and authorize the board of education thereof to raise money to purchase sites, and to build or purchase school-houses," passed April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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1. Union free school-district number one, in the Boundaries town of Deerpark, in the county of Orange, is hereby district. enlarged so as to include within its boundaries all additions made to it by the school commissioner in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and all that part of school-district number eight which lies west of the Neversink river, north of a line running due west from the railroad bridge across the Neversink river to the Delaware river, and east of the present west boundary line of said Union free schooldistrict number one; and the boundaries of said enlarged district shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning on the west side of the Neversink river, on the lands of Charles Weiss, at a large spring situated in the lower edge of the bank of said river, being the original corner of school-districts numbers one and eight, and running thence south, seven and one-half degrees east, seven chains and ninety-four links; thence south, seventeen degrees east, three chains. and forty-eight links; thence south, one degree west, five chains and forty-six links; thence south, seven degrees west, five chains and twenty-seven links; thence south, twenty-four and three-quarter degrees west, three chains and seventy-eight links; thence south, seventy-one and one-half degrees west, eight chains; thence south, sixty-six degrees west, nine chains and thirty links to the south end of the west abutment of the Erie railroad bridge across the Neversink river; thence on a course due west sixteen chains to a white pine tree standing on the northerly bank of the Delaware river, near the north-east corner of Laurel Grove cemetery; thence same course to the center of said river; thence up the center of said river to the sluice or waste-way of the Delaware and Hudson canal, on the line between the lands of M. Reeder and Buckley and Brothers; thence along said. sluice or waste-way to the Delaware and Hudson canal; thence westerly along said canal to the line

Certain acts of board of education legalized and confirmed.

between lots numbers forty-four and forty-five of the seventh division of the Neversink patent; thence along said lot line to the north-easterly corner of Barney Gorman's land; thence in a direct line to the lands of Elting Cuddeback; thence along the line of said Cuddeback to the lines between the lands of S. B. Farnum and Simon Westfall, on one side, and A. J. and Isaac Cuddeback on the other; thence along the line between S. B. Farnum and A. J. and Isaac Cuddeback, to the north-east corner of the lands of S. B. Farnum; thence north-easterly to a certain corner near a stone standing in the ground; thence along the division line between the lands of A. J. Cuddeback and Solomon and Benjamin Van Vleet, crossing the highway to the Neversink river to a point nearly or quite opposite to the mouth of Mill brook; thence down the Neversink river to the place of beginning. Said enlarged district shall be known and designated as "Union free school-district number one." The inhabitants of that part of schooldistrict number eight so included as aforesaid in Union free school-district number one, are hereby declared subject to all the duties, burdens and obligations, and entitled to the same benefits and privileges which the inhabitants of said Union free school-district number one bear and enjoy; and the board of education of said Union free school-district number one shall be and continue, during their respective terms of office, the board of education of such enlarged district, but nothing herein contained shall affect any liability or claim which may have accrued previous to the passage of this act.

$ 2. All acts of the board of education of Union free school-district number one, done under and by virtue of said act, which is hereby amended, are hereby legalized and confirmed, provided that nothing in this section or act contained, shall authorize or legalize the collection of any tax from the inhabitants of that part of school-district number eight under and by virtue of the tax list and warrant made out by said board, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

S3. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine; and to extend the benefit of such amendment to companies organized under special charters.

Passed April 23, 1867.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The tenth section of the "Act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies," passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section, the following words:

"But any mutual company that heretofore has been, or hereafter may be organized under this act, may issue policies, providing that the assured in such policies shall not participate in the profits of such company, and that in lieu of scrip, the said company may stipulate for, and take a net premium, or may make a cash deduction from the premiums paid on such non-participating policies, though such mode and manner of doing business may not be declared in the charter of such company."

32. Any company organized under a special charter may avail itself of the privileges granted under the preceding section, anything in its charter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

33. This act shall take effect immediately.

Burials in old ground

Chap. 575.

AN ACT to prevent further interments in the old burying yard, in the village of Champlain, and to place the said ground under the control of the trustees of the Glenn Wood Cemetery Association of Champlain.

Passed April 23, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Further interments in the old burying prohibited. yard at Champlain village are hereby prohibited, except by and with the consent of a majority of the trustees of the Glenn Wood cemetery association of Champlain; and the said ground, together with the care and control thereof, is hereby vested in said trustees.

Removal of bodies.

S2. It shall and may be lawful for the said trustees after the expiration of five years from the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to remove from said old burying yard, all the then remaining bodies now interred therein, or that may be interred hereafter, to the grounds of the said assoSale of old ciation; and the said trustees are hereby authorized after the removal of all such bodies, to sell such old burying lot at public auction to the highest bidder, and to convey the same by deed to the purchaser thereof, and apply the proceeds thereof towards defraying the expense of such removal.

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Kindred in adjoining graves.

S3. But in removing such remains and again interring them, those of the same kindred shall be placed in graves adjoining. And all grave-stones, head-boards, or other indications found at any grave, shall be also removed with the remains in said grave, and replaced at the new place of deposit of said remains, in position, as near as may be, alike that in which such stones, boards or other indications were found.

S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 576.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Ilion," passed March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and to confirm the official acts of the police justice in said village.

Passed April 23, 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 twenty-second section of chapter ninety, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixtyfive, entitled, "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Ilion," passed March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended, by inserting immediately after the word "German Flats" the following words: "and he shall be commissioner of deeds, in and for the county of Herkimer." All the official acts of the present police justice as such, or as commissioner of deeds, before the passage of this act, are hereby ratified, confirmed and declared valid; but nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding commenced before the passage thereof. $2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 577.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to enlarge the powers and define the duties of the Contracting Board," passed March fourteenth eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

Passed April 23, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Whenever any member or members of the canal board shall for any cause be dissatisfied with the award made by said board of a contract