thereon, upon the different towns in said county, to wit: The sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and the interest thereon, upon the town of Luzerne, and the balance upon the remaining towns of the county in such proportion as they may direct; which amount shall be paid back to the treasury of the state in the same manner as other taxes of the state are paid. county. § 5. The board of supervisors of the county of Saratoga, at In Saratoga their annual meeting in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, shall levy and assess the sum of three hundred dollars, together with the interest, upon the different towns in said county, to wit: The sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and the interest on the same upon the town of Hadley, and the balance upon the remaining towns of the county benefited by the same, in such proportion as they may direct; which amount shall be paid back to the treasury in the same manner as other taxes of the state are paid. a public § 6. The corporation created by the act entitled "An act au- Bridge made thorising Nathan A. Wells, Daniel Stewart, Jeremy Rockwell highway. and Henry Rockwell, to build a toll bridge across the Hudson river at Jessup's, Little Falls, between the counties of Saratoga and Warren," is dissolved, and the said bridge is made a public highway. § 7. The repairs of said bridge, from thenceforth, shall be at Repairs how the joint expense of the towns of Luzerne and Hadley, and the to be made. commissioners of highways of the respective towns, shall be liable to the provisions, forfeitures and penalties of article six, title one, chapter sixteen of the first part of the revised statutes. § 8. The two last preceding sections of this act, shall go into effect from and after the first day of March, 1849. Chap. 22. AN ACT conferring jurisdiction upon justices of the peace in the city of Rochester, in actions upon the charter or by-laws of said corporation. Passed February 1, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The courts of justices of the peace in the city of Ro- Jurisdiction. chester, shall have jurisdiction in actions upon the charter, or by laws of said corporation, where the penalty or forfeiture shall not exceed one hundred dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Town meeting. Town meeting. Erection when to be Chap. 23. AN ACT to fix the time and place for holding the annual town meeting in the town of Colesville, county of Broome. Passed February 2, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The next annual town meeting in the town of Colesville, county of Broome, shall be held at the tavern house of Wiley H. Scott, in the village of Nineveh, in said town, on the second Tuesday of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 24. AN ACT to designate the place of holding the next annual town meeting in the town of Seward in the County of Schoharie. Passed February 2, 1849. The People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. The next annual town meeting in the town of Seward in the County of Schoharie shall be held at the house of Matthias Houghtailing in said town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 25. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Washington Monument Passed February 2, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. The provisions of section five of the "Act to incorporate commenced. the Washington Monument Association of the city of New York," passed April 18, 1843, is hereby so modified as to authorize the said association to commence the erection of the said monument at any time, with such sum of money in hand as in their discretion they may deem advisable. Vacancies. § 2. The seat of any trustee absenting himself without leave from the meetings of the board of trustees during the space of six consecutive months, may be declared vacant by a vote of a quorum of the remaining trustees. § 3. The Trustees of the Association, shall, once in every six Statement to be published months, make and publish a statement in at least two of the daily newspapers published in the city of New-York, of all expendi tures made by them as such trustees specifying the items of expenditure and to whom paid. 4. That portion of section two of the act of April 18th Repeal. 1843, which requires that Trustees shall reside in the city of New-York is hereby repealed. Chap. 26. AN ACT to authorise the election of a supervisor in each ward in the city of Utica. Passed February 2, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. At the next and each succeeding charter election in the Supervisors. city of Utica, each ward in said city shall be entitled to elect a supervisor. Laws to ap § 2. All laws now in force relative to the office, duties and election of a supervisor in said city, shall apply to the office, ply. duties and election of the supervisors hereby authorised to be elected. Chap. 27. AN ACT authorising the comptroller to receive the returns of certain unpaid taxes on non-resident lands in the town of Bleecker, for the year 1847. Passed February 3, 1849. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The comptroller is authorised to receive the returns Returns to made to him of the unpaid taxes, assessed on the non-resident be received. lands in the town of Bleecker in the county of Fulton, for highway purposes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, which have been rejected by him for informality, and to credit the amount of the same to the said town of Bleecker, in the same manner as if they had been legally returned to his office in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Certain va cancies to be governor. Chap. 28. AN ACT to provide for filling vacancies in office.* Passed February 3, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Whenever vacancies shall exist or shall occur in any of filled by the the offices of this state, where no provision is now made by law for filling the same, the governor shall appoint some suitable person who may be eligible to the office so vacant or to become vacant, to execute the duties thereof until the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election, after the happening of the vacancy at which such officer could be by law, elected; and the person so appointed to fill such vacancy, shall possess all the rights and powers, and be subject to all the liabilities, duties and obligations of such officer as they are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law, but nothing in this act contained shall authorise the governor to fill a vacancy in the office of county judge, and surrogate or either of them, where provision is made by law for the election of local officers under the fifteenth section of article six of the constitution of this state: Provided, however, that when a vacancy exists in the office s of secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney general, state engineer and surveyor, clerk of the court of appeals, or canal commissioner, while the legislature is in session, the two houses thereof, by joint ballot, shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy; and any person appointed by the governor (except state prison inspector) may be removed from such office, by concurrent resolution of both houses of the legislature. On such removal both houses shall, forthwith, by joint ballot, appoint a person to the office made vacant thereby. Proviso. Money to be paid. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 29. AN ACT making an appropriation to the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, to enable them to pay off their debt. Passed February 5, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller to the treasurer of the New-York Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary to enable said Institution to extinguish the debt incurred for the erection of buildings. * See Chap. 46. applied. § 2. The board of directors of said Institution shall apply the How to be money hereby appropriated to the satisfaction of the mortgage held against said Institution by the Seamen's Bank for Savings in the city of New-York and shall cause said mortgage to be satisfied of record and a certificate of such satisfaction to be filed in the office of the comptroller. tion. § 3. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars or so much thereof Appropriaas may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 30. AN ACT to vest certain special powers in the Justices of the Passed February 7, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: powersvest Supreme 1. Any special powers and jurisdiction heretofore vested Certain and existing in any vice chancellor or Judge of the Supreme ed in JustiCourt, in any particular district or circuit prior to the first Mon- ces of the day of July eighteen hundred and forty seven, shall be, and are Court. hereby transferred to, and vested in any justice of the Supreme Court, elected for such district or districts, subject to an appeal to the Supreme Court: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be held to limit or abridge the powers and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, as defined by the code of procedure as now adopted. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 31. AN ACT to confirm the official acts of the officers of the town of North Hudson, elected at, and to legalize the town meeting held therein on the third Tuesday of April 1848. Passed February 8, 1849. The Poeple of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The officers elected in the town of North Hudson on the Official acts third Tuesday of April last, pursuant to an act passed April 12, confirmed. 1848, chapter two hundred and seventy are hereby confirmed in office and their official acts are hereby declared to be valid. |