124 Coroners to deliver mon County Trea SURROGATE AND TREASURER-MONROE COUNTY. Surrogate and County Treasurer's Office-Monroe § 1. The board of Supervisors of Monroe county are hereby authorized to raise by tax on said county, in the same manner as other county charges are levied and collected, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars over and above the Treasurer's fees therein, to be expended in purchasing or erecting a building for offices for the Surrogate and Treasurer of said county. § 2. Whenever such building shall have been purchased or erected, the Surrogate and County Treasurer of the said county shall remove thereto, the books, records, and other papers appertaining to their respective offices, and thereafter use and occupy such building for the discharge of their official duties. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Treasurers' Fees as to the Funds in the Possession of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals. Act of 1849, p. 517. § 1. The several County Treasurers in this State shall be entitled to receive for the services rendered by them in regard to the securities and moneys received and held by them, respectively, under the provisions of the act entitled "An act in respect to the funds and securities in possession of the clerk of the Court of Appeals, passed April 12, 1848, in lieu of the compensation provided by said act, a commission of one-half of one per cent. on every dollar which they shall receive, and one-half of one per cent. on every dollar which they shall pay out, of the moneys so received and held by them by virtue of said act. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Coroners. Act of 1842, p. 192. § 1. The Coroners of the several counties in this eys &c, to State are hereby required to deliver over to the Treasurer of their respective counties, all monies and other valuable things which have been or may hereafter be found with or upon the bodies of persons on whom in surers. CORONERS. quests have been or may hereafter be held, and which shall not have been claimed by the legal representatives of such person or persons, within sixty days after this act becomes a law. In cases of inquests heretofore held, and in cases which may hereafter arise within sixty days after the holding of any such inquest; and in default thereof, the said Treasurers shall be authorized, and are required to institute the necessary proceedings to compel such delivery. 125 County Trea § 2. The several Treasurers to whom any such val- Duty of uable thing shall be delivered, pursuant to the provis- surers. ions of this act, shall as soon thereafter as may be, convert the same into money, and place the same to the credit of the county of which he is treasurer; and if demanded within six years thereafter, by the legal representatives of the person on whom the same is found, the said treasurer, after deducting the expenses incurred by the Coroner, and all other expenses of the county in relation to the same matter, shall pay the balance thereof to such legal representatives. be delivered sors. §3. Before auditing and allowing the accounts of Inventory te such Coroners, the Supervisors of the county shall re- to Superviquire from them respectively a statement in writing, containing an inventory of all money and other valuable things found with or upon all persons on whom inquests shall have been held, and the manner in which the same had been disposed of, verified by the oath or affirmation of the Coroner making the same, that such statement is in all respects just and true, and that the money and other articles mentioned therein, have been delivered to the treasurer of the county, or to the legal representatives of such person or persons. § 4. The said Coroners shall be entitled to receive a reasonable compensation for making and rendering such statement, and for their trouble and services in the preservation and delivery of said effects and property as herein before provided, and all reasonable expenses incurred by them in relation thereto, to be audited by the board of Supervisors, in addition to the fees or compensation to be allowed by them for holding an inquest. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. County Sealers. Act of 1831, p. 31. § 1. Copies of the original standards, directed to be transmitted by the provisions of the 23d section of title 24, chapter 19th, of the first part of the Revised Statutes, by the State Sealer to the County Sealer, shall be furnished at the expense of the several counAdditional ties to which the same are sent, and not otherwise. security.. Commissioners of Loans. Act of 1837, p. 121. § 47 Of this act provides that whenever the Supervisors of any county in this State shall apprehend that any of said Commissioners, or their, or either of their sureties, are likely to fail, it shall be their duty to require such Commissioner to give such additional security as they may deem reasonable and satisfactory. 50 Provides that it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to exhibit to the board of Supervisors of their respective counties at each annual meeting of the board, all the mortgages and other securities taken. by them or their predecessors in office, for moneys loaned under, and in pursuance of, this act, together with their books of accounts, minutes and vouchers, in order that the board of Supervisors may ascertain. whether the moneys committed to the charge of such Commissioners have been loaned, and continued to be kept as loans, according to law. 51. It shall be the duty of the board of Supervisors, at each annual meeting of the board, to carefully examine all such mortgages and securities, accounts. and minutes so to be annually exhibited to them, in reference to the state in which they shall find the said moneys, and to their safety and the sufficiency of the securities taken for the payment thereof, and to give to the said Commissioners such directions as to taking additional security from the borrowers as said board of Supervisors shall deem proper and necessary and the said board shall forthwith certify under their hands, the state in which they shall find the said moneys, and the result of such examination, and what directions they have given to the said Commissioners as to taking such additional security, and to transmit such certificate by mail to the Comptroller. TOWN OFFICERS COMPENSATION. 127 58 Provides that if any of said Commissioners Penalty. shall neglect or refuse, for the space of ten days after the receipt of notice, to give such additional security as shall at any time be required by the Supervisors of the county for which such Commissioner was appointed, or by the Comptroller, such Supervisors or the Comptroller, as the case may be, shall report the fact, together with their reasons for requiring such additional security, to the Governor, in order to his removal. to prepare § 62 Provides that it shall be the duty of the Comp- Comptroller troller to prepare the necessary forms for carrying this necessary act into effect, and to give such instructions to the forms. Commissioners appointed under it, and to the boards of Supervisors, as may be necessary to ensure a faithful discharge of the duties of the Commissioners, and a full compliance with all the requirements of this act. Act passed 1840, p. 239. Deposite Fund and Common School Fund. § 4 Provides that the Supervisors of the several counties in which such loans may be made, shall possess the same powers and perform the same duties, in relation to loans under this act, as they are empowered and required to uo in relation to loans made from the United States deposite fund. Town Officers-Compensation. 1 R. S., 356. § 50. The following town officers shall be entitled to compensation at the following rates, for each day actually and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the town, in the duties of their respective offices: assessors &c. 1. Assessors and inspectors of elections, and clerks Daily pay of of the poll, one dollar and twenty-five cents a day. 2. Commissioners of highways, Commissioners and Inspectors of Common Schools (now town Superintendent) one dollar a day. § 51. The Town Clern shall be entitled to such compensation for his services, including those performed as Clerk of Commissioners of Common Schools, (now town Superintendent) as the board of Supervisors of his county (now Town Auditors of his town) shall allow. Town char ges. Moneys how raised. Certain town officers to de predecessors. Town Charges. 1 R. S., 358. § 2. The following shall be deemed town charges: 1. The compensation of town officers for services rendered for their respective towns: 2. The contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the town; 3. The moneys authorized to be raised by the vote of a town meeting, for any town purpose; and 4. Every sum directed by law to be raised for any town purpose. § 4 Provides that moneys necessary to defray the town charges of each town, shall be levied on the taxable property in such town, in the manner prescribed in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of this act. § 5. Whenever the term of office of any Supervimand record sor or town clerk shall expire, and another person shall &c. of their be elected or appointed to such office, it shall be the duty of such succeeding Supervisor or town clerk, immediately after he shall have entered npon the duties of his office, to demand of his predecessor all the records, books and papers under his control, belonging to such office; and whenever the term of office of the Commissioners of highways, Town Superintendent of common schools, or of the Overseers of the poor of any town, shall expire, and another or others shall be elected or appointed, it shall in like manner be the duty of the persons so elected or appointed, to make such demand of their predecessors or predecessor. Persons go ing out of of er over records &c. § 6. Whenever either of the officers above named, shall resign, and another person shall be elected or appointed in his stead, the person so elected or appointed shall make such demand of the person so resigning. §7. It shall be the duty of every person so going fice to deliv- out of office, whenever thereto required pursuant to the foregoing provisions, to deliver upon oath, all the records, books and papers in his possession, or under his control, belonging to the office held by him; which oath may be administered by the officer to whom such delivery shall be made. It shall also be the duty of every Supervisor, Commissioner of highways, or of common schools (now town Superintendent,) and of every Overseer of the poor, so going out of office, at the same time to pay over to such successor, the balance |