*Deceased, and GEORGE D. LAMONT elected to fill vacancy. † Deceased.

LAWS

OF THS

STATE OF NEW YORK,

PASSED AT THE

EIGHTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN

THE FOURTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED THE

NINETEENTH DAY OF APRIL, 1859,

AT THE CITY OF ALBANY.

Chap. 1.

AN ACT to regulate the supply of stationery to

members and officers of the legislature.

Passed January 12, 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 clerks of the senate and assembly shall,

when requested by any senator, or member of the house

of assembly, or any officer or reporter or other person
attached to or employed by the senate or assembly who
shall be entitled by law to receive an allowance for

stationery and newspapers, furnish to such person such
stationery or newspapers as he shall require, to an amount

not exceeding thirty dollars.

Clerks to

tionery and

furnish sta-

newspapers

draw

SECTION 2. When requested by any such person speci- Clark an
fied in the preceding section, the clerk shall draw an order order, &c.

for such newspapers as the individual may designate, upon

Order to be

a voucher

for clerk.

the publishers or venders of the same, as is now the custom; and if requested by the aforesaid persons, the clerk shall issue to such person an order, upon such stationer or bookseller as the person shall designate, for stationery to such an amount as such person may require, to an amount which, when added to the price of the newspapers received by such senator, menrber or officer, or other person aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of thirty dollars.

SECTION 3: The order, mentioned in the last section returned to the clerk accompanied by a certificate of the person in whose favor the same was drawn, that he has received the amount of the stationery mentioned in the order from the stationer or bookseller named therein, shall be a sufficient voucher to the clerk, and from him to the comptroller, that the same ha been delivered to and received by such person.

SECTION 4. All acts and parts of acts, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 2.

AN ACT to amend chapter five, part second of the Revised Statutes.

Passed January 14, 1859. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Section thirty, article seven, chapter five, title one, part two of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

All debts and dues to this state, except for taxes, and for money received or collected by any person as a public officer, or in a fiduciary capacity, shall be affected by proceedings under this title in the same manner as debts to individuals, and debtors may be discharged and exonerated from imprisonment in suits brought in the name of the state in the same manner as in suits by individuals (except for money received or collected as aforesaid), and