and all acts amending said title and supplementary thereto, shall not be repealed or affected by this act until the first Monday in January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. § 508. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, except such parts as relate to elections to office, and except title six, title seven, title nine, title seventeen, title twenty, title twenty-two, title twenty-three, section seventy-four and title one as far as it relates to the creation of twenty-five wards in the city only so far as it is necessary to make the election of Aldermen and Supervisors therein at the annual election of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, regular and legal, and as to such parts, titles,and section it shall take effect immediately; and except also as to subdivision one of section two hundred and seventy-one, subdivision two of section two hundred and seventythree, section two hundred and eighty-five, section two hundred and eighty-eight, section two hundred and eighty-nine, and section two hundred and ninety-seven, which shall take effect on the first Monday in January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and except also that no street commissioner shall be elected at the annual election of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the Mayor elected at such election shall hold office for the term of three years, and except also that the Common Council shall on or before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fix the salaries of all officers to be elected under this act at the annual election of eighteen hundred and ninety-one. § 509. All proceedings, matters, and things, which were begun, or regarding which any action or preliminary steps had been taken by the city of Buffalo, or its departments, officers, agents or servants, prior to the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and shall be continued, carried on, and completed under the provisions of this act, the same as if such proceedings, matters, and things were begun and such action and steps had been taken in conformity with the provisions of this act. Proceedings for the levying of taxes and assessments and the collection of the same, and the sale of lands for nonpayment of the same, pending and incomplete on the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall be carried on and completed under the provisions of this act. All acts and proceedings of the city of Buffalo, or its departments, officers, agents of servants, regarding or affecting such proceedings, matters, and things since and including the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, are hereby ratified and confirmed. All acts and proceedings of the city of Buffalo by its officers, agents and servants, and official acts and proceedings of said officers, agents or servants of said city, or any of them, on or subsequent to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which are not in conformity to, or in compliance with the provisions of this act hereby amended, but which would have been proper and lawful had the act hereby amended not been passed, and all acts of the officers in any department, before the provisions of the act hereby amended applicable to such department were in full operation, are hereby declared to be valid and legal, and are ratified and confirmed. Provided, however, that this act shall not affect any proceeding, matter, or thing, which was begun, or regarding which any action or preliminary steps have been taken by the city of Buffalo, or its departments, officers, agents or servants, or any proceedings for the levying of taxes and assessments, and the collection of the same, concerning which any suit or special proceeding is now pending in any court, but the validity and effect of all said proceedings, matters and things, taxes and assessments, shall be adjudged and determined in said suit and proceedings, as the same would be adjudged if this act had not been passed. This section added by L. 1892, c. 376. Act required to be done by ordinance, Action to recover damages for personal injuries, 19 taxes and assessments, to test validity of and 116 for water, sewer and gas connections, con- structing, repairing and cleaning sidewalks, 288 Assessment, Department of annual assessment roll, how prepared.. 138 annual assessment roll, when shall be completed assessments insufficient, how remedied. deeds and maps to be presented by County 138 133 409 130 136 hearing of persons assessed on general roll. 139 151 not take part in apportioning assessment.. local rolls shall be made in their order... 135 136 144 136 petitions, reference to and certificate of, sub. 2 398,399 134 power to correct annual assessment rolls... 141 quorum of....... . . . 132 registry of owners and agents of land,shall keep 150 in office. 136 |