have been temporarily advanced, to the payment of the revenue bonds of the city and county of New York now outstanding and unpaid, which were issued pursuant to the provisions of chapter one of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to provide means for the payment of revenue bonds of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, falling due on or about fifteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, any acts or laws to the contrary notwithstanding. vide payment etc., troller create and "consoli stock of York." § 4. To provide the means to pay the revenue bonds To proof the city or county of New York issued, or that may means for hereafter be issued under and by virtue of chapter nine of revenue (9) or twenty-nine (29), of the Laws of eighteen hundred bonds, and seventy-two, and also to pay such of the revenue compbonds of the city or county of New York issued under and may by virtue of chapter one (1) of the Laws of eighteen hun- issue dred and seventy-two, as may be unpaid at the time of dated the issue of the bonds hereby authorized, and to pro- the city of vide the means to pay the amount of assessments that New have been vacated or may hereafter be vacated by order of the Supreme Court, it shall be lawful for the comp.: troller of the city of New York, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to create and issue so much "consolidated stock of the city of New York," or so much "consolidated stock of the county of New York," as shall be necessary to provide the means to pay said revenue bonds at or before their maturity, and the amount of said assessments so vacated. The said con- How created: solidated stocks hereby authorized to be created and and issued shall be created and issued in the manner prescribed by, and be subject to, the provisions of chapter three hundred and twenty-two, or of chapter three hundred and twenty-three of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the same as if the consolidated stocks hereby authorized, had been included in, and authorized to be issued under and by virtue of said chapter three hundred and twenty-two or three hundred and twentythree of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. issued Board of city works to construct and complete certain Bewers. Work to be done by contract. Mayor, comptroller and city clerk to isssue sewerage bonds. Amount limited. Chap. 445. AN ACT to provide for the speedy construction of sewers in a certain portion of the city of Brooklyn. Passed April 30, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of city works of the city of Brooklyn is hereby authorized to proceed to construct and complete the sewers in all the streets and avenues of that portion of the city of Brooklyn, comprised în the drainage district known and distinguished as map N, lying northerly of Prospect avenue and Hamilton avenue in said city, in accordance with the plans prepared and adopted by the permanent board of water and sewerage commissioners. Said work shall be done by contract in accordance with the provisions of existing laws. to 2. For the purpose of furnishing the money required pay for the work authorized in the preceding section, the mayor, comptroller and city clerk of said city are hereby authorized and directed, from time to time, in such amounts only as may be necessary for the payment of said work, to issue, under the city seal, sewerage bonds, not exceeding the total amount of five hundred thousand dollars, one-third of which shall be payable in one year, one-third in two years, and the remainder in three years from the date of issue, bearing interest at not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable semiannually, which bonds shall be sold by the comptroller at not less than their par value, and the proceeds of which shall be used to pay for the work authorized by this act, and for no other purpose. The said sewerage bonds shall be redeemed, from time to time, from the moneys received in payment for the construction of the sewers herein authorized. For the purpose of repaying the cost of the construction of said sewers, together with benefited. the necessary expenses incident thereto, there shall be assessed, levied and collected, on the property benefited Bonds, how redeemed. Assess ment on property therby in the manner now provided by law for the assessing and collecting of the cost of the construction of sewers in said city, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and the balance of said cost, together with the interest paid on all bonds of said city issued in pursuance of the provisions of this act, for such construction, and all expense of the same in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. The money as collected shall be applied to the payment of the bonds issued in pursuance of the provisions of this act. cost of exceeds § 3. In case the cost of the work to be performed In case under this act shall exceed the sum of five hundred work thousand dollars, such excess shall be provided for out $500,000, of the sewerage bonds heretofore authorized by law to deficiency be issued for sewerage purposes for the city of Brooklyn, and not otherwise. § 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 446. AN ACT to release the interest of the people of the State of New York in certain land, to Mary M. Imhorst. Passed April 30, 1872; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The interest of the people of the State of New York, of, in and to all that house and lot of land situate on the westerly side of Carlton avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, now occupied by said Mary H. Imhorst, and being the property particularly described in a deed dated December twentysix, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, made by Isaac Lewis and wife, to said Mary M. Imhorst, which deed was recorded in the office of the register of the county of how paid. Interest of leased. State re Not to impair vested rights. Interest of State Kings, in liber seven hundred and thirty-five of convey- § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 447. AN ACT to release to Mary McGarrity the right, Passed April 30, 1872; by a two-third vote. SECTION 1. All the right, title and interest of the released. People of the State of New York in and to that certain real estate lying and being in the eleventh ward of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and particulary described in a deed executed by Isaac C. Deleplaine and Matilda his wife to Bernard McGarrity, dated August eighteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and recorded in the Kings county register's office, in liber six hundred and forty-one of conveyances, page twenty, on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, are hereby released to Mary McGarrity the widow of the said Bernard McGarrity, deceased, her heirs, executors, administrators forever. Not to impair vested rights. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or construed to affect the right, title, interest, claim or demand of any heir at law, devisee, grantee or vendee, or of any creditor by mortgage or otherwise. §. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. H 1 Chap. 448. AN ACT to revise and amend an act entitled "An act to construct a road from Carthage, in Jefferson county, to Lake Champlain in the county of Essex," passed April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one. Passed April 30, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to construct a road from Carthage, in Jefferson county, to Lake Champlain in the county of Essex," is hereby revised and amended as hereinafter provided. § 2. Section one of said act is amended to read as follows: sioners. road. 1. Luther B. Richardson of Lowville, Edward E. CommisBrown and Stephen R. Pratt of Carthage, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and construct a road To lay out from a point where the old road leading from Watson to number four in Brown's tract intersects the eastern Route. boundary of the town of New Bremen, being near Crystal Lake, thence eastward, passing through the settlement on township number four of Brown's tract, and intersecting the west line of Essex county at or near the point where the same is intersected by the old Cedar Point road, and thence upon the most direct and feasible route to Lake Champlain in the town of Crown Point, or in the town of Moriah. Wherever said road has heretofore been laid out or constructed, said commisioners are authorized to construct or repair and keep the same in repair; said commissioners are also authorized May alter to alter any part of said road that may be laid out, if already a better route can be secured thereby. § 3. Section two of said act is amended to read as follows: road laid out. conferred. § 2. The powers conferred upon commissioners of Powers highways of the several towns of this State under the laws thereof, are hereby conferred upon the commission |