continue such clerk until a city clerk shall be appointed as herein provided. And at the first regular meeting of the common council, subsequent to each annual election, as prescribed in this act, or at some subsequent meeting, and as soon thereafter as may be, it shall be their duty to appoint, upon the nomination of the mayor, one city clerk, one city attorney, one superintendent of streets, one city sealer of weights and measures, one chief engineer of the fire department and two assistants, one chief of police, eight police constables and four fire wardens, one of which wardens shall reside in each ward, all of whom shall hold their offices for one year in the manner provided in this act. The mayor and common council shall have power to appoint, at any time they may consider Special the same necessary for the public interest, so many watchmen and special policemen as they may deem necessary, all of whom shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the common council, said special policemen and watchmen shall have no salary or compensation from the city treasury, but the expenses of the same shall be paid by the person or persons for whose immediate benefit the appointment shall be made, and the persons so appointed may recover as compensation any sum agreed so to be paid to them respectively by the parties interested. 8. Section four of title four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: police. S4. The clerk shall keep the corporate seal, and Clerk, his all the papers, books and documents belonging to said duties. city, and make a record of the proceedings of the common council, whose meetings it shall be his duty to attend; he shall see that all ordinances, resolutions, notices and other matters requiring publication, are promptly and correctly published in the official paper of the city, or such other paper as the common council may direct, and shall preserve and have bound from time to time, regular files of the newspapers containing the advertisements of the city; he shall carefully arrange, index and file all books and papers convenient for use; he shall countersign all licenses granted by the common council, and shall enter in an appropriate book the name of every person to whom a license Office, a town derk's office for certain shall be granted, the date thereof, the time during which it shall continue in force, and the sum paid for the same; he shall within twenty-four hours after each and every meeting of the common council, make and deliver to the treasurer and tax receiver, a copy certified by him of all resolutions and proceedings of the common council relating to the finances of the city; he shall perform all the duties of clerks of towns not inconsistent with this act, and his office is hereby declared a town clerk's office, for the purpose of depositing and filing therein all books and papers repurposes. quired by law to be filed in a town clerk's office, and he shall possess all the powers and discharge all the duties of a town clerk, except so far as they shall be inconsistent with the other provisions of this act. Copies printed or written of all papers filed in his office, and transcripts thereof, and of the records and proceedings of the common council, and copies of the ordinances of the city, certified by him under the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts and places, with the like effect as the original would be if produced. In addition to the duties in this act required of him, he shall perform such other acts as may reasonably be required of him by the common council. In case of sickness, absence or disability of said clerk to act, the common council are authorized to appoint a clerk pro tempore. For all his services as such city clerk, first including the copying of the assessment rolls of the wards and extending the city tax, and the performance of such other duties as may reasonably be required of him by the common council, he shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars Salary. Salary of treasurer. per year. $9. Section nine, of title four, of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: S9. The said treasurer and tax receiver shall receive for all his services under this act, five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly. In addition to the duties above mentioned, he shall perform the duties hereinafter mentioned, in the collection of taxes. The supervisors shall have and exercise all the powers, authorities and functions of supervisors of towns, and shall respectively be members of the board of super visors of Niagara county, and shall be entitled to the of the $10. The overseer of the poor shall, subject to the Overseers provisions of this act, have the same powers and be poor. subject to the same restrictions and liabilities as overseers of the poor in the towns of the county of Niagara, and for all purposes relating to the maintenance and support of the poor, the city shall be one of the towns of the said county. S 11. Section fifteen of title four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: duties of 15. The chief of police and police constables pro- Police; vided for in this act shall severally possess the powers chief and authority of a constable at common law, and under the statutes of this State, except that he shall not serve any civil process issued by a justice of the peace. He shall also perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the common council for the preservation of the public peace, the care of the public property, and the maintenance of the police regulations and municipal ordinances of said city; they shall receive for their services five hundred dollars each year, except the chief of police, who shall receive six hundred dollars, all of whom shall be allowed the usual travel fees in serving criminal process beyond the city limits, and shall receive no other compensation for their services. The said police constables shall have the ex- and conclusive power of serving all criminal process issued by the police justices or any justice of the peace of said city; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the police justice issuing process to any constable of said city, or to prevent said constable from serving the same, in case of the absence, continued detention or inability to act of all of the said police constables, but no fees shall be allowed to any such constable for any such service, unless on the written certificate of the police justice of one of the above named disabilities of said police constables. 12. Section two of title five of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: $ 2. The common council shall have the same power stables. Council, commis as commissioners of highways in towns, to cause such sioners of of the streets, lanes, alleys or roads used as highways highways. in said city, or any part or parts thereof as shall have been heretofore laid out, but not recorded or sufficiently described, and such as have been used twenty years but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered, or recorded in a book to be kept by the clerk of said city. Two thousand five hundred dollars of the moneys to be raised by the said common couning streets, cil as herein provided, and no more except as hereinafter provided, may be used to defray the expenses of repairing and keeping in order the highways, streets, sewers, bridges, and public grounds of the said city. Amount &c. Assess ment of provements. 13. Section one of title six of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. 51. Any local improvements ordered by the comlocal im- mon council shall be equally assessed upon the real estate in said city, which they may deem benefited by the said improvement, according to the benefits that may result therefrom, to be estimated and determined by one of the assessors of said city, not personally interested in the improvements ordered, and in cases deemed by them of sufficient importance, it shall be made by three of the said assessors to be designated by the common council, and in case of disagreement, the same shall be determined by the common council; and all assessments shall be reported by the assessor or assessors to the common council, and before any further action is had on the said improvement the same shall be approved by the common council, or if disapproved, a re-assessment ordered and reported to the common council, with the same effect as the first. In all cases of local improvements, except the repair of side or cross walks, the vote of five aldermen in its favor shall be necessary to pass any ordinance ordering the said improvement. For services in making local assessments, the said assessors shall receive such reasonable compensation as shall be allowed in such cases by the common council, which shall be included in the expense of making the assessment. S14. Section two of title six of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: unoccu S2. The owners of unoccupied lots or premises in Owners of said city, may cause a true description of the same to pied lots. be registered in a book to be kept by the city clerk for that purpose, with the name of the owner, if a resident of said city, and if not, with the name of any resident of the said city as an age..t for said property; and in the assessment of real estate for local or general taxation, all papers or notices required to be served on the owners or resident occupants of lots, shall be served on such owner or agent with the same effect as if said lots were occupied. 15. Section three of title six of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: of local owners of Owners ment. $3. All taxes or assessments for local purposes shall Collection be collected by the treasurer and tax receiver the same tax. as general city taxes, except as herein otherwise provided; but before any warrant shall issue for the col- Notice to lection of any tax assessed for any local improvement, property. which improvement can be made by the several persons interested severally, a notice of thirty days shall may make be served on the owner or resident occupant, or regis- improvetered agent of non-resident owner of the several pieces or parcels of land made chargeable with the payment of said tax or assessment, as hereinafter provided, and in cases where the said persons are chargeable with some distinct part or portion of said improvement, they shall have thirty days after the service of said notice to make their respective part or portion of said improvement, and to pay their share of the expenses of the assessment of the same; and when said improvements or any portion of the same are made by the person or persons interested, such persons shall not be chargeable with any part of the expense other than the expense of said assessment; and the clerk, immediately on any assessment for any such improvement being confirmed, shall notify the several parties interested of the part or portion of said work they are required to do or make, and with the share of the expense of the assessment with which they may severally be chargeable, and which shall be a pro rata proportion of the whole work and of the expense of assessing the same, for which they shall be assessed; said notice shall be served personally on the owner or |