[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 affect 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.

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 appplication 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.

POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS

IN THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

Corrected from the books in the Post-office Department to January 1, 1869; also a list of the Distributing and Money Order Post-offices in the United States, and offices authorized to receive and dispatch Canadian mails.

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

Postmaster.

Benjamin Haight.

M. J. Schoonmaker.
L. P. Eagleston.
Nelson Green.
Joel P. Milliner.
Correl D. Potter.
John R. Adams.
Lot Pratt.

Mrs. Annie E. Taggart
Haviland G. Cornell.
Nathan S. Baker,
Charles H. Woolsey.
Eli M. Shay

Edmund F. Williams.

Leonidas W. Paxon.
Samuel C. Bateman.
Joseph Davis, 2d.
Chas. A. Harrington.
William E. Saunders.
Michael Killinger.
Archibald McKillip.
John M. McClusky.

Albert Rowe.

Steuben...

Dutchess.

Chenango.
Essex
Erie
Genesee..

....

Wm. J. Woodworth.