Official acts legalized. Proviso. Chap. 305. AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the assessors of the village of South Nyack. Became a law April 13, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The official acts of the assessors and board of trustees of the village of South Nyack, heretofore performed in relation to the assessment of property and the levying and collection of taxes in said village, and all assessments and taxes here tofore assessed and levied therein by such officers are hereby legalized, confirmed and ratified, and declared to be valid and legal notwithstanding any informalities or illegalities concerning the same, and all such assessments and taxes shall have the full force, effect and validity as if the same had been legally made as provided by law. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any suit or legal proceeding now pending in any court. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Original assessments confirmed. Chap. 306. AN ACT to confirm, reduce, levy and provide for the collection by the city of Rensselaer as the successor of the village of Greenbush of certain assessments made by the village of Greenbush and to confirm the proceedings had with reference thereto and the issue of bonds thereon. Accepted by the city. Became a law April 13, 1899, 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. Each and every of the original assessments heretofore made and fevied by the village of Greenbush and the officers thereof for grading, forming, paving, flagging and curbing the sev eral streets, avenues, alleys and portions thereof in the former village of Greenbush, now the city of Rensselaer and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Herrick street from the east line of Broadway to the west line of Lawrence street; Broadway from the north side of Third avenue to the north line of the village; Partition street from the east line of Broadway to the east line of Third street; Third street from Partition street on the south to the north line of the village; Third avenue from the east line of East street to the west line of High street; East street from the north line of Second avenue to the south line of Partition street; Broadway in said village from the end of the granite block pavement on said Broadway as the same existed in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two to the south boundary line of said village; Washington street from the north line. of Second avenue to the south line of Third avenue and Third avenue from the east line of Broadway to the east line of Washington street; First alley from the north line of Second avenue to the south line of Creek street; Washington street from the north line of Columbia street to the north line of Second avenue and from the north line of Third avenue to the north line of Creek street are hereby in all respects ratified, confirmed and declared legal. proceed legalized. § 2. Each and every act of the trustees and other offi. Acts and cers of the said village of Greenbush and each and every pro- ings ceeding instituted by them, pursuant to which the said assessments were made and subsequent proceedings had thereon and each and every of the acts of the officers of the said village prior to and attending upon the issue of certain bonds of the said village for the payment of the cost of the said local improvement are and each is hereby in all respects ratified, confirmed and declared legal. ments, not etc. § 3. No assessment or tax heretofore or hereafter assessed, Assessmade or levied for any of the improvements referred to in the cluded, preceding sections shall be in any manner impaired or rendered illegal, invalid or uncollectible because of any omission, default or irregularity, preceding, attending or subsequent to the making and confirming of each of the original assessments made by the village of Greenbush for said improvements and all assessments Lien upon for the payment of the expenses of said local improvements with the instalments thereon shall be and constitute a lien upon the property. Special assess property upon which the same was made and chargeable until the full amount thereof shall be paid. § 4. Within thirty days after this act takes effect the assessors ment roll. of the said city of Rensselaer shall prepare and complete a special assessment roll of the entire cost of each of the said local improvements against all of the property mentioned and described in each of the original assessment rolls for said local improvements, described in section one of this act, except all such property upon which any such assessment and interest thereon has been paid in the manner following, Cost and expense to be stated. owner or Description of property. to wit: In the preparation of said roll the cost and expense of the said improvements and the other matters hereinafter required to be inserted shall be separately stated as to each one of said improvements as against each piece of property upon which the cost of said improvement or the proportionate part Names of thereof is a lien. In the first column the said assessors shall inoccupant. sert the name of the owners or occupants of each parcel of said property as the same appear on the original assessment roll for said improvement made by the assessors of the village of Greenbush. In the second column thereof the said assessors shall insert the name of the owner or owners of each parcel of said property at the time of preparing the said special assessment roll and if the owners thereof are unknown, that fact shall be stated in said column. In the third column thereof the assessors shall set forth a description of the said property as the same was set forth in the original assessment roll for said improvement adding thereto such description as shall serve more fully to identify such property. In the fourth column thereof the assessors shall set A portion forth and apportion the proportionate part of the entire cost of asses ment said local improvement, chargeable against said property. In the fifth column thereof said assessors shall assess and apportion the amount of the said entire cost of said local improvement which is chargeable against the said property and due therefrom at the time of the making of said special assessment roll exclusive of interest and exclusive of any sums of money by way of penalties for failure to pay any part of said Remission amount, which sums by way of penalties may have become due ties. and chargeable against said property prior to the preparation of said special assessment roll, and all of said sums by way of penalties for nonpayment of said assessments are hereby ment and of cost. of penal as to pay ment. ment with thereto. in all respects remitted and discharged; in ascertaining Elections and designating the said amount so to be set forth in said fifth column, the assessors, at the time of preparing said roll, shall ascertain the property, the owners of which have elected heretofore to pay the original assessment thereon immediately upon the completion of the work of said local improvement in one year thereafter; in five annual instalments; in ten annual instalments; in fifteen annual instalments and in twenty annual instalments from the date of the completion of the work of said local improvement and apportion the amount to be set forth in said fifth column Apportionagainst said property with due reference to the election of such reference of the owners thereof as elected to pay such original assessment immediately, in one year, in five, ten, fifteen or twenty instal ments from the date of the completion of said work and for the purpose of determining what instalment or instalments are due and payable, the date corresponding to the date of the confirmation of the original assessment roll for said improvement shall be the date in each year upon which the instalment thereof shall be deemed to have become due. In the sixth column of said roll Annual payments. the said assessors shall insert the time and number of annual payments in which the owners of said property shall have elected to pay the said original assessment for said local improvement, and said assessors shall in the said column and underneath the number of the annual payments to be set forth in said column, apportion the sum, not yet due at the time of the completion of said special assessment roll, in separate amounts or instalments for each year in which the same shall be due and payable pursuant to the election of the owners of said property as aforesaid where any annual instalment of said origi nal assessment shall thereafter become due and payable and in extending the said instalment for subsequent years, the time when any such instalment shall become due in any year shall be extended to the date in said year corresponding to the date of the confirmation of the original assessment for said improvement by the assessors of the said village. Said assessors shall in the Extension last column of the said roll extend the total amount of said as ments. sessment due at the time of the completion of said roll as the same is set forth in the said fifth column, adding thereto interest at the rate of four per centum per annum upon the whole amount of said assessment remaining unpaid at the time fixed by this act for the completion of said roll, to be computed from the date of of assess compensa tion to officers, etc. the confirmation of the original assessment thereof made by the assessors of the village of Greenbush up to the date when the last instalment of said assessment included in said amount in the fifth Additional column of said roll is, pursuant to this act, due and payable. The common council of said city is authorized to pay such additional compensation to the officers of said city, charged with the duty of carrying out any of the provisions of this act, as in the judgment of said council, may be necessary and to defray the cost of any additional clerical or other assistance which may be required by said assessors and other officers of said city in the preparation of such special assessment roll or carrying out any of the provisions of this act. Filing of roll and publication of notices. § 5. Upon the completion of said roll the same shall be filed in the office of the city clerk and thereupon the assessors of said city shall publish in the official paper or papers of said city and in a paper in the city of Albany and a paper in the city of Troy to be designated by the common council, a general notice requiring the owner or owners of all land in said city affected by any assessment upon said property for any such local improvement, and all other persons having any interest or lien upon such property to present in writing to said assessors at a place to be specified in said notice, within fifteen days after the date of said notice, their objections to any such apportionment, assessment or other matter set forth in said roll and any reason why the same should be reduced, remitted or altered. Such notice shall be signed by the assessors of said city or any two of them and shall be published at least once a week for at least two weeks in the official newspaper or newspapers of said city and daily for at least ten days in each of the said newspapers to be designated by the common council in the cities of Albany and Troy respectively and a copy of the said notice shall be posted in eight public places in the said city at least ten days prior to Presenta the date specified in said notice for presenting objections. It jections. shall be the duty of such owners or persons having any interest in or lien on lands affected by said assessment and making said objections to present in writing to said assessors within the time specified in said notice a concise statement of such objections to said assessments and their reasons why the same or any part thereof should be reduced, remitted or altered and to serve a duplicate copy of said statement on the corporation counsel of said city tion of ob |