by assessment, according to the appraised valuation thereof aforesaid, upon all the pews or sittings in their said church edifice at Meridian aforesaid. Such assessment shall not create any personal liability. but shall be a charge for the amount thereof upon the pews and sittings so assessed.

S5. If any such assessments or assessment shal not be paid, after not less than thirty days' notie thereof, which notice shall be in writing and shal either be served personally on the party or parties interested or be left at their respective places of residence with some person of mature age, then such pew or sitting, and all right and interest in, to and concerning the same, shall be forfeited to the said corporation.

$6. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 483.

AN ACT to prevent injury and loss of life to persons on railroad cars, and in relation to a uniform for the employees thereof.

Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every railroad company or corporation in this State, and every railroad company or corporation running, or that may hereafter run its passenger cars in this State, to cause the platforms upon the ends of all passenger cars to be so constructed that when said cars shall be coupled together, or made up into trains and in motion, danger of injury to persons or loss of life between the ends of said cars by falling between the platforms of said cars while passing from one car to another, shall, so far as practicable, be avoided. It shall be the duty of every railroad company operating a railroad in this State by the power of steam, to designate and prescribe such peculiar uniform or external apparel, to be worn by its officers, agents and employees, engaged in or about its passenger offices or stations, or on or about its trains upon its tracks, as shall

plainly, to all travelers, distinguish all such persons; and such uniform or apparel shall also plainly indicate or distinguish the position or rank of the wearer in the employment of such company. It shall be the -duty of every such person to provide and wear such apparel or uniform when employed as aforesaid. And every such company, that shall fail to designate and prescribe such apparel or uniform and to also cause the same to be generally worn by all such persons from and after six months from the passage of this act, shall forfeit to the people of this State, and be liable to pay to the Treasurer of this State, on the first day of January next following the expiration of said six months, and on every first day of January thereafter, the sum of ten thousand dollars. It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of this State, in the name of the people thereof, to sue for and recover said penalties for the benefit of the State. And in case of the refusal or omission of any person aforesaid to wear said uniform or apparel, as contemplated by this act, or to obey any reasonable rule or regulation of any such company relative to the same, or the wearing thereof, it shall be the right and duty of every such company to deduct and retain the amount of five per cent of the agreed or accustomed compensation of such delinquent person during the period of any such neglect or refusal. And every

person who shall advise or use any persuasion to induce any person being an officer, agent or employee of any such company, to leave the service of such company by reason of any such apparel or uniform being required to be worn, or to refuse to wear the same, or any part thereof, every person who without authority shall wear such uniform or apparel, and every person being an officer or agent in any company aforesaid who shall use any inducement with any person aforesaid to come into the employment of any other such company, by reason of any apparel or uniform so required or designated to be worn, shall severally by reason thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to be punished for such offense.

$ 2. Each and every violation of this act by any railroad company or corporation, shall, on conviction,

be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be sued for and collected in the name of the people of the State of New York by the Attorney-General, and the moneys, when collected, to be paid into the general fund of the State

S3. This act shall not operate or be construed to exempt railroad companies or corporations from liability for damages to persons who may be injured or sustain loss or damage by or through any neglect to comply with the provisions of this act.

$4. Time shall be allowed to all railroad companies or corporations to comply with the provisions of this act as follows, to wit: one quarter of all the said cars of each of said companies or corporations shall be made to conform to the requirements of this act within three months from and after the passage of this act, one other quarter thereof within six months, one other quarter thereof within nine months, and the remaining one quarter thereof within one year from and after the passage of this act.

S5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 484.

AN ACT to release the interest of the State of New York in lands acquired by escheat to Margaret Furlong, and to authorize her to sell and convey the same.

Passed April 22, 1867; by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All the right, title, and interest which the people of this State have in and to certain real estate in the village of Geneva, Ontario county, in this State, heretofore conveyed by Henry Glauville and wife to John Peyton, by deed recorded in the clerk's office of said county on the twenty-ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, in liber one hundred and nineteen of deeds, at folio ten, are hereby released to Margaret Furlong, and the said Margaret Furlong is hereby authorized to sell and con

vey the said real estate with the same force and effect,
and any conveyance thereof by her shall be of the
same force and validity as if she were a citizen of
the United States, provided however, that upon such
sale there shall be paid to the clerk of said county
of Ontario the sum of one hundred and seventy-five
dollars of the proceeds thereof as the sole property
of James Peyton, a minor child of said Margaret
Furlong. The moneys that shall be paid to the said
clerk by virtue hereof shall be by him invested as
other moneys in his hands as such clerk belonging to
infants usually are, and the interest thereof annually
paid to the said Margaret Furlong, mother of said
minor child, until he arrives at the age of twenty-one
years, unless the supreme court shall, in the mean
time, otherwise direct, as it may, on sufficient cause
shown, and when said child shall so arrive at the
age of twenty-one years, the said clerk shall pay
over to him the said principal sum and all accrued
unpaid. interest thereon, as his sole property.
S2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 485.

AN ACT appropriating moneys for the building a new capitol.

Passed April 22, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and fifty Amount of thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any tion. moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, towards the erection of a new capitol, authorized by chapter six hundred and forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the necessary expenses attending the same. But no part of the amount hereby appropriated shall be expended, nor shall the capitol commissioners incur any expense on account of the said capitol, until a plan of the capitol shall be adopted and approved by them, and approved by the Governor, not to cost more than four millions of dollars when completed.

Amount which may

at one time.

S2. The treasurer is hereby directed to pay, from be paid out time to time, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, to the order of "The new capitol commissioners," appointed pursuant to the provisions of said chapter, six hundred and forty-eight, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, from the moneys above appropriated, such sum or sums as shall be necessary as the work progresses, and as may be required by the said commissioners in the prosecution of the same; provided, however, that no sum shall be paid at any one time, exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and that no additional sum or sums shall be advanced until all prior payments shall be accounted for to the Comptroller, in the manner provided by section five of the aforesaid act of eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

Congress
Hall.

When court to appoint commissioners.

$ 3. The buildings known as the Congress Hall buildings, shall not be interfered with, removed or taken down until after the final adjournment of the constitutional convention, if said convention is held this year.

S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 486.

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AN ACT to facilitate the acquisition, by the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad Company, the real estate required for the purposes of its incorporation; and to allow it to change the northern terminus of its road, and for other purposes.

Passed April 22, 1867.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever four hundred and fifty thou sand dollars of the capital stock of the Dutchess and Columbia railroad company shall be, in good faith, subscribed and taken, and ten per cent thereof paid in, the company may apply to the court for the appointment of commissioners; and the court shall thereupon appoint commissioners, and all subsequent