CHAP. 355. AN ACT in relation to local improvements in the city of Brooklyn, APPROVED by the Governor June 5, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. During the year one thousand eight hundred and Local imninety, the mayor, comptroller and city clerk of the city of Brooklyn provement bonds, isare hereby authorized to prepare and issue bonds of said city, to be sue of. called "local improvement bonds of the city of Brooklyn," signed, scaled and countersigned in the same manner as other bonds of the said city, and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed three per cent- Rate of inum per annum, payable semi-annually; provided, however, that there terest. shail not be so issued, in the aggregate, more than nine times the amount included in the tax levy of said city, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, for repaving the streets and avenues of said city with granite or Belgian blocks, and not more in the aggregate in any event than nine hundred thousand dollars. Limitation The said bonds shall be issued as nearly as may be in separate series of of outlay. one hundred thousand dollars respectively, and so as to fall due and become payable in not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five able. years from their respective dates. The proceeds received from the Proceeds, sale of said bonds shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of how creda fund to be known as the local improvement fund," to be expended expended. from time to time as may be required for repaving the streets and avenues of the said city, with granite or Belgian blocks. When pay ited and repaving contract. § 2. The mayor and commissioner of the department of city works Determinaof said city shall from time to time after the first day of January, one tion as to thousand eight hundred and ninety, determine what streets or avenues streets. of said city ought in their judgment to be repaved under the provisions of this act. The work shall be done under the supervision of the department of city works by contract, let as other contracts in said city work to are let to the lowest bidder, but no such contract shall be made with- be done by out the specific written consent of the mayor indorsed thereon. The work so specifically authorized shall be paid for out of the proceeds of How paid said bonds by warrants drawn as other warrants upon the city treasurer for. are drawn, and upon vouchers certified by the commissioner of the said department of city works and by the mayor and audited by the auditor of said city. No portion of the money hereby authorized to Proviso, as be raised shall be used or expended for any purpose other than to pay dire for work authorized and contracted for as above provided after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. to expen § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby Repeal. repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Issue of autho rized. terest. CHAP. 356. AN ACT to authorize the purchase of sites and the erection of build- APPROVED by the Governor June 5, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The mayor, comptroller and city clerk of the city of city bonds Brooklyn are hereby authorized, subject to the restrictions hereinafter contained, and in the manner hereinafter provided, to prepare and issue bonds of the said city, to be called "public site purchase and constructions* bonds of the city of Brooklyn," not to exceed in the Rate of in- aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed three per centum per annum, payable semi-annually. In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine there may be Limitation issued of said bonds an amount not to exceed in the aggregate the of outlay. sum of two hundred thousand dollars, and in each year thereafter, until the full amount of bonds authorized to be issued by this act are issued, there may be issued of said bonds an amount in the aggregate not to exceed three times the amount included in the tax levy of said city for the previous year for the purchase of sites and erection of buildings for municipal purposes, other than sites and buildings for the purposes of the board of education. The said bonds shall be issued only upon the requisition of the mayor and the commissioners When pay- of the departments of city works and police of said city, and shall be issued as nearly as may be in separate series of one hundred thousand dollars respectively, and so as to fall due and become payable in not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five years from their respective dates. The said bonds shall not be sold at less than par. Proceeds, The proceeds received from the sale of said bonds shall be deposited ited. in the treasury of said city to the credit of a fund to be called the "fund for the purchase of sites and the erection of buildings for municipal purposes," and shall be paid out from time to time as provided in the second section of this act. able. how cred Purchase of lands for city mayor. § 2. The mayor and the commissioners of the departments of city works and police of said city are hereby authorized to purchase in the buildings. name of the city of Brooklyn any piece or pieces, parcel or parcels of land, and to erect thereon or upon any land now owned or hereafter acquired by said city, such building or buildings as may in their judgment be required for the use of any department of said city (save and except the department of education) severally or conjointly with other Consent of departments. But no such site shall be purchased, and no such building be erected without the written consent of the mayor. The said building shall be erected by contract let as other contracts in said city are let, to the lowest bidder, but no such contract shall be made without the specific written consent of the mayor indorsed thereon. The work under such contracts shall be under the supervision of the decontract.partment of city works. No such contract shall be made in any year involving an expenditure beyond the amount of bonds that may be Sites and issued under the provisions of this act during that year. The sites buildings, and buildings, authorized to be purchased and erected under the provisions of this act, shall be paid for out of the proceeds of said bonds Work to be done by how paid for. * So in the original. by warrants drawn as other warrants upon the city treasurer are drawn, and upon vouchers certified by the commissioners of the departments of city works and police and by the mayor and audited by the auditor of said city. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 357. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and three of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act in relation to summary proceedings to remove monthly tenants in the city of New York for holding over." APPROVED by the Governor June 5, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: act Brooklyn SECTION 1. The title of chapter three hundred and three of the laws Title and of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act in amended, relation to summary proceedings to remove monthly tenants in the city to include of New York for holding over, is hereby amended so as to read as fol- city. lows: An act in relation to summary proceedings to remove monthly tenants in the cities of New York and Brooklyn for holding over." " §2. Section one of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. No monthly tenant shall hereafter be removed from any lands or tenements in the city of New York or in the city of Brooklyn on the grounds of holding over his term (except when the same expires on the first day of May) unless at least five days before the expiration of the term the landlord or his agent serves upon the tenant, in the same manner in which a summons in summary proceedings is now allowed to be served by law, a notice in writing to the effect that the landlord elects to terminate the tenancy, and that unless the tenant removes from said premises on the day on which his term expires the landlord will commence summary proceedings under the statute to remove such tenant therefrom. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 358. AN ACT to authorize the purchase of sites and the erection of APPROVED by the Governor June 5, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. provement SECTION 1. The mayor, comptroller and city clerk of the city of School imBrooklyn, are hereby authorized, subject to the restrictions hereinafter bonds, iscontained and at the times hereinafter prescribed, to prepare and is- sue of. sue bonds of the said city, to be called "school improvement bonds," signed, sealed and countersigned in the same manner as other bonds of the said city, and bearing interest at the rate of not to exceed three Rate of inper centum per annum, payable semi-annually. During the year one terest. of outlay. able. thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine there may be so issued of such bonds an amount in the aggregate not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars and during the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety there may be issued of such bonds an amount in the aggregate not to exceed four times the amount included in the tax levy of said Limitation city for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, for the purchase of sites for, and the erection of new school buildings, and not to exceed in any event eight hundred thousand dollars. The said When pay- bonds shall be issued in separate series of one hundred thousand dollars respectively, and so as to fall due and become payable in not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five years from their respective dates. None of said bonds shall be sold at less than the par value Proceeds, thereof. The proceeds received from the sale of said bonds shall be ited and deposited in the treasury of said city to the credit of a fund to be known as the "school improvement fund" and shall be paid out from time to time as provided in the second section of this act, for the purchase of sites for, and the erection of, new school buildings, and for Statement no other purpose. But before any such payment is made the board of expendi- of education of said city shall furnish to the mayor and cause to be filed with the comptroller of said city a detailed statement showing for what purpose or object or upon what account the payment is required. how cred paid out. ture. Selection erection of § 2. The board of education of the city of Brooklyn is hereby auof sites and thorized and empowered from time to time, with the approval of the school mayor, to select and purchase and by existing provisions of the law. buildings. acquire such sites and to erect thereon, or upon any land now owned by said board, such buildings as may in their judgment be necessary and proper for public school purposes. The money required to purchase and acquire such sites and erect such buildings and to meet all expenses incidental thereto, shall be paid out of the proceeds of said bonds upon the requisition of the president of said board, with the Creation of approval of the mayor of said city. But no indebtedness or liability shall be created by said board under the provisions of this act, in any year, beyond the amount of bonds that are hereby authorized to be issued during that year. ness restricted. Repeal. Commis sion to acquire § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 359. AN ACT to provide for the erection of an armory in the county of Kings for the Thirteenth regiment National Guard State of New York, and making an appropriation therefor, and for the acquisition by the county by cession by the city of Brooklyn and authorizing such cession, or by purchase and making an appropriation therefor, also to provide for the taking of real estate for such site by commission in case the same cannot be taken by agreement. APPROVED by the Governor June 5, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The mayor of the city of Brooklyn, the president of the department of parks in the city of Brooklyn, the county clerk of the thereof, county of Kings, the county treasurer of the county of Kings, and lands for the commanding officer of the Thirteenth regiment National Guard of county. the State of New York are hereby made and constituted a commission for the purposes of this act to acquire on behalf of the county of Kings a plot of ground to be ceded by the city of Brooklyn to the county of Cost Kings, or by selection and purchase by and on behalf of said county t at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And if such land, or any part of it, cannot be obtained by agreement with the owner or owners thereof, said .commission shall acquire title Proceedthereto by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, in proceedings ings to ac duly taken and had under and in accordance with the provisions and by aprequirements of chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of one praisal. thousand eight hundred and fifty and of the several acts amendatory and supplementary thereto. quire lands non cede plot parks, may of ground. § 2. The department of parks of the city of Brooklyn, in the name Departof and on behalf of said city of Brooklyn and the city authorities of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to cede, transfer and convey to the county of Kings such or any plot of ground for the purposes above recited as may be deemed suitable and said county of Kings is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire the same or any plot of ground suitable for the purposes of this act. treasurer, for lands thereof on terest and §3. The county treasurer of the county of Kings, whenever writ- County ten notice shall be served upon him by the aforesaid commission, traue stating that such land has been contracted for or purchased or the certificates title thereto has been acquired as above directed, if the same shall not purchased. have been acquired by cession as above provided, shall execute in behalf of and in the name of the county of Kings, certificates of indebtedness in the amount or aggregating the amount named in such notice, not to exceed, however, the sum, of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and shall, after ten days notice specifying the time and place where bids will be received therefor, sell the same to the Sale highest bidder; such notice to be published for ten days in three offi- notice. cial newspapers in the city of Brooklyn. The aforesaid certificates Rate of inshall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed four per cent per when annum, and shall be made payable one-third thereof in one year, one- payable. third thereof in three years, and one-third thereof in five years from the date of their issue; and the amount thereof and of the interest thereon shall be raised in the several tax budgets of said county succeeding the issue and for the years when said certificates shall become due and applied to the payment of such certificates. The proceeds of Proceeds, the sale of such certificates shall be retained by the county treasurer, out. how paid and shall be by him paid out upon the written requisition of the aforesaid commission, by which it shall be applied to the payment of the amount of the purchase-price or cost of said land and any damages for awards or compensation which may be made under the proceedings to acquire said title, and the cost and expenses of acquiring said title, and the grading, filling, excavating, draining, paving and fencing of said land. plans for. § 4. Whenever the land above mentioned shall be purchased, or the Armory, title acquired or secured, as above provided, it shall be the duty of mission to the said commission to proceed forthwith to obtain, by competition or obtain otherwise, plans and specifications for the construction of a suitable armory and drill hall and store-house, including suitable apparatus for heating and lighting the same, with rifle range and kitchens and the necessary fixtures for the same, which shall not in the aggregate Expendiexceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, which sum is ited. ture lim |