tendent.

the hydrants and water pipes of individuals, and for the
preservation, protection and management of the said water
works, and the use and control of the water thereof, as they
may deem advisable, and which, when ratified and approv-
ed by the common council of said city, shall have the same
force and effect as any law or ordinance by them enacted,
and the same shall not be altered or amended by the said
commissioners, without the approval of the said common
council.

Superin. § 7. The said commissioners shall nominate, and the com-
mon council appoint, an officer, who shall be known as the
superintendent of the water works, who shall receive such
salary per annum, in quarterly payments, as shall be fixed
by said common council, and his duties shall be to devote
his whole time and services, under the general advice and
direction of said commissioners, to the care and manage-
ment of the water works, and such duties connected
therewith, or with other business of the city, as the said
commissioners or the common council of said city shall di-
rect. The said commissioners shall also have power, with
the approbation and consent of the common council, to ex-
tend the distributing pipes of said water works whenever
they may think proper, and to make such alterations and
improvements in said works, and in the management and
preservation thereof, as they may deem necessary and expe-
dient, and to employ such persons and assistants as they
may require, to execute any of the purposes aforesaid, who
shall be paid for their services by the chamberlain of said
city, on the warrant of the said Commissioners or a majori-
ty of them.

Rules and ordinances

council.

§8. The Common Council of the city of Troy are hereby by common authorised and empowered to pass such by-laws or ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, as they may deem necessary and proper to protect the waterworks of said city and the property connected therewith, within said city or elsewhere, from trespasses and injury, and to enforce the same by the infliction of such penalties as said by-laws or ordinances shall prescribe, not exceeding one hundred dollars for any one offence; and it is hereby declared that the entering or going upon the lands, lakes or waters belonging to said waterworks, in said city, or in the town of Brunswick, in the county of Rensselaer, by any person or persons not having authority so to do, shall be adjudged a misdemeanor, and be punished accordingly, and

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 por-
tion 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 por-
tion of the sums of money mentioned in the first section
hereof is chargeable by law upon the whole city, what por-
tion 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 how audited.

Money

§ 4. All such sums of money as were directed to be 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.

§ 5. When the sums mentioned in the fourth section herehow used. of 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.

Permanent loan.

§ 6. The common council of the said city are hereby authorised 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,

as they may direct, provided that the whole amount of said bonds shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars.

debts of late

burgh.

§7. The common council of the said city are hereby au- Loan for thorised 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