propriated for the purposes of this act, and the Comptroller shall retain in his hands and pay over to the commissioners appointed by this act all such non-resident highway taxes as may now have been assessed upon the townships above herein named which may not have been paid over to the treasurer of the counties wherein the said lands are situated; and the said Comptroller shall pay over to the commissioners herein named, or to their order, annually, all such non-resident taxes as may be assessed upon said lands until the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. tended. § 3. The foregoing act is hereby so amended that the Time exsame shall be extended and remain and continue in force for the term of six years from January first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. AN Chap. 228. AN ACT to regulate à ferry between the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Passed April 13, 1872. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The company, corporation and persons owning or managing the ferry now and heretofore being run and operated between Bridge street, in the city of Brooklyn, and a point situated between James street and New Chambers street, in the city of New York, are hereby required to so run and operate said ferry that the boats on said ferry shall make a trip and passage each way between the points aforesaid as often as once in every fifteen minutes, between the hours of five o'clock in the forenoon and ten o'clock in the evening of every day. 2. Any deviation from the requirements aforesaid, caused by ice, wind, tide or unavoidable accidents, shall not be a violation of such requirments and directions. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. To make a trip each way every fifteen H Comptrol- Excise moneys Hornell Chap. 229. AN ACT for the relief of Sarah Wyatt, widow of Passed April 13, 1872; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The comptroller of the city of New York shall pay from the treasury of said city the sum of five thousand dollars, which amount shall be provided for in the tax levy of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to Sarah Wyatt of New York, widow of the late Samuel Wyatt, who lost his life on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in the city of New York, while in the discharge of his duty as sergeant in the Ninth Regiment National Guard of the State of New York, in quelling a riot in the said city of New York. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 230. AN ACT to limit the amount of money to be paid to the Hornell Library Association to five hundred dollars, and to amend chapter five hundred and forty-nine of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Passed April 13, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There shall be paid to the treasurer of the be paid to Hornell Library Association, by the person or persons, commissioner or commissioners, board or boards, hav. ing the custody thereof, the sum of five hundred dollars each year out of and from the moneys received by them or either of them, for licences to sell or deal in spiritu ous or intoxicating liquors within the town of Hornellsville, Steuben county, New York, and from fines and penalties by reason of the unlawful sale, dealing or traffic in such liquors within said town of Hornellsville; said moneys shall be so paid within thirty days after the same or any part thereof shall be so received by them or either of them. § 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 231. AN ACT to provide for supplying the village of Peekskill with water, and authorizing the issue of bonds therefor, and to create a board of water commissioners. Passed April 16, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sioners. office. SECTION 1. The following named five persons, to wit: water Coffin S. Brown, Wm. S. Tompkins, D. W. Travis, commis Charles F. Southard and Gilbert T. Sutton, are hereby designated and entitled the boaad of water commissioners of the village of Peekskill. Said commissioners and their successors are hereby declared a body corporate by that name. Three of said commissioners shall hold Terms of their offices for three years, and two of them for two years, respectively, from the next annual election of village officers for said village, after the passage of this act, and until others shall be chosen to fill their places. The term of office of each of said commissioners shall be determined between them by casting lots as hereinafter provided. At the expiration of the terms so drawn, Commisrespectively, and at each annual election in said village be elected. thereafter, when the time of any commissioner or commissioners shall expire, commissioners shall be elected to fill the vacancies then existing, who shall hold their office for two years, and shall be 'residents and tax payers of the village of Peekskill. If any vacancy shall occur in the office of commis- Vacansioner, by death, resignation, removal from said vil- filled. lage or other cause (except expiration of term of office), sioners to cies, how To organ. ize and elect officers. Powers and duties of water commissioners. the same shall be filled by appointment by the trustees of said village, and the person or persons so appointed shall hold said office until the annual village election succeeding such appointment. § 2. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the board of water commissioners hereby designated shall organize by the election of a president, secretary and treasurer from among their number, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be duly elected, and shall at such meeting to organize, determine by ballots, marked "two" and "three," to be drawn by them, their respective terms of service. The annual meeting of said board shall be held on the Tuesday preceding the annual election in said village for village officers. No member of said board, unless he be secretary thereof, shall have any compensation, neither shall any member of said board be interested directly or indirectly in any contract made by said board. Å majority of said board shall constitute a quorum. §3. Said board of water commissioners shall have the exclusive right and power to make all necessary arrangements, regulations and contracts for supplying said village with water, and to construct all works needful for that purpose, and to that end they are hereby empowered to purchase, take and hold in the corporate name of said board, any real estate required for such purpose, and by themselves, their servants and agents may, after agreement with such owner or owners, or just compensation ascertained and provided for, enter upon the lands of any person or persons, and may lay and construct any pipes, conduits, aqueducts, wells, dams, reservoirs, and all other works or machinery necessary or proper for the purposes aforesaid, upon any lands so entered upon, purchased, taken or held. Said commissioners may enter upon any lands, streets, highways, alleys or public squars, excavate for, lay, construct, alter, repair and replace any pipes, conduits, aqueducts or other works necessary to furnish an ample supply of water whenever the same may be required within the limits of said village; and may put in so many hydrants and in such places as they may deem proper. all bonds for of this act. § 4. For the purpose of purchasing the necessary lands, May issue paying damages to land owners for lands or water rights purposes taken or used by said commissioners under the provisions of this act, and for the erecting of buildings, for purchasing and putting up the required machinery, buying and laying the pipes, putting in hydrants, and for the materials, labor and all things necessary and proper to fully complete said water-works, said commissioners are hereby authorized to issue bonds in the name of the village of Peekskill for an amount not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and payable in not to exceed thirty years from the date thereof, and which bonds shall bear interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually at such place as said board shall determine, which said bonds shall not be negotiated by said commissioners for less than the par value thereof, and shall not be paid to any contractor or contractors for services, nor negotiated except for cash. Said bonds shall be signed by the president and secretary of said board of commissioners, in pursuance of a resolution of said board and shall bear the corporate seal of the said village, and be denominated "water bonds of the village of Peekskill, New York," and are hereby made a charge upon the real and personal property of said village. relation to lish water 5. The said board of water commissioners are here- Rules in by authorized and empowered to make such prudential use of rules, regulations and by-laws in relation to the use of water. said water as they may, from time to time, deem to be necessary, and shall have the full and exclusive control of said works under this act, and the management of the finances connected therewith, and shall have the To estab power to establish the rates and charges for the use of rates. the water, and to assess an amount which they shall proper to be paid by the owner of any building for the use of said water, or for the protection of such building from fire, or both, such use and protection upon such building and the lot upon which it stands; but in making such assessment for fire protection, it shall be made pro rata, taking the valuation of the property from the last assessment roll of the town of Courtland as a basis, and in case any such assessment shall not be paid deem |