Steam, smoke, etc. thirty miles per hour. There shall be no decking or flooring made use of to obstruct light and ventilation, except the necessary platforms and depots at the stations. There shall be no steam, smoke, ashes or cinders allowed to escape from the motors while in motion. The rail-bearers of said railway, and the running gear of cars and motors shall be so constructed and adapted to each other as to preclude all liability of the cars or motors leaving the track. Suitable means or devices shall be made use of to cause the rails and the wheels of the cars and motors to be as non-sonorous as possible. Said railway shall have not less than of tracks. two tracks. Number company othercom § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 423. AN ACT to regulate investments by insurance companies. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Funds of SECTION 1. Whenever any insurance company, organized under any insurance of the laws of this State, shall have invested any of its funds in the invested stock of other incorporated companies, under and in pursuance of the in stock of laws of this State, and the Superintendent of the Insurance Departpanies. ment shall have reason to believe that such stock is below par, he may direct any such company to report to him under oath the amount of such stock so held by any such company, and the market value thereof, is below par, he may direct the sale (under such regulations as he may be direct establish) of such stock by such insurance company. Sale may ed. Compa business in other states, § 2. It shall be lawful for any life, fire or marine insurance company nies doing organized under any of the laws of this State, and transacting business in other States of the United States, to invest the funds required to meet its obligations incurred in such other States respectively, in the same class of securities, in those States that such corporations are by law allowed to invest in in this State, but this act shall not be construed as authorizing, nor does it permit any such corporation to loan moneys vestment on mortgage upon real estate without the limits of this State and States adjacent thereto. funds re- states, in of. True location of monn § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 424. AN ACT in regard to the boundary monuments of the State. Passed May 26, 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 Regents of the University are hereby authorized and directed to resume the work of "examination as to the true location of ments, re- the monuments which mark the several boundaries of the State," as authorized by the resolution of the Senate of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and in connection with the authorities of gents of the uni versity to examine. Pennsylvania and New Jersey respectively, to replace any monuments which have become dilapidated or been removed, on the boundary lines of those States. § 2. The sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may Expenses, be necessary, is hereby appropriated for expenses of renewing and appropri replacing monuments, and for contingent expenses. ation for. the legis lature. §3. The Regents shall report to the Legislature on the progress of Report to this work with an account of all expenditures. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 425. AN ACT to confirm and legalize the acts of Deliverance Rogers, as notary public of the county of Washington, since March thirtieth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Passed May 26, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: acts of notary legal ized. SECTION 1. All official acts of Deliverance Rogers, of Granville, Official Washington county, State of New York, done since the thirtieth day of t March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-five as notary public of said county of Washington, are hereby declared as valid and of as full effect as if the said Deliverance Rogers had been a duly appointed and qualified notary public. But nothing in this act contained shall affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court of this State. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 426. AN ACT to authorize the village of Port Henry to borrow money on its corporation notes or bonds to purchase a steam fire-engine and necessary fire apparatus for the use of said village, and to levy and collect a tax for the payment of the same. Passed May 27, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: purchase SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the village of Port Henry, in the steam fire county of Essex, and State of New York, is hereby authorized and em- engine, powered to borrow a sum of money not exceeding seven thousand five of hundred dollars, for the purpose of purchasing a steam fire-engine and necessary fire apparatus for the use of said village, and to issue therefor the promissory notes or bonds of said village, signed by the members Notes or of the board of trustees and the village president, payable in five equal bonds of annual installments from and after the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, with annual interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum. village. payment of notes Tax for § 2. The said board of trustees of the village of Port Henry is hereby further authorized, and it shall be lawful for them to raise by tax, to be or bonds. levied and collected on the taxable property of said village of Port Henry the same as the corporation tax of said village is now or has heretofore been levied and collected, for the purpose of paying and taking up the said corporation notes or bonds, provided for in section one of this act, the annual sum of one thousand five hundred dollars and interest, on the whole unpaid sum then due, as is herein before stated, until the same shall have been paid in full, and said corporation notes or bonds shall have been all taken up, paid and discharged. Tax pay ers to vote on the of loan. Special §3. The loan authorized by the first section of this act shall not be made by the trustees of the village of Port Henry until after the same question shall have been authorized by the affirmative vote of a majority of the tax-payers of said village who vote at such election. And to determine meeting, said question a special meeting of the tax-payers may be called by the trustees thereof, by notice published two weeks successively in any newspaper published in said village, fixing the time and place of such election. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. notice of. Side moval of ice from. Chap. 427. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Port Richmond, in the county of Richmond," passed April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended by chapter eight hundred and four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and also to amend chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being an act amendatory of said above-mentioned acts. Passed May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subdivision three of section twenty-nine of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Port Richmond, in the county of Richmond," passed April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, as amended by chapter eight hundred and four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3. To compel, under such penalties as the trustees shall by their bywalks, re laws prescribe, the occupant or occupants or owner of any lot of land snow and in said village, to remove any snow, or ice, from the sidewalk in front thereof, within such time as said trustees shall by such by-laws direct, and in default of such removal to cause the same to be removed and to collect the expense of such removal. The occupant or possessor of the Personal lots shall be personally liable for the penalty so prescribed and the exliability of pense of so causing such removal shall be a lien upon the lot, and the and own owner thereof shall be personally liable therefor, and the same may be collected in the manner prescribed for the collection of unpaid taxes or assessments. occupant er. SECTION 2. Said section twenty-nine is hereby further amended by adding thereto a new subdivision as follows: sessment, remaining 13. Whenever any tax or assessment shall be returned uncollected, or Tax, asshall remain unpaid after the time limited for the payment thereof, or lien, claim whenever any act herein authorized to be done by the trustees shall or charge have been done by them, and the expense thereof is herein authorized unpaid, to be collected of the owner of any lot, piece or parcel of land in said five per village, or such expense is made a lien upon such lot, there shall be be added added to and collected therewith a penalty of five per cent. upon the original tax, assessment, lien, claim or charge; and also interest at the Interest. rate of ten per cent. per annum from the time when such tax, assessment, lien, claim or charge became due and payable. SECTION 3. Subdivision thirteen of section twenty-eight of said act as the same was amended by an act passed May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: cent, to to. to be rais compa termine. 13. To determine and shall determine, by the vote of a majority of all Amount the trustees, at a meeting to be held in each year prior to the appor- ed for bentionment of the annual tax, the amount to be raised by tax upon the efit of fire taxable property of said village, to be applied for the benefit of the fire nies, truscompanies in said village during the then ensuing fiscal year, which tees to desum shall be in addition to all sums which said trustees are now authorized or required to raise by tax; and any restrictions contained in any part of the act hereby amended shall not be deemed to limit or prohibit the raising of the money hereby required to be raised; and having so determined said trustees shall cause such sum to be apportioned and Amount collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes in mined to said village; but said trustees shall not cause to be apportioned or col- be appor lected for the purpose herein mentioned any greater sum than the sum and colof one thousand dollars in any one year; and the moneys to be col- lected. lected, as above provided, shall be expended by the said trustees in the limited. purchase of such hose and other fire apparatus for the use of the several fire companies in said village, in the discretion of the said trustees according to the necessities of said several companies. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 428. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings against corporations by injunctions and otherwise," passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy. Passed May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five of an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings against corporations by injunction and otherwise," passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: so deter tioned Amount associa § 5. The provisions of this act shall extend and apply to all corpora- Corpora tions and joint-stock associations, created or existing by the laws of this tions and or of any other State or Government, doing business within this State, tions to or having a business or fiscal agency or an agency for the transfer of its which prostock therein, and to the directors, trustees, managers and other officers this act apply. of such foreign corporations or joint-stock associations, and to all pro visions of Streets, alleys, lanes, drains, cross walks, ceedings by the Attorney-General, in the name of the People of this State, under the laws regulating proceedings against corporations, except that it shall not apply to savings banks, or to corporations, or associations having banking powers or power to make insurances, or to such as shall be organized under the general manufacturing laws of the State. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 429. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Kingston," passed March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Passed May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section ninety-eight of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Kingston," passed March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 98. The common council shall have power to cause any street, alley, lane, highway or public ground, or any part or parts thereof, in said city, to be graded, paved or repaired, and to cause crosswalks, drains, sewers or culverts to be constructed, made, relaid, amended or repaired, and to determine, by resolution, what part or portion, if any, not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the expenses of such grading, paving, sewers or culverts, made or directed under this section, shall be paid by specting. a general tax upon the city, and such part or portion of such expense sewers, etc., powers of common council re sessment. assess sessors to make. shall thereupon become a charge upon the city, and shall be added to and raised with the next general assessment and tax for city purposes; Special as and what part or portion of such expense shall be defrayed by special assessment upon such portions of the real estate in said city, and against the owners or occupants thereof, as the assessors of said city shall deem more immediately benefited by such improvement. No part of the expense of grading or paving a street shall be assessed upon any lands not bordering on or touching said street. If the common council shall determine to assess the whole or any part of such expense by sugh Certificate special assessment, the said assessors, upon being notified so to do, shall of special forthwith proceed to make a certificate of such special assessment, enterment, as ing thereon the names of the owners or occupants of the lands assessed, and what parcels are owned by non-residents, according to their best information, and the name of any corporation or association owning any of the lands. They shall make a just and equitable assessment of ment, how the amount fixed by the common council against the said owners or occupants, and upon the lands deemed to be benefited, assessing each parcel in proportion to the benefits they deem it to receive, and shall enter in the said certificate a brief but careful description of each parcel assessed and the sum assessed upon it. When such certificate is comNotice of pleted, they shall fix a time and place of meeting to correct the same, time and and shall give notice thereof, stating where said certificate can, in the correcting meantime be seen and examined, by publishing such notice once in each certifi- of the newspapers printed in said city designated by the common council for the publication of official notices. At the time and place so Hearing. appointed, the said assessors shall meet and hear all persons appearing Assess made. place for cate. |