To grade and regu forcing payment for constructing, relaying and repairing sidewalks. 15. To grade, pitch, level and repair, construct, make, late streets. amend or relay (or cause the same to be done) any street, lane, alley, road or highway, sidewalks, crosswalks, bridges, drains, sewers or aqueducts, either with plank, stone, brick, dirt or gravel, as said trustees may determine; and to provide for the planting or setting and protecting ornamental or shade trees in any public square, grounds or streets in said village. Boundaries and streets. To protect against fires. Other powers. Police constable, duty of. 16. To survey the boundaries and streets of said village, from time to time, establish the same, and make a map thereof. 17. To enter, and authorize others to enter, in the daytime, when it shall be necessary so to do, into any building in the said village in which shall be a fireplace, chimney, stove or stove pipe, for the purpose of examining the condition of the same, and to make such regulations in regard thereto as a proper security against fires shall in their judgment require. 18. To exercise all other powers, conferred on them by this act, for any purposes whatever. S2. The trustees shall appoint a competent and suitable person to officiate as police constable, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of said trustees. It shall be the duty of said police constable to serve all papers and processes for or an account of the said trustees, or appertaining to the said corporation; to arrest all disorderly persons or disturbers of the public peace; to see that the rules, regulations and by-laws of the said trustees in relation to the police and the regulation of the affairs of said corporation are duly observed and enforced; to attend at fires and other unusual assemblages to preserve order and to protect property, to use his utmost endeavors, at all times, to prevent or quell all riots at any and every unlawful proceeding, and to do and perform all such other acts and duties, consistent with his office, which the president or trustees may direct, for which said services he shall receive such compensation as the said trustees may allow. And the said police constable is hereby authorized and empowered to serve processes issuing from the courts of justice, and to perform the other duties pertaining to the office of a constable in the county of Westchester, the same as other constables elected by the people in the respective towns may do, and with like effect, and for which he shall receive the same fees allowed by law to others for similar services. meetings to $3. The trustees shall hold a meeting of their board, Monthly for the transaction of public business, on the first Monday be held. in every month, at which the president shall preside. In the absence of the president, they shall appoint one of their number to perform his duties, and in the absence of the clerk from any such meeting, they may appoint any person to perform his duties for the time being. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. by-laws, imposing S4. The trustees of said village may make, publish, May repeal ordain, amend and repeal all such ordinances, by-laws &c. and public regulations, not contrary to the laws of this state, as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers given to said trustees by this act, and enforce observance of all rules, regulations, resolutions, ordinances and bylaws, made in pursuance of this act, by imposing penalties on any person or persons, or corporations violating the same, not exceeding in any one case or violation fifty dollars, to be recovered with costs in a civil action, in any court having cognizance thereof. Every such ordi- Ordinance nance or by-law, imposing any penalty or forfeiture for a penalties, to violation of its provisions, shall, after the passage thereof, by presi be subscribed by the president and clerk, and published clerk. two weeks successively in any newspaper printed in said village; and proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the printer or publisher of said newspaper, taken before the president of said village, or any officer authorized to administer oaths, and filed with the clerk of said village, or any other competent proof of such publication, shall be evidence of the legal publication of such ordinance or by-law, in all the courts and places. be signed dent and may pre $5. The trustees shall have power, from time to time, Trustees to prescribe the duties of all officers and persons appointed by them under this act, subject to the provisions of the same, and may remove all such persons, so appointed, at any time. scribe duties of, persons appointed under this act. Moneys to be raised by tax. Apportion. ment. TITLE IV. OF THE ASSESSMENTS, LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. SECTION 1. The trustees are authorized and empowered to raise money by tax, to be assessed upon the estate, real and personal, within the bounds of the said corporation, and to be collected from the several owners and occupants thereof, for the purchasing of any real or personal property for the use of said village, and to defray the ordinary and contingent expenses of the said corporation, embracing the working of streets and highways, lighting streets and all expenses pertaining to said village, except such as shall be levied and assessed upon property owners and holders for any local improvement, who shall be benefited thereby as herein provided; but no tax shall be levied or collected to an amount exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars in any one year, unless such further or additional tax shall have been authorized by a vote, by ballot, of a majority of the taxable inhabitants of said village, qualified to vote under this act, present at any election, or at any special meeting, duly called for that purpose; and in all cases, the voters voting in the majority to authorize such additional tax, shall not be less than one hundred and fifty; the object of such tax and the additional amount to be raised shall, in all cases, be specified upon such ballot, and no board of trustees shall hereafter make any contracts or engagements with any person or persons, in any one year, for any greater amount or amounts or in the aggregate, than shall be levied by them under and in pursuance of this act. S2. Whenever any tax shall have been directed to be levied, the trustees shall apportion the same among the taxable inhabitants and corporations of the said village, and the non-resident owners of property therein, in conformity, as nearly as practicable, with the provisions of law in respect to the assessment of taxes by town assessors; and when the assessment roll shall have been reviewed and completed, it shall be the duty of the trustees, immediately thereafter, to deliver the same to the village collector, with their warrant under the hands of a majority of them, to be directed to said collector, commanding him to levy and collect the amount of such tax, in the same manner as warrants issued by the board of supervisors to the collectors of towns, and to make return thereof, and to pay over the money to the treasurer within thirty days after its receipt by the said collector of the village. New war S 3. It shall be lawful for said trustees to issue new rant may warrants, or to renew those which may be issued by issued. them or their predecessors, for the collection of any tax, from time to time, so often as such warrants shall be returned uncollected in whole or in part, during the time prescribed by this charter; but the renewing of any such warrant shall in no way affect the liability of the collector or the sureties upon the bond of such collector. collected. be S 4. The collector shall proceed to collect the amount Taxes, how of such tax, together with the fees or compensation for his services, at the rate and in the manner following: Upon the receipt of such warrant, he shall give at least five days' notice, by publishing a notice in a newspaper in said village, and posting at least three copies of the same in three public places in said village, of the time and place, within two weeks after the receipt of said warrant, where he will sit at some place in said village, for three consecutive days, and receive the taxes aforesaid; upon which taxes being so paid within the said three days, he shall be entitled to and receive one per cent for his commissions for collecting the same; and for all taxes collected thereafter he shall be entitled to and receive a commission of five per cent; and in all cases where he Commis shall collect such taxes, under a renewal of any such warrant, he shall be entitled to and receive a commission of ten per cent; and after deducting his said fees or compensation, he shall pay the residue to the treasurer of the village, within thirty days from the receipt of said warrant by him (who shall give the collector a receipt for the same), and file the treasurer's receipt therefor with the clerk, together with his warrant and the tax list annexed thereto; and the money, when collected and paid to the treasurer, shall be applied by the treasurer to the purposes for which such assessment was made, under the direction of the said trustees. $ 5. Whenever any person or corporation, upon whose estate or property shall have been assessed, pursuant to the provisions of this act, any tax, shall neglect or refuse to pay the same, and no personal property can be found sion. Proceed- ings in case pay tax, Proceedings, how discontinued. whereon the same can be levied, the collector shall make return thereof to the trustees, who are authorized to cause the land or estate on which such tax is assessed to be sold at public auction for a term of time, for the payment of such tax, giving six weeks' notice of such sale by advertising in any newspaper published in said village, which notice shall contain a brief description of the premises, the amount of tax, requiring the owner or owners to pay the same by a day therein specified; and if such tax be not paid at the time and place specified in such notice, the real estate so advertised shall be so sold under the direction of the trustees, by the collector, or some other person for that purpose appointed by the trustees, to the person who shall offer to take it for the shortest term for the payment of such tax, and the interest thereof, and the expenses of such notice and sale; but no such sale shall be made for a longer term than five years. The proceedings shall be discontinued at any time before sale, upon any person paying to the village treasurer the amount of such tax or assessment, with the interest and printer's bill; and if the premises are sold, one dollar in addition to the interest and the printer's bill may be charged for the expenses of such sale; and if the premises are not redeemed within one year from such sale, the trustees shall execute to the person or persons entitled thereto, a lease of the premises so sold, under the corporate seal, and signed by the president for the time being, for the term for which the same were sold, to be computed from the expiration of one year from the day of such sales, which lease shall be presumptive evidence that such tax was legally imposed, and of the regularity of the proceedings and sale, for which the trustees may charge the sum of one dollar on delivery thereof to the purchaser; and such lessee or lessees, his, her, or their legal representatives or assigns, may by virtue of such lease obtain possession of said premises in the manner prescribed by law in relation to persons holding over real estate sold under execution, and shall and may lawfully enjoy such premises during the term specified in such lease, against the owners thereof, and all persons claiming under them, and shall be at liberty, within thirty days after the expiration of said term, to remove all buildings and fixtures put on said premises |