CHAP. 178. AN ACT in relation to assessment and other bonds of the city New York. of New York. PASSED April 16, 1879; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ation of SECTION 1. Whenever it shall be lawful to issue any bonds of the Denomincity and county of New York in exchange for any bonds heretofore bonds. issued pursuant to law, the same shall be issued in denominations of twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars and five hundred dollars and upwards, each. §2. Without pecuniary disadvantage to the said city and county of Sale. New York, preference shall, as far as practicable, be given to applicants for the smallest amounts and smallest denominations of said bonds in issuing the same. §3. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 186. AN ACT relating to ambulances. Ambulan ces. PASSED April 16, 1879. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: way. SECTION 1. Every ambulance or other vehicle used for the transpor- To have tation of sick or wounded persons or animals shall be entitled to the right of right of way over all other vehicles upon every public street, highway and place. Any person who shall willfully interfere with, or retard, or obstruct, or impede the progress of any such ambulance or vehicle thereon, or who shall willfully injure the same, or willfully drive any Penalty for vehicle into collision therewith, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ing. § 2. All police officers, sheriffs and constables, shall, when called Peace upon, aid the persons in charge of such ambulance or vehicle in plac- officers to ing sick or wounded persons or animals therein and in the enforcement of the provisions of this act. obstruct aid. tions. § 3. Nothing in this act contained shall affect the existing right of Excepway of the United States mail; or of the officers, men and fire apparatus of any municipal fire department, or insurance patrol § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 201. Justices of AN ACT authorizing justices of the peace to execute and file peace. Bond of. official bonds. PASSED April 19, 1879. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every justice of the peace in this State who is required to execute and file a bond by chapter one hundred and seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall upon executing and filing a bond as required by the said act, within sixty days after the passage of this act, be entitled to hold his said office, and discharge the duties thereof during the remainder of the term for which he was elected or appointed, and all of his official acts are hereby declared to be as valid and of the same effect as though he had executed and filed said bond within the time stated in said act; provided, that nothing in this act shall affect any suit now pending. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Ante, pp. 530, 639; post, p. 773. Historical societies. Real estate mental purposes. Historic articles. CHAP. 203. AN ACT to authorize historical societies in this State to hold real estate for preservation and monumental purposes, and to receive historical articles in trust. PASSED April 19, 1879; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any historical society in this State is hereby authorized to have and hold for the purposes of enclosure, preservation and the erection of monuments, but under no circumstances for the purposes of business, the sites of old forts and battles, not to exceed six acres in one locality, and when such sites have been so appropriated and improved, and used for such purposes only, they shall be exempt from taxation; and to receive donations of articles of historic interest on the condition that it shall not dispose of the same, except with the consent of the donor, and that in case of its dissolution or inability to pay its debts otherwise than from its effects, the said articles shall revert to the donors or their heirs. But nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing the charging of any fee for the exhibition of such enclosure or structure by such historical society or their agents. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 204. AN ACT to prevent ice gorges in the river St. Lawrence. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and for SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act it shall be unlaw- Detaching ful for any person or persons to cut, loosen or detach from any bay, bridge forcreek, estuary, inlet or main or island shore of the river St. Lawrence bidden. within the jurisdiction of the State of New York, any field of ice or large body of ice, for the purpose or with the intent of using the same as a bridge between any island of said river and the main shore or between any islands of said river; whereby the full, free and natural flow of the waters of said river shall be impeded, interfered with or threatened. § 2. Any person violating section one of this act shall be deemed guilty Penalty. of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment, or both in the discretion of the court. § 3. In the event of an ice gorge in any part of the river St. Law- Removing rence within the jurisdiction of the State of New York, either by a ice gorge. violation of the provisions of this act or from any other cause, it shall be lawful for any person injured thereby or liable to suffer injury therefrom, to remove said ice gorge as far as it may interfere with or impede the full, free and natural flow of the waters of said river, and any person or persons interfering with or preventing said removal or the necessary work thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. 4. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent placing an ice Provisos. bridge from the south shore of Long Sault island to the American shore, across the south channel of the river St. Lawrence, provided said bridge shall not cause floating ice or anchor ice to jam or gorge at or above the point where it may be placed, and shall not otherwise interfere with the full, free and natural flow of the waters of said river St. Lawrence. In case such bridge shall cause the ice to gorge or jam, or shall interfere with the full, free and natural flow of the water of said river St. Lawrence, it shall be the duty of the person or persons placing it to remove the same on the application of any party injured or liable to be injured; and in case of refusal, said bridge may be removed according to the foregoing provisions of this act, and the charge and expense of such removal shall be borne by the party responsible for the placing of such ice bridge, and may be sued for and recovered in any court of this State. Providing nothing in this act contained shall be deemed or construed as in any way exempting par ties constructing ice bridges in the river St. Lawrence from their common law liability. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 205. New York. AN ACT in relation to arrears of taxes in the city of New York, and to provide for the reissuing of revenue bonds in anticipation of such taxes. Payment of taxes. PASSED April 19, 1879; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. At any time within one year after the passage of this of arrears act, any person may pay to the comptroller of the city of New York the amount of any tax upon real property belonging to such person heretofore laid or imposed and now remaining unpaid, together with interest at eight per cent per annum, to be calculated from the time that such tax was imposed to the time of such payment, and the comptroller shall make and deliver to the person so making such payment a receipt therefor, and shall forthwith cancel the record of any such tax. Upon such payment such tax shall cease to be a lien upon the property and shall be deemed fully paid, satisfied and discharged, and there shall be no right to any further interest or penalty by reason of such tax not having been paid within the time heretofore required by law, or by reason of any statute passed requiring the payment heretofore of any penalty or interest over eight per cent upon any unpaid tax. Reissue of bonds. § 2. Any revenue bonds heretofore issued in anticipation of the taxes in the first section specified, which may fall due and become payable before said taxes are collected, may be reissued by the comptroller of said city, in whole or in part for such period as he may determine, not exceeding one year. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 208. Apportion- AN ACT to organize the senate districts and for the apportionment of the members of assembly of this State. ments. Senate districts. PASSED April 23, 1879; without the approval of the Governor, pursuant to provision of section nine of article four of the Constitution. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The senate districts of this State, from and after the passage of this act, shall consist as follows: First. The first senate district shall consist of the counties of Queens and Suffolk. Second. The second senate district shall consist of the first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth and twenty-second wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht, county of Kings. Third. The third senate district shall consist of the third, fourth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-third wards of the city of Brooklyn. Fourth. The fourth senate district shall consist of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of New Lots and Flatlands. Fifth. The fifth senate district shall consist of the county of Richmond and the present first, second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth wards of the city of New York, all that portion of the fourth ward of said city that lies within Roosevelt street, Chatham street, Park row, Spruce street, Gold street, Ferry street, Peck slip and East river, all that portion of the ninth ward of said city that lies within Housten street, Hancock street, Bleecker street, Leroy street and North river, Governor's Island, Bedloe's Island and Ellis Island. Sixth. The sixth senate district shall consist of the seventh, eleventh and thirteenth wards of the city of New York, and all that portion of the fourth ward of said city that lies within Catherine street, Chatham street, Roosevelt street and East river. Seventh. The seventh senate district shall consist of the tenth and seventeenth wards of the city of New York, all that portion of the fifteenth ward of said city that lies east of Broadway and all that portion of the eighteenth and twenty-first wards of said city that lies within Fourteenth street, Thirtieth street, Third avenue and Broadway. Eighth. The eighth senate district shall consist of the sixteenth ward of the city of New York, all that portion of the ninth ward of said city that lies within Leroy street, Bleecker street, Carmine street, Sixth avenue, Fourteenth street and North river, all that portion of the fifteenth ward of said city that lies west of Broadway, all that portion of the eighteenth and twenty-first wards of said city that lies within Fourteenth street, Thirtieth street, Broadway and Sixth avenue, and all that portion of the twentieth ward of said city that lies within Twenty-sixth street, Thirtieth street, Sixth avenue and North river. Ninth. The ninth senate district shall consist of all that portion of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-first wards of the city of New York that lies east of Third avenue and Blackwell's Island. Tenth. The tenth senate district shall consist of all that portion of the twentieth and twenty-first wards of the city of New York, that lies within Thirtieth street, Fortieth street Third avenue and Eighth avenue, all that portion of the nineteeth ward of said city that lies west of Third avenue, and a! that portion of the twelfth and twenty-second wards that lies east of Eighth avenue, Ward's and Randall's Islands. Eleventh. The eleventh senate district shall consist of the twentythird and twenty-fourth wards of the city of New York, and all that portion of the twelfth, twentieth and twenty-second wards of said city that lies within Thirtieth street, Spuyten Duyvel creek, Eighth avenue and Hudson river. Twelfth. The twelfth senate district shall consist of the counties of Westchester and Rockland. Thirteenth. The thirteenth senate district shall consist of the counties of Orange and Sullivan. Fourteenth. The fourteenth senate district shall consist of the counties of Ulster, Schoharie and Green. Fifteenth. The fifteenth senate district shall consist of the counties of Dutchess, Columbia and Putnam. |
