same. supervisors is hereby authorized to levy and collect the amount of prin- Tax to pay cipal and interest of said bonds as the same shall become due, in the same manner as other county expenses are levied and collected, and to pay such principal and interest as the same shall become due. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 79. AN ACT conferring additional powers on the trustees of school district number one of the town of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer county, and granting additional privileges to said district. PASSED April 19, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: employ a SECTION 1. The trustees of school district number one of the town of Trustees Lansingburgh are hereby authorized and empowered to employ in be- may half of said district a superintendent of common schools, who shall, superinunder the direction of said trustees, have the general supervision of all schools. the public schools in said district, and perform such duties as the said trustees may prescribe. tendent of leges con lage. § 2. Said school district number one of the town of Lansingburgh, Powers in the county of Rensselaer, shall, upon and after the passage of this and priviact, have all the powers and possess all the privileges conferred upon ferred cities and incorporated villages, having a population of five thousand upon viland upwards, by section six of title three of chapter five hundred and fifty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the general acts relating to public instruction," as the same was amended by chapter three hundred and seventyfour of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act to amend section nine of chapter five hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled 'An act to amend chapter five hundred and fifty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled 'An act to revise aud consolidate the general acts relating to public instruction."'" § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 80. AN ACT to provide for a separate board of water commissioners in the village of Suspension Bridge, Niagara county, in the place of the trustees of said village, the mode and time of their election, and defining their powers, duties and term of office. PASSED April 19, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: and four SECTION 1. There shall be elected by the electors of the village of President Suspension Bridge, Niagara county, in the place of and to succeed the commis board of water commissioners authorized by chapter one hundred and be elected. sioners to When election to be held. Terms of of office. Powers and privi ferred on board. eighty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, a separate board, consisting of a president and four commissioners, to be designated the board of water commissioners. § 2. Such election shall be held on the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Notice of such election shall be published in a newspaper published in said village, or posted in ten conspicuous places in said village, at least three weeks prior to such election. § 3. The president so elected shall hold his office for one year, and the commissioners so clected shall respectively hold their office for one, two, three and four years, to be determined by lot, to be drawn by them at the first regular meeting of the board. There shall be elected by said electors, on the first Tuesday in June, in each year, after said first election, a president, who shall hold his office for one year, and one commissioner, who shall hold his office for four years. § 4. The board of water commissioners so elected shall have all the leges con- powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and obligations granted to and imposed upon the board of water commissioners now organized in said village under said chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, except that the board so elected may file the bonds required of them with the board of trustees of said village on the same conditions they are now filed with the county judge; and they shall not have power to borrow upon the credit of said village a sum, including any indebtedness incurred under section eight of said chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and unpaid, exceeding eighty thousand dollars. Laws § 5. Such parts of said chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the repealed. laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, so far as they apply to the village of Suspension Bridge and are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Capital stock. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately CHAP. 81. AN ACT to amend chapter seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to incorporate the Buffalo Board of Trade." PASSED April 19, 1882. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to incorporate the Buffalo Board of Trade," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of not less than ten thousand dollars, with liberty to increase the same to any amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, when a majority of the trustees shall so determine. The said capital stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and the same shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable in such manner as the bylaws of such corporation shall direct. The said corporation may commence business, and shall be deemed fully organized, when one thousand dollars shall have been fully subscribed and paid in. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 82. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend chapter PASSED April 19, 1882. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The fourth section of chapter two hundred and eightytwo of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled "An act to amend the act entitled An act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations, and to regulate the same,' passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, as amended by chapter five hundred and forty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to amend chapter two hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled 'An act to amend the act entitled An act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations, and to regulate the same,'" passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ceedings to § 4. In case any railroad company, the line or route of whose road Real has been surveyed and designated, and the certificate thereof duly estate, profiled as required by law, is unable to agree for the purchase of any real acquire. estate required for its roadway or other purposes, the said corporation shall have the right to acquire title to the same by the special proceedings prescribed in the act hereby amended; and all real estate acquired by any railroad corporation under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, for the objects and purposes herein expressed, shall be deemed to be acquired for public use. But this section shall not be so con- Not to strued as to apply to any real estate in the city of Buffalo, situated apply to between Main and Michigan streets, except that lying between Ex- real estate change street and Buffalo river. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 83. AN ACT to convey and release the right, title, property and interest of the people of the state of New York of, in and to a certain lot of land, with the buildings thereon and the appurtenances, situated on the northwest corner of avenue A and Tenth street, in the seventeenth ward of the city of New York to Auguste Louise Hohnholz, of the city of New York. PASSED April 19, 1882; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: certain in Buffalo. Interest of SECTION 1. All the estate, right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York of, in and to all that certain lot ot land situate, state lying and being in the seventeenth ward of the city of New York, and released. Not to impair vested rights. Interest of state released. bounded and containing as follows: Beginning on the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly line of Avenue A with the northerly line of Tenth street, and running thence westerly along Tenth street, eighteen feet ten inches; thence northerly and parallel with Avenue A seventy-one feet; thence easterly and parallel with Tenth street, eighteen feet ten inches to Avenue A; thence southerly along the same seventy-one feet to the place of beginuing, be the said dimensions more or less. Being the same premises which were conveyed by Margaret A. Murphy, wife of Thomas J. Murphy, of said city, to Henry D. A. Hohnholz, of the same place, by deed dated twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and recorded May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in liber eight hundred and fifty-one of conveyances, page five hundred and seventy-eight, in the office of the register of the city and county of New York, is hereby conveyed and released to the said Auguste Louise Hohnholz, and to her heirs and assigns forever. § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair, release or discharge any right, claim or interest of any heir at law entitled to inherit under the laws of the state of New York or any devisee or grantee, purchaser or creditor by judgment, mortgage or otherwise, in and to said premises, or any part or parcel thereof. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 84. AN ACT to release to Catherine Devyr the right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York in and to certain real estate in the town of Camden, Oneida county. PASSED April 19, 1882; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York, in and to all that tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Camden, county of Oneida, New York, being part of lot number thirty-nine, north half of township number seven, Scriba's patent, bounded and described as follows, viz.: Beginning at the southeast corner of said lot number thirty-seven; from thence north twenty-two degrees east twelve chains 20 links to a hemlock stake in the marsh; thence north sixty-eight degrees west twenty-three chains forty-nine links to the center of the highway leading from Ashabel Upson's to John S. Preston's; from thence along the center of said highway to the corner of a piece of land lately purchased by Woodard Perkins of Chandler B. Preston; thence along the westerly line of said piece of land to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres three roods and twenty-one perches of land, be the same more or less; also all that certain other piece or parcel of land, being that part of lot number fifty in the north half of township number seven, Scriba's patent, lying north of the road leading from Camden village to Williamstown, and bounded east by lands of Roster Preston and said lot, north by the north line of said lot number fifty, west by lands of Lyman Preston and said lot, number fifty and south by the centre of the highway aforesaid, containing twenty five acres of land, be the same more or less, and being the same lands and premises conveyed by Jane E. Muloerhill to the said James Devyr by deed dated March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and recorded, in the Oneida county clerk's office on the nineteenth day of March eighteen hundred and seventy-four in liber three hundred and forty-four of deeds on page one hundred eightynine, and hereby released to Catherine Devyr the widow of the said James Devyr, deceased, her heirs, executors and assigns forever. §2. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or construed to Not to affect the right, title, interest, claim or demand of any heir-at-law, impair devisee, grantee or vendee, or of any creditor by mortgage or other rights. wise of said deceased. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 85. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled, "An act to reduce the width of Ricker* avenue, in Long Island city, in the county of Queens, from one hundred and thirty feet to eighty feet." PASSED April 19, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to reduce the width of Ricker* avenue in Long Island city, in the county of Queens, from one hundred and thirty feet to eighty feet," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: discon § 1. All that part of Riker avenue lying south-westerly of a line Part of drawn eighty feet southerly from and always parallel with the north- avenue easterly line of said Riker avenue as the same is laid down on the map or tinued. plan of Long Island city, being a strip of land fifty feet in width, beginning at the East river and running to the easterly line of Long Island city at or near Bowery bay, is hereby discontinued upon said map or plan. § 2. Section two of said chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. The said Riker avenue shall hereafter be eighty feet in width; width. the north-easterly line thereof shall remain unchanged, and the southwesterly line thereof shall be distant eighty feet south-westerly from and always parallel with the north-easterly line thereof. § 3. The title of said chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws Title of eighteen hundred and eighty is hereby amended so as to read as amended. follows: "An act to reduce the width of Riker avenue in Long Island city in the county of Queens from one hundred and thirty feet to eighty feet." 4. This act shall take effect immediately. |