Arrests. Compensation. Persons arrested without be taken before police Justice. ing the peace or by-laws, rules or ordinances of said village, and bring them forthwith before the police justice of said village to be dealt with according to law, and to keep and retain such person or persons in custody until committed or discharged. §4. Said police constable shall have power to make any arrests within the corporate limits of the village of Montgomery upon any criminal process issued by any justice of the peace in the county of Orange, and to convey such person or persons so arrested before the officer who issued the process. § 5. The said police constable shall be paid for his services the same compensation as constables of towns are allowed by law in criminal cases, to be audited and allowed in the same manner by the board of trustees of said village as other accounts are audited and allowed by said board of trustees. § 6. When any person or persons shall be arrested by such police constable without process, it shall be the duty of such constable to process to convey forthwith such person or persons before the police justice of said village, and such justice shall forthwith proceed to hear, try and determine the complaint or charge on which such person or persons were arrested, but if such person or persons shall be intoxicated when brought before said justice to answer any complaint or charge made against him, her or them, said justice shall have the power to remand said person or persons back again into the care and custody of said police constable, until such a time as such person or persons shall have become sober and able to understand the complaint or charge made against him, her or them, when such person or persons shall again be brought before said police justice for trial, and upon conviction of such complaint or charge by said justice, shall be fined by such magistrate in accordance with any ordinance or by-law of the village for the punishment of such offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail of said county of Orange until such fine be paid, not exceeding thirty days. Annual election. Electors. Inconsistent acts repealed. $7. The annual election of officers of said village of Montgomery shall be held on the second Tuesday of March in each year at such place as may be designated by the trustees. § 8. Every inhabitant actually residing in said village of Montgomery, who shall have been a resident thereof for thirty days next prior to the time of offering his vote at any special or annual election in said village, and who shall at the time of offering his vote be qualified to vote for member of assembly shall be entitled to vote for all officers to be elected by virtue of this act. § 9. All those portions of the act entitled "An act to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Montgomery, in the county of Orange," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ten, and the several acts amendatory thereof, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, the remainder to be continued in full force and virtue. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 566. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the Hunter Turnpike Road Company," as amended by chapter five hundred and forty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. PASSED June 22, 1881. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the Hunter Turnpike Road Company," as amended by chapter five hundred and forty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixtyLIX, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: of toll toll. 3. And be it further enacted that the said company hereby incor- Location porated shall be entitled to erect and maintain on said road, two gates, gatos. one in the Cauterskill Clove, where the present one is located, and one on the mountain top between the height of ground in said road and the corner where the Eastkill road. so called, intersects said turnpike, and the said company shall be entitled to exact and receive at each of said gates so to be erected on said road, the following sums of money from all persons traveling or using the same: For every wagon Rates of or cart drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, seven cents, and two cents for every additional horse, mule or ox; and for every pleasure wagon not used for carrying produce, drawn by two horses, seven cents; for every chariot, coach, coachee, or photon drawn by two horses, ten cents, and three cents for each additional horse; for every chair, chaise or sulky drawn by one horse, five cents; for every onehorse wagon, five cents; for every horse and rider, three cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, five cents and two cents for every additional horse, mule or ox; for every sleigh drawn by one horse, two cents; for every score of hogs or sheep, four cents; for every score of cattle, horses or mules, thirteen cents, and in that proportion for a greater or less number of hogs, sheep, cattle, horses or mules; for every horse led or driven, two cents. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 567. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Society for the protection of destitute Roman Catholic children at the city of Buffalo." PASSED June 22, 1881; 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 two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to amend an Children who may be trans ferred by superintendents of the poor to care of corporation. Corporat ors, and corporate objects. Officers and directors. General powers, etc. act entitled An act to incorporate the Society for the protection of destitute Roman Catholic children at the city of Buffalo,' passed April twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. Section five of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Society for the protection of destitute Roman Catholic children at the city of Buffalo," passed April twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subdivision: 4. Children of the like parentage and age who are resident of any of the counties now constituting the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth judicial districts of this state, who may be committed from either of those counties to the care of such corporation as idle, truant, vicious, homeless or vagrant children by the order or judgment of any magistrate or police justice of such county, who may be empowered by law to make committal of children for any such causes, and children of like parentage and age who have been placed in the county poor-houses of either of said counties, may be transferred, at the option of the superintendents of the poor of such county, to the care of said corporation by an order in writing signed by a majority of said superintendents of the poor of such county. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 568. AN ACT to incorporate the New York State Dairymen's PASSED June 22, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All persons as now are or may hereafter become members of the New York State Dairymen's Association, organized in the city of Syracuse, on the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the "New York State Dairymen's Associa tion," for the purpose of promoting dairy agriculture and all the dairy interests of the state, and for mutual improvement in the art and science of butter and cheese manufacture and the production of milk, and for receiving and disseminating a more general information by the discussion of dairy topics. § 2. Harris Lewis, of Frankfort, Herkimer county, Samuel F. Miller, of Franklin, Delaware county, Josiah Shull, of Illion, Herkimer county, Solomon Hoxie, of Whitestown, Oneida county, Samuel E. Lewis, of Oxford, Chenango county, Albert T. Maryn, of Canton, St. Lawrence county, Orange C. Blodgett, of Fredonia, Chautauqua county, Peter B. Crandall, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, C. Porter Root, of Gilbertsville, Otsego county, Cyrus L. Sheldon, of Lowville, Lewis county, are hereby respectively named and declared to be, in the order of their names, president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and directors of said association for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and until others are elected in their stead. § 3. Said corporation shall, in all respects, have and enjoy, and be bound by the general powers, privileges and liabilities of corporations contained in and defined by part one, chapter eighteen, title three of the Revised Statutes, and any by-laws heretofore adopted or hereafter to be adopted by such association, not inconsistent with such statute, are hereby made to have full force and effect. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 569. AN ACT transferring certain powers that have been conferred by law upon the contracting board to the superintendent of public works. PASSED June 22, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The powers and authority conferred upon the contracting board by chapter five hundred and three of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six are hereby conferred upon the superintendent of public works. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 570. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to confer on boards of supervisors further powers of local legislation and administration, and to regulate the compensation of supervisors." PASSED June 22, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subdivision one of chapter four hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to confer on boards of supervisors further powers of local legislation and administration, and to regulate the compensation of supervisors," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: for court 1. To purchase or otherwise acquire, for the use of the county, real To pur estate for sites for court-houses, county clerk's offices and other build- chase sites ings for county officers, and for jails and such other places of confine- houses, etc. ment 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 when the punishment prescribed is imprisonment less than five years; and, also, for establishments for the care of paupers, 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 expenditures on account of such sites and buildings as may be necessary, to borrow To borrow money on the county bonds or other county obligations, for a period money and not exceeding fifteen years, to be paid in annual installments, for the bonds. issue of majority of electors. purpose specified in this subdivision; but in all cases where a 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 Assent of 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, to change the location of county buildings, and to sell or apply to other county use the old sites and buildings in cases where the location may be so changed, and if sold, to apply the proceeds toward the payment of obligations incurred for new sites and buildings, and in the case of a change in the location of a county court-house, to make one or more jury districts and to make such regulations in respect to the holding of the terms of courts as shall be necessary by reason of such change. Interest of state released. Not to impair vested rights. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 571. AN ACT to release and quit-claim to Charlotte C. Waack and Charles F. Mattlage all the right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York to certain real estate in the town of Schodack, Rensselaer county. PASSED June 22, 1881, by a two-thirds vote. * The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York in and to all that tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Schodack, county of Rensselaer and state of New York, which was conveyed to John Waack by deed of conveyance dated the twentyfifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and recorded in the office of the clerk of Rensselaer county on the twelfth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in book number one hundred and seventy-seven of deeds at page five hundred and fifty-two, are hereby released and quit-claimed unto Charlotte C. Waack the widow of the said John Waack and unto Charles F. Mattlage of the city of New York. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair or affect the right in said real estate of any heir-at-law, devisee, grantee or creditor by mortgage or otherwise. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. *Not returned by the governor within ten days after it was presented to him, and became a law without his signature, June 23, 1881. |