and counsel fees of said proceedings to be ascertained and settled by said court, and a direction to whom the money, including the amount of said appraisal and such costs, expenses and counsel fees, is to be paid, or in what bank, or in what manner it shall be deposited by the United States; and on recording a certified copy of such order, at full length, in the office of the clerk of the county in which said premises dre situated, which the said clerk is hereby authorised to record, and on payment or deposit by the United States, of the sums to be paid as compensation for land, and for costs and expenses of said proceedings, to be determined by said court, as directed by said order, the title of said premises mentioned in said order shall invest to the United States, so long as the same shall be used for the purposes mentioned in this act. §7. The commissioners appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be entitled each to three dollars a day for every day actually engaged. §8. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 6. AN ACT respecting excavations in the cities of New- Passed January 24, 1855. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. That whenever excavations hereafter commenced, compensafor building or other purposes, on any lot or piece of land tion." in the city and county of New-York and the city of Brooklyn, shall be intended to be carried to the depth of more than ten feet below the curb, and there shall be any party or other wall, wholly or partly on adjoining land and standing upon or near the boundary lines of such lot, the person causing such excavations to be made, if afforded the necessary license to enter on the adjoining land, and not otherwise, shall at all times from the commencement until the completion of such excavations, at his own expense, preserve such wall from 'injury, and so support the same by a proper foundation that it shall remain as stable as before such excavations were commenced. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 7. AN ACT authorising the Hudson River Railroad Company to convey to the United States of America, onehalf of an acre of land at Prymon's Hook, in the county of Columbia, for a site for a beacon light. Passed January 24, 1855. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The Hudson river railroad company are hereby authorised to convey to the United States, one-half an acre of land now in possession of said company at Prymon's Hook, otherwise called Priming Hook Point, Columbia county, New-York. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 8. AN ACT to legalize the acts of the board of officers of the village of Wolcott. Passed January 25, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All the proceedings which have been and shall be had by the board of officers of the village of Wolcott, county of Wayne, elected on the second Tuesday of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall be held to be of the same force and validity, as if the election when the said village officers were chosen, had been held on the Wednesday succeeding the first Tuesday of the same month. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 9. AN ACT to enlarge the power of the Court of Sessions of Rensselaer county. Passed January 26, 1855. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The terms of the court of sessions of Rensselaer county, as have been or may be duly appointed to be held, may be continued as long as the court may deem necessary and may be adjourned from time to time in the discretion of said court. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 10. AN ACT authorising the surrogate of Chenango county, to adopt a new seal. Passed January 30, 1855. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The surrogate of the county of Chenango, is hereby authorised to adopt a new and appropriate official seal for the surrogate's court in said county; after the passage of this act, the surrogate of said county shall file in the office of the secretary of state, a description of said seal, with an impression from the same impressed thereon or thereto annexed, and thereafter such seal shall be the legal and official seal of said surrogate's court, instead of the one now in use. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Chap. 11. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes of 1854, in the several cities and towns of this state, with certain exceptions. Passed January 30, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. If any collector of taxes in any of the cities or towns of this state, (except the cities of New-York, Albany, Troy, Brooklyn, and the county of Kings,) shall within the time now provided by law pay over all the moneys collected by him, and shall, within ten days thereafter, renew his bond to the satisfaction in towns of the supervisor, or in his absence or disability, of the town clerk, and in any city, in the manner in which collectors' bonds are now approved, to be expressed in writing upon, or attached to such bond, and which bond shall be filed and have the effect of a collector's bond, as provided by law, and shall also within the time aforesaid, deliver to the county treasurer of his county a certificate of the approval of such bond, signed by the officer making such approval, the time for collecting the taxes and making the returns thereof, shall be extended to the first day of March next. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. し 3 Chap. 12. AN ACT to legalize the assessment rolls of the several assessment districts of the city of Troy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and to provide for the collection of the amounts entered by the supervisors of said city, on a copy of said rolls, as and for the State and County taxes for said year, to be levied on persons named therein. Passed February 2, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: declared §1. The corrected assessment rolls of the several assess- Rolls of '52 ment districts of the city of Troy, for the year eighteen valid. hundred and fifty-two, made and duly authenticated by the oaths of the assessors of said city, in the manner required by law, now in the custody of the chamberlain of said city, shall be deemed legal and valid. §2. The tax lists made by the supervisors of the city of Tax lists Troy, on the basis of said assessment rolls, and upon copies legalized. of said rolls upon the last column of which are contained the sums inserted by said supervisors, as for the state and county tax for said year, to be levied of the several persons against whose names said sums respectively were inserted, shall be deemed the legal amount of state and county taxes for said year, to be paid by said persons, respectively; and the persons whose names are inserted in said assessment rolls and tax lists, who have not paid the sums set opposite their respective names in the last column of said rolls and tax lists, shall be held legally liable to pay the same to the chamberlain of the city of Troy. to be issued §3. Within ten days after this act shall take effect as a Warrant law, it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city of Troy, to annex to each of said tax lists, as made by the supervisors of said city, a warrant under his hand and the seal of said city, commanding the chamberlain of said city, to collect from the several persons named therein, the sums which reman unpaid, mentioned and inserted in the last column of said tax lists; and the chamberlain shall immediately thereafter proceed to collect such unpaid sums |