1848.-СПАPTER CCIV. AN ACT relative to the State Arsenal in the City of New York.- The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. Chapter three hundred and sixty-four of the laws of Repeal. eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby repealed. surrendered. SEC. 2. The commissioners of the land office are authorized to Lease, how surrender to the common council of the city of New York, upon such terms and conditions as they may deem advantageous to the state, the lease for the present site and buildings situated in said city, and occupied as the state arsenal, including a lot on White street, occupied as a portion of the arsenal grounds or any portion of said premises, and the said commissioners shall pay over the avails of such sale to the treasurer of the state. $15,000. SEC. 3. The comptroller is authorized to loan the sum of fifteen Loan of thousand dollars on the credit of the state, on the most advantageous terms, and to issue stock therefor, which said sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended in the erection of the new arsenal at New York, and the said stock shall be redeemed by the avails of sales provided for in the second section, which are hereby appropriated for that object. be SEC. 4. The commissioners of the land office are hereby author- Arsenal ized to complete the state arsenal in such manner as they shall pleted. deem best for the interest of the state, and to employ a superintendent at an expense of not more than three dollars per day. SEC. 5. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Repeal. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. to com 1848. CHAPTER CCXXXI. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "an act for the Collection of Taxes in the City of New York, passed April 18, 1843."-Passed April 11, 1848, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: taxes and SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the Receiver of city of New York, within twenty days after this act shall take deputy to be appointed. effect, to appoint a suitable and discreet person, to be known as receiver of taxes in the city of New York, who shall hold his office for the term of four years from the 1st of May, 1848, unless sooner removed for cause. And another person to be known as deputy receiver of taxes in the city of New York, who shall hold his office for the like term, unless sooner in like manner removed. The said receiver of taxes shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and the said deputy shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid to them respectively by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, on the usual quarterly days. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Name the courts. of Referred to of. 1848.-CHAPTER CCLXXVI. AN ACT to amend the act in relation to Justices and Police Courts in the City of New York, passed March 30, 1848.-Passed April 12, 1848. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. The justices' courts of the city of New York, established by the act in relation to justices' and police courts in the city of New York, passed March 30, 1848, shall be designated as the assistant justices' courts in the city of New York. SEC. 2. Such courts shall be deemed to be the courts referred to 80, in the act to simplify and abridge the practice, pleadings and proceedings of the courts of this state, as the assistant justices' courts of the city of New York, and shall have the jurisdiction mentioned in section fifty-nine of that act, and section ten of the act hereby amended is modified accordingly. act SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 1848.-CIIAPTER CCCXVI. AN ACT to reimburse to the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, certain Expenses incurred by them in furnishing Clothing to the State Pupils.-Passed April 12, 1848, "threefifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Money to institution. SEC. 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comp-be paid to troller, to the New York institution for the instruction of the deafi and dumb, the amount paid out by said institution (not to exceed the sum of five thousand two hundred dollars) previous to the fif teenth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in furnishing clothing to state pupils, and which has not been repaid to said institution; no part of such amount shall be paid until there shall be produced to and filed with the comptroller, a list of the pupils for whom such clothing was furnished, and the amount furnished to each, which list shall be accompanied by an affidavit that said list is correct in amount, and that no part of the same has been received by said institution. be paid. SEC. 2. The sum of five thousand two hundred dollars is hereby Amount appropriated for the purposes of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. to 1848.-CHAPTER CCCXXI. AN ACT in relation to the Navigation of the East River by Steamboats.-Passed April 12, 1848. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: to run in the the river. SEC. 1. All the steamboats passing up and down the East river, Boats between the Battery at the southern extremity of the city of New centre York, and Blackwell's Island, shall be navigated as near as possible in the centre of the river, except in going into or out of the usual berth or landing place of such steamboat, and shall not be propelled at a greater rate of speed than ten miles an hour. SEC. 2. The master, pilot or engineer of any steamboat violating Penalty. either of the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be deemed of guilty of a misdemeanor; and in addition thereto, the master, pilot and engineer of such steamboat shall respectively be liable to the penalty prescribed in section nine, title ten, chapter twenty, of the first part of the Revised Statutes, to be sued for and applied as therein directed. Amount to Society for 1848. CHAPTER CCCXXXVII. AN ACT making Appropriations for the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York.-Passed April 12, 1848, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: be paid to SEC. 1. The commissioners of emigration shall pay to the society. two months. for the reformation of juvenile delinquents in the city of New York, the sum of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents for two months of the year, ending the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. Amount nine months. to be paid for SEC. 2. The commissioners of emigration shall, in like manner, pay to the society for the reformation of juvenile delinquents in the city of New York, the sum of six thousand dollars, for the nine months of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. SEC. 3. The commissioners of emigration shall, in like manner, pay to the said society the further sum of eight thousand dollars, for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and ending on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. SEC. 4. The sums hereby directed to be paid, shall be paid by said commissioners out of the moneys collected from passengers, by the provisions of title four, chapter fourteen, part first, of the Revised Statutes, but if the amount collected from passengers should be insufficient, (after paying all the expenses of the quarantine establishment at Staten Island,) to meet the sums hereby directed to be paid at the several times when they shall become due and payable by the provisions of this act, then the balance to make up such deficiency shall be paid out of the treasury of this state. SEC. 5. All sums of money paid out of the treasury of the state to meet any deficiency provided for in the next preceding section, charge shall be a charge against the said hospital fund, and shall be repaid To be a and reimbursed to the state by the said commissioners of emigration, against whenever there shall be a surplus of the said funds in their hands, fund. after paying the expense of the quarantine establishment at Staten Island. hospital paid out ury. SEC. 6. All moneys directed to be paid by this act out of the Moneys treasury of this state, shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of treas of the comptroller; and the sum of fifteen thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. 1849. CHAPTER XXIX. AN ACT making an Appropriation to the New York Institution for the The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: be paid. Sec. 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, Money to to the treasurer of the New York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary to enable said institution to extinguish the debt incurred for the erection of buildings. applied. SEC. 2. The board of directors of said institution shall apply the How to be money hereby appropriated to the satisfaction of the mortgage held against said institution by the Seamen's Bank for savings in the city of New York, and shall cause said mortgage to be satisfied of record, and a certificate of such satisfaction to be filed in the office of the comptroller. tion. SEC. 3. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof Appropriaas may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. |
