CHAP. 88. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to authorize the laying out of a road from Newkirk's Mills to Piseco village." Passed March 23, 1842. The people of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : son, commis, § 1. Ezra Thompson shall be sole commissioner for the ma- E. Thomp king of that part of the road laid out under the act to authorize sioner. the laying out of a road from Newkirk's Mills to Piseco village, passed April 27, 1841, which lies between Piseco village and the point of the intersection of said road with the road leading from Parker's mills to Stratford, a distance of nine miles. § 2. The said commissioner before receiving any of the moneys raised for the purpose of making said nine miles of road, shall give bonds to be approved by the supervisor of the town of Arietta, in the sum of four thousand dollars, for the faithful expenditure of all moneys received by him for the purpose of making said road. To give bond refunded. § 3. Any collector, supervisor, commissioner, or other person Money to be who may have collected or received any moneys upon or arising from any assessment, made under the fourth section of said act, except for the aforesaid nine miles, shall, upon demand made, refund and pay over the same to the person from whom such money was collected or received in virtue of such assessment; and any person who may have paid any such assessment may recover the same by action for money had and received to his use from any other person to whom the same may have been paid, or who shall be the holder thereof, at the time a demand shall be made upon him for such repayment. declared a § 4. All that portion of said road as laid out by the com- Part of road missioners appointed under said act, which lies between the in- public high tersection of said road with the road leading from Parker's way. mills to Stratford and Newkirk's mills is hereby declared to be a public highway; and the fourth section of said act so far as the same relates to this portion of said road is hereby repealed. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Increase of annual pay CHAP. 89. AN ACT to increase the annual payments on the shares of the Passed March 24, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The trustees of the New-York Society Library are ments. hereby authorized to demand and receive from the members of the said society on the first Tuesday of every May hereafter, the sum of two dollars, in addition to the sum which they are now authorized to demand and receive, upon each and every right or share in the said library, and the said trustees shall have the same powers and remedies for the collection of the said additional sum by forfeiture of the shares or otherwise, as they now have for the collection of the annual payment, which they are authorized to demand and receive as aforesaid. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Firemen to be organized Hook and CHAP. 90. AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Owego. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The trustees of the village of Owego in the county of Tioga, shall from time to time appoint and organize not exceeding twenty-five firemen to each and every fire engine purchased and owned by said village, provided the number of engines does not exceed one to every six-hundred inhabitants of said village, said firemen when organized and appointed shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the act hereby amended. § 2. The said trustees shall in their discretion, organize a ladder com- hook and ladder company to every sixteen hundred inhabitants of said village. pany. CHAP. 91. AN ACT authorizing the inhabitants of the town of Cortlandt to raise money to build a bridge over Croton river in said town. Passed March 24, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: raised by tax § 1. The town of Cortlandt, in the county of Westchester, Money to be is hereby authorized to raise by tax, in the same manner that other town charges are levied and raised, such sum or sums of money as the inhabitants qualified to vote at town meetings, shall direct, not exceeding in all the sum of three thousand dollars, for the purpose of building a new bridge over Croton river, near its mouth in said town. expended. § 2. The moneys when raised shall be paid over to the com- How to be missioners of highways of said town, to be by them expended for the purpose aforesaid, and in pursuance of the vote or resolution of the town meeting that may raise the same. The said commissioners shall, before receiving any of the money authorized to be raised by this act, execute their bond to the supervisor of the said town in the penal sum of six thousand dollars with sureties to be approved by the said supervisor, conditioned for the faithful application of said moneys for the purpose specified in this act. 3. The commissioners of highways of said town are au- Money may thorized, after the vote of the inhabitants directing the raising be borrowed. of the said money, to borrow the same for immediate use and expenditure, and until the same shall be collected by assess ment. ing. § 4. A special town meeting may be called at any time either special by the supervisor, town clerk or the commissioners of high- town meet ways of said town for the purposes aforesaid, giving twelve days' previous notice thereof, by advertisement to be published in the two public newspapers in said town, and by affixing said notices in five public places in said town. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 92. AN ACT to amend an "Act authorizing the corporation of the city of Troy to create a sinking fund," passed May 25th, 1841, and for other purposes. Passed March 24, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Money to be § 1. It shall be the duty of the mayor, recorder, aldermen raised by tax and commonalty of the city of Troy, to raise annually by tax, Proviso. Bonds issued under act of be disposed of in the same manner that the taxes for the ordinary contingent expenses of said city are raised, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in lieu of the one per cent authorized to be raised by the second section of the act hereby amended, to be added to the sinking fund created for the ultimate redemption of the debt contracted or to be contracted for the construction of the Schenectady and Troy railroad, to be managed, applied and disposed of in the same manner as is provided for, in and by the act hereby amended, in respect to the said one per cent and not otherwise. Provided, that the commissioners shall not be authorized to divert any portion of the money raised by the provisions of the act hereby amended, for the purpose of creating said sinking fund, to any other purpose, than in the purchase by and with the consent of the common council of said city any bond or bonds issued by said city for the construction of said road; nor shall the said commissioners be authorized to loan any part of said moneys, so as aforesaid to be raised for the purpose of creating said sinking fund, to the said city or any other person or persons. And provided also, that no portion of the said sinking fund authorized by this act, shall be raised on that part of the city of Troy which lies south of the north line. of the farm of Thomas Bumsted. of § 2. And whereas doubts have arisen whether the said may1837 how to or, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the said city of Troy, are now authorized by law to dispose of the bonds which they were empowered to issue by the act entitled "An act to authorize the corporation of the city of Troy to borrow money for the purposes therein mentioned," passed March 28, 1837, when bearing an interest of six per cent per annum below the par value thereof, Temporary be issued. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Troy to dispose of said bonds upon the best terms which can be obtained for them; any law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding. § 3. It shall be lawful for the said mayor, recorder, alderbonds may men and commonalty of the city of Troy to issue temporary bonds in such sums, and for such terms as they may think proper, not exceeding in the whole two hundred thousand dollars, to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, in anticipation of the proceeds to arise from the negotiation of the bonds authorized by the act entitled "An act to authorize the corporation of the city of Troy to borrow money for the purposes therein mentioned," passed March 28, 1837, the proceeds whereof to be applied towards the construction of the Schenectady and Troy railroad, and to no other purpose what ever. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 93. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Oswego Bridge Company, and for other purposes,' passed March 22, 1822. Passed March 25, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 1. It shall be lawful for the Oswego Bridge Company here- Rates of toll after to demand and receive at their toll gate for the use of the said company, a sum not exceeding the following rates of toll, viz: for every stage, pleasure carriage or wagon drawn by two or more horses, six and one fourth cents; for every one horse sleigh, wagon, gig, sulky or cart, three cents; for every lumber wagon, sleigh or cart drawn by two horses, oxen or mules, three cents; for every additional horse, ox or mule, two cents; for each hog, sheep or calf one cent; for every man and horse, three cents; for every foot passenger, one cent. Provided, Proviso. however, said bridge company shall commute said toll on foot passengers whenever desired, at the following rates, viz: for foot passengers they may demand and receive, in lieu of one cent for each passenger, twenty-five cents per quarter, thirtyseven and a half cents for a half year, fifty cents for a year, payable in advance. And provided also, that children under Proviso. sixteen years of age be allowed to pass said bridge free from toll. clause. § 2. No tolls shall be collected on Sundays, nor from nine Saving o'clock at night until the next morning of each day, and in addition to the persons now exempt by the fifth section of the act hereby amended, no toll shall be demanded or received from passengers going to or from the Oswego canal packet boats on the eve of their departure or arrival, such packets forming a regular line for the conveyance of passengers only. 3. The company shall during the remaining time of their Dimenson of charter, maintain a bridge thirty-two feet in width with a safe bridge. and commodious footway on each side protected by a double railing. § 4. It shall be lawful at any time hereafter for the towns of Oswego and Scriba to purchase by their supervisor in connexion with the president of the village of Oswego, and on the votes of said towns at their regular meeting, all the rights of the company in said bridge at a price not exceeding six thousand dollars, provided the bridge shall thereafter be free from toll for public use.. company to § 5. The treasurer of the bridge company shall as often as Treasurer of once in each year, on application therefor, furnish either of the render acsupervisors of the towns of Oswego, or Scriba, or the president count. of the village of Oswego under oath, a just and true statement |