Chap. 550. AN ACT to authorize the Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks to accumulate a surplus and change its place of business. Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The institution for the savings of merchants' clerks is authorized to accumulate an amount, not exceeding twenty per centum of the amount of deposits therein, to meet any contingency of loss in its business, which amount shall be invested for the security of the depositors in said corporation, and thereafter at each annual or semi-annual examination of the affairs of said corporation, any surplus over and above said sum so reserved, shall be distributed, in addition to the usual interest, among the depositors in such manner as the board of trustees shall direct. $2. The provisions of section sixteen, of chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, are hereby suspended for the term of two years, so far as the same may conflict with the rights of the "Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks," in the city of New York, during that period, to change the present location of its bank building and the construction of a new edifice, and the purchase and holding of real estate for that purpose, the annual value or income of which shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars (which said rights, during the said two years, are hereby conferred). 53. This act shall take effect immediately. Town clerk to call a special meeting. Objects of meeting. In what case town board to audit aforesaid sums. Tax on town. Chap. 551. AN ACT to authorize the holding of a special town meeting in the town of Rossie, county of St. Lawrence, and to carry into effect the ceedings thereof. pro 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: SECTION 1. The town clerk of the town of Rossie, in the county of St. Lawrence, is hereby authorized to call a special town meeting in said town, in the way and manner, and upon the like notice now required by law in cases of special town meeting, for the purpose of allowing the electors of said town to vote upon the question of raising money by tax upon said town, to refund and repay to each person the sum subscribed and paid by them to the volunteer fund raised in August and September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose of paying volunteers and substitutes whose enlistment applied upon quota of said town, under the call of the President of the United States, July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Said town meeting shall be held and conducted in the same manner as town meetings are now held and conducted by law, and the electors thereat shall vote by ballot, and the form of the ballot shall be, "for refunding subscriptions," or, "against refunding subscriptions." 2. If at said town meeting, to be held as aforesaid, a majority of the voters voting at said town meeting, shall vote in favor of said town paying and refunding the moneys aforesaid, then the board of town audit of said town of Rossie shall audit and allow the aforesaid sums subscribed and paid, with interest thereon from date of subscription to the time of said audit. $ 3. The board of supervisors of St. Lawrence county, at any annual meeting, shall levy and collect, in the same manner that town and county taxes are now levied and collected by law, out of the real and personal property of said town, a sum sufficient to pay to each person the sum subscribed by him to the said volunteer fund; but the whole amount shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars for each volunteer and substitute credited to said town under the aforesaid call. $4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 552. AN ACT to incorporate the Franckean Evangelic Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: name. SECTION 1. The general synod of the Franckean Corporate Evangelic Lutheran church shall be and is hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of "The Franckean Evangelic Lutheran Synod," and by that name its members and their sucessors shall have perpetual succession, shall be capable of suing and being sued in any court whatever, and shall have and use a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure. $2. It shall be lawful for the regular members of Officers. the said general synod at its annual meeting, to appoint a president, secretary and treasurer of said corporation, and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations in relation to the management and disposition of their real and personal estate, the duties of their officers, and the management of the corporate affairs as they shall think proper; provided they are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State and of the United States; and until the next annual meeting of said synod, or until successors are chosen, Rev. N. Van Alstine shall be president, Rev. Marcus Kling, secretary, and Rev. M. W. Empie treasurer of said corporation. $3. The said corporation shall have power to hold in trust, deeds of church property, and other beneficent institutions, and of taking, holding and receiving any property, real, personal or mixed, by virtue of Amount of corporation real estate may hold. any devise, bequest, grant or purchase; provided the yearly value of such property shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and that the same shall be appropriated to religious, charitable or missionary purposes. S 4. The said corporation shall possess the general powers, rights and privileges and be subject to the liabilities and provisions contained in the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable. S5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 553. AN ACT declaring Mill Brook, in the counties of Essex and Warren, a public highway. Passed April 22, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The stream of water in the counties of Essex and Warren, known as Mill Brook, from Lake Pharaoh, Essex county, to Schroon lake, and from thence to Schroon river, a distance of six miles, is hereby declared a public highway for the purpose of floating and transporting logs, timber and lumber. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 554. AN ACT to authorize the city of Syracuse to raise money for purchasing a steam fire engine, and paying the floating indebtedness of the city. 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: SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Syracuse, are hereby authorized and directed to levy upon the taxable property of said city, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars, and collect the same in the manner now prescribed by law for collecting other eity taxes. Twenty thousand dollars of said sum shall be applied to the purchase of a steam fire engine, the erection of necessary barns, hose depot, and fire bell tower, and for the purchase of horses, new hose and other apparatus necessary to render the fire department of said city efficient; and the balance of said sum shall be applied to liquidate the floating indebtedness of said city, incurred in consequence of the illegal taxation of national banks in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four. 32. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 555. AN ACT to transfer to and vest in the sheriff of the county of Jefferson, the care and control of the jail and court-house of said county. 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: SECTION 1. The care and control of the jail and court-house of the county of Jefferson, are hereby transferred to and vested in the sheriff of the said county; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the said sheriff to use, or to suffer or permit said buildings or either of them, to be used or appropriated to any use or purpose whatever, other than those for which such buildings were erected, and for which they have been heretofore used. In whose care jail, etc., to be. sheriff to keep jail in dition, etc. $2. It shall be the duty of said sheriff to cause the Duty of jail of said county to be put in such condition as to effectually prevent the escape of prisoners confined therein. Before proceeding to cause such work to be done, he shall procure as accurate an estimate of the expense as practicable to be made, and plans and specimens of the work proposed to be done, and shall submit the same to the county judge and surrogate of the said county, and if they approve of the plan, and deem the amount proposed to be expended reasonable, they shall so declare in writing, to be signed by them, and filed in the office of the clerk of |