of said village, or liable to taxation therein, in any action or proceeding in which the said village or corporation is a party or interested. Execution against per son for fine. arrests. $55. When judgment shall have been recovered in favor of said corporation for any fine, penalty or forfeiture, execution thereon may issue against the person as well as the property of the defendant, in the form prescribed by law for such executions. $56. The trustees and each and every of them, Summary and the police constable, shall respectively have power, and are hereby authorized, at any and all times, to arrest or cause to be arrested, with or without process, all vagrant or disorderly persons, or any person who may be found by them committing any crime, misdemeanor or breach of the peace, and shall have power, while in pursuit or search of any such person, to enter or cause to be entered, with or without process, any building or place in said village; and the trustees may, by ordinance or resolution, confer the same power or such portion thereof as they deem necessary and proper, upon the policemen or night watchmen. The persons thus arrested shall be dealt with according to law. The trustees may also establish and maintain a village lock-up or station or watch-house, which may be used instead of the County jail for the temporary confinement of offenders. $57. When any tax or assessment on real estate has been collected under this act, of any tenant of such real estate, he may collect the same of his landlord or offset it against the rent of said real estate, unless he be bound by agreement to pay such tax or assessment. $58. The existing ordinances, by-laws, resolutions and regulations of the board of trustees of said viltinue in force and effect, together with such others as may from time to time be passed, until the same shall be repealed by the board of trustees. dout are hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect any act, claim or right done, secured or established, or any suit, proceeding or prosecution had or Commenced previous to the time when such repeal of Ron shall take effect; but every such suit, proceeding or prosecution, act, claim or right shall remain as valid and effectual as if said acts had remained in force. $60. This act is hereby declared a public act, and the same shall be construed favorably for every beneficial purpose thereof. S 61. The legislature may at any time amend or repeal this act. $62. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 515. AN ACT in relation to Railroad Corporations. Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any railroad company which has been, or which may hereafter be, duly formed under the act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations and to regulate same," passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, and which is duly continued in existence, when at least ten thousand dollars for every mile of its railroad proposed to be constructed in this State, shall be, in good faith, subscribed to its capital stock, and ten per cent thereof paid in, may apply to the court for the appointment of commissioners, and all subsequent proceedings may be had to obtain the title to lands necessary for the construction of its railroad, to the same extent and in the same manner as if the whole amount of the capital stock specified in its articles of association was in like manner subscribed. $2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 516. AN ACT for the further protection of female employees in the city of New York. Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No property now exempt by law shall exempt from levy or sale, under an execution, issued upon a judgment obtained in any court in the city of New York, for work, labor or services done or performed by any female employee when such amount does not exceed the sum of fifteen dollars exclusive of costs. 2. Whenever any execution issued upon a judgment as aforesaid, shall be returned unsatisfied, the clerk of the court wherein such judgment was obtained, shall issue a further execution to any marshal of the city of New York, commanding him to collect the amount due upon such judgment or in default of payment thereof, to arrest the defendant in such execution, and him safely convey to the jail or debtor's prison of the county of New York, and commanding the jailer of said jail to keep the said defendant without benefit of jail limits until the said defendant shall pay the said judgment, or be discharged according to law; but such imprisonment shall in no case extend beyond the period of five days. $3. This act shall take effect immediately. Division into wards. Chap. 517. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Edgewater," passed March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Passed April 22, 1867, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of title one of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Edgewater," passed March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "§ 2. The said village of Edgewater shall be divided into nine wards, as follows: "FIRST WARD. Bounded northerly and north-westerly by Richmond turnpike, easterly by the bay of New York and Richmond street, and south-westerly by Grant street and Cebra avenue. "SECOND WARD. Bounded northerly by Grant street, north-westerly by Richmond street, southwesterly by Beach street, southerly by Water steet, and easterly by the bay of New York. "THIRD WARD. Bounded northerly by Cebra avenue and Beach street, north-westerly by Richmond turnpike, south-westerly by Clove road and Young street, and easterly by Richmond road and Targee street. "FOURTH WARD. Bounded northerly by Richmond road, Beach street and Water street, easterly by bay of New York, westerly by Targee street, and southerly by Gore and Thompson streets. "FIFTH WARD. Bounded northerly by Young, Gore and Thompson streets, easterly by the bay of New York, westerly by Richmond road and Targee street, southerly by Osgood and Vanderbilt avenues. "SIXTH WARD. Bounded north-westerly by Vanderbilt avenue, easterly by the bay of New York, southerly by Chestnut avenue, Wood road and Janin's lane, and westerly by continuation of Osgood avenue and Charles street. "SEVENTH WARD. Bounded northerly by Osgood avenue and its continuation, easterly by the Staten Island railroad, southerly by the Old Town road, and westerly by the Richmond road. “EIGHTH WARD. Bounded northerly by wood road, easterly by Charles street and New York avenue, southerly and south-easterly by Finger-board road, and westerly by Staten Island railroad. "NINTH WARD. Bounded northerly and north-easterly by Finger-board road and Janin's lane; easterly by the bay of New York, westerly by the Staten Island railroad and New York avenue, and southerly by Old Town road." 32. Section five, title one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "5. Said village shall be and is hereby constituted a separate and distinct road district, under the entire control of the trustees of said village; and the act entitled An act to make separate road districts of parts of the towns of Castleton, Middletown and Southfield, in the county of Richmond, and to provide for the drainage of the same,' passed April eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby repealed, and the said trustees of said village shall audit and pay all just and legal liabilities of said Stapleton and Bay View road commissioners, contracted or performed within the limits of said village, and carry out all just and legal contracts made by them before the twenty-second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six." 33. Section one of title two is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "1. There shall be nine trustees of said village, Trustees. one from each ward, who shall be elected by ballot by the electors residing in the respective wards of the village, and shall hold their offices during the term prescribed by this act, and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. They shall be residents, and legal voters within the village and their respective wards.” |