Certificate to be filed in office of Secretary of Effect of filing. Chap. 265. AN ACT to authorize the formation of corporations to secure parsonages and other property for the use of presiding elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Passed April 5, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The presiding elder and a majority of the district stewards, appointed according to the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, residing in any ecclesiastical district in this State, erected by an annual conference of said church as a presiding elder's district, may make, sign and acknowledge, before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of the clerk of any county in such district, and a duplicate thereof in the office of the Secretary of State, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated the corporate name of said corporation; the names, residences and official relation to the district of the persons signing such certificate; the number of trustees, not less than three nor more than nine, who shall manage the property and affairs of said corporation for the first year, and their names; and in which certificate it shall be further stated, in substance, that the object of such corporation is to secure the benefits of this act. $ 2. When such certificate shall be filed as aforesaid, the persons who shall have made, signed and acknowledged the same, and their successors, shall be and become a body politic and corporate, by the name stated in such certificate; and such corporation shall have succession, and possess the general powers conferred on corporations by the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes of this State; and shall also have power to take, by gift, grant or purchase, any estate, real or personal, for the use of and as a residence for the presiding elder, for the time being, of said district, and his successors in office; and, from time to time, to sell and convey the same, and to reinvest the proceeds thereof for a like purpose, as the trustees of such corporation, with the approval of the annual conference having jurisdiction over the district, may direct; but the annual income or value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed five thousand dollars. $3. Any real estate heretofore conveyed for the use of, or as a residence for a presiding elder of any such district, and his successors in office, may be conveyed by the trustee holding the title thereof to a corporation formed as aforesaid, for the district in which such estate is situated; whereupon the title thereto shall vest in such corporation for the purposes defined by this act. $ 4. The district stewards of any presiding elder's Trustees. district, at their annual meeting, may appoint, from time to time, trustees for any such corporation within their district, to supply the places of those whose terms shall expire, and to fill any vacancies in the number of such trustees; and trustees of any such corporation shall respectively hold their offices for one year, and until others are appointed in their places. $5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 266. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the village of Perry." Passed April 5, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter two hundred and five, of laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 4. An annual meeting for the election of officers and transaction of other business, shall be held in said village, on the first Tuesday of March, each and every year, at such place as the trustees may appoint; it shall be the duty of the trustees to publish a notice of such annual meeting and election in a newspaper, if there be one published in said village, if not, by posting the same in three public places in said village, at least two weeks previous to such meeting. The polls shall be kept open for the space of five hours uninterruptedly, between ten o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, and the time of opening and closing the polls shall be specified in the notice of such meeting. If for any cause the trustees or assessors of said village fail to give public notice of an annual election as herein provided, said trustees or any of them, or any assessor fail to appear before the hour of twelve M. of that day and proceed with said election, then any five freeholders or more of said village may appoint three of their number to preside at such election, and proceed to ballot for village officers, and such election shall be in all respects as valid as if such public notice had been given. S2. $ 2. Section thirty-five of said act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph: A regular meeting of the board of trustees shall be held on the first Monday evening of each month, at such suitable place as may be designated by said board. S3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 267. AN ACT to legalize the acts and proceedings of Elijah E. Brown, as Justice of the Peace of the town of Niles, Cayuga county. Passed April 5, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All official acts and proceedings heretofore had by and before Elijah E. Brown, acting as a justice of the peace in and for the town of Niles, in Cayuga county, are hereby confirmed, and shall be held to be of full force and validity. $ 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any cause of action or suit in cases where proceed ings have been commenced before the passage of this act. $3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 268. AN ACT providing for the establishment and maintenance of a public Park in the village of Palmyra. Passed April 5, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever Carlton H. Rogers, of the village of Palmyra, in the county of Wayne, shall convey in fee simple to the trustees of said village, twenty acres, more or less, of land within the corporate limits of said village, known and designated as "Mount Holmes," for the purpose of a public park, the said village shall have power to take and hold the same, and the said premises thereafter are hereby declared to be a public park, to be known and distinguished as "Mount Holmes," and shall be perpetually held and improved as such. ioners, du 52. The commissioners hereinafter named, shall Commis have and take the exclusive charge of said park, with ties of full and ample powers to lay out, improve and embellish the same. The said commissioners shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, from time to time, to make all needful rules and regulations to protect and preserve said park, and all the appendages, structures, roadways, avenues, trees and shrubbery thereon, and to affix and declare the penalties for violating any of said rules and regulations, which penalty or penalties may be recovered of any person or persons violating any of said rules or regulations, by action in the name of said commissioners, before any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall be paid into the hands of said commissioners for the improvement and protection of said park, provided that a copy of said rules and regulations, with the penalties for their violation annexed, shall be con Report of. Tax for park. Who to be commissioners; terms of office. spicuously posted at or near the main entrance to said park. $3. The said comissioners shall annually, at the meeting held for the election of village officers, make a report in writing, stating in general terms the condition of said park, the improvements, if any, that may have been made within the last past year, the amount of funds from whatever source, received by them in virtue of their office,* and from whatever source received by them in virtue of their office, and from whence received, and the amount expended by them as such commissioners, and for what purposes; and it shall be lawful for the trustees of said village, on or before the twentieth day of March in each year, to designate what portion of the moneys raised for highway purposes in said village shall be expended on said park, and the sum so designated, not exceeding one-fourth of the whole sum so raised for highway purposes, shall be paid by the treasurer of said village to said commissioners, for the purposes contemplated by this act. And it shall be lawful, at any annual meeting, as aforesaid, between the hours of one and two o'clock in the afternoon, for the electors of the village of Palmyra, by a majority vote, to levy a tax not exceeding one mill on the dollar, on all the taxable property in said village, to be collected as other village taxes are collected, and paid over as aforesaid to said commissioners, for the purposes contemplated by this act. $ 4. Carlton H. Rogers, George W. Cuyler, and Arovestus P. Crandall, are hereby constituted commissioners, and invested with the powers and duties created by this act; the said Rogers shall hold his said office nine years, the said Cuyler six years, and the said Crandall three years, from the passage of this act, and every third year from the same time, the two commissioners whose term of service shall not have expired, together with the supervisor of the town of Palmyra, shall appoint some freeholder of said village to be commissioner in the place of him whose term of service shall have expired, and the person so appointed shall hold his office for nine • So in original. |