Chap. 76.

AN ACT to confirm the official acts of Horatio L. Day as Notary Public.

Passed March 9, 1867.

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

SECTION 1. The acts of Horatio L. Day, of the town of Cairo, county of Greene, State of New York done and performed by him as a notary public, between the time he took the oath of office on his appointment by the Governor in December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and the twenty-seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be held to be of the same force and validity as if his nomination to the office of notary public had been duly made to and confirmed by the senate.

$2. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any action or proceeding now pending.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 77.

AN ACT to fix the number necessary to form a quorum of the board of excise, in and for the Metropolitan Police District of the State of New York, excepting and excluding the county of Westchester.

Passed March 11, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. A majority of the board of excise in and for the Metropolitan Police District of the State of New York, excepting and excluding Westchester county, is hereby declared to be a quorum thereof with power to do any and all business intrusted to said board. But no action or order shall be had or

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taken by the said board unless *a meeting thereof regulary called, there shall have been a vote thereon had and taken, in which vote a majority of said board shall have concurred.

S2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 78.

AN ACT to incorporate the Masonic Hall Association of Watertown.

Passed March 11, 1867.

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

SECTION 1. Frederick Emerson, a member of Watertown Lodge number forty-nine of Free and Accepted Masons, Allen C. Beach, a member of Watertown Chapter number fifty-nine of Royal Arch Masons, and Pearson Mundy, a member of Watertown Commandery number eleven of Knights Templar, each of said persons representing the body of which he is named as a member and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Masonic Hall Association of Watertown," with power in and by their corporate name to purchase, lease, hold, mortgage, demise, sell and convey, and to take and hold by gift, grant, devise or bequest such real, leaseholds or personal property as may be required for the use and benefit of the said masonic societies herein before named, not exceeding in value the sum of thirty thousand dollars. Any devise or bequest poration to to the corporation hereby created contained in the last will and testament of any person who shall leave a wife or child or parent, by which last will and testament more than one-fourth of the estate of such person, after the payment of his debts, shall be thus devised or bequeathed shall be void. Any devise or bequest to such corporation, contained in a will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator shall be void.

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$2. The affairs of such corporation shall be man- Trustees. aged by three trustees, each of whom shall be a resident of the village of Watertown, and a member in good standing of the masonic body by whom he shall be elected trustee, as herein specified. One of said trustees shall be annually elected, at its annual meeting for the election of officers next after the passage of this act by each of the masonic bodies. named in the first section of this act, and the persons named in said first section shall be trustees of said corporation and shall hold their offices until their successors shall be elected, subject, however, to the conditions contained in section third of this act.

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$3. Whenever any one of said trustees shall cease to Vacancies be a resident of the village of Watertown, or a mem-filled. ber in good standing of the masonic body by which he was elected trustee, he shall cease to be one of said trustees; and any vacancy which may be thereby created, or which shall occur by reason of the death, resignation or other disqualification of any one of said trustees, may be filled at any regular meeting thereafter, by the masonic body which shall be entitled to fill the same, by the election of another trustee who shall hold his office during the unexpired portion of the term of office of the trustee whose place shall have become vacant as aforesaid.

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$ 4. The said corporation hereby created may sue Powers of and be sued, complain and defend, by its corporate tion. name, in all the courts of this State. Said corporation is hereby authorized, from time to time, to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose of purchasing land or buildings, or for the purpose of constructing a suitable building, or of discharging any indebtedness incurred by such corporation in completing such purchase, or for the purpose of reconstructing, altering, repairing, furnishing or remodeling any building owned by said corporation, and for any such purposes, from time to time to issue the bonds of said corporation for any amount so borrowed, and from time to time to mortgage such lands, buildings and other corporation property, or any part or parts thereof, to secure the payment of such bonds, or any of them. The mort

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gage or mortgages herein authorized, may be made directly to the holder or holders of said bonds, or to some person or persons in trust for them, in such manner and with such clauses and conditions as the trustees of said corporation shall see fit.

$5. Said trustees shall have no power to purchase, sell, convey or dispose of any property, real or perchase prop- sonal, belonging to said corporation, except they shall be first authorized so to do by each of the masonic bodies mentioned in the first section of this act at a regular or stated communication or convocation thereof; and said trustees shall at all times obey and abide by the directions, orders and resolutions of said masonic bodies, or a majority of them, duly passed at any regular or stated communication or convocation thereof, according to and not contravening the constitution and laws of this State, or of the grand bodies to which they shall be subordinate.

$ 6. Said corporation shall not be deemed to have forfeited its charter, or to be dissolved, by reason of any neglect or omission of either of said masonic bodies to elect a trustee at its annual meeting for the election of officers, but it shall and may be lawful for either of said masonic bodies in case of omission to elect a trustee at the time of its annual meeting as aforesaid to elect such trustee at any regular communication thereafter to be held, and until a vacancy arising from the expiration of the term of office of a trustee is filled, as aforesaid, he shall continue to hold the said office, and perform the duties thereof.

$7. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 79.

AN ACT to amend the act to incorporate the "Rome Hydraulic Company," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, so as to increase the number of directors, and to provide for the choice of inspectors of election.

Passed March 11, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section three of "An act to incorporate the Rome Hydraulic Company," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, is hereby amended by striking out the word "seven," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "not more than Dine."

$2. Section five of the same act is also hereby amended by striking out the words "the directors, or any three of them, shall be inspectors of the elections of the company," and inserting in lieu thereof the words, "there shall be chosen annually three inspectors of election, who shall be stockholders, and not directors, whose duty it shall be to superintend the elections of the company."

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 80.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the city of New York," passed April sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

Passed March 11, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section third of "An act to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the city New York," passed April sixth, eighteen hundred