City may receive voluntary convey*ances. or tender of the compensation awarded to the owner or owners of any parcel of said land or right of way, as provided in said title, the fee thereof shall vest in the said city of Buffalo. But nothing herein contained shall prevent the said city from purchasing or acquiring title to the above mentioned lands, or any parcel thereof, by voluntary conveyance from the owner or owners thereof. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 19. AN ACT in relation to employers and persons employed, and to amend subdivision six of section eight, of title six, chapter one, part four of the Revised Statutes. PASSED February 17, 1870; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The provisions of subdivision six of section eight, of chapter one, title six, part four of the Revised Statutes, shall not be construed in any court of this state to restrict or prohibit the orderly and peaceable assembling or coöperation of persons employed in any profession, trade or handicraft, for the purpose of securing an advance in the rate of wages or compensation or for the maintenance of such rate. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Chap. 20. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the surrogate of the county of Wyoming and for other purposes," passed April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and to declare said act a general act. PASSED February 18, 1870; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion and of new SECTION 1. The fourth section of the act entitled "An Jurisdic act in relation to the surrogate of the county of Wyoming powers, of and for other purposes," passed April eighteen, eighteen arrogates hundred and forty-three, is hereby amended so as to read counties. as follows: "In all cases of the erection of a new county hereafter, the surrogate of such county may take proof of the wills and grant letters testamentary and of administration, in cases where the deceased, at the time of his death, resided within the territory embraced within such county, and where, before the erection of such new county will of such deceased person shall have been proven, or letters testamentary or of administration shall have been granted by any surrogate, but no final settlement of the accounts of the executors or administrators of the last will and testament or of the estate of such deceased person, has been had, then and in that case the surrogate of such new county shall have jurisdiction, exclusive of any other surrogate, of all questions thereafter arising upon any such will or estate, including all necessary proceedings in the final settlement thereof." any copies of be filed. 82. The surrogate of any county in which such will Certifed shall have been admitted to probate or letters of admin- records may istration granted, shall, on the demand of any party interested, make or cause to be made, for the use of such party, certified copies, under his hand and official seal, of any and all papers, records and proceedings on file or of record in such surrogate's office, and the same shall, on being filed in the surrogate's office of such new county, have the same validity and effect in all subsequent proceedings in such estates as the original. $3. This act shall take effect immediately, Corporate name changed. Proceedings of board of confirmed. Chap. 21. AN ACT relative to the Hebrew Benevolent So- PASSED February 18, 1870. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION. 1. The name of the corporation now known and called "The Hebrew Benevolent Society of the City of New York," is hereby changed to, and henceforth the said corporation shall be called and known by the name of, "The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York. " § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 22. AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of the Board PASSED February 18, 1870; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The proceedings of the board of supervisors of the county of Wyoming, of November ninth, eighteen supervisors, hundred and sixty-nine, dividing the town of Eagle and annexing the west three tiers of lots in said town of Eagle, being lots numbered from one to twenty-four inclusive, in township seven, range three, for the town of Arcade, in said county, and annexing to the said town of Arcade all that portion of the said town of Eagle which was added and annexed to said town of Eagle, under and by virtue of an act of the Legislature, entitled "An act to change the boundary line between the towns of China and Eagle, in the county of Wyoming, and change the name of China to Arcade," passed January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby in all things ratified and confirmed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Chap. 23. AN ACT to change the name and title of the PASSED February 18, 1870; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The railroad corporation created under the Corporate general laws of this State, known and designated as the name Ithaca and Towanda Railroad, for the construction of a changed. railroad from the village of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins, to the State line near the village of Athens, in the State of Pennsylvania, shall hereafter be known and designated as the Ithaca and Athens Railroad. 82. This act shall not be construed in any way to impair or affect any of the rights or liabilities now existing against said company, or to affect any pending suit or proceeding at law or in equity, or to impair the responsibility of any director or officer of said company. 83. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 24. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the village of Dunkirk," passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. PASSED February 18, 187C; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Proviso. 1,2,3,4, amended. SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three and four, of title three of "An act to amend the charter of the village of Dunkirk," passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: 81. The officers of the town of Dunkirk, to be elected omcers at the annual town meeting, shall be separate and distinct elected from the village officers, except such officers as are herein- meeting. after designated, and shall consist of a supervisor, town clerk, two justices of the peace, one commissioner of at town of town highways, three assessors, who shall hold their office for the term of three years; one overseer of the poor, one Inspectors collector of taxes, three inspectors of election in each and village election district of said town, who shall preside at the annual town and village elections in said town and village, as now provided by law; said inspectors of election shall be residents of the ward for which they are elected. elections. Village officers. Jurisdiction of assessors. Terms of police constables. Village trustees. § 2. The officers of the village of Dunkirk, to be elected, shall be a president, village clerk, one street commissioner, three assessors, who shall be the same persons elected at the annual town election, assessors of the town, who, by virtue of their election as such assessors of said town, shall be the assessors of said village, and shall hold their office for the term of three years; one collector of taxes, one village treasurer, two constables, one sealer of weights and measures, and two police constables, who shall severally hold office for the term of one year from the first Tuesday of March in each year, and until their successors have duly qualified, except that the police constables first to be elected under this section shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of their office on the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy; and thereafter, the said police constables shall hold office as provided in this section. § 3. The electors of each ward in said village shall elect annually, in the manner prescribed by this act, two trustees, who shall hold their office for the term of one Eligibility year. to village office. Additional wards, etc. § 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of president, clerk, treasurer, street commissioner, collector, constable, sealer of weights and measures, and trustees of said village, unless he shall be at the time a resident elector of said village. Nor shall any person be eligible to the office of trustee of said village, unless he shall be at the time of his election a resident elector of the ward in which he shall be elected; nor shall any person be eligible to the office of trustee, unless he shall be at the time of his election a tax payer in said village. 85. In case of the creation of a new ward or election district in said village and town under any law of this State, such new ward or district shall be entitled to elect two additional trustees for said village, and three inspectors of election, as how provided, in the wards and districts existing in said village and town. |