date of the first publication or posting of the notice hereinafter provided for. The board of trustees shall forthwith give notice that the said list is in the hands of the chamberlain for the collection of taxes, by publishing a notice once a week for three weeks, in a newspaper printed or published in said village, if there be one; or if not, then by posting three notices in each of the wards of said vil-lage. The amount and estimate of every assessment shall be and rements to main a lien on the lands, lot or lots so assessed, in the same manner and to the same effect as town and county taxes, from the time of the filing of the assessment-roll with the chamberlain, as aforesaid, until Appeals. paid or otherwise satisfied. Any person considering himself aggrieved by any tax or assessment made by said assessors, may appeal to the board of trustees within the first fifteen days after the giving of the notice of the filing of the assessment-roll with the chamberlain, as above provided for, by delivering to the clerk of said village an instrument in writing, setting forth his objections to said assessment, and verified by his oath or affirmation. The said board of trustees shall examine into the matter, and do justice therein. Notice. Assess be a lien upon lands. § 19. The fifteenth section of chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, as amended by the second section of chapter one hundred and thirty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, entitled "An act to amend certain sections of an act entitled An act to amend an act to incorporate the village of West Troy,' and for other purposes," is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: 6 meetings. § 15. It shall be the duty of the president of said village, when village present, to preside at all meetings of the board of trustees, and shall be president, hispowers entitled to vote upon all questions; to receive complaints of any breach and duties of the by-laws; to see that the by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances of the village are faithfully enforced and executed; to prosecute, in the name of said village, for all offenses against the same, or any of its by-laws, rules or ordinances. He may also, upon the request of Special three trustees, call special meetings of the board of trustees; said request to call a special meeting shall be in writing, and shall specify the particular business for the transaction of which such meeting is desired. Said request shall also be entered in the minutes of the meeting held in pursuance of the call of the president issued thereupon, and no other or different business from that specified in such request shall be transacted at such meeting. In case of the absence of the presi- Provision dent from any meeting of the board of trustees, one of the trustees in case of may be appointed by the members present chairman of such meeting, and for the time being shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the president. § 20. The sixteenth section of said chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, as amended by section four of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the village of West Troy, and for other purposes," " passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, passed April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, as amended by an act to amend certain sections thereof, passed April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: absence. sioner, his and duties § 16. It shall be the duty of the street commissioner, under the Street direction of the board of trustees, and when required by them, to in- commis quire into the merits and subject-matter of applications for regulating, powers pitching, paving, or otherwise improving the streets, alleys, public highways, bridges, common sewers, drains, culverts, public wells, pumps, and to report to said board of trustees such particulars as may be necessary, or as shall be required in each case; and it shall be his duty also, under said direction, and when required by the board of trustees, to superintend and carry into execution all the ordinances and resolutions of the board of trustees, for digging down or filling up any lot or lands, or the construction or improvement of any sidewalk, gutter, public highways, bridge, culvert, street, alley, pumps, drain or common sewer, or for regulating, pitching, paving, repairing, flagging, and keeping them or any of them in good order, and shall, within said village, possess the powers and perform the duties of overseers of highways, so far as such powers and duties shall be required to be performed therein, and are consistent with this act, and the act hereby amended, and shall also perform all such other work in or upon the streets of said village as may be required of him by the board of trustees, and shall for all his services receive an annual salary of five hun- Salary. dred dollars, to be paid in quarterly installments and not otherwise. § 21. The seventeenth section of said chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, as amended by section five of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: § 17. The board of trustees shall have power to prescribe the duties Duties of of all officers appointed by them, subject to the provisions of this act, appointand the act hereby amended, and may remove all such persons, Remov. together with the assessors, chamberlain and street commissioner, for ive officers als. extra pay. Penalty any incapacity, neglect of duty or official misconduct, after giving such officer an opportunity of refuting such or any charges which may be preferred against them; but no such removal shall be made unless by a vote of a majority in favor thereof of the entire board of trustees of Officers to said village. No officer of the village receiving a salary shall be receive no allowed or receive other or extra compensation for services rendered the village during his term of office, and any violation of this provision for viola either upon the part of any officer receiving the same, or any member provision. of the board of trustees voting in favor of any allowance of such compensation, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the person or persons guilty of such violation shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and imprisonment in the jail of the county of Albany not exceeding six months. tion of Vacancies in office, § 22. The eighteenth 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: § 18. Vacancies in the office of trustee, chamberlain and constable, how filled. Occurring in any manner, may be filled at a special election, called and appointed by the board of trustees, and conducted in the same manner as an annual election; vacancies in all other offices shall be filled by the board of trustees. Annual statement allowed. § 23. The nineteenth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 19. Within twenty days next preceding every annual meeting of of claims the taxable inhabitants of said village, and at least five days before the same, if there be a public newspaper published therein, the board of trustees shall cause to be published in such paper a statement which shall have the name of every person who shall, within the year expiring on the fifteenth day of March then last previous, have had any account or claim allowed to them, payable out of the treasury of said village, the amount of such account or claim as presented, the amount allowed, and the fund out of which the same was audited. § 24. The twentieth section of said last-mentioned act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Meetings § 20. All meetings of the board of trustees of said village shall be of trustees public (except when the public interest shall require secrecy), and all Powers of persons may attend the same; and it shall be the duty of the board of trustees in said village, and they shall have power: trustees. To preserve good or der, etc. Gaming and gam 1. To prevent vice and immorality, preserve peace and good order, to prevent and quell riots and disorderly assemblages. 2. To restrain and suppress disorderly and gaming-houses, and all instruments and devices used for gaming in said village, and to proing houses hibit all playing at cards, dice, or other games of chance, with or without betting. Licensing exhibitions. Disorder. 3. To prohibit or regulate by license all exhibitions of any natural or artificial curiosity, caravans of animals, theatrical performances, and other shows or exhibitions, circuses or other performances for money. 4. To suppress and restrain disorderly houses or houses of ill-fame, billy houses, liard-tables, nine or ten-pin or bowling-alleys, and pistol,gun or ball-alley. Unwhole- 5. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallowsome hou- chandler shop, soap-factory, tannery, stall, privy, sewer, or other un etc. ses and places. wholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time, as often as the same may be necessary for the health or comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants of said village. 6. To direct and regulate as to the time and manner of running the ry boats. ferry-boats crossing the Hudson river opposite to said village, and the Regula. tion of fer kind of boats to be used, and the mode of their construction, so as to render the crossing of persons reasonably commodious, safe and speedy. 7. To direct the location of slaughter-houses, markets, and houses slaughter for storing gunpowder or other combustible substance, and the convey- markets, ing of the same, and the use of candles and lights in barns, stables gunpow and other buildings. houses, der, etc. 8. To prevent horse-racing, immoderate driving in the said village, Horseand to authorize the stopping of every one who shall be guilty of im- racing. moderate riding or driving in the said village by any person. streets. 9. To prevent the incumbering of the streets, highways, squares, Incumpublic grounds, sidewalks, lands, alleys, wharves and docks, with brance of teams, carriages, carts, sleighs, sleds, wheel-barrows, boxes, lumber, timber, firewood, or any other substance or materials whatever. 10. To prevent or regulate, and determine the time and places of Bathing. bathing and swimming in the canal, creek, basin, river, or other waters in or bounding the said village. 11. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars Vagrants, and common prostitutes, and men cohabiting or associating with them. etc. animals. 12. To restrain the running at large of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, Running goats and geese, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and at large of sale of the same for the penalty incurred and cost of keeping and proceedings. 13. To prohibit any person from bringing, depositing, or having Dead carwithin the limits of said village any dead carcass or other unwhole- casses. some substance, and to require the removal or destruction by any person who shall have on, or upon, or near his premises, any such substance, or any putrid meat, fish, hides or skins of any kind, and on Putrid his default to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by some meats, officer of said village. fish, etc. of side 14. To compel all persons to keep snow and dirt from and off the Cleaning sidewalks and gutters adjoining in front of the premises owned or walks. occupied by them. 15. To prevent and regulate the ringing or tolling of bells, blowing Ringing of of horns and other noises, the crying of goods and other things in said bells, etc. village. 16. To regulate and restrain runners for boats, stages, railroads, Runners. taverns and other houses, and to prevent the running of engines and Speed of cars through said village at a greater speed than eight miles per hour. engines. Boundaries. 17. To survey the boundaries of the village, and of each ward. 18. To regulate the burial of the dead and public burial grounds. Burials. 19. To regulate the place and manner of weighing of hay, straw Weighing and fodder, and for marketing and measuring of wood, coal, lime, and of hay, selling of fish. 20. To establish and regulate public pounds. etc. Pounds. 21. To regulate auction sales, and to restrain or regulate by license Auctions hawking and peddling in the streets. and hawk ing. 22. To establish, make, regulate, and guard public reservoirs, wells, Reserv'rs, pumps, cisterns, sewers, drains and water-courses. sewers, etc. 23. To provide for lighting the streets of said village, and the pro- Lighting tection and safety of the public lamps. streets. 24. To fill any vacancy in any office of such village not specially Filling vaprovided for in this act, by appointing a person who shall hold the cancies. office for the residue of the time, unless sooner removed. 25. To provide for the care, custody and preservation of the public Preservaproperty of the village, and its records and papers. tion of property. Notice of 26. To give notice in the manner prescribed by law of the annual meetings. and special meetings in said village. Contracts for mate rials and work. Excep tion. Quorum, rules, etc., 27. To provide for the letting by contract to the lowest bidder who shall furnish satisfactory security for the faithful performance thereof, after advertising for proposals for at least once a week for two weeks, in a paper published in said village, if such there be; and if not, by posting at least three notices in each ward of said village at least two weeks prior to the awarding of the contract, all furnishing of materials and work or labor which shall be a charge upon the village, and which shall exceed in value the sum of fifty dollars, except for repairs to the fire apparatus of the village, services of officials, engineers and firemen of the various steam fire-engines. § 25. The twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sections of said last-mentioned act, are hereby made portions of this act and read as follows: § 21. A majority of the board of trustees shall be a quorum for the of trustees transaction of business, and the board may provide rules for its proceedings, but no tax or assessment shall be ordered, or apportionment made, except by a concurring vote of a majority of all elected. By-laws, ordinances, etc tions. dinances § 22. The board of trustees may make, publish, ordain, amend and repeal all such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations, not contrary to the laws of this State, as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers given to said board or any of the officers of said village by this Penalties act, and enforce observance of all rules, ordinances, by-laws and police for viola- regulations made in pursuance of this act, by imposing penalties on any person, corporation or association violating the same, not exceeding in any one case fifty dollars, to be recovered with cost in any court Publica having cognizance thereof; every such ordinance or by-law imposing tion of or- any penalty or forfeiture for a violation of its provisions shall be published two weeks successively in a newspaper printed in said village; and proof of such publication by the affidavit of the printer or publisher of said newspaper taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and filed with the clerk of the village, or any other competent proof of such publication, shall be conclusive evidence of the legal publication of such ordinance or by-laws in all courts or places. § 23. All actions brought to recover any penalty or forfeiture infor recov- curred under this act, or the ordinances, by-laws or public regulations ery of penalties, how made in pursuance of it, shall be brought in the corporate name of brought. said village, and such actions brought in any court of any justice of and bylaws. Actions the peace shall be by warrant, upon the request of any person, his attorney or agent authorized to commence the same, and execution may be issued thereon immediately upon the rendition of judgment, Imprison returnable thirty days from the time of issuing the same. If the dement for fendant or defendants in any such actions have no goods or chattels non-pay ment of judg. ments. Competency of within said village whereof the judgment can be collected, the execution shall require the defendant or defendants to be imprisoned in close custody in the penitentiary of the county of Albany for such a time as the justice rendering the judgment shall deem reasonable, not exceeding ninety days. The penalty, when collected, shall be paid into the treasury. § 24. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness, inhabit juror or constable, by reason of being an inhabitant or freeholder, or owning property in the said village, in any action or proceeding in etc. which the said village is a party interested. ants as witnesses, tion may Corpora- § 25. The said corporation may, in its corporate name, take, hold, hold and purchase and convey real and personal estate as the purposes of the property, incorporation may require; but no such purchase or conveyance of |