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council, deliver to said common council a detailed statement of all
their accounts; and all books and papers of every kind and descrip-
tion kept by said commissioners, upon which are entries of their trans-
actions as such, shall at all times be subject to inspection by said
council.

§ 15. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this act are hereby repealed.

§ 16. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 7.

AN ACT to amend section two of chapter nine hundred and
fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incor-
porate the Long Island College Hospital of the city of
Brooklyn, passed March sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight.

PASSED February 9, 1881; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter nine hundred and fifty-four of
the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to
amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Long Island College
Hospital of the city of Brooklyn, passed March sixth, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-eight,'" is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Any person on payment of ten dollars annually, for five successive years, or of fifty dollars within that period, to the treasurer of said corporation for the use thereof, may become a member thereof, and be entitled to vote at any election to be held in virtue of this act, at any time after the payment of ten dollars; provided his name shall have been proposed to the board of regents at a regular meeting thereof, and been approved by a majority of the members of said board, present at the next regular meeting thereafter. §2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 8.

AN ACT to amend chapter ninety-one, laws of eighteen hun-
dred and eighty, entitled "An act to enforce collection of
the taxes levied in the county of Oneida."

PASSED February 15, 1881; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The third section of chapter ninety-one, laws of eight-
een hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to enforce collection of the
taxes levied in the county of Oneida," is hereby amended so as to read
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§ 3. The county treasurer shall examine the accounts of arrears of Tax on taxes received from the collectors of the several towns and wards, and shall reject all taxes on lands that shall be imperfectly described, and described all taxes so erroneously assessed in form or in substance that the col- rejected. lection of the same cannot be enforced; and shall, within twenty days, deliver a transcript thereof to the supervisors of the several towns and wards in which the property so rejected shall be located, and said supervisors shall, within thirty days thereafter, cause a correct description of the lands so imperfectly described to be made and returned to said treasurer. The amount of taxes, fees and interest thereon, as herein Amount of provided, upon any lands rejected by the treasurer and returned to the tax to be respective supervisors, the proper descriptions of which shall not be city or furnished on or before the first day of June annually, shall be charged to the town or city where the same exists, and the board of supervisors, at its next succeeding annual session, shall levy the amount thereof upon such town or city as deficiencies therein.

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§ 6. The said county treasurer shall, immediately after the expira- Sale, how tion of the aforesaid four months, cause to be published once each and where week in two daily newspapers of the city of Utica, and in two weekly vertised. papers in the city of Rome, for six weeks, a list or statement of the real estate charged with such tax, fees and interest, and so liable to be sold; and, also, a notice that the said real estate will, on a day at the expiration of said six weeks to be specified in such notice, and the succeeding days, be sold at public auction at the court-houses in said county to discharge the taxes, fees, interest and expenses aforesaid which may be due thereon at the time of sale. The sale of such lands Where sale so assessed in the towns Annsville, Ava, Camden, Florence, Floyd, place. Lee, Vernon, Verona, Vienna, Western, Westmoreland and the city of Rome, shall be held at the court-house in the city of Rome; and the sale of all such lands for the residue of the county shall be held at the court-house in the city of Utica. On the day mentioned in the When said notice the county treasurer shall commence the sale of such real to purestate, and he shall continue the sale from day to day until such par- county. cels shall be disposed of. In case no bid to the extent of the tax and charges thereon shall be received for any piece or lot of land so offered, the said treasurer may purchase the same for, and in behalf of, the county of Oneida, and he may subsequently transfer the certificate of the same to any person who will pay the amount chargeable thereon. All lands purchased by the treasurer, for and in behalf of the county, Tax to be the certificates of which are not sold and assigned within one year cities and subsequent to the last day of such annual sale, shall, with the interest towns, and thereon, be charged to the respective towns and cities, the amounts cates of thereof levied upon the taxable property therein, and said certificates assigned assigned to such towns and cities. If such certificates shall not be to them. sold or redeemed subsequent to such assignment, such towns or cities shall be entitled to a deed therefor, which shall have the same effect and become absolute in the same manner, on the performance of like conditions, as in the case of sales to individuals. The charge for pub- Charge for lishing the notices provided in this section, to be mutually agreed publishing upon, shall not exceed two dollars to each newspaper for publishing the description of each piece of land contained in said notices. If the daily papers shall decline to so publish the same, the said treasurer may cause such notices to be published in any other newspapers published in said city.

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§ 3. Section ten of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 10. Every such conveyance shall be executed by the treasurer of said county of Oneida under his hand and seal, and the execution thereof shall be acknowledged before a proper officer in the same manner as other conveyances of real estate are executed and acknowledged under the laws of the state, and such conveyance shall be conclusive evidence that the sale was regular, and, also, presumptive evidence that all the previous proceedings were regular according to the provisions of this act.

§4. Add to said act the following sections, to be known as sections fifteen, sixteen and seventeen.

§ 15. When any lot or piece of land sold for taxes by the treasurer shall, after the expiration of six months from the last day of the annotice on nual sale therefor, be in the actual occupation of any person as a resior publish dence, the purchaser, or the person claiming under him, shall serve a written or printed notice on such occupant, or by leaving such notice at the dwelling thereof with some person of suitable age, or by affixing such notice upon the outer door of such dwelling, or if such land shall not be occupied as aforesaid, such notice shall be published in one of the newspapers published in the city of Rome or the city of Contents Utica, once each week for three weeks; stating in substance the sale of such lands, the person to whom made, and the amount for which the same was sold, and stating the time when the purchaser thereof will be entitled to receive a deed, and stating also that unless the said amount and the interest thereon is paid to the county treasurer within one year from the last day of such annual sale, the same will become absolute, and the owner or other persons interested in said lands will be forever barred from all right or title thereto, and no other notice, either by the county treasurer, or by the holder of the certificate of any sale, or by any other person, shall be necessary or required. In redeemed, case any of the lands so sold shall be redeemed therefrom subsequent expenses, to service of notice, the expenses of advertising and service of the no

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tice herein provided; and any taxes upon lands so sold which may be assessed upon and paid by the purchasers, or assignees of such purchasers, between the time of the sale and redemption thereof, shall, with the interest thereon at the rate provided by this act, be added to the amount otherwise required to be paid for such redemption. This section shall apply to the sales made by the treasurer of said county in the year eighteen hundred and eighty.

§ 16. Such notice with the proof of the service thereof shall be exexhibited hibited to said treasurer previous to his issuing the deed of the premises so described, and the proof of the service of such notice shall be recorded with such conveyance.

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§ 17. The county treasurer shall not issue deeds to persons entitled thereto, until at least thirty days subsequent to the service of notice herein provided.

§ 5. Section fifteen of said act is hereby changed to section eighteen. 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 9.

AN ACT to authorize the town of Lysander in the county of
Onondaga, to elect an additional justice of the peace.

PASSED February 17, 1881; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The town of Lysander in the county of Onondaga, is Additional hereby authorized at the next annual town meeting to be held in justice of said town, and at the annual town meeting every four years thereafter, to elect one justice of the peace in said town in addition to the number which they are now authorized by law to elect.

§ 2. The justice of the peace who shall be so elected in accordance Term of with the provisions of section one of this act, shall enter upon the office, etc. duties of his office on the first day of January next after his election, and shall hold his office four years therefrom. And the justice of the peace thereafter chosen as provided in section one of this act shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of January succeeding his election and shall hold his office for the term of four years thereafter.

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 10.

AN ACT to provide for detailing judges of the city court of Brooklyn to hold circuits and special terms of the supreme court in Kings county.

PASSED February 17, 1881; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. Pursuant to the twelfth section of the sixth article of Governor the constitution of this state, the governor may, from time to time, designate whenever the public interests shall require, designate judges of the judges of city court of Brooklyn to hold circuits and special terms of the su- to hold cir preme court in the county of Kings; such designation shall be in cuits, etc. writing and shall specify the time and place of holding any such circuit or special term. When a case or bill of exceptions shall be made in any cause, tried at such circuit or special term, the same shall be settled before the judge holding the same, and the review shall be had at a special or general term of the supreme court, in the same manner and with the same effect as if such circuit or special term had been held by a justice of the supreme court.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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CHAP. 11.

AN ACT to authorize the Charity Organization Society of
Buffalo to acquire and dispose of lands.

PASSED February 17, 1881.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Charity Organization Society of Buffalo is hereby authorized and empowered to take and acquire lands and real estate in real estate. the state of New York, either by devise, purchase or gift, to an amount not exceeding in value the sum of three hundred thousand dollars; to hold and use the same for the purposes of its incorporation, and to lease, sell, convey and mortgage the same in order to obtain funds for such purposes, provided that such use or disposition shall be consistent with the terms and conditions upon which lands and real estate shall be or have been granted or devised to said society.

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§2. All conveyances of lands and real estate heretofore made to said society, and all acts done by said society in relation thereto, within the provisions of the last section, are hereby ratified and confirmed, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any existing suit, or to impair, release or discharge any right, claim or interest of any person in and to property so conveyed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 12.

AN ACT to establish the compensation of county judge and surrogate of Dutchess county.

PASSED February 17, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The annual salary of the county judge of Dutchess county, from and after the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, is hereby fixed at the sum of two thousand dollars.

§ 2. The annual salary of the surrogate of Dutchess county, from and after the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, is hereby fixed at the sum of two thousand dollars. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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