premises during said term in the right of such occu- Tenants pay taxes liable to estate. liable to S9. Every inhabitant of said village, having in Persons his possession or under his control, within the bounds taxation. of said corporation, any real or personal property, as trustee, guardian, executor or administrator, shall be deemed a taxable inhabitant to the amount thereof, within the meaning of this act, and may charge the tax, when paid, against the estate of which he is the trustee, guardian, executor or administrator, and no person or property shall be exempt from taxation under this act, by reason of such person or property, or the owner thereof, belonging to any particular avocation, profession or calling, but this section shall not be so construed as to affect, in any manner, the laws exempting from taxation the property of any religious, scientific, educational, charitable or literary corporation or association, or of any cemetery or cemetery association. S 10. All taxes, for the collection of which a warrant shall be issued to the collector as prescribed by this act, shall draw interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum until paid, and commencing within sixty days after the date of said warrant. TITLE SEVEN. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. $1. No person shall be deemed incompetent as justice, juror, sheriff or constable, in any suit, cause or proceeding in which the corporation shall be a No officer to appropriate money to his own use. party, by reason of his being an inhabitant of the said village. S2. Any officer of said village, who shall receive any money raised or collected under this act, and who shall lend the same or otherwise appropriate the same, or any part thereof, to his own use or that of any person in violation of his duty as such officer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction may be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. S3. No person entitled to vote at any election held under this act, shall be arrested on any civil process within the said village, on the day on which such election is held. S 4. This act shall be deemed a public act, and the legislature may at any time repeal, modify or alter the same. $5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 787. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to consolidate the several school-districts and parts of districts within the corporate limits of the village of Saratoga Springs, and to establish a free union school or schools therein." Passed April 25, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of "An act to consolidate the several school-districts and parts of districts within the corporate limits of the village of Saratoga Springs, and to establish a free union school or schools therein," is hereby amended by inserting the name of James B. McKean in the place of Augustus Bockes, as trustee. $ 2. A majority of the trustees constituting the board of education shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of organization or the transaction of any business at any of the regular meetings of the said board, and at any special meeting when all the trustees have been notified as required by said act. $ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 788. AN ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the county of Kings to raise money for the benefit of the Fire Department of the town of New Lots in said county of Kings. Passed April 25, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Kings shall cause to be levied and collected annually, by tax upon the taxable inhabitants and property subject to taxation in the town of New Lots in said county of Kings, in the same manner as other taxes in said town are levied and collected, such a sum as shall not be less than five cents nor more than eight cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the said town of New Lots, for the use of the fire department of the said town. $ 2. It shall be the duty of the collector of said town of New Lots to pay over said money, when collected, to the treasurer of said fire department or his successor, who shall apply said moneys for the benefit of said fire department. $ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 789. .AN ACT to confirm the acts of the trustees of the "Fathers' Minor Conventuals," in purchasing and mortgaging certain lands in the city of Syracuse, and to authorize them to erect buildings thereon. Passed April 25, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The acts of the trustees of the "Fathers' Minor Conventuals," a corporation formed under the provisions of the act of the legislature of the State of New York, entitled "An act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, in purchasing and taking the conveyance of lands in the second ward of the city of Syracuse, and in mortgaging the same for twentyfour thousand dollars, to raise funds to build a church edifice thereon, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and said corporation is hereby authorized to build on said lands, any buildings required for the purposes of its incorporation, notwithstanding said real estate shall exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars in value. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 790. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the preservation of the public health," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the act entitled "An act to amend the same," passed April sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Passed April 25, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of the act entitled "An act for the preservation of the public health," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: of officers. §3. The several boards of health now organized in Election any city or village in this State, except in the metropolitan district, and the several boards of health constituted under this act, shall elect from among their own members, a president and secretary of such board, and have power, and it shall be their duty: the board. 1. To meet in their respective cities, villages and Meeting of towns and fix and determine the period of quarantine to which vessels, vehicles or persons arriving in such city, village or town shall be subject; but the said board shall have power, after an examination, to reduce the period of quarantine of such vessel, vehicles or persons, if they shall deem it safe so to do. Prescription of duties of 2. To prescribe the duties and powers of the health officer; to direct him from time to time in the per- health formance thereof, and to fix the compensation he shall receive. officer. regulate etc. 3. To make orders and regulations in their discre- Powers to tion, concerning the place and mode of quarantine; qua the examination and purification of vessels, boats and other craft not under quarantine; the treatment of vessels, articles or persons thereof; the regulation of intercourse with infected places; the apprehension, separation and treatment of emigrants and other persons who shall have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease; the suppression and removal of nuisances, and all such other orders and regulations as they shall think necessary and proper for the preservation of the public health. 4. To regulate and prohibit or prevent all communication or intercourse with all houses, tenements and places, and the persons occupying the same, in which there shall be any person who shall have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease. 5. To procure suitable places for the reception of persons under quarantine, and persons sick with the Asiatic or malignant cholera, or any other malignant, infectious or contagious disease; and in all cases where sick persous cannot otherwise be provided for, to procure for them proper medical and other attendance and necessaries. |