Court may its term. Chap. 2. AN ACT to legalize certain proceedings of the common council of the city of Buffalo. Passed January 22, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The proceedings of the common council of the city of Buffalo in the matter of the repairs of the "Hamburg Turnpike," and the award of the contract therefor, and the action of the respective officers of the city of Buffalo, relating thereto, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and shall have the same force and effect, as if such contract had been directed by a vote of three-fourths of all the members elected to said common council. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 3. AN ACT to enable the city court of Brooklyn to continue its terms. Passed January 22, 1875. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The city court of Brooklyn, or any of the judges thereof, continue shall have power and authority to continue the trial or hearing of any action or proceeding not fully heard or determined at the end of the term at which the same has been or shall have been commenced until the final determination of the same with the same effect as if such action or proceeding were fully heard or determined within the said term, and the jurors empanelled in any such action shall continue their service until the close or determination thereof or until discharged by the court. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 4. AN ACT to authorize plank road and turnpike companies to reduce the number of their directors. Passed January 22, 1875. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any incorporated plankroad or turnpike company at any annual meeting of the stockholders, for the purpose of electing directors, by resolution to reduce the number of directors to not less than three, provided that such reduction shall not take place unless such resolution shall receive the affirmative vote of the stock holders holding and owning a majority in amount of the capital stock of the company, as shall appear by its books. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 5. AN ACT to authorize the extension of the time for the collection of taxes in the several towns of the State. Passed January 26, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York. represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: for collec SECTION 1. If any collector or receiver of taxes in any town of this Taxes, State shall pay over all moneys collected by him, and shall renew his tion of exboud as is herein provided, the time for the collection of taxes and for tended. making return thereof by him, shall be and is hereby extended to the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five; such bond shall be renewed with such sureties as in any town shall be approved by the supervisor thereof; or in case of his absence or inability to act, by the town clerk thereof. The penalty thereof in any case shall be double the amount of taxes in that case remaining uncollected. The bond shall be approved in writing and filed in the same manner Collecas the original bond is required by law to be filed, and have all the effect tor's of a collector's or receiver's bond. A copy of the bond and the appro- how apval thereof shall within fifteen days after the passage of this act, be proved delivered to the county treasurer of the county in which said town is. § 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, immediately after Secretary the passage of this act, to cause it to be printed upon slips of paper, send and delivered to each county treasurer a sufficient number thereof to printed slips to supply one copy to each collector or receiver of taxes in said county, county and it shall be the duty of said county treasurer to deliver one copy treasurthereof to each collector or receiver of taxes in his county. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 6. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of city taxes in the city of Auburn. Passed January 27, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate aud Assembly, do enact as follows: bond, and tiled. of state to ers. to be re SECTION 1. The constables of the city of Auburn, to whom the treas- Warrants urer and tax receiver of said city have issued warrants for the collection turned.. of unpaid city taxes, are hereby authorized to return said warrants, within five days after the passage of this act, to the treasurer and tax Account! receiver aforesaid, with an account of the unpaid city taxes which they taxes. have failed or been unable to collect. of unpaid rants to be § 2. The treasurer and tax receiver of said city is hereby authorized New warand directed to issue new warrants under his hand and the seal of the issued. thereof. said city, to any constable of said city, or to as many of them as he When re- of Auburn. The said warrants shall be returnable in thirty days from turnable. their issue, and shall be in substance and effect the same as the war- rants now provided by law to be issued by the treasurer and tax receiver of said city for the collection of unpaid city taxes. § 3. This act shall be considered and taken as an extension of time for the collection of taxes in the city of Auburn, levied and assessed in Warrants, law applicable to the return of warrants issued by said treasurer and provisions tax receiver for the collection of unpaid city taxes and proceedings plicable to subsequent thereto, shall be held to apply to the return of the new return of warrants issued under this act, and the proceedings subsequent thereto, as far as applicable with reference to the time thus extended for the : AN ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Orange to issue certificates of indebtedness to provide for the payment of certain outstanding debts Passed January 27, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Orange are hereby authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness to the amount of seventy thousand dollars; said certificates to be sealed with the seal of said board, and attested by the clerk thereof, and to be counter- signed and registered by the county clerk of said county, and counter- § 2. The moneys realized by the sale of said certificates shall be divided into two separate and distinct funds, the one to consist of the two funds. amount of forty thousand dollars, to be known and designated as the Fands for Fund for the payment of the general indebtedness of the county of of general Orange," and the other to consist of the amount of thirty thousand indebted dollars to be known and designated as the "Poor Fund," to provide for the payment of the indebtedness for the support of the poor of the county of Orange. Said certificates so issued shall become due as fol- When to lows: ten thousand dollars on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; ten thousand dollars on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; ten thousand dollars on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; twenty thousand dollars on the first day of February, eighteen hundred one thousand dollars each, and at not less than the par value thereof. Proceeds The proceeds of said sales shall be paid over by said supervisors to to county the county treasurer of said county. to be paid treasurer. pay rent terest. § 3. The said board of supervisors shall cause to be levied by tax Tax for upon the taxable property of said county, and to be collected and paid of princiannually, such sums as may be necessary to pay the interest on the pal and insaid certificates as shall be issued to the amount of forty thousand dollars as the general indebtedness certificates, and to pay such portion of the principal as may from time to time become due and payable. The said board of supervisors shall also cause to be levied by tax upon the taxable property of said county (excepting therefrom that portion City and thereof embraced in the city and town of Newburgh), and to be col- town of lected and paid annually, such sums as may be necessary to pay the burgh exinterest on said certificates issued and designated as "Poor Fund Cer- cepted. tificates," representing in amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars as aforesaid, and to pay such portion of the principal thereof as may become due and payable from time to time. And the said county treasurer shall apply the money so collected and paid to him toward the Money, payment of the interest and principal of said certificates of indebtedness how ap as they shall become due. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 8. AN ACT to authorize the surrogate of Steuben county to grant to Benjamin F. Young of Bath, in that county, letters of administration, with the will annexed, of the goods, chattels and credits of Richard T. P. Pulteney, deceased, upon filing with such surrogate a bond in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars. Passed January 29, 1875. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as folloms: plied. adminis tration to ed. SECTION 1. The surrogate of the county of Steuben is hereby author- Letters of ized, directed and required to grant letters of administration, with the will annexed, in the usual form, of the effects, goods, chattels, rights be grant and credits, which were of Richard F.* P. Pulteney, late of Ashley, in the county of Northampton, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, deceased, to Benjamin F. Young of Bath, Steuben county, New York, on the execution and filing with said surrogate, a bond, in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to the People of the State of New York, executed by good and sufficient sureties, who shall jointly justify in the amount of the penalty of the bond, and be approved by said surrogate; which said bond shall be conditioned, that all debts, dues, demands and liabilities, due and owing from the said estate of Richard T. P. Pulteney, deceased, shall be fully canceled, paid off and satisfied; and that said administrator will faithfully discharge his duties as such, in all respects according to law. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. *So in the original. Appro Chap. 9. AN ACT to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the salaries of certain officers of the government. Passed January 29, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and eight thousand, two hunpriation. dred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, namely: for deficiency in the appropriation for the salaries of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor for the fiscal year ending October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, such salaries to be paid quarterly. For deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of Members of the Legislature, two hundred thousand dollars. Salaries of members ture, when pay. § 2. The salaries of the Members of the Legislature shall be paid at of legisla- the rate of ten dollars per day, commencing with the present session; but the aggregate of payments during the sessions shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars to each member, and the balance of such salaries shall be paid on the final adjournment of the Legislature. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. able. Bonds sued. When payable. Chap. 10. AN ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the county of Albany to issue bonds to pay a portion of the bonds of said county that will mature during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Passed February 4, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Albany are may be is hereby authorized pursuant to a resolution of said board, passed Wednesday, January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as follows: "Resolved, that the finance committee be and they are hereby authorized to borrow, on the credit of the county, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to pay a portion of the bonds maturing during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and issue therefor county bonds, with interest payable semi-annually, and the principal on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Fifty thousand dollars on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; fifty thousand dollars on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; fifty thousand dollars on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and that each bond be signed How exe- by the chairman of this board and the county treasurer; that such bonds be issued in the sums of five hundred dollars and one thousand dollars each, in such proportion as shall be deemed most convenient cuted. |