§ 2. That such additional justice shall reside at the village of Four Mile in said town. office. § 3. The justice of the peace who shall be so elected in accordance Term of with the provisions of section one of this act shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of March next after his election, and shall hold his office two years therefrom, and the justice of the peace thereafter chosen as provided by section one of this act shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of March succeeding his election, and shall hold his office two years thereafter. ing 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 66. AN ACT to legalize and validate the certificate of payment of the capital stock, and the acts of a meeting of the stockholders of the Great Eastern Gold Mining Company of New York. PASSED March 29, 1881. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: made SECTION 1. The certificate of the payment of the capital stock of Certificate the Great Eastern Gold Mining Company, formed under the provisions valid. of an act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical and chemical purposes," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the acts amending the same, recorded in the office of the clerk of New York county, on the tenth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be deemed and held to be valid, notwithstanding any error, informality, or insufficiency therein, or in the attestation, proof, or verification thereof. legalized. 2. The acts of a meeting of the stockholders of said company, Acts of held on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, of stockmeeting and the certificate of the proceedings of said meeting filed in the holders office of the clerk of New York county, on the fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, a duplicate whereof was filed in the office of the secretary of state, on the seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall be deemed and held to be valid as though Henry R. Hough had been one of the trustees of said company at the time of said meeting. §3. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect any action or proceeding now pending. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 10 Corpora CHAP. 67. AN ACT to extend and increase the corporate powers of the PASSED March 29, 1881. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows. SECTION 1. The Saratoga Lake Railway Company, a corporation orown steam- ganized and existing under and by virtue of chapter one hundred and boats, etc. forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, and the acts amend May in ital stock. ing the same, is hereby authorized and empowered to build, equip, furnish, purchase, charter and own steam, sail and other boats, to be used in lawful business and navigation upon Saratoga lake in the county of Saratoga, and for the carriage, transportation and storing of lading, freight, mails, property, and passengers on the said lake, and to purchase, construct, lease, own and use necessary and convenient wharves, docks, piers and landing places in, on or adjacent to said lake; and to purchase, rent, hold, improve and use lands bordering on said lake not exceeding in the aggregate five hundred acres, for pleasure parks, driving parks and hotels. § 2. The said company is hereby authorized and empowered, with crease cap- the written consent of not less than four-fifths in interest of all its stockholders, to increase its capital stock to the full sum of not exceeding one million dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and for that purpose, with the consent of the owners and holders of all its existing stock, to withdraw its present one hundred dollar share certificates and issue in exchange therefor, dollar for dollar, new certificates of the par value of twenty-five dollars each, and the said additional stock hereby authorized may be issued by said company from time to time in payment of property purchased or acquired pursuant to this act, to the amount of the cash value thereof, and the stock so issued shall be declared and taken to be full paid stock, and the holders thereof not liable to any further calls or assessments thereon or in respect thereof. Not to acquire lands § 3. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or held to authorize the said company to acquire any lands or real estate otherwise than by except by and with the consent of the owners thereof, nor in any wise to effect* or impair any existing right, claim or demand of any creditor or other person of or against the said company, or to grant to the said company any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever consent of owner. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. So in original. CHAP. 68. AN ACT to release to Bridget Nolan, formerly Bridget Ryan, the interest of the people of the state of New York in certain real estate in the town of Ridgeway, Orleans county. PASSED March 29, 1881; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: state tion of premises. SECTION 1. All the estate, right, title and interest of the people of Interest of the state of New York in and to all that tract or parcel of land released. situate in the town of Ridgeway, county of Orleans, and state of New York, and distinguished as part of lot number eighteen, in the fifteenth township, and third range of the Holland Land Company's land, bounded as follows: Beginning at the north-east corner of a piece or Descripparcel of land deeded to James Hanlan by Lewis Hoyt and wife, on the fifteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, running thence west, along the north line of said Hanlan's land, nineteen chains and seventy-two links; thence north, on the east line of land owned by Hill and Bacon, nineteen chains and two links; thence east, along the south line of land owned by Dennison Howe, nineteen chains and seventy-two links, to land owned by Josias Tanner; thence south, along the said Tanner's west line, nineteen chains and two links, to the place of beginning, containing thirty-seven acres, two roods and one rod of land, more or less; also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate in said town of Ridgeway, distinguished as a part of the middle third of lot number eighteen, in the fifteenth township, and third range of the Holland Company's land, bounded as follows: Beginning in the west line of the east third of said lot number eighteen, at the towing-path of the Erie canal, and running thence north, along the west line of said east third of said lot, seventy chains and seventy links, to land heretofore deeded; and thence west, along the south branch of said land, heretofore deeded, twenty chains, to the west third of said lot number eighteen; and thence south, along the east line of said west third, ten chains and fifty links, to the towingpath of the Erie canal; and thence east, along said towing-path, to the place of beginning, containing eighteen acres and two-tenths of an acre of land, more or less, are hereby released to Bridget Nolan, formerly Bridget Ryan, and to her heirs and assigns forever. rights. § 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair, release Not to imor discharge any right, claim or interest of any heir-at-law, devisee pair vested or grantee, purchaser or creditor, by judgment, mortgages, or otherwise, in and to said premises, or any part or parcel thereof. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation of $15,000. Schools to be free. Ogdensburg CHAP. 69. AN ACT making an appropriation for the construction of an additional hospital for the Soldiers and Sailors' Home. PASSED March 29, 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 treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the treasurer of the board of trustees of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, from the general fund, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum is hereby appropriated for the construction of an additional hospital for the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath. § 2. No part of the sum above appropriated shall be expended for such purpose except for the construction of a hospital, the plans for which shall be approved in writing by the comptroller, and upon estimates which shall show that the same will be completed at a cost not to exceed the sum herein appropriated. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 70. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to schools and academies in the village of Ogdensburgh." PASSED March 29, 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 eighteen of chapter three hundred and eightytwo of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to schools and academies in the village of Ogdensburgh, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " § 18. The common schools and the Ogdensburgh academy, hereafter to be kept and maintained in the district hereby organized, shall be free to all persons, between the ages of four and twenty-one years, whose parents or guardians are actual residents of the district. The superintendent of schools and city clerk are hereby authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits in all matters pertaining to the schools and academy provided for by this act, which shall have the same validity as if administered or taken by a justice of the peace, but they shall receive no remuneration therefor. § 2. Section twenty-one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 21. As soon as practicable after the necessary buildings are preacademy. pared, the board of education shall organize a school to be designated the Ogdensburg academy, which said academy shall be entitled to participate in the distribution of the literature and other funds, as do other academies of the state, and the regents of the university shall pay annually to the board of education, said academy's distributive share of such funds. Said academy shall be subject to the visitation and control of said regents in like manner as other incorporated academies. The said academy is hereby invested with all the rights of the old Ogdensburg academy to any revenues derived from ferry licenses or other sources. § 3. Section twenty-two of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: education, school ballots, § 22. Whenever the board of education shall deem the erection of Board of additional school-houses necessary for the common schools, or new and duties of, additional edifices for the Ogdensburg academy they shall determine as to new the kind of house or edifice, the sum required to erect the same, pur- houses, chase the site and furnish the appurtenances, specifying the cost of etc. each separately, and certify the same to the board of trustees; the board of trustees shall cause the application and specifications to be advertised for four weeks in two of the newspapers published in said village, immediately preceding the next annual election for school commissioners; at such election the village trustees shall provide a box Election, for ballots labelled "schools" and also ballots which shall be headed etc. "schools," on which shall be written or printed "for the school tax," and others so headed on which shall be written or printed "against the school tax;" if more than one proposition is submitted at the same time, separate boxes shall be prepared, each so labelled as to designate its proper object, thus: "schools," "appropriation for academy," "schools," "appropriation for school-houses," and the ballots shall be so headed and shall be in other respects as herein previously provided; and the inhabitants of said district, hereby organized, entitled under the present charter of the village of Ogdensburgh, to vote for village special tax, shall decide by ballot for or against such appropriation; if a majority of such voters declare for any such appropriation, the trustees shall assess the same upon all the taxable property in said district hereby organized and direct its collection with the next village tax; and when collected to be paid over to the credit of the "special fund;" provided, however, the board of village trus- Proviso. tees may have the discretionary powers now devolved in school districts, to apportion said tax for two or more years up to four; and when so apportioned the board of education shall be authorized to borrow money on the credit of said tax. §4. Section twenty-three of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 23. All moneys raised, received, or in any wise belonging to the Moneys, academy, or to the school or district hereby organized, shall be under control of. the control of the board of education; but no moneys raised for a specific or particular purpose shall be applied to, or used for, any other purpose. Said board of education is hereby prohibited from contracting debts for any purpose whatever; and the lands, sites, buildings and personal property belonging to said academy or schools, or used or kept for school purposes, shall be forever exempt from taxation, and from levy and sale on execution. § 5. Section twenty-five of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 25. The board of education may prescribe the form and qualifica- Admission tions requisite to the admission into the Ogdensburg academy, the of students course of studies to be pursued, and the text-books to be used, may emy. to acad |