Chap. 362, Laws of 1878, repealed. AN ACT in relation to the care and control of Bedford avenue, in the city of Brooklyn. Passed May 25, 1883, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and sixty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled, "An Act to transfer the care and control of Bedford avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, to the Park Commissioners of said city, passed May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight," is hereby repealed, and all the powers and authority by said act vested in said Park Commissioners are hereby transferred to and vested in the officers and departments of the said city of Brooklyn having authority and control over the streets of said city, with the same effect as if the act hereby repealed had never been passed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and thirtyfive of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled, "An Act to fix and limit the amount to be expended by the Brooklyn Park Commissioners for maintenance and improvement of the several parks and parkways which are a charge on the city of Brooklyn." Passed May 7, 1884, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and eightyone, entitled, "An Act to fix and limit the amount to be expended by the Brooklyn Park Commissioners for maintenance and improvement of the several parks and parkways which are a charge on the city of Brooklyn," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Amounts required for parks in annual tax to be included levy. § 1. The Board of Estimate for the city of Brooklyn, and the Common Council of said city, shall annually include in the general tax to be levied in said city such amounts of money as said Brooklyn Park Commissioners shall from time to time determine to be necessary for the proper maintenance, improvement and ornamentation of the several public parks and parkways now a charge on the city of Brooklyn; but such amounts so included shall not exceed one hundred and thirty-five Limitation. thousand dollars for the maintenance of the public parks, five thousand dollars for the maintenance of Eastern Parkway, twelve thousand five hundred dollars for the maintenance of Ocean Parkway, and also the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be levied and raised in each and every year, for five years, for the construction of erections and improvements in Prospect Park, said several sums to be paid for the purposes aforesaid as the same shall be needed, and on the usual vouchers. (a) § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. (a) Section 1, amended by Chap. 621, Laws 1886. AN ACT for the payment of a debt due for the improvement of Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, in the city of Brooklyn. Passed May 17, 1886, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION I. There shall be inserted in the annual tax levy of the city of Brooklyn for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, a sum sufficient to pay the amounts in fact expended by the Park Commissioners of said city for the improvement of Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, for which a debt is now due the National City Bank of said city of fifty-three thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents with interest from January first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, together with the interest which shall have accumulated thereon at time of payment, and the Mayor and Comptroller of said city are authorized and directed to pay the indebtedness created by said actual expenditure out of the moneys collected by said tax. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled, “An Act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations, and to regulate the same." Passed June 8, 1886, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled, "An Act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations, and to regulate the same," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Land for rail road purposes; how acquired from State, officers. county or town § 25. The Commissioners of the Land Office shall have power to grant to any railroad company formed under this act any land belonging to the people of this State which may be required for the purposes of their road, on such terms as may be agreed on by them; or such company may acquire title thereto by appraisal, as in the case of lands owned by individuals; and if any land belonging to a county or town is required by any company for the purposes of the road, the county or town officers having the charge of such land may grant such land to such company for such compensation as may be agreed upon. The land included in the State reservation at Special exempNiagara and the the* Concourse lands on Coney Island tions. are expressly exempted from the provisions of this sec-. tion. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. *So in the original. Transfer of improvement to Common Coun cil. Assessments; how laid. Duty of Park AN ACT supplementary to and amendatory of an act entitled, “An act to widen and improve Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, in the city of Brooklyn," passed May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.' Passed June 14, 1886, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The power to grade, pave and improve Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, in the city of Brooklyn, conferred upon the Brooklyn Park Commissioners by chapter seven hundred of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled, "An act to widen and improve Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, in the city of Brooklyn," passed May 7, 1869, is hereby transferred to and vested in the Common Council of said city, and said avenue and street, when graded, paved and improved, shall be graded, paved and improved under the same proceedings as other streets and avenues in said city are graded and paved; and the assessment therefor shall be laid, and the expense thereof paid in the same manner as the assessments and expense for grading and paving other streets and avenues in said city are laid and paid, except that the assessment shall be laid upon the lands within the district of assessment in the proportions provided in the fourth and seventh sections of said act. § 2. Before the said avenue, and street, or either of them, are graded, paved or improved, the Brooklyn Park Commissioners shall determine and certify to the Common Council of said city the amounts already expended and advanced on the improvement of said avenue and street respectively by the Brooklyn Park Commissioners; and the amount so certified, with the interest thereon, shall be deemed to be and be taken as a part of the cost of grading, paving and improving said avenue and street, and shall be included in the amount of the prospective and actual cost and expense of the work and in the assessments therefor. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |