boundary lines of said village, but excluding all real estate lying without said boundary lines."

SS. Subdivision twelve, of section forty-three of said Subdivision act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

12, § 43 amended.

pounds to

tained.

"12. To provide for, erect and maintain a public Public pound in said village, to audit every claim of the pound be mainmaster for fees and compensation in respect to animals found going at large, and to hear and determine any application of the owner of any such animals, for a remission of the penalty incurred by their so going at large, and to publish, and post in six of the most public places in said village, a copy of the forty-fifth section of said act as hereby amended, on or before the first day of April, in each and every year."

$9. Section forty-four of the same act is hereby amended by striking out subdivision one of said section, and inserting in the place thereof the following words: "1. To prevent dogs from running at large in said Dogs may village, under a penalty not exceeding ten dollars, and ed running when public safety requires it, to provide for the destruc- at large. tion of such animals so found going at large."

be prohibit

ed.

$10. Section forty-five of said act is hereby amended $45 amend by adding to said section, and before the first line thereof, the following words:

§ 45. No horses, cattle, swine, sheep or geese, shall be permitted to run at large or stray in or upon any street, alley or highway in said village, under a penalty of one dollar for each every such animal found running at large, and every such animal so going at large shall be liable to be distrained, impounded and sold, as provided in the act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages," passed December seven, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the owner of any such animal shall be liable for such penalty, which may be sued for, and recovered with costs, in the corporate name, and for the use of said village, and

Horses, cat&c., not to

tle, sheep,

be allowed

to

run at

large.

S11. Section fifty-one of the same act is hereby $51 amend amended by adding at the end of said section the follow- ed. ing words:

Subject at all times to the orders, and under the direc

tion of the board of trustees.

12. Section fifty-two of the same act is hereby $52 amend amended so as to read as follows:

ed.

§ 53 amend

ed.

52. It shall be the duty of the president, or in his absence one of the trustees which shall be designated by a majority of the board, to be present at all fires of buildings, and take the command of the fire companies, and the general control of the apparatus for extinguishing such fires.

S13. Section fifty-three of the same act is hereby amended by striking out the words "twenty-five," and inserting in the place thereof, the word "forty."

14. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 92.

AN ACT providing for copying the books of record when necessary, in the office of the clerk of the county of Franklin.'

Passed April 1, 1859; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever any of the dockets of judgments, or books of record of judgments, deeds or mortgages, or any other book of record in the office of the clerk of the county of Franklin, become worn, mutilated, injured or defaced, so that they cannot be conveniently examined, and the board of supervisors of said county shall authorize them to be copied, the said copies, when certified by the said clerk to be correct copies of the originals, and that the said board of supervisors had authorized such copies to be made, shall have the validity of the said originals.

S2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 93.

AN ACT to confirm the proceedings of the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin in the erection of the town of Brighton, in said county. Passed April 1, 1859.

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

SECTION 1. The proceedings of the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin, at their annual session in November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the erection of the town of Brighton, in said county, are hereby declared in all respects to be legal, regular, and of binding force.

52. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 94.

AN ACT to reduce the capital stock of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Company.

Passed April 1, 1859.

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

SECTION 1. The board of directors of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Company are hereby authorized and empowered to reduce the capital stock of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Company from the present par value of sixty dollars per share to the par value of thirty dollars per share; provided, however, that the written consent of stockholders representing two-thirds of the whole amount of the said capital stock can be first obtained to such reduction.

$ 2. Whenever the consent of the stockholders shall have been obtained, the said board of directors are hereby authorized and empowered to call in and cancel

the certificates of stock now outstanding, and to issue in lieu thereof new certificates of stock in conformity with said reduction.

S3. The preceding sections shall not be construed to authorize the holders of the convertible bonds of the company to convert the same into such reduced stock, for more than fifty per cent on the par value of said bonds.

Tax may be assessed

and collected.

Chap. 95.

AN ACT to authorize and require the trustees of the village of Potsdam to raise by tax moneys to purchase a fire engine, and for other purposes, for the fire department in said village, and to anticipate said tax by a loan.

Passed April 2, 1859; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Potsdam, are hereby authorized and required to raise by tax, to be assessed and collected in the same manner as other corporation taxes in said village, upon the taxable inhabitants, corporations and property within said village, the sum of five hundred and thirty-four dollars, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and the further sum of five hundred and thirty-three dollars, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty; and the further sum of five hundred and thirty-three dollars, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to be paid to and received by the treasurer of said village, where collected and expended upon the order of said trustees, in the purchase of a fire engine, hose, or other apparatus for the use of the fire department of said village, and for repairing the fire engines, and other fire apparatus now belonging to said village, in such manner as to them shall seem proper, or for the payment of a loan hereby contemplated for that purpose.

S2. The said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to anticipate the amount so to be raised by said tax, by a loan upon the credit of said corporation, payable upon the receipt of said taxes. The amount of such credit so to be pledged, shall not, including the interest upon said loan, exceed the sum of sixteen hundred dollars. The avails of said loan to be expended by said trustees in the manner herein before provided. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 96.

AN ACT to authorize the "Whiteport Plank Road Company," to change the route of such road at certain points, and also to lay an iron track for certain uses, along their plank way.

Passed April 2, 1859.

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

Route of

SECTION 1. The Company known and designated as road may be the "Whiteport Plank Road Company," organized in changed. the county of Ulster, in eighteen hundred and fifty-one, are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to change, modify and vary the line or route of the plank road, or any part thereof, known as the Whiteport plank road, located in the towns of Kingston and Rosendale, in said county, commencing at or near a village called Whiteport, in Rosendale, and terminating at a point on tide water, at the Rondout creek in Kingston, in such manner as they may deem advisable to straighten it or to improve its grade; and for such purposes the said company are authorized and empowered to excavate and remove the earth, soil and obstructions which they may deem necessary or proper to remove in order to make, grade or improve their road.

Iron rail

track for

SECTION 2. The said company are further hereby authorized to lay an iron rail track on the route of their said cars pro