city of New York; the use of said buildings upon completion to be transferred to said corporation for the purposes stated in this act. And for the purpose of providing means therefor, it shall be the duty of the comptroller of the city of New York, upon being thereto requested by said commissioners, and upon being authorized thereto by the board of estimate and apportionment, to issue and sell at not less than their par value bonds or stock of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, in the manner now provided by law, payable from taxation, aggregating the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three per centum per annum, and to be redeemed within a period of time not longer than thirty years from the date of their issue. (As amended by Laws 1894, Chapter 103.) SEC. 6. The grounds set apart as above provided, shall be used for no other purpose than authorized by this act; and no intoxicating liquors shall be sold or allowed thereon. For police purposes, and for the maintenance of proper roads and walks, the said grounds shall remain subject at all times to the control of the said board of commissioners of the department of parks; but otherwise after the suitable laying out of the same, and the construction of proper roads and walks therein by the department of parks, the said grounds and buildings shall be under the management and control of the said corporation. The said grounds shall be open and free to the public daily, including Sundays, subject to such restrictions only as to hours as the proper care, culture and preservation of the said garden may require; and its educational and scientific privileges shall be open to all alike, male and female, upon such necessary regulations, terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the managers of those departments. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN AVENUES AND STREETS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. PASSED APRIL 5, 1892. LAWS OF 1892, CHAPTER 230. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the counsel to the corporation and the board of street openings of the city of New York, to take the necessary means and proceedings to open the following streets in said city: One Hundred and Twenty-first Street, from Amsterdam Avenue to the Boulevard. No street, road or avenue shall hereafter be laid out or opened through or upon any part of the lands and premises lying between Amsterdam Avenue and the Boulevard and One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth streets, in the city of New York, whenever and so long as the same shall be owned or occupied for educational purposes by the trustees of Columbia College in the city of New York; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to interfere with the opening of One Hundred and Sixteenth street after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and that the said, the trustees of Columbia College in the city of New York, shall dedicate without claim or award for damages the northerly one-half of the land required for said street so far as the said street forms the southerly boundary of the aforesaid first mentioned lands and premises, and for street purposes a strip of land forty feet in width on the southerly side of One Hundred and Twentieth street, from Amsterdam avenue to the Boulevard, § 2. All the laws now in force in said city in relation to the opening and improvement of streets and avenues, and the payment and the assessment of the expense thereof shall apply to the said streets; provided, however, that nothing contained in any act shall authorize the discontinuance of any proceedings which may be taken to open the said streets. § 3. All motions and applications for the appointment of commissioners in said proceedings may be made at any special term of the supreme court held in and for the city and county of New York. Upon the coming in and confirmation by the court of the report of such commissioners, the commissioner of public works shall proceed and actually open, grade, regulate, pave and improve said streets. § 4. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed, so far as the same interfere or are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT TO PERMIT THE UNION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The People of the State of New PASSED MARCH 24, 1891. York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York, having arranged with Columbia college in said city to assume the instruction now given by the said College of Physicians and Surgeons as a department of the work of Columbia college, are hereby authorized and empowered to grant, convey, assign and transfer all real and personal property of which they as such trustees are seized or possessed to the trustees of Columbia college, in the city of New York, upon such terms, conditions or limitations as may be agreed upon between the two institutions. SEC. 2. The regents of the university of the state of New York, upon being satisfied that the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons have conveyed and transferred all their property, pursuant to the authority herein before conferred, may accept a surrender of the charter heretofore granted by the said regents to the said College of Physicians and Surgeons, and forever discharge the said trustees from their trusts in the premises. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT TO RATIFY THE UNION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND TO DEFINE CERTAIN RIGHTS, DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE DEAN OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. PASSED MARCH 6, 1894. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate ana Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The union of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York with the Trustees of Columbia College in the city of New York, pursuant to chapter one hundred and one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to permit the union of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York with the Trustees of Columbia College in the city of New York," is hereby ratified and confirmed; and the Trustees of Columbia college are hereby substituted as successors to and as trustees in the place and stead of the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the execution of any and all trusts now vested in or which may hereafter devolve upon the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; and the dean of the medical faculty of Columbia College and his successors are hereby declared to be the successors in office of the president of the managing board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York, with all the rights, powers and duties heretofore conferred upon or vested in the president of the managing board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his successors in office by chapter four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to incorporate the Roosevelt Hospital in the city of New York," or by any other act of the Legislature or by deed or will. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |