may legally be recorded by him, ten cents for each folio. For filing a certificate of satisfaction, or other satisfaction-piece of a mortgage, and entering the satisfaction, twenty-five cents. For affixing and indexing a notice of foreclosure of a mortgage as prescribed in section twenty-three hundred and ninety of this act, twenty-five cents. For entering a minute that a mortgage has been foreclosed, ten cents. For filing and entering a satisfaction of an assignment of a judgment, twelve cents. For filing and entering the bond of a collector or other officer authorized to receive taxes, twelve cents. For searching for such a bond, six cents. For entering satisfaction thereof, twelve cents. For sealing any paper, when required, twelve cents. For filing and docketing notice of a mechanic's lien, ten cents. For filing and entering specifications and all other papers relating to a lien against a vessel, twenty-five cents. For filing any paper required by law to be filed in his office, other than as expressly provided for in this section, six cents. For filing any paper deposited with him for safekeeping, six cents; and for searching for such a paper, when required, three cents for each paper necessarily opened and examined. For a certificate, other than that a paper, for the copying of which he is entitled to a fee, is a copy, twenty-five cents. For inquiring into, determining and certifying the sufficiency of the sureties of a sheriff, fifty cents. For attending upon the canvassing of votes, given at an election, two dollars. For drawing the necessary certificates of the result of the canvass, eighteen cents for each folio; and for the necessary, copies thereof, nine cents for each folio. For notifying the gov ernor that any person has taken an oath of office, ten cents and the necessary postage. For notifying the governor that any person has neglected to take an oath of office, or to file or renew any security, within the time prescribed by law, or of a vacancy in an office in his county, ten cents and the necessary postage. For notifying any person of his appointment to office, twenty-five cents and the expenses actually and necessarily incurred in giving the notice, which the comptroller deems reasonable. For entering in the minutes of the county court a license to keep a ferry, and for a copy thereof, one dollar. For taking and entering a recognizance, from any person authorized to keep a ferry, twenty-five cents. But a county clerk is not entitled to any fee, under this section, for a copy of, or for filing or certifying, any paper, in a civil action or special proceeding, in a court of which he is ex-officio clerk. Public officer's law, § 2. Section one of chapter three of part two of the revised statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. Every conveyance of real estate, within this state, hereafter made, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where said real estate shall be situated, and such county clerk. shall, upon the request of any party, or a tender of the lawful fees therefor, record the same in his said office; and every such conveyance not so recorded shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser, in good faith, and for a valuable consideration, of the same real estate, or any portion thereof, whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 573. AN ACT to amend the public officers' law, relating to the removal of certain town and village officers from office. BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Chapter six hundred and eighty-one of the laws of amended, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being chapter seven of the general laws, entitled "The public officers' law," is hereby amended by adding a new section, to be known as section twentyfive-a, and which shall read as follows: Removal of town or vil. lage officers for cause. § 25a. Any town or village officer, except a justice of the peace, be removed from office by the supreme court for any misnay conduct, maladministration, malfeasance or malversation in office. An application for such removal may be made by any citizen resident of such town or village and shall be made to the appellate division of the supreme court held within the judicial department embracing such town or village. Such application shall be made upon notice to such town officer of not less than eight days, and a copy of the charges upon which the application will be made must be served with such notice. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. j Chap. 574. AN ACT to amend the revised statutes, in relation to the summoning of grand juries. BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: statutes Section 1. Sections one and ten of title four of chapter two of Revised part four of the revised statutes are hereby amended to read as amended. follows: Grand § 1. The supervisors of the several counties of this state, except furyst the city and county of New York, at their annual meetings in each year, shall prepare a list of the names of three hundred per sons, to serve as grand jurors at the terms of the supreme court and county courts, to be held in their respective counties during the then ensuing year and until new lists shall be returned. § 10. At the time of drawing the names of jurors for the trial Drawing of grand of issues of fact, in any term of the supreme court or county court, jurors. and at the time of drawing such jurors for the general session in the city of New York, the county clerk, in the presence and with the assistance of the sheriff or under sheriff, and of the county judge or, in case of his absence or illness, of the special county judge, or, in a county where there is no special county judge, of the surrogate or of a justice of the supreme court residing in such county, who shall have attended for the purpose of drawing the trial jury for such court, shall proceed and draw in and for the city of New York the names of thirty-six persons, and in every other county the names of twenty-four persons, from the box in which the pieces of paper shall have been deposited for that purpose, to serve as grand jurors at such term of the supreme court, or county court, or general sessions, as the case may be. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. School law, amended. Notice to taxpayers, corpora or pipe lines. Chap. 575. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the general acts relating to public instruction," relating to the collection of school district taxes. BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eighty-one of title seven of chapter five hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, known as the "compulsory education law," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 81. The collector, on the receipt of a warrant for the collection railroad of taxes, shall give notice to the taxpayers of the district by pubtions, ca canal licly posting written or printed, or partly written and partly printed notices in at least three public places in such district, one of which shall be on the outside of the front door of the schoolhouse, stating that he has received such warrant and will receive all such taxes as may be voluntarily paid to him within two weeks from the time of posting said notice. Such collector shall also give a like notice, either personally or by mail, at least ten days previous to the expiration of the two weeks aforesaid, to the ticket agent at the nearest station of any railroad corporation, or the president, secretary, general or division superintendent, or manager of any canal or pipe line, assessed for taxes upon the tax list delivered to him with the aforesaid warrant, and where the amount of the tax is one dollar or more the collector shall also give a like notice to all nonresident taxpayers on said list whose residence or postoffice address may be known to such collector, or which may be ascertained by him upon inquiry of the trustees and clerk of his district, and no school collector shall be entitled to recover from any railroad corporation, canal company or pipe line, or nonresident taxpayer more than one per centum fees on the taxes assessed against such corporation or nonresident, unless such notice shall have been given as aforesaid; and in case the whole amount of taxes shall not be so paid in, the collector shall forthwith proceed to collect the same. He shall receive for his Fee of services, on all sums paid in as aforesaid, one per centum, and upon octor. all sums collected by him, after the expiration of the time mentioned, five per centum, except as herein before provided; and in case a levy and sale shall be necessarily made by such collector, he shall be entitled to traveling fees, at the rate of ten cents per mile, to be computed from the school-house in such district. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 576. AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and eighty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act in relation to municipal corporations." BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section twenty-four of chapter six hundred and eighty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act in relation to municipal corporations," constituting chapter seventeen of the general laws, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 24. Free public libraries. Any municipal corporation may establish and maintain a free public library or museum in accord. ance with the library provisions of the university law, being chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 578. 'AN ACT making an appropriation for improving the state armory at Olean. BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ntion for Section 1. The sum of six thousand dollars, in addition to the Appropri sum appropriated by chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the impove 83 ment of armory. |