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may, in addition to the powers conferred on said company by the acts under which they are incorporated, purchase, hold, improve, sell and convey real estate, or any interest therein, and may receive by donation, purchase or grant, from any person, body politic or corporate, any right or interest in any lands adjacent to lands so held by them, whether under water or contiguous thereto, with all powers and incidents thereto belonging or in anywise appertaining, to have, hold and possess the same in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said company not inconsistent with the laws of this State. But such real estate or interest therein shall not exceed in value at any one time twice the amount of capital authorized by this act.

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§ 2. The said company may establish or increase their Capital capital stock to an amount not exceeding at the nominal be inpar value thereof, two million five hundred thousand creased. dollars, and may execute a mortgage upon any lands, tenements or hereditaments, by them acquired to secure the bonds which, by said company, may be issued to an amount not exceeding the capital stock herein authorized to be issued.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 381.

AN ACT to provide for the adjusting of certain accounts of the city of Brooklyn.

Passed April 26, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The mayor, comptroller and city clerk of Mayor, the city of Brooklyn, are hereby authorized to borrow, borrow upon the faith and credit of the city, the sum of three and issue hundred and nineteen thousand one hundred and fifty bonds. dollars, secured by the bonds of said city, which they are hereby anthorized to issue under the city seal, payable six years from the date thereof with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semiannually. Such bonds shall not be sold at less than their par value.

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create sinking fund.

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board to hear and

claim of

town for repairing bridges,

etc.

§ 2. The money so borrowed shall, by the financial officers of said city, be placed to the credit of various accounts of said city overdrawn, more particularly described and designated in a communication from the comptroller placed on file among the proceedings of the common council of said city on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

§ 3. For the purpose of meeting the principal and interest on said bonds, there shall annually be raised by said city, by tax, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or such sum as may be required as a sinking fund, to redeem the same at maturity, and there shall also be raised annually, during the term of said bonds, a sum sufficient to meet the interest accruing thereon.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 382.

AN ACT for the relief of the town of Perrinton in the county of Monroe.

Passed April 26, 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 canal board are hereby authorized and required to hear and determine the claims of the determine town of Perrinton, for moneys expended by it for the reparation or rebuilding of bridges and roads, or for the damages occasioned to the bridges and roads in said town by reason of two breaks in the Erie canal in said town, one occurring on the twenty-fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and the other four days thereafter, and at or near the ox bow in said town; and if, upon such hearing, the said canal board shall adjudge and determine the said town has been put to extraordinary expense in consequence of such breaks, in the damage occasioned thereby to the bridges and roads of said towns, and if the evidence shall establish damages. facts against the State which would create a legal liabil ity if proved in an action against an individual or corporation, they shall award to the said town such damages

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award

as in their judgment it has actually sustained by reason
of the said breaks in the Erie canal as aforesaid.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 383.

AN ACT to legalize certain proceedings of the common council of the city of Buffalo, and for the relief of Frederick Haake.

Passed April 26, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The proceedings of the common council Certain of the city of Buffalo, taken on the twenty-third day of acts May, eighteen hundred and seventy, by which said legalized, common council declared the grounds fronting on the southerly side of the Buffalo and Aurora plank road in said city, commencing at the Cazenovia road and extending from a point six hundred feet easterly of the Buffalo creek to be unwholesome, and ordering the abatement of the nuisance existing thereon, and directing the street commissioners of said city to cause the said work to be done, and the action of the mayor of said city approv ing the resolution of said common council ordering said work and the employment by said street commissioner of Frederick Haake, to do said work and furnish materials therefor, are hereby legalized and confirmed.

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2. The common council of said city is hereby Common authorized and directed to pay to said Frederick Haake from the general fund, for the labor done and the fake. materials furnished by him in and about said work described in the first section of this act, such a sum as the said materials and labor were reasonably worth at the time the same were furnished and done, or said common council may levy and raise, by an assessment upon the property deemed benefited by said work, the amount which shall have been paid to said Haake therefor, which assessment shall be made and collected in the same manner as is now provided in the charter of said city, for levying and collecting assessment for local improvements. §3. This act shall take effect immediately,

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Amount to be issued.

Chap. 384.

AN ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Albany to issue the bonds of said city to provide for the taking of property for an United States building at the said city, and to provide for compensating the owners of the property so taken therefor.

Passed April 26, 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 common council of the city of Albany, may issue or a majority thereof, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said city, to be exccuted under the seal thereof, and signed by the mayor and the president of the said common council, payable with semi-annual interest, at such time and place as said common council shall fix by resolution, approved by the mayor of said city. The said bonds may be for such an amount as shall be necessary to pay for such piece of land as shall be desired by the United States for the purposes specified in an act entitled "An act granting the consent of the State of New York, to the purchase by the United States of certain lands, for the purpose of the erection of a building for the accommodation of the United States custom house, postoffice, courts, internal revenue offices and other offices of the United States government located in the city of Albany," passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, and to pay all necessary expenses for obtaining and securing the title to such lands in the United States.

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§ 2. The city of Albany may, by such person as shall be designated and appointed by the common council of said city, or a majority thereof, by resolution approved by the mayor of said city, purchase such lands or any building. portion thereof, as may be necessary for the purposes above specified, taking the title thereto in the United States, so as to vest such title in the United States, and pay the owner or owners such sum for said lands as may

be agreed upon between the owners thereof and the persons designated and appointed by said common council as aforesaid.

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3. The said city may in the manner provided in Title to and by title seven of chapter seventy-seven of the laws how of eighteen hundred and seventy and the several acts acquired. amendatory thereof, except that the three commissioners to assess the damages and recompense of the owners of lands to be taken shall be appointed by the Supreme Court at a special term or a general term thereof, secure and obtain the title to such lands in the city of Albany as the common council or a majority thereof shall designate by resolution, approved by the mayor for the purposes above specified. The amount of damages and compensation therefor, when fixed, or of the amount agreed upon as aforesaid for any lands purchased, and the expenses shall be paid from the proceeds of the bonds above authorized. The title to said lands when Title to so purchased or taken shall vest in the United States United for the purposes specified in the said act, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 385.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain indebtedness of the city of Elmira.

Passed April 26, 1872; three-fifths being present.

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

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SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Elmira Common are hereby authorized and empowered to include, assess and levy in the city tax levy of the year eighteen hunnred and seventy-two, in addition to the sums authorized to be raised under section one, title four of the charter of said city, a sum not exceding thirty-five thou- debt. sand dollars, to be applied to the payment of the present legal indebtedness of said city, incurred prior to the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, exclusive of the bonded debt thereof.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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