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Oliver

Hulse.

of will of testament of Oliver Hulse, late of the town of Wallkill, in said county, who departed this life July twentylegalized. seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and his admission thereof to probate, as a will of real and personal estate, are hereby ratified, confirmed and legalized, and the probate of said last will and testament shall have the same effect as if the said special surrogate had filed the bond by law required of him.

Acts of executors

§ 2. The acts and proceedings of the executors named legalized. in said last will and testament (who have qualified) since the probate thereof, are hereby ratified, confirmed and legalized, so far as the omission of the said special sur rogate to file said bond, will or can affect the same, and that all sales made in pursuance of said will are hereby legalized and made valid, and the acts of the said executors hereafter done shall be as valid and effectual as if said special surrogate had filed the bond by law required of him.

Commissioners

to issue and sell bonds.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 14.

AN ACT to authorize the railroad commissioners
of the town of Lowville, in Lewis county, to
issue bonds on said town in place of others now
falling due, and otherwise amending chapter
four hundred and twenty-six of the laws of
eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Passed February 2, 1872; three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter four hundred and twenty-six of appointed the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby so amended as to authorize De Witt C. West and Rutson Rea, commissioners of the town of Lowville, Lewis county, New York, and their successors in office, to issue and sell bonds to the amount falling due in each year, of the present outstanding bonds of the town of Lowville, issued by said commissioners, to enable said

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town to subscribe for and take stock in the Utica and Black River Railroad Company.

§2. Said commissioners, and their successors in office, are authorized to issue bonds of said town, similar to and of like amount as those falling due issued under the act of the Legislature of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter four hundred and twenty-six, with interest at seven per cent. per annum, payable semiannually on the tenth day of February and August in each and every year, and the principal payable in not less than five years nor more than ten years from date, at the option of the commissioners heretofore named or their successors in office.

3. Said commissioners are authorized to issue and sell under this act, at not less than par, as many of the bonds of said town in each and every year as will meet the principal sum of bonds of said town hereafter falling due and now outstanding, not exceeding in the aggregate the total amount of eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

Bonds to

be sold at

not less

than par.

Bonds to by commission

be signed

ers.

quire

present

4. Said bonds so issued shall be signed by the said commissioners, De Witt C. West and Rutson Rea, countersigned by the town clerk and supervisor as provided by chapter four hundred and twenty-six of Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and said commissioners May remay at any time after five years, and before the expira- holders to tion of ten years, on giving thirty days notice in the two bonds for newspapers published in Lowville, Lewis county, require payment. the holders of said bonds to present them at the place of payment named in said bonds, at a time when a payment of interest is falling due and pay the same, and said bonds shall contain the condition that they are payable in not less than five years nor more than ten years from date at the option of said commissioners of said town.

5. All the provisions of chapter four hundred and twenty-six of Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, except such as conflict with this act, shall remain in force, and shall, in issuing bonds of said town under this amendment, be complied with, provided that consent of a majority of the tax-payers shall not be required to the issuing of the bonds by this act authorized.

Consent ers not

of tax pay.

required.

Old bonds

to be can

filed in

town clerk's office.

6. All and each of the bonds redeemed by the issue celed and of new bonds, as in this act provided or otherwise, shall, within fifteen days after their redemption, be canceled in the presence of the railroad commissioners and of the supervisor, justices of the peace and town clerk of the town of Lowville, and filed in the office of the said town clerk, and he shall enter in the town books a record thereof.

Official

acts of

Cook, as justice of the peace, legalized.

§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 15.

AN ACT to confirm the title of Horace T. Cook to the office of a justice of the peace, and to legalize his official acts as such justice of the peace.

Passed February 2, 1872; 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 Horace T. Cook to the office Horace T. of a justice of the peace of the city of Auburn, county of Cayuga, is hereby confirmed, the same as if he had taken the oath of office in the manner and within the time required by law, and all the acts and proceedings before the said Horace T. Cook, as a justice of the peace, since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, shall be held and adjudged to be of the same force, effect and validity as if the said Horace T. Cook had taken the oath of office in the manner and within the time required by law.

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§ 2. This act shall not affect the right of any party to any suit or legal proceeding which has been commenced previous to its passage, in consequence of the invalidity of any act or proceeding by or before the said justice.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 16.

AN ACT to extend and define the jail liberties of the city and county of Albany.

Passed February 5, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, whatever territory is or hereafter may be included within the corporate limits of the city of Albany, shall be the jail liberties of the city and county of Albany.

Chap. 17.

AN ACT to increase the duties of clerks of boards of supervisors.

Passed February 6, 1872.

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

City of be jail limits of

Albany to

Albany county.

supervi

sors to redebted

port in

SECTION 1. The clerks of the boards of supervisors Clerks of of the several counties in this State shall, on or before boards of the second Monday in December in each year, transmit to the Comptroller, by mail, in the form which shall be prescribed by the Comptroller, a certificate or return counties, of all the indebtedness of their respective counties, and of each town, village and ward therein.

2. The clerk who shall refuse or neglect to make such return shall forfeit to the people of this State the sum of fifty dollars.

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

ness of

and towns

villages

to Comptroller.

Section two of chapter

794, Laws

Chap. 18.

AN ACT to repeal section two of an act entitled "An act to further amend the charter of the village of Albion, in the county of Orleans," passed April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

Passed February 7, 1872; 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 the act entitled "An act to further amend the charter of the village of Albion, in the county of Orleans," passed April twenty-seven, repealed. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is hereby repealed. §2. This act shall take effect immediately.

of 1871,

Resolu

tions of town

meeting of Mount Morris legalized.

Chap. 19.

AN ACT to legalize the vote of the town of Mount Morris, in the county of Livingston, at the town meeting of said town, held on the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by which certain moneys were voted to be paid to the estate of McNeil Seymour, deceased, and to Noble Denison, and authorizing the board of town auditors of said town to audit and allow, and the board of supervisors of said county to levy and collect, the

same.

Passed February 7, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The resolution passed at the town meeting of the town of Mount Morris, in the county of Livingston, on the seventh day of March, eighteen. hundred and seventy-one, by which certain moneys, amounting to the sum of one hundred and sixty-three

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