principal and § 4. The common council shall raise each year in the annual Tax for city tax levy, such sums as shall be necessary to pay the amounts interest. of principal and annual interest falling due during the ensuing year, on the bonds provided for in this act. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 53. AN ACT to change the name of "The First Baptist Church in Became a law, March 1, 1900, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and eharged. Section 1. The name of "The First Baptist Church in Mechanic- Name ville, New York," a religious corporation, is hereby changed to "The Memorial Baptist Church of Mechanicville, New York,” and as such shall enjoy and exercise all the rights and powers it has heretofore possessed. etc., not § 2. Nothing herein contained shall in any way impair or affect Contract, any contract, liability, obligation or duty of said corporation, affected. made, entered into or incurred before the passage of this act, with or to any person or persons, corporation or corporations, or of any person or persons, corporation or corporations, with or to said corporation, or any proceedings instituted, or that may be instituted, to enforce any contract, obligation, liabil ity, or duty in favor of or against said corporation; but any and all such contracts, obligations, liabilities, duties and proceedings shall be and remain valid and binding in all respects to the same extent and liable to be enforced by and against said corporation by the name of "The Memorial Baptist Church of Mechanicville, New York," in the same manner as if the alteration contained in this act had not been made. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Transfer of property. etc., vested in board of Chap. 54. AN ACT to authorize the transfer of the control of Canandarque Became a law, March 1, 1900, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. It shall be lawful for the trustees of the Canandarque Academy, or a majority of them, to transfer all the property, rights, powers and authority of the trustees of such academy to The Board of Education of Union Free School District Number One of the Town of Canandaigua, whenever such board of education shall be thereto authorized by the voters of such district, as hereinafter provided. Such transfer shall be made by a resolution to that effect passed by the board of trustees of Canandarque Academy, attested by the signatures of the president and secretary of such board, and filed and recorded in the office of Property the clerk of the county of Ontario. Upon filing such resolution education. the offices of the present board of trustees of such academy shall become vacant, and the board of education shall be vested with all the property, rights, privileges and powers of trustees of the Canandarque Academy, and shall be subject to all the duties, liabilities and obligations theretofore resting upon the trustees whose offices shall have been vacated as aforesaid, and such board of education shall thereafter continue to exercise and perform the same in all respects and with the same authority and power as such former trustees. The said academy shall thereupon and thereafter become the academic department of such district under the name of the Canandaigua Academy; and it shall be lawful for the board of education to levy and collect taxes and expend the same for the support of such academy, subject to the provisions of law which now or may hereafter govern the levying and collection of taxes, and the expenditure thereof for the support and maintenance of the academic department of such district. The board of education Taxes for support of academy. set aside annually re- to comply shall, in each year, set aside, out of any moneys in its treasury Sum to be levied and collected for general school purposes, or ceived from invested funds, the sum of four hundred of deed. dollars, the same being the estimated average annual with terms net income of ten thousand four hundred and three dollars and seventy-nine cents, for the purpose of enabling such board of education to perform its duties as trustees of said academy in complying with the terms of the deed of conveyance bearing date the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninetynine, given by Oliver Phelps to the trustees of Canandarque Academy as limited by a certain instrument under seal, bearing the same date, and signed by Oliver Phelps, which deed and instrument are recorded in Ontario county clerk's office in liber ten of deeds at page two hundred and ninety-eight, so long as the said board of education shall hold and occupy said property for educational purposes; and the said sum of four hundred dol- Application lars to be set apart annually as aforesaid, shall be applied as provided by said instrument of limitation for the application of the annual profits arising from the twenty-five hundred acres of land therein appropriated and set aside for particular educational purposes; and the property of said academy when trans- Property ferred as herein provided to the control of said board of educa- to include tion, shall be considered in all proceedings hereafter relating to sale of land the same to include the sum of ten thousand four hundred and three dollars and seventy-nine cents heretofore estimated and declared by the trustees of said academy to be the amount of the proceeds of the sale of said twenty-five hundred acres of land mentioned in said deed and instrument of limitation. of proceeds transferred proceeds of Question to be sub mitted to § 2. The question of said board of education of union free school district number one acquiring the control and manage- voters. ment of said academy as provided in section one, of this act shall be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of such school district entitled to vote upon appropriations, at a special meeting to be called for that purpose by the board of education. At such meeting two ballots in the following form shall be supplied by such board to each voter: One, "For acquiring control of the Canandarque Academy." The other, "Against acquiring control of the Canandarque Academy." In case the majority of the votes cast shall be, "For acquiring control of the Canandarque Academy," the result of such vote shall be entered in academy. Trustees of the records of the board of education, and thereupon, whenever the provisions of section one, of this act shall have been complied with by the trustees of the Canandarque Academy, the said board of education shall become and thereafter be the trustees of said academy as herein before provided, and the powers, duties and obligations of the present trustees of such academy shall cease. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 55. AN ACT to confirm and legalize certain taxes and assessments in the city of Utica. Accepted by the city. Became a law, March 1, 1900, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Assessments legalized. All assessments and taxes levied and assessed, or attempted to be made, levied and assessed for state, county or city purposes or local improvements heretofore made, levied and assessed in the city of Utica, and the official acts of the common council of said city, the board of assessors of said city, the city surveyor and street commissioner of said city, the freeholders of said city appointed by the common council to make any such assessments, the mayor and committee of the common council on assessments of said city, and chairman of said committee and the board of supervisors of Oneida county in relation thereto are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed and declared to be valid and legal, notwithstanding any informalities or illegalities concerning the same; and all such assessments and taxes shall have full force, effect and validity as if the same had been legally made as provided by law. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any action or proceeding now pending, nor be construed to affect or legalize any agreement or compromise between the city of Utica and the Utica and Belt Line Street Railroad Company. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 56. AN ACT to correct and straighten the boundary lines of the Eighth and the Thirteenth wards of the city of Utica by annexing parts of the Fifth ward thereto. Accepted by the city. Became a law, March 1, 1900, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and annexed to ward. Section 1. All that part of the fifth ward of the city of Utica Territory as originally constituted, bounded and described as follows: eighth Beginning at a point where the centre line of Rutger street intersects a line parallel with and three hundred feet easterly of the east line of Third street, thence westerly along the centre line of Rutger street to the centre of Ballou creek, thence northerly along the centre of Ballou creek, as it winds and turns, to the westerly line of the eighth ward, thence southerly along the westerly line of the eighth ward to the place of beginning is hereby annexed to, and shall be a part of, the eighth ward of said city. All that part of the fifth ward of the city of Utica Territory as originally constituted, bounded and described as follows: Be- thirteenth ginning at a point where the centre line of Rutger street intersects a line parallel with and three hundred feet easterly of the east line of Third street, thence southerly along said last mentioned line continued, parallel with and three hundred feet easterly of the east line of Third street to the centre of Ballou creek, thence westerly along the centre of Ballou creek, as it winds and turns, to the centre of Rutger street, thence easterly along the centre line of Rutger street to the place of beginning, is hereby annexed to, and shall be a part of the thirteenth ward of said city. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. annexed to ward. |