BEGUN THE SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED THE CITY OF ALBANY. Chap. 911.* AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to create a Board of trustees for the town of Morrisania, in the county of Westchester, and to define their powers," passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other purposes. Passed July 26, 1866; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The act to create a board of trustees for the town of Morrisania, in the county of Westchester, and to define their powers, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended by adding the following additional sections: board of § 72. Whenever the board of trustees of the town Powers of of Morrisania, shall in pursuance with and under the trustees in * This law was not signed by the Governor in time to be bound with the Laws of 1866. relation to paving of Boston road. Bonds, amount of, &c. Tax for payment thereof. provisions of an act entitled "An act to create a board of trustees for the town of Morrisania, in the county of Westchester, and to define their powers,” passed April twenty second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, require.tre paving of Boston road in said town from Hazlein river to the northerly boundary of said town, and the paving of Fordham avenue in said town from its southerly terminus to the northerly boundary of said town on such part of either of said roads.or avenues as the Harlem Bridge, Morrisania d Fordham Railway Company are not required by their charter to pave, the said board shall have power to direct in the ordinance directing such improvement to be made, that three-fourths of the expense of such improvement, shall be collected by a general tax upon the taxable property of said town to be levied and collected in the same manner that other taxes are levied and collected in said town, and to be collected in installments as hereinafter provided. The said board shall have power to borrow such portion of said expense, as they shall direct to be raised by general tax as aforesaid upon the faith and credit of said town, and to that end they shall have power to issue bonds in their corporate name and under their corporate seal, signed by their president and clerk and countersigned by their treasurer, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars and in such amounts as they shall deem advisable, but not less than one hundred dollars; such bonds shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum and to be payable semi-annually, and shall not be negotiated by said boards at less than their par value. Such bonds shall be issued in such manner that not less than five thousand dollars thereof shall become due and payable on the first day of February in each and every year, beginning with the year next succeeding the year of their issue, until the whole amount thereof be paid. And it shall be the duty of said board to provide for the payment of such bonds by levying a tax upon the taxable property in said town. in each and every year sufficient to pay the said bonds and the interest thereon as fast as they mature. The moneys to be raised by tax to be in addition to |