county, all paupers sent by said superintendent of the village."

$13. Subdivision seven of section one of title three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"7. To restrain and prevent cattle, horses, sheep, Restraint of swine and goats from going at large or grazing in the roads, streets and public places of the village; to erect, maintain or provide a pound or pounds and appoint a poundmaster, and fix the fees which he shall receive for impounding such animals; to cause animals impounded and not redeemed within a time to be fixed by the board, to be sold to pay the penalties and fees."

$14. Subdivision fourteen of section one of title three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"14. The trustees shall have power to license hacks and hack drivers, public conveyances and publie venders of merchandise, and to fix the fees for. such licenses."

315. Subdivision sixteen of section one of title three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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"16. The board of trustees of the village of Trustees of Edgewater shall be trustees of the public and district schools. schools within the limits of said village; shall have the sole control and management of the same, and of all the finances and real estate belonging to said schools; shall regulate the districts attached to said schools, appoint and cause to be examined the several teachers, and regulate all matters connected therewith; and the trustees superseded by this act shall immediately give up all books and funds in their custody, and render their accounts to the said trustees of the village of Edgewater. All the public and district schools in said village are hereby created free schools, and the board of trustees of said village shall have the same powers as the board of education had in the act to establish free schools in district number one of the towns of Castleton and Southfield, in the county of Richmond, passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five."

$16. Subdivision seventeen of section one of title three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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"17. The board of trustees shall have the sole fire depart

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control and management of the fire department within the limits of said village; shall order biennial elections for chief and assistant engineers of said department; regulate the number and boundaries of fire districts; have power to purchase engines and houses; to authorize new companies or disband any company disobeying the orders of the chief engineer or board of trustees, and regulate all matters connected with said fire department; and so much of the act of chapter two hundred and six of session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four as relates to the incorporation of the fire department within the towns in the limits of the said village of Edgewater is hereby repealed."

$ 17. Subdivision eighteen of section one of title three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"18. The board of trustees of the village shall against vil have the exclusive power to audit all claims against those portions of the towns embraced within the limits of said village, and for that purpose they shall have the same powers and duties in all respects as the boards of town auditors now have; and the boards of town auditors within the limits of said village are hereby abolished. The village of Edgewater, shall pay its own town expenses, and the balance of the towns of Middletown and Southfield their own expenses. The board of town auditors for the towns of Middletown and Southfield shall every year add their certificate to their return of town expenses to the supervisors, that all the bills allowed by them were incurred for and arose in that portion of said towns outside of the village of Edgewater; and the supervisors are hereby prohibited from inserting any sum returned and not so certified. And the towns of Middletown and Southfield shall not be liable for or compelled to pay to any justice of the peace or constable any fees or compensation for services rendered in criminal proceedings, arising within said village.

$ 18. The following sections are hereby added to title three:

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§ 2. The election of Thomas Garret, as police justice, in the village of Edgewater, held April

twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the acts performed by him as such police justice are hereby legalized."

"3. The acts of J. C. Cavelti, Charles Bischoff, Geo. M. Root, Oliver W. Bird, William Lee, T. C. Moffatt and R. M. Hazard, appointed trustees under the act of March twenty-two, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Edgewater," are hereby legalized and confirmed, and the trustees elected by this amended act are hereby directed and required, without delay, to audit sneh bonds, debts or claims as may be presented to them by said appointed trustees, as contracted by them, and to issue vouchers for the same, which Vouchers shall be received for taxes by the treasurer of said village, or shall be paid by him out of the moneys raised in the first annual tax levied upon the inhabitants and taxable property of said village." $ 19. Section two of title five is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"§2. The assessors of the towns of Middletown Separate and Southfield shall, when required of the board of assessment. trustees, make a separate assessment roll of so much of the yearly assessment as relates to persons residing, and property situated within the village of Edgewater. They shall deliver said copy of such assessment roll, certified by themselves, to the clerk of the board of trustees, who shall present the same to the board of trustees at their next meeting thereafter, who shall, as soon as possible, correct and establish the same, and after advertising once in each newspaper published in the village, that they are ready to hear any complaints which may be made about said assessment, such assessment roll so finally corrected and established shall be filed with the clerk of the village. The board of trustees shall charge the amount which they shall have determined to raise by tax for the year upon the aggregate amount of the assessment roll of the village, as corrected by them, and shall calculate and set down in a proper column opposite to each valuation of real and personal estate, the sum to be paid as tax thereon. A warrant, sealed with the corporate seal, and sub

scribed by the president and countersigned by the clerk of the board of trustees, shall be issued to the treasurer of the village, by which he shall be authorized and required to receive and collect, from the several persons named in the assessment roll, the several sums charged upon their property as taxes. The warrant shall be annexed to a fair copy of the assessment roll. The treasurer shall proceed to receive and collect the taxes, and have all the powers of a town collector."

$20. Section four of title five is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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"§ 4. All taxes and assessments authorized by this act shall be and remain a lien upon the lands and premises, upon which the same shall be imposed or assessed, for a period of two years, unless sooner paid. The treasurer shall receive the said taxes, with one per cent added for collection, for thirty days, and to all taxes and assessments which shall remain unpaid for the space of thirty days after the issuing of the warrant, there shall be added five per cent for collection."

$ 21. Section one of title seven is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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'§ 1. The moneys levied from the village by taxes, and all assessments, fines, penalties, forfeitures, rents and other moneys recovered or received by the trustees or the treasurer, and police magistrate, except such as may be received by said police magistrate in civil cases, shall be funds of the corporation, to be applied by the board of trustees to the objects and purposes of this act."

$22. Section five of title seven is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"§ 5. A majority of all the trustees shall, when duly convened, be a quorum competent to transact any business that may be lawfully transacted by the board. The vote of a majority of those present at any lawful meeting of the board, when there is a quorum, shall be necessary to render legal and valid any act done, or business transacted at such meeting.'

$23. All provisions of said act, inconsistent with chapter five hundred and seventy-eight, laws of

eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors within the metropolitan police district of the State of New York;" or with chapter seventy-four, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to create a metropolitan sanitary district and board of health therein for the preservation of life and health and to prevent the spread of disease;" or of chapter six hundred and eighty-six, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, amendatory thereof; or of chapter eighty-four, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to amend an act passed April twentyfive, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a metropolitan police district and to provide for the government thereof,' passed April fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, 'passed April ten, eighteen hundred and sixty;"" or of chapter five hundred and ninety, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act concerning the metropolitan police for Richmond county," passed April fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, are hereby repealed.

324. Section twenty of title two is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"20. Every trustee, police justice, clerk, treas- Oath of urer, policeman, street commissioner and superin- office. tendent of the poor elected or appointed pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall, within ten days after his election, or if appointed, within the same time after notice of such appointment, severally take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, to support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and faithfully and impartially to execute the duties of the office to which he has been so elected or appointed, according to the best of his ability, which oath shall be filed with the clerk of the board of trustees, before such officer enters upon the duties of his office. In default of such oath or affirmation being so taken and filed, the board of trustees may declare the office vacant and appoint a person to fill such vacancy as authorized by this act."