three, entitled "An act in relation to the forest preserve and Adirondack park, constituting articles six and seven of chapter forty-three of the general laws," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 104. Accounts and annual report forest commission.— All income from state forests lands, including receipts for trespasses, shall be paid over by the forest commission to the state treasurer, by whom it shall be be placed placed to the credit of the special fund established for the purchase of lands within the Adirondack park, and a strict account shall be kept of all receipts and expenses of the commission, which account shall be audited by the comptroller. The commission shall, annually, in the month of January, make a written report to the legis lature of their receipts and expenses, and of all their proceedings, with such recommendations of further legislative or official action as they may deem proper. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 666. AN ACT in relation to the destruction by fire or heat of all animal and vegetable refuse and garbage in towns and villages having over ten thousand inhabitants. BECAME a law May 11, 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: and destruction of refuse and garbage, Section 1. Within any village having over ten thousand inhabi- Collection tants it shall be lawful for the trustees of such village, and within any town having over ten thousand inhabitants, or within any district in any such town established by the town board of such town, it shall be lawful for the town board of such town, to provide for the collection of and to cause to be consumed by fire or heat and to prohibit the throwing, casting or deposit in any May probody or streain of water, or upon any ash heap or other place ing or than such as may be provided by them within such village, town or district, any animal or vegetable refuse, dead animal, carrion, offal, swill or garbage. And it shall be lawful for the town Contracts board of any such town, or the trustees of any such village, to tion, etc. hibit throw deposit of same. for collec Purchase of appli ances. Misde meanor Expense, how levied, assessed and collected. Contracts for purification of water and sewerage. contract for the collection and for the consumption by heat or fire of any such refuse or other aforesaid matter, or for the pur. chase, maintenance and operation of any appliances for the collection and consumption thereof. § 2. Any person offending against any such provision as aforesaid made by any such town board or trustees for the collection, or for the prohibition of the throwing, casting or deposit, of any such refuse or other aforesaid matter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. § 3. Any expense incurred in any town, or any district in any town, pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be levied, assessed and collected upon the taxable property in the town or district as to which the same is incurred in the same manner at the same time and by the same officers as the town taxes, charges or expenses of such town are assessed, levied and collected, and shall be paid over to the supervisor of such town, and by him applied to the payment of such expense. Any expense incurred in any village, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall be annually raised as a part of the expenses of such village, and shall be levied, assessed and collected in the same manner that other expenses of such village are raised and shall be kept separate from the other funds of such village and shall be applied by the trustees thereof to the payment of such expense. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 667. AN ACT to authorize local authorities to contract for the purifica tion of water and sewerage. BECAME a law May 11, 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. The local authorities of the several cities, towns and villages of the state having charge of the supply of water and the care of sewerage in their respective localities, are hereby authorized, on behalf of their cities, towns and villages, respectively, to enter into contracts with the owners of any process or apparatus for the purification of water and sewerage whether protected by patents or not, and either contract for the use of apparatus and process for a term of years or for the purchase of the same as to them shall seem advisable. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 668. AN ACT to provide for the removal of the bridge over the Erie canal at Porter avenue, in the eity of Buffalo, to Jersey street in said city, and for the construction of a new bridge at Porter avenue in said city, and making an appropriation therefor. BECAME a law May 11, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: bridge. Section 1. The superintendent of public works is hereby Removal of directed to remove the bridge over the Erie canal at Porter avenue, in the city of Buffalo, from that place to Jersey street, in said city, and do all other work incidental to such removal and the establishment of such bridge at Jersey street, including the change of the tow-path between Jersey street and Porter avenue, from the southwest side of the canal to the northwest side thereof. tion of new § 2. The board of park commissioners of said city is hereby Construcauthorized and directed to construct a new bridge over the Erie bridge. canal at Porter avenue, in said city, of such plan and design as it may approve, together with such abutments therefor as may be necessary; the same when completed not to interfere in any way with the public use of the canal. borne. § 3. The cost of the work hereby authorized and directed to cost, how be done, shall be borne, one-half by the state of New York, and one-half by the city of Buffalo, provided such cost shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars. But in case the cost of such work shall exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the state shall pay ten thousand dollars thereof and no more, and the remainder shall be paid by said city. The sum of ten thousand Appropria dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary under the pro-state's visions of this act on the part of the state, is hereby appropriated cost. out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, tion for of Payment of cost by city. payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller upon the order of the superintendent of public works. § 4. So much of the cost of such work as under the provisions of this act, shall devolve upon the city of Buffalo, shall be paid by said board of park commissioners out of the appropriations which shall be made by the common council of said city for said purposes in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four; and the said common council is hereby directed to include the same in its appropriations for that year. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Assessment and for board of assessors. Chap. 669. AN ACT providing for the improvement of the method of assessment and taxation in Richmond county. BECAME a law May 11, 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. Whenever the board of county assessors established tax maps by chapter four hundred and eighty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two shall present to the board of supervisors of Richmond county a requisition for asssesment and tax maps of said county, or of any town thereof, and shall therein declare that it is necessary for the proper assessment and taxation of the real property contained either in said county or in said towns thereof that said board of county assessors should be provided with a complete set of assessment and tax maps of said county or of said town, made upon a uniform scale, and having the lots or plots therein set forth numbered for the purpose of such assessment and taxation and also having the correct extent of the boundary lines of said lots or plots set forth upon said maps in feet and inches, the said board of supervisors shall thereupon procure and pay for such assessment and tax maps thus required by said board of county assessors, and and copies thereof sufficient in number to provide complete sets for the use of each assessor, and other such sets for filing and use in the office of the county treasurer or receiver of taxes and in the office of the state comptroller, and shall there. upon deliver such assessment and tax maps and copies thereof to said board of assessors to be used for the purpose of making such assessments and for the imposition of such taxes and for the filing of copies of such maps in the offices aforesaid, and they shall be used and filed accordingly. Should such assessment and tax maps for one or for several of such towns be thus procured, any other assessment and tax maps for the remaining towns of said county then or thereafter procured shall be made upon the same scale and as to correspond in other respects, as near as may be with the assessment and tax maps previously or at the same time procured under the provisions of this act. The expense of such Expense assessment and tax maps for each of said towns shall be imposed in the annual tax-rolls as a tax upon such town, and the said board of supervisors shall make provision for an annual revision Annual reof said maps and copies thereof so that, as near as may be, all maps. changes in the size, shape or boundaries of any of such lots, plots or blocks, by reason of sale or subdivision or location or relocation of streets, shall be properly indicated on such tax maps. thereof. vision of ments and § 2. Whenever the aforesaid board of assessors of said county Assessshall have been so furnished with such assessment and tax maps for any town or towns thereof, the assessments and taxes thereafter imposed in the tax-rolls of said county upon real property located in said town or towns shall be imposed on the various lots or plots of land therein located by and according to the map or page numbers in such town assessment and tax maps and by and according to the lot or plot numbers on such maps and the block numbers, if any there be, on such maps and no other descrip- No other tion shall be necessary for a valid imposition of taxes or assessments in the assessment and tax rolls of such towns upon any if* such lots, plots or blocks, nor need the names of the owners or occupants of such lots, plots or blocks thus described be given in the assessment and tax rolls of such town. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. *So in the original. description necessary. 211 |