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on said portion of Eastern parkway, and the commissioners for opening such streets shall have been appointed, to be regulated, graded and paved with such material as he may deem best.

§ 2. To provide for the cost of said improvement, the mayor and the comptroller are hereby authorized and directed to issue, upon the requisition of said commissioner of city works, certi cates of indebtedness having five years to run and bearing interest at not to exceed four per centum, which certificates shall not be sold for less than their par value, and the cost of said improvement shall be paid out of the proceeds of said certificates upon the certification of the commissioner of city works.

§ 3. To provide for the payment of said certificates there shall be levied and collected with the annual tax next after the completion of said improvement, one-fifth of the amount of said. certificates issued and the same amount, in the same manner in the four following years.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 958.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and ninety-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to authorize the selection, location and acquiring of certain grounds for public parks and parkways in and near the city of Rochester, and to provide for the maintenance and embellishment thereof."

Accepted by the city.

BECAME a law June 6, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Issue of s

certificates of indebted ness.

Tax for

payment of certificates.

amended.

Section 1. Section fifteen of said act is hereby amended so Act as to read as follows:

Rochester

§ 15. For the purpose of paying for the lands which may Issue of be taken or purchased under the provisions of this act, and park bonds. for the purpose of laying out, improving or embellishing the park or parks, parkways, approaches thereto, and connecting streets created under the provisions of this act, and the expenses of acquiring title thereto under the provisions of this act, the bonds of the city of Rochester, to such an amount, not Limitation

of amount.

How executed,

when payable, etc.

Interest.

sale.

exceeding three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, as shall be necessary, shall be issued by the treasurer of said city, from time to time, as the same shall be required for the purposes aforesaid. Said bonds shall be known as the "Rochester Park Bonds," and shall be signed by the mayor and treasurer, and the seal of the city of Rochester affixed thereto; shall be countersigned by the president of said board of park commissioners, and shall be payable in not less than ten nor more than forty years from the date thereof; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, interest and principal payable in the city of New York; interest payable half yearly on the first day of January and July in each year; and said bonds shall be payable at the option of said Proceeds of city after ten years from the issue. And the proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall constitute the funds for paying the cost of the lands taken under the provisions of this act, and the expenses of acquiring title thereto, and for the laying out, Payment of improvement and embellishment thereof. And the treasurer of said city shall pay, on the order of said park commissioners, the sums which may be awarded as above provided to the owner or owners or persons in any way interested in the lands which shall be taken pursuant to the provisions of this act, and the purchase price of lands obtained by agreement of pur Record of chase by said park commissioners. And as the said Londs are from time to time issued, the treasurer shall cause to be kept in his office, in a book to be provided for that purpose, a true and correct statement and an account of each and every bond issued under the provisions of this act, showing the number of each bond and the date and the amount thereof, and the time when due; and such books shall be open for public inspection, and shall be delivered to his successor in office.

awards.

bonds

issued.

Construo tion of act.

§ 2. This act shall not be construed to authorize the bonds of said city to be issued to an amount exceeding sixty thousand dollars in addition to the bonds already issued for park pur poses in pursuance of the act above referred to, and the proceeds of the additional bonds authorized under the provisions of this act shall be used only in the purchase of such lands and interest therein for park purposes as the common council of said city may approve.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Chap. 959.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the supreme court in the first judicial district and the appellate division thereof in the first department."

Accepted by the city.

BECAME a law June 6, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

amended.

Section 1. Sections five and eleven of chapter five hundred and Act fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act in relation to the supreme court in the first judicial district and the appellate division thereof in the first depart ment," are hereby amended to read as follows:

justices and court

§ 5. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the first clerksta judicial district elected or transferred to said court, including attendants. the justices of the appellate division in the first department, shall appoint and at pleasure remove a clerk to such justice, and four attendants upon the court. Each of said clerks to receive as salary a sum to be fixed by the justices of the appellate division, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and the attendants the salary now allowed by law. Each of said attendants may also be removed by the appellate division, but not until he has been informed of the cause of the proposed removal and has been allowed an opportunity to make an explanation.

duties of officers.

tion of

officers.

§ 11. Each of the officers hereinbefore named shall perform Additional such additional duties as the said appellate division shall direct and be subject to such rules and regulations as shall be made by the said appellate division. The court clerks, justices' clerks, continua attendants, crier, interpreter, librarian and stenographers of the supreme court at present in office shall continue until removed. The said justices of the appellate division, now or hereafter to Appoint be appointed, are authorized to apportion the attendants and and clerks. justices' clerks so continued among the justices elected to the eupreme court, with like effect upon subsequent removals and appointments as though such justices' clerk and four attendants

ment of

attendants

assigned to each justice had been appointed by such justice under the original power of appointment conferred upon each of the justices of the supreme court elected or transferred by this act.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Release from state tax levy.

Chap. 960.

AN ACT to relieve the county of Richmond of the balance of the
State tax levy of eighteen hundred and seventy-two due the
State.

BECAME a law June 6, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,
three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follmos:

Section 1. Upon the payment into the State treasury of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the county of Richmond shall be released from all claim by the State against said county for the unpaid balance of the State tax levy due from the county of Richmond for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and the comptroller is hereby directed to discharge the same record in his office.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Appointment of expert elerk.

Chap. 962.

AN ACT authorizing the appointment of a clerk for a certain purpose in the office of the county clerk and register of Kings county.

BECAME a law June 6, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. 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 register and county clerk of Kings county are authorized to appoint an expert clerk in their respective offices whose duty it shall be to carefully inspect all deeds, mortgages and instruments creating liens on real property which may be presented to such officers for record or filing for the pur

pose of detecting any apparent errors, inaccuracies or forgeries therein and to immediately notify in writing the persons interested in such instruments or papers or whose interests may be affected by the recording or filing of such errors, inaccuracies or forgeries as he may detect.

to appoint.

§ 2. Provided, however, that such appointment shall imply no Proviso as obligation on the part of such register or county clerk to correct ment. any defective or inaccurate instrument, nor shall the said county clerk or register assume to be held responsible for the acts of said expert.

clerk.

§ 3. The salary of such clerk shall be a county charge and shall Salary of be fixed by the board of supervisors or such other body as in vested with authority to appropriate money for such purpose. § 4 This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 975.

AN ACT to divide the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, and to erect the town of Colonie out of the part set off from the said town of Watervliet.

BECAME a law June 7, 1895, with the approval of the Governor.

three-fifths being present.

Passed,

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Colonle

Section 1. All that part of the present town of Watervliet, in Town of the county of Albany, not included within the limits of the vil- created. lage of West Troy and of the village of Green Island, is hereby separated from that part of the said town included within the said villages and erected into a separate town, to be hereafter known and distinguished as the town of Colonie.

Watervliet,

§ 2. All the rest and residue of the said town, consisting of Town of the villages of West Troy and Green Island, shall be the town of Watervliet.

meeting.

§ 3. The first town meeting of the town hereby erected shall First town be held at the "Town house," at Latham's Corners, in the said town, on the second day of April, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, providing this act shall become a law six days prior to that date, and if such shall not be the case, then on the third Monday

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