Trustees to make report

ness of said corporation. The said person or persons so appointed shall report the result of their investigation to the said court; who, if satisfied thereby that any officer, trustee or servant of said corporation has been guilty of any fraud or misconduct, may remove such person or persons, and make such further order, and take such further measures for securing the funds and property of said corporation as the said court shall deem expedient.

S 14. The board of trustees shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of January, and twenty-fifth day of July, in each year, make such report to the superintendent of the banking department as is required by law, and shall be subject to all the provisions and requirements of the act entitled "An act in relation to savings banks," passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and also subject to the provisions of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, as far as the same are or may be applicable.

S 15. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 29.

AN ACT authorizing persons convicted before magistrates or courts of special sessions of the peace, in the town of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, at hard labor, to be transported directly to the Albany penitentiary.

Passed March 5, 1859; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. All persons hereafter convicted by or before any magistrate or court of special sessions of the peace, in the town of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga, of any offense or crime, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, at hard labor, may be taken by any constable of said town of Waterford, directly to the

Albany penitentiary, by the most usual and direct route, and the keeper of said penitentiary is required to receive and detain such persons, the same as if the warrants of commitment had been placed in the hands of the sheriff of the said county of Saratoga.

S2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 30.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes.

Passed March 5, 1859; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any collector of taxes in any of the towns of this state, and in the city of Oswego, by complying, within ten days after the passage of this act, with the first section of an act entitled "An act authorizing the extension of time for the collection of taxes in the several towns and cities of this state, except so far as that act requires a compliance with its conditions within ten days. after the time which is now or shall hereafter be provided by law for the collection of taxes," passed January thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (except such cities as are exempt by the second section of said act, with the exception of the city of Oswego), may have the time for the collection of taxes extended to a period not later than the first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and fiftynine, and the warrants already issued to the collectors shall, for this purpose, continue in full force and effect till that date.

$2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Chap. 31.

AN ACT to discontinue part of a public highway in the town of Goshen, Orange county.

Passed March 7, 1859.

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

SECTION 1. All that part of the public highway situated in the town of Goshen, in the county of Orange, leading from the village of Goshen to the east division of said town, described as follows, viz.: Beginning where said highway intersects Main street in said village, near the dwelling-house on the premises lately belonging to Egbert Tansen, deceased, and extending thence eastwardly to the intersection of a new road, lately laid out and opened on the said premises, with the said highway, and embracing the whole of said highway between said two points of intersection, is discontinued as a public road or highway.

S2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 32.

AN ACT to regulate the collection of taxes in the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, and for other purposes.

Passed March 7, 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 supervisor, assessors and town clerk of the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, shall, at their meeting on the first Monday of March in each year, for the purpose of making alterations in the election districts of said town, for the election of officers thereof, also divide the said town into two or more col

lection districts, for the collection of town, county and state taxes; and they may change the boundaries of such collection districts, from time to time, as may be deemed necessary.

§ 2. The legal voters of the said town of Watervliet shall hereafter, at each annual election of town officers held therein, elect, in the manner now provided by law, one collector of taxes for each collection district established, as in this act prescribed, whose jurisdiction as such collector shall extend to such collection district of said town as may be assigned to him by the said supervisor, assessors and town clerk of said town, or by a majority of them. Each of the said collectors so to be elected shall possess all the powers, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities, now provided by law in respect to the collectors of taxes in towns.

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$3. When any collection district shall be established Districts to in said town by virtue of the provisions of this act, and be numas often as any change may be made in the limits of any such district, the same shall be numbered and described by known boundaries; and the clerk of said town of Watervliet shall make a record thereof, and deliver a copy of such record, certified by him, to each of the assessors of the said town, within ten days after the entry of such record.

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S4. The assessors of said town, in making up their Assessors' assessment rolls, shall prepare one for each of the collection districts that may be established, from time to time, under the provisions of this act, and annex thereto a certificate and affidavit in the form now required by law; and such roll, when completed, shall be delivered to the supervisor of said town of Watervliet.

$5. All acts and parts of acts, so far as they are inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

S6. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 33.

AN ACT to expedite the canvass of votes for senator in the twenty-ninth senate district of this state, at a special election to be held in said district, on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, under proclamation by the governor.

Passed March 7, 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 board of county canvassers in the county of Niagara, the board of county canvassers in the county of Orleans, and the board of county canvassers in the county of Genesee, shall each meet at the office of the clerk of their respective counties, and canvass and determine the number of votes given at the said special election for senator, on the Thursday next following said election.

$2. The clerk of the county of Niagara, the clerk of the county of Orleans, and the clerk of the county of Genesee, shall each transmit a certified copy of the certificate of the determination of their respective boards of county canvassers, to the secretary of state, by mail, immediately after the completion of the said canvass.

S3. The secretary of state shall, without delay, on the receipt of the said certificates, place them on file in his office, and immediately give official notice to the presiding officer of the senate that the person having the greatest number of votes, as shown by the aggregate of the aforesaid certificates of the county canvassers, is duly elected senator in the twenty-ninth senate district.

S4. The provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and forty-two, as amended by the act of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in relation to county and state canvassers, so far as they are inconsistent with this act, are hereby declared inoperative and inapplicable to this special election.

S5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, immediately upon the passage of this act, to transmit to the