Chap. 496. AN ACT to release to Catharine Chadwick, the interest of the State of New York in certain moneys arising on a sale of real estate now held by the Surrogate of Oneida county. Passed May 1, 1868; by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Catharine Chadwick, of Liverpool, England, is hereby authorized and empowered, in the same manner as though she were not an alien, to receive from the surrogate of Oneida county, through her attor ney or assigns, the monies in his hands, arising on the sale of certain real estate devised to her by the last will and testament of her brother, Edward E. Jones, deceased, late of Floyd, in said county. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or construed to affect the rights of any other grantee, devisee or heir-at-law, or any purchaser or creditor. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 497. AN ACT to enable the First Free Methodist tees. Passed May 1, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The First Free Methodist Church, in the city of Syracuse, shall continue as a corporate body, and possess the same powers as a religious corporation which it possessed when organized under the general statutes for the formation of religious corporations. On the first Meeting Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at of five trustwo o'clock P. M., the male members of full age of the tees. said society are authorized to meet at their present place of public worship, in the third ward of the city of Syra for election cuse, and elect five trustees, two of whom shall hold office one year, two two years, and one three years, and thereafter the elections for such trustees shall be held in pursuance of the general laws on the subject of reliElection; gious corporations. Said election shall be conducted in conducted. the manner now provided by law, and the certificate of election shall be made in the same way as there pro how to be Trustees to have full power over perty. vided. § 2. The trustees so elected at such meeting shall be the trustees of said church, and as such they and their succhurch processors in office shall have full power to take possession of all the property of every name and kind belonging to the said corporation, in whose hands soever the same may be. Inhabitants of village may vote §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 498. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to The People of the State of New York, represented in SECTION 1. Section twelve of the act, entitled "An to incorporate the village of Coxsackie," passed April fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 12. At any meeting of the inhabitants of said village, the persons entitled to vote thereat, upon a proposition to levy a tax upon said inhabitants, may by resofire engine, lution direct the trustees of said village from time to tax for engine house, apparatus, etc. time to procure, by purchase or lease, suitable lots of ground, on which to erect all necessary fire engine houses, hook and ladder, and hose houses, and keep the same in repair; and also to purchase all necessary fire engines, hooks, ladders, hose carts and hose, and all necessary apparatus belonging to the same, and to keep Reservoirs the same in repair; and also to construct and maintain a sufficient number of reservoirs or cisterns, and supply or cisterns. them with water for the use of such fire engines in the extinguishment of fires. be a sepa district. have streets. To make persons out list of and lands, assessed for high tion labor thereto §2. Section twenty-seven of said act, is hereby Village to amended so as to read as follows: All that part of the rate road town of Coxsackie included within the bounds of said village, is hereby declared a separate road district; and Trustees to the trustees of said village shall be commissioners of charge of highway in said village, and may require of any or all persons, who shall be assessed for highway labor, to pay his assessment in money at the rate of one dollar per day, and proceed to collect the same as other taxes in said village are collected, in which case they shall make out a list of the persons so assessed for highway labor and liable to pay the same, and of the lots and tracts of land belonging to non-resident owners of lands assessed; also the number of days' work apportioned to each, with To apporthe amount of such days' work at one dollar per day, and attach and shall annex thereto a warrant directed to the col- warrant lector of the village, commanding him to collect the Duty of amount of such assessment in money, in the same man- on receivner as other taxes of the village are collected, and pay warrant. the same to the treasurer of the village, collecting and Collector's retaining the same fees as are allowed him for the col- fees. lection of such other tax. And in case any such warrant shall be returned by said collector, with any assessment tax, to be a thereon unsatisfied, such assessment shall be a lien, and in on shall be enforced against real estate in the same manner, and to the same effect as in case of other taxes in said village. Said trustees in all other respects, however, Town shall exercise all the powers, and be subject to all the sioners of duties and liabilities of commissioners and overseers of to have no highways of towns in like cases; and the jurisdiction of in village. the commissioners of highways of the town of Coxsackie within the limits of said village shall cease. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. collector ing list and Unpaid highway lands. commis. highways, jurisdiction Trustees may pro hibit or li cense auc tion sales. Chap. 499. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the village of Newark," passed April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Passed May 1, 1868; three fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subdivision fourteen of section four of title four of an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the village of Newark," passed April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 14. To prohibit the sale of goods, wares and merchandise at auction, all exhibitions of any natural or artificial curiosity, caravans, circusses, theatrical and other shows or exhibitions or performances, for money, Also cara- within the bounds of the village; and, if the trustees shows, etc. shall deem it advisable, to license the same on payment of such sum as they shall specify, on granting such license. vans, Board of supervi § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 500. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Syracuse. Passed May 1, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section nineteen, title five, of the charter of the city of Syracuse, as passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 19. The board of supervisors of the county of Onsors, to de- ondaga, shall cause the corrected assessment rolls of each ward in the city of Syracuse, to be delivered to liver as sessment rolls and to treasu warrant, rer and tax and tax re give notice taxes; how to be the treasurer and tax receiver of said city, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, to which a warrant, under the hands and seals of the supervisors, receiver. or a majority of them, shall be annexed, commanding said treasurer and tax receiver to collect from the several persons named in the assessment rolls, the several sums mentioned in the last column opposite their respective names, and to pay over the same in the manner directed in the warrant. Upon receiving the said assess- Treasurer ment rolls, he shall give notice in the official paper or ceiver to papers of the city, of the receipt by him of such assess- of receivment rolls and warrants, and all persons named therein ing taxes. are required to pay their taxes at his office, on or before the first day of February next ensuing; also, for the three weeks following the date of such notice, any person may pay his or her county and state taxes, by paying one per cent fees thereon; after the expiration of the three weeks as aforesaid, three per cent fees shall be added to the tax and collected by him. If any such tax Notices as shall remain unpaid on the first day of February, after to unpaid the delivery of the assessment rolls and warrants, he when and shall thereupon cause a written, or a printed and written served. notice to be given to every person, resident within the city, from whom such tax may be due, specifying the amount and percentage of the tax, and requiring the same to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of Febof the same year at his office. Such notice shall be served on the persons assessed, by depositing the same in the Syracuse post office, enclosed in envelopes, and directed to the persons assessed, respectively, at Syracuse, and paying the postage thereon. If any of the persons assessed shall be known, by the tax receiver, to reside in any other places, then notices shall be directed to such other places. It shall not be necessary to make any other demand of payment of said taxes. On the When tax fifteenth day of February, the fee additional to the tax shall issue then remaining unpaid shall be five per cent, and it shall then be the duty of the treasurer and tax receiver to proceed without delay to issue his warrant, under his hand and the seal of the city, to any constable or police man of the city, or to as many of them as he may deem necessary, who may be approved by the council, com ruary receiver warrant to constables, for collect ing unpaid taxes by distress and sale. |