L. 1897, ch. 738,

Chap. 42.

AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act creating a board of assessors in and for the city of Utica, and defining its powers," relative to preparing and review of assessment-rolls.

Became a law March 23, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

Accepted by the City.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision two of section nine of chapter seven $9, subd. hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and amended by ninety-seven, entitled "An-act creating a board of assessors in and

2, as

L. 1908, ch. 129,

amended.

for the city of Utica, and defining its powers," as amended by chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

2. Preparing and review of assessment-rolls. In the manner provided in the tax law or other general laws of the state, relative to the listing, valuation and assessment of property for the purposes of taxation, said board shall proceed to make, correct, review, complete and verify the assessment-rolls for each ward of said city. The annual assessment of property in the city shall be made by the assessors thereof by the fifteenth day of June, and the assessmentroll shall be completed on or before the fifth day of July. Forthwith the board of assessors shall cause a notice to be posted conspicuously in public places of the city and published in the official papers, stating that they have completed the assessment-roll and that a copy thereof has been placed in the assessors' office for public inspection, and that on a day specified in said notice, not less than ten days from the completion of said roll, the board shall meet to hear and determine complaints and objections to such assessment, which day shall be known as grievance day. Upon the day so designated the board shall meet and act in conformity with said notice. Upon the completion and verification of the assessmentroll, it shall be filed, on or before the twenty-fifth day of July with the city clerk, there to remain ten days for public inspection. A separate assessment-roll shall be made for each ward of the city, prepared as prescribed by the tax law, except that they shall contain sixth and seventh columns. The said board of assessors shall insert in the sixth column the city tax and file said roll with such city tax thereon duly verified by the assessors as prescribed by law, in the city clerk's office, and said city clerk on or before October fifteenth in each year shall deliver to the supervisor of each of the several wards in the city, the said assessment-rolls, and such supervisor shall deliver the same to the board of supervisors as the assessment-rolls of the city, and upon such rolls the board of supervisors shall insert, or cause to be inserted, in the seventh column thereof, the amount of the state and county tax, and attach thereto their warrant for the collection thereof, and the same shall thereupon be filed by the supervisor of such ward with the department of assessment and taxation of the city. It shall be the duty of each supervisor of the city to make one copy of the assessment-roll of his ward, including the tax so inserted by the board of supervisors and the warrant so attached, which copy he shall certify to be correct, and deliver the same, upon receiving the proper bond, to the treasurer, or collector, as required by law, and for such service he shall receive the compensation fixed by law. The said board of assessors shall make one copy of each of said rolls containing the city tax and deliver the same to the city treasurer. Upon the hearing and determination of complaints in relation to assessments, on grievance day, or at any adjourned day, as prescribed by section thirty-six of the tax law, the mayor, president of the common council and chairman of the committee of the common council on legal proceedings, assessments and taxation are hereby authorized to meet with said assessors, and in the determination thereof shall have the same powers and authority possessed by such assessors. The board of assessors shall give notice of the time and place of such hearing, to the mayor, said president and said chairman personally, at least twenty-four hours before the time fixed therefor. When reviewing and correcting such assessment-rolls, the board of assessors, the mayor, president and chairman aforesaid, may insert therein any property liable to taxation which may have been omitted, on giving personal notice to the owner or occupant thereof in writing of not less than two days to attend at the time and place therein stated, and show cause why any specified correction should not be made, and they shall also have the same powers on such hearing as are possessed by the assessors of towns. The rolls when finally completed and corrected as aforesaid, shall be verified by the board of assessors, or a majority thereof, in the form and manner required by the tax law.10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

§§ 13, 14 added to L. 1879, ch. 222.

Chap. 43.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to consolidate the several school districts in the town of Grand Island, Erie county, and to provide for the election of a board of education therein," by adding two new sections with reference to distribution of funds.

Became a law March 23, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled, "An act to consolidate the several school districts in the town of Grand Island, Erie county, and to provide for the election of a board of education therein," is hereby amended by adding two new sections to be known as sections thirteen and fourteen to read as follows:

§ 13. The commissioner of education is hereby empowered and directed, when apportioning the school monies as provided in article eighteen of the education law,1 to apportion to the said school districts one district quota for each separate school in said district which has been taught by a qualified teacher, or by successive qualified teachers for at least one hundred and sixty days, inclusive of legal holidays that may have occurred during the term of said school, exclusive of Saturdays, during the school year ending July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, and each succeeding school year thereafter.

ment for

books, etc.

§ 14. The commissioner of education shall apportion annually Apportionto said school district, for each school separately maintained approved therein, an allowance equal to the amount raised from local sources, but not to exceed eighteen dollars annually, and two dollars additional for each duly licensed teacher employed in each such school for the legal term, for approved books, geographical maps and globe.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 44.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act in relation to the office of sheriff in the county of Columbia," in relation to the salary and disbursements of the sheriff.

Became a law March 23, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

ch. 268,

Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight L. 1891, of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act $ 1 in relation to the office of sheriff in the county of Columbia," is hereby amended to read as follows:1

amended.

§ 1. The sheriff of Columbia county shall receive his fees and sheriff's perquisites in all civil cases in which the same are to be paid by tion. private persons, and in addition thereto he shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly by the treasurer of Columbia county, in full of all fees or other compensation from the county of Columbia, and he shall not receive from the county of Columbia any fees, compensation or perquisites of any kind or nature whatsoever, excepting only his aforesaid salary, from which he shall pay all such assistants, other than those whose Payment salaries are herein specially provided for, as shall be proper to certain asenable him to conveniently exercise the duties of his office, and in consideration of which he shall do and perform all duties now

for transportation of persons.

Jailor; salary and duties.

or which may hereafter be imposed by law upon him without fee or reward from the county of Columbia, although the statute or law imposing such duties may provide that a fee or other comAllowance pensation be paid therefor, but he shall be entitled for the transportation of juvenile delinquents and any other person whom he is required by law to transport where the cost of such transportation is made by law a county charge, the actual railroad fare of the person so transported and the person accompanying him together with the necessary expenses for hotel, bus or street car fare of such transportation. Bills for such expenses shall be presented by the sheriff, in the form and verification required by law in the case of claims presented to the board of supervisors of Columbia county and shall be audited by such board. The sheriff shall appoint a jailor who shall receive an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars payable monthly by the treasurer of Columbia county to such jailor. The said jailor shall, in addition to his other duties to be prescribed by the sheriff, keep, under the supervision and direction of said sheriff, the "jailor's docket" of prisoners hereinafter mentioned and shall also assist when directed by the sheriff in the transportation of juvenile delinquents and other persons required by law to be transported. The sheriff, first deputy or jailor shall reside in the dwellinghouse connected with the jail, which shall be kept in suitable repair by the county of Columbia, but shall not be furnished by the county; but the sheriff's and jailor's office shall be furnished by or at the expense of the county of Columbia. The sheriff shall appoint a first deputy sheriff who shall be employed in the sheriff's office under the direction of the sheriff, who shall receive an annual salary of nine hundred and sixty dollars, payable monthly by the treasurer of Columbia county. The sheriff shall also appoint a night watchman at the jail who shall receive an annual salary of four hundred and eighty dollars payable monthly by the county treasurer of Columbia county to said night watch

Residence and office.

First deputy.

Night watchman.

Cook and other servant.

Present sheriff not affected.

man.

The sheriff is hereby allowed the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum, payable monthly by the county treasurer of Columbia county for the employment of a cook and other servant at the jail, and so report annually to the board of supervisors the names of the persons so employed, together with the amount paid to them respectively for the preceding fiscal year.

§ 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the present sheriff during his term of office.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.