New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-10
FROM ALBANY.
From Our Own Correspondent.

| ALBANY, March Q, 1858.
A report was presented to the SENATE to-day,
| from the Committee on Cities and Villages, accom-
| panied by bill 10 amend the act to provide the
City of Brooklyn with pure water, which provides
for the addition of general tax on the City of
Brooklyn Of $4,000 yearly, TO be paid to the Com
mssioners of the Sinking Fund, and to be appro-
priated to the redemption of the Water Bonds.
The bill also enacts that there shall be added TO
| the general tax on and after the year 1860 such
further sums as may be necessary to supply any de-
fciencies i'll the income to meet annual expenses,
interest on bonds &C., for which estimates shall be
furnished by the Mayor and COuncilmen.
The bill was referred to the Committee of the
Whole.
Mr. ELY, on notice, introduced bill to alter the
Commissioners map Of the City of Brooklyn
to discontinue and close up Bedford Greer and per-
nit the owners of the land lying within its limits to
improve and build upon the same.
Mr.. SPINOLA introduced bill to provide for the
widening opening, grading and paving part Of
Montgomery street in Brooklyn, and to change its
name to Boundary avenue.
The bill eDacts that all that part of Montgomery
street lying in the City of Brooklyn and the Village
of Flatbush which extends between Flatbush av-
enue and NOstrand avenue as laid down on the
Commissioners map be laid out as a street 100 feet
wide. and to be called Boundary avenue. The
southern line is to remain the same as that fixed by
the Commissioners map, and the northerly line
parallel Herewith and 100 feet distant.
The bill provides at length for assessing the eN-
pense and for making the Improvement, and pro-
ydes also that the said street shall be the boundary
line between the City of Brooklyn and the Village
of Flaibush. The bill was referred to the Com
mttee on Cities and Villages.
Mr. FOOTF introduced bill authorizing the in
| habitants of each School District 10 purchase
s.Charts of the Animal Kingdom" for the use of
schools Referred to the Committee on Literature.
Mr. MATHER introduced bill to so amend the
act incorporating the New-York College of Veteri-
nary Surgeons MS to add Ia the Trustees the names
of Thomas Adds Emmett, Richard Kelly. Timothy
A. Howe, John 5. McCulloh and James RidgeWay;
to provide that the Board of Examiners or CensOrs
Of said College shall be elected by its Faculty from
the Faculties respectively of the Medical Colleges
of the City of New-YOrk other medical or vet'
rinary medical practitioners; and that the Trus-
| tees shall appoint Professors and such other in
| strucors may be necessary, subject to removal
| for adequate cause
Mr. JOHNSON introduced a bill to revive the
| ALBANY and New Baltimore Ship Canal and Basin
| Company, with capital stock OF $500 OOO and the
privilege Of increasing il to 81 800, OOO
The following gentlemen are named as Directors
till such time as their successors may be elected,
| yz
Messrs. Eli Perry, William v. Many, Erastus Corn
inc Josiah Ii. Plumb Lansing Pruyn; Orlando Mead
| Nis,cber Ten Eyck James u. WadswOrth, Robert H.
Pruyp William r. BleeCker. David j. Boyd, John V.
| Wilder, Samuel II. Ransom, Jacob H. Shear, and Ed
| ward +. Kendrck.
| Mr.. OWEN, from the Brooklyn Assessment In
yestigatng Committee, reported the evidence taken
before the Committee, which amounts practically TO
| nothing.
The report was adopted the Committee dis
charged and 500 copies Of the report were ordered
| to he printed.
| The Assessment bill which has created this ex-
element has been fixed and amended by the
Assembly and the Conference Committee, that,
should it pass in lis present shape, its practical
| effect will be t. estOp all public improvement in
Brooklyn till such time as the law shall be repealed,
| or its provisions violated or eyaded.
The Senate spent most of It's long session to-day
| in considering, in Committee of the Whole, Mr..
Slows bill to prevent free passes on railroads. With
out making much progress. Strenuous efforts were
made by Senator SPiNOLA and Others so to amend
the bill as to exclude from dead-head privileges
| only members of the Legislature, State officers,
| Judges, city officers AM town Assessors.
number of amendments tending to moddy the
bill in respect To persons OIL er than public officers
were discussed and voted down, and one permitting
stockholders to ride free to and from meeting for
the election of Directors was adopted.
The Committee finally reported progress and
| asked leave IL SIT dgaln.
The following bills We're passed:
To amend the Revised Statutes relative to proven
tion ard punishment of CRIME
| To increase the number of Notaree Public in the
| City Of New-Iork.
In the ASSEMBLY to-day. the Hon. NATHAN
BOUToN of Cortland County. stated that he had
voted for the Kansas resolutions and AS his name
did not appear on the list he desired the Journal Il
be so amended as TO include his vote in the afirma
tive, which was ordered.
The SPEAKER referred the several portions O.
the Governors Message 10 appropriate Committees
and also referred the bill To abolish the Office q
New.Iork City Judge to Messrs. Seeley. Winnie
| Jeremiah Chanler and Moore of your city
+ The bill TO make School District No. in Pom
fret Dunkirk) Union Free School was taken up il
Committee of the Whole, and elected quite sharl
debate. in which it was charged that the opposition
TO if was entirely nstigated by the railroad com
panits. which, having much property in that village
object to being taxed for the education of other pee
MES Young uns The bill was finally ordered to
| third reading.
NJ, RICHARDS rose to II question Of privileg
and asked the removal of a couple Of reporter