Officers when to enter upon duty. Officers to continue in office. Term of recorder. Justice of peace, duties of. § 11. All officers chosen by the electors of the city shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of January next succeeding their election, and continue in officethe mayor, recorder, police justice and aldermen two years, assessors three years, justice of the peace four years, and all other elective officers one year. Except that the following officers elected at the first election held under this act, shall hold their offices for the following terms, to wit: The recorder one year, one assessor three years, and one assessor two years; one alderman in each ward one year, and one alderman in each ward two years; the terms for which the said assessors and aldermen are severally elected at said first election, shall be designated on the ballots. All elective officers in office on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, shall hold over and continue in office until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The assessor now in office, and whose term of office will expire on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, shall continue in office until the expiration of such term. All officers of the city of Hudson, hereafter elected, shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified. Section sixteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 16. The recorder shall be elected for two years. He shall be a member of the common council, and shall receive from said city for his services in behalf of said city as such recorder, an annual salary of two hundred dollars, payable quarterly. He shall possess such powers as are prescribed in this act, and as are now provided by law. Section eighteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: §18. The justice of the peace in said city shall possess the same jurisdiction in civil cases which is vested in justices of the peace in towns, but shall in no case possess or exercise any jurisdiction in criminal cases. He shall, by virtue of his office, be a commissioner of deeds in and for the city of Hudson. In case of sickness, absence, or inability of the justice of the peace to act, or in case of a vacancy in the office of justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the recorder to perform the duties of such justice, and he is hereby by virtue of his office, invested with all the powers, jurisdiction and authority of such justice of the peace (for the time being), and shall be entitled to receive Section forty-three of said act is hereby amended so as to §43. The common council shall have power in each year Tax. to raise by tax a sum not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars, for the following purposes: 1. For paying the interest upon the city debt, and such part of the principal thereof as may annually be due and payable. 2. For lighting the streets of the city. 3. For defraying the expenses of watch and police. 4. For providing necessary apparatus and means for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. 5. For defraying the contingent expenses of the city. 6. For defraying the expenses of public improvements proper to be borne by the city. 7. For making and repairing streets, highways and bridges. 8. For the support and contingent expenses of schools. Section forty-four of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: tax. § 44. In addition to the tax provided in the preceding Highway section of this title, the common council shall first cause a roll of all persons in each ward who would be liable to be assessed for work on highways, if the city were a town, to be made by the assessors, and shall then impose upon each of such persons a tax of not less than fifty cents or more than one dollar, as a poll tax for the making and repairing of streets, highways and bridges. The common council shall then cause two copies to be made of the last assessment roll made by the assessors for the city, with columns prepared for the insertion of the poll tax, and taxes upon real and personal estate; they shall then cause to be inserted therein the poll taxes to be imposed upon the persons resident in said city; they shall then impose upon the persons and property assessed in the assessment roll of the city, the amount of tax to be raised under the provisions of said section, and also the amount of any other tax, or tax for extraordinary purposes which may be required or authorized by law. The amount to be paid by each person and each property shall be entered in appropriate columns, and when the taxes shall be entered therein and properly corrected, the roll shall be signed by the mayor and clerk. To which shall be added and annexed thereto a warrant under the corporate seal of the city, signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, directed to and requiring the city treasurer to collect all taxes due therein within such time as shall be specified by the board of supervisors of Columbia county in each year for the collection of the county taxes, and one copy of said rolls shall be immediately filed with the clerk, and the other delivered to the treasurer. They shall thereafter be called the tax lists. Town to borrow money. of state to loan. Chap. 7. AN ACT to enable the town of Mooers, in the county of Clinton, to raise money for bridges. Passed February 16th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The supervisor of the town of Mooers, in Clinton county, is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of that town, or to raise by tax on the property of said town, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars, in addition to such sums as the several towns of this state are now by law authorized to raise for roads and bridges, provided the electors of said town of Mooers, at their next annual town meeting, shall vote in favor of raising said sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars. Comptroller § 2. The comptroller of the state of New York is hereby authorized to loan said sum to said town out of any moneys belonging to the common school fund on receiving the security hereinafter specified. The supervisor of said town of Mooers is authorized to execute his official bond to said comptroller, or to such other party as shall make such loan, conditioned for the payment thereof in five equal annual instalments, with annual interest; and in case said loan shall be made, it shall be the duty of the board of su pervisors of Clinton county annually to raise by tax on the taxable property in said town, at the same time the county tax is raised, such sum as shall be sufficient to pay each instalment of said loan as the same shall become due, with the annual interest thereon, until the whole sum with interest shall be paid; and the amount so annually raised shall be paid to said supervisor or his successors in office, and shall be applied in payment of said instalments and interest. § 3. The amount of such loan shall be drawn only on the order of said supervisor, and shall not be paid to the commissioners of highways of said town until they shall execute with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board of town auditors of said town, a bond to said supervisors conditioned for the faithful application of said moneys for the rebuilding and repairing bridges in said town, and to account therefor as they are required by law to account for moneys officially received. §4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 8. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes. Passed February 16th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any collector of taxes in any of the towns and cities of this state, by complying with the first section of an act entitled "An act authorizing the extension of time for the collection of taxes in the several towns and cities of this state," passed January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (except such cities as are exempt by the second section of said act), may have the time extended to a period not later than the first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Town to borrow money. Supervisor to execute bond, &c. Duties of commission ways. Chap. 9. AN ACT to authorize the town of Champlain to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and repairing bridges in said town, and to provide for the payment of the same by tax. Passed February 17th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Champlain is hereby authorized to borrow, upon the credit of said town, such sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, as a majority of the taxable inhabitants of said town present and voting at the next annual town meeting, shall decide it is expedient to raise, to be expended by the commissioners of highways of said town, in the erection and repairing of bridges. § 2. In case a majority of the taxable inhabitants present at such meeting, shall decide to raise a sum of money not exceeding said sum of eight thousand dollars for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the town clerk, immediately thereafter, to certify in writing to the supervisor of said town, the amount so decided to be raised; and, upon the receipt of such certificate, it shall be the duty of such supervisor to execute and deliver to the commissioners of highways of said town, a bond in his name of office, for the payment to the said commissioners or their assigns, of the sum so certified to be raised, in equal annual instalments of one thousand dollars each, from the first day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, with interest annually on the whole sum remaining unpaid at the time of the payment of each annual instalment of principal. 3. The commissioners of highways of said town, before ers of high- receiving such bond from, the supervisor, shall execute under their hands and seals, with at least two sufficient sureties, an undertaking to the said supervisor, to be approved by him and filed with the town clerk of said town, conditioned for the faithful and honest application of all moneys which may come into their hands by reason of the provisions of this act. |