fnnd.

Salaries and con

penses.

not exceeding the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, to Health be known as the fire fund. For the purposes of the board of health, one thousand five hundred dollars, to be known as the Hospital. health fund. For the maintenance of the Flagler hospital, one thousand dollars, to be known as "the Flagler hospital" fund. For the payment of the salaries of officers not otherwise protingent ex- vided for, rent of rooms for common council and city clerk, and rents not otherwise provided for, and the other contingent expenses of said city, sixteen thousand dollars, to be known as Street light-the city salary and contingent fund; and in addition to the sum ing, etc. in this section first mentioned, the common council shall have power in each year in like manner to raise such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding eight thousand five hundred dollars, to pay one-half of the expenses of the lighting and maintenance of the lamp district, in addition to the tax provided for in section one hundred and thirty-two, to be known as the street lighting fund; and also upon the real property within the water district such sum as shall in each year be estimated by the water board for the maintenance and operation of the water-works of said city for the ensuing fiscal year, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be known as the water fund; and also such sum as shall be estimated and certified by the board of education for the city of Lockport, in pursuance of chapter fifty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the acts amendaJudgments tory thereof, to be known as the school fund; and also in each year any sum necessary to pay and satisfy any final judgments for money that shall have been recovered against said city, as provided by chapter five hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty. And also in each year such sums as may be necessary to pay all election expenses and the insurance, care, storage and repair of election booths, to be known as the election fund; also in each year any such sum necessary in equaliza- to pay the expenses of any appeal duly authorized by said comsessments. mon council, taken by the supervisors of the city of Lockport,

Water fund.

School fund.

against

city.

Election fund.

Expenses of appeals

tion of as

or any of them, from any act or decision of the board of supervisors of the county of Niagara, in the equalization of assessments, and the correction of assessment-rolls, to the board of state assessors, and said common council may issue bonds, when necessary, to pay such expenses, prior to the raising of money to pay the same as herein provided. And in addition to

of chemi

gine.

the amount in this section first mentioned, the common council Purchase shall have power, whenever it may seem necessary, in like cal fire enmanner, to raise such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, to purchase and pay for a chemical fire engine, or to pay bonds issued upon the purchase thereof, and such other or further sum as may be necessary, not Steam road exceeding three thousand dollars, to purchase and pay for a steam road-roller, or to pay bonds issued upon the purchase thereof. The common council shall have power to purchase one or both of said articles, and to issue bonds therefor, payable on November first, next after the date thereof, with interest at four per centum per annum.

§ 7. Section two hundred and thirty-eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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roller.

to make transcripts

as to cer

tain unpaid

§ 238. Whenever the unpaid taxes and assessments, with the Treasurer lawful fees and interest in addition thereto, on any one piece parcel of land, shall have been in the hands of the treasurer for taxes, etc. one year, and shall amount to, at least, the sum of fifty dollars, he shall make a transcript of the same, together with all other taxes and assessments in his hands on the same parcel of land, except that he shall not include therein such part of any assessment for a local improvement as is not yet due. He shall certify to the correctness of the transcript and deliver it to the city attorney.

§ 8. Section two hundred and thirty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 239. Whenever any tax or assessment on any one piece orIbid. parcel of land shall have remained unpaid in the hands of the treasurer for three years, he shall make a transcript of the same, together with all other taxes and assessments in his hands on the same parcel of land, except that he shall not include therein such part of any assessment for a local improvement as is not yet due. He shall certify to the correctness of the transcript and deliver it to the city attorney.

§ 9. Section two hundred and forty of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

foreclosure

scribed in

§ 240. Upon the receipt of the transcript and certificate men- Action for tioned in either of the preceding sections, the city attorney shall of lens de forthwith bring an action in the supreme court or Niagara county court, in the name of the city of Lockport as plaintiff, for the

transcripta

Proceedings therefor.

foreclosure of the lien of the taxes described in said transcript, and for a sale of the lands affected thereby. The course of proceedings in said action, down to and including the sale, shall be analogous to those in an action for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real property, and shall conform to the procedure and rules of court prescribed therefor, except as herein otherwise provided. Complaint. It shall be sufficient for the complaint to allege the corporate character of plaintiff; a description of the land, and the fact that it is within the corporate limits; the levying and assessing thereon of the taxes and assessments to recover which the action is brought, specifying years and amounts; the aggregate amount then due and remaining unpaid, including interest, fees and expenses; the fact that the defendants or some of them have or claim to have an interest in said lands; and the demand for judgment. It may be verified on information and belief by the city attorney.

Verification thereof.

Duty of city at

ures.

Costs of

action and sale

§ 10. Section two hundred and forty-eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 248. On every such sale the city attorney shall bid for the torney as to city the amount of the judgment, together with the interest thereon, and the costs and expenses of the sale, and such further sums as may be required to pay all taxes and assessments levied by the city subsequent to those for which judgment has been obtained, with the additions thereto; excepting, however, such part of any assessment for a local improvement as is not yet due, and if no further bid is received, the property shall be struck off to the city of Lockport. Out of the proceeds of any such sale, the costs of the action and the expenses of the sale shall be first paid to the city attorney, and then the moneys adjudged to be due, with the interest, and the amount of all taxes and assessments, with the lawful fees and interest, in addition thereto, levied by the city subsequent to those for which the judgment was obtained, shall be paid to the city treasurer, and the same shall go into the general fund, and he shall account therefor to the common council. The surplus, if any there be, shall be paid into court, subject to the further order of the court. If, however, the property shall be struck off to the city of Lockport, the costs and expenses of the action shall be paid from the salary and contingent fund.

§ 11. Section two hundred and forty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

liens and

tected upon

§ 249. The sale shall be made subject to all state and county Certain taxes, and such portion of any assessment for a local improvement taxes proas is not yet due, and subject also to liens in favor of the United sale. States, which are a lien at the date of the sale. The lien of all taxes and assessments levied by the city on the lands sold prior to the sale shall be extinguished thereby, except such lien as may have been created by a local assessment, a portion of which is not yet due.

§ 12. Section two hundred and sixty-nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 269. The town meetings and general elections of the inhabit- Town meet ings may be ants of the town of Lockport may be held at such places in the held in city. city of Lockport as the supervisor of said town and the mayor of said city may appoint, with the same force and effect as if held in said town. And it shall be lawful for the town clerk of Town said town to hold his office in and reside within said city, and to office. appoint a deputy town clerk who may be a resident of said city. Deputy in The business to be done at such office may be done in said city. § 13. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 640.

AN ACT to amend the agricultural law authorizing agricultural societies and corporations to lease their grounds.

BECAME a law May 10, 1894, 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:

Section 1. Section ninety-one, article five of the agricultural law is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 91. Lease of grounds of agricultural societies and corporations. Any agricultural society or corporation, owning or possessing grounds in a county of this state having a population of more than three hundred thousand and less than six hundred thousand may lease such grounds for any lawful purpose except running races not inconsistent with the use thereof for the purposes of the society or corporation, for such time or times as said

clerk's

city.

grounds may not be needed by any such agricultural society or corporation for its own purposes.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Grant of state's

lands au

thorized.

of lands.

Chap. 641.

AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the land office to grant all the interest of this state in certain lands formerly under the waters of the Hudson river, adjoining the village of Catskill, in the county of Greene, but which have been filled in. BECAME a law May 10, 1894, 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:

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Section 1. The commissioners of the land office shall have the interest in power to grant in the manner, and to the extent, and subject to the restrictions provided by section sixty-seven of article four of title five, chapter nine of part first of the revised statutes, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, all the interest of this Description state in the following described lands, which were formerly under the waters of the Hudson river, adjoining the village of Catskill, in the county of Greene, but which have since been filled in, viz.: All the lands in front of and adjacent to other lands belonging to the village of Catskill, bounded and described follows, viz.: Commencing at the center of a stone monument set in the ground in the line between the lands of the the village of Catskill, and lands of Howard L. Boughton, and at the old high water mark of the Hudson river, and running thence south seventy-four degrees east one hundred feet; thence north fourteen degrees east seventy-two feet to lands under water granted by the people of the state of New York to Thomas T. Thompson, November fifth, eighteen hundred and sixteen; thence along said lands under water granted by the people of the state of New York to Thomas T. Thompson, as aforesaid, south eighty-nine degrees forty minutes west ninety-eight and five-tenths feet to the old high water mark of the Hudson river; thence south sixteen degrees fifty-four minutes west forty-two and five-tenths feet to the center of said stone monument the point and place of beginning,