Privileges of firemen. Exempt rom jury. 71st SESSION. CHAP. 100. AN ACT in relation to Firemen in the several cities and villages of the State. PASSED March 18, 1848. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The firemen now or hereafter to be regularly enrolled and recognized by the constituted authorities of the several cities and villages of this State, shall be exempt during the time of their service, and after having served five years, consecutively, shall, forever thereafter, be exempted from service on any jury, and also from serving in the militia, except in cases of invasion or insurrection. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. 71st SESSION. CHAP. 188. AN ACT to amend an act entitled " An act in relation to firemen in the several cities and villages of this State," passed March 18, 1848. PASSED April 5, 1848. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. Every person who, on the first day of May next, shall have been a fireman in any of the cities or villages of this State, for the term of four, five, or six years, and who shall serve as such one year thereafter; and every person who, on the first day of May next, shall have been such fireman for a less period of time than four years, and who shall serve as such for so long a time thereafter as shall make the whole term of his service five years; and every person who may become such fireman after the passage of this act, and shall serve as such for five years thereafter, shall, during and forever after such service, be exempted from serving as a juror in any of the courts of this State, and from militia duty, except in cases of insurrection or invasion. Privileges of flremen. 2. The act entitled "An act in relation to firemen in Repeal. the several cities and villages of this State," passed March 18, 1848, is hereby repealed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Fire limits. Buildings erected to be fire-proof. Party or outside walls. 72d SESSION. CHAP. 84. AN ACT for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of purpose. PASSED March 7, 1849. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The fire limits of the city of New York are hereby extended, so as to embrace all of said city situate to the southward of a line drawn one hundred feet north of Thirty-second street, extending from East to Hudson river. § 2. All dwelling-houses, stores, store-houses, and all other buildings, which, from and after the passage of this act, shall be built or erected in the said city, that is to say, within all that part of the said city situate to the southward of said line, drawn one hundred feet north of Thirtysecond street, shall be made and constructed as hereinafter provided, of stone or brick, or other fire-poof materials, and shall be constructed with party or outside walls. § 3. The outside and party walls of all dwelling-houses, stores, store-houses, and other buildings hereafter to be erected or built within the fire limits of the said city, as the same are extended by this act, or may hereafter be extended, shall be constructed of stone or brick; and every i such dwelling-house, store, or store-house, shall have at least two side or end walls (in addition to the front and rear walls), whether such side or end walls be outside or party walls. Provision respecting than thirty feet wide. § 4. Every such dwelling-house, store, or store-house, being more than thirty feet in width, shall be erected and houses more built with an additional wall, or partition walls, of stone or brick, not less than eight inches thick, running from front to rear, so that the walls of such dwelling-house, store, or store-house (except the front and rear walls), shall not be distant from each other more than thirty feet, and all such partition walls which shall exceed thirty-five feet in height from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest point thereof, shall not be less than twelve inches thick. Thickness 5. The outside and party walls of all dwelling-houses, of walls stores, store-houses, and other buildings hereafter to be erected or built within the fire limits of the city of New York, as the same are extended as aforesaid, or hereafter may be extended, shall not be less than eight inches thick; and all such walls, which shall exceed thirty-five feet in height, from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest point thereof, shall not be less than twelve inches thick. Discharg ing or arch § 6. All discharging or arch-pieces used in the chimneys of any such dwelling-house, store-house, or other building, chimneys. shall recede from any flue in every such chimney at least four inches; and no such chimney shall be started or built upon the floor or beams of such dwelling-house, store, store-house, or other building; but shall be started at the foundation of such dwelling-house, store, stare-house, or other building; and all hearths shall be supported by arches of stone or brick, and no chimney in any dwelling-house, store, or store-house, or other building now erected or here in gutters cornices. or after to be erected within the fire limits, as the same are extended by this act, or may hereafter be extended, shall be cut off, to be supported below in any manner whatever. Wooden § 7. All wooden gutters of any such dwelling-house, store, store-house, or other building, so to be built or erected as aforesaid, shall be firmly secured by irons, which shall not be more than seven and one half feet from each other, and on all such gutters, not exceeding twelve inches in width, the said irons shall be at least two inches in width, and half an inch thick; and on all such gutters, exceeding twelve inches in width, the said irons shall be at least two and a half inches in width and five eighths of an inch thick; and the said irons, except those at the end of the cornice or gutter, shall be fastened to the floor, or roof beams, and the end irons shall be constructed so as to fasten in the side or end walls. 8. All plate irons shall be built into the side, end, or party walls; and the iron anchors, used to secure the plate pieces, shall be at least two inches wide, and half an inch thick; the anchors to be used at each end of every such plate piece shall be worked or built into the side, end, or party wall of the building, and the ends of such anchors shall turn down at least four inches. 9. All scuttle-frames and doors on every such dwellinghouse, store, store-house, or other building so to be built or erected as aforesaid, shall be made of, or covered with, copper, zinc, tin, or iron, and every window or entrance. above the first story, in the rear of every such store, storehouse, or other building, used for any purpose other than that of a dwelling, over thirty feet in height, from the level of the sidewalk, shall have shutters and doors thereon, made of iron or copper. |