elect.

of install

assess ments.

equal annual installments, covering a period of not less than five Filing of options.

years if such persons shall so elect. The options shall be filed in writing with the city clerk, within the said ten days, and shall state what portion of the deferred assessment the person filing the

same elects to pay and the time, subject to the above restriction, Collection within which he will pay the same. of whole

In case any person assessed ments upon neglects to elect within the ten days, the common council shall failure to

direct the chamberlain of the said city in the warrants delivered to him, as provided by this act

to collect the whole of said assessCollection ment at once.

In case any person shall elect to pay his assessments.

ment in installments, the common council shall direct the chamber. lain in said warrants to so collect the same. Such directions shall

conform in amount to the options filed with the city clerk. Issue of

2. After the expiration of the time allowed to file such options of bonds for deferred

with the city clerk, the common council shall have the power and they are hereby authorized to issue the bonds provided for in this section twenty-three, for the amount of the deferred assessments which the persons assessed have elected to pay by installments, including the deferred assessments to be paid by the city at large, together with the cost and expenses of issuing said bonds, pro

vided; however, that the amount of such bonds shall not exceed Payments five-sixths of the total cost of making said improvements. The of interest and bonds.

proceeds of all assessments and taxes collected by the chamberlain of the persons assessed, as herein directed, shall be applied by him in the payment of said bonds, with the interest thereon, as they shall become due; and in no case shall said chamberlain or common council use the proceeds of such taxes or assessments for any other purpose than the payment of said bonds and interest

thereon. Council to

3. Whenever the common council shall have anticipated the colorder coltaxes and lection of the taxes and assessments for paving or sewering as

provided by this section twenty-three, they shall, in the assessment-rolls confirmed and filed with the clerk of said city and in the warrants and assessment-rolls issued to the chamberlain of said city, as provided by this act in cases of paving or sewering, command the chamberlain to collect from the several persons named in the assessment-rolls, the several sums named in the last column of said rolls opposite their respective names or so much thereof as shall be specifically ordered by said common council. Said common council shall, by resolution, direct the several

assess ments.

collection of install ments.

sessments,

may be come due.

Installmente

deferred assessments in said rolls to be paid in equal install. First war. ments in one, two, three, four or five years, from the date of the warrant, in which case the first warrant to the chamberlain shall command him to collect from the several persons named in said assessment-rolls the portion that is to be paid at once of the several sums mentioned in the last column of said rolls opposite their respective names. The remaining or deferred unpaid assessments shall bear interest commencing the day the first warrant is delivered to said chamberlain. If any person assessed has Entire aselected to pay at once the entire assessment, or has neglected to make an election his assessment shall become due at once, and the said chamberlain shall take the same and give to the party 50 paying a receipt for the entire assessment. After the expira- Subsequent tion of one year from the date of the delivery of the first warrant for col

lection of to said chamberlain, the said common council shall annex to said roll a second warrant similar to the first warrant commanding the said chamberlain to collect the said unpaid installments and the interest thereon, and, from thenceforth, when any of the respective successive unpaid installments shall become due and payable, said common council shall issue the proper warrant for the collection of said installments so due and payable, together with interest, attach the same to said assessment-roll, and deliver the said warrant so attached to said chamberlain, which warrant shall command said chamberlain to collect the installment due and payable, describing it, together with interest thereon; and said common council shall repeat the said warrant until the said installments together with interest thereon shall be fully paid. All of said warrants shall direct the chamberlain to accept the balance of any of said assessments due or to become due from any party assessed, who desires to pay the same, and give a receipt in full therefor; but in such case the chamberlain shall collect interest on said assessment for the full time for which its payment was deferred. If any of the Collection

of unpaid said installments, or any part thereof, either principal or interest, Install. shall remain unpaid for ninety days after the time of the delivery of the warrant for the collection thereof, then, in that case, the whole amount of the unpaid assessment against the defaulting party shall, at the option of the common council, become and be due immediately from the default so made and the said common council shall, by their warrant, command the said chamberlain to

upon un

etc.

Lien of tax or as

Issue of

tion of

collect the same with interest, costs and fees, immediately, and
the same shall be collected in the manner prescribed by this act

for the collection of special assessments in like cases. Interest

4. In no case shall the rate of interest upon such unpaid taxes paid taxes,

or assessments, or unpaid installments thereof exceed the rate
of interest paid by the said city of Gloversville upon the bonds

issued as herein provided on account of said improvements. Such sessments.

tax or assessment and unpaid installments thereof with interest
thereon shall be a lien on the property and premises against

which the same is so assessed as provided by this act in cases of Enforce special assessments for paving or sewering. In case default shall thereof.

be made in paying any such installment, or assessment, or any
part thereof, for which said lien is created, the same shall be
collected and said lien enforced with interest, costs and fees, as
provided by this act for the enforcement of liens and collecting

of special assessments in like cases. bonds in

5. Whenever the common council of the city of Gloversville

has made such improvements in which part of the cost of the collections.

same is to be paid by the city at large and part by assessment
on the property adjoining on the streets or other ways paved or
sewered as provided for by this act, they shall have the power
and are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said city for
such improvements in anticipation of the collection of the taxes
and assessments made and levied or to be made and levied for the
paving or sewering of said street or streets or other ways, includ.
ing the portion to be paid by the city at large and the portion
to be paid by the abutting property or property benefited by said
improvements, less the amount to be at once as hereinbefore pro-

vided and less the amount to be paid by any street, surface or Limitation.steam railroad corporation; but the total amount of bonds so

issued shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. Designa

6. When the said common council has deemed it necessary to be raised, anticipate the collection of taxes or assessments for such improve

ments they shall, by resolution, designate the amount of money
to be raised, the bonds to be issued, their denomination, the time
or times that they shall become due in whole or in part, and the

particular assessments for which such bonds are to be issued.
to be
known as Such bonds shall be known as the local improvement bonds of the
provement city of Gloversville. They shall be signed by the mayor, attested
bonds.

by the clerk, sealed with the seal of the city, and shall be counter

tion of amount to

local im

signed by a majority of the common council of said city then in
office. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding
fire per centum per annum, and shall be payable in one, two, three,
four and five years from the time they bear date.
7. The common council shall deliver such bonds to the chamber. Sale or

bonds.
lain of said city to be used by him in payment of the indebtedness
created in making such improvements. Upon receiving such
bonds as aforesaid said chamberlain shall advertise the same for
sale at public auction in the official newspapers of said city for at
least once in each week for four consecutive weeks and sell the
same to the highest bidder, but not below the par value thereof.
8. The common council shall designate by resolution what por. Daca

Proceeds of tion of the proceeds realized on said bonds shall be placed to the credit of the sewer fund or to the highway fund. The chamberlain shall place such proceeds to the credit of the fund as designated by the common council; and such proceeds shall not be used for any other purpose except for the payment of the indebtedness created in making such improvements, including interest and the cost and expense of advertising and publishing and issuing of said bonds.

9. Any provisions of this act inconsistent with the provisions of Proceedthis section twenty-three shall not restrict, impair or invalidate sued not

invalidated any proceedings taken by the common council of said city under or by virtue of said section, nor invalidate any of the bonds issued by the common council as provided for herein.

10. No action to set aside, cancel or annul any assessment made Actions to under the provisions of this section twenty-three shall be main-assess

ments, ota, tained by any person unless such action shall have been commenced within thirty days after the delivery to the chamberlain of the city of the first assessment-roll and warrant as provided in this act and unless within said thirty days an injunction shall have been procured by such persons from a court of competent jurisdiction restraining the common council from issuing the bonds or other certificates of indebtedness hereinbefore provided for.

§ 2. Section six of title five of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 6. No money shall be borrowed or any debt contracted or Restria liability incurred except for the ordinary expenses of said city fabring of

liability, within the income of the current year and except as provided by

tions on ig. curring

Liability for debts created.

section twenty-three of this title, nor any money or property of the city appropriated except for the particular purpose for which it was raised. But when the raising of money shall be ordered as provided by this act, the amount so ordered or any part thereof, may be borrowed or a liability incurred until the amount can be raised by tax as herein provided. Any officer or person who shall assume to create a debt or incur a liability or appropriate any money or property of the city or school district thereof contrary to the provisions of this act, or shall assent thereto shall be personally liable for such debt or liability and to the city for such money or property so appropriated and each alderman or member of any board present when such violation shall have been enacted shall be deemed to have assented thereto unless his dissent be expressed and he request the same to be entered in the journal. Any will. ful violation of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor.

§ 3. Section eight of title thirteen of this act is hereby amended to read as follows:

$ 8. All charges and accounts against said city for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions or supplies furnished under the directions of the commissioner of charities of said city under the provisions of this act or otherwise, shall be made out in items, duly verified, by the persons entitled to the payment therefor and presented to the common council at the first regular meeting of said council in each month for all claims and demands incurred or which may have accrued during the preceding month. All such claims, accounts and charges shall be audited and paid by the common council.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Accounts against city.