tion of the lines and spaces of the Erie basin and the Brooklyn basin in accordance with the changes shown on a map annexed to said report; and WHEREAS, William Beard, Jeremiah P. Robinson, Franklin Woodruff and others, owners of the water-front and lands adjacent to said Erie basin and Brooklyn basin are desirous of carrying out the changes and modifications recommended in said report; now, therefore, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: head and and estab ning. SECTION 1. The pier, bulk-head and other lines adjacent to the shores Pier, bulk on the Brooklyn side of the port of New York extending from a point other lines on the easterly side of Court street, distant five hundred feet southerly altered from the intersection of the said easterly-side of Court street with the lished southerly side of Bryant street, to the entrance to Erie basin, as at anew. present by law established, are hereby altered, declared and established. as follows, that is to say: such lines shall commence at the point first- Point of above described, running thence westerly parallel with Bryant street beginand five hundred feet therefrom three hundred and eighty feet; thence southerly and at right angles to the last-mentioned line and parallel with Clinton street three hundred and ninety-three feet to the exterior seawall line as at present established; thence along the said exterior seawall line six hundred and eighty-seven feet two inches to a point in a line parallel with Clinton street and distant two hundred and twentythree feet westerly from the westerly side of Clinton street; thence northerly from said point along the said line twenty-three hundred and sixty-one feet to the southerly side of Bay street; thence westerly along said southerly side of Bay street two hundred feet; thence southerly along a line drawn at right angles to said southerly side of Bay street twenty-five hundred and twenty-two feet to the said exterior sea-wall line; thence south-westerly along said exterior sea-wall line five hundred and sixty-five feet seven inches to a point in a line drawn at right angles to the southerly side of Bay street; thence northerly along said last-mentioned line twenty-eight hundred and fifty-one feet to said southerly side of Bay street; thence westerly along said southerly side of Bay street two hundred feet; thence southerly on a line drawn at right angles to said southerly side of Bay street twenty-nine hundred and eighty feet to the said exterior sea-wall line; thence westerly, northwesterly and northerly along said exterior sea-wall line to a point therein distant seventy-five feet southerly from the northerly end of said exterior sea-wall line as now established; thence westerly one hundred and twenty-five feet; thence northerly on a line parallel with said exterior sea-wall line thirty feet; thence easterly to the northerly end of said exterior sea-wall line as now established; thence south-easterly along the southern boundary line of the entrance to the Erie basin as now established; thence southerly, south-easterly and easterly along the interior boundary line of the sea-wall of the Erie basin as at present established, and a continuation thereof easterly to a point in a line at right angles to Halleck street and distant two thousand four hundred and forty feet therefrom; thence from said point northerly along said line to the southerly side of Halleck street at a point distant four hundred and sixty-three feet easterly from the easterly side of Otsego street; thence westerly along said southerly side of Halleck street two hundred feet; thence southerly on a line at right angles to Halleck street and parallel with Otsego street one thousand feet to the bulk-head line as at present shown on map. by law established; thence westerly along said bulk-head line to the New lines westerly line of Otsego street; the new lines hereby established being shown on a map entitled, "map showing plan for the improvement of the water front and adjacent lands in the twelfth ward of the city of Brooklyn, New York, owned by William Beard, Jeremiah P. Robinson, Franklin Woodruff and others, dated March first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, Leander N. Vibbard, city surveyor," which Map to be map shall be verified by the signature of the Secretary of State, and filed and filed in his office there to remain of record. verified secretary in office of § 2. Erie basin is hereby extended and enlarged as in the first section. of state. of this act provided for, as on said map described, and the two basins Erie basin of two hundred feet in width extending as on said map described, from the southerly side of Bay street to the exterior sea-wall line are also hereby established. extended and en larged. Collection of ass 88ments, time for extended. Return of sessments. Certified copy to be § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 399. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of the assessments for the improvement of Fulton avenue in the town of New Lots, Kings county. Passed May 20, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of the assessments provided in section four of chapter five hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for the improvement of Fulton avenue, in the town of New Lots, is hereby extended as follows: One-third of said assessment to the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five; one-third to the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the remaining one-third to the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; and said assessments shall be collected with the default and percentage, or percentages, hereinafter provided. § 2. When the collector of taxes of the town of New Lots shall make unpaid as his return of all unpaid assessments for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the county treasurer of Kings county shall credit the said collector with the amount of said return; and it shall be the duty of said county treasurer to transmit a certified copy of such unpaid assessments to the board of supervisors of Kings county, who shall cause the same to be re-levied in a book provided for that purpose and divide the same into three equal parts, under the headings of amount to be collected in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five; amount to be collected in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and amount to be collected in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. transmit ted to su pervisors. Re-levy of assessments. Warrant tion of, di § 3. The board of supervisors of the county of Kings shall issue a for collec- warrant to the collector of taxes in and for the town of New Lots for rection in. the collection of said assessments, and direct that the same expire on the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. The collector, before he proceeds with the collection of said assessments, shall give to the supervisor of said town a bond, with one or more or's bond. sureties, to be approved by said supervisor conditioned for the faithful Collect thereof. when to make discharge of his duties therein, which bond shall be filed with the clerk of the county of Kings, and shall be renewed each year in the first week Renewal of the month of April, and thereupon the said collector shall be authorized to collect said portion of said assessment during the months of CollecApril, May, June and July, during the years eighteen hundred and tions, seventy-five, eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred made. and seventy-seven, with default and fees-default as follows: On all Default. assessments not paid before the first Tuesday of May the sum of one per cent.; on all not paid before the first Tuesday of June, two per cent., and on all not paid before the first Tuesday of July, three per cent. The collector shall pay over monthly, on the first Tuesday of Collectors each month, to the county treasurer of Kings county all moneys col- monthly lected by him under this act, and shall account each year, therefor, to payments. said treasurer under oath. The collector on the first day of August of each year shall make a return of all unpaid assessments for that year, Return of after adding thereto the three per cent. default and his fees, to the unpaid astreasurer of Kings county, who shall credit him with the amount of said return. The said treasurer shall forth with certify the same to the County Comptroller of the State of New York, who shall immediately pay to treasurer the said county treasurer the amount of said return, whereupon the said same to comptrolcounty treasurer shall apply the same to the payment of the bonds to be issued to redeem the certificates of indebtedness heretofore issued by Comptrolthe commissioners for the improvement of said Fulton avenue. And ler to pay to all assessments not so returned on the first day of August, eighteen treasurer. hundred and seventy-five, the said collector is hereby directed to add Applica the sum of seven per cent., and to all assessments not so returned on of. the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the said col- Assesslector is hereby directed to add the further sum of seven per cent. to be returned, collected with said assessments. sessments. to certify ler. amount to tion there ments not percent age. charged § 4. Any owner of land assessed for said improvement may free any Land, piece or parcel of land so assessed by paying the assessment thereon with how disthe default and percentage for that year and the collector's fees, to the from. said collector and thereupon such piece or parcel of land shall be discharged therefrom. to issue to certifi § 5. The supervisor of the town of New Lots shall issue upon the Bonds, sufaith and credit of said town, bonds in such sums and at such rate of pervisors interest not exceeding seven per cent., and for such length of time as he redeem shall deem desirable not exceeding three years, for the purpose of cates of redeeming the certificates of indebtedness, issued for such improvement indebtedin accordance with section five of chapter five hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and such bonds shall be redeemed by the county treasurer of Kings county from time to time as such assessments are collected. ness. sor of New § 6. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of Kings county, and he is Payments hereby authorized and directed to pay to the supervisor of the town of to supervi New Lots all sums required to meet the expenses incurred by him in Lots. carrying out the provisions of this act, and should there be any surplus surplus, after redeeming the bonds mentioned in this act, the said county treas- to whom urer shall pay the same over to the supervisor of said town, and the use of. said supervisor shall place the same in the hands of the commissioners of highways for said town and the same shall be by them used for the purpose of improving and keeping said Fulton avenue in repair within the limits of said assessment district. paid and Map to be filed with comptrol ler. Town of ger erected from town of § 7. It shall be the duty of the supervisor of said town to file with the Comptroller of the State of New York a map, showing the assessment numbers used in making said assessment, and also the lot lines. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 400. AN ACT for the division of the town of Fishkill, in the Passed May 20, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All that part of the town of Fishkill, in the county of Wappin Dutchess, situate, lying and being north of a line beginning at a point on the easterly shore of the Hudson river, distant two hundred feet Fishkill northerly from the residence of Thomas Aldridge, and running from thence easterly, in a straight line to a point in the center of the public high-way leading from Fishkill to Hopewell two hundred feet, northerly, from the homestead of Lebbeus Charlock, and running from thence in a straight line due east, to the westerly bank of Sproul creek, is hereby erected into a separate and new town, to be hereafter known and distinguished by the name of "Wappinger." Town of Fishkill, territory § 2. All that part of the present town of Fishkill lying south of the line described in the first section of this act, shall be and remain a sepembraced arate town in said county, known and distinguished by the name of "Fishkill." in. main in Existing § 3. All laws in force at and from the time of the passage of this act, laws to re- applicable to the town of Fishkill as now existing, shall apply to the force, ex- town of Fishkill as hereby continued, except such laws as are inconsiscept, etc. tent with the provisions of this act. First an- § 4. The first annual town meeting of the town of "Wappinger," as nnal town herein erected, shall be held at the wagon-makers shop, of Brower meeting. Persons Brothers, in the village of Wappinger's Falls on the first Tuesday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and thereafter on the same day that other towns hold their annual town meetings in said county of Dutchess. Arminius W. Armstrong, Joseph Van Voorhis and designat Edward M. Pier, are hereby appointed to preside at the first town meetfirst town ing to be held in said town of Wappinger, to appoint a clerk, to open meeting. and keep the polls, and have and exercise the same powers as justices of the peace when presiding at town meetings. ed to hold Appor of person ty, com $5. The personal property of the town of Fishkill as it heretofore tionment existed including all moneys in the hands of officers, which are not al proper- required to meet liabilities matured at the time of the passage of this missioners act, shall be apportioned between the town of Wappinger as hereby for. constituted, and the town of Fishkill as hereby continued, by the supervisor of the said town of Fishkill, and Clapton E. Sweet of the town of Wappinger, who are hereby made special commissioners for tionment, that purpose, pro rata according to the amount of taxable property in each of said towns, as the same existed immediately before the passage Appor made. of this act, and to be ascertained by the last assessment of said town. Such apportionment shall be made between the first day of May and When the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. made. tate of § 6. The real estate belonging to the said town of Fishkill is hereby Real esdirected to be sold by the special commissioners aforesaid, and the pro- town of ceeds thereof apportioned between the said two towns according to the Fishkill to manner and rule of apportionment described in the last preceding sec- and pro tion. be sold, ceeds ap portioned. tions of tioned. prepare of debts, same. Fishkill sociated. § 7. All debts, bonds, obligations and liabilities of the town of Fish- Debts and kill existing at the time of the passage of this act, or which shall have obligabeen authorized or directed by any existing act, are hereby apportioned Fishkill between the said town of Wappinger and the town of Fishkill as hereby appor continued, according to the amount of taxable property in each to be ascertained by the assessment roll of the said town of Fishkill, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. And the said town of Wappinger and the town of Fishkill as hereby continued, shall be henceforth be severally charged with its respective share of the principal and interest of said debts, bonds, obligations and liabilities according to such apportionment. It shall be the duty of the said special com- Commismissioners to prepare an accurate statement of the said debts, bonds sioners to and obligations, and of the maturity or time and times of the payment statement thereof so far as the same can be ascertained by them from the records and classiand papers in the town clerk's office or otherwise, to classify them in fy the accordance with the apportionment hereby directed, so that each will." bear its relative proportion of such debts, bonds, obligations and liabilities at the maturity thereof, and of the interest to accrue and become due thereon until such maturity, and in case of any disagreement between the said special commissioners, upon written application of either of them, the supervisor of the town of East Fishkill is hereby Supervi empowered and directed to act with them in performing the duties or or East hereby prescribed; and the decision of a majority of the said three per- may be assons upon any question arising in the premises shall be conclusive upon Decision the said two towns. The said statement shall be signed by the persons final. making the same, and shall be acknowledged by them before an officer Statement authorized to take the acknowledgment, and one of said statements shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the town of Fishkill as hereby continued, and one in the clerk's office of the town of Wappinger, and one shall be transmitted to and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors of Dutchess county, and the supervisors of Dutchess county shall, from time to time, in the tax levies respectively next preceding the maturity of the principal or interest of any of the said debts, bonds, obligations or liabilities, assess, levy and collect against the property Assessreal and personal, of the town of Fishkill as hereby continued, the ments for pro- payment portion of such principal and interest with which the same shall be of debts, charged by the apportionment above provided, and shall assess, levy and how collect against the property, real and personal, of the said town of Wappinger, the proportion of such principal and interest with which the said town of Wappinger shall be charged by the said apportionment, and the collector of the said town of Wappinger shall pay over Moneys to to the said supervisor of the town of Fishkill as hereby continued, the be paid to supervisor amount so assessed, levied and collected against the said property of of Fishkill. said town of Wappinger, and the said supervisor shall pay the said principal and interest above-mentioned as the same shall fall due respectively. to be filed. etc., made. |