Relief of Michael Storen and others.

Relief of Luther Wright and William O. Hubbard.

Relief of the "Christian Church" of the village of Tonawanda. JOHN T. HOFFMAN,

An Act to establish a Stock Exchange in the City of New York, and for the government and regulation of the same.

NOT APPROVED-The bill confers extraordinary and unusual powers, and among other things exempts the proposed corporation from the operation of the usury laws and the statute of frauds. It is open in other particulars also to very serious objections.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act relating to the care, maintenance, and medical treat ment of insane persons, and of their removal from the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica or elsewhere to the County Poor-house in the County of Saratoga.

No1 APPROVED-The bill is special legislation for only one county, and the policy of sending insane persons to the county poor-houses not a wise one.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to consolidate the several school districts and parts of districts within the corporation limits of the village of Saratoga Springs, and to establish a Free Union School or schools therein," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

NOT APPROVED -The bill takes away from the village authorities the power they now possess to levy taxes for all the ordinary expenses of schools; and requires a vote of a majority of the taxable property to authorize expenditure in any year beyond a certain specified sum. It would work injuriously to the schools, possibly, and is, at all events, special legislation for one village only.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to authorize the Commissioner or Commissioners of Highways of the town of Florence, Oneida County, to locate and establish the routes and bounds of the highways in the said town.

NOT APPROVED-The Commissioners of Highways of the several towns of the State already have power, under the Revised Statutes (part 1, chapter 16, title 1, act 4, sec. 100), over the subject matter of the bill.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to provide the Flatbush Fire Company with funds for the purchase of hose and keeping its property in order.

NOT APPROVED-Bill provides that the fire company shall borrow money for its special use, and the repayment of the loan shall be a town charge, to be levied by tax; the loan, if necessary, should be negotiated by the town officers and the fund be controlled by them.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act for the relief of Clark Snook.

NOT APPROVED-The bill is defective. It authorizes the Canal Board to determine the claim, and then the appraisers are to award "upon the evidence," the damages, &c.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to consolidate the several school districts, and parts of school districts, within the corporate limits of the village of White Plains, in the County of Westchester.

NOT APPROVED-Most that the bill proposes can be accomplished by the people of the village under the General Laws (chap. 555, laws of 1864, title 9). The provision exempting school property from taxation is superfluous, and others are objectionable; such as that which authorizes the Board of Education to mortgage the school property.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to incorporate the village of New Hartford.

NOT APPROVED-The bill provides for organization by a first election on the first Tuesday of May of this year. As that day is already past, the signing of this charter would not afford the people so early an organization as they can obtain under the general Village Act, passed at the last session (chap. 291, laws of 1870); the powers they ask for are all conferred by that act, and I learn the promoters of this bill prefer now to organize under the general law.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to authorize the Trustees of the "Evans Mills Cemetery Association" to raise money to fence the said cemetery ground.

NOT APPROVED-The bill authorizes a private corporation to levy and enforce a tax upon its members in the same manner as a public tax for educational purposes could be enforced, including, of course, distress of personal effects. Provision should have been made by its own rules for all necessary and proper contri-. butions from its members.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act for the determination and settlement of the claims of the heirs-at-law of Christine Shenandoah.

NOT APPROVED-This is a claim for improvements on lands ceded to the State by the Oneida Indians by treaty in 1824. It appears by papers in the Comptroller's office that the improvements on lot 31, named in this bill, were appraised then as belonging to the Widow Honyoust, the principal claimant named in the bill, and that she was paid in June, 1825, the sum so appraised, and that in 1828 she was paid for improvements on other lots, at which time she executed a second receipt and a quit-claim for all improvements.

The State afterwards, under a special act of the Legislature, permitted this lot to remain in possession of the Indians, for a parsonage, for ten years; and when this use ceased and the State sold the ground, the value of the improvements was given up in the settlement with the purchaser, who was the same person who had occupied it at the request of the Indians. So that the State has dealt liberally in the matter throughout and no claim can exist.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Buffalo and Williamsville McAdam Road Company," passed May 3, 1836.

NOT APPROVED-The bill provides for the removal of a tollgate upon the application of either the company or the Common Council of Buffalo, by order of the County Court or the Supe rior Court of the city; and also that a certain portion of the road shall cease, thereafter, to belong to the company.

The original charter of the company (chap. 240 of laws of 1836) says, "it shall be lawful for the judges of the County Court of the County of Erie to order" any toll-gate "to be removed," and thenceforth "it shall not be lawful" for the company "to collect tolls" until the gate shall have been removed to the place directed in the order of the court.

This bill is unnecessary, therefore, to the removal of the tollgate, and the company will, of course, be glad to abandon so much of the road when the tolls can no longer be collected on that part of it.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN.

An Act for the relief of Richard Calrow, Jr.

NOT APPROVED—Aside from some of the provisions of the bill itself, which are extraordinary and improper, there are good reasons why this claim should not be further investigated.

Claims of Mr. Calrow, under his contract for construction of New York Arsenal, were, by chapter 273, laws of 1859, submitted to and passed upon by a Referee.

By chapter 327, laws of 1862, the Lieutenant-Governor, Comptroller, and Secretary of State were authorized to examine