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.

§ 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

than fifty cents per folio, and in other counties not less than thirty nor more than fifty cents per folio; the specific rate in either case to be fixed by the board of supervisors.

§ 22. Election notices and official canvass.- Such boards, except in the counties of Erie and Kings, shall, in like manner, designate two newspapers, representing respectively each of the two principal political parties into which the electors of the county are divided, in which shall be published the election notices issued by the secretary of state, and the official canvass, and fix the compensation therefor, which shall be a county charge.

23. Compensation of supervisors.-For the services of supervisors, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Kings, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchester and Richmond, each supervisor shall receive from the county compensation at the rate of four dollars per day for each calendar day's actual attendance at the sessions of their respective boards, and mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, for once going and returning from his residence to the place where the sessions of the board shall be held, by the most usual route, for each regular and special session. In the counties of Niagara and Richmond each supervisor shall receive an annual salary in the county of Niagara of three hundred, and in the county of Richmond of one thousand dollars in lieu of any per diem compensation. Each supervisor, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchester and Richmond, may also receive compensation from the county at the rate of four dollars per day while actually engaged in any investigation or other duty, which may be lawfully committed to him by the board, except for services rendered when the board is in session, and, if such investigation or duty require his attendance at a place away from his residence, and five miles or more distant from the place where the board shall hold its sessions, his actual expenses incurred therein. No other compensation or allowance shall be made to any supervisor for his services, except such as shall be by law a town charge. The board of supervisors of any county may also allow to each member of the board for his services in making a copy of the assessment-roll, three cents for each written line for the first one hundred lines, two cents per line for the second hundred written lines, and one cent per line for all written lines in excess of two hundred, and one cent for each line of the tax-roll actually extended by him. (As amended by chap. 724 of 1893, § 1; chap. 480 of 1895, § 1, and chap. 529 of 1900.)

§ 24. Form and presentation of accounts against the county. -No account shall be audited by a board of supervisors, or by a committee thereof, or by superintendents of the poor, unless it shall be made out in items and accompanied with an affidavit that the items of such accounts are correct, and that the disbursements and services charged therein have been in fact made or rendered, or are necessary to be made or rendered at that session of the board,

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or supervisor, board, council or officers having in charge the payment of such bonds. Such new bonds shall only be issued when the existing bonds can be retired by the substitution of the new bonds therefor, or can be paid up by money realized by the sale of such new bonds. Where such bonded indebtedness shall become due within two years from the issue of such new bonds, such new bonds may be issued and sold to provide money in advance to pay up such existing bonds when they shall become due. Such new bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this section, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of the issue; shall be made payable not less than one or more than thirty years from their date; shall bear date and draw interest from the date of the payment of the existing bonds, or the receipt of the money to pay the same, at not exceeding the rate of five per centum per annum, payable quarterly, semi-annually or annually; and an amount equal to not less than two per centum of the whole amount of such new bonds shall be payable each year after the issue thereof. Such new bonds shall be sold and negotiated at the best price obtainable, not less than their par value; shall be valid and binding on the municipal corporation issuing them; and until payable shall be exempt from taxation for town, county, municipal or state purposes. All bonds and coupons retired or paid shall be immediately canceled. A certificate shall be issued by the officer, board or body issuing such new bonds, stating the amount of existing bonds, and of the new bonds so issued, which shall be forthwith filed in the office of the county clerk. Except as provided in this section, new bonds shall not be issued in pursuance thereof, for bonds of a municipal corporation adjudged invalid by the final judgment of a competent court. A majority of the taxpayers of a town, voting at a general town meeting, or special town meeting duly called, may authorize the issue in pursuance of this section of new bonds for such invalid bonds, and each new bond so issued shall contain substantially the following recital: "The issue of this bond is duly authorized by a vote of the taxpayers of the said town," which shall be conclusive evidence of such fact. The payment, adjustment or compromise of a part of the bonded indebtedness of a municipal corporation shall not be deemed an admission of the validity or a recognition of any part of the bonded indebtedness of such municipal corporation not paid, adjusted or compromised. (As

Any such board may require the attendance of witnesses and may examine any person as a witness upon any subject or matter within its jurisdiction, or examine any officer of the county, or a town therein, in relation to the discharge of his official duties, or a town therein, in relation to the discharge of his official duties, or to the receipt or disbursement by him of any moneys, on* concerning the possession or disposition by him of any property belonging to the county, or to use, inspect, or examine, any book, account, voucher or document in his possession or under his control, relating to the affairs or interest of such county or

town.

28. Committee of board.--When any such board shall have appointed any member or members thereof, a committee upon any subject or matter of which the board has jurisdiction, and shall have conferred upon such committee power to send for persons and papers, the chairman of such committee shall possess all the powers herein given to, and imposed upon the chairman of the board of supervisors.

§ 29. Adjournment.-Such board or committee may adjourn from time to time, and such committee may hold meetings in pursuance of such adjournments, or on call of the chairman thereof, during the recess, or after the final adjournment of the board of supervisors; but where a warrant shall have been issued as provided by section 845 of the Code of Civil Procedure and not returned, such adjournment of the board or committee at whose instance it was issued, shall be to a time and place certain, of which notice shall be given by the chairman, to the judge before whom the warrant shall be returnable; and if the person against whom it issued shall be arrested, he may, in the discretion of the judge who issued the warrant, be discharged from custody, upon entering into an undertaking to the county, with two sureties to be approved by such judge, to the effect that he will appear and submit to an examination before such board or committee, as required, at the time and place to which it shall have been adjourned, or pay to the county treasurer such sum of money as such judge may direct.

8 30. Filing and enforcement of undertaking.-Such undertaking shall be filed in the clerk's office of the county, and if default shall be made in the condition thereof, the district attorney of the county may sue and collect the sum therein *So in the original.

mentioned, and the money, when received, and all moneys received for fines and penalties before such boards or committees, shall be paid into the treasury of the county.

§ 31. Location of county buildings.-The board of supervisors may, except in the county of Kings, by a majority vote of all the members elected thereto, fix or change the site of any county building, and the location of any county office; but the site or location. of no county building or office shall be changed when the change shall exceed one mile, and shall be beyond the boundaries of the incorporated village or city, where already situated, except upon a petition of at least twenty-five freeholders of the county, describing the buildings or office, the site or location of which is proposed to be changed, and the place at or near which it is proposed to locate such new building or office; which petition shall be published once in each week for six weeks immediately preceding an annual or special meeting of such board, in three newspapers of the county, if there be so many, otherwise, in all the newspapers published in the county as often as once a week. With such petition shall also be published a notice, signed by the petitioners, to the effect that such petition will be presented to the board of supervisors at the next meeting thereof. The board of supervisors of any county may acquire a new site or location for the county almshouse, erect suitable buildings thereon, and remove the inmates of the existing almshouse thereto, upon a majority vote of all the members elected to said board at a regular session thereof or at a special session called for that purpose, in any case where the state board of charities shall have certified to said board of supervisors that in the opinion of a majority of said state board of charities such change is necessary to the proper care of the inmates of such institution; in which case it shall not be necessary to receive or publish the petition hereinbefore provided or to submit the question of change or removal to the electors of such county as provided in sections thirty-two and thirty-three of the act hereby amended; provided, however, that no site or location shall be selected or acquired by such board of supervisors which shall not have been approved by said state board of charities. (As amended by chap. 133 of 1899.)

§ 32. Proceedings on petition.-On the presentation of such petition and notice, with due proof of their publication, if a majority of all the members elected to such board vote in favor of a resolution for the removal of the site of the buildings described