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Acts of trustees confirmed.

Payment

of bonds.

tise, sell and issue the said bonds pursuant to the provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-nine and one hundred and thirty of the general village law, the same to be payable by their terms at such time or times within the limitations prescribed by said section one hundred and twenty-nine as said board shall determine, and when so advertised, sold and issued, the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid obligations of said village of Canandaigua, and each and every act of said village and said board of trustees heretofore done, undertaken or begun in pursuance of the object of, or any object of this act, are, and each of them is ratified and declared valid.

2. The board of trustees of the village of Canandaigua, in the manner provided by law, shall cause such taxes to be levied and collected as may be necessary to pay the principal and interest of said bonds as the same becomes due, until said bonds and the interest thereon are fully paid.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 3.

AN ACT providing for the payment of the balance due newspapers for the publication of the general laws of the state for the year nineteen hundred and three.

Became a law February 8, 1904, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

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

Section 1. The sum of eleven thousand, one hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, payable by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, for the payment of the balance due newspapers in the various counties in this state, for the publication of the general laws of the state for the year nineteen hundred and three. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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AN ACT to amend chapter nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act to make the office of sheriff of Rensselaer county a salaried office, and regulating the management of said office," relative to the appropriation for appointees of the sheriff.

Became a law February 8, 1904, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

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

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Salaries.

Section 1. Section eight of chapter nine laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act to make the office of sheriff of Rensselaer county a salaried office, and regulating the manage ment of said office," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 8. The sheriff shall appoint and may at pleasure remove an undersheriff, three deputies, and a cook; of said deputies, one deputies, shall be the jailer, one an assistant jailer, and one a night watchman. The board of supervisors shall annually appropriate a sum not to exceed three thousand seven hundred dollars for the payment of the salaries of the appointees of the sheriff. The salaries shall be fixed by the sheriff but their aggregate shall not exceed the appropriation for that purpose made by the board of supervisors. The salaries of the sheriff and appointees shall be made payable monthly, in the same manner as that of any other county officer. The jailer, assistant jailer, night watchman and cook shall be boarded at the expense of the county at the jail. The sheriff may appoint pursuant to law, not to exceed sixteen court at Court attendants for any court at which a grand jury is not in attendance. and not to exceed eighteen for any court at which a grand jury is in attendance. Said court attendants so appointed shall also when not actively engaged in the performance of their regular duties, perform such service under the direction of the sheriff, as he may require. Said court attendants shall be paid the compensation allowed by law and from the fund provided for by the terms and provisions of section thirty-one of the code of civil procedure of the state.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Chap. 5.

'AN ACT to legalize and confirm the organization and existence of union free school district number two of the town of Batavia, and to legalize and confirm the proceedings of the board of education and legal voters of such union free school district, relative to the levy of a tax and the issuance and sale of certain bonds of said district.

Became a law February 8, 1904, 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:

Section 1. The organization and existence of a union free school district known as "union free school district number two of the town of Batavia," in the county of Genesee, and all proceedings heretofore at any time had by the board of education and by legal voters of said district as such union free school district, or otherwise, are hereby, in all respects, legalized and confirmed.

§ 2. All proceedings had by the legal voters of such school district at the special meetings held March twelfth, nineteen hundred and three and June first, nineteen hundred and three, and all the proceedings and acts of the board of education thereof in calling and holding such meetings, and subsequent thereto, for the purpose of voting a tax and with respect to the issuance Bonds, is and sale of bonds in the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars to pay for the erection and furnishing of a schoolhouse on Washington avenue in said school district, be and are hereby in all respects authorized, ratified and confirmed. The tax so voted shall be deemed and held levied in instalments of two thousand dollars each to be collected annually from the year nineteen hundred and eleven to the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three both inclusive, with a last instalment of one thousand dollars, to be collected in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and the said tax so voted and levied and the bonds, payable two thousand dollars a year from January first, nineteen hundred and twelve to and including January first, nineteen hundred and twentyfour, and one thousand dollars payable January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, are hereby validated, legalized and con

firmed as issued under the consolidated school law, and the said
board of education is hereby authorized and empowered to exe-
cute and deliver the said bonds to the purchasers thereof in ac-
cordance with the said proceedings and with this act.
§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 6.

AN ACT to amend chapter twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, entitled "An act to provide for the better
administration of justice in the town of Mohawk, in the county
of Montgomery, and state of New York," in relation to officers
elected or appointed thereunder.

Became a law February 9, 1904, with the approval of the Governor.
Passed, three-fifths being present.

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

Section 1. Section one of chapter twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An act to provide for the better administration of justice in the town of Mohawk, in the county of Montgomery, and state of New York," is hereby amended to read as follows:

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§ 1. At the biennial town meeting for the election of town officers Police jusin the town of Mohawk, Montgomery county, to be held in the year tion and nineteen hundred and five and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected a police justice for the term of two years. The term of such police justice shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding his election.

§ 2. Section three of such act is hereby amended to read as follows:

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§ 3. The salary of said police justice shall be at the rate of five Salary and hundred dollars per year, and which shall not be increased nance of or diminished during his term of office. The auditing board of the town of Mohawk shall provide and maintain good and sufficient quarters centrally located in the village of Fonda, in said town, as a court room and office for said police justice for

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the transaction of business at all reasonable hours and to institute such proceedings as the proper administration of justice requires. Said annual salary of police justice together with the cost of maintaining the court room and office for said police justice, shall be a charge upon said town and annually audited, allowed and paid as other bills and accounts are audited, allowed and paid in said town of Mohawk.

§ 3. Section four of such act is hereby repealed.

§ 4. Section six of such act is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 6. In case of sickness, absence from said village and town, disability a disability or inability of the police justice to act, his powers and peace may duties are hereby conferred and imposed upon either of the jus

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tices of the peace of said town of Mohawk, who may be designated by the supervisor of said town; and it shall be the duty of the supervisor of said town each year, to designate one of the justices of the peace of said town, who shall act in such cases instead of the police justice, and he shall be designated and known as acting police justice. He shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and execute a bond as required by section two of this act, and file the same with the town clerk of said town, before entertaining jurisdiction of any action or proceeding by virtue of this act. And in case of a vacancy in said office of police justice, the acting police justice shall perform the duties of said office until the vacancy is filled in pursuance of law. Any justice of the peace so designated or appointed as acting police justice and while serving as such, shall receive the same ratable compensation as is hereby provided to be paid said police justice, and the sum so paid shall be deducted from the salary of said police justice. The town board of such town may fill any vacancy in the office of police justice by appointment for a term which shall not extend beyond the thirty-first day of December of the year in which such appointment is made.

§ 5. Section seventeen of such act is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 17. At the annual meeting of the town board of the town of pointment Mohawk, county of Montgomery, state of New York, held on the third Tuesday in December, nineteen hundred and five and an nually thereafter, the said town board shall appoint a police officer in and for the town of Mohawk for one year. Said police

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