troller shall be directed, upon the delivery of said deed so approved, to issue a warrant to said owner or owners or parties interested in said property in the amount named in said offer and acceptance, and to charge the amount thereof to the cost of the improvement for which said property or interest was acquired, and said amount shall be added to and included in the assessment against the property benefited by said improvement, or otherwise paid as Money, how herein provided. The sum of money so offered and accepted shall be raised by a temporary loan or the issue of bonds of said city in like form and manner, terms and conditions as provided for local improvements. If said offer is not so accepted and the compensation awarded by said commissioners of condemnation for the propaward not erty or interest for which said offer was made does not exceed the amount of said offer the owner or owners or parties interested in the property for which said offer was made shall not be allowed any costs or disbursements in said proceeding. raised. Offer not accepted and commissioners' in excess of same. Excess condemnation § 7. This act shall be deemed to authorize the city of Syracuse authorized. at its option to take more land and property than is needed for actual construction in laying out, widening, extending, or relocating parks, public places, highways or streets; provided, however, that the additional land and property so authorized to be taken shall be no more than sufficient to form suitable building sites, abutting on such park, public places, highway or street, and that the cost of such additional land and property shall be a general city charge, to be met as prescribed by the common council and the board of Disposition estimate and apportionment. After so much of the land and property has been appropriated for such park, public place, highway or street as is needed therefor, the remainder may be sold or leased by the city of Syracuse, and all moneys realized from such sales or leasing shall be used to retire any bonds issued by the city of Syracuse to meet the costs of said additional land and property. of excess. § 8. Reservations. The repeal of a law, or any part of it specified in this act, or otherwise by the provisions of this act, shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time when this act takes effect under or by virtue of the law so repealed, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if such law had not been repealed; and all actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, commenced under or by virtue of any law so repealed and pending when this act takes effect may be prosecuted and defended to final effect in the same r.anner as they might under any such law so repealed, unless it shall be otherwise specially provided herein. § 9. The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed: 1. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule annexed, that portion thereof specified in the last column. 2. All the acts or parts of acts, general or special, in so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this act. But such repeal shall not revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws purporting to specifically amend any of the laws hereby specifically repealed. 10. This act shall take effect immediately. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Repeals. AN ACT to amend the Tonawanda city charter, in relation to street, highway and sewer bonds. Became a law April 11, 1914, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ch. 357, Section 1. Section one of title fourteen of chapter three hun- L. 1905, dred and fifty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and five, tit. 14, entitled "An act to revise the several acts relative to the city of amended. Tonawanda," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. How issued. Whenever the common council shall approve a measure requiring the borrowing of money and the issue therefor of bonds of the city for municipal purposes1 it shall have power to borrow money upon the faith and credit of the city and to cause bonds to be issued therefor, payable at such time or times as the common council shall determine, not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue. But unless otherwise provided by this act, or by the general laws of this state, no such bonds, except 1 Words "for which there is no other adequate appropriation," omitted. $ 1 bonds issued to raise money for paving streets within the city, or to pay for additional or more expensive types of construction of state or county highways within the city, or for the construction of sewers in public streets within the city in amounts for such sewers under twenty thousand dollars,2 shall be issued until the question of whether such issue shall be made shall first have been submitted to a vote of the taxpayers of the city, including females, as shall appear on the last preceding general assessment-rolls prior to the time of any special election ordered for that purpose, and a majority of such taxpayers voting at such election shall approve of such issue. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1897, ch. 760, amended by L. 1911, Chap. 302. AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Watertown," in relation to assessments. Became a law April 11, 1914, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section two hundred and eighteen of chapter seven § 218, as hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Watertown," as amended by chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven,' is hereby amended to read as follows:2a ch. 256, amended. Combination of local assessments. § 218. Whenever the assessment for the paving, repaving, macadamizing or curbing of a street, streets, alleys or other highways of the city, or for the building or construction of a sewer or sewers, shall be confirmed as herein provided, and in such case such assessments are to be collected by installments as herein pro 66 2 Words except bonds issued to raise money .. under twenty thousand dollars," new. 1 Section 218 was also amended by L. 1908, ch. 327. 2a Section materially amended. city war rants. vided, the common council may, after the local assessments have been confirmed as provided in this title, combine the amount of one or more assessments levied for the expense of construction of a sewer or sewers, and may combine the amount of one or more assessments levied for the expense of construction of a pavement or pavements, and may combine the amount of one or more assessments levied for the expense of construction of a curbing or curbings, and authorize the issue of city Issue of warrants to be drawn payable by the city on a day certain, for not more than one-fifth of the amount of the expenses of such improvement or improvements in one year from date, onefifth in two years, one-fifth in three years and one-fifth in four years from date; such warrants shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum from their respective dates. The treasurer shall pay such city warrants with accrued interest Payment of thereon at any time before they shall become due, if there shall and interbe funds in his hands arising from such assessments applicable to the payment thereof, but none of said warrants shall be paid until all those which by their terms are sooner payable shall have been paid, unless he shall retain in his hands a sufficient amount to pay all such prior warrants; whenever the treasurer shall have Notice of money in his hands applicable to the payment of such warrants he shall give notice in five successive numbers of the official daily newspapers, Sundays and holidays excepted, that he will pay all or any portion of such warrants, with accrued interest, on a day to be specified in said notice, and the interest on said warrants shall cease from and after the day specified in such notice. warrants est. payment. amended by 1911, § 2. Section two hundred and nineteen of chapter seven hun- $219, dred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, L. 1256; entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Watertown," amended. as amended by chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven,3 is hereby amended to read as follows: from col local as sessments § 219. The proceeds from the collection of the installments of Proceeds assessment, or assessments,* made as provided in section two hun- lection of dred and sixteen shall constitute a fund for the purpose of paying the portion of the expense of such pavement, repavement, fund. macadamizing or curbing, or for the building or construction of a special sewer or sewers, borne by local assessment and the warrants Temporary of indebtedness issued to pay the same. If sufficient moneys have deficiency. not been realized from such assessments and the sale of such loan to meet warrants to pay for the paving, repaving, macadamizing or curbing done, or for the building or construction of a sewer or sewers, or if sufficient moneys have not been realized upon any installments to pay the said warrants of indebtedness when the same shall become due and payable, the common council shall temporarily borrow on the credit of the city a sufficient sum to pay the same, and all moneys thereafter realized on account of said assessment-roll or rolls or from sales for non-payment of the assessments therein, shall be used and are hereby pledged for the payment of the amount so borrowed and for the payment of said warrants of indebtedness. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1897, ch. 760, § 206 amended. borrow Chap. 303.` AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Watertown," as to the time when the common council may borrow money on the credit of the city. Became a law April 11, 1914, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section two hundred and six of chapter seven hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Watertown," is hereby amended to read as follows: City not to § 206. The common council shall not have power to borrow money ex- and is hereby expressly prohibited from borrowing any money on account of the city except as provided in this act, but the said cept for unpaid taxes and |