Other General Acts Relating to Railroads. CHAP. 133, LAWS OF 1847. AN ACT authorizing the incorporation of rural cemetery associations. § 10. The cemetery lands and property of any association formed pursuant to this act, and any property held in trust by it for any of the purposes mentioned in section nine of this act, shall be exempt from all public taxes, rates and assessments, and shall not be liable to be sold on execution, or be applied in payment of debts due from any individual proprietor. But the proprietors of lots or plots in such cemeteries, their heirs or devisees, may hold the same exempt therefrom, so long as the same shall remain dedicated to the purposes of a cemetery, during that time no street, road, avenue or public thoroughfare shall be laid out through such cemetery, or any part of the lands held by such association for the purposes aforesaid, without the consent of the trustees of such association, and of two-thirds of the lot owners thereof and then only by special permission of the legislature of the state. Thus amended by chap. 237, Laws of 1904. and All the rest of the act was repealed by the Membership Corporation Law. See section 91, Highway Law, post. CHAP. 62, LAWS OF 1853 AN ACT to regulate the construction of roads and streets across railroad tracks. Laying out streets or highways across railroad tracks. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the authorities of any city, village or town in this state, who are by law empowered to lay out streets and highways, to lay out any street or highway across the track of any railroad now laid or which may hereafter be laid, without compensation to the corporation owning such railroad; but no such street or highway shall be actually opened for use until thirty days after notice of such laying out has been served personally upon the president, vice-president, treasurer or a director of such corporation. Railroad corporations to cause street laid out across their track to be taken across at most convenient place for public travel. § 2. It shall be the duty of any railroad corporation, across whose track a street or highway shall be laid out as aforesaid, immediately after the service of said notice, to cause the said street or highway to be taken across their track, as shall be most convenient and useful for public travel, and to cause all necessary embankments, excavation and other work to be done on their road for that purpose; and all the provisions of the act, passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, in relation to crossing streets and highways, already laid out, by railroads, and in relation to cattle, guards and other securities and facilities for crossing such roads, shall apply to streets and highways here after laid out. Penalty for neglect of refusal. § 3. If any railroad corporation shall neglect or refuse, for thirty days after the service of the notice aforesaid, to cause the necessary work to be done and completed, and improvements made on such streets or highways across their road, they shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every subsequent day's neglect or refusal, to be recovered by the officers laying out such street or highway, to be expended on the same; but the time for doing said work may be extended, not to exceed thirty days, by the county judge of the county in which such street or high way, or any part thereof, may be situated, if, in his opinion the said work cannot be performed within the time limited by this act. This act has been repealed by the provisions of the grade crossing law, sections 60-69 of the Railroad Law. (158 N. Y., 410.) CHAP. 474, LAWS OF 1855. AN ACT for the protection of immigrants, second class, steerage and deck passengers. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of all companies, associations, and persons, hereafter undertaking to transport or convey, or engaged in transporting or conveying, by railroad, steamboat, canal-boat or propeller, any immigrant, second class, steerage, or deck passenger, from the city, bay, or harbor of New-York, to any point or place, distant more than ten miles therefrom, or from the cities of Albany, Troy and Buffalo, the town or harbor of Dunkirk, or the Suspension Bridge, to any other place or places, to deliver to the mayors of the city of New-York, Albany, Troy, and Buffalo, on or before the first day of April in each and every year, a written or printed statement of the price, or rates of fare, to be charged by such company, association or person, for the conveyance of such immigrant, second class, steerage and deck passengers respectively, and the price per hundred pounds for the carriage of the luggage, and the weight of luggage to be carried free of such passengers from and to each and every place, from and to which any such company, association, or person, shall undertake to transport and convey such passengers; and such prices or rates shall not exceed the prices and rates charged by the company, association or person, after the time of delivering such statement to the said mayors; and such statement shall also contain a particular description of the mode and route by which such passengers are to be transported and conveyed, specifying whether it is to be by railroad, steamboat, canal-boat or propeller, and what part of the route is by each, and also the class of passage, whether by immigrant trains, second class, steerage or deck passage. In case such companies, association, or person, shall desire thereafter to make any change or alteration in the rates or prices of such transportation and conveyance, they shall deliver to the said mayors respectively a similar statement of the prices and rates as altered and changed by them; but the rates and prices so changed and altered, shall not be charged or received until five days after the delivery of the statement thereof to the said mayors respectively. § 2. Every ticket, receipt or certificate which shall be made or issued by any company, association or person, for the conveyance of any immigrant, second class, steerage or deck passengers, or as evidence of their having paid for a passage, or being entitled to be conveyed from either or any of the points or places in the first section of this act mentioned to any other place or places, shall contain or have endorsed thereon a printed statement of the names of the particular railroad or railroads, and of the line or lines of steamboats, canal boats and propellers, or of the particular boats or propellers, as the case may be, which are to be used in the transportation and conveyance of such passengers, and also the price or rate of fare charged or received for the transportation and conveyance of any such passenger or pas sengers with his or their luggage. § 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to demand or receive, or bargain for the receipt of any greater or higher price or rate of fare for the transportation and conveyance of any such immigrant, second class, steerage or deck passengers with their luggage, or either, from either or any of the points or places in the first section of this act mentioned, to any other point or place, than the prices or rates contained in the statements which shall be delivered to the mayors of the cities of New-York, Albany, Troy and Buffalo, and said commissioners, respectively, as in the said first section provided for, or the price or rates which shall be established and fixed for the transportation and conveyance of such passengers and their luggage, or either, by the proprietors or agents of the line or lines, or means of conveyance, by which such passenger or passengers and their luggage are to be transported or conveyed. In all cases each immigrant over four years of age conveyed by railroad shall be furnished with a seat with permanent back to the same, and when conveyed by steamboat, propeller or canal boat, shall be allowed at least two and one half feet square in the clear on deck. Such deck shall be covered and made water tight over head, and shall be properly protected at the outsides, either by curtains or partitions, and shall be properly ventilated. § 4. Any company, association, person or persons, violating or neglecting to comply with any of the provisions of the first or second sections of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each and every offense, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the people of this state; See section 626, Penal Code, post. CHAP. 228, LAWS OF 1857. AN ACT in relation to the payment of fare upon the New-York SECTION 1. The New-York Central railroad company, at every station on its road, where a ticket office is now or may hereafter be established, shall keep the same open for the sale of tickets at least one hour prior to the departure of each passenger train from such station; but nothing herein contained shall require said company to keep such office open between nine o'clock P. M. and five o'clock A. M., except at Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Suspension Bridge, which shall be kept open as herein before required between five o'clock a. M. and eleven o'clock P. M. § 2. If any person shall, at any station, where a ticket office is established and open, enter the cars of said company, as a passenger thereon, without having first purchased a ticket for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the said company to demand and receive from such person a sum not exceeding five cents, in addition to the usual rate of fare for the distance such person may desire to be transported. See section 37 Railroad Law, ante; chap. 38, Laws of 1889, post. CHAP. 10, LAWS OF 1860. *AN ACT relative to railroads in the city of New York. SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful hereafter to lay, construct or operate any railroad in, upon or along any or either of the *While this is not a general act, it is deemed of sufficient importance to be printed here. |