of any town meeting or village election within such county, and the regular acts of any one or more town or village officers, performed in good faith, and within the scope of their authority.

16. Correction of assessments and returning and refunding of illegal taxes.-Any such board may correct any manifest clerical or other error in any assessment or returns made by any one or more town officers to such board, or which may, or shall have properly come before such board for its action, confirmation or review; and cause to be refunded to any person the amount collected from him of any tax illegally or improperly assessed or levied, and upon the order of the county court, it shall refund any such tax. In raising the amount so refunded, or necessary to supply the deficiency caused by the correction of any error in such assessment, such board shall, in the same or next ensuing tax-levy, adjust and apportion such amount upon the property of the several towns and wards of the county as shall be just, taking into consideration the portion of the state, county, town and ward included therein, and the extent to which such town or ward has been benefited thereby.

Such board shall ascertain, fix and determine the amount to which any person or corporation is equitably entitled to receive back from any town, for taxes paid while the boundary line between towns was in dispute and cause the same to be levied and collected.

§ 17. Powers, how exercised.—Every act or resolution of the board shall require for its passage the assent of a majority of the supervisors elected, unless otherwise required by law. Every act or resolution of such board in the exercise of its legislative powers shall have a title prefixed, concisely expressing its contents, followed by a reference to the law or laws conferring the authority to pass the act or resolution, the number of votes, both for and against its passage, and, when the assent of any supervisor is required, that such assent was given; and all acts or resolutions so passed shall be numbered in the order of their passage, and certified by the chairman and clerk, and within six. weeks after the close of each session, published in the newspapers in the county appointed to publish the session laws of the legislature.

§ 18. Printing and distribution of proceedings of board.Each board of supervisors shall cause as many copies of the proceedings of its sessions as they may deem necessary, certified by

its chairman and clerk, to be printed as a county charge, in a pamphlet volume, as soon as may be after each session, for exchange with other boards, and for the members of the board and other town and county officers. At least three copies of such printed volume shall be forwarded to and filed in each town clerk's office and in the county clerk's office. In counties containing cities of the first class, the publication of the proceedings of the board of supervisors may be ordered to be made in a daily newspaper, the work to be done by contract, let to the lowest bidder, after an opportunity to bid therefor has been given to the proprietors of all the daily newspapers printed in the English language in said county; such bid may include the printing and binding in pamphlet volumes of such number of copies of the proceedings of such board as may be required, and also the printing of pamphlet copies thereof for the use of the members of said board at its sessions. Such printed proceedings shall contain a summary statement of all bills against the county, presented to the board and audited and allowed or disallowed, indicating the amount allowed or disallowed. The board of supervisors may as often as it shall deem necessary, cause to be printed and distributed in like manner, in the same volume or otherwise, its county laws, combined with suitable forms and instructions thereunder. (As amended by chap. 203 of 1899.)

19. Designation of newspapers for the publication of session laws. The members of the board of supervisors in each county representing, respectively, each of the two principal political parties into which the people of the county are divided, or a majority of such members representing, respectively, each of such parties, shall designate in writing a paper fairly representing the political party to which they respectively belong, regard being had to the advocacy by such paper of the principles of its party and its support of the state and national nominees thereof, and to its regular and general circulation in the towns of the county, to publish the session laws and concurrent resolutions of the legislature required by law to be published, which designation shall be signed by the members making it and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors. If a majority of the members of the board representing either of such parties can not agree upon a paper or shall fail to make a designation of a paper or papers as above provided, then in such case the paper or papers last previously designated in behalf of the party or parties whose representatives, or a

majority of them, have failed to agree shall be held to be duly designated to publish the laws for that year, and any designation of a paper or papers made contrary to the provisions of this section shall be void. If there shall be but one paper published in the county, then, in that case, the laws shall be published in that paper. If either of the two principal parties into which the people of the county are divided shall have no representative among the members of the board of supervisors, then it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, by resolution to designate a paper fairly representing such political party to publish such laws. The clerk of each board of supervisors as soon as such designation is made shall forward to the secretary of state a notice stating the name and address of such newspapers as have been selected for the publication within the county of the laws and concurrent resolutions of the legislature, or if there is but one newspaper in such county he shall before the first day of January in each year, forward to the secretary of state a notice stating the name and address of such newspaper, and that it is the only newspaper published in the county. The secretary of state shall designate two newspapers in each of the counties of Queens and Richmond for the publication of session laws required by law to be published, representing respectively, each of the two principal political parties into which the people of such counties are divided, on the nomination of the county committee of each of such parties. (As amended by chap. 349 of 1898, § 1, and chap. 400 of 1900.)

§ 20. Publication of session laws and concurrent resolutions. Such laws and resolutions shall be published within thirty days after the receipt thereof from the secretary of state; and the whole of every such law which, in the ordinary type of the newspaper in which it is published, would not occupy more than two columns, must be published in one issue, and when it exceeds such space, shall be published as soon as possible, by occupying such space in each successive issue.

Concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution shall be published in such newspapers once in each week for thirteen consecutive weeks, under the direction of the secretary of state, at the expense of the state.

8 21. Compensation.- The expense of such publication shall be a county charge, which, in counties not having a city of over fifty thousand inhabitants shall not be less than twenty nor more

93. Food and labor.-Prisoners detained for trial, and those under sentence, shall be provided with a sufficient quantity of plain but wholesome food, at the expense of the county; but prisoners detained for trial may, at their own expense, and under the direction of the keeper, be supplied with any other proper articles of food. Such keeper shall cause each prisoner committed to his jail for imprisonment under sentence, to be constantly employed at hard labor when practicable, during every day, except Sunday, and the board of supervisors of the county, or judge of the county, may prescribe the kind of labor at which such prisoner shall be employed; and the keeper shall account, at least annually, with the board of supervisors of the county, for the proceeds of such labor. Such keeper may, with the consent of the board of supervisors of the county, or the county judge, from time to time, cause such of the convicts under his charge as are capable of hard labor, to be employed outside of the jail in the same, or in an adjoining county, upon such term as may be agreed upon between the keepers and the officers, or persons, under whose direction such convicts shall be placed, subject to such regulations as the board or judge may prescribe; and the board of supervisors of the several counties are authorized to employ convicts under sentence to confinement in the county jails, in building and repairing penal institutions of the county and in building and repairing the highways in their respective counties or in preparing the material for such highways for sale to and for the use of such counties or towns, villages and cities therein; and to make rules and regulations for their employment; and the said board of supervisors are hereby authorized to cause money to be raised by taxation for the purpose of furnishing materials and carrying this provision into effect; and the courts of this state are hereby authorized to sentence convicts committed to detention in the county jails to such hard labor as may be provided for them by the boards of supervisors. (As amended by chap. 826 of 1896.)

§ 94. Reading matter.—Each keeper shall provide a bible to be kept in each room of the jail in his charge, and he shall permit the persons therein confined, to be supplied with other suitable and proper books and papers, and if practicable, he shall cause divine service to be conducted for the benefit of the prisoners, at least once each Sunday, if there shall be room in the prison that may be safely used for that purpose.

and stating that no part of the amount claimed has been paid or satisfied. But any such account so presented and verified may be disallowed in whole or in part, and the board or such superintendents may require any other or further evidence of the truth or propriety thereof. Each such account shall be numbered from one upwards in the order of presentation, and a memorandum of the time of presentation and the name of the claimant, and if assigned, the name of each assignor or assignee shall be entered in the proceedings of the board. No such account, after being so presented, shall be withdrawn without the unanimous consent of the board except to be used as evidence in an action or proceeding, and after being so used it shall be forthwith returned. § 25. Additional requirements.-Boards of supervisors may make such additional regulations and requirements, not in conflict with law, concerning the keeping and rendering of official accounts and reports of its county and town officers, and the presentation and auditing of bills presented to their board or to the town boards of their county, as they may deem necessary for the efficiency of the service and the protection of the interests of the public.

§ 26. County records.-Such boards shall have the general charge of the books and records of the county, subject to the legal rights of the officers using or having custody of the same, and shall provide for their safe-keeping. They may authorize county officers having the official custody or control of any such books and records, or of maps and papers, to cause copies thereof to be made and certified for the public use; and it shall be their duty to cause the same to be made and certified whenever by reason of age or exposure, or any casualty, the same shall be necessary. Any officers making such transcripts or copies shall be paid such sum therefor as may be just; but such payment shall not exceed a sum to be certified by the county judge, or a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district, as reasonable therefor. Such board of supervisors shall not accept and pay for any such services, until the work shall be examined and approved as to its manner and form of execution, by such judge or justice; nor shall any board of supervisors order any such work to be done until such judge or justice, after examination, shall certify that such work is necessary for the security and safety of the public records.

§ 27. Examination of witnesses and officers by the board.—