trate to commit such child to said corporation, it shall be the duty of said magistrate, so to commit such child. of child ted. § 14. If, at any time after a child shall have been committed to the Discharge said corporation, as above provided for in this act, it shall be made to wrongfulappear to the satisfaction of the said corporation, that such child was, ly commiton insufficient cause, false or deficient testimony, or otherwise wrongfully or improvidently so committed, the said corporation shall, on application of the parents, guardians, or other protector of such child, discharge the child from the said asylum, and restore it to such parents, guardians or protector; and, also, if after a child shall have been prop- Corporaerly committed to the said corporation, by virtue and in pursuance of tinmay the provisions of this act, any circumstance should occur, that, in the child" judgment of the said corporation, would render expedient and proper commita discharge of such a child from the said asylum, having a due regard to ted. the welfare of the child, the said corporation, on the application of the parents, guardian or protector of such child, may, at discretion, discharge the child from said asylum, and restore it to its parents, guardian or protector, on such reasonable conditions as the said corporation may deem right and proper. discharge properly guilty of firmed § 15. Whenever any child intrusted or committed to the charge of Child said corporation shall, by the commission of any infamous crime, or by crime, or confirmed evil habits, have become so degraded and debased, in the of conopinion of the said corporation, as to be an improper subject for its evil habcare, the said corporation shall have power to return such child to the its dispo committing magistrate, or other proper authorities, to be disposed of in due course of law. sition of. guardian held for its duties as such. § 16. This corporation shall be the guardian of every child, bound or Corpora held for service, by virtue and in pursuance of the provisions of this tion to be act. It shall take care that the terms of the contract be faithfully ful- of child filled, and that such persons be properly treated; and it is hereby made bound or its special duty to inquire into the treatment of every such child, and service, redress any grievance in manner prescribed by law, and it shall be the duty of the master or his assignee, to whom any such child shall be bound to service, and he shall by terms of the indenture, be required, Report of as often as once in every six months, to report to the said corporation the conduct and behavior of the said apprentice or child so bound to service, and whether such apprentice is still living under the care of the person to whom he was originally bound, and if not, where else he may be. master. report to its con §17. The said corporation shall on or before the fourth Monday in Annual January, in each and every year, make a detailed report to the Legisla- the legis ture of the State, and to the common council of the city of Utica, lature, New York, of the whole number of children received into the asylum tents. during the year, specifying their name, place of nativity, age, residence, health at the time of admission, religion of parents, state of education, religious instruction, whether their parents are living or dead, temperate or intemperate, the time devoted to instruction, the nature and amount of punishment, cases of diseases, the number apprenticed or who shall have escaped, died or been restored to parents, guardians or protectors, or returned to the committing magistrate during the year, and also such information as may have been received of those who have been bound out or apprenticed, as well as the facts generally in relation to the performance of their duties, also their industrial occupations, with the results thereof, the receipts and expenditures and financial condition of the corporation, and its general operations, with the results thereof. Visitation and inspection by com § 18. It shall be the duty of the common council of the city of Utica, by committee or otherwise in its discretion to visit and inspect the said asylum of said corporation, twice at least, in each year, and the mayor cil. and recorder of the said city shall be, ex-officio, managers of the said Ex-officio institution. mon coun members. Burial for re-sale, trustees may buy. § 19. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 356. AN ACT for the relief of the Cypress Hills Cemetery. Passed May 15, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The trustees of the Cypress Hills Cemetery, located in plots held the counties of Kings and Queens, are hereby authorized to buy in and hold for sale, or use any burial plots held for re-sale, in private hands under certificates locating such plots, with a covenant to convey them to purchasers for use at the request of the holders of such certificates; provided, such plots can be purchased at a price not exceeding thirty dollars per lot of four hundred superficial feet. Arbitra § 2. In case the holders of such plots, on certificates for re-sale, shall tion as to refuse to sell the same, and the trustees shall fail to agree with such plot owners either as to sale or price to be paid, the trustees, with consent of the parties in interest, may agree to arbitrate as to the facts and terms of such surrender. terms of surrender. Bonds, trustees anthor. ized to issue. Amonnt and denomination of. § 3. The trustees of said Cypress Hills Cemetery are hereby authorized to execute and issue bonds to an amount sufficient to cover the costs of said burial plots held on certificates in private hands for re-sale, or any floating debts or other liabilities and obligations of said cemetery, not exceeding in all the sum or amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, such bonds to be of the denominations of one hundred dollars or any number of hundred dollars, said bonds to be payable in from ten to thirty years, at the option of the cemetery, to be expressed on the face of each bond as the same is issued; said bonds to Interest. bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable half yearly, the holders of said bonds to have one vote in the election of trustees of said cemetery for each one hundred dollars of said bonds so held. Sale of burial plots. Sinking redemp § 4. No sale of burial plots in said cemetery grounds shall hereafter be made by said cemetery otherwise than for use as burial plots; though the rights of holders of burial plots on certificates for re-sale heretofore issued, to have title deeds given on their request to purchasers for use, shall not hereby be impaired, until said plots so held shall be acquired by the cemetery as is herein provided. §5. To create a sinking fund for the liquidation of said bonds hereby fund for authorized to be issued, one-half of the net proceeds of burial plots sold by the cemetery shall be set apart as such sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds and the payment of the interest thereon. tion of bonds. Bonds not Invest ment of § 6. Said bonds shall not be sold in the first instance for less than par, and the sinking fund, or any part thereof, herein authorized to be created, may be invested in the purchase and cancellation of said bonds at any time, at a price not exceeding par; providing public notice be fund. given of the purpose of applying so much of said sinking fund as may sinking be deemed expedient to this object, from time to time, and the person holding bonds and offering to surrender them at the lowest price, shall have the preference in such purchase. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 357. AN ACT to release the title and interest of the People of the State of New York in and to certain real estate of which Henry Doyle, late of the city of Auburn, in the State of New York, died seized, to Bridget Doyle, his wife. Passed May 15, 1875; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: released. SECTION 1. All the estate, right, title and interest of the People of Title of the State of New York in, to and upon all the real estate, with the the state appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situate in the city of Auburn, county of Cayuga, and State of New York, and being a lot on Owasco street in said city, conveyed to said Henry Doyle by Warren Hastings and others by deed dated March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and recorded in Cayuga county clerk's office in liber one hundred of deeds, at page two hundred and eightytwo, on the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and by Nehemiah D. Carhart and wife, by deed dated May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and recorded in liber one hundred and four of deeds, at page six hundred and eleven, on the twentyeighth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and whereof the said Henry Doyle died seized, is hereby released and the title thereto confirmed unto Bridget Doyle, widow of the said Henry Doyle, deceased, and to her heirs and assigns forever. heirs creditors § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair any right Rights of of any heir-at-law, purchaser, or of any creditor of said Henry Doyle bir or by mortgage, judgment or otherwise, in the said real estate, or any not affect action or proceeding at law now pending concerning the same. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 358. AN ACT for the relief of Catherine T. Wetmore and her children. Passed May 15, 1875. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ed. SECTION 1. So soon as a trustee shall be duly appointed, in the State Treasurer of Illinois, for Catherine T. Wetmore and her children, residing at of Che Chicago, in that State, the treasurer of Chemung county, upon direc- county, mung of funds payment tion, by order of the Supreme Court or of the county court of said by, to trus. county, is hereby authorized to pay over to such trustee whatever funds tee of remain in his hands arising from a sale in partition of the lands of Catherine William Maxwell, late of the city of Elmira, in said county, deceased, and which by the judgment of the Supreme Court of this State were adjudged to belong to the said Catherine T. Wetmore and her heirs. And upon its being made to appear to either of said courts that such Order di- trustee has been so appointed, an order may be made directing the payment by said treasurer of such money to such trustee. T. Wet more and her children. recting payment. Consent given to purchases § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 359. AN ACT in relation to the purchase by the United States of certain lands at West Point, and the ceding jurisdiction of this State over lands to the United States. Passed May 15, 1875; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Consent is hereby given under paragraph sixteen of section eight, article one of the Constitution of the United States, to the by U. S. respective purchases heretofore made by the United States, of the several tracts of land at West Point, in the county of Orange, now held and owned by the United States for the erection and maintenance thereon of forts, arsenals, docks and piers, military academy, hospitals, and other needful buildings, and for the maintenance of the National cemJurisdic etery and an observatory, and the Legislature hereby also cedes the jurisdiction over said lands to the United States, reserving the right to serve civil and criminal process as now existing, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States and occupancy of the highways now existing or which may exist, upon said lands under the laws of this State. tion ce ded. Right to serve process reserved. Unexpended proceeds may be of bonds applied in § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 360. AN ACT authorizing the city of Buffalo to appropriate the unexpended proceeds of certain bonds of said city, issued in pursuance of the authority contained in chapter two hundred and forty-two of the laws of eighteen. hundred and seventy-two. Passed May 15, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The unexpended proceeds of certain bonds of the city of Buffalo, issued in pursuance of the authority contained in chapter two hundred and forty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventytwo, which proceeds are now retained by the mayor and comptroller of railroad said city, subject to the order of the common council thereof, for the payment purposes named in said act, may be appropriated and expended by the orcertain said city for and toward payment of the subscription of the city of Buf- stock. falo to the stock of the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad Company, for which the common council are authorized to issue the bonds of the said city and out of the sale and proceeds thereof to pay for the same. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 361. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for supplying the city of Hudson with pure and wholesome water," passed May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Passed May 15, 1875; 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 the act entitled "An act to provide for supplying the city of Hudson with pure and wholesome water," passed May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 14. The common council of the city of Hudson shall raise annually, Tax for such amount of money, by tax upon the taxable property of the city of payment of bonds. Hudson, as shall be sufficient to pay the principal of any and all bonds issued under this act, that by the terms of said bonds shall become due and payable together with the interest on such bonds and all bonds unpaid, and shall pay the said bonds as they fall due, and all interest due on said bonds; which amount so to be levied and collected, shall be in addition to the amount that is now or shall be authorized by the charter of the city of Hudson to be raised for other purposes. And the said common council shall also have the power to raise, and shall raise, Annual at each annual tax levy, such amount as the said board of water com- tax for missioners shall report and certify to be necessary for the use of said nance of board for the further extension, maintenance and operation of said water. water-works, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the five thousand dollars required to be raised in section six of the act hereby amended, which amount so levied and collected shall also be in addition to the amount authorized by the charter of the city of Hudson to be raised for other purposes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. mainte works. |