to the like exemption from military service, and a certificate of such service in the fire department, authenticated by the signature of the president and the seal of the corporation, shall be presumptive evidence before all the courts and officers, civil and military, of such exemption.

gineer, etc.

$8. The members of the fire department are Chlef enauthorized to elect a chief engineer and one or more (not exceeding two) assistant engineers of the fire department, whose election shall be subject to the approval of the board of trustees, and who may be removed by said trustees for incapacity, neglect of duty or misconduct. The chief engineer, and in his absence the senior assistant engineer, shall have direction and control of the fire department, subject to such regulations as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said corporation.

$9. Every member of the fire department who shall, at the time of any fire, refuse to obey the orders of the chief engineer, or, in his absence, the orders of the senior assistant engineer present, and every inhabitant of the corporation who shall, at the time of any fire, refuse to obey the orders of the president, or, in his absence, the orders of any trustee present, shall, for each offense, forfeit such penalty as shall be prescribed by the by-laws, not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense.

Refusal of

firemen to

obey orders.

health.

$10. The trustees may, and it shall be their duty, In regard to to take precautionary measures to guard the public health in times of pestilence, and to provide against infectious or pestilential diseases, when they appear in the village, by providing suitable places for the temporary removal of persons having such diseases from the populous parts of the village, and to pay the expenses incident to such removal; and they shall have power to appoint one or more health commissioners, who, with the president, shall constitute the board of health of the village; and such board of health shall be subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An act for the preservation of the public health," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, in addition to the powers which may be authorized under this act.

Execution

of laws of village.

Assessors.

Fence viewers

Duties of clerk.

TITLE IV.

OF OFFICERS OF THE VILLAGE, THEIR POWERS AND
DUTIES INDIVIDUALLY.

$1. It shall be the duty of the president of the board of trustees to see that the laws of the village are faithfully executed, and to recommend to the board such measures as he may think necessary and expedient, and as the head of the police of the village he shall maintain peace and good order. In case the president shall be unable to perform the duties of his office in consequence of sickness or absence from the village, the board of trustees shall appoint one of their number to preside at their meetings, and the presiding officer thus chosen shall be vested with all the powers, and perform all the duties of the president of the village, until the president shall resume his office, or the vacancy shall be filled according to law.

$2. The board of trustees shall be assessors of the village, and it shall be their duty in each and every year, on or before the first day of June, to prepare an assessment roll of property subject to taxation in said village, and file the same with the village clerk; they shall possess the like powers and perform their duties in the like manner as town assessors, according to the laws of this State. Notice of the time and place of meeting to hear applications to correct the valuations, must be put up in five public and conspicuous places in said village, at least one week prior to the time appointed for such hearing.

$ 3. The trustees shall be fence viewers, and shall possess the like authority in said village as fence viewers of towns in respect to the division fences and walls in the said village.

S4. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said village to keep all the books and papers belonging to said village, to attend all the meetings of the village board; to keep a journal, and record the proceedings of said board at every meeting thereof; to record all by-laws, orders, rules regulations, ordinances and resolutions made or passed by said board; to receive, file and preserve all returns of the election of village

officers, all reports of the treasurer, all bonds of village officers, with the approvals thereof, all returns of votes taken on any question submitted to the electors, and taxable inhabitants of said village for approval or disapproval, and all other papers required to be filed by any provision of this act, or by the direction of said board; to attend all elections of village officers, and at votings on any question submitted as aforesaid, and to keep a poll of all persons voting at any such election, under the direction of the presiding officers; to put up all notices in the manner prescribed and directed by this act, or by any by-law or ordinance of said board; to serve written notices of their electon on all officers elected under this act, to keep accurate account, under appropriate heads, of expenditures of all warrants and the amount thereof, drawn by said board or the treasurer, in a check book to be kept by him for that purpose; to make out the tax roll; to keep the corporate seal of said village, and to perform all other duties required by this act, or by any by-law or ordinance of said board.

treasurer.

$5. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belong Duties of ing to the village, and keep an accurate account of all the receipts and expenditures. All moneys shall be drawn from the treasury in pursuance of an order of the board of trustees, by warrant, signed by the president or presiding officer of the board, and countersigned by the clerk. The books and entries of the treasurer, and the check book of the clerk, shall be open for the inspection of any elector of the village at all reasonable hours. The treasurer shall exhibit to the board of trustees, at least fifteen days before the annual election in each year, a full account of all the receipts and expenditures, after the date of the last annual report, and also the state of the treasury, which account shall be filed in the office of the clerk. 36. The police justice within said village shall Powers of possess the same powers and jurisdiction in all crim- ice. inal cases, and be subject to the same duties and liabilities, and shall collect the same fees as justices of the peace in the town of Schaghticoke; he shall keep his office in said village, and hear all complaints, hold courts of special sessions, and conduct other

police jus

Fines and penalties.

No fees of police jus

criminal business, as is now or may by law be done by a justice of the peace of the town of Schaghticoke. The police justice shall be a commissioner of deeds for the county of Rensselaer, and possess the same powers as commissioners of deeds in the several cities of this State. He shall not be required to account to the board of trustees for any fees which he may receive for services done as commissioner of deeds.

$ 7. The police justice shall, within five days after the same shall have been received by him, pay to the treasurer of the village all fines and penalties that may be collected by him in any proceeding for violating village by-laws or ordinances, and shall account for and pay over all other fines and penalties as now required by law of justices of the peace; and the police justice, in all cases where, in his judgment, a complaint has been made before him without probable cause, shall impose the cost and expenses upon the complainant, and enforce the collection thereof as in other cases.

S8. The said police justice shall not be entitled to tice for self receive any fees to his own use for services performed under this act, but he shall keep an account of the business done by him as such police justice, in three separate parts, of which one shall consist of such items as are village charges, and one of such items as are town charges, and the other of such items as are county charges. So much of said fees as accrue under the by-laws and ordinances of said village, shall be paid by the village, and the balance shall be audited and paid by the board of supervisors of Rensselaer county, as town and county charges are allowed and paid; but no fees shall be charged or allowed as town or county charges in any case where the fine or penalty shall have been payable to the treasurer of the village.

Police constable.

$9. The police constable shall have the same power and authority, and be subject to the same liabilities and obligations, except as herein otherwise provided, as constables elected in any of the towns of the county of Rensselaer. It shall be their duty to obey such orders as they may, from time to time, receive from the president of the village regarding

their duty; to report to the president all violations of the corporation ordinances, with the names and residences of witnesses; to preserve the public peace; to be vigilant for the prevention and discovery of crime, and the detection of criminals; to report to the president all crimes and offenses committed in the village; to arrest all persons in the actual commission of crimes, misdemeanors, breaches of the peace, or violations of corporation ordinances; to execute all criminal process issued by the police justice, or by any other officer authorized to issue criminal process; to report to the president all suspicious persons, houses of ill fame, gaming houses, and all places where idlers, tipplers, gamblers, and other disorderly and suspicious persons congregate; and to perform such other duties, from time to time, as the president of the village may direct. They may take into their eustody any person intoxicated, so as to be unable to take care of himself, and keep him in a proper place provided by the trustees, until he be taken care of by his friends, or able to go about his business. Every person so arrested shall immediately be reported to and brought before the police justice, or other magistrate authorized to act, who shall enter the fact and cause of the arrest in a book to be kept by him. The police constable shall be entitled to the same fees as other constables for services in like cases.

TITLE V.

tax.

$1. The board of trustees are authorized and High empowered to raise annually, by tax, to be assessed upon the estate, real and personal, within said village, such an amount of money denominated highway tax, as they shall deem necessary, not exceeding the sum of twelve hundred dollars; which sum shall be assessed as follows: Each male inhabitant of twentyone years of age and upwards shall be assessed one dollar and the balance shall be assessed on estates, real and personal, within said village, according to the value of their property, as it shall appear upon the assessment roll for the year in which such money shall be raised; which money shall be expended by the superintendent of streets, under the