each day remove or cause to be removed any snow or ice which may have fallen or accumulated on such sidewalk in front of or along any such lot, land or premises; and in case of neglect or refusal so to do, the city superintendent of public works may forthwith remove the same, and the expense thereof shall be a lien upon said premises. The superintendent of public works shall then give notice of the expense of such removal to the owner, requiring the payment thereof to the city treasurer within ten days after the service of such notice. Written notice thereof shall be served upon the owner personally, or inclosed in a postpaid wrapper and deposited in the postoffice addressed to such owner, at his last known postoffice address. If such expense be not paid to the city treasurer within the time prescribed therefor, the city superintendent of public works shall, on or before the first day of April in each year, unless such expense has been paid, file his affidavit of such expense with the city clerk who shall deliver the same to the assessor on or before the first day of June in each year, and the same, together with interest thereon at the rate of twelve per centum per annum from the date of filing such affidavit added thereto, shall thereupon be assessed by the assessors upon the premises in front of or along which such sidewalk is situated, at the same time the annual tax assessment is made by the assessors, and included in said annual tax assessment roll and collected in the same manner as the city taxes are collected, with interest thereon at the rate of twelve per centum per annum from the date of such assessment. § 12. Limitation of act. This act shall not supersede or repeal any provision of chapter five hundred and fifty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or of chapter eight hundred and sixteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, or of chapter three hundred and seven of the laws of nineteen hundred, or any of the acts amendatory of any such laws, but the town board of the town of Tonawanda and the supervisors of the town and city of Tonawanda shall respectively continue to exercise the power and authority conferred by such statutes. All valid obligations created or issued under any of said acts shall continue obligations of said city and town; and if new bonds are issued by the supervisor, they shall become the obligations of the town and city of Tonawanda to the same extent as if this act had not been passed. § 13. Laws repealed.-Chapter twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Tonawanda" and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto are hereby repealed, and all statutes of this state and ordinances of the city of Tonawanda, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any right already existing or accrued, or any liability incurred by reason of the violation of any law heretofore existing, or any suit or proceeding already instituted, or action had under the laws or ordinances, unless otherwise expressly provided in this act. § 14. Charter takes effect. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 358. AN ACT for the regulation of fares of electric railroads in and between the cities of Rensselaer and Albany, New York, and to provide for the issue of transfer tickets thereon. Became a law, May 1, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: railroads in cities laer to fare points within cities. Section 1. No company, corporation or person, owning or oper- Electric ating an electric railroad in or between the cities of Albany and operating Rensselaer in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer, New and Rese York, or in either of such cities, or any part of such railroad or charge one railroads, or any connecting or intersecting or continuing branch between thereof, nor any lessee, assignee, or transferee of such railroad said or railroads, or any part or parts thereof, from the owner or owners operating the same as such owner or owners, lessee, assignee or transferee, shall charge any passenger more than five cents for one continuous ride from any point on such road or roads, or on any road, or line, or branch, or part thereof, within the limits of said cities so owned, leased, controlled and operated, to any other point thereon, or on any connecting, intersecting or continuing branch thereof within the limits of said cities in the Transfers to be issued upon request of passengers. Penalty for counties of Rensselaer and Albany, and not more than one fare shall be charged for passage over such road or roads, and any branch or extension thereof, within the limits of the said cities in said counties of Rensselaer and Albany, and such person, company or corporation, being the owner or owners, or lessee or assignee and operating the same shall issue, upon request, to each passenger riding upon such road or roads, branch or extension thereof, or part operated, owned, assigned, leased or held and operated by said person, company, or corporation, a transfer ticket entitling the holder thereof to ride to any other point upon the said road or roads, or branch, extension or part thereof, owned, leased, assigned, held or operated by such person, company or corporation, without additional fare therefor. § 2. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any company, corporation or person, so violating, shall, upon trial and conviction therefor, be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by impris onment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. And for every refusal to comply with the requirements of this section, the company, corporation or person so refusing shall forfeit fifty dollars to the aggrieved party. § 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 359. AN ACT to amend the navigation law, relative to fees for ininspections and licenses. Became a law, May 1, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Chapter five hundred and ninety-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven entitled, "An act in relation to navigation, constituting chapter thirty of the general laws," is hereby amended by inserting in article one thereof a new section to be known as section thirty-four and to read as follows: § 34. Fees for inspections and licenses. The owner of a vessel inspected and certified as provided in this article, shall pay to the inspectors for each vessel under ten tons burden, five dollars; for each vessel over ten and under twenty tons burden, seven dollars and fifty cents; for each vessel over twenty and under fifty tons burden, ten dollars; for each vessel over fifty and under one hundred tons burden, twelve dollars and fifty cents; on all vessels over one hundred tons burden, twenty-five dollars. Each person licensed shall pay five dollars for each original license and three dollars for each renewal thereof. All moneys received by the inspectors for examinations, licenses or renewals of licenses shall be by them turned over to the superintendent of public works within thirty days of the receipt thereof. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 360. AN ACT to amend section sixty-two of the public lands law, relating to releases of escheated lands by the commissioners of the land office. Became a law, May 1, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section sixty-two of chapter three hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, known as the public lands law, constituting chapter eleven of the general laws, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 62. Conveyance to petitioner.-The commissioners may in their discretion, if they deem it just to all persons interested, execute, in the name of the state, a conveyance on such terms and conditions as the commissioners deem just, releasing to such petitioners the interest of the state so acquired in such real property so sought to be released. A conveyance so made to any such petitioner who is a parent, child, surviving husband or widow of any such owner of any interest therein immediately prior to the escheat, or the heirs-at-law of any such surviving husband or widow, shall be without consideration, if the value, at the date of the petition, as determined by the commissioners, of all the property of any such owner escheated to the state and not conveyed or released by the state, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and of the property sought to be released shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. The conveyance shall contain a brief recital of the determinations required to be made by the commissioners on the hearing of the petition, and of all the terms and conditions on which the conveyance is made. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 361. AN ACT to authorize trustees of the village of Sag Harbor, Suffolk county, to construct and maintain a wharf in such village. Became a law, May 1, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The trustees of the village of Sag Harbor in the county of Suffolk, are hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain a wharf and dock adjacent to land in the town of Easthampton, lying in the port of Sag Harbor, and to extend into the bay or harbor, not to exceed five hundred feet from high-water mark, and not to exceed two hundred feet in width, in all respects in accordance with a proposition duly adopted at the annual village election held March twenty-first, Village may nineteen hundred and five, and to charge and receive reasonable wharfage and dockage from persons or corporations using such dockage. dock. The legislature may at any time hereafter regulate the rates of wharfage and dockage in such manner as it may deem just and reasonable. receive wharfage and Sale or lease of dock § 2. The trustees of the village of Sag Harbor, county of prohibited. Suffolk, shall not dispose of said land, wharf or dock, by lease or otherwise, unless a proposition duly submitted at an annual or special village election shall be adopted by at least two-thirds of the votes cast upon such proposition. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |