Certifcutes of sale.

Sale subject to right of redemp tion.

Amounts to be charged counties.

Certifi

transmit

ted to County

treasurers.

thereon and by and under the provisions of which such taxes are not to be returned to the comptroller, respectively, every lot of land in each of said counties, respectively, liable to be sold at said sale, for which no person shall offer to bid, and to bid in for the state every other lot of land liable to be sold at said sale for which no person shall

so offer to bid.

3. Certificates of sale for all lands bid in by the comptroller under the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section shall be made by the comptroller, which shall describe the lands purchased and specify the time when a deed therefor can be obtained. Such purchases shall be subject to the same right of redemption as purchases by individuals; and if the lands so sold shall not be redeemed, the comptroller's deed therefor shall have the same effect, and become absolute in the same time, and on the performance of the like conditions, as in the case of sales and conveyances to individuals.

4. The comptroller shall charge to each county, respectively, on the books of his office, the amount for which it may be liable, by reason of any and all purchases made in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section. Such amount shall become due on the last day of each tax sale, respectively, and shall be payable in the same manner as the state tax is now required by law to be paid.

5. The comptroller shall, as soon as practicable after each tax sale, cates to be transmit the certificates of sale for said lands to the treasurer of each of said counties, respectively, on receipt of which, said treasurer shall enter the same, in their proper order, in a book to be provided by him for such purpose, and shall have, unless otherwise directed by the board. of supervisors of his county, full power and authority, until the expiraTreasurer tion of two years from the last day of said sale, to sell and assign any or all of said certificates for any land not at the time owned by his county, on payment therefor, into the county treasury, of the amount for which the land described thereon was sold at said tax sale, with interest thereon from the date of such tax sale to the date of such sale and assignment by him. Any such sale and assignment shall be duly and fully entered by such county treasurer in the book aforesaid, which book shall be a part of the records of the county.

may sell certifi

cates.

Deeds to boards of supervis

of two years, if lands not redeemed.

6. In case said tax sale certificate or certificates shall not have been sold or assigned by the respective county treasurers on or before the ors at end expiration of two years from the last day of said sale, each of said county treasurers shall then transmit such unsold certificate or certificates to the comptroller, who shall issue to the board of supervisors of each county, respectively, a deed or deeds for all the lands described thereon then remaining unredeemed, or the sale of which has not been canceled. The title thus acquired by the boards of supervisors shall be held by them in trust for their respective counties, and may be disposed of by them at such times and on such terms as shall be determined on by a majority of such board at any regular or special meeting thereof. § 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

7. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 403.

AN ACT to provide for the care, control and management of the cemetery, public grounds and parks in the village of Little Falls.

PASSED May 25, 1881; three-fifths being present.

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

Control of

etc., to

SECTION 1. The care, control and management of the village cemeteries, the public grounds, and parks, including the reservoirs thereon public and the supply of water therefor, in the village of Little Falls, shall grounds, be under the direction and supervision of two superintendents of pub- vest in lic grounds, to be associated with the president of the village for the superintime being, who shall constitute and be known as "The Board of tendents. Superintendents of Public Grounds."

board of

ment of

2. It shall be the duty of the president of the village of Little AppointFalls, by and with the consent of the trustees of said village, on or superinbefore the first Monday in June next, to appoint the two superintend- tendents. ents provided for in the foregoing section, the one to hold his office for three years and the other for six years, one of whom shall be of the same political party as said president, and the other shall be of the principal opposite political party; and at the expiration of each period of three years thereafter the president shall, in the manner aforesaid, appoint one superintendent in the place of the one whose term expires at that time, such superintendent to be of the principal political party opposite to that to which the superintendent still in office may belong. §3. The said superintendents shall respectively, except the one first official appointed for three years, hold their offices for the term of six years and until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified and give the security hereinafter required.

term.

§ 4. Each of the members of said board of superintendents of pub- Bond. lic grounds shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, enter into an undertaking to the village of Little Falls, in the sum of six thousand dollars with one or more sureties to be approved by the trustees of the village, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and the payment over to said board of superintendents of all moneys received by him and remaining unapplied in the proper performance of his duties, which undertaking with his official bond for the faithful performance of his duties shall be filed and remain on file in the office of the clerk of the village.

of board.

§ 5. The board of superintendents of public grounds shall have the Powers care, custody and management of the village cemetery, and of all the and duties public parks, including the estate in remainder, of the village, of the park and grounds known as the Burwell park, subject to the terms of any trust to said village, and also of all the funds, income and receipts from the same and from donations, assessments and taxes applicable to and appropriated for the public parks, and pleasure grounds and village cemetery, for their maintenance, preservation and improvement, and of all fines, penalties and recoveries for damages thereto and for violation of the rules and regulations to be from time to time adopted by them and approved by the trustees of the village.

6. It shall be the duty of said board of superintendents to keep Ibid. and maintain all the grounds intrusted to their care, with the build

Meetings.

Prosecu

tions for

ings, fences, monuments, trees, shrubbery and improvements thereon, in good condition and repair, and to make such improvements thereon as the funds in their hands applicable thereto will warrant, and annually, between the first and fifteenth days of March, to render an account in detailed items, on oath, of all receipts and expenditures by them for and on account of each separate property, and to pay over to their successors in office all moneys received by them remaining unexpended. And they shall cause such account to be published in at least one newspaper published in said village.

§ 7. The said board of superintendents shall hold meetings as often as once a month, keep a journal of their proceedings, one of their number or other person appointed by them acting as clerk. Two of their number shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of at least two of them shall be required for all acts by them. They shall, from time to time, adopt and submit to the trustees of the village such rules and regulations for the care and preservation, regulation and use of the property intrusted to their charge, and for the use of the same by the public as they shall deem best adapted to promote objects for which such property was dedicated, and shall attend to the proper enforcement thereof.

§8. It shall be the duty of the president of the village to cause fines, etc. prosecution in the name of the village, before proper judicial tribunals, for all fines, penalties, forfeitures, trespasses and damages which may be incurred or committed to the detriment of the public property in charge of the board; and to enforce the collection of all dues and taxes applicable to said improvements, upon the request of said board in writing, accompanied by the names of the witnesses to substantiate the same. The avails of all such prosecutions, after paying the costs and expenses thereof, shall be paid over to said board of superintendents, for the purposes of their trust.

Not to receive pay.

Vacancies.

Removal from office.

Corporat

9. The members of the board of superintendents shall serve without compensation, except that a sum not exceeding fifty dollars a year shall be allowed at their request by the board of trustees of said village for the services of a clerk.

§ 10. In case of a vacancy by death, removal from the village, resignation, removal from office or disability, from any cause, of either of said superintendents, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the president for the residue of the term of the outgoing superintendent, in the same manner and subject to the same provisions as are prescribed in section two of this act.

§ 11. The trustees of the village may, by a vote of three-fourths of all the trustees in office, remove for cause any superintendent after giving him an opportunity to be heard on the proposed grounds of removal.

CHAP. 404.

AN ACT to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in the city of Brooklyn.

PASSED May 27, 1881; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. George I. Seney, James M. Buckley, George G. Reynolds, Milton S. Terry, Oliver Hoyt, Theodore Runyon and their associates,

as hereinafter named, are hereby constituted and appointed a body corporate, in fact and in name, by the name and style of The Method- Name. ist Episcopal Hospital in the city of Brooklyn," with power to establish, maintain and conduct a hospital in the city of Brooklyn, in Kings county and state of New York.

§ 2. The property and concerns of said corporation shall be vested in and managed by a board of thirty-two managers, to be constituted as provided for in the following section.

3. George I. Seney, Oliver Hoyt, Samuel Booth, James M. Managers. Buckley, John B. Cornell, William M. Ingraham, Albert D. Vail, George G. Reynolds, Daniel A. Goodsell, Lewis S. Pilcher, M. D., George C. Martin, James Magee, Alfred E. M. Purdy, M. D., John Elliott, John French, Milton S. Terry, Thomas L. Rushmore, Theodore Runyon, William J. Hutchinson, Mark Hoyt, Daniel Ayres, M. D., James M. Fuller, Henry A. Buttz, Stephen Barker, William H. Stiles, James H. Taft, James N. Fitzgerald, John M. Phillips, and the Reverend William L. Harris, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, now residing in the city of New York, the Reverend Matthew Simpson, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, now residing in Philadelphia, Pa., the Reverend Randolph S. Foster, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, now residing in Boston, Mass., and the Reverend Edward G. Andrews, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, now residing in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, shall constitute the first board of managers of said corporation.

classified.'

office.

§4. As soon as practicable after the passage of this act, the said To be board shall organize, and by lot divide the thirty-two managers into four classes of eight each, and so that each class shall contain a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. The term of office of the first of Terms of said classes shall expire on the second Wednesday of January next, that of the second, third and fourth classes respectively, on the second Wednesday in January, one, two and three years thereafter, so that eight managers (and one of them a bishop as aforesaid) shall be elected. by the said board of managers annually, by ballot, to hold their seats for four years. Managers shall hold their offices until others are elected in their places.

managers.

§ 5. The board of managers shall have power to fill all vacancies Powers of that may occur in the said board, to enact by-laws, and to appoint all board of such agents, assistants and attendants as may be proper to carry out the purposes of the said corporation. Among these shall be included a superintendent and chaplain, or both a superintendent and a chaplain; but these positions shall be held only by members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Whenever the place held by a bishop shall become vacant, either by expiration of his term or in any other manner, such vacancy shall be filled by the election of the same or some other bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church.

§ 6. Not less than ten managers shall constitute a quorum for the Quorum. purpose of electing officers, making or changing by-laws, or for holding any special meeting, but for all other purposes, and at stated meetings, six shall be a quorum.

and hold

§ 7. The said corporation are authorized to take by purchase, May take devise, bequest or otherwise, and may hold, transfer and convey, for real estate. the purposes of said hospital, any real and personal property, so far forth as the same is in accordance with the general laws of this state, and not otherwise, and which said property shall be exempt from local taxation, and shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of law relating to charitable institutions.

General powers.

City may

acquire

ter for a

park.

§ 8. This corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the provisions, restrictions and liabilities contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of part first of the Revised Statutes. § 9. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 405.

AN ACT to enable the city of Buffalo to take by agreement with, or gift from, the United States certain lands in said city, for public parks, to place the same under the jurisdiction and control of the park commissioners.

PASSED May 27, 1881; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. The city of Buffalo is hereby empowered to acquire by Fort Por- gift of, or by agreement with, the United States all or any part or parts of the land or grounds within said city, commonly known as Fort Porter, and any right, title or interest therein now vested in the United States, subject to the terms and conditions of such gift or agreement, to be held and used by said city as part and parcel of its public parks, as the same are provided for by chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; entitled "An act to authorize the selection and location of certain grounds for public parks in the city of Buffalo, and to provide for the maintenance and embellishment thereof," and the acts amendatory thereof, or for other corporate purposes.

To be

trol of common

council, etc.

§ 2. The common council of said city and the park commissioners under con- shall have all the powers and jurisdiction, and be clothed with all the duties over the said land or grounds so acquired by the city, as are, by said chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, conferred and imposed upon them, in reference to the grounds selected and located for public parks in pursuance of said act and acts amendatory thereof.

May issue bonds to

$3,000 to purchase

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 406.

AN ACT to authorize the village of North Tonawanda to issue its bonds for fire purposes.

PASSED May 27, 1881; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. The village of North Tonawanda, in Niagara county, amount of is hereby authorized to issue its bonds to the extent of three thousand dollars for the purpose of providing money to pay for a steam fire engine for said village. Said bonds shall be issued in equal amounts payable in one, two and three years, with interest thereon from the date of the issue thereof, and shall not be sold for less than par value. The

steam fire

engine.