and streams. with other railroads. the same right and privileges, and be subject to the same highways restrictions in crossing highways and streams which are required of railroad companies, by the general railroad law and the acts amendatory to the same, and they may connection run their cars in connection with, and upon any other railroads, and may permit other railroads to run their cars in connection with and upon the roads of this corporation. The terms and conditions of such connection to be mutually agreed upon by the corporations thus connecting. may regu fare and tariff. § 7. It shall be lawful for the corporators herein Directors named, or the directors of the corporation when duly late rate of formed, to fix a tariff of prices for freight and passage on passenger their roads, or any part thereof, and from time to time freight to alter the same as they may deem proper, subject however, to alterations at any time by the Legislature, and ten years is hereby granted said corporation to build and pleted complete said road after the passage of this act. §8. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 506. AN ACT to change the name of the Bayside and The People of the State of New York, represented in SECTION 1. The name of the Bayside and New York Ferry Company is hereby changed to that of the Green wood and New York Ferry Company. § 2. The sixth section of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Bayside and New York Ferry Company," passed June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Railroad to be com within ten years. Name changed to Green wood and New York Ferry Co. to receive tions to "§ 6. The persons made directors in pursuance of the Directors third section of this act, shall be commissioners to receive subscrip subscriptions for the capital stock of the company, and capital said company may commence business at any time within stock. When company shall com one year from the first day of May, one thousand eight mence busi- hundred and sixty-eight." ness. Company may run ferry boats § 3. The seventh section of the said act is hereby amended, so that the said company may lease, purchase, build and run steam ferry-boats from any point between Twenty-fifth and Forty-fifth streets, in the city Brooklyn. of Brooklyn. between 25th and 45th streets, Widening of Vander § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 507. AN ACT to provide for the laying out of public highways in the town of East Chester, and county of Westchester. 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 seventy-two of title one, part one, chapter sixteen, article four, second volume of the fifth edition of the Revised Statutes, shall not in anywise affect, apply to, or prevent the laying out, opening or working of any public highways in the town of East Chester, in Westchester county, and said section seventytwo is hereby repealed, so far as being applicable to said town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 508. AN ACT to widen Vanderbilt avenue, in the city of Brooklyn. 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. Vanderbilt avenue, in the city of Brookbilt avenue. lyn, is hereby widened from Atlantic avenue to its southerly termination at Flatbush avenue, by taking from the easterly side of said Vanderbilt avenue, as now opened, a strip of land thirty feet in width, so that said avenue, after the said widening, shall be of the width of one hundred feet between the points aforesaid. sioners to be appoint ed. council to fix district of assessment. § 2. The attorney and counsel to the city of Brooklyn Commis is hereby authorized to apply to the supreme court, at any special term thereof to be held in the second judi cial district, or the county court of Kings county, for the appointment of three disinterested persons, as commissioners, to estimate the expense of said widening. It shall be the duty of the common council, as soon as Common possible after the passage of this act, to fix a district of assessment for said improvement. And after said commissioners shall have been appointed, and the common council shall have fixed a district of assessment, all laws Laws relanow in force relating to the opening, widening and tive to extending of streets and avenues in the city of Brooklyn opening not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall ing, made apply to the proceedings of said commissioners, and to the confirmation of any report which they may make, and to any assessment laid for said improvement. street and widen applicable. cates of in to issue. terest, and from sale applied. cates; how §3. After the report of said commissioners shall Certifi have been confirmed, the city of Brooklyn is authorized, debtedness and the proper officers thereof are hereby directed to issue certificates of indebtedness to the necessary amount, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, payable Rate of insemi-annually, and payable on or before the expiration time of of three years from the date thereof, which certificates payment. shall not be sold for less than their par value. The Proceeds proceeds of the sale of said certificates shall be dis- of certifi bursed, from time to time, as may be required in payment of the awards and expenses of said improvement. The collector of taxes and assessments in said city is hereby authorized to receive said assessments in installments of not less than one-third thereof, with accrued sessments interest, and default on the installment paid in. The ments, joint board of aldermen and city supervisors, and the board of supervisors, respectively, shall annually make provision by tax for the payment of the annual interest on said certificates, and levy the same on the premises assessed as part of the general tax, and in the year preceding the maturity of said certificates, the amount of any assessment remaining unpaid, with the interest and Collector of axes may in install Board of and city su aldermen pervisors to payment of How to be interest. assessed. Rates of ferriage. Penalty for taking illegal rates. ing which default accrued therein, shall form part of, and be levied and assessed upon said lands, chargeable with said assessment as part of the general tax upon said lands for the general expenses of said city. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 509. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to authorize Edwin C. Bowen to establish and maintain a ferry across the Cayuga lake at Union Springs," passed April twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Passed May 1, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of the act entitled "An act to authorize Edwin C. Bowen to establish and maintain a ferry across the Cayuga lake at Union Springs," passed April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. The said Edwin C. Bowen, his heirs or assigns, may charge and receive, as the rate of ferriage on said ferry to be established under the provisions of this act, for a carriage and two horses, one dollar; for a carriage and one horse, seventy-five cents; for a sulky and horse, seventy-five cents; for every horse or head of cattle, in addition to those above mentioned, forty cents; for each foot passenger, thirty cents. § 2. The fourth section of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 4. If any higher rates shall be taken by the said Edwin C. Bowen, his heirs or assigns, or by any person or persons in his or their employ, than those provided Hours dur in section three of this act, for ferriage at any and all ferry shall reasonable hours, or at such hours as may be estabestablished lished by the supervisors of the counties of Cayuga sors of and Seneca, as hereinafter provided in section fifth of and Seneca this act, the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the injured party the sum of fifty dollars. run, to be by supervi Cayuga counties. § 3. The sixth section of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Ferry fran tend one or south. chise to ex mile north Penalty for infringe thereon. §6. If any person or persons, after the ferry created by this act shall be established and in operation, shall, without application for carriage to said Bowen, his heirs and assigns, first made and by him or them refused, transport across said lake any person or persons, their baggage, horses, carriages, cattle, goods or chattels, or ment furnish transportation for the same between the village and landing named in section first of this act, or within a distance not exceeding one mile north or south of a right line connecting the said village of Union Springs and the said Cayuga landing, except as hereinafter provided, such person or persons first mentioned in this section, shall forfeit and pay five dollars for each offense, to such party as may own said ferry at the time of such offense. § 4. The seventh section of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: may trans own fami § 7. Nothing in this act contained shall interfere with Persons the right of any person to use his own boat or vessel for port their the conveyance of himself or his family, or for the transportation of his own goods and chattels, or in and about his own business. Chap. 510. AN ACT confirming the acts of the people of the town of Ellicottville, Machias, and Great Valley, in the county of Cattaraugus, and authorizing the said several towns to subscribe to the capital stock of the "Cattaraugus Railway Company." 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: tween points named in charter. proceed taxpayers SECTION 1. A majority of the tax payers of the town Acts and of Ellicottville, in the county of Cattaraugus, represent-ings of ing a majority of the taxable property of said town of Ellicotthaving, by writing, by them signed and certified, pledged chias and the faith and credit of said town, to the Cattaraugus ley, con ville, Ma Great Val |