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to divide or alter in its bounds any town, or erect a new town, but they shall not make any alterations that shall place parts of the same town in more than one assembly district, nor where it is proposed to divide a town into two or more towns, unless the assent thereto of at least a majority of the tax-payers whose names appear on the assessment roil of the town to be affected thereby, for the year then next preceding, shall be given in writing to such division, upon application to the board, as hereinafter provided, of at least twelve freeholders of each of the towns to be affected by the division and upon being furnished with said assent in writing, and with a map and survey of the towns to be affected showing the proposed alterations, and, if the application be granted, a copy of said map, with a certified statement of the action of said board thereunto annexed, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to cause the same to be printed with the laws of the next legislature after such division takes place, and cause the same to be published in the same manner as other laws are published.

SEC. 2. Notice in writing of such intended application, subscribed by not less than twelve freeholders of the town or towns to be affected, shall be posted in five of the most public places in each of the towns to be affected thereby for four weeks next previous to such application to the board of supervisors, and a copy of such notice shall also be published, for at least six weeks successively immediately before the meeting of the board of supervisors at which the application is to be made, in all the newspapers printed in the county, not exceeding three in number.

SEC. 3. Whenever the board of supervisors shall erect a new town in any county, they shall designate the name thereof, the time and place of holding the first annual town meeting therein, and three electors of such town, whose duty it shall be to preside at such meeting, appoint a clerk, open and keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as justices of the peace when presiding at town meetings, and in case any of the said electors shall refuse or neglect to serve, the electors of the said town, present at such meeting, shall have power to substitute some elector of said town for each one so refusing or neglecting to serve. Notice of the time and place of such town meeting, signed by the chairman or clerk of the board of supervisors, shall be posted in four of the most public places in said town, by the persons so designated to preside [at] such town meeting, at least fourteen days before holding the same. They shall also fix the place for holding the first town meeting in the town or towns from which such new town shall be taken. But nothing in this act shall effect the rights or abridge the term of office of any justice of the peace or other town officer in any such town, whose term of office has not expired.

*SEC. 4. The said boards of supervisors shall have power and they are hereby authorized:

SUB. 15. To fix, establish, locate and define disputed boundary lines between the several towns in their respective counties, by a resolution to be duly passed by a majority of all the members elected to such board. A notice of intention

*As amended by chap. 361, Laws of 1870.

to apply to such board, to fix, establish, locate and define such disputed boundary line, particularly describing the same, and the line, as proposed to be acted upon by such board, signed by the supervisor, town clerk and two or more of the justices of the peace of some one of the towns to be affected by such resolution, shall be published for four weeks successively before the meeting of the board at which such resolution is to be presented, in all the newspapers printed in such county, if not more than three in number, but if they exceed three in number, then in the three having the largest circulation in such county. A copy of such printed notice shall also be served personally, at least fifteen days before the meeting of such board, on the supervisor and town clerk of each of the other towns to be affected thereby. A copy of the resolution as adopted, which shall contain the courses, distances, and fixed monuments specified in such boundary line or lines, together with a map of the survey thereof, with the courses, distances and fixed monuments referred to therein, plainly and distinctly marked and indicated thereon, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state within thirty days after the adoption of such resolution, and it shall be the duty of such secretary to cause the said resolution to be printed with the laws of the next legislature, after the adoption thereof. A copy of such resolution shall also, within the same time, be published for two successive weeks in all the newspapers printed in such county, but if they exceed three in number, then in such three as the said board shall designate for that purpose, the expenses of such publication to be paid by the town causing the publication of the notice of the application to such board.

OF APPLICATION TO THE LEGISLATURE.

[Title 3, chap. 7, part 1st, Revised Statutes.]

SECTION 1. All persons applying to divide or alter the bounds of any county, city or village, or to erect a new county, or to incorporate a new city or village, and all persons applying for the removal of any court-house, or the imposing of a tax for making or improving a road, or for any other local purpose, in any county where all or any of the inhabitants of such county are proposed to be taxed, shall give notice of such intended application by advertisement, to be published for at least six weeks successively immediately before such application, or before the first day of the session at which the same is to be made in a newspaper printed in the county, or in each of the counties where the objects of such application are intended to be carried into effect, and also in case of intended application for the imposition of any tax as aforesaid, in the state paper.

SEC. 2. Every association intending to apply to the legislature for an act of incorporation, and every corporation intending to apply for an alteration, amendment or extension of its charter, shall cause the like notice of such application to be published in the state paper, and also in a newspaper printed in the county in which such corporation is intended to be or shall have been established.

SEC. 3. If no newspaper be printed in a county in which any notice is required to be published, such notice shall be published in like manner in the place nearest thereto in which a newspaper shall be printed.

SEC. 4. If the application be for an act of incorporation, the notice shall specify the amount of capital stock requisite to carry the objects of such incorporation into effect; and if the application be for an alteration in any charter already granted, the notice shall state specifically the alteration Intended to be applied for.

SEC. 5. The notice of all other applications, of which notice is required to be given, shall specify the nature and objects of such intended applications.

[Chap. 259 of the Laws of 1829.]

SEC. 1. Every person hereafter applying to the legislature for a release of lands escheated to the state shall give the like notice of such application in the county where such lands may be situated, and in the state paper, as is required by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

[Chap. 275 of the Laws of 1829.]

SEC. 1. In all cases of applications to the legislature for the passage of laws authorizing the construction of dams in or across the streams and waters of this state which are by law public highways, like notices shall be given and published as are required to be given and published by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes in cases of applications for acts of incorporation and in other cases therein specified.

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POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS

IN THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

Corrected from the books in the Post-office Department to January 1, 1871; also a list of the Distributing and Money Order Post-offices in the United States, and offices authorized to receive aud dispatch Canadian Mails.

The Post-offices in County Towns are in SMALL CAPITALS.

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Benjamin Haight.

M. J. Schoonmaker.
David B. Stoddard.
Thos. C. Chittenden
Joel P. Milliner.

Albert W. Wilder.
John R. Adams.

Charles H. Wallace.
James Schofield.
Haviland G. Cornell.
Nathan S. Baker.

Edmund F. Williams.
William T. Magoffin.

Samuel C. Bateman.

Joseph M. Cornell.
Jerome J. Stickney.
Michael Killinger.
Archibald McKillip.
John M. McClusky.
Albert Rowe.

Wm. J. Woodworth.

Alex. D. Makinson.

Mortimer P. Worthy.

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Daniel W. Odell.

Joseph D. Larabee.

Jonas M. Smith.

Henry C. Johnson.
Alfred Allen.
John L. Gilpin.

John S. Putnam.
Backus Hoag.

Clinton D. McDougall

Halsey W. Taylor.
William Irving.
Johnson McDowell.
Timothy Carpenter.
C. Gamwell Varney.
William Starr.
Oscar S. Smith.

Theodre E. Winans.
Edward L. Austin.
John Robbins.

Van Vandenburgh.
Blin S. Sill.
Israel Howell.

William W. Perkins,

James O. Leach.

John J. Larkin.

John N. Bullis.

George P. Carter.

John Kilbourn.

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