non-resi ers. in front thereof, may be served by the publication there- known or of in the official paper of said village at least four weeks, dent ownspecifying the number of the lot and name and street; and such notice shall be deemed properly served on the publication of said notice, and on mailing a copy thereof to said owner at his last place of business or residence, if the owner and his residence are known." streets. § 10. The requirement of law, that no public highway Width of shall be laid out of a less width than three rods, shall not apply to said village, or to the action of said trustees as commissioners of highways. § 11. Section sixty of said act is hereby amended by striking out the entire section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: licemen. and duties men. salaries. Town conreceive no stables to compensation for criminal There shall be no more than two regular policemen Policemen. in said village, who shall be appointed as herein provided; but special policemen may be appointed, to Special poserve for not more than two weeks at a time, by said president as herein stated. Said policemen shall have Powers the same powers and be subject to the same duties and of policeliabilities in criminal cases as the constables in the several towns of this state. They shall receive a monthly salary Monthly of not exceeding fifty dollars each, to be paid by said village out of the general fund, and shall receive no further or other fee for services rendered by them. The town constables of Hornellsville shall receive no compensation for any criminal business, done by them as such, arising in the said village. Said policemen shall, when so directed by the trustees or president, take care of the public buildings and lock-up, and perform such labor thereabout as required; attend the lighting and extinguishing of street lights; the cleaning of public lamps; serve and give such notices as said board are authorized to give, and which they are, by the charter of said village, now required or directed to be served or given by any other officer of said village. The en- Additional dorsement of service on any written notice, and the be imposed entry in the clerk's book of notices of the service of on policeverbal notice made by such policeman, shall be presumptive evidence of the same. crises in village. duties may men. § 12. Section sixty-five is herely amended by adding Trustees thereto the following: "and provide such rules and reg-ide regu may pro police. lations for ulations for the government of said police, the proper patrol of the streets of said village during the night and day time, and the general performance of their duties, as they may deem proper. Said police shall hold no other official position, and shall devote their time to village matters, if so required by the trustees; and they may be removed at the discretion of said trustees, and shall receive pay only for the time in the actual service of said village." § 13. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 591. AN ACT to prevent burials near the reservoirs and ponds used for the supply of the city of Brooklyn with water. Passed May 5, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful to establish any cemetery or place of burial, or burial vaults, or other place for the reception or burial of dead bodies, or to bury, or deposit in vaults, any dead body, within a distance of half a mile of the Ridgewood reservoir, or any other reservoir, or any ponds used for the supply of the city of Brooklyn with water. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent burials in any cemetery already established, or grounds now held by any religious corporation or society organized under the laws of this State. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 592. AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and fifty-nine of the Laws of eighteen hundred sixty-five, entitled "An act in relation to the collection of taxes in the city of Utica." Passed May 5, 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 four of the act entitled "An act in relation to the collection of taxes in the city of Utica," passed May one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: City treasover cer urer to pay tain mo neys. 4. The said treasurer of the city of Utica shall, within five days after the expiration of the month mentioned in the preceding section, pay over to the treasurer of the board of auditors of the town of Utica, the amount of money levied and contained in said assessment rolls as town charges, taking duplicate receipts therefor, and the balance of all the moneys which have been received by him upon said assessment rolls, he shall, within said five days, pay over to the treasurer of the county of Oneida, and the said county treasurer, upon receiving the same, shall give to the said city treasurer receipts for the amounts received upon each of said assessment rolls, by said city treasurer, and shall also credit such amounts on the books of the county treasurer to the respective collectors who have been charged with the sums to be collected on the said assessment rolls, and County shall thereupon notify the respective supervisors and to notify collectors of the several wards in said city, of the sors and amounts remaining unpaid on the assessment rolls of of unpaid their respective wards; and the said city treasurer shall tax. immediately deliver the said assessment rolls to the su pervisors of the respective wards; and the supervisor Supervisor of each ward, upon receiving from the collector of such warrant to ward the bond required in the next section, shall deliver collector. to such collector the assessment roll of said ward, to collect the taxes remaining unpaid thereon. treasurer supervi collectors to issue 2. If the city treasurer shall neglect or refuse to City treas interest in case of failure to pay over required. urer to pay comply with the provisions of the section hereby amended within the time prescribed therein, the county treasurer and the treasurer of the board of town audimoneys as tors therein described, shall each respectively demand and receive from said city treasurer, interest at the rate of fifteen per cent. per annum for the excess of time which such neglect or refusal shall continue upon the respective accounts so required to be paid them. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Qualifications of voters at city elections. Ordinances to be presented to Chap. 593. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Binghamton," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Passed May 5, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The fifth section of title three of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Binghamton," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 5. Every male citizen (who is entitled to vote at any election, by the Constitution of the State of New York,) of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days, and an inhabitant of this State for one year next preceding any election for city officers, and a resident of the county of Broome for the last four months, and of the city of Binghamton for thirty days last preceding such election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers to be elected at such election. But such citizen shall have been for thirty days next preceding such election a resident of the district from which the officer is chosen for which he offers his vote." § 2. Section three of title four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. Every ordinance or resolution of the common council (excepting those prescribing rules for their own for appro government, and appointing officers or calling for infor- the mayor mation from the officers of the city,) shall before it takes val. effect, be presented duly certified to the mayor; if he approve of it he shall sign it, in which case it shall take effect immediately thereafter unless otherwise ordered; if he do not approve of it, he shall return it with his objection to the city clerk within one week after he receives it. The council may then proceed to recon- May be sider the same, and if two-thirds of all the members passed elected then agree to pass the same, it shall take effect as a law; in every such case the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journal, and the objections of the mayor shall also be entered at length by the clerk with the other proceedings; if such ordinance or resolution shall not be returned by the mayor within one week after he has received it, it shall take effect in like manner as if he had signed it. without ap proval of two-thirds mayor by a vole. of licenses. § 3. Section four of title four of said act is hereby Granting amended by striking out the words "to authorize the mayor to grant all licenses," and inserting in place thereof the words "to authorize the mayor or person acting as such, but no other person or persons, to grant all licenses authorized by this act." And section four of said title four of said act is also further amended by adding at the close of said section four, the words, as follows: "To punish or prohibit the abuse of animals, Punishand to compel persons to fasten their horses, mules or cruelty to oxen attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing animals. without a driver in the streets. To give names to the streets, and numbers to the lots and tenements, and to change the same and to compel the owners of lots or tenements to set up or mark conspicuously thereon such numbers. ment of Common give names and num council to to streets, bers to houses. Ball play ing and To prevent or regulate the rolling of hoops, playing at ball, or any other amusement or practice tending to other annoy persons passing in the streets or on the walks, or to frighten horses. To regulate and control the running of engines and cars through the city, and the rate of speed of the same, and to regulate and prevent the obstruction of streets by engines and trains. 4. Section seven of title four of said act is hereby games. Running of and cars engines through city. |