Trustees to be divided tion of the necessary buildings, and the purchase of the proper instruments, for the purposes of the said observatory, the said provisional trustees shall call a general meeting of the subscribers and contributors to the said observatory fund, or holders of a share or shares therein, giving five days' notice of the time and place of holding the said meeting, to be published in two daily newspapers of the city of New York, at which meeting an election of twenty-five trustees of the said corporation shall take place, under the direction and supervision of three inspectors of election, to be appointed by the said provisional trustees. At the said election each subscriber or contributor to the said observatory fund, or holder of a share or shares therein, shall be entitled to one vote for each and every share of twenty-five dollars he or she may hold; which votes may be given either in person or by proxy. A plurality of the votes thus given shall, in all cases, constitute a choice, of which the certificate of the inspectors of election shall be conclusive evidence. The persons thus elected shall thereafter be the trustees of the said corporation, to whom shall be immediately transferred its entire estate, property and concerns; and the office, powers, and functions of the said provisional trustees shall thenceforth cease and determine. S4. The said trustees, elected as provided for in the third section of this act, shall, immediately after their election, meet together, and, by lot, divide themselves into five classes of five members each. Those of the first class shall hold their offices respectively for one year; those of the second class for two years; those of the third class for three years; those of the fourth class for four years; and those of the fifth class for five years; and in the several classes until others shall be elected in their places. At the expiration of the term of office of the first class, and annually thereafter, an election of five trustees to supply the places of those whose term of office then expires shall take place, on like notice, under like direction and supervision of three inspectors of election to be appointed by the trustees then in office, in like manner, with like effect, and to be certified as in the election provided for in the third section of this act. To this end the books of shares in the observatory fund shall be closed ten days previous to any of the several elections provided for in this and the third section of this act, and a list of the shareholders, as they may stand on the said books at that time, shall be made out and delivered to the inspectors of election, and shall be conclusive, and the only evidence of the right of the shareholders to vote at the said elections. The trustees elected at the several elections provided for in this section shall hold their offices respectively for five years, and until others are elected in their places. $5. The trustees elected, as provided for in the third and fourth sections of this act, shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in their own board, between the several elections herein above provided for; and the person thus chosen to fill a vacancy shall hold his office for the remaining term of office of the class into which he is so chosen. The said trustees elected, as provided for in the third and fourth sections of this act, shall have the entire possession, charge and management of the estate, property and concerns of the said corporation; and, to this end, shall have power to make all such by-laws, not contrary to law, as may be proper; and to appoint all such officers, professors and servants as they may deem necessary, for the purposes of the said corporation, and the same to remove and appoint others. Central iioners, power of park com. § 6. At all meetings of the said trustees, duly called, Quorum. seven members present shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of ordinary business; but no officer, professor or servant shall be appointed or removed, nor shall any estate be purchased or conveyed, without the presence of a majority of all the trustees of the said corporation. S7. The board of commissioners of the Central park in the city of New York, are hereby authorized and empowered to allow the said corporation hereby created to establish within the said park the astronomical observatory contemplated by this act; and, to that end, the said board of commissioners may allot, set apart and appropriate suitable and proper grounds within the said park, in the position and of the dimensions to be determined by the said board of commissioners, for the erection and accommodation of the said observatory, and the said corporation shall have free access to and egress from the said grounds thus allotted, set apart and appropriated for the purpose of erecting thereon the necessary and Trustees, rights and privileges of. proper observatory buildings, in their dimensions and external architecture to be approved by the said board of commissioners, and of maintaining therein an astronomical observatory; and so long as the said corporation shall continue so to maintain therein such observatory, the said corporation shall have and enjoy the free and uninterrupted use and occupation of the said grounds, so allotted, set apart and appropriated to that object, but for no other purpose whatever, without any rent, assessment or charge for the same; subject always, however, to such reasonable and proper rules and regulations, as the said board of commissioners, in their arrangement and due administration of the said park, may from time to time prescribe. But, if at any time hereafter, and for any cause, the said corporation shall cease so to maintain the said astronomical observatory upon the said grounds thus allotted, set apart and appropriated for that purpose, and shall discontinue the same, and so advise the said commissioners by notice in writing to that effect, the rights and privileges in the said park, hereby authorized to be granted to the said corporation, for the purpose herein above declared, shall thenceforth cease and determine; and the said grounds so authorized to be allotted, set apart and appropriated to the use and occupation of the said corporation, for the purpose herein specified, may be appropriated to any other use consistent with the general objects and purposes of the said park; but in such case, the said corporation shall have the right, and shall be permitted to remove from the said grounds all its property. The evidence of the allotment, setting apart and appropriation by the said board of commissioners of the Central park, to the said corporation, of suitable and and proper grounds within the said park, for the establishment and maintaining thereon an astronomical observatory, as authorized and provided for herein above, shall be a resolution, to that effect, passed by the said board of commissioners, at a meeting thereof duly called, a copy of which, signed and acknowledged by the president and secretary of the said board, to be recorded in the office of the register of the city and county of New York. Ss. The said corporation shall possess the general powers, rights and privileges, and be subject to the liabilities and provisions contained in the eighteenth chapter * So in original. of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable, and have not been repealed or modified by this act. S 9. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 346. AN ACT concerning the salt springs and the manufacture of salt. Passed April 15, 1859; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. paid. SECTION 1. There shall be collected and paid upon all Duty to be salt manufactured in this state, a duty of one cent per bushel of fifty-six pounds, which duties shall be paid into the general fund. shall not be S2. The salt springs belonging to this state, including Salt springs all salt water existing on the Onondaga salt springs res- sold. ervation, shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of. The lands contiguous thereto, which are necessary and convenient to the use of the salt springs and the public works thereon, are to be and remain forever the property of the state; but such lands as have been reserved or used for the purpose of the manufacture of salt, may be sold by authority of law, under the direction of the commissioners of the land office, with a view to the exchange of the same for other lands more conveniently located or in larger quantity, in which the proceeds of the lands so sold shall be invested; but by such sale and repurchase, the aggregate quantity of lands appropriated to the manufacture of salt shall not be diminished. ARTICLE 2. OF THE OFFICERS INTRUSTED WITH THE SUPERINTEND- SECTION 3. The care and superintendence of the salt officers. springs and of the manufacture and inspection of salt upon Bonds to be Manufacturing districts, Appoint the salt springs reservation, in the county of Onondaga, shall continue to be vested in the "superintendent of the Onondaga salt springs," according to the provisions of this act. The said superintendent shall hold his office for three years; but the governor or chief executive officer of the state for the time being may remove the superintendent from office, for cause shown, and after a fair hearing, and appoint another person in his place to hold the office for the same time and by the same tenure as the officer removed would have held if he had not been removed. S4. Every person hereafter appointed to the office of superintendent of the Onondaga salt springs shall, within thirty days after he shall receive notice of his appointment, and before he shall enter upon the performance of the duties of his office, execute a bond in the sum of thirty thousand dollars to the people of this state, with not less than five sufficient sureties, to be approved by the comptroller and filed in his office, whose approbation shall be indorsed on said bond, conditioned that such person shall faithfully perform the duties of the said office, as the same are or may hereafter be prescribed by law. $5. There shall be four manufacturing districts upon the Onondaga salt springs reservation, as follows: District number one, or Syracuse; district number two, or Salina; district number three, or Liverpool; and district number four, or Geddes; and the public offices for the transaction of the business connected with the manufacture of salt, shall be located as follows, to wit: For district number one, in the third ward of the city of Syracuse; district number two, in the first ward of said city; for district number three, at the village of Liverpool; and for district number four, at the village of Geddes. S6. The superintendent may appoint the following superintes deputies and assistants, to wit: ments by dent. One chief engineer. One receiver to reside in each district, one of whom shall also be chief clerk. One inspector of salt to reside in each district, one of whom shall also be designated chief inspector. One overseer of pumps to reside in each district. |