1851.-CHAPTER CCCCXXX. AN ACT to regulate the Compensation of the Assessors of the Street The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sessors in sessment SEC. 2. [Amended by sec. 1, chap. 508, Laws of 1853, to read as Duty of asfollows:] The officers of the bureau of assessments in the street making department of the city of New York, known as the assessors of the list. street department, shall include in every assessment list an amount equal to two per cent. on the total amount of such assessment, as a compensation to said assessors for their services in making such assessment, and shall be advanced and paid to the said assessors by the common council of the city of New York, on the confirmation of such assessment lists, to be equally divided between them. statement ors. SEC. 3. The said assessors shall, quarter yearly, viz.: on the first Quarterly days of January, April, July and October, make a written and de- by assess tailed statement, under oath, of all assessments made by them during the previous three months, together with the amount of each assessment, which statement shall be filed in the comptroller's office of the city of New York. They shall also enter at length, in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, the names of each and every person included in each assessment list, together with the amount that each person is assessed, which book shall be opened for inspection at all reasonable hours. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 1851. CHAPTER CCCCXLI. AN ACT relating to Courts of General and Special Sessions of the 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for the Court of General Sessions of the peace, in and for the city and county of New York, whenever the said court shall deem it expedient, to direct the drawing of an additional number of jurors for said court, not exceeding double the number now authorized by law, and whenever said additional number of jurors shall be so ordered to be drawn, it shall be the duty of the judges of said court, and they are hereby empowered, to hold at the ensuing term thereof, a double session of said court for the trial of all causes triable therein. SEC. 2. The Courts of Special Sessions of the peace, in and for the city and county of New York, may be held by the judges of said court as often and at such times as they may deem it expedient. SEC. 3. The district attorney of the city and county of New York shall receive for his services an annual salary, to be fixed and paid by the board of supervisors of said city and county. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 1851.-CHAPTER CCCCXLIII. AN ACT to alter the Map or Plan of the City of New York, by extending Washington Street, in said City, from its present Termination at Gansevoort Street to Twelfth Street.-Passed July 9, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. Washington street, in the Ninth ward of the city of New York, is hereby extended from its present termination at Gansevoort street, to Twelfth street, by continuing the same in the same direction and of the same width as Washington street is at present between Troy street and Gansevoort street; and said piece or parcel of ground between Gansevoort street and Twelfth street, is hereby declared to be a public street, in like manner as if the same had been laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act of the Legislature, entitled "An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of the streets and wards in the city of New York, and for other purposes," passed April third, eighteen hundred and seven. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1851. CHAPTER CCCCLIII. AN ACT to divide the Sixteenth Ward of the City of New York into two Wards.-Passed July 9, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ward divi SEC. 1. The Sixteenth ward of the city of New York is hereby Sixteenth divided by a line running through the centre of Twenty-sixth ded. street. ward. SEC. 2. All that portion of said ward lying southerly of the said Twentieth line shall be known as, and constitute and remain the Sixteenth ward of said city, and that portion of said ward lying northerly of said line shall hereafter be known as, and constitute the Twentieth ward of said city. sixteenth SEC. 3. All officers now elected, or appointed in and for said officers Sixteenth ward, shall continue such officers during the term re- ward. spectively for which they were elected or appointed, except in such cases where the persons so appointed or elected shall cease to be residents of said Sixteenth or Twentieth wards. districts. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the common council, immediately Election on the passage of this act, to divide the said Twentieth ward into so many and such convenient election districts as to said common council shall seem proper, and to appoint places to hold elections therein, and to appoint inspectors of election to conduct the election in the next section therein provided to be held. cers. SEC. 5. An election shall be held in and for said Twentieth ward Ward at the next annual election held in said city, at which election there shall be elected for said ward an alderman and assistant alderman, two assessors, two constables, two school commissioners, two inspectors of schools, five trustees of common schools, and three inspectors of election for each election district of said ward; and the said officers shall hold their respective offices for the terms now prescribed by law. fice. of offi SEC. 6. The commissioners, inspectors and trustees of common Terms of ofschools so elected in and for said ward, shall hold their offices for the following terms, viz.: one commissioner, one inspector, and one trustee for one year from the first Monday of June next; one commissioner, one inspector and one trustee for two years from the first Monday of June next; one trustee for three years from the first Monday of June next; one trustee for four years from the first Present offi cers to act Monday of June next, and one trustee for five years from the first SEC. 7. The said commissioners, inspectors and trustees so elected at such election, shall meet at the office of the clerk of the board of education in said city, on the Thursday next succeeding said election, at twelve o'clock noon, and shall then and there take the oath of office required by law, and the term of service of each commissioner, inspector and trustee shall then and there be determined by the clerk of said board by drawing lots. At each general election hereafter to be held in said Twentieth ward, there shall be elected, in the manner now required by law, one commissioner and one inspector of common schools, whose term of service shall be two years, and one trustee, whose term of service shall be five years. SEC. 8. The alderman and assistant alderman of said Twentieth ward shall nominate to the mayor one captain, one first assistant captain, and one second assistant captain of police, and such number of policemen as the common council of the said city may determine said ward to be entitled, and who shall hold their offices for the term now prescribed by law, and shall form part of the police force of said city, and be subject to the like rules and regu lations, and invested with the same power and authority. SEC. 9. All the provisions of law relating to the several wards of the city of New York, shall, so far as they may be applicable, apply to the said Twentieth ward hereby created. SEC. 10. Until the officers named in the fifth section of this act till election, shall have been chosen or appointed in said Twentieth ward, and duly qualified, the officers already chosen or appointed for said Sixteenth ward, shall continue to perform the duties of their respective offices as if the division provided for by this act had not been made. Holding elections. Judicial district. Election districts. SEC. 11. All laws now in force regulating the election of charter officers in said city of New York, and the canvass, estimate and return of votes, shall apply to all elections to be held in and for said Twentieth ward. SEC. 12. The said Twentieth ward shall continue to form a part of the sixth judicial district of said city, and the jurisdiction of police justice and the assistant justice for said district, shall extend to and embrace said Twentieth ward hereby created. SEC. 13. The said Twentieth ward, hereby created, shall con tinue to form a part of the sixth congressional district of this state, and shall continue to form a part of the sixth Senate district of this state, and shall continue to form a part of the tenth Assembly district of the city and county of New York, and, with the said Sixteenth ward, shall be entitled to elect one member of the Assembly. SEC. 14. This act shall take effect immediately. 1851.-CHAPTER CCCCLXXVIII. AN ACT to regulale the Planting and Taking of Oysters in the Harlem River.-Passed July 10, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to take oysters from Prohibition. the Harlem river, in the county of New York, in any way or manner, during the months of June, July or August in any year. SEC. 2. Every person who shall offend against the provisions of Penalty. the first section of this act shall incur a penalty of thirty dollars, and in addition the value of the oysters so taken, for each offence, and which may be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace of any of the towns of Westchester county, or any of the justices of the ward courts of the city of New York, or in any court having cognizance of the same, in the name of any person who will sue therefor, one-half of any sum which may be recovered and received under this section shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which such action may be brought, and the other half shall be for the use of the person who may sue for the same. oyster beds. SEC. 3. Any owner or lessee of the lands adjoining the waters of Private the Harlem river, may have the privilege of planting oysters in said waters, in front of their said property or lands, where there are none now planted by others than themselves, and after putting up a plain sign in full view of the waters in which such oysters are planted, stating the fact that this is the private oyster bed of (here name the owner,) no person other than such owner or his legal representative shall take up oysters on the ground thus designated by said sign, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, and shall forfeit, in addition, the sum equal in amount to the value of the oysters; and the penalties and forfeitures thus imposed may be sued for and recovered in like manner as in section two of this act. |