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The said trustees are hereby required to cause the several owners or occupants of the several lots in front of which the sidewalk needs repairing, to be notified in writing, or partly written and partly printed, to repair the same within twenty days after such notice, in such manner as said trustees may direct; if any lot is unoccupied, in front of which the sidewalk needs repairing, a notice of the kind of repairs required to be made, shall be published in the official village daily paper, ten days successively, which shall be a full and legal notice to all parties interested, and the expenses of advertising shall be and remain a lien and charge on each of said lots so advertised, and be collected in the manner hereinafter provided; if the repairs shall not be made within the twenty days above provided, then the said trustees are hereby authorized and required to cause the same to be done immediately, and the expenses of making such repairs and of advertising, shall be audited and allowed by said trustees, and remain a lien and charge on each of the several lots, to the amount of the repairs and advertising, made to said sidewalk opposite to each of said lots; and the expenses thus incurred, shall be collected by advertisement and sale of the several lots, in the same manner and with the like effect, that lots are now authorized to be advertised and sold by virtue of said charter, for local assessment and expenses, or may be collected by suit, of the several owners, by and in the name of said trustees. 2. No local assessment for any local improvement, shall hereafter be made or directed to be made, by the trustees of said village, except as provided in section one of this act, or to carry out any ordinance now in force and heretofore passed by said trustees, or for fire purposes as now provided, unless the said trustees are requested and petitioned so to do, in writing, by the persons or their agents, owning a majority of the property which is to be assessed to defray the expenses of such local improvement; said trustees shall continue to keep a record of all their doings, and place on file, in their office, all petitions, and all other papers pertaining thereto. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, or all acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Chap. 142. AN ACT to change the name of the First Society of Windham, Greene county, to the First Presbyterian Society of Ashland. Passed April 12th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the First Society of Windham, Greene county, shall be and is hereby changed to the First Presbyterian Society of Ashland. § 2. The change of name herein authorized shall not be deemed a release from liabilities heretofore contracted by said society. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 143. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to suppress Intemperance, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, so far as the same is applicable to the counties of Oneida and Onondaga. Passed April 12th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The first clause of section two of the above entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The commissioners of excise shall meet in their respective counties, except in the counties of Oneida and Onondaga, at the place aforesaid, on the third Tuesday of May in each year, and on such other days as a majority of the commissioners shall appoint, not exceeding ten days in any one year, and in the city of New York not exceeding fifty days, for the purpose of granting licenses as hereinafter provided. § 2. The commissioners of excise of the counties of Oneida and Onondaga, shall meet at the place and time mentioned in the first section of this act, for the purposes therein mentioned, and may meet on such other days as a majority of the commissioners shall appoint, not exceeding thirty days in any one year. §3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 144. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the laying out and constructing the Colton and Long Lake Road," passed June 23, 1851; also, to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the laying out and constructing a road from the town of Parishville to Long Lake," passed March 23, 1853. Passed April 12th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That so much of chapter two hundred and seventy-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as relates to township number eleven, of great tract two of Macomb's purchase, be and hereby is repealed. §2. That so much of chapter forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as relates to township number eight, and to the easterly half of township number eleven, of great tract two of Macomb's purchase, be and hereby is repealed. § 3. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with any of the provisions of either of the acts hereby amended, except so far as relates to township number eight and eleven mentioned in said acts. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 145. AN ACT to incorporate the "Putnam Hook and Ladder Company Number One, of the village of Cold Spring." Passed April 12th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fellows: SECTION 1. James Truman, Samuel Corris, Charles Haake, and such other persons as may be associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and description of "Putnam Hook and Ladder Company number one, of the village of Cold Spring," and by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever; and also, that they and their successors shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, necessary for the purpose of extinguishing fires and the preservation of hooks, ladders, apparatus, tools and implements of said corporation to the amount of five thousand dollars. § 2. The said corporation shall have full power to make and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as they from time to time shall think proper, as to their officers, the time, place and manner of electing them, and the period of their continuance in office, and as to their powers and duties, and as to the election of members, and as to the government of persons appointed or elected by them as members, and with respect to the purposes for which this corporation is constituted. §3. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to nominate and appoint a sufficient number of persons, not exceeding fifty, to have the care, management, working and using of the apparatus and all the implements belonging to said corporation, and who shall be ready at all times to assist in the extinguishment of fires; and further, that said corporation, or a majority thereof, shall have power from time to time to remove any person so appointed as aforesaid when and as often as they shall think proper, and to appoint others to fill the vacancies occasioned by removal or otherwise, and shall have full power of fireman, subject to a chief engineer, to be elected by the fire department and approved by the trustees of the village. 4. Each of the said persons so appointed as aforesaid, who shall serve as such members for seven years, shall, during such service and forever thereafter, be exempted from serving as a juror in any of the courts of this state, and from militia duty, except in cases where the militia are ordered into actual service. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. |