Commissioners of fice autho lands in Price per Chap. 481. AN ACT te authorize the Commissioners of the Land Office to sell certain real estate, escheated to the State, in the town of Jerusalem, Yates county. Passed April 30, 1868; by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Commissioners of the Land Office are the land of hereby authorized to sell and convey, at private conrized to sell tract and sale, all the right, title and interest of the Jerusalem. People of the State of New York, of, in and to the premises situate in the town of Jerusalem, Yates county, which escheated to the State on the death of John L. Alcooke, on such terms as shall be for the best interest of the State. The premises shall not be sold for a less sum than fifty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents per At least one-third part of the purchase price shall be paid in cash when the certificate of sale is made. If any part of the price is unpaid when the grant is executed, the payment of it, with interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, shall be secured by a mortgage on the premises. acre. Terms of sale. acre. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 482. AN ACT authorizing any Life Insurance Company, or any Trust or Loan Company to invest their funds in bonds issued by any county, town or village of this State, pursuant to any law of this State. Passed April 30, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any life insurance company, or any trust or loan company, may, by the direction and consent of two-thirds of their respective boards of directors, managers or finance committee purchase, or invest, by loan or otherwise, any of their funds in the bonds issued by any county, town or village of this State, pursuant to any law of this State, anything in the charter of either of said companies to the contrary, notwithstanding. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 483. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Inebriates' Home for Kings county," passed May ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Passed April 30, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Inebriates' Home for Kings county," passed May ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Board, to 000 to pay $200, briate's Home." Money to be applied erecting §4. The Treasurer of the Board of Excise, in and for Metropolithe Metropolitan Police District of the State of New tan Excise York, shall pay to the treasurer of the said "Inebriates' Home," the sum of two hundred thousand dollars of the "Ine first moneys hereafter received by said board of excise, for licenses granted under said excise law to persons carrying on business in the county of Kings, which amount is hereby appropriated to said "Home," to be applied to the erection and furnishing of suitable buildings for the towards same, and improving the grounds belonging thereto, and buildings, no other purpose. After the payment to said "Home" of the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars, the treasurer of said board of Excise shall pay annually Excise thereafter to the treasurer of said "Home," the sum of Board to ten thousand dollars, out of the excise money as aforesaid, to be applied to the maintenance of the same, and nually for no other purpose. All fines hereafter collected for violations of said excise law, in the county of Kings, shall be paid to the treasurer of said " Home," in the etc. pay to said thereafter. Fines col lected for violation of excise law in Kings county to be paid to "Home." manner hereinafter stated. The justices of the peace of the city of Brooklyn, and police justices and justices in the towns in Kings county, are hereby required to pay to the treasurer of said "Home," quarter yearly, all moneys received by them for violations of any of the proJustices of visions of this act. Such payment shall be accompanied the peace by a detailed statement, showing the separate amounts justices to received by them, from whom received, the date when received, and the residence of the party, so far as the same can be ascertained by his examination, and that of the officer making the arrest, which statement shall be verified by the oath of the justice. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. and police render Repeal. Justices of supreme commit ha bitual drunkards § 2. Section seven of said act is hereby repealed. §3. Section three of said act is hereby amended by adding thereto as follows: The justices of the supreme court, in the exercise of court may their jurisdiction, within the county of Kings, shall have power to commit to said "Inebriate Home," for a term not to exceed one year, all persons who, being actual inhabitants of the said county, shall be incapable or unfit for properly conducting their own affairs, in consequence of habitual drunkenness. to "Inebriate's Home." Proceedings under which commitments shall be made. Ibid. Commit § 4. Such commitment shall be made by any of said justices, in any case where the facts referred to in the last preceding section of this act shall be made to appear by petition or complaint, duly verified and presented by any relative of such habitual drunkard, or by any officer of said "Home," or any officer of the Metropolitan Police doing duty within said county, and upon return of a commission issued upon such petition or complaint. § 5. Upon the presentation of such petition or complaint, the justice to whom the same shall be presented, shall proceed thereupon in the same manner as is directed in title two of chapter five, of part two of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, in relation to the care and custody of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, persons of unsound mind, and drunkards, and according to the rules and practice of the supreme court in such cases. § 6. Upon becoming satisfied by return of a commis exceed sion, as heretofore provided, that any person is an habit- ment not to ual drunkard, and incapable, in consequence thereof, of one year. conducting his or her own affairs, said justice shall have power, in his discretion, to issue his warrant, committing the person so found to be an habitual drunkard to the custody of the said "Home," to be detained in the said "Home" for such period, not exceeding one year, as the said justice may deem proper, and such warrant shall be executed by any member of the Metropolitan Police. Any such warrant, duly issued, shall be full and sufficient justification for all acts done by any properly authorized officer, under and in accordance therewith. Such order of commitment may at any time be vacated or modified by any justice of the supreme court, on cause shown. § 7. Any justice before whom proceedings may be Commitpending, under the provisions of this act, may, after bem may filing of any complaint, and when in his judgment the "Home" circumstances of the case render it proper to do so, com- vestigation mit the person charged with being an habitual drunkard sion. to the said "Home," while proceedings on such complaint are pending, and all persons so temporarily committed shall be discharged from said "Home," if, on return of a commission, it shall be determined that they are not proper persons to be detained. der of commay be va mitment cated or modified. ments pending in by commis Cost of supsons comhow to be port of per mitted; § 8. The estate of any person committed to such "Home," and the person committed, shall be liable for the support of such person therein, and the committee every such person shall pay out of his estate such paid. reasonable and proper sum as shall be fixed by the justice ordering the commitment. of inmates to separate have been § 9. In the erection of the buildings provided for in Voluntary the first section of this act, suitable and proper provis- be kept ions shall be made for keeping those who may enter from persaid "Home" voluntarily, separate and apart from those sons who who may be transferred to said "Home" from the jail committed. or penitentiary. Suitable provision shall also be made Sexes to be for keeping the sexes separate and apart. There shall kept apart. be provided, also, a suitable chapel for religious services, Religious which shall be equally free to all religious denomina tions. services. § 10. The money appropriated by the first section of Money for not to be without cers. corpora prove building this act to be applied to the erection and furnishing of expended suitable buildings for said "home," and improving the sanction of grounds belonging thereto, shall not be expended unless certain offi- sanctioned by the mayor and city judge of the city of Brooklyn, and the county judge of the county of Kings, in conjunction with the executive committee of said Trustees of "home," who shall approve of all plans, specifications, tion to ap- and contracts relating to the erection and furnishing said plans, con- buildings and improving said grounds. And the officers tracts, etc. herein named are hereby declared to be members and trustees of said corporation by virtue of their offices, and invested with all the powers of the original incorporators. Annual re- § 11. The president of said home shall, in the month of legislature. January in each year, report to the Legislature the doings of said home for the preceding year, which report shall state the amount of money received and on hand, the sources from whence received, the amount expended and for what expended, the number received into and discharged therefrom, together with such other information as may be deemed of general interest. port to Report; what to state. Jas. S. T. § 12. James S. T. Stranahan is hereby made one of appointed a the incorporators and trustees of the said inebriates' home, in the place of George Hall, deceased. trustee. Closing of Eleventh street. Commissioners to § 13. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap: 484. AN ACT to close Eleventh street, in the city of Brooklyn, and to construct à canal in the place thereof. Passed April 30, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Eleventh street, in the city of Brooklyn, is hereby closed from the northwest side of Second avenue to the Gowanus canal. § 2. The commissioners for improving Gowanus canal Construct appointed by the act entitled "An act to improve the Gowanus canal in the city of Brooklyn," passed April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and their canal therein. |