five feet to lot number one hundred and eighty; and thence along the westerly line of lot number one hundred and eighty northerly one hundred feet five inches to Forty-third street, the point of beginning, being twenty-five feet in width, front and rear, and one hundred feet five inches in depth on each side. The same having been conveyed to the said Unatha Dougherty by deed bearing date the ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, made by Samuel McAnally, and recorded in the office of the register of the city and county of New York, in liber five hundred and seventyeight, page one hundred and fifty-eight, in the same manner and with the like effect as if the said Unatha Dougherty had been at the time of the said conveyance, and at the time of her death, a citizen of the United States of America, and all the right, title and interest of the People of the State of New York, acquired by esHeirs, each cheat in and to the said land and premises, and every part thereof, are hereby granted, released and conveyed to the said children above named of the said Unatha Dougherty, deceased, in such manner that the said children shall each one take the one equal undivided fourth part thereof to their heirs and assigns forever. to take one equal undivided fourth part thereof. Proviso. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or construed to impair, release or discharge any right, title, claim or interest of any heir at law or devisee of the said Unatha Dougherty, or any grantee or creditor by mortgage, judgment or otherwise of the said Unatha Dougherty. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 798. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the completion of the Wallabout Improvement of the city of Brooklyn," passed March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Passed May 10, 1869; 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 chapter sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to provide for the completion of the Wallabout improvement of the city of Brooklyn," passed March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: opening Washing nue, how §4. The cost and expense of the improvement of Cost of opening and extending Washington avenue, as provided and exin section two of chapter eight hundred and ninety-three tending of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall ton avebe provided for and paid in the same manner as the cost paid." and expense of the construction of said Washington avenue, and of the basins and docks referred to in said act, and all other expenses necessary and incident thereto, and in the same manner as provided in section three of said chapter eight hundred and ninety-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. § 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this Repeal. act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Name changed, Organiza uon declared legal. Proviso as Chap. 799. AN ACT to change the name of the American Umbrella Frame Company, and to legalize the organization thereof. Passed May 10, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the American Umbrella Frame Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, and located in the city of New York, is hereby changed to the American Manufacturing Company. § 2. Any defects as to time in filing the certificates required for the complete organization of said company are hereby cured and the organization thereof declared legal, but nothing in this act contained shall, in any mauner, directly or indirectly, impair or affect the rights ties of trus- of any existing creditor of said company or release any trustee or stockholder thereof from any present liability for any existing debt or liability of said company. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. to rights of creditors and liabili tees or stockhold. ers. Towns may bor for making and improving Chap. 800. AN ACT in relation to making and repairing highways and bridges in the towns of Flatbush and New Utrecht, in Kings county. Passed May 10, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The commissioners of highways respecrow money tively in the towns of Flatbush and New Utrecht, in the county of Kings, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to borrow such sum on the credit of their respective towns as they, or a majority of them, shall deem expedient, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and expend the same or so much thereof as they shall find necessary, in making and repairing roads and roads and bridges. bridges in their respective towns during the year commencing on the first Tuesday of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. commis 2. The said commissioners, or such majority of Highway them as aforesaid, are hereby authorized to give to the sioners, lender of said money the note of their respective towns may give for the repayment thereof, with legal interest, at such therefor. time as may be agreed upon. notes statement to board of sors, of amount ne cessary to How levied §3. The said commissioners, or such majority of To make them as aforesaid, shall make a statement to the board of supervisors of the said county at its next annual meet- superviing of the amount necessary to pay and discharge said indebtedness of their respective towns, both principal be raised. and interest, and the said board shall cause the same to be assessed on the real and personal estate taxable in their respective towns and to be collected with the other taxes to be raised therein, and shall direct the amount thereof to be paid by the collector of taxes to the said commissioners and they shall apply the same to the payment of said indebtedness. and col lected. statement § 4. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, Annual shall also, at the next annual meeting of the said board to be made. of supervisors, and at every annual meeting thereafter, make a statement of the money which, in their opinion, or in that of a majority of them, will be required, but not to exceed two thousand dollars, for the inaking and repairing of roads and bridges in their respective towns during the ensuing year commencing on the first Tuesday of April next after such annual meeting, and the Levy and said board shall cause the sum specified in such state- of amounts ment to be assessed on the real and personal estate tax required. able in the said towns respectively, and to be collected with the other taxes to be raised therein, and shall direct the amount thereof to be paid by the collector of taxes to the said commissioners of highways, and they How to be shall expend the same or so much thereof as they shall expended. deem necessary in making and repairing roads and bridges in the said towns respectively. collection commis. § 5. The said commissioners shall severally give a Highway bond, with security satisfactory to the supervisor of the sioners to said towns, respectively, for the faithful and proper ex execute official bonds. penditure of the money to be raised by tax and paid to them as above directed, and they shall render an ac Annual ac- count under oath to the board of town auditors of their eounting respective towns at every annual meeting held by them, of the manner in which said money shall have been expended during the current year, together with vouchers for all sums paid out by them. to town auditors. Repeal. Widening avenue. Description thereof. § 6. All provisions of law for assessment of highway labor in said towns aud all provisions of law for the making and repair of roads therein inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 801. AN ACT to widen and improve Franklin avenue in the town of Flatbush. Passed May 10, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Franklin avenue, in the town of Flatbush, of Franklin in the county of Kings, is hereby widened from the Flatbush turnpike road westerly towards the Coney Island plank road, so as to embrace all the land lying between a line on one side of said avenue, which com mences at a point on the westerly side of said Flatbush turnpike road, distant eighty-five feet and thirty-two onehundredths of a foot southerly on the line of said turnpike road from the present southerly boundary of Prospect park, where said boundary meets the said turnpike road; and running thence westerly parallel to said boundary to a point in a line drawn at right angles to said boundary, and commencing at the south-westerly intersection of the boundary lines of said park and of lands now or late of the estate of Garrett L. Martense, deceased, which point is distant one hundred feet southerly from said intersection; and running thence westward to a point in the circumference of the circle which is at the southwesterly angle of said park, which point is in a line drawn at right angles to said southerly |