CHAP. 101 AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Buffalo, passed April 28, 1832, and the various acts amendatory thereof," passed April 17, 1843. Passed March 18, 1848, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: open leys, &c. § 1. The fifth section of title six of the act entitled "An Power to act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city streets, alof Buffalo," passed April 28, 1832, " and the various acts amendatory thereof," passed April 17, 1843, shall be amended so as to read as follows: § 5. The common council shall have power to lay out, make and open streets, alleys lanes, highways, public grounds, basins, canals, wharves, docks, and slips in said city; and to alter, widen, contract, straighten or discontinue the same: but no building exceeding the value of three thousand dollars shall be removed, in whole or in part without the consent of the owner. They shall cause all streets, alleys, lanes, highways, public grounds, wharves, docks, basins, canals, and slips laid out by them, or by their authority, and any and every alteration thereof so made, to be surveyed, described and recorded in a book to be kept by the clerk, and the same when opened and made shall be public highways or grounds. § 2. The eleventh section of said title six shall be amended so as to read as follows: may be paved, &c. § 11. The common council shall have power to cause any Streets street, alley, lane or highway, in said city, to be graded, graded, leveled, paved, repaired, macadamised or gravelled, and leveled, to cause cross and side-walks, drains, basins, canals, docks, slips, wharves, sewers and acqueducts to be constructed, made, relaid, amended, or repaired, and the Big Buffalo creek to be widened in said city, and to cause the expenses of all improvements, (except side-walks,) made and directed under this section, to be assessed upon the real estate in said city, deemed benefited by such improvement, in proportion to the benefits resulting thereto, as nearly as may be. The common council shall determine the amount to be assessed for all such improvements, except side-walks, and Asso shall appoint, by a majority of all the aldermen authorised made. by law to be elected, five freeholders of said city by ballot, to make such assessment. The assessors shall take the oath required by the sixth section of this title, to be taken by the commissioners therein mentioned; shall fix the time and place of their first meeting, and give five days previous notice Assess ments to be Lands for be convey thereof in the city paper, and may, if necessary, adjourn §3. The following sections shall be added to said title six and become a part of the same, viz: 25. At any time after the final confirmation of the report basin may and assessment and of the filing of the same as provided for ed. in section six of said title, it shall be lawful for the common council on behalf of the city to make a conveyance to the people of this State of the lands appropriated in pursuance of such section for the basins, canal or slips to be excavated by the state, as recommended in the report of the canal board' made to the Assembly, and bearing date the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fortyseven, and for the purpose mentioned in such report. of lands to 26. Whenever any lands returned to the city comptroller Accurate for the non-payment of any tax or assessment shall be so im- description perfectly described, that the same cannot in his opinion be be made located with certainty, he shall have power to make out an accurate description of such lands with the amount of the tax or assessment, and the interest thereon, and report the same to the common council, and thereupon the common council shall have power to order a new tax roll to be made out for the same, which shall be filed and become a lien on such lands, and the same shall be collected in the same man ner as original rolls are collected and enforced. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 102. AN ACT providing compensation to Jonas A. Hughston, late district attorney of the county of Delaware, for extra services rendered in said county during the year 1845. Passed March 18, 1848, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: money to 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Delaware, Amount of at their next annual meeting, are hereby required to pay to be paid. Jonas A. Hughston or his legal representatives, from the treasury of said county, the sum of seven hundred dollars, in addition to the sum already received by him for his services as district attorney, during the year 1845; and said supervisors are hereby directed to raise the said seven hundred dollars by tax on that county. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 103. AN ACT to levy a tax upon the town of Peru, to pay a debt against said town. Passed March 20, 1848, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assemby, do enact as follows: be raised § 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Clinton are Money to hereby authorised and required, at their next annual meeting by tax. to raise in addition to all other sums authorised by law, one thousand dollars, by tax on the taxable property in the town of Peru, in said county, to be applied by the supervisor of said town to the payment of the Peru village bridge debt. Vacancy how to be filled. taken. CHAP. 104. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a person to discharge the duties of the office of clerk of the county of Orleans. Passed March 20, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. There now being a vacancy in the office of clerk of Orleans county, caused by the death of Elijah Dana, while the incumbent of that office, the governor shall appoint some proper person who may be eligible to the office of clerk of Orleans county, to discharge the duties thereof during the present political year. Oath to be § 2. The person so appointed after taking the oath of office, shall possess all the right and powers, and be subject to all the liabilities, duties and obligations of such office. Punish ment to be inflicted. Proviso. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 105. AN ACT to punish abduction as a crime. Passed March 20, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Any person who shall inveigle, entice or take away any unmarried female of previous chaste character, under the age of twenty-five years, from her father's house or wherever else she may be, for the purpose of prostitution at a house of ill fame, assignation or elsewhere, and every person who shall aid or assist in such abduction for such purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding two years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year: Provided, that no conviction shall be had under the provisions of this act on the testimony of the female so inveigled or enticed away, unsupported by other evidence, nor unless an indictment shall be found within two years after the commission of the offence. CHAP 106. AN ACT to incorporate the city of Auburn. TITLE I. BOUNDARIES AND CIVIL DIVISIONS. corpo § 1. The district of country in the county of Cayuga now Boundaries comprised within the village and town of Auburn, and bound-rate name ed northerly by Sennett, easterly by Owasco and Sennett, of the city. southerly by the south bounds of lots marked fifty-six and fifty-seven in the original township of Aurelius, and westerly by Aurelius, shall hereafter be known by the name of the city of Auburn, and the inhabitants residing therein shall be a corporation under the name and style of the mayor and common council of the city of Auburn, and as such may sue and be sued, complain and defend in any court of law or equity in this state. into four §2. The said city shall be divided into four wards, as fol- Divided lows: that part which lies easterly of the middle of North- wards. street and the middle of the Owasco river shall be the first ward; that part south of the middle of Genesee-street and west of the middle of the Owasco river shall be the second ward; that part north of the middle of Genesee-street southerly of the centre of the Owasco river, shall be the third ward; and that part westerly of the centre of Northstreet and north of the centre of the Owasco river shall be the fourth ward. TITLE II. OF THE ELECTION OF CITY AND WARD OFFICERS. the city. §1. The officers of the said city shall consist of one mayor, Officers of eight aldermen, four supervisors, four assessors, one police justice, three justices of the peace, one superintendent of common schools, two overseers of the poor, one marshal, three constables, one collector, one clerk, and such other officers as are hereinafter authorised to be appointed. election. § 2. An election shall be held in each of the wards of said Annual city on the first Tuesday in April in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and on the first Tuesday in March in each and every year thereafter, at such places as the common council shall appoint, and of which six days previous notice shall be given, by posting written or printed notices of the same in at least two public places in each ward, signed by the inspectors. 3. At such election there shall be elected one alderman, officers to one supervisor, one assessor and three inspectors of election, be elected. |