Charles C. Cole.. 3.... Levi S. Chapman.. Walter A. Clark 1.... Louis F. Goodsell........... 2. Joseph Dean George Bullard.. Danforth E. Ainsworth. John J. Rider Hamilton Fish..... New York.. New York city. New York. New York city. New York. New York city. ... New York. New York city. New York. New York city. Lockport. Oneida.... Onondaga Onondaga Epenetus Howe Charles H. McNaughton.. Rensselaer. Rensselaer. Rensselaer.. Richmond. St. Lawrence.. Goshen, Albion. Sandy Creek. Schuyler Lake. Prattsburg. Greenwood. Jeffersonville. Candor. Orange.. Orleans Oswego... Otsego. Putnam... Queens Queens Queens Rockland Schoharie Seneca. Steuben Steuben. Suffolk. Sullivan.. Utica. Sangerfield. Brewerton. Jordan. Rondout. Kerhonkson. North Creek. PASSED AT THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN THE SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, 1895, AND ENDED THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF MAY, 1895, AT THE CITY OF ALBANY, Chap. 568. AN ACT to incorporate the city of Johnstown. BECAME a law May 9, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Article The Charter of the City of Johnstown. I. Incorporation; city, ward and school district boundaries; definitions. (S$ 1-9.) IL City officers; eligibility, elections, appointments, terms of office, III. City officers; their general powers and duties. (§§ 30-49.) V. Local improvements; streets, highways and bridges: the con- VI. The assessment and collection of taxes. (SS 90-119.) VII. The recorder; crimes and disorderly conduct within the city and punishment thereof; the police department; powers and duties of policemen. § 120-139.) VIII. The fire department, fire limits and the prevention and extinguishment of fires. ($ 140–159.) IX. The board of water commissioners. (§ 160-189.) X. The schools and the board of education. (§§ 190-219.) XI. The commissioner of charities. (§ 220-229.) XII. Actions by and against the city. (S$ 230-239.. XIII. Relation of city to village and town of Johnstown. First election and first appointment of city officers. Miscellaneous provisions. (S$ 240-259.) ARTICLE I. Incorporation-City, Ward and School District Boundaries— Section 1. Short title. Definitions. Public act. 2. Boundaries of city. 3. Corporate name and powers. Section 4. Division into wards; ward boundaries. 5. City as school district. 6. Definitions. Section 1. Short title; public act. - This act is a public act, and shall be known as "the charter of the city of Johnstown." § 2. Boundaries of the city. All that tract or territory of land in the present town of Johnstown, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, included within the following boundaries is hereby constituted a city, which shall be known as the city of Johnstown, to wit: Beginning at a stone monument in the center of State street, near what is known as Johnson hall, at its intersection with the road leading towards Bennett's Corners; thence along the center of said Bennett's Corners road north thirty-nine degrees east one thousand and sixty-one feet to an iron pin; thence along the center thereof north thirty-three degrees east one thousand eight hundred feet to an iron pin standing in the center of said highway at the cross roads; thence north forty-five degrees and fifteen minutes east four thousand five hundred and forty-eight feet to a stone monument in the northerly line of the highway leading from the Johnstown and Gloversville plankroad, near the the toll gate, past L. K. Maylender's resi dence and mill, towards Bennett's Corners; thence north eighty-five degrees and eighteen minutes east three thousand one hundred and fifty-four feet to a stone monument, at the intersection of the southerly line of Gloversville's corporation line; thence south twenty-two degrees and thirty minutes east five hundred and forty-five feet to a stone monument on the southerly line of the Johnstown and Gloversville plank-road; thence south six degrees and twentythree minutes east four thousand two hundred and thirty-two feet to a point near the division line between lands of Myron Berry and lands lately owned by Edward Eacker; thence south six degrees and twenty minutes west two thousand four hundred and seventeen feet to a point in the northerly line of what is known as the Broadalbin road, and near what is known as the Eacker lane; thence south nineteen degrees and thirty-six minutes west five thousand and seventy-eight feet to a stone monument near the division line between lands of Comrie and Selmser, and near the Saint Patrick's cemetery; thence south forty-three degrees and fifty minutes west three thousand seven hundred and |