Manual of the Highway Laws of the State of New York: With an Appendix of Forms |
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action aforesaid alter or discontinue amended appeal application appointed authority Barb board of supervisors cause certificate commis commissioners of high commissioners of highways commuted corporation Cortland County county judge county of Rensselaer court damages day of June determination Disosway dollars duly duty encroachment erected fence viewers filed Fort Plain freeholders hereby highway labor injury John Doe jury justice Justice of Peace laid Laws liable mandamus manner Mayor N. Y. Central R. R. necessary notice number of days oath obstruction occupant overseer of highways owner party penalty person plank road private road proceedings public highway railroad re-assess referees refuse or neglect remove RENSSELAER COUNTY repair resident road district roads and bridges sidewalk sioners of highways specified statute street summons sworn therein thereof thereto tion town clerk town of Schodack town of Watervliet turnpike Turnpike Co undersigned Wend width witnesses
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Page 118 - ... and to be filed and recorded in the office of the town clerk, who shall note the time of recording the same.
Page 222 - ... it should be fully understood that the defendant could not legally carry on any part of his business in the public street to the annoyance of the public; that the primary object of the street was for the free passage of the public, and anything which impeded that free passage without necessity was a nuisance...
Page 154 - It shall be the duty of the judges to convene at the time and place mentioned in the notice, and to hear the proofs and allegations of the parties. They shall have power to issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses, and may adjourn from time to time, as may be necessary. Their decision, or that of any two of them, shall be conclusive in the premises...
Page 64 - ... to its former state, or to such state as not unnecessarily to have impaired its usefulness.
Page 103 - Every person liable to work on the highways shall work the whole number of days for which he shall have been assessed, but every such person, other than an overseer...
Page 67 - The commissioners of highways, whenever they shall think it necessary or useful, may direct and empower any overseer of highways in their respective towns, to procure a good and sufficient iron or...
Page 32 - To cause the highways, and the bridges which are or may be erected over streams intersecting highways, to be kept in repair : 5.
Page 149 - ... shall be sworn by some officer authorized to take affidavits to be read in courts of record, faithfully to hear and determine the matters referred to them.
Page 193 - ... thereon, or annexed thereto, an affidavit made by at least three of the directors named in said articles, that the amount of stock required by this section has been in good faith subscribed, and ten per cent paid in cash thereon as aforesaid, and that it is intended in good faith to construct or to maintain and operate the road...
Page 99 - Whenever any tenant of any land, for a less term than twenty-five years, shall be assessed to work on the highways for such land, and shall actually perform such work or commute therefor, he shall be entitled to a deduction from the rent due or to become due from him for such land, equal to the full amount of such assessment, estimating the same at the rate of one dollar per day, unless otherwise provided for by agreement between the tenant and his landlord.