bye laws of the said corporation, next after the receipt of his warrant for collecting any tax that may have been ordered to be raised, collect and pay the same to the treasurer; and that all monies which may at any time be in the hands of the treasurer, shall be liable to be drawn out by the trustees, or the major part of them, and applied and disposed of as shall have been directed by the freeholders and inhabitants of said village. ments. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees Truffees to shall keep a just and accurate account of their necessary accounts of keep accurate expenses and disbursements, and on exhibiting the same their difburfe to the treasurer shall be entitled to receive the amount thereof out of any monies in the treasury; and that the Compenfation treasurer, collector and assessors shall be paid for their several services such suitable compensation as the said trus tees, or a majority of them, by a bye law of the said corporation shall provide. furer, collector and affef to the trea fors. ration. XIV. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be law- Restriction ful for the said corporation to purchase or hold any real on faid corpo estate whatsoever, not lying or being within the limits of the said corporation. XV. And be it further enacted, That the trustees to be elected by virtue of this act, shall continue in office and be authorized and empowered to execute and perform all and singular the powers and duties in this act contained belonging to their office of trustees as aforesaid until the first Tuesday in May next following after their election of trus tees as aforesaid, and until a new election for trustees of the said village shall be made pursuant to this act, and until the trustees so last chosen shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation of the office of trustee. TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION. CHAP. LXXXV. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Trustees how long to con tinue in office. Inhabitants I. Bref liet VOL. II. Сс within cer tain limits to elect annually five trustees. Trustees may take grants of lands for inhabitants. of the city of Albany at one mile from the place of be ginning, thence easterly along the same north bounds to the place of beginning, to assemble annually on the second Tuesday in May in every year, at such place and at such time of the day as the trustees for the time being or the major part of them shall by public advertisement appoint, and under the direction of the said trustees or such of them as shall be present, who are hereby made inspectors of such election, then and there by a plurality of voices to elect five discreet inhabitants being freeholders to be trus tees as aforesaid, who shall continue in office until the second Tuesday of May in the next ensuing year and until others shall be chosen in their place. II. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees and their successors are hereby enabled to take a grant or the ufe of the grants, feoffment or feoffments of any lands and tenements lying and being within the limits aforesaid, and to hold the same to them and their successors for ever, in trust to and for the common use and benefit, of the freeholders and inhabitants aforesaid. Inhabitants at public meetings to make rules relative to their common lands, &c. III. And be it further enacted, That the said owners of houses or land and the said freeholders and inhabitants, at their annual meetings to be held as aforesaid, and at such other times of the year as the said trustees or a majority of them may think necessary to advertise for the purpose, shall be and they are hereby authorized from time to time to make such prudential rules and regulations, as a majority of such owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants so assembled and having a right to vote shall judge necessary and convenient, for the better improving their common lands, and for ascertaining and directing the use and management thereof; and also to ordain and establish such prudential rules and orders relative to the cleansing and keeping in order and repair the common streets and highways within the limits before mentioned, and for removing nuisances therefrom, and also to make and ordain rules and regulations proper to compel the householders to furnish themselves with a sufficient number of fire-buckets, and with necessary tools and implements for extinguishing fires; and to impose such penalties on the offenders against such rules and regulations, or any of them, as the majority of such owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants so assembled, shall from time to time deem proper, not exceed How recover- ing five dollars for any one offence, to be recovered by the ed & applied. said trustees, and in their own names with costs of suit, for the use of the said owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants, by action of debt before any jus tice of the peace residing in the county. And impofe penalties. Trustees to appoint a clerk. IV. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees and their successors shall from time to time appoint one fit person to be a common clerk for the said owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants, whose duty His duty. it shall be to record all rules and regulations made by the said owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants, at their meetings as aforesaid, in a proper book to be by him provided for such purposes, and also to do and perform all such matters and things as the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall lawfully from time to time by writing under their hands direct and appoint; and the Trustees to said trustees and their successors shall make such pruden- make ride as tial rules and regulations, as they or a majority of them the inhabitants neglect shall deem proper, for regulating, cleansing, paving and or refufe to repairing the streets, and doing all and singular such acts as the freeholders and inhabitants might lawfully do; Provided always, That the powers hereby in this last paragraph given to the trustees aforesaid shall be exercised only when the freeholders and inhabitants neglect or refuse to make the regulations contemplated by this act to be made by them. aforefaid if make the fame. regulate fire V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be Trustees to lawful to and for the said trustees or the major part of appoint and. them, and they are hereby required from time to time to men.. appoint a sufficient number of men, willing to accept, not to exceed twenty in number, out of the inhabitants within the limits aforesaid, to have the care, management, working and use of the fire engine or engines belonging or which may belong to the said owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants, and also the tools and instruments for extinguishing fires; and the said trustees or the major part of them are hereby authorized and empow ered to remove or displace all or any of the firemen so as aforesaid to be appointed, when and as often as they shall think fit, and others in their stead to appoint, and also to make, establish and ordain such rules and regulations for the government, conduct, duty and behaviour of such fire-men as to them shall appear necessary and proper. determine raised for im roads. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be Inhabitants lawful for the said owners of houses and land and free-annually the holders and inhabitants, at their annual meeting for elect- fum to be ing trustees, by a majority of voices to determine what proving the sum in the aggregate shall be raised, levied and collected from the said owners of houses or land and freeholders and inhabitants resident within the said limits, for paving and other improvements on the highways therein; and to impower the said trustees to apportion the sum so to be raised amongst the said owners of houses or land, freeholders and inhabitants, in proportion to the advantages which they shall deem to result to each from any such repairs or improvements; Provided always, That such sum Same not to shall not in any one year exceed the sum of two hundred exceed in any and fifty dollars; and shall in like manner raise a sum year 250 dola V And to purchafe a fire engine. sufficient to purchase an engine for the more effectual extinguishing of fires within the said limits, or within the city of Albany, and shall in like manner apportion to each his or her proportion of the expense. CHA P. CVII. An ACT to vest certain Powers in the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Villages of Troy and Lansingburgh. Passed 2d April, 1801. Bounds of the I. village of Lanfingburgh B E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the district of country contained within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning at a point in the division line between the counties of Albany and Rensselaer opposite the mouth of the creek on which John D. Vander Heyden's mill now stands, from thence running on a line due east to the foot of the first range of hills, thence northerly on a line along the foot of the said first range of hills until said line strikes the north bounds of the farm of Cornelius Lansing and on which the said Cornelius Lansing now lives, thence westerly along the north bounds of the said farm to the division line between the counties of Rensselaer and Saratoga, thence along the westerly line of the said county of Rensselaer to the place of beginning, shall continue to be known and distinguished by the name of the village of Freeholders Lansingburgh; and the freeholders who may from time to thereof annu- time reside within the aforesaid limits, shall annually on the ally to choose five truftees. third Tuesday of May meet at some proper place, by the trustees of the said village to be appointed and notified to the inhabitants thereof at least one week previous thereto, and then and there choose five discreet freeholders resident within said village, to be trustees thereof, and the trustees for the time being shall preside at such meeting, and shall declare the several persons having a majority of votes as duly chosen trustees. Freeholders of the village incorporated. corporation. II. And be it further enacted, That all the freeholders residing within the aforesaid limits are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name of "The trustees of the village of Lansingburgh," Powers of the and by that name they and their successors may have perpetual succession, and be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, and of defending in all courts and places. whatsoever, in all manner of actions and causes whatsoever; and they and their successors may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure, and shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the public use of said village, and of erecting public buildings, such as fire engine houses, school houses, market houses, of raising money by tax for erecting those public buildings, or making any other necessary improvements, which money so to be raised shall be assessed upon the freeholders and inhabitants of said village, in proportion to their property, by three judicious assessors, to be by the freeholders and inhabitants of said village qualified to vote at town meetings chosen at their annual meetings, and collected by the collector of the corporation in the same manner as the taxes of the county of Rensselaer are collected, by virtue of a warrant to him directed signed by a majority of the trustees; Pro- The confent vided nevertheless, That no tax shall be levied or monies of a majority raised, assessed or collected for erecting public buildings tants neceffaor making any other necessary improvement, nor any pur- acts. chase or sale of any real estate be made, nor any public building erected or disposed of, without the consent of the freeholders and other legal voters of the said village, or the major part thereof, to be given at a public meeting duly notified. of the inhabi ry to certain tial rules, III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Trustees to for the said trustees, or the major part of them, and their make pruden successors, to make and publish such prudential rules and regulations as they from time to time shall deem meet relative to public markets within the said village, relative to the streets, alleys and highways of said village, and to draining, filling up, paving, keeping in order and improving the same, relative to slaughter-houses and nuisances generally, relative to the establishing, regulating and ordering their fire company and ordering and procuring fire-buckets, fire utensils, and guarding against fire generally, relative to a town watch and lighting the streets of said village, relative to the number of taverns and inns to be licensed, relative to the restraining geese, swine or cattle of any kind, relative to the better improveing their common lands, and relative to any thing whatsoever that may concern the police and good government of the said village; but no such bye laws shall extend to the regulating Under certain or ascertaining the prices of any commodity or articles. of provision that may be offered for sale; Provided also, That such bye laws shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States; and the said trustees And may imor the major part of them, as often as they shall make pofe fines to and publish any such bye laws for the purposes aforesaid, amount. may make and provide such reasonable fines against the offenders of such laws as they may think proper, not exceeding twenty-five dollars for any one offence, to be pro-secuted and recovered before any justice of the peace, or court of record having cognizance of the same, by and for the use of the trustees of the said village of Lansingburgh. IV. And be it further enacted, That the said freeholders and inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid, at their choose affefannual meetings to be held for choosing trustees, or at er, collector reftrictions. a certain Inhabitants to fors, treafur and fire-wardens. |