...Thirty-fourth St. R. Co., 1 How. Pr. (NS [NY]) 453. Under the statute of this State it is provided that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property must be obtained, the value to be ascertained by the assessment-roll of the city, village or town in...

...Connecting Railroad Company, transmitting for filing in the office of the Commission the consents of two of the owners of one-half in value of the property 'bounded on the line of railroad, and requesting an extension of time of six months after written notice in case...

...viaducts, and lands within such city and partly through blocks between streets or avenues; provided that the consent of the owners of one-half in value...and the consent also of the local authorities having control of that portion of a street, bridge, viaduct, or highway, upon which it is proposed to construct...

...Legislature cannot make effective the right to use streets because of the constitutional provision that no law shall authorize the construction or operation...except upon the condition that the consent of the local authorities having control of that portion of the street or highway upon which It Is proposed...

...form obtain so far as might be necessary. If and when obtained file In the office of the said, board the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on the portions of streets over or under which the new railroad or any part of the route thereof should...

...along the street in question, since such a corporation, is required to obtain the consent in writing of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on, and also the consent of the local authorities having control of the street upon which it is proposed to...

...fail. The constitutional provision above referred to merely prohibited a legislative authorization of the construction or operation of a street railroad, except upon the condition precedent thereto, that the consent of the local authorities and of the owners of one-halt' in value...

...Assembly and the Mayor were secured. LEGAL PROCESSES. The Board as required by law endeavored to obtain the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property along the streets of the proposed route. These were refused, and the only alternative was to take the...

...providing for the eases enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in ite judgment, may be provided for by general laws. But no law shall...owners of one-half in value of the property bounded Акт: CLE III — Continued. on, and the consent aleo of the local authorities having the control...

...providing for the cases enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in its judgment may be provided for by general laws. But no law shall...that the consent of the owners of one-half in value the property bounded on, and the consent also of the local authorities having the control of that portion...