ing commissioners. Annual meetings held. to superintend the building of the court-house, clerk's office and jail in said county; and it shall be their duty at such meeting, to prepare a list of persons to serve as grand jurors for said county of Wyoming, in the manner provided by Title four, Article one, Chapter two, Part Four of the Revised Statutes. S 12. The annual meeting of the board of supervisors of when to be the said county of Wyoming, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the general election in each year, at the place where the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace shall be held. Duty of the surers. S 13. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county of county trea Genesee and of the treasurer of the county of Wyoming, so to be appointed as aforesaid, to meet with the said supervisors at their said special meetings; and the said supervisors and treasurers when so assembled in joint board, shall apportion and divide all debts owing by the said county of Genesee, or to said county, and shall make such arrangements in relation to the poor-house property and the support of the county poor, as shall be just and equitable. Two members of be elected by each S 14. The said county of Genesee shall be entitled to clect assembly to two members of assembly, and the said county of Wyoming shall be entitled to elect two members of assembly, in the same manner as other counties of this state are by law entitled to elect members of assembly; and the said counties of Genesee and Wyoming shall compose the twenty-ninth congressional district. county. Sheriff, clerk and be elected in Wyo. ming. S 15. An election for sheriff, clerk and coroners in said Coroners to county of Wyoming, shall be held therein on the third Tuesday of June next, which election shall be conducted in all respects in the manner now prescribed by law, except that the said election shall be held on one day only, and the sheriff, clerk and coroners then elected shall hold their respective offices for the same term as if they had been chosen at the last election held in this state, agreeable to the statutes regulating elections. Duty of board of vassers. S16. It shall and may be lawful for the board of county county can- canvassers of the county of Wyoming, on the Saturday next following the election authorized by the preceding section, to meet at the public house at East-Orangeville, and at such meeting proceed and canvass the whole number of votes given in said county, in the manner provided by law. board of Secretary of S 17. The first judge of said county of Wyoming, or in canvassers. case of his absence, either of the other judges, shall be the secretary of said board of canvassers, and shall do all the duties of county clerk at such meeting, that are required to be done by law. Notices put up in S 18. All notices required by law to be put on the outer where to be door of any court-house, may, in the said county of Wyoming, Wyoming be put up on the outer door of the public house at EastOrangeville until a court-house shall be erected; and in case county. the said county courts shall hereafter be held at any other house or place, then such notices shall be put on the outer door of said house or place where the said county courts were last held. house, jail office where and clerk's to be loca ted and erected. $ 19. The court-house, clerk's office and jail of the county Courtof Wyoming shall be erected at such place in said county as shall be designated by the commissioners appointed for that purpose; if a suitable and convenient lot for said court-house, clerk's office and jail shall have been first conveyed to the supervisors of said county and their successors forever; and Peter R. Reed of the county of Onondaga, Davis Hurd of the county of Niagara, and John Thompson of the county of Steuben, are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to meet on the first Tuesday of July next, or on such other day in that month as they may appoint, at the inn near the centre of Orangeville, and proceed to establish and fix the site for such court-house, clerk's office and jail, and the decision of said commissioners, or any two of them, shall be conclusive in the premises; and the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive three dollars per day for every day they may be necessarily employed in such service, together with all their reasonable expenses, which sum shall be levied, collected and paid as part of the contingent expenses of said county. And whenever the jail in said county of Wyoming shall be so far completed, as in the opinion of the sheriff of said county it shall be safe to remove the prisoners thereto, it shall be lawful for the said sheriff to remove all his prisoners then confined in the jail of Genesee county, or on the limits thereof, to the said jail in the county of Wyoming, and such removal shall not be considered an escape. where to be $20. It shall be lawful for all courts and officers of said Prisoners county of Wyoming, in all cases civil and criminal, to confine confined. their prisoners in the jail of the county of Genesee; and in all criminal cases it shall be lawful to remove and convey such prisoners to and from said jail for the purpose of trial in said county of Wyoming until the jail of said county shall be completed. S21. The Comptroller is authorized to loan to the county Comptrol of Wyoming ten thousand dollars, out of any money in the $10,000. treasury belonging to the capital of the common school fund. to treasurer ty. $22. The Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the trea- To be paid surer for the said sum of ten thousand dollars in favor of the of Wyo treasurer of the county of Wyoming, on receiving from ming coun the treasurer of said county his official bond to repay the same in ten equal annual instalments, together with the interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, the interest to be paid annually, and the first instalment of the said loan to be made payable in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. $23. The money so provided to be loaned as aforesaid, How to be shall be applied to the erection of a court-house, clerk's office applied. Building commision bond. and jail for the said county of Wyoming, and the necessary furniture and fixtures for the same, and for no other purpose, and shall be drawn from the treasury of said county by the commissioners to be appointed by the board of supervisors for superintending the building of said court-house, clerk's office and jail. $24. Such commissioners before entering upon the duties ers to give of their office, shall execute their joint or several bonds to the board of supervisors of said county, in such sum and with such sureties as shall be approved of by the treasurer of said county, for the faithful application of such money as shall come into their hands for the purpose aforesaid. Money to be raised by tax to pay interest. Principal how to be paid. Members of assembly and commissioners of loans. $ 25. The board of supervisors of said county shall annually cause to be levied and collected from the taxable inhabitants of the same, a sum sufficient to pay the annual interest of the said loan, which shall be paid into the hands of the county treasurer, who shall annually pay into the treasury of the state the said annual interest. $ 26. The said board of supervisors shall also, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, and in each of the nine successive years thereafter, levy and collect, in like manner, one thousand dollars each and every year, which shall be paid into the hands of the county treasurer, who shall, in like manner, pay the same annually into the treasury of the state to apply in payment or said bond. S27. Nothing contained in this act shall affect the members of assembly from the county of Genesee now elected, nor the rights, powers and duties of commissioners of loans of the said county. Territory annexed to Wyoming county. Town of erected. CHAP. 51. AN ACT to annex the towns of Eagle, Pike, and a part of Portage to the county of Wyoming. PASSED April 1, 1846. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. The towns of Eagle, Pike, and all that part of the town of Portage, in the county of Allegany, lying on the west side of the Genesee river, bounded as follows: On the east by the Genesee river; on the south by a line running due easterly from the south line of the town of Pike, until it intersects the Genesee river; and west and north by the original lines of said town, from and after the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby annexed to the county of Wyoming. S2. The territory hereby taken from the said town of Portage, and three-quarters of a mile of territory, being one tier of lots as surveyed by the Holland Land Company, from the east side of the said town of Pike, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be a separate town, by the name of the town of Genesee Falls; and the first town meeting therein shall be held at the house of Anson Tinkham, on the second Tuesday of April next, to commence at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing all necessary town officers for said town of Genesee Falls. ing in § 3. The said town of Portage shall hold a town meeting Town meet on the said second Tuesday of April next at the house of Portage. Philip Burroughs, in the said town, to commence at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing town officers to fill the offices made vacant in the said town, in consequence of the passage of this act. Portage S 4. All the residue of the town of Portage lying west of Part of the Genesee river, shall, from and after the passage of this annexed to act, be annexed to the town of Hume in the county of Allegany. Home. cers in $5. All the town officers of the towns of Eagle and Pike, Town offin office when this act shall take effect, and the justices of Eagle and the peace residing within the territory hereby taken from the Pike. said town of Portage, and annexed to the said county of Wyoming, shall remain officers of their towns, with the same tenure and jurisdiction in and for the county of Wyoming which they had or possessed in and for the county of Allegany before the passage of this act. clerk of county. $6. The clerk of the county of Allegany shall, immediately Duty of the after the passage of this act, make and transmit to the clerk Allegany of the county of Wyoming, to be filed in his office, a certificate of all the town officers of the towns of Pike and Eagle, and of the justices of the peace residing in the territory hereby taken from the said town of Portage, and annexed to the said county of Wyoming, whose names are filed or kept in his office; which certificate when so filed, or a copy thereof certified by the clerk of Wyoming county, shall be evidence in all cases with the like force and effect as his certificate would be if said officers had been elected or chosen in their respective towns in the county of Wyoming after the passage of this act. sioners of transcribe mortgages and min utes. $ 7. The commissioners of loans of Wyoming county shall Commis have access to the books and minutes of the loan commis- loans to sioners of Allegany county, and shall within three months after the passage of this act, transcribe and enter, or cause to be transcribed and entered, in a book or books, all mortgages and minutes contained in the first mentioned books, so far as the same shall relate to, and the lands mortgaged may be situated in, the territory hereby annexed to the county of Wyoming at the cost and expense of the said county of Wyoming, to be audited and paid by the board of supervisors of the said county of Wyoming; and said mortgages and minutes, when so transcribed, shall have all the force and validity as if originally entered in the book or books in which they Saving clause. Bradford and Orange altered. shall be transcribed as aforesaid; and the duties and authority of the commissioners of loans of Wyoming county over said mortgages, shall be the same in all respects as if said mortgage had been originally given in said county of Wyoming. $8. The passage of this act shall not be construed so as to interfere in any manner with any crime or misdemeanor committed before the passage of this act, in the territory hereby annexed to the county of Wyoming or in the prosecution thereof, or with any civil action or proceeding already commenced in any court of law or equity. CHAP. 386. AN ACT to erect a new county, from parts of the counties of Steuben, Chemung and Tompkins, by the name of Schuyler, and to alter the town lines of Bradford and Wayne, in the county of Steuben, to erect the town of Van Etten, and annex parts of the towns of Erin and Catharine to the town of Cayuta, in the county of Chemung. PASSED April 17, 1854, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All that part of the town of Bradford, in the county town lines of Steuben, lying east of the section line, and being the west line of lots numbers thirty-one, thirty-five, forty, one, two, three and four, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and form a part of the town of Orange. Wayne and altered. S2. All that part of the town of Wayne, in the county of town lines Steuben, lying east of the section line, and being the east line of a tier of lots number one, respectively, and running across the town of Wayne, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and form a part of the town of Tyrone. Van Etten erected from Erin and Cayuta. S3. All those parts of the towns of Erin and Cayuta, in the county of Chemung, embracing the following territory: Beginning at the northeast corner of the town of Cayuta, running thence west along the town line between the towns of Newfield and Cayuta to the west line of lot number fortythree; thence south along the west line of lots number thirty, twenty-five, twelve and seven, passing through another lot designated as number forty-three, and thence along the southeast line of lot number twenty-nine to the southeast corner thereof; thence southeasterly along the line of lots numbers twenty-eight, twenty-seven, twenty-six, twenty-five and twenty-four, to lot number sixteen; thence along the north line of lot number sixteen to the northeast corner thereof; thence south along the east line of lots number sixteen and seventeen, and a straight continuation of the same to the |