that it shall be competent for any criminal court in said city to issue process for the arrest of any such persons, and to try and determine any complaint that may be made in relation thereto, and also upon conviction to punish the offender or offenders, by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court having cognizance thereof.

Chap 59.

AN ACT in relation to the Callicoon and Cochecton
Turnpike Company.

Passed, March 9, 1855.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to draw upon the Callicoon and Cochecton turnpike road any logs, trees -or timber, unless the same be elevated entirely free from the surface of the road, on wheels or runners; any person offending against this section, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered with costs, in the name of the said turnpike company, in any court having cognizance thereof.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 60.

AN ACT to authorize the city of Brooklyn to provide for the payment of the expenses of said city for the year 1855, and to borrow money therefor, and to pay the debts of the late city of Williamsburgh, and to designate the time for which monies hereafter to be raised by. tax in said city shall be required.

Passed March 9, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

1. The common council of the city of Brooklyn are Contingent hereby authorised to determine what sums of money are ne- expenses.

Debt how chargeable.

Sums

on the

wards.

cessary to defray the contingent and all other expenses of said city, and every portion thereof, for the municipal year commencing on the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, including any interest due or to become due on the public debt of said city, or any portion thereof, as well as any instalments which may become due thereon, and such sums as may be required by law to be paid into the sinking fund of said city.

§2. The said common council shall determine what portion of the sums of money mentioned in the first section hereof is chargeable by law upon the whole city, what portion is chargeable upon the fire and lamp districts of said city, and what portion is chargeable upon the several wards of said city.

§3. The several sums of money mentioned in the first chargeable and second sections of this act shall be charged upon the several wards of said city liable to pay the same, in proportion to the value of real and personal property liable to taxation therein as the same shall be ascertained and determined pursuant to law in the year eighteen hundred and fiftyfive.

Certain

sums audited.

§4. All such sums of money as were directed to be Sunshow raised in the first twelve wards of the said city, and in the late town of Bushwick, in the taxes of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for any of the purposes mentioned in the first section hereof and which were undisposed of on the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, shall be credited to said wards and town respectively, and be deducted from the amounts charged upon such wards and town pursuant to the third section hereof, and the balance only shall remain charged against said wards.

Money how used.

Permanent

§5. When the sums mentioned in the fourth section hereof shall be credited as therein provided, it shall be lawful for the common council of said city to use said several sums of money mentioned in said section for the purposes for which they were raised.

6. The common council of the said city are hereby auloan: thorised to make a permanent loan of the amount necessary for the purposes mentioned in the first section hereof, after deducting the moneys mentioned in the fifth section hereof, and to issue bonds therefor, payable at such times, (not exceeding ten years from their dates) in such manner and at such rates of interest, not exceeding six per cent per annum,

Loan for debts of late

burgh:

as they may direct, provided that the whole amount of said bonds shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars. § 7. The common council of the said city are hereby authorised to make a permanent loan of the amount necessary Williamsfor the purpose of paying off in full all debts existing against the late city of Williamsburgh, and to issue bonds therefor, payable at such times (not exceeding twenty years from their dates) in such manner and at such rates of interest, not exceeding six per cent per annum, as they may direct, provided that the whole amount of said bonds shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

fund:

8. No bonds as provided in the sixth and seventh sec- Sinking tions hereof, shall be issued until the common council shall have made specific provision for a sinking fund, to be raised by annual tax upon the said city, and the several portions and wards thereof, sufficient to pay and discharge such bonds at maturity, and the faith and property of the said city shall be and is hereby pledged for the final payment of any and all such loans, and provided that the said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value.

§ 9. The monies which the common council and supervisors of the said city in joint board, are authorised to determine, shall be raised pursuant to section twenty-two of title two of the act entitled "An act to consolidate the cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh, and the town of Bushwick, into one municipal government, and to incorporate the same," passed April seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, shall be, such monies as shall be required for the municipal year which shall commence on the first Monday of January, thereafter.

10. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 61.

AN ACT to authorise the commissioners of the land office to make a grant of land under water to the commissioners of highways of the town of Germantown, in the county of Columbia, for the purpose of constructing a dock.

Passed March 9, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. Upon satisfactory proof being made to the commissioners of the land office that it will in no way unfavorably affect the navigation of the Hudson river, and that it will not be detrimental to the public interest, the said commissioners are hereby authorised and required to make a grant of lands under the waters of the Hudson river, at or near a point on the said river known as the slope dock in the town of Germantown, county of Columbia, sufficient to construct a dock, to the commissioners of highways of the said town of Germantown, in trust for the benefit and behoof of the inhabitants of the said town of Germantown. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 62.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the towns of West Farms and Cortlandt, in the county of Westchester.

Passed March 10, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. If the collectors of the towns of West Farms and Cortlandt, in the county of Westchester, shall within the time now provided by law, pay over all the monies by them collected, and shall renew their security to the satisfaction of the supervisor of said towns, the time for collecting and

making a final return of taxes in said towns shall extend

to the first day of May next.

§2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 63.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Norwich," passed April 17, 1816, and various acts and laws amendatory thereof.

Passed March 12, 1855, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. That the district of country contained within the fol- Boundaries lowing boundaries, that is to say, beginning at a point on the west bank of the Chenango river, on the division line between the lands of Haskall and William Ransford, in the town of Norwich, in the county of Chenango; thence westesly on said division line to North Main street; thence southerly on the east bounds of said street or road twentyfive rods; thence a due west course to the east bank of the Canasewacta creek; thence southerly along down the east bank of said creek to a point within ten rods north of the plank road bridge; thence a due east course to the west bank of the Chenango river aforesaid; thence northerly along said west bank of said river as it now runs, to the place of beginning, shall continue to be known and distinguished by the name of the "village of Norwich."

§2. That the inhabitants residing within the aforesaid lim- Corporate its, be and they are hereby ordained, constituted and de-ame. clared to be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of "the trustees of the village of Norwich ;" and by that name they and their successors forever, shall and may have perpetual succession, and be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, complaints and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may alter the same at their pleasure.