before within the time aforesaid. All persons who shall file said state. Hearing ment and objections within the time aforesaid shall be heard be- assessors. fore said assessors in person or by counsel for four days immediately succeeding the expiration of the fifteen days during which time the said rolls shall remain at the office of the city clerk and the said assessors or a majority thereof shall meet at the common council chamber of said city for four days immediately succeeding the expiration of said fifteen days between the hours of nine ante meridian and five post meridian for the purpose of hearing objections to said assessments from all persons who have filed such objections and statement in writing as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the corporation counsel to assist them in any examination that they may make and in the performance of their du ties generally. Any one of said assessors may administer oaths Powers of or take the affidavit or deposition of any person to be used before said assessors. The said assessors shall decide upon all objections made to such assessments and shall have power and it shall be their duty, to reduce, remit, alter and correct any apportion ment, assessment or other matter upon said assessment roll and when completed sign the same and file said roll with the city clerk.. assessors. for of assess § 6. Upon the filing of said completed assessment roll with the Warrant city clerk, as aforesaid, the common council shall thereupon cause collection to be attached to said roll a warrant directed to the city treasurer, ments. signed by the mayor and city clerk with the seal of the city attached, commanding the said city treasurer to proceed to collect the amount set forth in the last column of said roll as hereinafter prescribed, which said roll shall be immediately filed in the office of the city treasurer. filing and of roll. § 7. Upon the receipt of said roll the said city treasurer shall Notice of give notice that such roll has been filed in his office in the same completion papers and for the same length of time wherein the notice of the completion of the said roll by said assessors is by this act required to be published, and by posting a copy of same in eight public places in said city. Said notice shall also recite the time within which such assessments are required to be paid. The city treasurer shall receive the amounts set forth in the last column of said roll, for sixty days from the date of the filing of said roll and warrant with him, without percentage or fee. At the ex- Action and piration of said sixty days the treasurer shall certify to the cor- to enforce Receiving of pay ment. proceeding collection. Preference of action. Tax for payment share. poration counsel a list of all assessments unpaid and thereupon SS. The common council of the city of Rensselaer shall in of city's finally determining the total amount of the annual city tax levy, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, insert therein an amount sufficient to pay the proportionate part of the amount originally assessed against the village of Greenbush for its share. of the cost of any and all of said local improvements, which proportionate part shall be or may become due and chargeable against the said city, as successor of said village of Greenbush, at any time prior to the first day of August following the determination of the total amount of such annual city tax levy, and shall insert of assess therein, in addition to said sum, an amount sufficient to pay all instalments of assessments with interest, which shall fall due in the fiscal year next succeeding the determination by the said For installments ments. interest, etc. for install ments. common council of the amount of the city tax levy in said year. In fixing the amount so to be raised the rate of interest and the Rate of method of computing the same shall be as prescribed by this act for apportioning and computing the amount due from private owners of property in said city, and the original amount of said assessment shall be deemed to be due in twenty annual instalments from the date of the confirmation of the first assessment roll for each of said improvements by the assessors of the village of Greenbush, and the said amounts shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other city taxes are levied and collected in said year. In each succeeding year the common council shall, Annual tax in determining the amount of the city tax levy for that year, insert therein the amount of the instalment of each assessment for any of said local improvements falling due in the fiscal year following the determination of the amount of the city tax levy for said year with interest thereon and all such instalments shall fall due at the same times and interest be added and computed in the same manner and at the same rate as in the case of instalments of assessments for said local improvements chargeable against private property in said city, and the amount so inserted in said annual city tax levy shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other city taxes are levied and collected in said year. interest to install ments. of install § 9. The city treasurer of said city shall in each and every year, Addition of in which any instalment upon any such assessment so made, shali unpaid become due and payable, add to the amount of such unpaid instalment interest upon the unpaid portion of such assessment for one year at the rate of four per centum per annum and extend the same in the last column of said special assessment roll. The city treasurer shall upon the date when any such instalment Collection shall become due and payable, proceed to collect the amount so ments. extended in the last column of said roll for said year, in the same manner, with the same fees and upon the same notice as if the local improvements for the payment of which the original assessment, of which said instalment is part, was made, had been made by the said city pursuant to the terms of the charter thereof, and all the provisions of said charter, applicable to the collection and enforcement of assessments for local improvements made by said city shall be applicable to the enforcement and collection of each of said instalments and the interest thereon. All per- Percentcentages and fees of the city treasurer shall be collected from the fees of city ages and treasurer. Interest due on installment date when said instalment and interest shall, pursuant to the terms of this act, become due and payable. As to all instalat complements due at the time of the completion of said special assess ment roll, herein provided for, interest shall run from the date of the completion thereof on the sum assessed in the fifth column of said roll. tion of roll. Deposit of collections. § 10. All sums of money received from the collection of the said assessments and instalments thereof, exclusive of costs and disbursements recovered in any action for the enforcement of the lien thereof, shall be deposited by the city treasurer in an account in some bank in the city of Albany, designated for that purpose by the common council of said city for the payment of the bonds of the village of Greenbush, known as Greenbush improvement bonds, heretofore issued by the said village for the payment of Use the costs and expenses of the said local improvements, and shall be used for no other purpose whatsoever until the whole amount of the said bonds with interest due thereon shall be paid, satisfied and discharged and thereupon the surplus, if any there be, shall be paid into the general fund of the said city. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. rest ricted. Special election legalized. Chap. 307. AN ACT to legalize, ratify and confirm certain bonds of the village of Windsor issued in pursuance of a special election. held on the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the purchase and improvement of a system of water works for such village. 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. The special election held in the village of Windsor on the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninely-cight, to determine upon the proposition of purchasing and improving a system of water works for such village, is hereby legalized and confirmed, and the bonds of such village to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, issued in pursuance of such election, shall be valid and binding obligations upon such village, notwithstanding any defects in the notice or conduct of such election or in the issue and sale of such bonds. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 308. AN ACT to confer jurisdiction upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the alleged claim of John Culleton against the state of New York, for damages alleged to have been sustained by him, and to render judgment therefor. 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. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the alleged claim of John Culleton against the state of New York, for damages alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the fact that while he was a convict in Sing Sing prison, and in and during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six he was compelled by the warden and officer in control of said prison to tease the hair of horse skins upon which there remained putrid flesh which caused him to get blood poisoning, to get sick and to become paralyzed and permanently disabled. Jurisdiction to hear claim. or award. § 2. No award shall be made or judgment rendered herein Judgment against the state, unless the facts proved shall make out a case against the state, which would create a liability were the same established in evidence in a court of law or equity against an individual or corporation; and in case such liability shall be satisfactorily established, then the court of claims shall award to and render judgment for the claimant for such sum as shall be just and equitable, notwithstanding the lapse of time since the accruing of damages, provided the claim hereunder is filed with the court of claims within one year after the passage of this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |