To Senter M. Giddings, sergeant-at-arms of the senate, for s. w. Gid. extra services in collecting books and preparing for the session of dings. 1848, twenty-four dollars; also, for preparing for the session of 1849, eighteen dollars; also, for extra services in collecting documents and arranging the same after the session of 1849, thirty dollars; also, for services as librarian, two hundred dollars; and also for mileage for 1848 and 1849, seventy dollars.

To R. Van Valkenburgh, for two days' attendance on the pre- R. Van Valsidential electors, six dollars.

lenburg.

To A. J. Coffin, for services as chairman of the committee of A. J. Coffin. the senate to investigate the accounts of the commissary general, and mileage, forty-seven dollars.

house of refuge.

sit during re.

cess.

For the support and maintenance of the western house of re- Western fuge, up to the thirtieth day of September, 1849, the sum of six thousand dollars. The sum of one thousand two hundred dollars is appropriated selcet comfor the purpose of compensating such select committees as are mittees to or may be appointed by the senate or assembly to sit during the recess of the legislature, and the comptroller shall draw his warrant for the payment of such sum as may become due to each member of said select committees, upon the receipt by him of a certificate of the chairmain of said committee, setting forth the number of days for which the member in whose favor it shall be given, shall be entitled to payment, and the estimated distance of the actual travel performed by such member in the performance of his duties as a member of said committee, at the rate of compensation allowed by law to members of the legislature for travel and attendance; also, for such amount as shall be certified by the chairman of each of said committees as the necessary expenses of such investigation for witnesses' fees, service of subpoenas and other incidental expenses.

For compensation to county treasurers and others for the trans- County trea mission of public moneys to the state treasury, pursuant to chap-surers. ter forty-four of the laws of 1843, one hundred dollars.

For expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry convened Courts marpursuant to law, one thousand dollars.

tial.

hall.

For ordinary expenses, repairs and improvements of the old state Old state hall, in connection with the safe keeping of the cabinets of natural history deposited therein, and for the erection of out-buildings for the accommodation thereof, one thousand dollars.

tion of ses

For the transportation of the session laws, the senate and as- Transportasembly journals and documents of 1849, the fifteenth volume of sion laws, natural history, the transactions of the state agricultural society, &c. and also extra copies of the volumes containing the documentary history of this state, together with books and pamphlets to be forwarded to the several county clerks, and also for the expense of boxes for the same, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars.

clerk hire.

For extra clerk hire in the comptroller's office, which may be Comptroller necessary in making reports required by the legislature, twelve hundred dollars.

Bank agent in N. Y.

Governor for reports.

Public printing.

Agriculture.

Curator of

history.

To the person who may from time to time be employed by the bank of the state of New-York in keeping the books for the transfer of the stock issued in aid of the construction of the Ithaca and Owego railroad, and for paying the interest on the same, pursuant to chapter two hundred and ninety-five, of the laws of 1838, such sum as the comptroller may deem a reasonable compensation, not exceeding two hundred dollars.

The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to the governor, such sum, not exceeding three hundred dollars in any one year, as may be necessary to furnish a copy of the current reports of the supreme court and court of appeals of this state, for each of the states that has transmitted or shall transmit to him reports of its supreme or superior courts for the use of this state.

The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, in addition to the sum already appropriated, for public printing.

For the promotion of agriculture in the several counties in this state, for the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1849, the sum of eight thousand dollars.

The sum of six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the cabinet nat. annual salary of the curator of the state cabinet of natural history, instead of the sum now fixed by law; such salary to be paid monthly or quarterly, as the regents of the university may direct; provided, however, that said curator be well qualified to increase and preserve said collection.

Clerk hire]

ment.

The auditor of the canal deparment is hereby authorized to canal depart- expend such sum of money, not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year, in addition to the present allowance for clerk hire in that department, as shall be necessary to make an accurate examination of the check accounts of the collectors of canal tolls. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Appropria

years 1850

and 1851.

Chap. 401.

AN ACT making appropriations for the State Library, for international exchanges and for the salary of the Secretary of the Regents of the University.

Passed April 11, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. The following appropriations are hereby made for the state tions for the library for each of the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the trustees of the library as soon after the first day of January in each year, as the said trustees may require the same.

Two thousand eight hundred dollars for the purchase of books Books. and the enlargement of the library.

Eight hundred dollars for binding, lettering and marking books. Binding, &c. Five hundred dollars for the contingent expenses of the li

brary.

curred in in

1848.

The additional sum of two hundred dollars for the present year Expenses to be paid as above provided, to defray expenses incurred in binding and lettering books, maps, &c., during the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, above the annual appropriation. The additional sum of four hundred dollars to defray contin- Contingent gent expenses incurred by the transfer of historical documents expenses unfrom the office of the secretary of state to the library, in compli- tion of 1847. ance with a concurrent resolution of the legislature, passed December 15, 1847, and to meet expenses for the arrangement and safe keeping of donations to the library.

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sistant

§ 2. The aggregate annual appropriation of one thousand eight Salaries of hundred and fifty dollars for the salaries of the librarian, assistant iranian, ad librarian and messenger, is hereby continued, said salaries to messenger. commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in like manner as the above appropriations for the library, and in accordance with such provisions contained in section two of chapter two hundred and sixty two of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, as are not inconsistent herewith.

§ 3. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller to the regents of the university out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

al exchang

1. The sum of six hundred dollars for each of the years one Internationthousand eight hundred and fifty, and one thousand eight hund- es. red and fifty-one, for conducting the system of international exchanges now existing to be expended by them for that purpose as provided by chapter three hundred and seventy eight of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

Provincial

2. The further sum of four hundred dollars for the purchase of Journals of copies of the Journal of the Provincial Congress, to be used for Congress. the purpose of international exchanges.

3. The sum of three hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase Ethnological of the transactions of the American Ethnological Society to be societytrans. used for the same purpose.

actions.

secretary of

&c.

§ 4. There shall be paid to the regents of the university out of Salary of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, fourteen the regents, hundred dollars in each of the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty, for the salary of the secretary of the board of regents, the pay of a messenger, and for postage, stationery, printing, and incidental expenses.

Stock may be surrendered.

Chap. 402.

AN ACT to authorize Gilbert Smith and others to surrender their old stock of the New-York and Erie railroad, and to receive new stock therefor.

Passed April 11, 1849.

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

§ 2. Gilbert Smith, of the town of Barton, in the county of Tioga, and all other persons holding such stock are hereby authorized and empowered at any time within twelve months after the passage of this act, to surrender to the New-York and Erie railroad company the certificates for such shares of the capital stock of said company, now held and owned by them upon the same terms and with the like effect, and shall be entitled to receive from said company the same compensation as they would have been entitled to receive provided they had made such surrender within six months after the passage of the act entitled "An act in relation to the construction of the New-York and Erie railroad," passed May 14, 1845.

Amendments.

Amendments.

Chap. 403.

AN ACT farther to amend the charter of the city of Rochester.
Passed April 11, 1849, "three-fifths being present."
The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The seventh title of the act entitled" An act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Rochester," passed April 28, 1884, and the several acts amendatory thereof, passed April 11, 1844, which title is entitled "Of streets, highways, bridges and public improvements," is hereby amended as follows: section eight of said title is hereby amended by striking out the words "mayor's court" and inserting in lieu thereof "county of Monroe." Section nine is amended by striking out the words "mayor's court of said city at a term thereof," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "county judge of Monroe county at a time" and also by striking out the words "term of the mayor's court" at the end of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "time."

Section ten is amended by striking out the word "term" and inserting "time" in lieu thereof, and by striking out the words "mayor's court," and inserting in lieu thereof the words " county judge" sections eleven, twelve and thirteen are hereby amended by strik

ing out the words "mayor's court" where the same occur in each of said sections respectively, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "county judge of Monroe county," and section thirteen is also further amended by striking out all after the word "provided" in said section.

ments:

Section fourteen is amended by striking out the words " may- Amend. or's court" and inserting in lieu thereof the words " said county judge," and adding after the word "order" the words "in the book where the minutes of the county court are kept."

Sections fifteen, sixteen, twenty-one and twenty-two,are amend- Amended by striking out the words "mayor's court" wherever the same ments. occur in said sections respectively, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "county judge of Monroe county."

opening or

§ 2. All laws and ordinances made by the corporation of the Provision recity of Rochester in opening, widening or improving streets, lanes lative to or alleys, or in making sewers or other expensive works, shall be improving first sanctioned by the written names of at least a majority of the owners of property to be assessed for such improvements. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 404.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act establishing free schools throughout the state," passed March 26, 1849.

Passed April 11, 1849, "three-fifths being present."

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

streets.

the word

Sr. Section six of the act entitled "An act establishing free Amendment schools throughout the state," passed March 26, 1849, is hereby "second" alamended by striking out the word "second" in the last line of said tered to section, and inserting the word "third" in lieu thereof, and the said section shall be amended accordingly in the printed copies of said act when published by the secretary of state.

"third."

§ 2. The fourteenth section of said act is amended by striking Amendment out therefrom all after the word "effect" and inserting in lieu in 14th thereof the word "immediately."

section.

§ 3. The trustees of any school district, or a majority of them, Trustees may at any time after the adoption of this act by the people, and may call a special meetprior to the first annual meeting thereafter if they deem it neces- ing. sary, call a special meeting for the purpose mentioned in the third section of said act, and notice of the same shall be given at the same time and in the same manner as is required by said section in relation to the estimates therein mentioned.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.