said property in the same manner as is provided for in the charter of said city for the collection of local assessment, and when said bridge is completed, they shall immediately cause to be assessed and collected as aforeMoney when collected to be said from said owners one-half of the cost of said bridge, treasury. which money shall, when collected, be paid into the paid into city city charter to council in construction of bridge and treasury of said city for the purpose of paying one-half of said compensation and damage and one-half the cost of constructing said bridge. Provisions of § 19. The provisions of the charter of the city of govern action Buffalo, in respect to the construction of other bridges in said city, and in respect to local assessments and the assessing tax. collection thereof, shall apply to, and govern the action of said common council, in respect to the construction of the bridge herein provided to be built, and in respect to the levying the said assessment and the collection thereof, so far as the same are not inconsistent herewith. City to pay commissioners and appraisers. 20. The city of Buffalo shall pay to the commissioners appointed by this act, and to the appraisers to be appointed as herein provided, a reasonable compensation for their services. 21. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 242. AN ACT CONFIRMING CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO, AND AUTHOR- CHICAGO. Passed April 16, 1872; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Action of common council for the cago legalized. SECTION 1. The action of the common council of the city of Buffalo, taken on the ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, whereby such council relief of Chidid authorize and direct the mayor and comptroller of said city to issue the bonds of said city to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars in aiding the people of Chicago, suffering by reason of fire; such bonds to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the comptroller of said city; the principal payable at the same place, in not more than twenty nor less than five years from the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and authorizing the mayor and comptroller to negotiate said bonds at not less than par, is hereby confirmed. § 2. The mayor and comptroller of said city are To issue bonds. Proceeds, how applied. hereby authorized to issue said bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the comptroller of said city, the principal of which bonds shall be payable at the same place, in not more than twenty nor less than five years from the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and the mayor and comptroller are hereby authorized to negotiate said bonds at not less than par. 3. The proceeds of said bonds shall be retained by said mayor and comptroller, subject to the order of the common council of said city of Buffalo, for the purpose of aiding the people of Chicago, rendered needy by the recent conflagration in that city, and shall be used and applied solely for that purpose. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE ISSUE AND REGISTRY OF THE BONDS Passed March 19, 1873; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: registered bonds to issue. to be issued. SECTION 1. The city of Buffalo is hereby authorized Coupon or to issue either registered or coupon bonds under any law heretofore or hereafter enacted, authorizing the issue of the bonds of the said city, and shall, at the request of the holder of any coupon bonds, whether heretofore or hereafter issued, issue and deliver to the said holder, on the delivery and surrender thereof to the city, registered bonds of equal amount. Such bonds shall be divided In what into and issued in such amounts as the said holders shall amounts, etc., desire, provided that the said city shall not be required to issue any bonds for a less sum than one thousand dollars, and provided further, that said bonds so issued. shall be payable upon the same terms and at the same time as the bonds for which they are so exchanged. The said city shall keep a record of all bonds surrendered for Record to be exchange and by whom surrendered, and of all bonds issued in exchange therefor, and to whom issued, comprising the dates, numbers and amounts of the said. bonds, and a reference to the laws or resolutions under which they were issued. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. kept. CHAPTER 544. AN ACT Assessments legalized. TO LEGALIZE CERTAIN ASSESSMENTS ORDERED BY THE Passed May 20, 1873; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No assessment contained in any assessment roll, heretofore delivered to the comptroller of the city of Buffalo as confirmed, shall be held to be invalid by reason of any defect in the certificate of the attorney of the city, thereunto annexed, or by reason of the absence of such certificate, or by reason of such certificate having been affixed to such roll, after said roll shall have been delivered to the city clerk, but any such rolls shall be deemed as valid as if the said certificate had been affixed thereto, as prescribed by the charter of said city. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |