authorized and contracted for, as above provided, after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 584. · AN ACT to amend chapter forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act to provide for the salary of police justices of the city of Brooklyn appointed under the provisions of chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and to provide the means for hiring and fitting up court-rooms for said justices." APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, 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 forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act to provide for the salary of police justices of the city of Brooklyn, appointed under the provisions of chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, ad to provide the means for hiring and fitting up court-rooms for said justices," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Act amended. etc., how paid. § 1. The salary of the police justices in the city of Brooklyn, Salary appointed under the provisions of chapter two hundred and ninetyfive of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the expenses of hiring and fitting up court-rooms for the said justices shall be paid from the revenue fund of said city. Said fitting up of court-rooms may be Fitting up done without advertisement for bids therefor, and the expense thereof, when properly audited, and when approved by the mayor, comptroller and auditor, shall be paid by the treasurer. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 171 of court room. Annual appropriation Chap. 585. AN AOT to authorize the city of Brooklyn to make yearly provision for the celebration of Memorial Day, including the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. The People of the State of New and Assembly, do enact as follows · Passed, three-fifths being present. York, represented in Senate Section 1. It shall be lawful for the board of estimate of the authorized. city of Brooklyn and county of Kings to make provision in its annual estimate for city purposes an appropriation for the celebration of Memorial Day in the said city of Brooklyn. Expenditure of moneys appropri § 2. It shall be lawful to expend any moneys heretofore approheretofore priated by the board of estimate and contained in the budget ated. for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three for the observance of Memorial Day in said year and in such manner as may be approved by the mayor, comptroller and auditor of said city. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Issue of soldiers and sailors Chap. 586. AN ACT to further provide means for the erection, embellishment and completion of the soldiers and sailors' monument of the city of Brooklyn by authorizing an issue of bonds therefor. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. 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 mayor, comptroller and city clerk of the city of monument Brooklyn are hereby authorized to prepare and to issue bonds of bonds. said city to be called soldiers and sailors' monument bonds of Proceeds of sale. the city of Brooklyn, to be issued in such series, in such amounts and for such periods of time as the comptroller of said city shall determine. The total amount of bonds hereby authorized is one hundred thousand dollars and none of said bonds shall be sold at less than the par value thereof. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the city treasury, to the credit of the commission heretofore created to erect a soldiers and sailors' monument in the said city by the provisions of chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to be devoted to the erection, embellishment and completion of the said monument, to be paid by the comptroller upon the requisition of the said commission. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 587. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine entitled “An act to provide for certain improvements in the eighth ward of the city of Brooklyn" as amended by chapter four hundred and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assemby, do enact as follows: amended. Section 1. Section six of chapter three hundred and sixty-five of Act the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for certain improvements in the eighth ward of the city of Brooklyn," is hereby amended to read as follows: Proceed. opening Payment of awards. 6. The commissioner of city works of the city of Brooklyn ings for is hereby authorized and empowered to take proceedings to open streets, etc. any street or avenue within. said district, which is not now open as a public street or avenue, in the manner provided for opening streets for sewer purposes by chapter five hundred and eightythree of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and all of the provisions of said act in relation to opening streets and avenues for sewer purposes, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this act, shall be applicable thereto. Within thirty Pr days after the final confirmation of the report of the commissioners of appraisal, the comptroller of the city of Brooklyn, upon application to him, shall pay to the persons entitled thereto, the sums of money awarded to them respectively. At any time Entry and after the commissioners of appraisal have taken their oath of office the city of Brooklyn without any suit at law or proceeding for that purpose may enter upon, use and occupy the land in such streets and avenues sought to be opened, for any of the purposes provided for in this act. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. occupation of lands, Consent for railways upon street. Chap. 588. AN ACT in relation to Decatur street in the city of Brooklyn. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows. Section 1. None of the provisions of exising law, nor any proceedings thereunder shall authorize the construction, maintenance, extension or operation of any surface, elevated or steam railway upon Decatur street in the city of Brooklyn or any portion of the same, between Fulton street and Broadway, except that the consent of a majority of the owners of property in number and value thereof bounded on Decatur street between said Fulton street and Broadway be first obtained in writing, duly acknowledged, as are deeds entitled to be recorded. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Consent for Chap. 589. AN ACT in relation to Hewes street, in the city of Brooklyn. APPROVED by the Governor May 5, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senats and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. None of the provisions of existing law, nor any proceedings thereunder, shall authorize the construction, maintenance or operation of any surface, elevated, steam or electric railway upon Hewes street, in the city of Brooklyn, between Kent avenue and Harrison avenue, or any portion of the same, except that a consent of a majority of the owners of property in numbers and value thereof, on said Hewes street between said Kent avenue and Harrison avenue be first obtained in writing, duly acknowledged as are deeds entitled to be recorded. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 590. AN ACT to authorize the village of McGrawville, county of Cort- may bor bonds. Section 1. The board of trustees of the village of McGrawville, Village county of Cortland, may borrow upon the faith and credit of row money. such village, the sum of thirty hundred dollars, or such portion thereof as may be necessary, for building or purchasing 2 suitable engine house and village hall and for purchasing necessary fire apparatus for the protection of such village. For the money so Issue of borrowed, such trustee may issue the bonds of such village, signed by the president and clerk thereof and under the seal of such village. Such bonds shall be issued in equal amounts, to be determined by the board of trustees, to be paid at a time not to exceed twenty years from the date thereof, the principal of one bond and the interest to be payable upon the first day of Septem. ber in each year. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum and shall be sold at not less than par. bonds and interest. § 2. For the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, Tax for the board of trustees of such village, from time to time, shall place in the annual tax levy of such village, in addition to all other sums which they are authorized by law to raise, the amount of any such bond or bonds, and the interest thereon, that will fall due in the next succeeding fiscal year, which amounts shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected in such village. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |