LAWS OF THE OF NEW YORK, STATE OF PASSED AT THE ONE HUNDREDTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN CHAP. 1. AN ACT to legalize the assessment roll of the town of Kingsbury, in the county of Washington, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the tax levied thereon. PASSED January 11, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sessment SECTION 1. The proceedings of the assessors of the town of Kings- Legalizabury, in the county of Washington, in making copy assessment roll for tion of as that town for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the original roll and having been destroyed by fire, and the proceedings of the supervisor of tax levy. the town of Kingsbury, and of the board of supervisors of Washington county, in relation to such copy roll, including the levying of the tax thereon, are hereby ratified and legalized, and the said roll shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as if it were the original roll, and the tax levied thereon shall be collected, and the collection thereof may be enforced, in the same manner, in all respects, as if the same were levied upon the original roll. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 2 Time for collection extended thirty days. CHAP. 2. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the village of Edgewater, and for advertising the sale of lands for unpaid taxes in said village. PASSED January 17, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the return of the warrant issued by the board of trustees of the village of Edgewater, to Adrian Post, treasurer of said village, for the collection of taxes, and dated October twentythird, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby extended for thirty days from the return day thereof, and the said treasurer shall have thirty days in addition to the time now provided by law within which to make and file his return, under oath, of unpaid taxes, and such return, when so made and filed within such extended time, shall be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if made within the time now provided by law; and said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, at any time before the first of May, one thousand non-pay- eight hundred and seventy-seven, to cause the lands and premises, the taxes upon which are so returned unpaid, to be advertised for sale in the manner prescribed by law and such advertisement and any sale of land in pursuance thereof, shall be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if made within the time now prescribed by law. Proceedings in case of ment. Moneys to be paid over and bond renewed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 3. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, in the county of Queens. PASSED January 19, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, in the county of Queens, is hereby extended to the first of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; provided, however, that the collectors of taxes in the said towns shall pay over all money collected by them, and respectively renew their official bonds to the satisfaction of the supervisors of said named towns respectively, within ten days after the passage of this act, so as to insure the faithful performance of their official duties during the extension aforesaid, but nothing herein contained shall be construed as extending the time for the payment of the State tax, or any part thereof, by the county treasurer of said county, to the Comptroller as Comptrol- now provided by law. Time for payment of State tax to ler not extended. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 4. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and fifty, of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act authorizing the city of Schenectady to raise money for school purposes." / PASSED January 25, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and chap. 550, SECTION 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and fifty of the laws Laws of of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act authorizing 1875, sec. 1, the city of Schenectady to raise money for school purposes," is hereby amended. mended to read as follows: thorized. and inter 1. The common council of the city of Schenectady is hereby Issuing of authorized and required to issue thirty bonds of that city, for the sum of five hundred dollars each, payable at such times as the said common council shall direct, within thirty years. Such bonds shall be signed Execution by the mayor and treasurer of such city, and shall bear interest from est. date, until maturity, at the rate of not exceeding seven per centum per annum, payable semi-annually; provided, however, that the said com- Proviso. mon council shall, by a vote of a majority of its members, approve of the purpose to which the moneys to be obtained for such bonds shall be applied. § 2. This act shall take effect inmediately. CHAP. 5. AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the assessors of the village of Wellsville, Allegany county, and to extend the time for the collection of taxes therein. PASSED January 25, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: legalized. SECTION 1. All acts and proceedings of the assessors of the village Acts and of Wellsville in the town of Wellsville, Allegany county, in verifying Ings of proceedthe assessment roll of said village in and for the year eighteen hundred assessors and seventy-six, are hereby declared as valid and of as full effect as if said assessors had sworn that they estimated the value of the real and personal estate of said village, as required by section eight of chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and fiftyone, instead of the one-third of its full and true value. of unpaid taxes 2. The time for the collection of the unpaid tax of said village for Time for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby extended thirty collection days from the passage of this act, and the collector of said village is village hereby authorized to collect such tax within such time, in the same extended. manner and with like authority as if this extension had been made by the board of trustees, within sixty days after the date of said collector's warrant. Laws of 1871, sec. chap. 391, § 3. Nothing in this act shall affect the rights of any party to any suit or proceeding commenced prior to the passage of this act in consequence of such defective verification. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 6. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to authorize the village of Corning, Steuben county, to borrow money to construct water-works for said village. PASSED January 31, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section seven of chapter three hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to amended. authorize the village of Corning, Steuben county, to borrow money to construct water-works for said village," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Powers of trustees § 7. The said village by its trustees may make any agreements, conover water tracts and leases for the sale, use and distribution of water in said vilworks, etc. lage and for leasing said water-works, and the extensions thereof, that may be agreed upon between said village, by its trustees, and any individuals, associations and corporations; which agreements, contracts and leases shall be valid and effectual in law and enforced in the name of said village and other parties thereto in any court having cognizance thereof. Amount tion of bonds. When § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 7. AN ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Albany to issue bonds to pay a portion of the bonds of said county that will mature during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. PASSED January 31, 1877; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Albany are and execu hereby authorized to issue bonds of the said county to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to be sealed with the seal of said county and signed by the president of said board and by the treasurer of the county. Fifty thousand dollars of said bonds to be payable on the first day of March eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and fifty thousand dollars payable on the first day of March eighteen hundred and ninety, with interest at six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of March and September; said bonds to be of the denomination of one thousand dollars each; and the finance committee payable. Denomin ation and sale of. |
