Power to extend pro. visions of this act. Mayor may revoke ARTICLE 4th. GENERAL PROVISIONS. § 29. Whenever it shall appear to the board of health that any of the provisions of this act, limited in their operations to a certain period of the year, ought to be extended, the mayor of the city shall issue his proclamation extending such provisions to such time as shall be determined on by said board, and such provisions shall thereupon be extended accordingly and with the like effect as if the periods mentioned in the proclamation had been herein enacted. § 30. If it shall appear to the board of health, while such proclamation proclamation is still in force, that the necessity of extending the period therein named has ceased, the mayor by a new proclamation, declaring that fact, shall revoke the proclamation issued, pursuant to the preceding section, which shall then cease to have effect. Fines and penalties to whom paid. All offences ed to District' § 31. All fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in this act or under the powers delegated therein, shall be paid to the health commissioners to and for the use of the city of New York, and such as are recoverable by suit shall be sued for by the commissioners of health, in their name of office, unless otherwise herein provided. § 32. It shall be the duty of the mayor and the commisto be report- sioners of health, and of each of them, to give information Att'y to be to the district attorney of the city and county of New York, of all offences against the provisions of this act that shall come to their knowledge, that he may prosecute the offenders without delay in the court of sessions of the city. prosecuted. Death of to abate suit. § 33. No suit that shall be brought by the board of commisofficers not sioners of health or the health officer or city inspector, in their respective names of office, in pursuance of the authority given in this act, shall abate on account of the death of the officer or officers by whom the same shall be commenced. Declaratory. Act to be distributed. § 34. The provisions of the foregoing titles of this act shall extend to all diseases which in the opinion of the board of health or of the mayor and commissioners of health, shall be deemed dangerous to the public health; and nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the remedies against nuisances provided by the common law. § 35. The mayor and the commissioners of health shall printed and from time to time cause such parts as they shall deem necessary of this act to be printed, and shall deliver the same to the respective pilots of the port for distribution to the masters of vessels subject to quarantine. Duties of § 36. It shall be the special duty of all magistrates and civil officers, and of all citizens of the state, to aid to the magistrates. utmost of their power the board of health and all the health officers mentioned in this act, in the performance of their respective duties. § 37. Bills of health to masters of vessels shall be granted Bills of by the mayor. health. § 38. The act entitled "An act concerning quarantine and Repeal. But nothing contained in this act shall be construed as re- Chap. 276. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorpo- Passed April 10, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in § 1. The sixth section of the act entitled "An act to incor- Rate of tolls § 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Official acts confirmed. Pending suits Chap. 277. AN ACT to confirm the official acts of Joseph Sillman, as justice of the peace of the town of Watson. Passed April 10, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The official acts of Joseph Sillman, as justice of the peace of the town of Watson in the county of Lewis, since the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, are hereby confirmed and declared to be of the same force and effect as if he had taken the oath required by law before the fifteenth day of January eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and all penalties incurred by him by reason of having discharged the duties of said office without having taken the oath required by law, before the fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, are hereby remitted. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to not affected. affect any suit or proceeding commenced before the passage thereof. Contractors give bonds pay their laborers. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 278. AN ACT to secure the payment of wages to laborers, employed on the canals and other public works of this state. Passed April 10, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. It shall be the duty of any canal commissioner or required to to other officer having charge of the letting of any contract for work on any of the canals or other public works of this state, to require and take, in addition to the bond now required by law for the security of the state, a bond with good and sufficient sureties not less than two, conditioned that such contractor shall well and truly pay in full, at least once in each month, all laborers employed by him on the work specified in such contract, which bond shall be duly acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and filed by the officer taking the same, in the office Bond where of the clerk of the county, wherein such work or contract is filed. to be performed. And when such work shall be partly in two or more counties, there shall be such a bond filed in the clerk's office of each county. § 2. Suits may be commenced on said bond before a jus- Bonds when tice of the peace, when the amount claimed shall not exceed prosecuted. the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and a transcript of such bond, duly authenticated by the county clerk, may be used in evidence in such suit. brought. §3. The bringing of a suit by one or more laborers, Suits how upon such bond, shall not operate as a bar to the bringing of other suits thereon, by any of the parties for whose benefit such bond was taken, and to whom such contractor shall be indebted for labor. But no recourse shall be had to the sureties upon such bond, unless proceedings shall be commenced within thirty days after the completion of the labor, the payment of which is secured by such bond. But nothing in this act contained shall prevent or bar a suit against such contractor within the time limited by law. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 279. AN ACT to confirm the official acts of Wylys Cady, as commissioner of highways of Pittsfield, Otsego county. Passed April 10, 1850.. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: confirmed. § 1. The official acts of Wylys Cady, as commissioner of Official acts highways of the town of Pittsfield, in the county of Otsego, in pursuance of his election to that office in the year 1847, and during his term of office in pursuance of said election, are hereby declared as legal and valid as if said Wylys Cady had filed his official bond within the time prescribed by law: Provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall Proviso, affect any suit which may have been instituted against said Wylys Cady before the passage of this act. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Commissioners appointed When to meet and determine amount of damages, Chap. 280. AN ACT authorizing the appointment of commissioners to appraise the damages of William George Barnhart, Jacob Barnhart, George Robertson, George Gallinger, and George Snetzinger in consequence of their being dispossessed of certain lands by this state. دو Passed April 10, 1850, "three-fifths being present.' The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Bishop Perkins, George Reddington and John Fine, all of the county of St. Lawrence, are hereby appointed commissioners to appraise the damages sustained by William George Barnhart, Jacob Barnhart, George Robertson, George Gallinger and George Snetzinger, in consequence of their being dispossessed under a conveyance from the state of New York of a certain island in the river St. Lawrence, known as Barnhart island, which they held by virtue of a lease from St. Regis Indians, with the assent of the British government, while under their jurisdiction. § 2. Said commissioners shall meet in the county of St. Lawrence, at such time and place as they may designate, within ninety days from the passage of this act, to hear, examine and determine, at the expense of the persons hereinafter named, what would be an equitable compensation for damages sustained by the said William George Barnhart, Jacob Barnhart, George Robertson, George Gallinger and George Snetzinger, in consequence of the sale and their having been dispossessed of their improvements on said island by and under a conveyance from the state of New.York. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 281. AN ACT to repeal the law appointing commissioners of the Code. Passed April 10, 1850. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 4, 5 and 6 § 1. Sections four, five, six and seven of the act chapter of chap. 312, three hundred and twelve of the session laws of 1849, entirepealed. tled "an act to appoint commissioners further to revise, re laws of 1849 |