CHAPTER 173. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF BUF- Passed April 4, 1873; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Comptroller to add to gen eral tax rolls tax returned SECTION 1. The comptroller of the city of Buffalo is hereby authorized to add to the general tax rolls containing the tax to be levied for general purposes in the as unpaid. city of Buffalo for the fiscal year commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, all taxes returned into his office unpaid, which were assessed pursuant to the provisions of sections seven and eight of title eleven of an act entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," passed April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, for school purposes; and for the collection of which, by the provisions of section. nine of said title, the same proceedings were to be had as were provided in said act for the collection of the general tax. And he is further authorized to collect said unpaid taxes out of the several parcels of land upon To collect which they shall have been levied, or from the owners thereof, in the same manner as he is now authorized to collect said general tax, and as if said unpaid taxes were a portion thereof. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. same. Proceedings to extend Gen galized. AN ACT TO CONFIRM THE PROCEEDINGS TAKEN BY THE COMMON Passed May 12, 1873; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The proceedings taken by the common esee street le- council in the city of Buffalo, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to lay out and extend Genesee street from its then present termination at Best street through to intersect the Buffalo and Batavia plank road, and all proceedings taken to lay ont and extend Genesee street as aforesaid, are hereby declared to be legal and valid. On payment of awards in the city. § 2. On payment to the respective owners, persons lands to vest and corporations interested in the lands taken for the said extension of said street of the several amounts respectively awarded to such persons and corporations by the commissioners appointed in the matter of such extension by the superior court of Buffalo, on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the lands taken for such extension shall vest in the said city for the purposes of a public street, and the said extension of said streets, as the same appear on the map attached to the report of said commissioners, and filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of Buffalo, on the twentyninth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be and constitute a public street of said city. 30 CHAPTER 880. Swing bridge across ship canal to be constructed. Commissioners to be appointed. Location of bridge. Meeting and AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SWING BRIDGE Passed May 2, 1871; three-fifths being present. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Buffalo are hereby authorized and empowered to construct, or cause to be constructed, a swing bridge, over the city ship canal in said city. Before taking any proceedings in reference thereto, they shall appoint three reputable freeholders of said city as commissioners for the purpose of taking the lands and property necessary for the approaches to said bridge. § 2. The said bridge shall be located between the westerly line of Main street and the easterly line of Michigan street, extended across said city ship canal at right angles with the center line thereof, upon the most practicable line, conforming as near as may be to the line of the proposed bridge across Buffalo river. § 3. The said commissioners shall meet at the office oath of com- of the clerk of said city, within thirty days after their appointment, and there severally take, subscribe and missioners. file an oath, faithfully to perform the duties devolved upon them by this act. meeting to be § 4. The said commissioners shall then give public Notice of first notice of the time and place of their first meeting there- given. after, which notice shall be published in five successive numbers of the official paper of said city. ers to view location. other meet § 5. At the time appointed in such notice the said Commissioncommissioners shall meet at the place mentioned therein, and thence proceed together to view the territory within which such bridge is herein required to be located; and they shall thereafter appoint such other times and places To appoint of meeting as they shall deem proper, and shall hearings and hear such legal evidence as shall be offered to them, respecting ested. the location of such bridge, by any person or corporation interested in or to be affected by the location or construction thereof. of parties inter made and 8 6. Within sixty days from the date of filing their Report to be oath of office, the said commissioners, or a majority of filed. them, shall make and sign a report in which they shall specify and describe the location of said bridge, and the lands and property taken by them for the same, and for the approaches thereto; and shall file the same in the office of the clerk of said city. The lands and property tribed in reso specified and described in said report shall then be port to be deemed to have been taken by the city of Buffalo for the purposes aforesaid. Lands des deemed Report to be common $7. At the next meeting of the common council of said city thereafter the clerk shall present the said report presented to to said common council; and the said common council shall, within two weeks thereafter, by resolution, declare its intention to apply to the superior court of Buffalo, at a special term thereof (the time and place for the holding of which shall be designated in said resolution), for the appointment of three appraisers to ascertain and report the just compensation to be paid to the owners of the land and property so taken, or to any person interested therein, and the damages which in their judgment any Council to apperior court ply to sufor appointment of ap praisers. |