made. cost, including every expense required to bring the same cost, to be into full use for the public, to be made and approved by them; and shall, in no case, increase the cost of the Aggregate work, materials and other expenses above the sum of C bridge. five thousand dollars. Each of said commissioners, Commisbefore entering upon the duties of his office, shall give give offi a bond to the People of the State of New York, with cial bonds. two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penalty of three thousand dollars, that he will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the commission aforesaid, and pay over, and account for, all moneys coming into his hands as such commissioner. sioners to tion from fund. 2. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much Appropria of that amount as shall be necessary, is hereby appro- general priated out of the general fund for the purposes of this act, and shall be paid by the Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, to the order of said commissioners, in such installments as shall be required, for work actually performed, or materials furnished for the same. sioners, stone and §3. It shall be lawful for the above named commis- Commissioners to take the stone and timber, necessary for the may use construction of said bridge, from the lands of the said timber Tonawanda Indian Reservation, but no greater amount of stone or timber than is absolutely necessary for its construction. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. dian lands. Certain provisions of general plank and turnpike act made Chap. 537. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a turnpike corporation for improving and making a road from the village of Newburgh, on the Hudson river, to Cochecton, on the Delaware river, passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and one, and in relation to toll gates and tolls upon the turnpike road of said corporation. Passed May 2, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of companies to construct plank roads, and of companies to construct turnapplicable. pike roads," passed May seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and of all acts amending the same, so far as such provisions relate to the number and location of toll gates, and the rates of toll which may be demanded and collected thereat, shall apply to the corporation known as "The President, Directors and Company, of the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike Road," and to the turnRights and pike road of said corporation. And the said corporation shall have the same rights and powers in relation to the number and location of toll gates upon its road, and the collection of tolls thereat, as if it were a corporation formed under and in pursuance of the said act. powers of corporation in relation to toll gates and tolls. Repeal. § 2. All and every part of the act entitled "An act to establish a turnpike corporation for improving and making a road from the village of Newburgh, on Hudson river, to Cochecton, on Delaware river," passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and one, and of every act amending the same, inconsistent with the first section of this act, are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 538. AN ACT explanatory of chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for a Convention to revise and amend the Constitution." Passed May 2, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ance of Constitu Coal Con vention after Nov. 5, 1967, au thorized. of mem. SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to provide for a Continu Convention to revise and amend the Constitution,' passed March twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, shall be construed as having authorized the continuance of the session of the said Convention after the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and the payment of the members, officers and at- Payment tendants of said Convention up to the final adjournment bers and thereof, and the payment of all the expenses of the said and exConvention, authorized by the said act or any acts amending the same, or authorized by the said Conven- tion. tion, whether incurred before or after the said first Tuesday of November. Nothing herein contained shall be held or construed to affirm or ratify any form or mode of submission to the people of the Constitution, by said Convention proposed. 2. The sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated to pay the expenses of the Constitutional Convention. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. officers, penses of Conven Act not to be conratify mode ting pro strued to of submit posed con stitution. Appropriaexpenses of Con-1, tion to pay vention. Extension of railroad tracks through certain avenues authorized. Chap. 539. AN ACT to authorize the extension of railroad tracks from Atlantic avenue to Prospect park, in the city of Brooklyn. Passed May 2, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The owners or lessee of the railroad tracks in Atlantic avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, are hereby authorized to extend said railroad tracks, with a double and streets track from Atlantic avenue, in and through Vanderbilt avenue to Prospect park, or in and through Carlton avenue to Warren or Baltic streets, and in and through Warren or Baltic street to Vanderbilt avenue, and in and through Vanderbilt avenue to Prospect park, together with the necessary stands, connections, turnouts, and switches for the convenient working of such extension, and connecting the same with the tracks in Consent in Atlantic avenue, upon the condition, nevertheless, that majority of before constructing said tracks on either of the routes as herein authorized, the consent thereto in writing, of the owners of a majority of the lots fronting on the route selected, shall be first had and obtained, and recorded in the office of the register of the county of One route Kings; provided, that said tracks shall be laid and constructed upon but one of the aforesaid routes.. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. writing of owners of lots along proposed route to be obtained. only to be used. Chap. 540. AN ACT to amend an act, passed May ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act making the turnpike and bridges of the Ravenswood, Hallett's Cove and Williamsburgh Turnpike and Bridge Company, free, and providing for the maintenance of the same, and for the rebuilding of the bridge over Newtown creek." Passed May 2, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: supervisor town and of Seven teenth e shall take bridge. thereof. person to draw. SECTION 1. Section three of the act making the turn- Time when pike and bridges of the Ravenswood, Hallett's Cove and of NewWilliamsburgh Turnpike and Bridge Company, free, and providing for the maintenance of the same, is hereby ward, amended as follows: "On the said nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the supervisors charge o of the said town of Newtown, and the seventeenth ward of the city of Brooklyn, shall take charge of the bridge Repairs over Newtown creek, and shall keep the same in repair, Appointand appoint a proper person to attend and manage the ment of draw in the bridge, and the expenses of said repairs, attend and of the management of said draw shall be a charge Expenses. on the said counties of Kings and Queens, each county and manto bear and pay one equal half part of the same, and the agement. common council of said city of Brooklyn shall forthwith proceed to construct a bridge over said Bushwick creek, to conwith a proper and necessary draw in the same, and to draw construct such piers and abutments in the said creek for bridge over the continuation of the streets leading thereto as they creek. may deem proper and necessary for the purposes of said abutments bridge; and the said improvement and repairs needed tinuation from time to time, shall be so done as not to interrupt the public travel over said bridge or street or the railroad thereon. § 2. The expenses of such improvement shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as the expense of grading and paving streets in said city, and of repairs Brooklyn struct Bushwick Piers, and con of streets. Public travel not to be interrupted. Expenses of improve ment; how levied and |