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STA TE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS
TOWNS OF WAPPINGER AND FISHKILL
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In the :Matter
of
PETITION
The Application of the HUGHSONVILLE FIRE
DISTRICT and the CHELSEA FIRE DISTRICT for
Leave to Alter the Boundaries of Each
Respective Fire District.
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TO: THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF WAPPINGER, THE TOWN
BOARD OF THE TOWN OF FISHKILL and THE COMPTROLLER
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT AND
CONTROL
We, the undersigned, being the respective members
of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Hughsonville Fire
District s itua te in the Town of v.7appinger, Dutchess County, New
York, and the Chelsea Fire District situate in the Towns of
Wappinger and Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, do hereby
petition, pursuant to Article 11, Section l72-a. of the Town
Law of the State of New York, to alter the boundaries of each
respective district in conformity with the matters set forth
and contained herein, and the boundaries proposed herein, and
in support thereof, do allege as follows:
1. The Chelsea Fire District of the Towns of Wap-
LDRICHBcMACDONALD pinger and Fishki1l was duly established pursuant to law on the
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19th day of July, 1946 and embraced within its territory, situate
within the Townships of Wappinger and Fishkill the following
premises, within the following boundaries as set forth, described
and contained in Exhibit "A" hereunto attached.
2. The Hughsonville Fire District of the Town of
Wappinger was duly established pursuant to law on the 15th day
of December, 1917 and embraced within its territory, situate
within the Township of Wappinger the following premises, within
the following boundaries as set forth, described and contained
in Exhibit "B" hereunto attached.
3. The two petitioning fire districts, the Chelsea
Fire District and the Hughsonville Fire District, are adjoining
and it is not intended to include within the alteration of the
boundaries of the said districts, as herein requested, any lands
heretofore not included within one or the other of said districts
nor is it intended to exclude therefrom any of the territory
heretofore situate, lying, being or contained within one or the
other of said fire districts.
4. The undersigned, each and qll of them, are rnem-
bers of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Chelsea Fire
District and the Hughsonville Fire District, respectively, duly
elected, acting, serving, and having their oaths of office with
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the appropriate Town Clerks, filed therewith.
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s. No part of the territory or land affected by this
petition is situate within the territorial confines of any
Incorporated Village or City.
6. It is respectfully submitted that the boundaries
of the district, as the same adjoin, should be altered, amended,
modified and changed in the manner set forth in Exhibit "C",
hereunto attached, and that such alteration, amendment, modifica-
tion and change is to the benefit of the respective fire dis-
tricts, and has been determined by the Board of Fire Commissioner
of each respective fire district to be to the benefit of the
same.
7. In the event the boundaries of either of the
districts, or both of them, have an indebtedness, either bonded
or temporary, such district shall continue in law as it existed
immediately prior to any alteration or change of boundaries for
the purpose of paying such indebtedness, and there shall be
annually assessed and levied upon a~d collected from the taxable
real property within such district as it existed immediately
prior to such alteration of boundaries, and in the same manner
and at the same time and by the same officers as town taxes are
assessed, levied and collected, a sum sufficient to pay any in-
debtedness and interest thereon as the same shall become due.
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8. All and only the real property within the boundaries
of the district as they e~ist after the alteration there f, shall
be liable for the payment of indebtedness, if any, incurred for
the purposes of such district after such alteration.
\']-IEREFORE, it is respectfully requested the To~m 20ard
of the Towns of Wappinger and Fishkill, each and both of them,
take 8"':h steps as may be nece.s~ary, pursuant to the 1.aw, to
permit, allow and effectuate the alteration of the boundaries of
the respective fire districts, as requested herein, and that 10
furtherance thereof, they each, and both, entertain this petitioD
pursuant
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at a puhlic hearing then;::i!, ':;ake and
e~fect the same, and alter the boundaries of the petition
fire districts in accordance with this petition, but not in
6u'ch a marmer as to inch;de territory not previously situatt;
~ithin such fire district, nor to exclude territory previously
situate therein, and that they further take notice this petition
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d by a 'Tcaj DrjtYDE the mernbers af the Board of Co,mJission-
ers of each fire district, and acIcnmvledged or proved in the
same manner as a deed to be recorded, and that the petitioners
have Sw
c,ther and further re lief as may be just and proper,
including, but nClt 1
eJ to, the adoption of a resolution or
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ATTEST:
GeO~nSO~he Board
of Fire Comnissioners, Chelsea Fire
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Robert Cacio, Clerk of the Board of
Fire Commissioners, Hughsonville Fire
District
STATE OF NEH YORK )
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COUNTY OF DUTCHESS )
On this 9th day of July, Nineteen Hudnred and Seventy-
Five, before me, the subscriber, personally appeared HERBERT
MULLER, JR.) BARNEY MC G IVNEY, BRlUCfXlDCGRlEG(l{, ~I08X~OQ(~,
SR., GEORGE HAMMOND, ARTHUR EICHLER, SR., RALPH GALLO, JASON
MORSE, AmDHURX~ WILLIAM T. BRADY, GEORGE ROBINSON and
LDRICH & MAC DONALD
ATTORNEYS AT LAW ROBERT CACIO, to me personally known and known to me to be the
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resolutions as such Town Board may deem necessary to grant the
re lief here in.
BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS
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same persons described in and who executed the within Instrument,
and they duly severally acknowledged to me that they executed
the same.
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EXHIBIT "A"
ALL that land situate in the Town of Fishkill
and Town of ~~ppinger, Dutchess County, New York,
bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point where the northerly line
of the City of Beacon meets the easterly shore of
the Hudson River; thence southwesterly and easterly
along the northerly line of said City of Beacon to
a point as the same intersects the division line
between the easterly line now or formerly of Burnsville
Realty Corp. with the westerly line of lands of State of
New York Matteawan State Hospital; thence along said
division line northerly to the southerly line of
Interstate Route 84; thence easterly along said line
to a point in range with the westerly line of lands
now or formerly of Barber; thence northwesterly crossing
Interstate Route 84 to the southwesterly corner of
lands of said Barber aforesaid, said corner being on
the northeasterly line of Interstate Route 84; thence
easterly along the northerly line of Interstate Route
84 to its intersection with the westerly line now or
formerly of Magnolia Farms Products, Incorporated; and
thence continuing in a general northeasterly direction
along the easterly line of lands of said Magnolia Farms
Products, Incorporated to a point where the same intersects
the southerly line of lands formerly of Verplank and now
the State of New York Agricultural School; thence in a
general northeasterly direction along the east line of
said lands of the State of New York Agricultural School
t to the point of the intersection of the said line with
the line of the lands now or formerly of one Mueller
on the westerly side of such lands and running thence
from that point of intersection along the line of lands
of said Mueller until the said line intersects with the
southerly side of the Baxtertown Road; thence along the
southerly side of said Baxtertown Road, constituting the
northerly boundary of the lands of the said Mueller, to
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a point where the said lands terminate by the intersection
with said Baxtertown Road of a stonewall running north
and south and constituting the easterly boundary of the
lands of the said Mueller from such point of intersection
in the southerly side of the Baxtertown Road; thence
across said Baxtertown Road to the northerly side thereof
and along the same in a general northwesterly direction
bounding the lands now or formerly of one Kline to the
point where the said Baxtertown Road intersects the Stony
Kill Road and from the fork thereof in a continued north-
westerly direction along the northerly side of the said
Stony Kill Road to a point where the same intersects the
southern boundary line of the Town of Wappinger, where it
there abut s the Town of Fishki 11 and thence in a genera I
easterly direction along the line of the southern boundary
of the Town of Wappinger of the easterly line of Osborne
Hill Road, said point also being the intersection of the
southerly boundary of the Hughsonville Fire District with
the westerly line of said Osborne Hill Road; thence in a
general northwesterly direction along the southerly boundary
of said Hughsonville Fire District to the easterly shore
of the Hudson River, said line also being the original
northerly boundary line of the Chelsea Fire District,
running from the westerly line of Osborne Hill Road to
the easterly shore of Hudson River; thence in a general
southwesterly direction along the easterly shore of said
Hudson River to the point or place of beginning at the
intersection of the easterly shore of the Hudson River with
the northerly line of the City of Beacon as described
hereinbefore, embracing all the territory lying within
the so-defined boundary and to whatever depth or extent
the same may be accessable, excepting only all such lands
as may be dedicated to hospital use and so reserved by
either the Federal or State Government.
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EXHIBIT "B"
From Hughsonville northerly on South Ave.
to the Corporation line of Wappingers Falls,
N.Y.: from South Avenue, easterly through
Middlebush to Scofield's Corners on Post
Road; from Scofield's Corners northerly on
Post Road to Corporation line of Wappingers
Falls, N.Y. from Scofield's corners south-
wardly on Post Road to Conover's Corners
(now residence of William Cottrell); from
Conover's Corners Westwardly to Hughsonville,
from Hughsonville southwardly to and includ-
ing property of Isaac Unterneyer, formerly
the Rives Place, on the road leading to
Beacon, N.Y.; from the Untermeyer property
westwardly to the Drake Drawbridge on
Wappinger Creek; from the Drake Drawbridge,
northwardly through Marlorville to the
Corporation line of Wappingers Falls, New
York.
Also, all that certain piece or parcel of
land which resulted from an extension of
the district on December 3, 1929, which
same is bounded and described as follows:
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From Scofield's Corners easterly along the
Meyers' Corners road to the barn on property
now of Peter Monfort: from Cotrell's corners,
formerly called Conover's Corners, easterly
to the easterly line of lands formerly of
Lyman Brown: from Cotrell's Corners, formerly
Conover's Corners, southerly along the new
Post Road to the house on lands now or former-
ly of David Steele: from said State Road where
the same is intersected by the Cedar Hill Road,
southerly along said Cedar Hill Road to the
farm known as the Haight Property; from where
the Ketchamtown Road intersects said Cedar
Hill Road northwesterly through Ketchamtown
Road and Ketchamtown to the Wappingers-Beacon
State Road; from where the new Beacon State
Road is intersected by the old Wappingers
Falls-Beacon State Road southerly to lands now
known as Dederer lands.
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EXHIBIT "c"
That portion of the existing common boundary
line of the said two fire districts which extends
from the easterly line of Route 9D on the east to the
easterly bank of the Hudson River on the west shall be
relocated along the following described line, which
said line shall henceforth be the said common boundary
line, and all lands north of said following described
line shall henceforth be included in Hughsonvi11e
Fire District a.nd all lands south of said following
described line shall henceforth be included in Chelsea
Fire District. The proposed new common boundary line
is described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the east side of
Route 9D where an existing fire district sign marks
the point where the existing fire district boundary
line Crosses said Route 9D, and running thence along
the said easterly side of Route 9D S 380 08' 20" W
454.06 feet to a point that is distant S 740 11' 42"
W 62.40 feet from Central Hudson Gas and Electric
Corporation Pole 1159502; thence genera11:y westerly
generally along the line of said utility s poles
and through its right of way S 740 11' 42" W 1000.44
feet, S 830 56' 42" W 1032.68 feet, N 480 13' 18" W
1948.95 feet, and N 300 11' 18" W 1222.60 feet more
or less to the easterly bank of the Hudson River.