time to time as said board may determine. The first installment shall be payable immediately after the delivery of the said roll to the village treasurer; the remaining installments shall be payable each successive year thereafter on warrants issued for the collection thereof, with interest on the whole amount of such assessment unpaid at the rate of five per centum per annum from the thirtieth day after the roll is delivered to the treasurer, as aforesaid, payable with each of said annual installments. The first warrant shall command the collection of the first installment only, and the amount of the sewer, gas and water connections made by the order of the board of trustees, and each successive warrant shall command the treasurer to collect the installment then due, together with interest as above provided. All of which shall be with the privilege on the part of the person assessed to pay the entire assessment on the first warrant or to pay all unpaid assessments together with interest thereon to the date of payment of any warrant thereafter issued. § 12. Title ten of said chapter is hereby amended by adding the following sections thereto at the end thereof to be known as section eighteen and section nineteen, and to read as follows: § 18. The expense of any of the work or improvement in this title mentioned, except repairs, may be raised in an entire amount or in smaller sums from time to time as the board of water commissioners may determine. If any portion of such expense is to be borne by the village, bonds or certificates of indebtedness may be issued therefor. If such expense or any part thereof is to be assessed upon property benefited, the same or the installment to be raised, shall be assessed on the several benefited lots in proportion to the benefits received by such lots respectively. Notice of such assessment shall be given to the owners who may pay the amounts assessed within ten days after the service of such notice. At the expiration of such time, bonds or certificates of indebtedness may be issued for the aggregate amount of such assessment then remaining unpaid. § 19. The board of trustees shall include in the annual tax levy the principal or interest accruing during the same fiscal year upon bonds or certificates of indebtedness issued on account of default in the payment of local assessments under this title, and shall levy the same upon the lots or parcels in default. Such principal shall be apportioned among the lots or parcels in default so that the tax therein will be the same as if an equal por tion of the assessment were then to be paid. Interest on an unpaid assessment shall be added to such tax at the rate payable by the bond or certificate of indebtedness which must be computed to the time when the principal or an installment will become due; or if no principal will become due during the fiscal year, then the interest accruing during that year upon the assessment must be levied upon such lot or parcel. § 13. Title eleven of said act is hereby amended by adding the following section thereto at the end thereof to be known as section nine. § 9. The contract heretofore entered into by the board of trustees acting as the board of light commissioners of said village, with Ernest Feyler for lighting the streets and public places of said village with electricity, is hereby in all things validated, ratified and confirmed. The board of light commissioners may at any time in its discretion modify said contract by providing for the payment of the expense of such lighting in quarterly payments instead of annual payments. § 14. Section three of title fourteen of said chapter is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. Enumeration of inhabitants; where filed. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the village of Lancaster shall be taken under the direction of the board of trustees in the month of January, nineteen hundred and two, and in the same month in each fourth year thereafter. The enumeration must show the full name of each person, and whether he is over or under twenty-one years of age. The persons taking such enumeration shall attach thereto a tabulated statement showing the whole number of inhabitants as appears by the enumeration, the number over and the number under twenty-one years of age. Such enumeration must be signed by the persons taking it and filed with the village clerk on or before the twentieth day of January. The board of trustees must immediately cause a notice to be published in the official paper, if any, and posted in at least five conspicuous public places in the village, stating that such enumeration has been taken and filed in the office of the village clerk, and that the board will meet at a time and place specified in such notice, which time must not be less than three nor more than six days after the filing of such enumeration, to hear all objections thereto, and to correct and revise the same. The board of trustees shall meet accordingly, and after hearing all objections, shall finally correct Charter amended, Real or personal the enumeration and cause it to be filed in the office of the village clerk, on or before the first day of the following February. The village clerk shall, within one week thereafter, transmit to the clerk of Erie county, and to the secretary of state, a certificate of the total population of the village, as appears from such enumeration. § 15. This act takes effect immediately. Chap. 34. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the Became a law March 4, 1898, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and ninetyseven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to incorporate the Metropolitan Museum of Art," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. Said corporation may take and hold by gift, devise, beproperty. quest, purchase or lease, either absolutely or in trust for any pur pose comprised in the objects of the corporation, any real or personal property necessary or proper for the purposes of its incorporation. Charter § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 35. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Binghamton," relating to the election and terms of officers. Accepted by the city. Became a law March 4, 1898, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section ten of title two of chapter two hundred and amended. fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, en titled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Binghamton," as amended by section nine of chapter eight hundred and fiftyeight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended to read as follows: and term of mayor. visor. § 10. The mayor in office when this act takes effect, shall hold Election his office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected and until his successor shall have been chosen and qualified, and at the election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of that year, and every two years thereafter, a successor shall be chosen for the term of two years. At the Aldermen. election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, a successor to each alderman now in office shall be chosen to hold office from the third Tuesday in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, until the expiration of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and at the election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of that year, and every two years thereafter, their successors shall be chosen for the term of two years. At the afore- Supersaid election in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and every two years thereafter, a successor to each supervisor now in office shall be chosen, their terms to be co-ordinate with that of supervisors in the towns of Broome county. The assessors in Assessors. office when this act takes effect, shall hold over and continue in office until their successors shall have been chosen and qualified. At the city election in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and every four years thereafter, there shall be chosen one assessor; at the city election in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and every four years thereafter, there shall be chosen two assessors. The term of office of the assessors hereafter elected shall be four years, beginning on the first of January next after their election. The constables in office Conwhen this act takes effect, shall continue in office until the expiration of the terms for which they were respectively elected, and until their successors shall have been chosen and qualified. At the city election in November, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, two constables shall be chosen for the term of four years from the first day of January then following, and every four years thereafter two constables shall be chosen; and at the city election in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two constables shall also be elected for the term of four years beginning on the first day of January next following. Every four years stables. Overseer of poor. peace. thereafter two constables shall be elected for a term of four years. The overseer of the poor in office when this act takes ef. fect, shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected and until his successor shall have been chosen and qualified. At the election to be held in November in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and every two years thereafter, an overseer of the poor shall be elected for a term of two years beginning on the first of January next folJustices of lowing. The justices of the peace in office when this act takes effect, shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms and until their successors shall have been chosen and qualified. At the city election to be held in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, a justice of the peace shall be chosen whose term of office shall be four years, beginning on the first day of January next following, and at the city election in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, there shall be elected a justice of the peace whose term of office shall be four years, beginning on the first day of January next following. And every four years after each of such dates, a justice of the Terms of peace shall be elected. All officers elected at any election held as herein before provided, shall, unless otherwise provided by this act, enter upon the performance of their duties upon the first day of January succeeding their election, and they shall hold for the term in this section provided, and until their successors have taken the oath of office and become duly qualified to serve. The terms of office of the city clerk, corporation counsel and city engineer, city treasurer and recorder in office when this act takes effect, shall be neither abridged nor extended by the provisions of this act, and shall terminate as follows: The city clerk, corporation counsel and city engineer, on the third Tuesday in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; the city treasurer, on the second Monday of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and the recorder, with the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; but each shall hold until successor has been appointed and become duly qualified to serve. No officer required to give security, shall enter upon the duties of his office until such security shall have been given and approved. office. Security. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |