LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK,

PASSED AT THE

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH SESSION

OF THE

LEGISLATURE,

BEGUN JANUARY SIXTH, AND ENDED MAY FIFTEENTH, 1885,
AT THE CITY OF ALBANY.

EXCELSIOR

ALBANY :

BANKS & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1885.

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CHAS. VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS,

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CERTIFICATE.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

ALBANY, May 15th, 1885.

Pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An act relative to the publication of the Laws," passed April 12, 1843, I hereby certify that the following volume of the Laws of this State was printed under my direction.

JOSEPH B. CARR,

Secretary of State.

In this volume every act which received the assent of a majority of all the members of the Legislature, "three-fifths of all the members of either House" thereof being present, pursuant to section 21 of article 3 of the Constitution of this State, is designated under its title by the words "three-fifths being present." [See Laws of 1847, vol. 1, chap. 253.]

And every act which received "the assent of two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the Legislature," pursuant to section 9 of article 1 of the State Constitution, is designated under its title by the words "by a twothirds vote." [See Laws of 1842, chap. 306.]