are hereby authorised to sue for and collect the same; and all books and papers relating to said town of Greenboro, shall be delivered over to the proper officers of the town of Redfield. 4. This act shall take effect from and after the first Mon- When to day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. CHAP. 62. AN ACT in relation to the annual town meetings in the towns of Oswego and Scriba, for the year 1848. Passed March 1, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: take effect meeting in 1848. § 1. The annual town meeting in and for the town of Os- Town wego, in the county of Oswego, now held by law on the Oswego in first Tuesday of March in each year, shall, for the present year only, be postponed to and held on the second Tuesday of April next, at the house of Anthony Munger, in said town. In Scriba §2. The annual town meeting in and for the town of in 1848. Scriba, in the county of Oswego, now held by law on the first Tuesday of March in each year, shall, for the present year only, be postponed to and held on the second Tuesday of April next, at the House of Mr. Wilkes, at Scriba Corners, in said town. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 63. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to authorise the canal commissioners to drain certain lands near Skajaquada creek, in the town of Black Rock," passed April 28, 1847. Passed March 2, 1848, "by a two-third vote." The People of the State of Nu-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The first section of an act entitled "An act to autho- Amendm't rise the canal commissioners to drain certain lands near Skajaquada creek in the town of Black Rock," passed April 28, 1847, is hereby amended by striking out the word "Barns" and inserting "Barrett" instead thereof. §2. The second section of said act is hereby amended sc as to read as follows: to be paid § 2. The treasurer is hereby directed to pay the expenses Expenses of such work on the warrant of the comptroller out of any from canal money not otherwise appropriated belonging to the canal fund. fund; and the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, Town of or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated for that purpose. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 64. AN ACT for the division of the town of Sand Lake, and to erect the town of Poestenkill. Passed March 2, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assemby, do enact as follows: § 1. All that part of the town of Sand Lake, in the county erected. of Rensselaer, which is bounded as follows: to remain. Beginning at the northeast corner of the town of Greenbush, running thence east along the south line of the towns of Brunswick and Grafton, to the northwest corner of the town of Berlin; thence southerly along the west line of the town of Berlin four miles to the south line of the eighth range of lots, in the Middletown survey, in the line of lots known as numbers one hundred and twenty-three and one hundred and thirty-four; thence west along the line of said range of lots, to the north side of the dwelling-house of John Peck; thence west to the intersection of the roads, about four rods easterly from the Troy and Sand Lake turnpike toll-gate; thence westerly to the north side of the dwelling-house of Coonrad Reichard and Andrew Link and to the Greenbush line; thence northerly along the east line of the town of Greenbush, to the place of beginning, shall be and is hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Poestenkill; and the first town meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday in April next, at the inn of Jeremiah Becker, in the said town of Poestenkill, (hereby erected) and annually thereafter at such place as a majority of the electors of said town shall determine, pursuant to the Revised Statutes. Sand Lake § 2. All the remaining part of the said town of Sand Lake, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of Sand Lake; and the next town meeting shall be held at the house of Calvin Sliter, in the said town, on the first Tuesday in April next, and annually thereafter at such place as a majority of the electors of said town shall determine, pursuant to the Revised Statutes. Town meeting hold. 3. The justice of the peace, (if present,) or three freehow to be holders selected by the electors of said new town of Poestenkill, shall preside at the first town meeting of the said town of Poestenkill, and for that purpose shall possess all the powers and duties of justices of the peace. §4. This act shall take effect on Monday preceding the first Tuesday in April, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. CHAP. 65. AN ACT to extend the time of collecting taxes in the town of Lyme. Passed March 2, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tended. §1. If the collector of taxes in the town of Lyme, Jeffer- Time exson county, shall within the time now provided by law, pay over all monies by him collected, and shall renew his securities to the satisfaction of the supervisor of said town of Lyme, the time for collecting and making the final return of taxes in the said town shall be extended to the fifteenth day of April next. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 66. AN ACT to extend the time for the 'supervisor of the town of Passed March 2, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: §1. Joseph House, who at the annual town meeting in the Time extown of Turin, county of Lewis, held on the eighth day of tended. February last, was elected supervisor, having neglected to take the oath of office within the time limited by law, the time for the said Joseph House, to take the oath of office is hereby extended fifteen days from and after the passage of this act, and if the said Joseph House, shall within the said fifteen days, take the oath of office, it shall have the like effect, and the said Joseph House shall have the like authority as if the oath had been taken, within the time prescribed by law. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Time ex tended. Stock may CHAP. 67. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Schenectady and Catskill Railroad Company," passed May 13, 1846. Passed March 3, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The second section of the act to incorporate the Schenectady and Catskill railroad company, passed May. 13, 1846, is hereby amended, so as to extend the time therein limited for the commencement of the construction of the said road two years, and the time for the completion and putting in operation of the same, four years from the passage of this act. §2. The third section of the said act passed May 13, 1846, be increas- is hereby amended so as to authorise the said company, at their option, to increase the capital stock of the same, three hundred thousand dollars, to enable said company to lay their track with a heavy iron rail, of not less than fifty-six pounds. weight to each lineal yard. Time changed. Special term may 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 68. AN ACT to change the time af holding the town meeting in the town of Bethany, for the year 1848. Passed March 3, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The town board of the town of Bethany, in the county of Genesee, are hereby authorised to change the time for holding the annual town meeting in said town, for the yeareighteen hundred and forty-eight, from the first Tuesday in March, to the first Tuesday in April. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 69. AN ACT providing for the holding of a special term of the court of sessions, in the county of Sullivan. Passed March 3, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The county judge of the county of Sullivan, is hereby be appoint. authorised to appoint and in conjunction with two justices of the peace, qualified by law, to hold a special term of sessions ed in and for said county, at any time before the next general term of such court, which special term may continue two weeks, provided that previous public notice thereof shall be given for at least two weeks, in all the public newspapers published in said county, the expense thereof to be paid by said county; and provided also, that no grand jury shall be summoned for such special term. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 70. AN ACT to provide for the election of justices of the justices' court, and police justices in the city of Albany. Passed March 3, 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ces to be § 1. There shall be elected every four years in the city of Five justi Albany, at the election of the mayor, charter and ward offi- elected cers thereof, held on the second Tuesday in Ap.il, five justices of the peace, who shall hold their offices for four years, and until their successors are duly chosen and qualified. how to be conducted. § 2. Notices of the election of said officers shall be given Election in like manner as is provided by law, in relation to the other officers elected at said election. The inspectors holding such charter election, shall in addition to the other ballot boxes provided by law, provide one other ballot box which shall be distinctly marked "justices of the peace." The ballots for justices of the peace, shall be distinct from those for any other officers to be chosen at such election, and shall be distinctly endorsed "Justices of the peace." The votes given for such offices shall be canvassed and the result thereof certified and returned by such inspectors in the same manner as by law is provided for the other officers elected at such elections. The clerk of the common council of said city, shall deliver such returns to such common council at its first meeting after such election (and a meeting for that purpose shall be held previous to the first Tuesday in May, following such election,) who shall thereupon proceed to canvass such returns, and to determine who shall have been elected such justices of the peace and shall cause a written certificate of such determination, signed by a majority of the members present, to be filed in the office of said clerk, and the determination of such common council in the premises shall be final and conclusive. court and ces to be §3. The said common council shall, after such election Justices of and such canvass, and determination of the result thereof, the justices and before the first Tuesday in May following such election, police justiselect and designate three of the persons so elected to be selected. justices of the justices' court in the city of Albany, as such court was established, and its powers, duties of the justices |