All pay ments made trust such manner and proportions as the said regents shall determine to such of the colleges of this state as shall be willing to comply in their arrangements and instruction to the requisitions of the act of Congress aforesaid, and in such manner as in the judgment of the said regents shall best carry out the true intent and meaning of the said act, having reference, in such selection and division, to the existing arrangements of such colleges respectively, for instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and giving preference, as far as may be, to such institutions as shall receive endowments after the passage of this act, for the purpose of advancing instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The provisions of the third section of this act shall apply to the institution so selected as aforesaid. $6. All payments to be made under this act shall be made out of this by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, out of the special or trust fund on deposit with the treasurer, arising from the receipt of the income and revenue mentioned in the first section of this act. Act may be amended or $7. The legislature may, at any time, alter, amend, or repealed. repeal this act. S8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 514. AN ACT providing for relief to the indigent families of volunteers and persons who may be ordered into the military or naval service of the United States. PASSED May 17, 1863; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The supervisor, town-clerk, and justices of the peace in each of the towns, and the common council of the respective cities of this state, shall, ex officio, constitute a board of relief for their respective towns and cities, and as such board shall have power from time to time to grant such relief to the indigent families of volunteers from this state, residing in such towns, and of persons ordered into the military or naval service of the United States, as shall seem necessary and proper, and the amount of such relief shall be a town or city charge respectively as the same may be upon the respective towns and cities in which the same shall be granted, and shall be audited, collected and paid in the same manner as other town and city charges now authorized by law are audited, collected and paid. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Amended by laws of 1864, chap. 8, § 21. NEW TOWNS ERECTED OR BOUNDARIES ALTERED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. CHAP. 516. AN ACT to annex part of the town of Vestal, in the county of Broome, to the town of Binghamton, in the same county, by the board of supervisors thereof. PASSED November 24, 1862; two-thirds of all the members elected to said board voting in its favor. 51. All that part of the town of Vestal, in the county of Broome, known and distinguished as the east part of lot number two in the second tract in Sidney township, containing two hundred and fifty acres, being the farm of William Morris, is hereby taken from the said town of Vestal, and annexed and added to the town of Binghamton, in the same county. 52. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of Decem- . ber, A. D. 1862. We have compared the above with the original act passed by the board of supervisors of said county, and certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and the whole of such original, and that the map hereunto annexed is a correct copy of one presented to said board with the application for said alteration. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this twenty-fourth day of November, A. D. 1862. E. D. ROBINSON, Clerk. J. E. WENTZ, Chairman. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the constitution. Resolved (if the assembly concur), That the following amendment be proposed to the constitution of this state: There shall be added to the sixth article of the constitution of this state, as the twenty-sixth section thereof, the following: Whenever, and as soon as this amendment to the constitution shall take effect, the governor shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate appoint, five persons commissioners of appeals, who shall have power to hear and determine all appeals then depending in the court of appeals, which may be transferred to them by said court, and shall have all the general powers of a court of record for that purpose. The clerk of the court of appeals shall act as clerk of said commissioners, and the judgment rendered by the said commissioners shall be entered by the said clerk in the records of the court of appeals, and shall have the same force and effect as if rendered by the said court. One of the said commissioners shall be named as chief commissioner, and the said commission shall continue, and the said commissioners shall hold their offices, until all the causes transferred to them shall have been heard and determined, but not longer than four years from the date of the original commission. The said commissioners shall receive the same compensation as the judges of the court of appeals. They may appoint the time and places of their sittings, and the legislature shall provide for the expense thereof. But said sittings shall not be appointed for the same time as those fixed for the court of appeals; and the reporter of the court of appeals shall be the reporter of the said commissioners. STATE OF NEW YORK, The foregoing resolution was duly passed. JAS. TERWILLIGER, Clerk. STATE OF NEW YORK, The foregoing resolution was duly passed. J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk. CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS relating to deposits in Savings Banks. Whereas, The large and rapidly increasing sums on deposit in the savings banks of this state render it an object of special importance that the safety of these investments should be properly secured and sacredly guarded; for the purpose, therefore, of the better insuring these objects and ascertaining with more direct certainty the manner and character of the investments made in pursuance of such trusts: Resolved (if the assembly concur), That, in addition to the obligations imposed upon the superintendent of the banking department by section three, chapter one hundred and thirtysix of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, it shall be his duty to make or cause to be made such an examination as he shall deem proper, at their respective places of business, of the affairs of each savings bank or institution for savings. within this state having a deposit of more than fifty thousand dollars; also what institutions of this nature, if any, are directly connected with banks of issue, and report the results of his action to the legislature at the commencement of its annual session in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or as soon thereafter as possible, and for that purpose shall have full access to all the books, papers and securities of such institutions, during reasonable hours of the day, and shall possess all the authority for such examinations in relation to savings banks and savings institutions as is now conferred upon him in regard to banks of issue and deposit, by chapter two hundred and forty-two of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-four. The expenses of such examination shall be audited by the superintendent, paid and assessed upon the several savings banks and institutions for savings, examined in such manner as he shall deem just and reasonable, and collected in the same manner as is now provided by law for other expenses of these institutions. IN SENATE, April 20, 1863. The foregoing resolutions were duly passed. JAS. TERWILLIGER, Clerk. STATE OF NEW YORK, IN ASSEMBLY, April 24, 1863. The foregoing resolutions were duly passed. } J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk. CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS proposing an amendment to the Constitution, providing that persons in the military service of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, may vote at the place where they may be in such service. Resolved (if the assembly concur), That the following amendment be proposed to the constitution of this state: Section oue of article two is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: Provided, that in time of war, no elector in the actual military service of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from the state; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which, and the time and places at which, such absent electors may vote, and for the canvass and returns of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside, or otherwise. Resolved (if the assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment be referred to the legislature, to be chosen at the next general election of senators, and that the same be published for three months prior to such election, pursuant to section one of article thirteen of the constitution. STATE OF NEW YORK, IN ASSEMBLY, April 22, 1863. The foregoing resolutions were duly passed. By order of the Assembly. } J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk. STATE OF NEW YORK, The foregoing resolutions were duly passed. JAS. TERWILLIGER, Clerk. NAMES CHANGED UNDER AND IN PURSUANCE OF CHAPTER EIGHTY OF. THE LAWS OF 1860. STATE OF NEW YORK, ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, Buffalo, April 4, 1863. I, Charles R. Durkee, clerk of the county of Erie, do hereby certify that the following changes of names have been made by the county court of this county during the year 1862, viz.: Original name. Hiram Tallmadge Ewers. Name as changed. Hiram Ewers Tallman. CHARLES R. DURKEE, Clerk, KINGS COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, Hon. HORATIO BALLARD, Secretary of State: } SIR: The following changes of names have been made by the county court of this county during the present year, viz.: Park Presbyterian Church, ΤΟ ΤΟ Very respectfully, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. Minnie Cunningham Prescott. J. N. STEARNS, Clerk of Kings Co. OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE Court of COMMON PLEAS, New York, December 31, 1862. Pursuant to chapter eighty of the Laws of the State of New York, passed March 17, 1860, I hereby report that the names of the following persons have been changed by the court of common pleas for the city and county of New York, during the year 1862, viz. : |