boarded, specifying the name and age of the child and the name and place of residence of the party so undertaking its care and authorizing the same. Such license shall be revocable at the will of the authority granting it, and every person omitting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. premises. § 2. It shall be lawful for the officers of any incorporated society for Inspection the prevention of cruelty to children at all reasonable times to enter of and inspect the premises wherein such infants are so boarded, received or kept, and it is hereby made their duty to see that the provisions of this law are duly enforced. to be construed. §3. This act shall not be construed to prohibit the boarding of in- Act, how fants when accompanied by their parent, relative, or some person entitled to their custody, and shall not apply to corporations incorporated under the laws of the state of New York for the purpose of receiving and caring for foundlings or abandoned or homeless infants. §4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 41. AN ACT to extend and increase the corporate powers of the PASSED February 20, 1883. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: may hold improve SECTION 1. The Saratoga, Mount McGregor and Lake George Railroad Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue company of chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and and fifty, and the acts amending the same, is hereby authorized and em- lands for powered to purchase, rent, hold, improve, and use lands in the same parks and counties through which its railroad now runs, not exceeding fifteen hundred acres, for pleasure parks and hotels, and to construct hotels and other buildings thereon, and use and operate the same. § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or held to authorize Act, how the said company to acquire any lands or other property, otherwise construed. than by and with the consent of the owners thereof, or to grant to the said company any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Assessors to make new as CHAP. 42. AN ACT authorizing and directing the assessors of the several towns in the county of Montgomery to make new assessmentrolls of the real and personal estate liable to taxation in their respective towns, and authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to levy and collect a tax on such asPASSED February 21, 1883; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sessment. SECTION 1. The assessors of the several towns in the county of Montgomery shall, within ten days after the passage of this act, prosessment. ceed to ascertain, by diligent inquiry, the names of all the taxable inhabitants in their respective towns on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and also all taxable property, real and personal, within the same on the same date. They shall prepare an assessment-roll in which they shall set down, according to the best information in their power, all the matters and facts required to be set down by article second, title two, chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, and article three of the same title, and in making such roll shall proceed, generally, according to the provisions and directions of said articles. Property, valued. § 2. All real and personal estate liable to taxation shall be estihow to be mated and assessed by the assessors at its full and true value, as it was on the said thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor. Roll, when to be com pleted, etc. § 3. The assessors shall complete the assessment-rolls within thirty days after the passage of this act, and shall make out one fair copy thereof to be left with one of their number; they shall forthwith cause notices thereof to be put up at three or more public places in their town, which notices shall set forth that the assessors have completed their assessment-rolls, and that a copy thereof is left with one of their number at a place to be specified therein, where the same may be seen and examined by any person interested until a day to be mentioned in said notice (which shall not be less than ten days after the date of said notice), and that on that day the assessors will meet at a time and place, also to be specified in such notice, to review their assessReview of ments. On the application of any person conceiving himself aggrieved it shall be the duty of the said assessors on such day to meet at the time and place specified and hear and examine all complaints in relation to such assessments that may be brought before them. And they are hereby empowered and it shall be their duty to adjourn from time to time, as may be necessary, to hear and determine such complaints. And on such hearing the said assessors shall proceed and shall have the same powers and duties and be subject to the same penalties as provided in and by the said article second. assess ments. Inspection of roll. § 4. The assessor with whom such assessment-roll is left shall submit the same during the time specified in such notice to the inspection of all persons who shall apply for that purpose. § 5. Where the term person or persons is used in this act, such term shall be construed to include corporations as well as individuals. § 6. When the assessors, or a majority of them, shall have com- Oath to pleted their roll, they shall severally appear before one of the justices roll. of the town in which they shall reside, and shall severally make and subscribe before such justice an oath in the following form: "We, the undersigned, do severally depose and swear that we have set down in the foregoing assessment-roll all the real estate situate in the town, according to our best information, and that, with the exception of those cases in which the value of the said real estate has been changed by reason of proof produced before us, we have estimated the value of said real estate at the sums which a majority of the assessors have decided to have been the full and true value thereof on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and at which they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor, and also that the said assessment-roll contains a true statement of the aggregate amount of the taxable personal estate of each and every person named in such roll, over and above the amount of debts due from such persons respectively, and excluding such stocks as are otherwise taxable and such other property as is exempt by law from taxation at the full and true value thereof on the said thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, according to our best judgment and belief," which oath shall be written on said roll, signed by the assessors, and certified by the justice, and every assessor who shall willfully swear false in taking and subscribing said oath shall be deemed guilty of and liable to the penalties of willful and corrupt perjury. to super 7. Such assessment-rolls thus certified shall within five days Rolls to be thereafter be delivered by the assessors of each town to the supervisor delivered thereof, and shall there remain with said supervisor for the period of visors. fifteen days for public inspection, and the said assessors shall forthwith give public notice, as provided by section nine of chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, of the completion and delivery thereof. And all remedies provided by said act may be applied for and had within fifteen days after such public notice is first given. And said supervisor shall present the same to the board of supervisors at their next meeting. supervisors to meet ize assess ments. § 8. The board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery shall Board of meet in their rooms in the court-house in the village of Fonda, within fifteen days after the receipt of the assessment-rolls from the and equalassessors of the several towns in their county, and shall examine the said rolls for the purpose of ascertaining whether the valuations in one town bear a just relation to the valuations in all the towns in the county, and they may increase or diminish the aggregate valuations of real estate in any town by adding or deducting such sum upon the hundred as may in their opinion be necessary to produce a just relation between all the valuations of real estates in the county. But they shall in no instance reduce the aggregate valuations of all the towns below the aggregate valuation thereof as made by the assessors. § 9. The board of supervisors shall also at such meeting do all To levy such other acts, matters and things as is required to be done by tax. them by article third, title two of said chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes. And they shall cause the corrected assessment-roll of each town, or a fair copy thereof, to be delivered to the collector of such town within ten days after their first meeting. § 10. To each assessment-roll so delivered to a collector, a warrant Tax under the hands and seals of the board of supervisors, or a majority warrant. Collector, duty of. Clerk to transmit to comp troller certificate of value. Act, how to be of them, shall be annexed, commanding such collector to collect from the several persons named in the assessment-roll, the several sums mentioned in the last column of such roll opposite to their respective names, and directing and authorizing such collector to do and perform all such other acts, matters and things as 18 required or directed to be done by him, in and by said article three, title two, chapter thirteen, part one of the Revised Statutes. § 11. On receipt of such warrant for the collection of taxes by any town collector, he shall immediately thereafter cause notice of the reception thereof to be posted up in five public places in the town so located as will be most likely to give notice to the inhabitants thereof, and shall designate in such notice a central and convenient place in such town, where he will attend from nine o'clock in the forenoon till four o'clock in the afternoon, at least once in each week for thirty days, on a day also to be specified in such notice, for the purpose of receiving payment of taxes; and it shall be the duty of such collector to attend accordingly, and to do and perform all the acts, matters and things required and commanded to be done by such collector in the warrant so issued to him, and in and by article first of title three of chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, and the said collector shall be subject to all such actions and penalties given by said article for the neglect or non-performance of his duties as such collector. § 12. The clerk of the board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery shall, within three days after the delivery of the warrants to the collectors of the several towns of the county of Montgomery, transmit to the comptroller by mail, in the form which shall be prescribed by the comptroller, a certificate or return of the aggregate valued amount of real and personal estate in each town as corrected by the board of supervisors. The clerk who shall neglect or refuse to make such return shall forfeit to the people of this state the sum of fifty dollars, and the said clerk shall also do and perform all such other acts and things as is now required to be done by him by any existing law not inconsistent with this act. § 13. This act shall not be construed to repeal or abridge any right construed. or remedy heretofore provided by law, for the review and correction of assessments and assessment-rolls. But all existing laws in relation to assessments, the duties of assessors, the powers and duties of supervisors, and the duties of collectors shall be observed and followed by the assessors, supervisors and collectors of the several towns in the county of Montgomery, in their proceedings under this act, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. § 14. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 43. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and sixty, laws of PASSED February 23, 1883; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of an act entitled "An act to incor- at railway 29. To compel any steam railway company or corporation running Watchmen locomotive engines and cars across Main street, within the corporate or guards limits of said village, to employ and station a watchman or guard at crossings. the place where the locomotive engines and cars of such company or corporation cross such street; and in case of the neglect or refusal of such company or corporation to employ and station such watchman or guard at such crossing, then said trustees may employ and station such watchman or guard, and sue for and recover the expense of the same from said company or corporation. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 44. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of PASSED February 23, 1883; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. Section three of chapter three hundred and sixty-seven office. § 3. No person shall be eligible or elected or appointed to any office Persons in and for the city of Oswego, unless he shall be at the time an elector eligible to and resident of said city, and no person shall be eligible or be appointed or elected to any office in any ward in section one designated as a ward officer unless he shall be at the same time an elector and resident of said ward; and no person shall be eligible or elected or appointed to the office of mayor, alderman, school commissioner, commissioner of public charity, fire commissioner, police commissioner, commissioner of public works, supervisor, collector of taxes and assessments, or asses |