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Privileges of certain own

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Width of certain avenues

be continued as hereinafter directed) and North street, shall cease to be considered as public places, or as reserved for public pur poses, and that the said street called First street, shall be extended and continued in a straight line eastwardly from the First avenue to the said Avenue A, and that the said street, called Second street, shall be extended and continued in a straight line eastwardly from the said Avenue C to the said Avenue D.

II. And be it further enacted, That the several and respective owners and proprietors of the lands and tenements, which shall be included in the blocks or plots of ground formed or to be formed by such extension of the said Avenue D, and of the said several streets, by this act directed to be extended as aforesaid, shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the same, in the same manner as they would have been entitled to do, if the said commissioners had laid out the said avenue and streets in the manner directed by this act, and had not designated the said lands as reserved for any public use or purpose.

III. And be it further enacted, That the width of the said Avenue A shall be reduced to eighty feet, by taking off twenty feet from the easterly side of the same, and that the width of the said avenues B, C and D, shall be each reduced to sixty feet, by taking off forty feet from the easterly sides of the same respectively; and that the respective owners and proprietors of the lands on the easterly sides of, and next contiguous to the said several avenues, as now laid out on the said map or plan, shall have, hold, possess and enjoy the lands so to be taken off from the said several avenues, in the same manner as they now hold, possess and enjoy such contiguous lands.

1824. CHAPTER XXXIV.

AN ACT allowing Testimony in certain cases relating to the Fire Department in the City of New York.-Passed February 6, 1824.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Competency Senate and Assembly, That in any action, suit, or other proceeding certain which now is, or hereafter may be instituted, commenced or pro

of witnesses

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secuted for the recovery or collection of any fine, penalty or forfeiture, imposed by any existing or future law of this state, or by any existing or future law or ordinance of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, and appropriated to the use of the fire department of the city of New York, or of any of the fire companies in said city, it shall be no objection to the competency of any witness in any such action, suit, or

other proceeding, for the recovery or collection of any such fine, penalty or forfeiture, so imposed and appropriated to the use of the fire department of the said city, or of any of the fire companies in said city, that he, the said witness, is, or has been a fireman of said city, or a member of the said fire department, or is, or may become entitled to the benefit of the fire department fund of the city of New York.

1824. CHAPTER XLIX.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled " an act to reduce Several Laws, relating particularly to the City of New York, into one act," passed April 9, 1813.—Passed February 21, 1824.

Whereas, doubts have arisen whether the two hundred and sev- Preamble. entieth section of the act above mentioned applies to all the laws and ordinances of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, in common council convened, touching any acts, works or labor to be done and performed, and improvements to be made in the said city, which under that act, or any other act or acts of the Legislature, they are authorized to pass, order and direct, and the expenses of which may be estimated and assessed on the owner or occupants of all the houses and lots intended to be benefited thereby, by skilful and competent disinterested persons appointed by the said common council; Therefore,

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I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented A in Senate and Assembly, That the provisions of the above section tended. shall apply to all and every the laws, ordinances, orders and directions which the said corporation are authorized to make under and by virtue of any part or section of the aforesaid act, or of any other act or acts of the Legislature; and that the two hundred and seventy-first section shall in like manner apply thereto, and that assess-Assessments ments for any such expenses, with interest, may be made as directed declared a in and by the one hundred and seventy-fifth section of said act, and shall be a real incumbrance upon the houses and lots, lands and tenements therein mentioned, which may be sold for any such assessment thereon, and every remedy and proceeding had for the collection thereof, according to the provisions of an act, entitled "An act for the more effectual collection of taxes and assessments in the city of New York," passed April 12, 1816, and any act amendatory thereof.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Regulations the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty, in all cases where they

as to raising or filling up lots, &c.

may deem it necessary for the more speedy execution of any bylaw or ordinance requiring the owner or joint owners, agent or joint agents, lessee or joint lessees, and occupant or joint occupants of any lot or lots, to fill up or raise such lot or lots forthwith upon the passage of such by-law or ordinance, or at any time thereafter, when they may deem it expedient to cause such lot or lots to be filled up or raised, at their own expense, on account of such owner or owners, agent or agents, lessee or lessees, and occupant or oc cupants respectively; and the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty shall have full power, and are hereby authorized to levy the same, with lawful interest, and all reasonable costs and expenditures attending such proceedings, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such owners, agents, lessees or occupants, or to recover the amount of every such expense, by action of debt, in any court of record, from the persons respectively on whose account the same shall have been incurred, their respective heirs, executors or administrators; in all which actions they shall also recover lawful interest upon the said amount, with full costs of suit. And further, Amount de- That the amount of the moneys which the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty shall have advanced for the above purposes, with lawful interest for the same, shall be deemed a lien on such lot or lots, and that such lot or lots may be sold therefor, according to the provisions of the said act for the more effectual collection of taxes and assessments in the city of New York, or any act amendatory thereof, in the same manner as if the said amount and interest had been charged on the said lot or lots by virtue of an assessment.

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Owners, etc. licensed.

1824. CHAPTER L.

AN ACT relating to Hackney Coaches and Carriages in the City of
New York.-Passed February 21, 1824.

I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the owner of every hackney coach or carriage, or hackney coaches or carriages, in the city of New York, who shall obtain such license as is mentioned in the two hundred and seventy-second section 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, shall pay therefor annually, to the common council of the said city, a sum to be determined by the said common council, not less than five dollars, and not exceeding twenty dollars, for each hackney coach or carriage.

II. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said two hun

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dred and seventy-second section of the act before mentioned, as may Part of be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is pealed. hereby repealed.

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1824. CHAPTER CXXVI.

AN ACT to incorporate the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York.-Passed March 29, 1824.

Whereas, by the petitions of several inhabitants of the city of Preamble. New York, it is represented that they are desirous of establishing a society and house of refuge, for the reformation of juvenile delinquents in the said city, and have prayed to be incorporated: Therefore,

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I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented Corporation in Senate and Assembly, That all such persons as now are, or hereafter shall become subscribers to the said association, pursuant to the by-laws thereof, shall be, and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the city of Style, &c. New York;" and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, and be in law capable of suing and being sued, defending and being defended in all courts and places, and in all manner of actions and causes whatsoever; and may have a common seal, and change the same at their pleasure; and shall be capable in law, by that name and style, of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of the said corporation: Provided, That such real estate shall never exceed the yearly value of Proviso. ten thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purposes than those for which this incorporation is formed.

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II. And be it further enacted, That the estate and concerns of the Concerns to said corporation shall be conducted by a board of thirty managers, ed by thirty to be elected by a plurality of ballots of the members resident in the city of New York, being subscribers as aforesaid, and present at such election, yearly on the third Monday in November, at such place in the said city, and at such time of the day, as the board of managers may, from time to time, appoint, and of which public notice shall be given; and if any vacancy shall occur by the resignation, removal or otherwise, of any one of the said board, the same shall be filled for the remainder of the year by such person or persons, being subscribers as aforesaid, as the board, for the time being, or a major part of them, shall appoint; and until the election on

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the third Monday in November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the following persons shall compose the Firat mana- said board of managers, to wit: Cadwallader D. Colden, John Griscom, John Duer, Jonathan W. Wainwright, Isaac Collins, Thomas Eddy, Ansel W. Ives, John T. Irving, John E. Hyde, Cornelius Dubois, James W. Gerard, Joseph Curtis, John Stearns, Ralph Olmstead, Robert F. Mott, Stephen Allen, Henry J. Wyckoff, Samuel Cowdrey, John Targee, Arthur Burtis, Joseph Grinnell, Hugh Maxwell, Henry Mead, Peter A. Jay, Gilbert Coutant, Cornelius R. Duffey and James Lovett: And it is hereby further enacted, That no manager of the said society shall receive any compensation for his services.

Elections.

Power and duty of the

III. And be it further enacted, That if the annual election shall not take place on the stated day for that purpose, the said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but the members of the said board shall continue in office until a new election, which shall be had at such time and place, and after such notice, as the said board shall prescribe; and in case of an equality of votes for any one or more persons, as a member or members of the said board of managers, the said board shall determine which of such persons shall be considered as elected, and such person or persons shall take his or their seats, and act accordingly.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the said managers shall have managers. power, in their discretion, to receive and take into the house of refuge to be established by them, all such children, who shall be taken up or committed as vagrants, or convicted of criminal offences, in the said city, as may, in the judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the peace, or of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the said city, or of the jury before whom any such offender shall be tried, or of the police magistrates, or of the commissioners of the alms-house and bridewell of the said city, be proper objects; and the said managers shall have power to place the said children committed to their care, during the minority of such children, at such employments, and to cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge, as shall be suitable to their years and capacities; and they shall have power, in their discretion, to bind out the said children, with their consent, as apprentices or servants, during their minority, to such persons, and at such places, to learn such proper trades and employments, as in their judgment will be most for the reformation and amendment, and the future benefit and advantage of such children: Provided, That the charge and power of the said managers, upon and over

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