Oaths.

Resignations.

Fines, etc.

Special meetings.

Privileges

of corporation.

before a justice of the peace may be by summons or warrant, and execution may be issued immediately on the rendition of judgment. If the defendant in any such action for a penalty has no goods or chattels, lands or tenements, whereof the judgment can be collected, the execution shall require, when it shall appear that it was for a second offense, the defendant to be imprisoned in the jail of Westchester county for a term to be fixed by said justice, not exceeding sixty days.

3. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness or juror, by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder in said village, in any action. or proceeding in which said village is a party interested.

$ 4. All oaths or affidavits which are required or authorized by this act may be taken before the president of the board of trustees of said village; but the said president shall not be entitled to receive any fee for administering such oath.

S 5. All resiguations of any officers under this act shall be made to the board of trustees, subject to their acceptance.

$6. All fines, forfeitures, and penalties and all moneys received for licenses under this act, shall be paid to the treasurer of said village, and may be applied by said board of trustees to any purpose consistent with this act.

$ 7. Special meetings of the inhabitants of said village may be called by the same officers and in the same manner as is provided for the calling of the annual meeting or elections in this act. The notice of said special meeting shall state the objects of said meeting.

$8. The said corporation shall possess the privileges and be subject to the restrictions contained in part one, title three, chapter eighteen of the Revised Statutes, so far as they are applicable to such corporation; and all statutes inconsistent with the provisions of this act are for the purposes of this act hereby repealed.

S9. In cases requiring public notice to be given in

this act, the same may be published by posting such notice in at least six public places in said village.

heretofore

10. All taxes which have been heretofore made, Taxes imposed, laid, levied, assessed, or confirmed in made. accordance with any of the provisions of the act mentioned in the title of this act, or in accordance with any of the provisions of the laws of this State authorizing the levying or collecting of taxes of village incorporations, and all taxes which shall hereafter be made, imposed, laid, levied, assessed, or confirmed in accordance with any of the said provisions or with any of the provisions of this act, shall be legal and valid, and all the acts of the trustees of said village elected under the provisions of the act mentioned in the title of this act are hereby ratified and confirmed.

to be done.

$11. All work under the direction of the trustees Work, how of said village shall be done by contract by the lowest respousible bidder therefor, whenever the cost thereof shall exceed the sum of two hundred dollars; and the trustees are hereby authorized and required to procure such estimates and bids for such work as shall procure such work to be so done, and to make the necessary contracts therefor; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the working or repairing of roads and avenues, or the repairing of bridges, or to the laying of sidewalks and the setting of curbstones.

lighting

$12. The trustees of the said village are hereby Moneys for authorized to raise an amount by tax upon that part streets. of the taxable property of the said village liable to pay for the lighting of the streets with gas an amount sufficient to pay the gas bill now due and to become due on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and after that day the lighting of the streets of said village shall be a charge upon all the taxable property in said village, and the charge therefor shall be assessed, levied, and collected as othertaxes are herein directed to be levied, assessed and collected.

S13. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect the rights and privileges of any railroad now running through said village.

Governor.

Private secretary.

Clerks and messengers.

Rent and taxes.

$ 14. All taxes in said village shall be assessed and collected in conformity, as far as practicable, with the provisions of law in respect to the assessment and collection of taxes by town assessors and collectors.

S15. Whenever any money shall be raised by tax in said village for any specific purpose it shall not be applied to any other purpose, without such a vote directing such an application as was required to authorize the raising thereof.

$ 16. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 519.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of Government.

Passed April 22, 1865; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The several amounts named in this act are hereby appropriated and authorized to be paid from the several funds indicated, to the respective public officers, and for the several purposes specified, for the fiscal year, beginning on the first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, namely:

FROM THE GENERAL FUND.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

For the Governor, for salary, four thousand dollars. For the private secretary of the Governor, for salary, two thousand dollars.

For the clerks and messengers in the executive department, for compensation, pursuant to chapter four hundred and seventy-six, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent and taxes of the house occupied by the Governor, pursuant to part one, chapter nine, title one, section thirteen, of the Revised Statutes, six thousand dollars.

blanks, etc.

For the executive department, for furniture, Furniture, blank and other books, necessary for the use of the department, binding, blanks, printing, stationery, telegraphing, and other incidental expenses, pursuant to chapter two hundred and eighty, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.

sion of

For the executive department, for the apprehen- Apprehension of criminals pursuant to part one, chapter nine, criminals. title one, section fifteen, of the Revised Statutes, one thousand dollars; for the apprehension of fugitives from justice, pursuant to part four, chapter two, title seven, section forty-five, of the Revised Statutes, and chapter one hundred and forty-seven, of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-six, one thousand dollars.

JUDICIARY.

court of

For the judges of the court of appeals, for sala- Judges of ries, fourteen thousand dollars; and for the justices appeals. of the supreme court, for salaries, one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For the state reporter, for salary, two thousand State redollars.

porter.

For the crier and attendants for the Court of Crier, etc. Appeals, for compensation, pursuant to chapter ninety-five, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF APPEALS.

For the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, for salary, Clerk of two thousand dollars.

court.

For the deputy clerk of the Court of Appeals, for Deputy salary, one thousand five hundred dollars.

clerk.

office.

For the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, for compen- Clerks in sation of clerks employed in his office, three thousand five hundred dollars; and for furniture, blank and other books, necessary for the use of the office, binding, blanks, printing, and other necessary incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

For the Attorney-General, for salary, two thousand Attorney.

dollars.

general.

Deputy.

Compensation of attorneygeneral.

Clerks, etc.

Furniture,

blanks, etc.

Secretary of state.

Deputy.

Clerks.

Comptroller.

Deputy.

Clerks, etc.

For the deputy Attorney-General, for salary, two thousand dollars.

For the Attorney-General, for compensation, pursuant to part one, chapter eight, title five, section six, of the Revised Statutes, one thousand dollars; for counsel to assist him, pursuant to chapter three bundred and fifty-seven, of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, one thousand dollars; for compensation of clerks and messenger employed in his office, one thousand and fifty dollars; for furniture, blank and other books, necessary for the use of the office, binding, blanks, printing, and other necessary incidental expenses, five hundred dollars; for costs of suit, fees of sheriffs, compensation of witnesses, and for expenditures and disbursements necessarily incurred by him, in or about the prosecution or defense of any action or claim in which the people of this State may be interested, pursuant to part three, chapter ten, title three, section fifty-one, of the Revised Statutes, two thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

For the Secretary of State, for salary, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the deputy Secretary of State, for salary, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Secretary of State, for compensation of clerks employed in his office, seven thousand dollars; for compensation of the person employed by the Sectary of State, pursuant to chapter five hundred and thirty-nine, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixtyfive, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for furniture, blank and other books, necessary for the use of the office, binding, blanks, printing, and other necessary incidental expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars.

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.

For the Comptroller, for salary, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the deputy Comptroller, for salary, two thousand dollars.

For the Comptroller, for compensation of the