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* Contested election, seat awarded to William B. LeRoy, in place of Michael C. Gillice, unseated. + Robert Courtney elected, in place of P. Andrew Sullivan, deceased.

LAWS

OF THE

OF NEW YORK

STATE OF

PASSED AT THE

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGIS-
LATURE, BEGUN THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1890, AND ENDED
THE NINTH DAY OF MAY, 1890, AT THE CITY OF ALBANY

CHAP. 1.

AN ACT to amend chapter eighty-four of the laws of eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to incorporate the
city of Jamestown.'

APPROVED by the Governor January 28, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of title five of chapter eighty-four of city
the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "
An act to charter
incorporate the city of Jamestown," is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:

amended.

assess

§14. As soon as practicable after any city tax shall have been Extension ordered by the common council to be raised, the clerk, by direction of tax in and under the supervision of the common council, shall estimate and ment-roll. set down in separate columns of one of the original assessment-rolls, opposite to the several sums set down as the valuation of real and personal estates, the respective sums in dollars and cents rejecting the fractions of a cent to be paid as a tax thereon, in the manner, as nearly as may be, provided by law for the performance of like duties by boards of supervisors. The clerk shall also in like manner, extend such taxes in the copy of the assessment-roll remaining in his office. He shall deliver to the treasurer the original roll containing such Delivery of taxes, to which shall be annexed a warrant, under the seal of the city roll, with and signed by the mayor and clerk, commanding such treasurer to treasurer. receive and collect from the several persons named in the assessmentroll the sums expressed in the several columns of such roll, opposite to their respective names; and in case any person named in the assessment-roll shall refuse or neglect to pay his tax for sixty days after delivery to the treasurer of such roll and warrant, to levy and collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels belonging to

warrant, to

Time for

return or extension of war

rant.

Act to

apply to 1889

or in the possession of such person. Such warrant shall be made returnable within such time as the common council may prescribe therein, not exceeding sixty days from its date and the common council may by resolution, from time to time, and by indorsement on such warrant, signed by the mayor and clerk, extend the time for collecting and receiving such taxes and for making return thereof, but no such extension shall exceed thirty days, and the aggregate of such extension shall not.extend beyond one hundred and fifty days from the time of the expitation of the warrant in the first instance. To the copy of such, toll remaining in the clerk's office shall be attached a copy of said warrant and a receipt signed by the treasurer acknowledging the delivery to him of the original roll and warrant.

2. This act shall apply as well to the collection of the taxes of the taxes in city of Jamestown for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the warrant for the collection of which is now in the hands of the treasurer of said city, as to the collection of the taxes which may be levied in subsequent years.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 2.

AN ACT to confirm the action and proceedings of the trustees of the village of Plattsburgh in discontinuing portions of Court street in said village.

APPROVED by the Governor February 11, 1890. 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 actions and proceedings of the trustees of the village of Plattsburgh in discontinuing and abandoning and releasing to the people of the state of New York of so much of Court street in said village as is included in the lands conveyed to the state for normal school purposes, namely; from Beekman street to the corporation line are hereby ratified and confirmed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Construc

tion of sewers.

Objec

CHAP. 3.

AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the
laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to re-
vise the charter of the city of Dunkirk."

APPROVED by the Governor February 11, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section three of title fifteen of chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Dunkirk," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 3. Any person or persons interested in or liable to taxation for tions to. the same, may, at any time within two weeks after the day of the

thereon.

first publication of such resolution and notice, present objections in writing to the common council against the construction of the same or against the manner of its construction. Before the common council Hearing shall order the construction of such sewer they shall hear all objections so presented within the time aforesaid, and any legal evidence which may be given, and after the expiration of two weeks from the day of the first publication of such notice, the said common council shall de- Determinatermine whether such sewer shall be constructed, and in case it adheres council. to its intention as declared in said resolution, it may at any time thereafter, proceed with the construction of such sewer.

§ 2. Section four of title fifteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

tion of

how

lected.

streets.

§ 4. The cost and expense of any and all sewers constructed under Expense, the authority of this title shall be charged upon and collected from charged the property adjoining the street in which such sewer is constructed, and colpro rata, share and share alike, in proportion to the number of feet which each owner has of frontage on that portion of the street through which such sewer is laid, subject, however, to the provisions herein. contained, except as provided hereinafter. When property abutting Upon inupon intersecting streets shall have already been assessed for a sewer tersecting or sewers opposite one of its abutting street fronts, it shall be held exempt from assessment for any sewers laid in the other intersecting street for a distance back from such intersecting street of not more than one hundred feet. The expense of laying such sewer upon intersecting streets shall be borne pro rata, share and share alike, by the number of remaining feet of front footage upon each and every block, except as herein before provided for the cost of laying said sewer across street intersections.

§ 3. Section five of title fifteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The common council shall appoint three disinterested electors Special asof said city special assessors, whose duty it shall be to determine what sessors. property is benefited by such sewer and to assess upon the property so benefited and liable under the provisions of this title to be charged with its cost and expense, the cost and expense of its construction, in a just and equitable manner and in accordance with the rules prescribed in this title. Upon such appointment being made, said com- Statement mon council shall prepare and deliver to the said special assessors, a true to be do statement showing the entire length of the sewer, its total cost, its cost per lineal foot, the number of feet of street crossings, and such other facts as it shall deem necessary, or such as may be required by said assessors.

livered to.

§ 4. Title sixteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as fol- Paving lows:

streets.

TITLE XVI.

nual tax

for.

SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Dunkirk shall, each Special anyear, levy and collect a special tax of six mills on the dollar on the assessed valuation of the city of Dunkirk, real and personal, the funds so raised to be put into what shall be called the street improvement fund, which fund shall be used and applied only for street paving or macadamizing as hereinafter provided.

council.

§ 2. The common council of Dunkirk shall have authority to order Powers of the grading, paving or macadamizing of any streets or any portion of a street of Dunkirk, as provided hereinafter. They shall