This Act not to confer police authority over streets. the levy above referred to, or of a sale therefor, and the same shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of said Assessment Commissioners, they may apportion the amount assessed thereon between the owners of the respective parts thereof; and all provisions of law applicable to the redemption of lands from sales for taxes and assessment shall apply to the several interests and amounts so apportioned. And if any person interested in the property so assessed or any part thereof so to be apportioned, shall pay to the said Comptroller, for the use of the sinking fund, the balance of assessment remaining due thereon, with interest to the time of payment, the lien of the assessment on that particular portion of property shall cease. And upon the production of the Comptroller's receipts therefor, any person in charge of the assessment roll shall note such facts in the margin thereof, and the property shall thenceforth be exempt from levy and sale for such assessment. (a) § 6. Nothing contained in this act, or in any other act which confers authority upon said Park Commissioners, shall be so construed so as to confer any police authority upon them over any street specified in this act, but the said streets shall be and remain under the jurisdiction of the municipal authorities of the said city. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. (a) Section 5, amended by §4, Chapter 588, Laws 1874. AN ACT to provide for the collection of unpaid assessments which have been laid under an act entitled, "An Act to provide for widening the Coney Island plank road, in the county of Kings, and for the subsequent management thereof," passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Passed June 14, 1873, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: property upon which assessunpaid. ments remain SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any collector of as- Collector may sessments appointed, or to be appointed by the Brook-procent to sell lyn Park Commissioners, under the provisions of an act entitled, "An Act to provide for widening the Coney Island plank road, in the county of Kings, and for the subsequent management thereof," passed May 15, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to proceed to sell the several parcels of property upon which assessments for opening or improving the said road shall remain unpaid after the expiration of the term limited for payment by the terms of the said act at public auction for the lowest term of years for which any person will take the same, and pay the amount so remaining unpaid, with interest, from the time of the confirmation of the assessment report, tegether with five per cent. for collector's fees, and three per cent. in addition for the expenses of advertising and sale, the said collector first giving thirty days' notice of the time and place of sale by publishing the Notice to be same in two daily newspapers printed in the city of given. Brooklyn, twice a week, for three weeks. Upon a sale being made the said collector shall give certificates of Certificates of sale to purchasers, and shall also execute and deliver conveyances of the land so purchased unless the same shall have been redeemed by an owner, lessee or mortgagee thereof within two years from the time of sale by paying to the purchaser, or to the said Brooklyn Park Commissioners for his use, the amount paid by him, with interest at the rate of fifteen per cent. per annum. The said certificates of sale shall be recorded by the purchasers in the office of the register in and for the county of Kings, and shall constitute liens upon the premises therein described after the To be recorded, same shall have been so recorded, and shall take etc. pre sale. cedence of all other liens, except for unpaid taxes or assessments. And all interest to be collected at the said sale shall be credited and paid pro rata among all parties entitled to receive awards upon the said opening. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An act in relation to the widening of the Coney Island plank-road, in the county of Kings," passed May eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Passed June 14, 1873. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The third section of the act entitled, "An act in relation to the widening of the Coney Island plank-road, in the county of Kings," passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. The said road, so to be widened, shall not exceed one hundred feet in width, and shall embrace a sidewalk not exceeding twenty feet in width on each side thereof, except on the easterly side, between the city line and the circle at the south-westerly angle of Prospect Park. where the sidewalk shall be thirty feet in width, and the owners or occupants of land facing on said road, except the city of Brooklyn, may occupy six feet in width adjoining their premises, for court yards or areas, within which to erect porches or stoops to their houses, provided they will inclose the same with good and sufficient iron or picket fences, not exceeding five feet in height. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Width of road, etc. Collector may sell property upon which assessments 66 AN ACT to provide for the collection of the unpaid assessments which have been laid under an act entitled, 'An act to lay out and improve a public highway or avenue from Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn, toward Coney Island, in the county of Kings,' passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixtynine. Passed June 18, 1873, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any collector of as sessments, appointed or to be appointed by the Brooklyn Park Commissioners, under the provisions of an act remain unpaid. entitled, "An act to lay out and improve a public highway or avenue from Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn, toward Coney Island, in the county of Kings," passed April eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to proceed to sell the several parcels of property upon which the assessments for opening said avenue shall remain unpaid after the expiration of the time limited for payment by the ninth section of the said act, at public auction, for the lowest term of years for which any person will take the same and pay the amount so remaining unpaid, with interest from the time of the confirmation of the assessment report, together with five per cent. for collector's fees, and three per cent. in addition for the expenses of advertising and sale, the said collector first giving thirty days' notice of the time and place of sale, by publishing the same in two daily newspapers printed in the city of Brooklyn twice a week for three weeks. Upon a sale being made, the said collector shall give certificates of sale to purchasers, and shall also execute and deliver conveyances of the lands so purchased, unless the same shall have been redeemed by an owner, lessee or mortgagee thereof within two years from the time of sale, by paying to the purchaser, or to the said Brooklyn Park Commissioners, for his use, the amount paid by him, with interest at the rate of fifteen per cent. per annum. To be recorded. The said certificates of sale shall be recorded by the purchasers in the office of the register of deeds in and for the county of Kings, and shall constitute liens upon the premises therein described, after the same shall have been so recorded, and shall take precedence of all other Notice of sale. Certificates of sale. |