$4. Every annual meeting of the freeholders and inha- Annual bitants of said village, shall be held at such time and place testing. as shall have been designated therefor, at the next preceding annual meeting. The trustees may call special meetings by giving six days public notice thereof. $5. No person shall be entitled to vote for the election Votere. of any officer of said village, unless he reside therein, and possess the requisite qualifications to entitle him to vote at town-meetings. The freeholders of said village qualified to vote, shall have power at any annual or special meeting, to direct the raising by tax, of such sum or sums not exceeding one hundred dollars in any one year, as they shall deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act; and three-fourths of said freeholders may direct the raising a greater sum than one hundred dollars, and not exceeding three hundred dollars, for the same purposes. $6. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the said vil- President lage within ten days after each annual meeting, to choose one of their number to be the president of the said corporation; such president shall preside at all meetings of the trustees, and at the annual and special meetings of the inhabitants of said village. $7. Every constable and collector, and treasurer, Officers to elected for said village, shall give such security for the faithful performance of their respective duties as such officers, as the trustees of said village shall direct: and the bonds by them given, shall be endorsed "accepted," by the president, and filed in the clerk's office of said corpo ration. $ 8. The clerk of the said village shall have the custody Clerk. of the records, books and papers of said corporation, and shall file and preserve all papers delivered to him for that purpose. He shall attend all the meetings of the inhabitants of said village, and of the said trustees, and record the proceedings of such meetings in a book or books to be provided for that purpose; that the records, papers and books filed in, or appertaining to the office of said clerk, shall on all proper occasions, be open to the inspection of the freeholders and inhabitants of said village: and the said clerk shall keep a poll list of the names of persons voting at any election of officers for said village. In case of the absence of such clerk from any such meeting, such person as shall be chosen or appointed therefor, shall on such occasion, perform the duties appertaining to the office of clerk. Treatures. Power of trustees. S9. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said village to receive all moneys belonging to said corporation, and pay over the same in the manner directed by said trustees: to account for such moneys to the inhabitants of said village at their annual meetings, and to said trustees when by them thereunto required. $10. The said trustees shall have power 1. To inspect and cause to be inspected, fire-places, chimneys, stoves and stove pipes in said village, and cause the same to be put and kept in safe condition, and enter, and cause others to enter houses and other buildings for that purpose at all proper times. 2. To compel the inhabitants of said village to provide and keep fire-buckets. 3. To compel the inhabitants of said village to deposit their ashes in safe places. 4. To purchase hay-scales, and regulate the manner and prices of weighing hay and other gross commodities; and to appoint a weigh-master, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of said trustees. 5. To make and construct sidewalks and crosswalks in said village; to prevent and remove obstructions in the streets and sidewalks, and to prevent injuries thereto; and also to prevent improper and immoderate riding and driving, and regulate bathing in the streams within the limits of said corporation. 6. To restrain the running at large in said village of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and geese; and to erect a pound in said village; appoint a pound-master, and prescribe his fees and duties, which pound-master shall hold his office during the pleasure of said trustees. 7. To provide for the safe keeping and repairing of the property of the said corporation. 8. To appoint the time and places of holding their special and stated meetings, and to prescribe the manner of calling special meetings of the inhabitants. 9. To provide a seal for said corporation, and to fill vacancies that shall happen in any office from any cause whatever, by appointments under the hands of the president, and seal of the corporation. 10. To direct the times within which the assessors of said village shall complete their assessments, and to correct such assessments on appeal. 11. To issue warrants under their hands for the collection of taxes; to renew the same on any tax not having been collected, and to direct the time within which the collector shall collect and pay over the same. 12. To direct the manner in which the treasurer shall pay over and disburse the moneys of said corporation, and to prescribe the security which shall be given by the treasurer and constable and collector, for the faithful performance of their duties as such officers. 13. To make, ordain, alter, amend and repeal, all such prudential rules, by-laws and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the intents and provisions of this act, which shall take effect on the expiration of eight days after their first publication. 14. To prescribe suitable fines and penalties for offences against such by-laws, and the provisions of this act, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence, and to remit such fines and penalties wholly or in part. S 11. The district or country within said corporation Road district limits shall be a road district, and the inhabitants thereof shall not hereafter be liable to be assessed by the commissioners of highways in said town, but shall and may be assessed yearly to work highways by the trustees aforesaid; and the overseers of highways and streets for said village, shall have the same power to enforce and collect such assessments, that overseers of highways in said town possess. $12. Whenever the freeholders of said village shall Taxes. have directed the raising of any sum of money by tax, the assessors shall within such time as the said trustees shall have directed, make out a tax list thereof, in which they shall set down the names of all the taxable inhabitants of said village, and the names so far as they can be ascertained, of non-residents who shall own real estate therein; the quantity of the real estate, and the value of the real and personal property liable to taxation, of the inhabitants of said village, and the description, quantity and value of the taxable real estate situate therein, belonging to such non-residents; and they shall apportion the sum to be raised by such tax on such inhabitants and non-residents, in proportion to the valuation of such property. $ 13. When the assessors shall have completed their Assessment assessment, they shall deliver two certified copies thereof roll. to the clerk of said village, one of which he shall file, and to the other the trustees, or a majority of them, shall affix a warrant under their hands, directed to the collector of said village, requiring him to collect the tax therein named, within such time as they shall direct; and when colleeted, to pay the same to the treasurer, after deducting his fees. The collector shall have the same powers, and be subject to the same liabilities as collectors of towns; Taves how to be assessed Penalties how recover. ed. Right to ro pual. To take of fect. and the fees which he shall receive for collecting, shall be prescribed by the trustees of said village. 14. No farm lands used and occupied as such within the bounds of the said corporation, shall be subject to any tax except highway taxes, for any purposes of the said corporation, unless the same be laid out into village lots, or the owner thereof shall give the trustees written notice of his consent that the same may be taxed, at least three days before the next annual or special meeting of the inhabitants of said village. S15. All penalties incurred under this act, may be sued for before any justice of the peace by the trustees, in the name of the corporation, in an action of debt, in which the pleadings may be general, and any proper special matter may be given in evidence under them; and no inhabitant of said village shall for that cause be disqualified to act as justice, juror, witness or constable, on the trial of any such cause. All penalties when collected shall be paid into the treasury of said village, for the use thereof. S16. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal this act or any of its provisions. S17. This act shall take effect immediately on the passage thereof. CHAP. 138. AN ACT to authorize the supervisor of the town of Antwerp, in the county of Jefferson, to deed to Miles Cook a certain piece of land. Passed April 22, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The supervisor of the town of Antwerp, in the county of Jefferson, is hereby authorized to deed to Miles Cook, a part or all of a certain piece of land, heretofore deeded to said town by Edward Foster, for a public burial ground. СНАР. 139. AN ACT directing the survey of a canal route from the Passed April 22, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enuct as follows: S1. The canal commissioners shall cause a route of a Route. canal from the navigable waters on Black river, below the High falls, in the town of Turin, in the county of Lewis, to the Eric canal, to be surveyed, in the shortest practicable direction with regard to the cost of construction and public utility; and a navigable feeder from Black river to the summit level of said canal, and estimates of the cost of constructing said canal and feeder to be made; and also for improving the navigation of Black river from the High falls to the village of Carthage, if they shall be of opinion that the surveys and estimates heretofore made by Messrs. Cruger and Hutchinson have not been sufficiently minute and accurate to arrive at a correct estimate of the cost of constructing said canal and feeder, and improving the navigation of said river. surveyed. $ 2. The canal commissioners, if they shall not deem How to be it necessary to survey an entire new route of said canal, may cause either the route surveyed by Mr. Cruger or Mr. Hutchinsou to be resurveyed, or so much thereof as they shall deem expedient, to arrive at a correct estimate of the cost of constructing the said canal. pune. S3. If the commissioners are not satisfied that the in- Inclined clined plane has a superior advantage over locks in overcoming great elevations, they shall make or cause to be made, any further examination in relation thereto that they may deem necessary. amination. $ 4. The commissioners shall make or cause to be made General exa general examination of the resources of all the section of country interested in the construction of said canal, in relation to the probable revenue to be derived from its construction, and shall report their estimates of the cost of construction, their opinion as to the propriety of adopting the inclined planes on the proposed canal; also their opinion as to the probable revenue to be derived from said canal, taking into consideration the increased tolls on the Erie canal, and adopting in such estimate the Black river from the High falls to Carthage as a part of said canal, and subject to the same tolls as any other portion thereof, and such other information as they shall deem important to |