This Act (Laws 1917, Ch. 668) shall be known as the “Supplemental Charter of the City of Binghamton.”
The citizens of the State of New York from time to time inhabitants of the territory in the County of Broome, included in the boundaries set forth in § C-3 hereof, and known as the "City of Binghamton" are to continue a municipal corporation in perpetuity under the name of "The City of Binghamton."
[Laws 1950, Ch. 651, § 1[1]]
The territory in the County of Broome included within the following boundaries shall constitute the City of Binghamton: Commencing at the southeast corner of lot 23 in Bingham's patent; running thence northerly along the east line of said lot to the north line of said patent; thence westerly along said north line to a point in said line 500 feet east from the northwest corner of lot 25 in said patent; thence northwesterly in a straight line to the intersection of the east line of the lands of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Company with the dividing line between lots 2 and 3 in Clinton and Melcher's patent, being the southeast corner of the Village of Port Dickinson: thence westerly along said dividing line to the west bank of the Chenango River; thence southerly along said west bank to the center line of Bevier Street extended to said west bank of said river; thence westerly and parallel to the north line of Bingham's patent about 3,070 feet to an iron set in the ground in the east line of Ely Park, so called; thence north five degrees seventeen minutes west, 194 feet, more or less, to an iron set in the ground; thence south eighty-five degrees two minutes east, 712.51 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence north seven degrees eighteen minutes east, 514 feet to a twin oak; thence north eleven degrees two minutes west, 374 feet to a rock oak; thence north thirty-one degrees sixteen minutes west, 294.31 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence north eighty-five degrees thirteen minutes west, 135 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence north twenty-eight degrees twenty minutes west, 969 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence north eighty-four degrees thirty-seven minutes west, 3,230 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence south seven degrees eleven minutes west, 787 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence south eighty-four degrees nineteen minutes east, 2,260 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence south twelve degrees thirty minutes west, 800 feet to an iron set in the ground; thence south eleven degrees twenty-six minutes west, 542 feet, more or less, to an iron set in the ground in the extension westerly of the aforesaid line described as parallel to the north line of Bingham's patent; thence westerly and parallel to the north line of Bingham's patent to the west line of lot 32 in the Chenango township, being the east line of the Town of Union; thence, following said Union line, southerly along the west line of said lot 32 to the north line of lot 34 in Bingham's patent; thence westerly along the north line of said lot to the northwest corner thereof; thence southerly along the west line of said lot 34, and the same line continued southerly across the Susquehanna River to the south line of Bingham's patent; thence easterly along said south line to its intersection with the west line of lot 31 in Bingham's patent extended southerly; thence southerly along said line so extended 4,700 feet; thence easterly and parallel to the south line of Bingham's patent to the east line of lot 2 in Sidney or Cooper's patent; thence northerly along said east line to the south line of Bingham's patent; thence easterly along said south line to the southeast corner of lot 13 in Bingham's patent; thence northeasterly to the northeast corner of lot 9 in said patent, and thence diagonally across the Susquehanna River to the place of beginning, reference being had to the map of Bingham's patent recorded in the Broome County Clerk's office in Book of Deeds Number Four, at page 67, excepting all that tract or parcel of land situated in the City of Binghamton, County of Broome, adjoining the Town of Dickinson, County of Broome, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point, the same being a monument at a corner of the City line at Ely Park, being known as C N 3 B having latitude 13589.65 and departure 18456.25 as laid down on a map of the City of Binghamton, New York, thence running S 2° 25' 30" W a distance of 190.0 feet, thence running S 89° 25' 30" W a distance of 1,160.0 feet, thence running S 86° 10' 0" W a distance of 3,451.16 feet to a point on the easterly line of lot No. 34001 as laid down on the assessment map of the City of Binghamton, thence N 1° 21' 30" E a distance of 36.00 feet along the easterly line of said lot to a point of intersection of the City line of the City of Binghamton, thence running N 85° 05' 50" E along the City line a distance of 4,629.43 feet to the point of beginning, the same being a strip of land 190 feet wide on the easterly end and 36.0 feet wide on the westerly end and adjoining the north City line of the City of Binghamton, New York, containing 11.75 acres more or less.
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Editor's Note: Sections 2 and 3 of Laws 1950, Ch. 651 further provided: "The territory excluded from the City of Binghamton by this Act shall be annexed to the Town of Dickinson, Broome County, and school district number four in such town and hereafter shall constitute a part of such town and school district.
"All indebtedness of the City of Binghamton, which is a charge against the territory excluded from such city and annexed to the Town of Dickinson by this act, shall be paid by such city and all unpaid taxes heretofore levied against property within such territory and existing at the time this Act takes effect shall be due and payable and collected, in all respects, in the same manner and with the same force and effect as though this Act had not been enacted. All taxes hereafter levied against property within such territory shall be levied and collected by the Town of Dickinson pursuant to law, and such territory shall in all other respects be subject to the jurisdiction of the town and have the same rights in such town as all other territory of the town."
Unless from the context of the language or otherwise it is apparent that a different meaning or application was intended, the meaning of terms used in this Act (Laws 1917, Ch. 668) shall be as given in the General Construction Law; the word "person" shall be held to include and be coextensive with the words "persons," "company," "joint-stock association," and "corporation"; the word "his" as used in this Act shall, in all proper cases, be held to include and be coextensive with the words "her," "its" or "their"; the word "street" shall be held to include and be coextensive with "improvements" and "repairs"; the word "materials" shall be held to include and be coextensive with "supplies," "stationery," "books, "furniture" and "repairs to furniture"; the word "tax" shall, in all proper cases, be held to include and be coextensive with "frontage tax," "water rents or rates," "assessments or reassessments for local improvements." A reference to the Code of Civil Procedure, to the Code of Criminal Procedure, to any statute, to the rules of practice or by sections or parts thereof shall be held to refer to such Code of Civil Procedure or Criminal Procedure and statutes and rules of practice as the same now exist or as they may from time to time hereafter be amended. The expressions "according to law," "pursuant to law," "by law" and "in reference to law," and similar expressions shall be held to refer to the law as now existing or as hereafter from time to time amended or changed.