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STA TE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF DUTCHESS TOWNS OF WAPPINGER AND FISHKILL --------------------------------------------x 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. --------------------------------------------x 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 ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE IOUGHKEEPSIE, N Y 12603 I": .r 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 _DRICH Be MAC DONALD ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE 'OUGHKEEPSIE, N Y 12603 the appropriate Town Clerks, filed therewith. -2- ,.~.., 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. ,-DRICH & MAC DONALD ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE 'OUGHKEEPSIE. N Y 12603 -3- 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 toE xli i b .; t "cn , 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 J_S s]. 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 _DRICH & MAC DONALD ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE 'OUGHKEEPSIE. NY, 2603 -4- XI~~~IX~a~~~aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ~ ~ ~-r . . Wi 1 iam T. Brady ATTEST: GeO~nSO~he Board of Fire Comnissioners, Chelsea Fire DiSt~1) ~p~,- T Ca e tv Robert Cacio, Clerk of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Hughsonville Fire District STATE OF NEH YORK ) ) ss. 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 21 DAVIS AVENUE ~OUGHKEEPSIE. N Y t 2803 -6- ALDRICH 8< MAC DONALD ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE POUGHKEEPSIE, N Y 12803 .... : resolutions as such Town Board may deem necessary to grant the re lief here in. BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS CHELSEA FIRE DISTRICT /Lk~ Herbert Muller, Jr. v / .. . f2 .~ ;&-~ / 9Jl7:h-~~ / Ba rne y MCGdvne y / E&~l~XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX l~~~Xax.XXXXXXXXXX ~~~~.~ George arnrnond BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIO~~RS HUGHSONVILLE FIRE DISTRICT ~ (~ S/V Arthur Eichler, Sr. ~ I -, ' l- I. /. -~. '.1 /' J:/ rJ Lc-,-J/af/UJ Ralph allo - 5- LDRICH & MAC DONALD ATTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE 'OUGHKEEPSIE. N Y 12<<503 same persons described in and who executed the within Instrument, and they duly severally acknowledged to me that they executed the same. / ~ ;[ c;a.Q~ Notary Public ..-A..... RUQQFlL E. ALORlcH 'I'~_ '-'~ . , YORK Sll"~ ItOTARY rll~\1\', O~,NE.W . UlliY " RtOI'W<<, 1" I'U i c.HES~ GO ,., ; ':V~RES MARCH 3Q, \9 r.O!vl\~: .\J!..~ l.J^' I . . " 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 . , 4 . '. . . . . 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. . . L . . 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: .DRICH 8< MAC DONALD 'TTORNEYS AT LAW 21 DAVIS AVENUE )UGHKEEPSIE. NY' 2803 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. i~. ,- ! . ". . . . . , . ... .. II' ~ ~ '" 1 , t. ~ 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.