UNITED STATES,
DEPARTMENT OF

REVISED STATUTES,

CODES AND GENERAL LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

CONTAINING THE TEXT, CAREFULLY COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINAL, AND
CERTIFIED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, OF ALL THE GENERAL STATU-
TORY LAW OF THE STATE IN FORCE ON JANUARY 1ST, 1897, INCLUDING
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE, THE REVISED STATUTES,

THE GENERAL LAWS AND STATUTES, THE CODES OF CIVIL

AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, AND THE PENAL CODE,
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY SUBJECTS, WITH
FULL REFERENCES TO THE DECISIONS, AND
WITH HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY
NOTES, AND A COMPLETE SYSTEM

OF CROSS-REFERENCES, SUPPLE-
MENTED BY A FULL ANALYTI-

CAL INDEX AND TABLE

OF THE STATUTES

CONTAINED
HEREIN.

Certified by the Secretary of State, under Section 932 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, as Amended by Laws of 1895, Chapter 594.

SECOND EDITION.

BY

CLARENCE F. BIRDSEYE,

OF THE NEW YORK BAR.

Author of "Birdseye's Chronological Table of the Statutes of New York."

VOLUME THREE.

NEW YORK:

BAKER, VOORHIS & COMPANY.

1896.

225706

COPYRIGHT 1896, BY

CLARENCE F. BIRDSEYE.

PROPERTY OF THE

UNITED STATES,

TMENT OF LABOR

STATE OF NEW YORK,

88.:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

Pursuant to Section 932 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended by Chapter 594 of the Laws of 1895, I, JOHN PALMER, Secretary of State, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the copies of the Revised Statutes, Codes, or other laws contained in this volume are correct transcripts of the text of the original laws, and in accordance with said section are entitled to be read in evidence.

GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the office of the Secretary [L. S.] of State at the City of Albany, this 28th day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JNO. PALMER,

Secretary of State

of the State of New York.