Year: 1879

of pronerty when such is taken for public
damage done to the same, provides that the once or
canal appraiser is hereby abolished aud the DOCKS
and papers pertaining the Office shall heneeforth
be in the custody of the Superintendent OF Pubic
Works. All claims for canal damages ana al notices
and papers pertaining thereto shall hereafter be
served upon the superintendent OF Puoilc WORKS.
and all notices required Of the canal appraisers shall
be served by said superintendent and he Is hereby
invested with all the powers and duties OF the
canal appraisers, subject to the provisions
contained in this act Damages and compensation
for property appropriated for damaged by the
canals unless agreed upon and adjusted by and be-
tween the owners and the superintendent shall pe
ascertained and appraised by three commissioners,
to be appointed by the county judge OF the county
where the property is located upon the Application
OF the superintendent of Public Works. and IN no
shall their term of Office exceed three months.
Such application and appointment may be for sin
gle claim, for several for all claims pending in
the same county ut the discretion Of the superin-
tendent. Subp1nas to compel the attendance OF
witnesses to testify on such hearings may
be issued by any justice of the peace
of the county we'll in behalf of the State of tho
claimants. and such subp1nas may be served in like
manner and with like effect in all respects sub
panas issued of the County Court for attendance
the trial of issue therein. The Commissioners of
M he or Every
shall be reduced to writing read and subscribed
by the witness. and the same with the awards and
be filed in the County Clerks office of the
county where the property is situated, and every
the property for which such award made. When
the award is for the full value of the property ap
proPriated or damased then the title OF the same
time record the same in the book of deeds. For
these services the clerk shall be entitled to fees from
the State to the amount as for similar services
for individuals. The Office Of the Commissioners
OF Appraisal shall expire upon the filing OF
their awards upon the several claims upon
be entitled to compensation at the rate OF
S. per day for every day OF actual services. Com
pensaton for official services required by this act
shall be paid by the superintendent of Public Works
out of the proper funds appropriated therefor upon
the presentation OF verified accounts thereof sasfac
tory to him az to form and amount. Appeals may be
made from the awards and decisions of the Commits
within sixty days after filing Of the awards deci
sions notice of appeal stating the grounds thereof.
upon the Superintendent of Public Works who shall
thereupon cause copy OF the returns of the ap-
praisers filed in the County Clerk s Office to be filed
with the auditor clerk of the Canal Board. and


PILoTAGE.


Mr.. Mooer's bill in relation to pilotage in the har-
Dor of New York provides that the fees for plotng
to and from the port of New York by the way
of Sandy Hook shall be as For every vessel
inward bound and not exempt from pilotage by any
law of this State regulation Hereunder drawing
less than fourteen feet of water 50 rs per FOOT for
every vessel drawing fourteen feet and upward 81 50
per foot. The pilotage on % vessels % outward bound
less than fourteen feet. So 90 per foot;
for every vessel drawing fourteen feet Of
relative to the pilots of the channel of the East River
commonly called He'll Gate. provides that any of the
pilots of the said channel who shall first tender his
any sailing vessel steamer under regis


ter to any vessel travelling between New York and
a foreign port, either inward outward bound.
shall whether accepted refused be entitled to the
pilotage established by law; but pilotage
shall be charged to any vessel under a coasting
license unless such vessel actually employs pilot
POINTS HOUSE INDUSTRY.


Mr. Hayes bill copferring certain powers on the
Five Points House of Industry. in the city of New
York. provides that the trustees Of the Five Points
House of Industry, an asylum for homeless and or
phan children. located in the city Of New York.
hereby authorized and empowered TO adopt into fam
lilies any orphan, half orphan or destitute child who
Of one year unprovided for. in said
child be under ten years of age. or
six months in of any child ten
years old. The Board Of Estimate and Apportion
of the city of New York SHALL i'll the year 1879
and every year thereafter include in the tax levy
said city, at the time and in the same manner
the contingent charges and expenses Of the city and
county levied and collected and pay over t. the
Five Points House of Industry in the city of New
York. the sum of SO per week for each and every or
phan half orphan and destitute child received and
supported by said institution the expense OF whose
support is not paid by private parties.


INSURANCE. MATTERS.


Mr.. Fish offered q resolution calling on the
pany Of Albany to send in detailed statement of
! the receipts and disbursements, to whom moneys
have been paid together with list of the securities
which have come into his hands. and much other
| like Information. Adopted. On motion of Mr..
Strahan, the Judiciary Committee, in the matter Of
| the inquiry to the Mutual Life Insurance Cpmpa-
nys rebate plan given to send for persons
and papers, hold sessions elsewhere than in this
| city and to employ stenographer.