Such printed proceedings shall contain a suminary statement of all bills against the county, presented to the board, and audited and allowed or disallowed, indicating the amount allowed or disallowed. The board of supervisors may, as often as it shall deem necessary, cause to be printed and distributed in like manner, in the same volume or otherwise, its county laws, combined with suitable forms and instructions thereunder.

§ 19. Designation of newspapers for publication of session laws. The members of the board of supervisors in each county representing, respectively, each of the two principal political parties into which the people of the county are divided, or a majority of such members representing, respectively, each of such parties shall designate in writing a paper fairly representing the political party to which they respectively belong, to publish the session laws and concurrent resolutions of the legislature required by law to be published, which designation shall be signed by the members making it and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors. If a majority of the members of the board representing either of such parties can not agree upon a paper they shall so report to the clerk of the board, and in such case or if either of such parties has no representative upon the board, the board of supervisors shall at their annual meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, designate a paper fairly representing the views of such political party as one of the papers to publish the laws.

The clerk of each board of supervisors as soon as such designation is made shall forward to the secretary of state a notice stating the name and address of such newspapers as have been selected for the publication within the county of the laws and concurrent resolutions of the legislature, or if there is but one newspaper in such county he shall before the first day of January in each year, forward to the secretary of state a notice stating the name and address of such newspaper, and that it is the only newspaper published in the county.

20. Publication of session laws and concurrent resolutions. Such laws and resolutions shall be published within thirty days after the receipt thereof from the secretary of state; and the whole of every such law which, in the ordinary type of the newspaper in which it is published, would not occupy more than two columns, must be published in one issue, and when it exceeds such space, shall be published as soon as possible, by occupying such space in each successive issue.

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Concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution shall be published in such newspapers once in each week for thirteen consecutive weeks, under the direction of the secretary of state, at the of the state.

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§ 21. Compensation.-The expense of such publication shall be a county charge, which, in counties not having a city of over fifty thousand inhabitants shall not be less than twenty nor more than fifty cents per folio, and in other counties not less than thirty nor more than fifty cents per folio; the specific rate in either case to be fixed by the board of supervisors.

§ 22. Election notices and official canvass.-Such boards, except in the counties of Erie and Kings, shall, in like manner, designate two newspapers, representing respectively each of the two principal political parties into which the electors of the county are divided, in which shall be published the election notices issued by the secretary of state, and the official canvass, and fix the compensation therefor, which shall be a county charge.

§ 23. Compensation of supervisors.-For the services of supervis ors, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Kings, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchester and Richmond, each supervisor shall receive from the county compensation at the rate of four dollars per day for each calendar day's actual attendance at the sessions of their respective boards, and mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, for once going and returning from his residence to the place where the sessions of the board shall be held, by the most usual route, for each regular and special session. In the county of Richmond each supervisor shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars in lieu of any per diem compensation. Each supervisor, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchesterand Richmond, may also receive compensation from the county at the rate of four dollars per day while actually engaged in any investigation or other duty, which may be lawfully committed to him by the board, except for services rendered when the board is in session, and, if such investigation or duty require his attendance at a place away from his residence, and five miles or more distant from the place where the board shall hold its sessions, his actual expenses incurred therein. No other compensation or allowance shall be made to any supervisor for his services, except such as shall be by law a town charge. The board of supervisors of any county may also allow to each member of the board for his services in making a copy of the assessment-roll, three cents for each written line for the first one hundred lines, two cents per line for the second hundred written lines, and one cent per line for all written lines in excess of two hundred, and one cent for each line of the tax-roll actually extended by him. Am'd by chap. 724 of 1893 and by chap. 480 of 1895. Took effect May 1, 1895.

824. Form and presentation of accounts against the county. -No account shall be audited by a board of supervisors, or by a committee thereof, or by superintendents of the poor, unless it shall be made out in items and accompanied with an affidavit that the items of such accounts are correct, and that the disbursements and services charged therein have been in fact made or rendered, or are necessary to be made or rendered at that session of the board, and stating that no part of the amount claimed has been paid or satisfied. But any such account so presented and verified may be disallowed in whole or in part, and the board or such superintendents may require any other or further evidence of the truth or propriety thereof. Each such account shall be numbered from one upwards in the order of presentation, and a memorandum of the time of presentation and the name of the claimant, and if assigned, the name of each assignor or assignee shall be entered in the proceedings of the board. No such account, after being so presented, shall be withdrawn without the unanimous consent of the board except to be used as evidence in an action or proceeding, and after being so used it shall be forthwith returned.

$25. Additional requirements.- Boards of supervisors may make such additional regulations and requirements, not in conflict with law, concerning the keeping and rendering of official accounts and reports of its county and town officers, and the presentation and auditing of bills presented to their board or to the town boards of their county, as they may deem necessary for the efficiency of the service and the protection of the interests of the public.

§ 26. County records.--Such boards shall have the general charge of the books and records of the county, subject to the legal rights of the officers using or having custody of the same, and shall provide for their safe-keeping. They may authorize county officers having the official custody or control of any such books and records, or of maps and papers, to cause copies thereof to be made and certified for the public use; and it shall be their duty to cause the same to be made and certified whenever by reason of age or exposure, or any casualty, the same shall be necessary. Any officers making such transcripts or copies shall be paid such sum therefor as may be just; but such payment shall not exceed a sum to be certified by the county judge, or a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district, as reasonable therefor. Such board of supervisors shall not accept and pay for any such services, until the work shall be examined and approved as to its manner and form of execution, by such

judge or justice; nor shall any board of supervisors order any such work to be done until such judge or justice, after an examination, shall certify that such work is necessary for the security and safety of the public records.

§ 27. Examination of witnesses and officers by the board.Any such board may require the attendance of witnesses and may examine any person as a witness upon any subject or matter within its jurisdiction, or examine any officer of the county, or a town therein, in relation to the discharge of his official duties, or to the receipt or disbursement by him of any moneys, on* concerning the possession or disposition by him of any property belonging to the county, or to use, inspect, or examine, any book, account, voucher or document in his possession or under his control, relating to the affairs or interest of such county or town.

§ 28. Committee of board. When any such board shall have appointed any member or members thereof, a committee upon any subject or matter of which the board has jurisdiction, and shall have conferred upon such committee power to send for persons and papers, the chairman of such committee shall possess all the powers herein given to, and imposed upon the chairman of the board of supervisors.

§ 29. Adjournment.-Such board or committee may adjourn from time to time, and such committee may hold meetings in pursuance of such adjournments, or on call of the chairman thereof, during the recess, or after the final adjournment of the board of supervisors; but where a warrant shall have been issued as provided by section 845 of the Code of Civil Procedure and not returned, such adjournment of the board or committee at whose instance it was issued, shall be to a time and place certain, of which notice shall be given by the chairman, to the judge before whom the warrant shall be returnable; and if the person against whom it issued shall be arrested, he may, in the discretion of the judge who issued the warrant, be discharged from custody, upon entering into an undertak ing to the county, with two sureties to be approved by such judge, to the effect that he will appear and submit to an examination before such board or committee, as required, at the time and place to which it shall have been adjourned, or pay to the county treasurer such sum of money as such judge may direct.

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the county may sue and collect the sum therein mentioned, and the money, when received, and all moneys received for fines and penal ties before such boards or committees, shall be paid into the treasury of the county.

§ 31. Location of county buildings.-The board of supervisors may, except in the county of Kings, by a majority vote of all the members elected thereto, fix or change the site of any county building, and the location of any county office; but the site or location of no county building or office shall be changed when the change shall exceed one mile, and shall be beyond the boundaries of the incorporated village or city, where already situated, except upon a petition of at least twenty-five freeholders of the county, describing the buildings or office, the site or location of which is proposed to be changed, and the place at or near which it is proposed to locate such new buildings or office; which petition shall be published once in each week for six weeks immediately preceding an annual or special meeting of such board, in three newspapers of the county, if there be so many, otherwise, in all the newspapers published in the county as often as once a week. With such petition shall also be published a notice signed by the petitioners, to the effect that such petition will be presented to the board of supervisors at the next meeting thereof.

$32. Proceedings on petition.-On the presentation of such petition and notice, with due proof of their publication, if a majority of all the members elected to such board vote in favor of a resolution for the removal of the site of the buildings described in such petition, to the site also therein described, or the change of the location of its county offices or any of them, said board shall thereupon direct that such resolution, together with the notice that the question of such removal will be submitted to the electors of the county at the ensuing general election, be published in at least two newspapers published in the county to be designated by the board, once in each week for six consecutive weeks immediately preceding such general election. Such resolution and notice shall be published accordingly.

$33. How submitted to vote.-The question of the removal of the site of such buildings, or the change of the location of any such office, shall thereupon be voted on by the electors of the county at such general election by ballot. If a majority of the ballots cast shall be in favor of such removal, the proceedings of such board of supervisors shall be deemed ratified by the electors, and the change of the site of such buildings, or the removal of such offices, shall be