Amending ch. 807, Laws 1873. May perform duties in other Jounties. CHAP. 458. AN ACT to amend chapter eight hundred and seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act concerning notaries public in the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, Westchester and Rockland, and in the city and county of New York, and authorizing them to exercise the functions of their office therein." PASSED May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter eight hundred and seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act concerning notaries public in the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, Westchester and Rockland, and in the city and county of New York, and authorizing them to exercise the functions of their office therein,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. Any notary public appointed for the county of Kings, Queens, Richmond, Westchester, Putnam, Suffolk and Rockland, or for the city and county of New York, upon filing a certified copy of his appointment, with his autograph signature, in the clerk's office of any other of said counties, is hereby authorized to exercise all of the functions of his office in such other of said counties, with the same effect as he now possesses by law in the county for which he is appointed. And the county clerk of any of said counties in whose office any notary public appointed as aforesaid shall have filed a certified copy of his appointment, with his autograph signature, is hereby authorized and required, whenever so requested, to subjoin to any certificate of proof or acknowledgment, signed by such notary public, a certificate under his hand and official seal, specifying that said notary public has filed a certified copy of his appointment, with his autograph signature in his office, and was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, duly authorized to take the same, and that the said clerk is well acquainted with the handwriting of said notary public, and verily believes that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledg ment is genuine, and any conveyance so proved or acknowledged, and having such county clerk's certificate subjoined thereto, shall be entitled to be read in evidence, or to be recorded in any of the counties of this State. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 464. AN ACT to provide houses of detention in the several counties of this State, for the safe-keeping and proper care of women and children charged with offenses and held for trial, and also for the detention of all persons held as witnesses. PASSED May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of each of the counties in this superState, except in the county of Kings and city and county of New visors may. provide York, are hereby authorized and empowered to procure, by lease or houses of purchase, a suitable place or places other than common jails, for the detention. safe and proper keeping, and care and keep, of women and children charged with offenses and held for trial, and all persons detained as witnesses; such places to be termed houses of detention. thereto. § 2. Whenever a house of detention shall be provided in any county Commitaccording to the provisions of this act, any magistrate in such county ments authorized to commit persons charged with offenses and held for trial, shall direct on his order of committal, in case the person charged is woman or girl, or a boy under sixteen years of age, that such person be placed in the house of detention in his county, instead of the jail, and every person held as a witness in such county shall be placed in such house of detention. §3. This act shall not apply to any person charged with crimes When not punishable by death or imprisonment in States prison for a term to apply. exceeding five years or charged with a second offense. charge. §4. The sheriff in each county shall have charge and control of Sheriff to such house or houses of detention, and shall be entitled to collect from have the county the same fees and compensation for the care and board of said persons as are now allowed by law for the care and board of prisoners confined in the common jail. 20 Agents of non-resident companies to pay two the hundred to ments. 1876, ch. 359, post. CHAP. 465. AN ACT to require the payment of certain premiums to the fire departments of cities and incorporated villages, by fire insurance companies not organized under the laws of the State of New York, but doing business therein. PASSED May 28, 1875. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There shall be paid to the treasurer of the fire department of every city or incorporated village of this State, for the use and benefit of such fire department, and when no treasurer of a fire dollars on department exists, then to the treasurer of such city or village, who, for the purposes of this act, shall have the same powers as the treas. fire departurers of fire departments, on the first day of February in each year, by Amended every person who shall act as agent for or on behalf of any individual or association of individuals, not incorporated by or under the laws of this State, to effect insurance against loss or injury by fire upon property in this State, although such individual or association may be incorporated for that purpose by any other State or country, the sum of two dollars upon the hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the amount of all premiums which during the year or part of a year, ending on the last preceding first day of September, shall have been received by such agent or person, or received by any other person for him, or shall have been agreed to be paid for any insurance effected or agreed to be effected, or promised by him as such agent or otherwise, to be effected against loss or injury by fire upon property, situate within the corporate limits of such city or village. Agents to give bonds. Amended 1876, ch. 359, post. Penalty. 1878, ch. §2. No person shall, as agent or otherwise for any individual, individuals or association, effect or agree to effect any insurance upon any property situate in any city or incorporated village of this State, upon which the above duty is required to be paid, or as agent or otherwise procure such insurance to be effected until he shall have executed and delivered to the treasurer of the fire department of the city or village in which the property insured is situated, or if no treasurer of a fire department exists then to the treasurer of such city or village, a bond to such fire department in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with such sureties as such treasurer shall approve, with a condition that he will annually render to said treasurer on the first day of February in each year, a just and true account verified by his oath that the same is true of all premiums which, during the year ending on the first day of September preceding such report, shall have been received by him or by any other person for him, or agreed to be paid for any insurance against loss or injury by fire upon property situate in such city or village, which shall have been effected or procured by him, to be effected for any individual, individuals or association not incorporated by the laws of this State as aforesaid, and that he will annually on the first day of February in each year pay to said treasurer two dollars upon every hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the amount of such premiums. § 3. Every person who shall effect, agree to effect, promise or procure any insurance specified in the preceding sections of this act without having executed and delivered the bond required by the preceding Amended section shall, for each offense, forfeit two hundred dollars for the use 191 and benefit of the fire department of such city or village, such pen- 1879, ch. alty of two hundred dollars shall be collected by and in the name of 153. the fire department of the city or village in which the property insured or agreed to be insured is situate. §4. None of the provisions of this act shall apply to the city of New Not to York. apply to New § 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of York. this act are hereby repealed. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 472. AN ACT to repeal chapter nine hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to inspection of steam boilers in the State of New York, except in the metropolitan police district." PASSED May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Amended 1876, ch. 359, post. Laws 1861, SECTION 1. Chapter nine hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of Repealing eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to the ch.969 inspection of steam boilers in the State of New York, except in the 7 Edm.238. metropolitan police district," is hereby repealed. CHAP. 474. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and fifty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to reduce the number of town officers, and town and county expenses, and to prevent abuses in auditing town and county accounts, passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-five. PASSED May 28, 1875; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Laws 1847, SECTION 1. Section sixteen of chapter four hundred and fifty-five of Amending the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act to amend ch. 455, an act entitled, 'An act to reduce the number of town officers and 3 Edm.311. town and county expenses, and to prevent abuses in auditing town and county accounts,' passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-five," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: lectors. 16. Town collectors shall be entitled to collect five per cent fees for Town colall unpaid taxes under the thirtieth section of the act hereby amended, and whenever any such collector shall make return to the county treasurer for any unpaid taxes, he shall add to the several sums so returned by him, five per cent, which shall go to the credit of the county, and be collected with said unpaid taxes; and such collector shall be entitled to receive from the county treasury, and be paid by the treasurer, two per cent as fees for all taxes so returned by him. The town collectors from the county of Kings, in addition to the percentage and interest authorized by sections five and six of chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-one, shall add the amount of their fees which shall go to the credit of the respective towns. §2. The provisions of section sixteen of said act, as amended under section one, are hereby made applicable to the county of Kings, and section twenty-six of said act is repealed in so far as it may conflict with such application. § 3. All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. supervi CHAP. 482. Boards of AN ACT to confer on boards of supervisors further powers of local legislation and administration, and to regulate the compensation of supervisors. sors. Further powers. Amended 1878, ch. 285, post, 68 N. Y. 259, 10 Hun, 405. Real estate house, offices, jails, etc. PASSED June 5, 1875, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Further powers of local legislation and administration are hereby conferred on the boards of supervisors in the several counties of this State, except in cities whose boundaries are the same as those of the county, to make and administer, within their respective counties, laws and regulations as follows: COUNTY BUILDINGS. 1. To purchase or otherwise acquire, for the use of the county, real for court- estate for sites for court-houses, county clerks' offices and other buildings for county offices, and for jails and such other places of confinement as may be authorized or required by law for the safe-keeping and employment at hard labor of offenders, and for the detention of witnesses, and of women and children held for trial for offenses where the punishment prescribed is imprisonment for a term less than five years; and, also, for establishments for the care of pauper idiots, paupers incurably insane, and other indigent persons for whose support the county shall be liable; to erect, alter, improve, purchase and receive by gift, buildings for any of such purposes, and to make such expendiTo borrow tures on account of such sites and buildings as may be necessary; to borrow money on the county bonds, or other county obligations, for a period not exceeding fifteen years, to be paid in annual installments, Limitation for the purposes specified in this subdivision; but in all cases where a on issue of proposed issue of county bonds shall, with the amount of bonds issued under any previous authority and still outstanding, exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, no additional issue shall be authorized except in the counties of Albany, Erie and Kings, unless by the assent of a majority of all the electors of the county voting on the question at any annual election. And subject to the conditions in this act specified, money. bonds. |