Proviso. by tax for defraying the incidental expences of carry ing the several bye-laws and regulations into effect, which money so to be raised shall be assessed upon the freeholders and inhabitants of said village in proportion to their property, real and personal, within said village, by the trustees thereof, and collected by the collector of said village in the same manner as the taxes of the county of Niagara are collected, by virtue of a war rant to him directed, signed by a majority of the trus tees of said village, and by him paid into the hands of the treasurer thereof: Provided, That no tax shall be levied or monies raised, assessed or collected for ered ing public buildings, or for defraying any inciden expences of said village, nor any sale or purchased any real or personal estate be made, nor any fire gine house or houses, or market-house erected or di posed of without the consent of the freeholders and inhabitants of said village assembled, qualified to vote for members of assembly, or a majority of them, to be given at a public meeting duly notified as herein Further after mentioned: Provided, That such real estate which proviso. said corporation may lawfully hold, over and abo what may be necessary for streets, roads and publ places, and for the accommodation and use of public buildings, shall not at any time exceed the a nual value or increase of fifteen hundred dollars. II. And be it further enacted, That on the first MonElection day of May in every year, the freeholders and inhawhen and bitants of said village who are qualified to vote asafore made. said, shall assemble in the said village at such time of how to be the day and at such public place therein as the trustees thereof shall from time to time appoint and notify it the same manner as is herein after directed for calling special meetings, and then and there, by a plurality of votes of those attending said meetings, to choose by ballot five trustees, one treasurer, one clerk, one co lector, and three fire-wardens, being freeholders and inhabitants of said village, at which first election the trustees appointed by this act shall preside as inspec tors of said election, and shall canvass the ballots given at the said election, and declare the several officers S a who may be chosen, and shall have power to decide on the qualifications of electors; and in order to ascertain the qualifications of any person offering himself as an elector, may examine him on oath, to be administered by one of said trustees; and the trustees so to be elected by virtue of this act, or a majority of them, and their successors in office, shall preside at all fuure elections and public meetings of the freeholders and inhabitants of said village, and shall have the like powers and authority as above mentioned; and the aid trustees shall provide and keep poll books wheren shall be entered the names of the persons who shall ote at said election: Provided, That in case of the Proviso. eath or absence of the trustees of said village, or a najor part of them, or their inability to attend at such lection, the freeholders and inhabitants, or a majority of them so attending, may appoint some other suitable persons to preside at such elections in their stead; and uch trustees, treasurer, clerk, collector and fire-warens so elected shall continue in office for one year, nd until others shall be appointed and qualified in heir stead; and the said treasurer and collector shall, efore they enter upon the execution of the duties of eir respective offices, severally give to the trustees of id village for the use and benefit of the freeholders nd inhabitants thereof, a bond with two sufficient surees, to be approved of by said trustees, or a majority f them, in the sum of one thousand dollars each, conitioned for the due execution of the duties of their repective offices and faithful discharge of the trust reosed in them respectively; and it shall be the duty of e said clerk from time to time to enter all rules, reulations and proceedings of the said freeholders and habitants in a book or books to be provided for that urpose by the said trustees, which books shall remain the hands of the said clerk, and be at all proper mes open for the inspection of the freeholders and habitants of said village. III. And be it further enacted, That the said free- Bye-laws olders and inhabitants, at their annual meeting to be may be eld as aforesaid, and ́at such special meetings as the made. said trustees, or a majority of them, may think neces sary to call, by giving notice thereof in the public newspaper or papers printed in said village, if there should be any such paper or papers printed in said village, and by fixing a copy of said notice in three of the most public places in said village for at least six days previous to such meeting, are hereby authorized from time to time to make and establish such prudential rules and regulations as a majority of such freeholders and inhabitants so assembled and having a right to vote as aforesaid shall judge necessary and conve nient for the better improving of their common estate, and for the application and expenditure of all monies to be assessed by virtue of this act, and also to ordain "and establish such prudential rules and regulations re lative to slaughter-houses, to the cleansing and keeping in order the common streets and highways in said vil lage, and removing nuisances therefrom, and establishing, regulating and improving side-walks therein, and also to make rules and regulations proper to compel the house holders in said village to furnish themselves with a sufficient number of fire-buckets, and also t make and pass rules and regulations relative to th duties of the fire-wardens, to authorize them to inspec all chimnies, stoves and stove pipes, and to direct al what time the chimnies and stove pipes shall be cleansed and also to pass rules and regulations for guarding generally against fire in said village, and to impose from time to time such penalties on the offenders a gainst such rules and regulations, or any of them, asa majority of such freeholders and inhabitants so assem bled shall from time to time deem proper, not exceed ing five dollars for any one offence, to be recovere by said trustees in their own names, with costs of sui by action of debt, before any justice of the peace re siding within the town of Buffaloe and county of Ni gara; and in any action or actions which may be brought for or against the trustees of said village, the freeholders and inhabitants of said village shall be and they are hereby declared competent witnesses for eith er party in such action, which penalties when collecte е it shall be paid into the treasury of said village for the use of the inhabitants and freeholders thereof. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law- Firemen ful for the said trustees, or a major part of them, and may be appointed. they are hereby required to appoint a sufficient number of firemen, not exceeding twenty in number, of the inhabitants of the said village, for each and every engine, to have the care, management, working and use of the said fire-engine or engines belonging to or which may belong to said freeholders and inhabitants, and also the tools and implements belonging and appertaining to the same, for extinguishing fires; and the said trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to remove all or any of the said firemen, when and as often as they may think fit, and to appoint others in their stead, and also to make, ordain and establish such rules and regulations for the government of such firemen as to them shall appear necessary and proper. Monies V. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of said village shall not pay out of the treasury any mo-how to be nies belonging to said freeholders and inhabitants with-paid. a out an order signed by the said trustees, or a majority of them. hibited. VI. And be it further enacted, That the trustees and Accounts treasurer of said village shall annually, at the time and to be explace of holding the elections aforesaid, exhibit an account of all monies received into or paid out of the treasury of said village during the year preceding, specifying the several objects and purposes for which the same have been paid and applied. VII. And be it further enacted, That Elie Hart, Zen- First trus us Barker, Ebenezer Walden, Oliver Forward and tees. Cyrenus Chapin be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the said village for the ensuing year, commencing the first Monday in May next. CHAP. CVII. An ACT to divde the Town of Mexico, in the County I. E it enacted by the people of the state of New- New-HaYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That ven erectfrom and after the first Monday in March next, all ed. poor mo that part of the town of Mexico, in the county of O neida, comprehending the nineteenth township of Scriba's patent (so called) be and hereby is erected intoa separate town by the name of New-Haven, and that the first town meeting shall be held at the house of Ansel Snow in said town. II. And be it further enacled, That the remaining part of the said town of Mexico shall be and remain a town by the name of Mexico, and the first town-meeting shall be held at the place to which the last townmeeting in said town of Mexico is adjourned. III. And be it further enacted, That as soon afte Poor and the first Tuesday in March next as is convenient, te ney to be supervisors and overseers of the poor of said towns divided. Mexico and New-Haven shall meet at some conven ent place, and divide the money and the poor of the present town of Mexico agreeable to the last tax list, and that each of said towns shall thereafter maintain their own poor. CHAP. CVIII. An ACT for the relief of Lemuel W. Jenkins and oth ers. E it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the commissioners of the land-office shall issue letters: land to be patent to Lemuel W. Jenkins for all that certain tract granted to of land under water, lying opposite to and adjoining L. W.Jen- his farm in the city of Hudson, comprehended within Bounds of kins. to the following bounds, to wit: beginning at a certain hollow or gully through Lemuel W. Jenkins' land, on the east bank of the Hudson river, at a place bearing south sixty-two degrees west from the westermost end of Still house wharf in the city of Hudson, distant from said wharf sixty-five chains and fifty links, thence north twen ty-two degrees east, three chains, thence south seventy six degrees west twelve chains, thence south sixty-seven degrees west twenty-four chains, thence south sixtythree degrees west sixty-one chains, thence south fifty degrees west eleven chains and forty links, thence south sixty-nine degrees east thirty chains to said Jenkins' |
