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or that the persons therein mentioned could not, upon diligent search and enquiry, be found in said city; it shall be lawful for the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Troy, to issue a warrant under their common seal, to levy the amount due and unpaid on any such assessment, with five per cent fees thereon for the said chamberlain, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person or persons so assessed, and in case sufficient goods and chattels of the respective persons so assessed as aforesaid, to make the several sums required to be paid as aforesaid, cannot be found, then it shall be lawful for the common council of said city, to collect the same with the costs and expenses incident. thereto, by a sale of the land and premises so assessed as aforesaid, in the manner now authorised by law.

ARTICLE FIFTH.

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1. The office of assistant alderman of the city of Troy, is Two alder hereby abolished from and after the first Monday of March men to be next, and each ward of said city now entitled to an assistant each ward. alderman, shall be entitled to two aldermen, with the same powers and duties, and to be elected as the aldermen of said city are now elected.

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2. The city of Troy is hereby divided into three assessor Three asdistricts for the assessment of taxes; the first district to be sessor discomposed of the first, sixth and eighth wards; the second. district of the second and fifth wards; and the third district of the third, fourth and seventh wards.

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§3. The board of commissioners of the sinking fund of the Commis city of Troy, shall hereafter consist of the mayor, chamber- the sinking lain, and such other four citizens of the city of Troy, as the fund. common couucil of said city shall appoint.

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§4. The common council of the city of Troy, shall annu- Amount to ally raise, in the contingent fund tax of said city, twenty- for sinking five hundred dollars, and pay the same to the board of com- fund. missioners of the sinking fund of the city of Troy, to be by that corporation applied to the payment of the principal only, of the water works debt of said city, according to the terms of a resolution of the common council of the city of Troy, passed the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty three, until the whole of said water works debt is paid.

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§ 5. The supervisors of the city of Troy, shall hereafter be sup'visors elected in the manner following, to wit: The first, second, of city how third, fourth, sixth and seventh wards of said city, shall seve- ted.d rally form one district, each to be known by the same number as that of the ward; in each of which said districts shall be elected one supervisor, and the fifth and eighth wards of said city shall together form one district, to be known as district number five, in which there shall be elected one supervisor, said supervisors to be elected in the manner and at

the same time now provided by law for the election of supervisors in the city of Troy.

Board of § 6. The supervisors of the city of Troy, or a majority of auditors, them, shall constitute a board of auditors, whose duty it shall be to audit all accounts chargeable to the several districts of said city; and such accounts and all other sums of money chargeable to the said city shall be charged, taxed and levied upon all the real and personal estate of said city, without regard to its division into supervisor districts, and the per centage of the county tax shall be the same in all parts of the city of Troy, and the county treasurer shall keep an account with the city of Troy, instead of with the several districts in said city, as heretofore: the accounts when audited as above, shall be paid by the chamberlain of the city of Troy, out of the money appropriated by the board of supervisors of the county for that purpose, and the vouchers shall remain in the office of said chamberlain: Provided, however, that the real estate in said city lying south of the north line of the farm now or late of Thomas Burnsted, and the personal estate liable to taxation in that part of said city, shall not by reason of anything herein contained, be made liable or subject to taxation for any purpose or object for which the same are not now liable to be taxed, or from which they are now exempt.

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AN ACT in relation to the clerk's office of the county of
Oneida.

Passed January 29, 1848, by a two-third vote.

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

§1. The commissioners of the land office are directed to buildings to convey to the board of supervisors of Oneida county, the ed to su lot with the buildings thereon lately occupied as the office of pervisors. the clerk of the supreme court at Utica.

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Sup'rvisors 2. The board of supervisors of Oneida county are auto convey thorised and directed at their first meeting after the passage state. of this act, to convey to the State of New York the lot with the buildings thereon now occupied as the office of the clerk of Oneida county in Utica.

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3. After the conveyance in the first section of this act provided, the office of the cle.k of Oneida county shall be kept in the building lately occupied as the office of the clerk of the supreme court in Utica.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 14.

AN ACT in relation to the collection of taxes in the eighth and ninth wards of the city of Brooklyn.

Passed January 29, 1848, 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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§ 1 In case of a vacancy occurring in the office of collec- Provision tor of taxes for the eighth and ninth wards of the city of Brooklyn, the mayor and common council of said city shall have power to fill such vacancy by appointment; and they may appoint at their discretion, one person as collector for both said wards. Every collector so appointed shall give the security required by law to be given by collectors of taxes, and shall be subject to all the liabilities of such collectors.

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§ 2. The board of supervisors of the county of Kings, Assessm'nt shall, immediately after the passage of this act, cause the as- 46 and 47 sessment rolls of the eighth and ninth wards of the said city, to be deli for the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, one lectors. thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, or revised and corrected copies thereof, distinctly showing thereon all the taxes which remain unpaid, to be delivered to the collector or collectors of said wards, with warrants of collection annexed or subjoined thereto, and shall require all payments specified in said warrants to be made on or before the third Tuesday of March,in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

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3. The collector or collectors shall proceed to collect all Unpaid the unpaid taxes on the said assessment rolls, together with taxes to be the percentages and the interest by law due thereon, and shall pay over the same to the proper persons authorised to receive the same, in the same manner as the collectors of the several wards of the said city are by law required to collect and pay over the taxes on the assessment rolls annually delivered to them. And the said collector or collectors shall be entitled to retain out of the moneys so collected by them, the same fees for collection as are by law allowed to collectors of taxes.

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§4. The said collector or collectors shall make final re- Final return of all unpaid taxes on said assessment rolls, and certi- turns to be fy the same under oath, in the same manner as the collectors of the several wards of said city are by law required to make returns upon warrants annually delivered to them; and upon such returns being duly made, it shall be lawful for the mayor and common council of said city to enforce the payment of such unpaid taxes with the percentages and interest due thereon, by the sale of the lands upon which such taxes

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may be laid, in the manner now provided by law for the sale of lands for non-payment of taxes in said city.

§ 5. This law shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 15.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to erect the town of South Valley in the county of Cattaraugus," passed April 2, 1847.

Passed January 29, 1848.

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

§ 1. The lots number twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-four, So. Valley, thirty-five, forty-four, forty-five, and forty-six, shall be taken from the town of Coldspring in the eighth range of the Holland Land Company survey, and annexed to the town of South Valley, so that the division line between townships number one and two in the ninth range, running due east until it strikes the division line between townships number one and two in the seventh range, shall be the division line between the towns of Coldspring and South Valley in the eighth range.

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2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 16.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the calling of a convention to revise the laws relating to the city of Brooklyn," passed May 10, 1847.

Passed February 1, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. Any number of delegates elected to the convention to revise the laws relating to the city of Brooklyn, not less than twelve, when assembled in convention, shall constitute a quorum to transact its business.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 17.

AN ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act for the relief of Leah Morris," passed May 21, 1836, and to revive and continue the first and third sections of said act.

Passed February 1, 1848.`

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

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§ 1. The first and third sections of the act entitled "An Sections of act for the relief of Leah Morris," passed May 21, 1836, are revived. hereby revived and continued for ten years next hereafter, * during which time the trustees constituted or appointed pursuant to said act, or any two of them, may sell and convey the lands described and mentioned in said sections, in the manner and to the effect therein set forth.

§2. The fourth section of said act is hereby amended by Amendm't adding at the end thereof the following words," and also to pay all taxes, assessments and other charges which now are, or may at any time hereafter within ten years, become liens upon said lands, or any part thereof."

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 18.

AN ACT to pay Benjamin D. Quigg for arresting a fugitive from justice.

Passed February 1, 1848, by a two-third vote.

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

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§1. The treasurer shall pay upon the warrant of the Money to comptroller, to Benjamin D. Quigg, or to his legal represen- BD Quigg tatives, the sum of one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-six cents, in full for his claim against the state for services and expenses in arresting Dolph B. Scott, a fugitive from justice.

§2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 19.

AN ACT to confirm the official acts of Adam Smith, a commissioner of highways of the town of Manheim.

Passed February 1, 1848.

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

§1. All the proceedings which have been had by Adam Official Smith, as a commissioner of highways of the town of Man- firmed.

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