Damages, &c., of open streets, how and assessed &c. occupy, possess and enjoy the same, in the same manner as they would have been entitled to do if the commissioners had not included such lands and tenements in the said parade, but had laid out the said square, called the parade, in the manner in which it is reduced and designated by this act. III. And be it further enacted, That the public square or place, ing certain called the parade, and the streets and avenues which are in and estimated by this act directed to be extended and continued, shall be opened, and the damage and benefit estimated, assessed and paid, in the same manner as the same would have been done if the said square or place, and streets and avenues, had been laid out by the said commissioners, in the manner in which the said square is reduced and designated by this act. A certain act to be force for a riod. IV. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "an act continued in further to suspend the collection of the assessments therein menlimited pe- tioned," passed 9th April, 1813, be, and the same is hereby con tinued in force, until the end of the next session of the Legislature; and that the report and plan relative to Canal street, in the said city, referred to in the preamble to the said last recited act, made by certain commissioners, therein referred to, is not confirmed or approved of by this Legislature. Recital. CHAPTER CLXXVI AN ACT relative to the Alms-House and Bridewell, and City Prison, in the city of New York.-Passed April 15, 1814. Whereas, the mayor, aldermen and commonalty, of the city of New York, have, by their memorial, represented to the Legisla ture that they are now erecting, and have nearly completed spacious buildings at Bellevue, in the Ninth ward of the city of New York, one of which buildings is designated by them to be used and employed as an alms-house, and another contiguous thereto, is designated by them to be used and employed as a jail, for the confinement of such offenders as are to be kept at labor during their imprisonment; and have prayed the Legislature, for certain reasons set forth in their said memorial, to establish the said last mentioned building as one of the jails of the said city, and to enact the hereinafter contained provisions relative to commitment of offenders thereto, and to the city prison and bridewell, the prayer of which memorial appears proper to be granted: Therefore, I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented of New York, Who confined the rein. in Senate and Assembly, That one of the building now erecting by Penitentiary the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York at Bellevue, in the Ninth ward of the said city, as shall be designated by the common council of the said city, shall be and become one of the jails of the said city, by the name of "The Penitentiary of the city of New York," whenever and as soon as the common council of the said city shall deem such building sufficiently finished for the safe keeping of prisoners; and the said building shall thenceforth be and continue the jail of the said city, for the con- when to be finement and safe keeping of all persons convicted of any crime or misdemeanor, and sentenced to confinement therein by the general sessions of the peace, in and for the city and county of New York, or any court of oyer and terminer there; and also of all persons committed thereto by the mayor, recorder and aldermen of the said city, or the special justices for preserving the peace in the said city for the time being, or any two of them; and the said penitentiary shall be under the charge of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty Penitentiary of the city of New York; and the said mayor, aldermen and com- charge. monalty, in common council convened, shall, from time to time, appoint some proper person to be keeper of the same, who shall Keeper to be hold his office during the pleasure of the said common council, and shall be called "the keeper of the penitentiary of the city of New York;" and all commitments of offenders to the said jail shall be to "the keeper of the penitentiary of the city of New York." under whose appointed. city. to be confined II. And be it further enacted, That the part of the bridewell of Jail of the the city of New York which is now established and used as the jail of the said city, for the confinement and safe keeping of all persons charged with, or convicted of any crime or misdemeanor, except persons sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, shall, after the above mentioned building at Bellevue becomes the penitentiary of the said city as aforesaid, continue to be the jail of the said city, for the confinement and safe keeping of such persons as who shall be specially committed thereto, or sentenced to confinement therein. therein, and especially of all persons committed to prison in the said city for offences against the United States; and the jail last aforesaid shall also be under the charge of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the said city; and the common council of the said city shall, from time to time, appoint some proper person to be Keeper to be keeper of the same, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of and by the said common council, and shall be called "the keeper of the city prison of the city of New York;" and all commitments of offenders to the jail last aforesaid, shall be to "the keeper of the city prison of the city of New York." appointed, whom. penitentiary receive prisoners, &c. Keepers of III. And be it further enacted, That the keeper of the said peniand jail to tentiary, and the keeper of the said city prison, shall keep all persons committed to them respectively, in the same manner and under the same penalties as the sheriffs of the other counties in the state ought by law to keep, in the jails of the respective counties, the criminals committed to them. Disorderly persons may months. the IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful ted to for the mayor, recorder and aldermen of the said city of New York, penitentiary and the special justices for preserving the peace in the said city, for the time being, or any two of them, to commit any person who may be deemed and adjudged a disorderly person, within the meaning of the act, entitled "An act for apprehending and punishing disorderly persons," to the above mentioned penitentiary, to be kept at hard kept at hard labor, or any work or employment therein, for any labor. period not exceeding six months. There to be council of may appoint the alms house, bride well and city prison, and same by or Common V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the mayor, New York aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, in common officers over council convened, from time to time, to appoint such other officers as they may deem proper for the government of the said almsregulate the house, bridewell and city prison, and penitentiary, and to make and dinances, &c ordain such ordinances and regulations as they shall deem necessary for the better goverment of the said alms-house, bridewell and city prison, and penitentiary, and the keepers, officers and servants thereof: Provided, Such ordinances and regulations be not contrary to the law and constitution of this state, or of the United States. Proviso. tendent appointed of Superin- VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said these alms mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York in comby the com- mon council convened, from time to time, to appoint such discreet mon council. and suitable person as they may think proper, to be superintendent of the said alms-house, with such powers and duties as they may, from time to time, by their ordinances, regulations or by-laws, or To hold his dain and prescribe, and to hold his office for the term of seven years, unless years, if he shall so long be of good behavior, and removable during For that period for corrupt or malconduct, or disability, solely, and for office for 7 sooner moved re malconduct only. no other cause. 1815.-CHAPTER CXLIX. AN ACT relative to Taxes and Assessments in the City of New York. Whereas, the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York have, by their memorial, represented that a compliance with the law requiring taxes and assessments in the said city to be registered in the office of the register in and for the said city, would be not only very expensive, but also altogether unnecessary, and have therefore prayed that the said law may be repealed. And whereas, the said prayer appears reasonable: Therefore, Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the one hundred and sixty-second, and one hundred and sixty-third sections of the act, entitled "An act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the city of New York, into one act," passed April 9th, 1813, so far forth as the same relate to any assessment, tax, charge, debt, duty or demand whatsoever, in favor of or payable to the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, be and the same hereby are repealed. 1815.-CHAPTER CLI. AN ACT making certain Alterations in the Map or Plan of the City of Whereas, The mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Preamble. New York have, by their memorial, represented to the Legislature, that the expense of opening the public place laid out in the said city, by the commissioners appointed in and by an act of the Legislature, entitled “An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of New York, and for other purposes," called Union place, will be extravagantly great, and much beyond the advantage which would arise from opening the same, and have accordingly prayed that the same may be discontinued, as hereinafter specified, and that the Broadway may not be carried further northwardly than Tenth street, and have further represented that the public place laid out by the said commissioners, called Market place, is larger than is necessary, and have prayed that the same may be reduced as hereinafter also is specified: And whereas, the prayer of the said memorial appears proper to be granted: Therefore, altered. I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented Union place in Senate and Assembly, That the public square or place designated on the said map or plan, made and published by the aforesaid commissioners, called Union place, shall be altered in the manner fol lowing, that is to say: the Broadway shall not be extended or continued over or across the same; the Fourth avenue shall be extended southwardly from Sixteenth street, and continued in a straight line to Bloomingdale road, and the streets designated on the said map or plan, as Eleventh street, Twelfth street, Thirteenth street, Fourteenth street and Fifteenth street, shall be extended eastwardly from the Bloomingdale road, through the said land, which, by the said plan, was intended to form a part of the said Union place, and shall be respectively continued in a straight line so as to meet and unite with the said Eleventh street, Twelfth street, Thirteenth street, Fourteenth street and Fifteenth street respectively, at the Bowery; and all that certain part of the said place, designated on the said map or plan by the name of Union place, which is bounded northwestwardly and westwardly by the said Fourth avenue so continued as aforesaid, and by the Bloomingdale road, eastwardly by the Bowery, and southwardly by the Tenth street, shall cease to be or be deemed to be a public square or place. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Broadway shall not be continued northwardly from the Tenth street to the Twenty-third street, as is contemplated by the said commissioners and designated on the said map or plan, but that on the contrary the said Broadway shall stop at the northerly side of the said Tenth street, and all and singular the land over which the Broadway would have run, and which would have formed that street from Tenth street to the Twenty-third street, except the part of the said land required for Eleventh street, Twelfth street, Thirteenth street, the Bowery, Fourteenth street, Fifteenth street, Sixteenth street, Seventeenth street, Eighteenth street, Nineteenth street, Twentieth street, Twenty-first street and Twenty-second street, respectively, shall become part of the blocks or plots of ground through which the said Broadway would have run according to the said plan. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the block or plot of ground which is on the said map or plan, bounded southwardly by Thirteenth street aforesaid, eastwardly by the Third avenue, and northwardly by Fourteenth street aforesaid, shall extend to and be bounded westwardly by the Bowery; and that the or plot of ground which is on the said map or plan, bounded southwardly by Fourteenth street aforesaid, eastwardly by the Third avenue, and northwardly by Fifteenth street aforesaid, shall extend to and be bounded westwardly by the Bowery and the Fourth avenue, and that the streets designated on the said map or plan as Fourteenth street, shall be extended westwardly from the eastwardly |
