Discon pending ings. is hereby levied as a tax on the several pieces or parcels of land on which the said original assessment has been heretofore assessed and apportioned, and no more than fifty per centum of the amounts as aforesaid assessed and apportioned on or against any of the pieces or parcels of land assessed as aforesaid, shall be collected tinuance of for, or on account of, said improvement, provided the proceeding proceed- brought and now pending in the supreme court to vacate and set aside said assessment and to restrain the city of Albany from collecting the same shall be discontinued by the entry of an order to that effect within twenty days after the passage of this act, and any proceeding brought or now pending in the supreme court to vacate or set aside an assessment for the "excavating, filling, forming and grading of Myrtle avenue in the city of Albany, from the west line of Lake avenue to the east line of Ontario street, which assessment was confirmed by the board of contract and apportionment of said city of Albany on the twenty-first Discharge day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-one." Upon payments. ment to the chamberlain of said city of the said assessments as of assess upon payments. Redemptions from herein before reduced and levied, with interest from the date of the passage of this act, at the rate of six per centum per annum the said chamberlain is hereby authorized to cancel and discharge the several assessments levied on the lots and lands for which such assessments are paid. In case said lots and lands upon tax sales. which such assessment first above mentioned and hereby reduced was levied, have been sold and have been purchased by the city, such lots and lands may be redeemed from such sale by paying fifty per centum of the amount due thereon, and for which they would otherwise be redeemable. In case such lots and lands shall have been sold to any party other than the city the same may be redeemed from such sale by paying fifty per centum of the amount due thereon, and for which they would otherwise be redeemable; and the other fifty per centum of the amount due to such purchaser shall be paid by the chamberlain of the city of Albany and be by him charged to the street contingent fund. § 2. The payment of the assessment for the "excavating, filling, forming and grading of Myrtle avenue in the city of Albany, from the west line of Lake avenue to the east line of Ontario street," which assessment was confirmed by the board of contract and apportionment of said city on the twenty-first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the time for the redemp Payment of certain assessments extended. redemption etc., ex tion of property, lots and lands purchased by the city under the Time for sale thereunder, is hereby extended in such wise that the amount tended. due to the city under such sale may be paid, one-fifth part thereof, with interest on the whole sum at and after the rate of six per centum per annum, on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and one-fifth part thereof, with like interest on the whole amount of the assessment remaining unpaid from the date on which the last previous payment of interest is provided to be paid, on each succeeding first day of September until the whole of said amount due shall be paid by each owner of any piece of property which shall have been assessed and sold and purchased by the city of Albany; provided, however, that if Proviso as any property, lots or lands so sold shall not be redeemed from such sale, and the payment shall not be made in accordance with the terms above stated that then such sales shall stand and be a valid sale of the said property, lots or lands. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. to validity of tax sales. Chap. 601. AN ACT to amend section three of article one of title one of chapter eight of part second of the revised statutes. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. York, represented in Senate The People of the State of New and Assembly, do enact as follows: statutes Section 1. Section three of article one of title one of chapter Revised eight of part second of the revised statutes is hereby amended amended. to read as follows: Marriages, in cestuous § 3. Marriages between parents and children, including henge grandparents and grandchildren of every degree ascending and and void. descending, and between brothers and sisters of the half, as well as of the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews are declared to be incestuous and absolutely void. This section shall apply to illegitimate as well as the legitimate children and relatives. Act amended. Policemen, appoint ment and Chap. 602. AN ACT to amend chapter thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An act to enable agricultural and horticultural societies to extend a more perfect protection to their property and the property of exhibitors at fairs and to allow the board of managers to appoint a police for that purpose APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. The People of the State of New and Assembly, do enact as follows: Passed, three-fifths being present. Section 1. Chapter thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. The board of managers or executive committee, of any duties of agricultural and horticultural society of this state, is hereby authorized to appoint as many citizens of this state policemen, as shall be necessary for their exhibitions, whose duty it shall be to preserve order within and around the grounds of said society, to protect the property within said grounds, to eject all persons who shall be improperly within the grounds of said society or who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay the fee, or observe the rules prescribed by the society. Said policemen shall have the same power, during the time said exhibition shall continue, that a constable may have by law in serving criminal process and making arrests. Courts of special ses sions on § 2. Any justice of the peace of the county in which said grounds. grounds are situate, may, while on said grounds, hold a court of special sessions having the same duties, powers and jurisdictions over offenses committed on said grounds and within two hundred yards beyond the boundaries thereof, as is had by a court of special sessions of a town of said county over offenses committed in that town. Fines, etc., payable to society. § 3. All fines and penalties received by a justice of the peace under the provisions of the foregoing section shall, before the close of the fair and exhibition at which the same shall be received, be handed over by him to said society for its use and Report of benefit, together with a report in writing of all proceedings had by him during said fair and exhibition; said report shall be in all respects the same as the annual account rendered for services proceed ings to society. tion of in criminal proceedings by a justice of the peace of a town to the board of town auditors thereof; and he shall receive as his Compensa compensation therefor his legal fees out of the treasury of said justices. society. town board. 4. The justice shall include in his annual report to the board Report to the offenses committed and the proceedings had and the disposition made by him of all said fines and penalties. ings. 5. The justice shall enter in his regular criminal docket, Record of proceedkept and used by him in his said town, the full proceedings of all matters coming before him under this act, stating each case separately; and the record of said full proceedings shall be kept open for public inspection on said grounds during said fair and exhibition. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 603. AN ACT to legalize the action of the electors of the incorporated village of Wellsville, in the county of Allegany and state of New York, in voting appropriations and authorizing a tax therefor; and authorizing the board of trustees to sell village property. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: electors Section 1. The acts and proceedings of the electors of the Acts and proceedincorporated village of Wellsville, in the county of Allegany and ings of state of New York, at an annual village election held therein legalized. on the twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninetythree, in voting, by majority of qualified electors voting thereon, an appropriation of eighteen thousand dollars and interest thereon, to be raised by tax, for the purpose of purchasing a lot and the erection thereon of a building for village purposes; the acts and proceedings of such electors at said election, in voting, by majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, an appropriation of five hundred dollars, to be raised by tax, to be used for the care and preservation of the village park; and the acts and proceedings of said electors at the election aforesaid in authorizing, by a majority vote, the sale of real estate owned by Tax authorized. Sale of real estate. said village, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, and are hereby declared to be as valid and of as full effect as if the ballots upon which the resolutions setting forth the propositions and questions so voted upon were printed, had been printed, in all respects, in the form and manner required by the election law, and said election had been conducted, in all respects, as provided in said act, and all other legal requirements had been strictly complied with. And the board of trustees of said village is hereby authorized to raise, by taxation, the sums authorized by said resolutions, and to expend the same as therein directed; and said board is also hereby authorized to sell the real estate directed to be sold in and by such resolution, according to the provisions thereof. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Charter amended. Polling places. Notice of meetings of board of registry. Chap. 604. AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and seventy-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and amend the several acts relating to the government of the city of Cohoes." APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, chree-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section six of title three of chapter six hundred and seventy-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two is hereby amended to read as follows: § 6. The common council shall, on or before the second Tuesday in March in each year, designate, for each election district, the polling place of said election and of each election that may be held therein during the ensuing year, which said polling place shall also be the place for holding the several meetings of the board of registry for the registration of voters therein; and shall afterward and prior to the first meeting of the board of registry for the registration of voters for any such election, and as often thereafter as it shall deem expedient, publish in the official and at least one other newspaper printed in said city, a notice of the time and several places of the meetings of the board of registry and of the time of said election. Except as otherwise provided, |