from the city, the vice-president of the board shall sign the same as such vice-president and cause the said seal to be affixed. § 3. The proceeds arising from the sale of said lands, or any part Proceeds. thereof, shall be paid into the "special school fund" of said board of education. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 44. AN ACT to legalize and confirm the official acts of notaries public. PASSED March 18, 1881. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ized. SECTION 1. The official acts of every person as notary public within Official this state, heretofore duly commissioned as such, which acts have been acts legalperformed prior to the passage of this act, so far as such official acts may be effected, impaired or questioned by reason of the same having been performed after the expiration of his term of office, or by reason of said person not having duly qualified as such notary public, are hereby legalized and confirmed. §2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any action or legal proceeding which may now be pending. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 45. AN ACT to release the interest of the people of the state of PASSED March 18, 1881, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: released. SECTION 1. All the estate, interest and property which the people Interest of of this state may have acquired by escheat at the death of David H. State Jones, late of Mountain View, in the town of Wayne, in the county of Passaic, in the state of New Jersey, and of which he was seized at the time of his death, in and to a certain farm of lands situated in the town of Catskill, in the county of Greene and state of New York, and being the farm described in a deed from Samuel L. Penfield, assignee, etc., of John D. Shaffer to David H. Jones and Arabella M. Jones, dated April tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and recorded in Greene county clerk's office September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in liber ninety-one of deeds, page three hundred and seventy-three, etc., to which deed and the record thereof reference is made for the description of said premises. is hereby released to Arabella M. Jones, widow of said David H. Jones, and to her heirs and assigns. Not to affect vested rights. If collect or pays over renews tion of taxes extended till May 1, 1881 § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair, release, discharge or affect any right, title, claim or interest of any person in and to said premises as heir-at-law, legatee, devisee or grantee of said David H. Jones, creditor, or any creditor by judgment, mortgage or otherwise. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 46. AN ACT to authorize the extension of the time for the collection of taxes in the several towns of this state. PASSED March 18, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. If any collector or receiver of taxes, in any town of this state, shall pay over all moneys collected by him, and shall make his money and return to the treasurer of his county, as now required by law, of all bond time unpaid taxes on lands of non-residents, and shall renew his bond as for collec- herein provided, the time for the collection of all other taxes, and for making return thereof by him, shall be and is hereby extended to the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one; such bond shall be renewed with such sureties as in any town shall be approved by the supervisor thereof, or, in case of his absence or inability to act, by the town clerk thereof. The penalty thereof, in any case, shall be double the amount of taxes in that case remaining uncollected. The bond shall be approved in writing, and filed in the same manner as the original bond is required by law to be filed, and to have all the effect of the collector's or receiver's bond. A copy of the bond, and the approval thereof shall, within fifteen days after the passage of this act, be delivered to the county treasurer of the county in which said town is; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as extending the time for the payment of the state tax, or any part thereof, by the county treasurer of said county to the comptroller, as now provided by law. Bond. Secretary of state to distribute slips of law. Terms of office of inspectors. § 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, immediately after the of this act, to cause to be printed on slips of paper, and passage delivered to each county treasurer, a sufficient number thereof, to supply one copy to each collector or receiver of taxes in said county, and it shall be the duty of the said county treasurer to deliver one copy thereof to each collector or receiver of taxes in his county. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 47. AN ACT in relation to elections in the city of Troy. PASSED March 18, 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 terms of office of all inspectors of election appointed by the board of police commissioners of the city of Troy, prior to the passage of this act, shall on its passage expire and absolutely cease and terminate. police appoint § 2. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall Board of have sole and exclusive power, and it shall be their duty, immediately commisafter the passage of this act, to appoint four inspectors of election for sioners to each election district in said city, two of whom shall be appointed inspectors. from each of the two principal political parties, as evidenced by the official canvass of the state board of canvassers at the last preceding general election held in this state, and the inspectors of election so appointed shall hold their said offices until the first day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. made 3. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall Appoint have sole and exclusive power, and it shall be their duty, on or before ment to be the first day of September in each year, to appoint four inspectors of annually. election for each election district in said city, two of whom shall be appointed from each of the two principal political parties, as evidenced by the official canvass of the state board of canvassers of the last preceding general election held in this state, and the inspectors of elections so appointed shall hold their said offices for the term of one year from the said first day of September in each year. § 4. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall Vacancies. have sole and exclusive power, and it shall be their duty, to appoint suitable persons to fill vacancies in the office of inspector of election in said city, but any such vacancy must be filled from the political party which the person whose office has become vacant represented, and on the nomination of the police commissioners representing that party in said board. § 5. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall Poll clerks. have sole and exclusive power, and it shall be their duty, sixty days before the day on which any general or special election or charter election shall be appointed by law to be held in said city, to appoint four poll clerks for each election district in said city; two of said poll clerks shall be appointed from each of the two principal political parties, as evidenced by the official canvass of the state board of canvassers of the last preceding general election held in this state, and the poll clerks so appointed shall hold their said offices until the completion of their duties at the election or elections for which they are appointed to discharge the duties thereof, and the persons appointed poll clerks shall be clerks to the board of registry, the boards of inspectors of election and the boards of canvassers in their respective election districts. § 6. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall Vacancies. have sole and exclusive power, and it shall be their duty, to appoint suitable persons to fill vacancies in the office of poll clerk, but any such vacancy must be filled from the political party which the person whose office has become vacant represented, and on the nomination of the police commissioners representing that party in said board. appointed. 7. The inspectors of election and poll clerks of each of the two Who principal political parties shall be appointed upon the nomination of to he the police commissioners, respectively, representing the political party from which said inspectors of election and poll clerks shall be appointed. inspectors § 8. No person shall be appointed or act as an inspector of election Qualificaor poll clerk who is not physically and mentally capable of discharg- tions of ing the duties of the office, who cannot understandingly read and and clerks write the English language, who is not an elector of the city of Troy, Misde meanor to appoint or to vote to appoint disquali fied person. Misde + or who has been convicted of a crime, unless pardoned and restored to citizenship. If any member or members of the board of police commissioners of the city of Troy, or said board shall knowingly or willfully vote to appoint, or appoint any person to the office of inspector of election or poll clerk who is disqualified by the provisions of this section, it shall be a misdemeanor and sufficient ground for his or their removal from office. The appointment of any person to either of said offices who is disqualified by the provisions of this section from holding the same shall be void, and the office shall be vacant. If any person disqualified by the provisions of this section from holding said offices shall, under color of appointment or otherwise, take fied person upon himself the office of and act as a poll clerk or inspector of election, it shall be a misdemeanor, and no account or claim for services as such poll clerk or inspector of election shall be audited or paid to him or recovered by him in any action or proceeding. No inspector of election appointed under the provisions of this act shall, while he holds said office, be eligible for election to any office in the city of Troy, and the election of any such person to any such office shall be void, and the office vacant. meanor for disquali to act or attempt to act as inspector or poll clerk. Ballotboxes. Common council to cause $800 to be raised to repair old town house building. § 9. The board of police commissioners of the city of Troy shall provide ballot-boxes for use at all elections held in said city, and shall have the custody of said boxes at all times, except during the taking, receiving and counting of the votes, and the city of Troy shall pay the expense of providing such ballot-boxes. § 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or repugnant to this act, so far as the same relate to the city of Troy, are hereby repealed. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 48. AN ACT to enable the common council of the city of Ogdensburg to raise money for the purpose of preparing a building and furnishing the same for an academy in said city. PASSED March 18, 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 common council of the city of Ogdensburg shall, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, cause to be levied and raised by taxation upon the taxable property in the school district. organized under and pursuant to chapter three hundred and eightytwo of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to schools and academies in the village of Ogdensburgh," as bounded and described in section one of said act, the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the purpose of making such additions to. and changes or alterations in, the Old Town House Building, situate at the corner of Washington and Franklin streets in said city, as will fit it for use for a high or graded school, to be known as the Ogdensburg academy, and to furnish the necessary appurtenances, fixtures, furniture and apparatus for the same. be credited § 2. The money when so raised shall be paid over to the board of Money to education of said city and placed with the city treasurer to the credit academy of the "Ogdensburg Academy Fund," and shall be used by said board fund. for the purposes mentioned in the first section of this act. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 49. AN ACT to authorize the transfer of insane persons from public institutions in the city of New York to, and their maintenance in state institutions. PASSED March 18, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sioners persons to asylum. how to be SECTION 1. The commissioners of the department of public chari- Commisties and correction of the city of New York are hereby authorized, in may transtheir discretion, to transfer any insane person, heretofore or hereafter fer insane committed to, or being in their custody, or any institution under their insane control, to any state lunatic asylum, the managers or proper officers of which shall consent to receive the same; and every such person so transferred shall be detained, or permitted to remain in any such asylum, until discharged according to law. The expense of the main- Expense, tenance of every person so transferred, which shall be fixed by agree- paid. ment between said commissioners and such managers or officers, and of removing from, and, in case of discharge, of bringing back to said city every such person, shall be estimated for, raised and paid in the same manner as the other expenditures of the said commissioners of the department of charities and corrections of the city of New York, such expenses not to exceed the present cost of their maintenance. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 50. AN ACT to amend chapter seventy of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Nursery for the Children of Poor Women, and to enable that institution to hold real estate," and to amend the title thereof. PASSED March 19, 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 title of chapter seventy of the laws of eighteen Title hundred and fifty-seven is hereby amended so as to read as follows, amended. namely: "An act to amend the charter of the Nursery for the Children of Poor Women, and to enable that institution to hold real estate, and to exempt the real and personal estate of said corporation from taxation." |