clerks of the counties of Niagara, Orleans and Genesee, each respectively, one hundred and fifty copies of this act, for the use of the several towns in their respective counties.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county of Niagara, the clerk of the county of Orleans, and the clerk of the county of Genesee, immediately upon the reception of the said copies of this act, to distribute to each of the supervisors and town clerks in their respective counties, one copy each of the same. $7. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 34.

AN ACT to amend section one of chapter two hundred and sixteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, in relation to the Troy Savings Bank.

Passed March 7, 1859.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and sixteen of the laws of New York, passed April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended by striking out the words "three thousand dollars to any one person," and substituting therefor the words "five thousand dollars in any one loan."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Trustees to Jay out street.

Trustees to apply to su

Chap. 35.

AN ACT to authorize the trustees of the village of Newburgh to open North street, and to assess and collect the damages and expenses for laying out, opening and grading said street.

Passed March 7, 1859; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Newburgh, are hereby authorized and empowered to lay out and open a street in said village to be known as North street, commencing on the west side of the Hudson river, and extending westerly to Liberty street, the north line of said North street to be the north line of the corporate limits of the village of Newburgh; and to cause said street to be graded, leveled, paved, repaved or macadamized.

S2. Whenever any ordinance shall be passed by said preme court trustees, laying out and opening said North street as above authorized, the said trustees shall apply to the supreme court for the appointment of three discreet, respectable and disinterested persons as commissioners, to estimate and assess the expense of such improvement, and the damages and benefits to be sustained and derived therefrom by the owners of such lands and buildings as may be affected thereby, whether such lands and buildings are located without or within the corporate limits Expenses of of the village of Newburgh. And the same proceedings shall be had for the assessment and collection of the damages and expenses caused by laying out and opening North street, as are provided and authorized in chapter four hundred and fifty of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-six; but the said damages and expenses shall be assessed upon and collected from all lands and buildings benefited by such improvement, whether lying outside of, or within the corporate limits of said village; and all the provisions of said chapter four hundred and fifty of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in relation

street, &c.

to the assessment and collection of the damages and expenses caused by laying out and opening streets, and are hereby made applicable to all lands to be affected by laying out and opening said North street, and located outside of the corporate limits of the village of Newburgh, as well as to lands located within such corporate limits. S3. Whenever the said trustees shall pass any ordinance directing said North street to be graded, leveled, paved, repaved, macadamized, they shall determine the amount to be assessed for such improvement; and the assessors of said village shall assess the amount directed by said trustees to be assessed for such improvement, on all the real estate in the vicinity of such improvement, deemed by them to be benefited thereby, as well outside as within the corporate limits of said village, in *propotion to the benefits resulting thereto, as nearly as may be; and all sums so assessed shall be collected in the same manner as directed in relation to assessments for taxes, in the thirty-third section of chapter four hundred and fifty of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-six ; and all the provisions of the said chapter in relation to the assessment and collection of the expenses of grading, leveling, paving, repaving and macadamizing of streets are hereby made applicable to all lands and property which may be benefited by grading, leveling, paving, repaving or macadamizing of said North street, and lying outside of the corporate limits of said village, as well as to lands so benefited and lying within such corporate limits.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

So in the original.

Chap. 36.

AN ACT to enable agricultural and horticultural societies to extend a more perfect protection to their property and the property of exhibitors at fairs, and to allow the board of managers to appoint a police for that purpose.

Passed March 7, 1859; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The board of managers or executive committee of any agricultural or horticultural society of this state, is hereby authorized to appoint as many citizens of this state policemen, as shall be necessary for their exhibitions, whose duty it shall be to preserve order within and around the grounds of said society, to protect the property within said grounds, to eject all persons who shall be improperly within the grounds of said society, or who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay the fee or observe the rules prescribed by the society. Said policemen shall have the same power, during the time said exhibition shall continue, that a constable may have by law, in serving criminal process and making arrests, and in addition may arrest any person for the commission of any offense mentioned in section two.

S2. Any person who shall willfully injure or destroy the property of exhibitors, visitors or lessees on the fair grounds, or shall hinder or obstruct the officers and police in the performance of their duties, or shall wrongfully or maliciously gain admission to the fair grounds contrary to the rules of said society, or without paying the established fees during any fair of such society, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court before whom the offender tried; and all fines imposed and collected under this section, shall be immediately paid into the treasury of such agricultural or horticultural society, for its use and benefit.

may

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$3. No town or county shall be liable to pay said policemen for services rendered under this act.

Chap. 37.

AN ACT to prevent and punish prize fighting.
Passed March 7, 1859; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in
Senate and Assembly. do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Every person who shall, in this state, set on foot, instigate, promote, aid, abet or encourage, or do any act towards the furtherance of any premeditated contention or fight, between two persons, commonly called ring or prize fights, to be engaged in either within or without this state; and every person who shall, in this state, send, in writing, or publish any challenge, or an acceptance of any challenge for such contention or fights; and every person who shall in this state train or assist any person in training for any such contention or fight, and every inhabitant of this state who shall go out of this state to engage or take part in, or to be present at such contention or fight, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months, nor longer than one year; or, by fine, not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment.

be issued

had.

52. If it shall be made to appear to any magistrate Warrant to having power to hear complaints in criminal cases, that and exami there is reasonable ground to apprehend that an offense nation to be within any of the specifications of the preceding section is about to be committed, such magistrate shall issue his warrant to the sheriff or constable in the county of such magistrate's residence, for the arrest of the person or persons so about to offend; and upon such person being brought before him, such magistrate shall inquire into the matter, and if it shall appear that there is reasonable