Money to be raised by tax. Claim of I CHAP. 296. AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Herkimer to raise money by tax, and to disburse the same. Passed September 21, 1847, "three fifths being present." The people of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Herkimer is hereby authorized and required to raise by tax from the taxable property in the town of Salisbury in said county, as other contingent expenses are now raised by law, a sum that shall be certified to such board by the board of town auditors, as being justly due to Ira Comstock, and others, resident citizens of said town of Salisbury by reason of their being taxed by Sylvester Hanson, Truman Ives and Wyllis Avery, commissioners appointed by an act passed April 14th, 1845, to lay out a road from the town of Salisbury, in the county of Herkimer, to Morehouse, in the county of Hamilton. §2. The board of town auditors of the town of Salisbury, be examined are hereby authorized and required to exaimine the claims of Ira Comstock, and such other resident citizens of said town as shall be presented to them, and if they shall be satisfied by due proof, that said Ira Comstock, and other resident citizens have been taxed by the commissioners appointed as aforesaid, they shall certify the same, with the amount each such resident citizen has been so taxed, to the said board of supervisors; and the said supervisors shall pay the several sums raised by them, according to the first section of this act, to the several persons named in the certificate of the town auditors as aforesaid. Name changed. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 297. AN ACT authorizing Margaret Ann O'Brien, to change her name to that of Mary Hortense Kent. Passed September 21, 1847. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Margaret Ann O'Brien is hereby authorized to assume the name of Mary Hortense Kent, by which name she shall hereafter be known and designated. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 298. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act concerning the proof of wills, executors and administrators, guardians and wards, and Surrogates' Courts," passed May 16, 1837, and the act amending the same passed April 18, 1843. Passed September 21, 1847. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The words " title third" shall be substituted for the Correction. words" title fourth," where they occur in section seventytwo of chapter four hundred and sixty, of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as amended by chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-three. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 299. AN ACT to repay the County Treasurer of Allegany county for moneys improperly appropriated by the town superintendent of common schools for school purposes. Passed September 23, 1847, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Collector of Scio to pay $116 to surer. § 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Allegany are hereby authorized, in making out their next warrant to be directed to the collector of the town of Scio, to order county treahim to retain the sum of one hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-three cents out of the school moneys levied and collected by him, and pay the same to the treasurer of the county of Allegany; it being the amount of the non-resident school-house money collected by the collector of the town of Scio and by him paid to George B. Jones, the former superintendent of common schools of said town of Scio, and wrongfully distributed among the school districts there in. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Money to be paid to J. Hadeocks den. CHAP. 300. AN ACT to pay money for the benefit of Lydia Harden, an Passed September 24, 1847, " three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The treasurer is hereby authorized to pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to John Hadcocks, attorney of the for L. Har- Stockbridge Indians residing at Green Bay, in Wisconsin, the sum of seven hundred dollars for the use and benefit of the said Lydia Harden, who belongs to the said Stockbridge tribe of Indians, to enable her to remove to Green Bay, on the said Hadcock's executing a treaty ceding to the State lot number seven of the New Stockbridge purchase of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, situate in the county of Madison. Money to be § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 301. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of Fishkill to raise money by tax to pay expenses of repairs done to roads and bridges in said town, passed April 24th, 1847. Passed September 24, 1847, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The first section of the act entitled "An act to authoraised by tax rize the inhabitants of Fishkill to raise money by tax to pay expenses of repairs done to roads and bridges in said town," passed April 24th, 1847, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The board of supervisors of the county of Dutchess are hereby authorized to raise the sum of two thousand dollars by levying a tax upon the town of Fishkill in said county, for the purpose of liquidating the debts already incurred by the commissioners of highways in said town, in the repair and maintenance of roads and bridges in said town, to be levied and collected in addition to, and in the same manner as, other taxes are now authorized by law to be levied and collected. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 302. AN ACT to authorize school district number eleven in the town of Brasher, in the county of St. Lawrence to sell their lot. Passed September 25, 1847. The People of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. The trustees of school district number eleven in the Trustees town of Brasher, in the county of St. Lawrence, are hereby may sell lot authorized to sell and convey their lot conveyed to them by John Cropser and Ann his wife, by deed dated February sixteenth, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine, upon such terms, conditions and consideration as shall be duly voted and approved by the majority of all the legal voters at a district school meeting to be called and notified according to law for calling special school district meetings for conducting the legal business of school districts. §2. The moneys or consideration for such sale shall be Money how the property of said school district, and shall be vested in to be vested. the purchase for said school district in a school house lot and burial ground, to be conveyed to said trustees and their successors in office in perpetuity, the price to be paid for such lot so to be purchased, and the location thereof being first approved by a majority of the legal voters of such school district, notified and called in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP, 303, AN ACT to provide for the election of a Lieutenant-Go vernor. Passed September 27, 1847. The People of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: elected. § 1. A lieutenant-governor of the state shall be elected at Lieutenant the next ensuing election, to supply the vacancy in that of-governer to fice, who shall hold his office until and including the thirtyfirst day of December, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. §2. The secretary of state, immediately after the passage Secretary of of this act, shall notify the sheriff, clerk or county judge of notice. state to give each of the counties of this state, that a lieutenant-governor is to be chosen ; and immediately after the reception of such notice, the sheriff, clerk or county judge to whom such notification shall be addressed, shall cause the same to be published in each of the newspapers published in his county, once in each week until the time of holding such election. Provisions of § 3. The provisions of the act entitled "An act respecting election law. elections other than for militia and town officers," passed April 8, 1842, as amended by the act passed May 8, 1847, shall apply to the election of said lieutenant-governor, as far as the same are applicable thereto. Certain officers to be elected annually. High constable, police constable of the watch § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 304. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Rochester. The people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The treasurer, the attorney and counsel to the common council, a superintendent, an overseer of the poor, a sexton or keeper of burial grounds, and a sealer of weights and measures of the city of Rochester, shall hereafter be elected annually at the same time and in the same manner that the marshal of the said city is elected, according to the act entitled " an act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Rochester," passed April 28th, 1834, and the several acts amendatory thereof, passed April 11th, 1844, and if the common council of the said city shall hereafter determine that more than one superintendent or overseer of the poor, or sexton or sealer of weights and measures is necessary, such additional number of either of said officers shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner above specified. The several officers in this section named, may be removed in the same manner that the marshal of said city may be removed. §2. The mayor of the said city shall nominate, and with the consent of the common council appoint an elector of and captain said city, high constable, and one elector of each supervisor district of said city, police constable. He shall in like manner nominate and appoint the captain of the watch department, and so many watchmen as the said common council shall prescribe. The said officers shall hold their office for one year, unless sooner removed for cause. The term of office of the high constable, of the captain of the watch |