than three months, to the said work-house; and the superintendent of said work-house shall receive such persons and safely keep them for the term for which they may be respectively sentenced, and employ them according to the discipline and rules of said work-house; and the officer conveying such convicts to said work-house, shall be paid by the county from which they are sent, such fees for said conveyance as the board of supervisors of said county shall direct.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 12.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain persons for services performed while acting as officers of the Assembly.

Passed February 19th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the several sums, for the purposes and to the persons respectively, hereinafter specified:

To William Richardson, as clerk of the assembly, in addition to the amount provided by law, the sum of three hundred dollars.

To William E. Mills, Cornelius S. Underwood, Luther Caldwell and Edwin A. Merritt, as acting deputy clerks, each the sum of six dollars per day for each days actual service, to be paid on an affidavit of such service and the certificate of the speaker.

To E. S. Payne, as acting librarian, Smith Phillips, acting assistant librarian, Norman P. Hitchcock, as acting sergeant-at-arms, Daniel M. Prescott, as acting assistant sergeant-at-arms, Levi Freeman, as acting post-master, Hugh Magee, as acting assistant post-master, Guerdon B.

Taylor, as acting janitor, Eliakim A. Chase, as keeper of the assembly chamber, George C. Dennis, as acting doorkeeper, John Lewis, Joseph D. Grinell, John F. Curtis, A. H. Stoughtenburgh, John B. Stonehouse, Sluman Frink, Abraham Minier and Samuel N. Rogers, as acting assistant door-keepers, each three dollars per day for services actually rendered, to be certified by the speaker on the affidavit of the individual rendering such service, and mileage to each of the aforementioned officers the same as is paid to members of the Legislature. To Andrew Harbeck, Nelson L. Arms, Daniel W. Merchant, Edward Vedder, John S. Guardinier, each the sum of two dollars per day. To each of the other messengers of the assembly the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day. Each of the messengers shall be paid for their services during the time that they were actually in the performance of their duties respectively, to be paid in each case on the certificate of the speaker.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 13.

AN ACT relating to the fisheries in the towns of New Utrecht and Gravesend, in the county of Kings.

Passed February 25th, 1858.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the freeholders and inhabitants of the towns of New Utrecht and Gravesend, to continue to set fikes or hoop nets, and to drive the necessary poles and stakes for the same, in New Utrecht and Gravesend bay, between a point one thousand feet south of the United States dock at Fort Hamilton, Narrows and Coney island, as provided in chapter thirty-first of the laws of eighteen hundred and twenty, and chapter one hundred and twenty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred

and thirty-six, any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to allow said freeholders and inhabitants of said towns to set fikes or hoop nets or to drive the necessary poles and stakes for the same beyond the line established under the said acts of eighteen hundred and twenty and eighteen hundred and thirty-six, or to prevent the board of supervisors of the county of Kings from exercising the powers vested in them by section four, subdivision thirteen, of chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-nine; nor shall it be deemed to authorize the placing of fish poles to the west of a line drawn from the bulkhead of the said United States dock, and the north east extremity of Coney Island.

§2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 14.

AN ACT to revive, amend and continue the charter of the village of Lowville, in the county of Lewis, and to legalize a vote of the taxable inhabitants thereof.

Passed February 27th, 1858, three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. The village of Lowville having been incorporated under the provisions of an act of the legislature of this state entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages," passed December seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall not be deemed to have lost its corporate rights, powers and privileges in any respect, by reason of anything heretofore done or omitted to be done by said village or the inhabitants or the officers thereof; and the said village is to be deemed a corporation for all purposes under the act of the legislature aforesaid.

§ 2. The persons elected trustees of said village at the

election last held for the election of village officers in said village, shall be the trustees of said village until the election of their successors at the next election of officers in said village, which election shall be held on the last Tuesday in April next after the passage of this act, and in the manner required by the provisions of the said act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages,' passed December seventh eighteen hundred and forty-seven and the annual elections for officers in said village shall be held (after the said first election herein before provided for) on the first Tuesday in March in each and every year pursuant to said act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages" passed December seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. The first election after the passage of this act shall take place the last Tuesday in April

next.

§3. The trustees of said village of Lowville, hereafter elected, are hereby authorized to assess, levy and collect, from the estates real and personal in said village, the sum of eight hundred dollars, for the purpose of procuring a fire engine and fixtures for the use of said village, in accordance with a vote of the taxable inhabitants of said village on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty

seven.

§ 4. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to effect the legal rights of any parties affected by any act or neglect of the trustees of said village.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 15.

AN ACT to create a new ward in the city of Rochester.

Passed February 27, 1858.

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

SECTION 1. All that portion of the present ninth ward of the city of Rochester lying on the westerly side of the center line of the Erie canal, is hereby erected into a new ward which shall be called the eleventh ward of the city of Rochester, and the remaining portion of the present ninth ward shall be and remain the ninth ward of the city of Rochester; and the officers of the present ninth ward shall continue for the terms for which they have been elected or appointed, the officers of the ward in which they may reside, and the said new ninth and eleventh wards shall be entitled to have and elect the same officers, for the same terms and with the same powers as provided by law for the other wards of said city.

§2. At the annual election to be held in said city of Rochester, on the first Tuesday of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, there shall be elected in and by the said eleventh ward, two aldermen for the same, one for the term of one year and one for the term of two years.

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.