authorized to take the acknowledgement or proof of a written instrument, to administer oaths, or to certify to the correctness of a public record, if there shall be annexed or subjoined thereto, or indorsed thereon, a certificate of the commissioner before whom such acknowledgement or proof was taken, by whom the oath was administered, or by whom the correctness of such copy is certified, under his hand and official seal, specifying, if for another state, the day on which, and the city or town in which, the acknowledgment or proof was taken, or the oath administered (without which specification when required the certificate shall be void); and authenticated by the certificate of the secretary of state, annexed or subjoined to the certificate of such commissioner, that such commissioner was, at the time of taking such acknowledgment or proof of administering such oath, or of certifying to such patent, record or document, or copy thereof, duly authorized therefor, that he is acquainted with the handwriting of such commissioner, or has compared the signature to the certificate with the signature of such commissioner deposited in his office, that he has compared the impression of the seal affixed to such certificate with the impression of the seal of such commissioner deposited in his office, and that he verily believes the signature and the impression of the seal upon such certificate to be genuine. The certificate of a commissioner as to the correctness of a copy of a certified copy of a patent, record or other document, as provided by this section, shall be presumptive evidence that it was certified according to the form in use in such foreign country. (As amended by chap. 248 of 1893, 8 1.)

889. Fees of such commissioners.-The fees of such commissioners shall be as follows:

1. If appointed for another state, not to exceed four times the amount allowed by the laws of such state for like services, and not to exceed in any case one dollar for taking the proof or acknowledgment of a written instrument, or administering an oath ;

2. If appointed for Great Britain or Ireland, for administering or certifying an oath, one shilling sterling, and for taking the proof or acknowledgment of a written instrument, or for certifying to the existence or correctness of a copy of a patent, record or document, four shillings sterling;

3. If appointed for France or any other foreign country, for administering and certifying an oath, one franc and twenty-five centimes, and for taking the proof or acknowledgment of a written

8 97. Payment of moneys appropriated.-Moneys appropriated for caring for and maintaining such reservation, and carrying out the provisions of this article, shall be paid to the order of the treasurer of the commission by the state treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller. No warrant shall be issued until

the amounts claimed have been audited and allowed by the comptroller, who is hereby authorized to determine the same, except that on the requisition of the treasurer of such commission, the comptroller may advance out of the sum appropriated whatever moneys he deems necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this article.

$ 98. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed.

*99. When to take effect.-This chapter shall take effect October 1, 1894.

SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED.

Revised Statutes.... Part I, ch. IX, title 5.... All except §§

Revised Statutes.... Part I, ch. IX, title
Revised Statutes.... Part II, ch. I, title

CHAPTER X

OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

[CHAP. 413 OF 1897.]

THE STATE FINANCE LAW.

ARTICLE I. General fiscal provisions (§§ 1-38).

II. The general fund (§§ 50–51).

III. Canal fund and canal debt sinking fund (§§ 60-65).
IV. Education funds (§§ 80-96).

V. Miscellaneous funds (§§ 100-102).

VI. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 100-111).

ARTICLE I.

GENERAL FISCAL PROVISIONS.

SECTION 1. Short title.

2. Fiscal year.

3. Duties of treasurer.

4. Duties of comptroller.

5. Treasurer's checks and accounts.

6. Custody of state securities.

7. Examination of state securities.

8. Deposit in banks.

9. Monthly statement of balance in state depositories.

10. Deposit of moneys by state officers.

11. Deposit of money by charitable and benevolent institution

12. Proofs required on audit by the comptroller.

13. Regulations for the transmission of public moneys.

14. Temporary loans and revenue bonds.

15. New in place of lost certificates.

16. Forms of state accounts.

17. Itemized and quarterly accounts of public officers.

18. Inspection of supplies and entry in books.

19. Deposit in banks of moneys received by state institutions.

20. Annual inventory and report of institutions.

21. Rendition of accounts.

22. Statements of accounts not rendered.

23. Statements of accounts rendered.

24. Statements of joint accounts.

25. Other remedies preserved.

26. Foreclosures of mortgages by the state.
27. When comptroller shall bid in premises.

to the Erie canal at Rome, with a navigable feeder from the Black river to the summit level near the village of Booneville.

The term canal, as used in this chapter, includes all the sidecuts, feeders and other works belonging to the state connected therewith.

§ 3. State dam at Waterloo.-The superintendent of public works is authorized to maintain a state dam at Waterloo, at a height not exceeding the height of the original state dam at that place, but so as not to raise the waters of Seneca lake above the natural height of the waters of the lake, and when the bridge above the outlet of the lake is rebuilt, to lower the same to a height no more than sufficient to pass the largest size canal boats, but no claim shall be made or allowed for any damages to any property by reason of raising such dam to its original height.

§ 4. Maps and field-notes.-There shall be kept on file in the office of the state engineer complete manuscript maps and field-notes of every canal now or hereafter to be built and of all the lands belonging to the state adjacent thereto or connected therewith, in which the boundaries of every parcel of land to which the state shall have a separate title, shall be designated, and the names of the former owners and the date of each title entered. The expense of all such maps and field-notes shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the support and maintenance of the canals. All such maps and field-notes approved by the canal board or canal commissioners or certified by such board or commissioners or by the state engineer to be correct, shall be presumptive evidence of the truth of the facts therein stated and of the ownership by the state of the lands therein described.

§ 5. Copies of maps and field-notes in county clerk's office.-A copy of every map and of all field-books and notes so filed or of such part thereof as relate to the canal lands in any county, certified by the state engineer to be a correct copy thereof, shall be filed in the clerk's office of such county, and shall be evidence with like force and effect as the original maps and fieldnotes of which it is a copy. Transcripts of a part of any such map or field-notes, certified by the officers having the custody of the original or certified copies from which they are made to be correct copies thereof, shall be evidence as to the parts contained in such transcripts, with the same force and effect as if the originals were produced.