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GENERAL STATUTES OF NEW YORK,

[CHAPS. 2, 4.

Repealing part of 81,

ch. 634,

CHAP. 2.

AN ACT repealing so much of section one of chapter six hundred and thirty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as fixes a limitation upon the expenditure of the appropriation for work upon the New Capitol.

PASSED January 28, 1876; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The provision relative to the New Capitol in section one of chapter six hundred and thirty-four of the laws of eighteen Laws 1875. hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act making appropriations for certain expenses of government, and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations," passed June twenty-one, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, contained in the following words, to wit.: "and not more than one-half of the said appropriation shall be expended before full detailed plans and specifications of the whole of the remainder of said building shall be made and approved, in writing, by the said Lieutenant. Governor, Auditor of the Canal Department and Attorney-General," is hereby repealed.

Detailed

adopted.

§ 2. The commissioners of the New Capitol are hereby required to plans to be determine upon and adopt full detailed plans and specifications of the whole of the remainder of the New Capitol building yet to be built beyond the Legislative story, and to report their determination to the Legislature within sixty days from the passage of this act. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 4.

AN ACT to repeal chapter three hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to amend chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled an act to incorporate the Sisterhood of Grey Nuns in the State of New York."

PASSED February 1, 1876.

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

SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to amend chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone, entitled An act to incorporate the Sisterhood of Grey Nuns in the State of New York," is hereby repealed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPS. 5, 7.]

NINETY-NINTH SESSION, 1876.

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CHAP. 5.

AN ACT to enable "The Medical Society of the State of New
York" to alter the time of holding its annual meeting.
PASSED February 1, 1876.

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

SECTION 1. The Medical Society of the State of New York may from time to time change the day of holding its annual meeting to such other day in the year as may be more convenient, by a two-thirds vote of all the members present at any anniversary or annual meeting of said society, provided, that no such change shall be made unless notice of the intention to change the time of such annual meeting shall have been first given at a previous regular annual meeting. An entry in the minutes of said society of notice of such intention to change the time of the annual meeting, and an entry in such minutes of the vote taken upon any motion made pursuant to any such notice shall be prima facie evidence of such notice, motion, and the vote had thereon respectively.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 7.

AN ACT to authorize the extension of the time for the collection of taxes in the several towns of the State.

PASSED February 1, 1876; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. If any collector or receiver of taxes in any town of this State shall pay over all moneys collected by him, and shall renew his bond as is herein provided, the time for the collection of taxes and for making return thereof by him, shall be and is hereby extended to the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Such bond shall be renewed with such sureties as in any town shall be approved by the supervisor thereof; or in case of his absence or inability to act, by the town clerk thereof. The penalty thereof in any case shall be double the amount of taxes in that case remaining uncollected. The bond shall be approved in writing, and filed in the same manner as the original bond is required by law to be filed, and have all the effect of a collector's or receiver's bond. A copy of the bond and the approval thereof shall, within fifteen days after the passage of this act, be delivered to the county treasurer of the county in which said town is.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause it to be printed upon slips of paper, and deliver to each county treasurer a sufficient number thereof to supply one copy to each collector or receiver of taxes in said county, and it shall be the duty of said county treasurer to deliver one copy thereof to each collector or receiver of taxes in his county.

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GENERAL STATUTES OF NEW YORK, [CHAPS. 13, 21.

§ 3. This act shall not apply to any county in which the board of supervisors thereof has already made provision for the extension of the time for the collection of taxes.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

State pupils.

Comptrol

for sup port and instruction.

CHAP. 13.

AN ACT in relation to the Central New York Institution for
Deaf-mutes at Rome.

PASSED February 4, 1876; three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Central New York Institution for Deaf-mutes, at Rome, is hereby authorized to receive deaf and dumb persons between the ages of twelve and twenty-five years, eligible to appointment as State pupils, and who may be appointed to it by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction is authorized to make such appointment to the aforesaid institution and, in his discretion, to date back the first thirty appointments to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

§2. The Comptroller is directed to pay for the support and instrucler to pay tion of thirty pupils at the said institution in quarterly payments, the first of which shall be made on the passage of this act, the sum of nine thousand dollars appropriated by chapter three hundred and seventythree of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, or a proportionate amount for a shorter period of time than one year or for a smaller number of pupils, upon the certificate and oath of the president and secretary of the said institution, approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and this sum shall be in full of all demands upon the State up to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Justice

recogniz

ances.

CHAP. 21.

AN ACT to authorize police justices and justices of the peace to take recognizance during trial or examination.

PASSED February 15, 1876.

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

SECTION 1. In any trial or examination before a police justice or may take justice of the peace, of any city or town, of any person charged with an offense bailable by such magistrate, whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of such justice, that such trial or examination should be continued to some other day, he may take a recognizance with sufficient surety, by two freeholders or householders, residents of the county in which the trial is being held, for the appearance before