Removals for cause. Business room to be commisssioners may be removed for cause, in the same manner as sheriffs are removed, but not otherwise. 87. The board of trustees of the village of Greenbush, provided. shall provide a suitable room for the meetings of the comMeetings of missioners. Such meetings shall be held at such times as shall be appointed by the president of the board, or a majority of the members thereof, and the attendance of two commissioners shall at all times be necessary to constitute a quorum. Business quorum. Appointment of policemen. Extra policemen. Special policemen and how paid. Pay of § 8. The board thus constituted shall appoint not to exceed four policemen, who shall constitute the police force of the village of Greenbush, and who shall enter. on the discharge of their duties the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy; they may also, when deemed necessary by them, appoint extra policemen, not exceeding in number the regular policemen, who shall serve for such time as the police board may deem necessary, not to exceed ten days, on request of the board of trustees. They may also, at the request of any society holding public exhibitions in said village, or the proprietor or director of any other public exhibition in said village, or of the president of any State railway corpora tion in said village, appoint such number as special policemen, on the request of the president, proprietor or director, as they shall deem necessary, but the compensation of the special policemen, in such cases, shall be paid by the society or corporation, or proprietor or director of the exhibition, for which the service shall be performed. § 9. The policemen shall receive for their services such policemen. compensation as shall be fixed by the board, not exceed ing, in any case, except as hereinafter provided, seventy Selection of dollars per month. The board shall select, from the policeman to keep police records. policemen appointed by them, one whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the police board, to superintend the police department in said village. He shall keep a record in a book of all cases and legal proceedings in the department, and whether any members of the force are delinquent in their duties, for which, together with the usual duties of the policemen appointed under this act, he shall receive as compensation not to exceed seventy-five pensation. dollars per month. His com § 10. Each policeman and special policeman shall, before he enters upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe, and file in the office of the county clerk of Rensselaer county, the constitutional oath of office; they for cause. shall hold office during good behavior. Any one of the Removals number may be removed by the board on proof of charges preferred before them, in writing, of illegal, corrupt, or otherwise improper conduct, suspend temporarily from Suspen duty, or pay, or both, any policeman. sions. their pow duties. § 11. The policeman, authorized by this act, shall have Policemen, the same power and authority in criminal cases as con- ers and stables possess by law, and may serve and execute criminal processes of said district in any county of this State, and shall have the same power and authority which a constable possesses in civil cases, so far as serving all processes and papers in behalf of the corporation of the village of Greenbush, or in which said corporation is concerned, but not otherwise. no receive warrants, expenses to 12. No fee or compensation, other than is herein pro- Policemen vided, shall be charged or received by any policeman or to pay for special policeman for the arrest or confinement or dis- service of charge of any prisoner, for mileage, or for serving any etc. summons or warrant, or for discharging any other duty required by this act to be performed by him. But any Traveling reasonable and necessary expense incurred by any police- be paid. man, when traveling in the discharge of his duties as policeman, shall be paid by the treasurer of the village of Greenbush, on the warrant of the board of commissioners aforesaid. And the said board are hereby authorized to charge the county of Rensselaer, or to the said village of Greenbush, as one of the towns thereof, as the case may How be, the moneys thus paid, and the same shall be allowed allowed. and audited by the board of supervisors of said county, or by the board of trustees of the village of Greenbush, lected and to and for the benefit of said village of Greenbush, and paid to vilshall be paid to the treasurer of said village. audited and To be col lage treasurer. to receive approval of § 13. No policeman or special policeman shall receive Policemen any present or reward for services rendered, or to be ren- no presents, dered, unless with the approbation of the board afore- ppt said, such approval to be given in writing, and filed with board. the secretary; and any one of their number who shall receive any fee or reward in violation of this section shall forfeit his office. § 14. The board of trustees of the village of Greenbush shall advance, out of its corporation revenues, funds for the payment of the policemen of said village, and for the other expenses created and provided for under this act, as now provided for by law, and the said village shall be reimbursed for said payments as now provided by law. Village tax expenses. for police Commissioners to receive no Pay of pay. secretary. Contingent expenses, how paid. Police to be uniformed. By-laws for government of board. Approval by village trustees. Stationhouse. The said expenses shall be levied and included in the annual village tax. § 15. The commissioners under this act shall receive no compensation for their services, and the secretary of said board shall receive, as compensation for his services, seventy-five dollars per annum. § 16. The contingent expenses of the police establishment, office furniture, fuel, lights stationery, printing, advertising, books, policemen's badges and batons, shall be paid by the treasurer of the village of Greenbush on the warrant of the board of police. All warrants of said board must be authorized by a vote of the board, and signed by the president and secretary thereof. $17. The police appointed under this act shall be a uniformed police. 18. The board of commissioners aforesaid shall make such by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State and of the United States, as may be necessary for the government of the police hereby established, and for the maintenance of law and good order in the said village of Greenbush; but no by-law concerning the enforcement of any ordinance of the said village shall be in force unless approved by the board of trustees of said village. § 19. The board of trustees of the village of Greenbush shall provide and keep in order a station-house and other necessary accommodations as shall be required for the use of the police force, together with a suitable place Accommo- for the accommodation of transient poor lodgers sent by the overseer of the poor of said town, for whom the board of supervisors of the county of Rensselaer shall audit, allow and pay over to the treasurer of said village of Greenbush, twenty-five cents for each lodger. dations for transient poor lodgers. County to pay therefor. Terms of service of present policemen, Repeal. § 20. The policemen who may be in service in said village of Greenbush at the time of the passage of this act, shall continue in force until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, but for no longer period, except by a vote of a majority of the police board. 8 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 22. This act shall take effect immediately, except as herein otherwise provided. Chap. 702. AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of PASSED May 6, 1870; 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 re-incorporationg the village of Little Falls, passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the several acts amendatory thereof, are hereby amended as follows: Section twenty-three of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: have care cemetery. point officer thereof. payment for 23. The trustees shall have the care and custody of Trustees to the public cemetery, and may grant the right of interment and custody therein, in separate lots or otherwise; they may improve of public the grounds and keep the same, including the alleys, trees and fences, in good condition and repair; they may purchase and keep a hearse and other conveniences for the burial of the dead; they may appoint an officer, or more May ap than one, to take charge and have the care of the ceme- to take tery and property pertaining thereto, and may deter charge mine his or their compensation, and may make rules and regulations in respect to the management, care and protection of the grounds and property; they may receive May receive the payment of such prices or sums as they may deem ex- Burial lots." pedient for the privilege of burial or burial lots; they may require the owners of all lots to keep them in neat and proper order, and may make such assessments May make upon the several lots as they may deem necessary to to keep maintain them in neat and good order, and to keep the men alleys, fences and property in proper condition, but such condition. assessments shall not exceed one dollar on each lot for the first year, and not to exceed fifty cents on each lot in any year thereafter, and, when assessed, shall be a lien, for To be a lien which the lot may be sold, but shall not authorize the removal or disturbance of any grave. The cemetery fund shall be kept distinct from the other funds of the village. The owner of any cemetery lot may commute for any commutaassessment therein provided for in this section, by the tions by lot payment into the treasury of such sum of money as the trustees may prescribe, not less than fifteen nor more assessments proper owners. tation moneys. Collection of assess ments. than thirty dollars, and shall thereupon be entitled to an Investment acquittance from all further assessments on such lot. And of commu- the funds so paid in shall be invested by the trustees, and the income thereof shall be annually applied for the purApplication pose specified in this section. The president of the village of income shall annually appoint some person to collect the assessments on cemetery lots. Any persons owning or claiming to own or to have the control of, or the right of burial in, any cemetery lot, or whose father, mother, husband, wife or child shall have a monument erected thereon, shall be personally liable to pay the assessment thereon, and any person so liable who shall refuse to pay any assessment, or any arrears of assessments remaining unpaid, on demand by the person authorized to collect the same, shall forfeit the sum of three dollars as a penalty, which may be collected by action in the name of the village of Little Falls, and, when collected, shall belong to the cemetery fund. Enforce ment of collection. Trustees may prohibit or license. peddling, § 2. Subdivision sixteen of section twenty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 16. To prohibit hawking and peddling merchandise, and the retailing of the same from carts, wagons or other vehicles within the streets of the village, except upon license granted by the trustees or under their direc tion; also, to prohibit the exhibition, for gain or profit, Menageries, of a puppet show, wire or rope dancing, jugglery, circus, shows and menagerie, or any theatrical exhibition, or any natural or artificial curiosity, except upon license expressly granted, which license may be granted for such time, upon such terms and conditions, and upon the payment of such sums, as the trustees may prescribe. exhibitions Opening of new streets upon Expense thereof, how § 3. Section thirty-two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 32. The trustees may also, upon the application in and grading writing of persons owning lots, being at least one-half in extent of the ground subject to be assessed as provided application. in this section, cause to be opened, graded and made, by means of an assessment on lots interested in the improvement as herein provided, any new street, or new part of a street, or any part of an existing street, which part has not been heretofore made and graded by means of an assessment on the lots fronting thereon, under an ordinance of the trustees of the said village of Little Falls under any former charter. They may also, upon the petition of grading and persons owning at least two-thirds in extent of the ground assessed. Proceed ings for re |