14, amend prove and repair school houses, and their out-houses and appurtenances." Sub. 2 of § § 5. Sub-division second, of section fourteenth of said ed. act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "To build, lease or contract for the occupation and use of school houses and rooms, and to improve the same as they may deem proper. School mo ney how deposited and how drawn and paid. Village a road dis Money paid and § 6. Section twenty-second of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "All moneys required to be raised by virtue of this act, or received by the said city for or on account of the common schools, except such sums as are raised for the purchase of sites for school houses, shall be deposited for the safe keeping thereof with the chamberlain of said city, to the credit of said board of education, and shall be drawn out in pursuance of a resolution or resolutions of said board by drafts drawn by the president and countersigned by the clerk of said. board, payable to the order of the person or persons entitled to receive such moneys; and said chamberlain shall keep the funds, authorised by this act to be received by him, separate and distinct from any other fund, which he is or may by law be authorised to receive. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 48. AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Dundee. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The village of Dundee shall be a separate road disa separate trict, and all the powers, rights and duties of the commistrict. sioners of highways of the town of Starkey, within the corporation limits, shall devolve upon, and be exercised raised how by the trustees of said village. And all road taxes or expended. highway labor that said trustees may hereafter assess, not to exceed the ratable proportions and amounts heretofore assessed on the inhabitants and property of said village on separate road districts, may be required to be paid in money, to be expended on the roads and streets of said village, or on the roads leading thereto, as may be deemed expedient by said trustees. clock. § 2. The trustees of said village, may, by vote of a ma-Town jority of the taxable inhabitants thereof, raise by tax a sum not to exceed three hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase and putting up of a town clock and fixtures for said village. sessed. §3. The taxes voted to be raised at the last annual Town to meeting of the inhabitants of said village, but remaining be re-asunpaid, to wit: fifty-three dollars, may be re-assessed and collected under the direction of the trustees, and no clerical error or other defect in the proceedings incorporating said village shall impair the validity of the same, but the official acts of the trustees, under such incorporation, are hereby confirmed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 49. AN ACT to authorize the supervisors of the county of Oneida to levy a tax of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of building a court-house and jail in the city of Utica. Passed March 17, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: build court §1. The board of supervisors of the county of Oneida $15,000 to are hereby directed at their annual meeting in the year be raised to one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and at each house and successive annual meeting for the term of two years next jail. thereafter, to cause in each successive year as aforesaid, to be assessed, levied and collected, over and above all expenses of collecting the same, the sum of five thousand dollars, upon the taxable property in said county, for the purpose of building a court-house and jail in the city of Utica; each of which sums when collected, shall be paid to the treasurer of said county. sioners to build. § 2. Naaman W. More of Paris, Theodore S. Faxton commisand Alrick Hubbell of Utica, Daniel P. Cadwell of Marcy, to select and William D. Walcott of Whitestown, all of said county, sites and are hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the building of said court-house and jail, and they or a majority of them are hereby authorized to select and purchase a site or sites for the erection thereof, at a price not to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, and to determine upon the plan, form and manner in which said how raised out. court-house and jail shall be constructed, and as often as may be necessary to draw for and receive the moneys appropriated and borrowed for the construction thereof; and to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary and proper to be done to complete the same. Money, §3. The said commissioners after having purchased or and paid acquired a site or sites for the erection of the court-house and jail, shall report the fact to the common council of the city of Utica, together with the amount agreed to be paid, and it shall be the duty of the said common council to cause to be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as the city taxes are assessed, levied and collected, the amount which the said commissioners shall have agreed to pay for said site or sites, in three equal annual instalments, together with the interest which may accrue on the money which may be borrowed by the city in anticipation of said tax, and which the said city is hereby authorized to borrow on its corporate bond. § 4. The title of said site or sites shall be vested in the county of Oneida. Title how vested Commismissioners to give bonds. Acting commissioners. Comptrol ler may 5. The said commissioners shall,, before they enter upon their duties, give a bond to the supervisors of the county of Oneida with sufficient sureties to be approved by the county judge of the said county, in a penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as such commissioners and expenditure of the moneys committed to their charge for the purposes aforesaid, which said bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county aforesaid. § 6. The said commissioners before entering on their duties shall designate two of their number as acting commissioners, who shall be entitled to a compensation of two dollars each per day, for their services, while engaged in the actual performance of their duties under this act, and the remaining commissioners to such compensation as the board of supervisors shall deem equitable; such allowance to be audited by the board of supervisors and paid as part of the contingent expenses of the county; and the commissioners shall render annually an account of their proceedings and expenditures to the board of supervisors until they have fully executed their duties under this act. § 7. The comptroller is hereby authorised to loan to loan $15, the county of Oneida a sum not to exceed fifteen thousand 000 to said dollars out of any monies now or hereafter in the treasury of this state, belonging to the capital of the common school fund, on receiving from the treasurer of said coun county. ty a bond or bonds, conditioned for him as treasurer and his successor in office, to repay the sum borrowed in three equal annual instalments, together with the annual interest on said loan from the time it is made at the usual rate per annum, and which bond said treasurer is hereby authorised and required to make and execute when thereto requested by the commissioners appointed by this act. sors to levy § 8. The board of supervisors of said county shall cause Supervi to be levied, assessed and collected in addition to the sums tax to pay herein before directed to be levied, assessed and collected interest. annually, a sum sufficient to pay the interest of the said sum or sums so to be borrowed; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the said county to pay the said sums of money herein before directed to be levied, assessed and collected, together with the interest thereon, when so collected and paid to him into the treasury of this state in discharge of his said bond or bonds. how filled. 9. If either of the commissioners herein before named Vacancy shall die, resign, or refuse to serve or become incapacitated for discharging the duties of commissioner, the vacancy may be filled by the governor of this state. § 10. The supervisors of the county of Oneida at any city Hall. meeting of their board may determine to have the county of Oneida unite with the city of Utica, in the erection of a city hall for the use of the city and county, on such terms as may be mutually agreed on between said board of supervisors and the commissioners appointed to superintend the erection of said city hall, by chapter one hundred and ninety-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, and thereupon so much of the money authorised to be raised or borrowed by this act as is not required for the erection of a jail in the city of Utica shall be expended in the erection of such city hall, in such manner as the board of supervisors shall direct. The board of supervisors of said county are also authorised to sell and convey in fee simple, the county clerk's office and lot in the city of Utica belonging to said county, and to apply the proceeds of the sale to the erection of a city hall as aforesaid. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. Election Chap. 50. AN ACT authorizing the election of trustees and other officers of the village of Fonda. Passed March 17, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. An election of trustees and other officers of the vilwhen held. lage of Fonda in the county of Montgomery shall be held on the second Tuesday of May next, subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages," passed December seventh one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, relative to the election of trustees and other officers of villages incorporated under and by the provisions of said act, except so much of said act as requires the said election to be held on the first Tuesday of March. Terms of office. New war be issued. § 2. The trustees and other officers of said village elected on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred aud fifty, shall hold their respective offices until others shall be elected in their places. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap, 51, AN ACT to extend the time for the board of supervisors of the county of Kings to issue warrants to the collector of taxes and assessments in the city of Brooklyn. Passed March 17, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The warrants issuable in the month of January last rants may by the board of supervisors of Kings county to the collector of taxes and assessments of the city of Brooklyn, may be issued by said board at any time during the month of April next, with the same effect as if they had been issued in January, such warrants shall be returnable on or before the first day of June next; but the time to return the same may be extended by the said board for a period not. to exceed thirty days from such return day. |