such copies, with the book or books, or entry or entries or matters entered or recorded in the book or books of such corporation, or by the oath of either of said persons produced and sworn on the trial or hearing of such action that such copy or copies are a true copy of the book or books, or entry or entries, or matters entered or recorded in the book or books of such corporation, and that the book or books, from which he made said copy or copies, or with which he examined, compared and corrected said copy or copies, were at that time known to him to be, or were acknowledged to such person to be the book or books of such corporation, by some officer or receiver of such corporation, or by some person having the custody of said book or books, and where and in whose custody such book or books were kept, at the time such copy or copies were made, or were examined and compared; and an acknowledgment as afore- Books,how said of the book or books of such corporation, being dence. proved by either party to such action producing the book or books of such corporation on such trial or hearing, shall entitle such book or books to be received and read in evidence on such trial or hearing; or the party producing such book or books may show to the satisfaction of the court, by other competent evidence, that the book or books offered in evidence, or from which the copy or copies offered in evidence were taken, are the book or books of such corporation; or that such copies are true copies of the book or books of such corporation, or of some entry or entries, or matters entered or recorded in such book or books.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

read in evi

Action of special

ing legalized.

Chap. 590.

AN ACT to legalize the actions of a special town meeting held in the town of Little Valley, County of Cattaraugus, on the twenty-ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty

four.

Passed May 5, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The acts and proceedings of the electors town meet of the town of Little Valley, County of Cattaraugus, at a special town meeting held in said town on the twentyninth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose of raising money to pay a bounty of not exceeding two hundred dollars to each volunteer to the credit of said town, upon the call of the president for five hundred thousand men, made July eighteenth eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for the purpose of paying the sum of two hundred dollars to each person furnishing a substitute to apply in reduction of the quota of said town upon said call of the president, are hereby legalized and confirmed.

Town

board, to

stitute

claims.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the board of town auditors audit sub of the town of Little Valley, in the county of Cattaraugus, at any meeting of said board, to audit and allow to each individual furnishing a substitute which substitute applied upon and reduced the quota of said town, under said call of the president, the sum of two hundred dollars, and interest thereon from the final filling of said quota of said town, under said call of the president.

Issue of town bonds.

§ 3. The supervisor and town clerk of the town of Little Valley, in the county of Cattaraugus, shall, on the certificate of the majority of the board of town auditors of that town, issue a bond to each person furnishing a substitute, which substitute applied upon and reduced the quota of said town under said call of the president, in the sum of two hundred dollars, together with the interest thereon from the date of the final filling of the quota of said town, under said call of the president.

be legal

4. The bonds which may be issued by the super- Bonds to visor and town clerk of said town, as authorized by claims. section number three of this act, shall be legal claims against said town of Little Valley.

collection

and inter

5. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors Levy and of the county of Cattaraugus, at any annual meeting, to of tax, to levy and impose taxes upon the taxable property of said pay bonds town of Little Valley, for the payment of the bonds, est which may be issued in accordance with section number three of this act. Such taxes shall be laid and imposed annually, and in sums sufficient to pay and discharge the amount of principal and interest which shall become due upon said bonds, next after any annual meeting of said board. Such taxes shall be levied, carried out and collected in the same manner and upon and by virtue of the same assessment roll and warrant, as the general and ordinary taxes collected in said town, and when collected, the amount thereof shall each year be paid by the collector of said town to the supervisor of said town, to be by him paid to the lawful owners thereof. 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 591.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled' An act to establish fire limits and for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of Brooklyn,' passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six," passed May six, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight.

Passed May 5, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish fire limits and for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of Brooklyn,' passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,"

of district,

within which, buildings of brick,

stone or iron, are not requir ed to be built.

passed May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is Extension hereby amended by adding thereto as follows: And provided further that the owners of lands and premises shall not be required to erect thereon buildings of brick, stone or iron, embraced in the following described bounds, to wit: Beginning at a point in the center line of Warren street one hundred feet west of Bond street, running thence southerly and parallel with Bond street and one hundred feet westerly therefrom to the center line of Third street, thence westerly along the center line of Third street to the center line of Smith street, thence southerly along the center line of Smith street to and across Hamilton avenue to a point one hundred feet southerly from said Hamilton avenue, thence easterly and parallel with Hamilton avenue and one hundred feet southerly therefrom to a point which is one hun dred feet west of Third avenue, thence southerly and parallel with Third avenue and one hundred feet westerly therefrom to the center line of Twenty-first street, thence easterly along the center line of Twenty-first street to the center line of Tenth avenue, thence northerly along the center line of Tenth avenue to the center line of Seventeenth street, thence westerly along the center line of Seventeenth street to the center line of Eighth avenue, thence northerly along the center line of Eighth avenue to the center line of Eleventh street, thence westerly along the center line of Eleventh street to the center line of Sixth avenue, thence northerly along the center line of Sixth avenue to center line of Ninth street, thence westerly along center line of Ninth street to a point which is one hundred feet westerly from the westerly side of Fifth avenue, thence northerly and parallel with Fifth avenue and one hundred feet westerly therefrom to the center line of Warren street, thence westerly along the center line of Warren street to the point of beginning, also, the district bounded by Tillery bridge, Navy and Nassau streets.

Scuttle

frames and

§ 2. Section seventeen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

All scuttle frames and scuttle doors on every brick doors; how or stone dwelling, store, storehouse or other building, made. hereafter to be erected or built within the fire limits

window

and doors.

aforesaid, or as the same may be extended, shall be made of or covered with copper, zinc, tin or iron, and Fire proof every window and entrance above the first story in the shutters rear of every storehouse over thirty feet in height to the peak or highest part thereof from the level of the sidewalks, shall have shutters and doors thereon made of copper or iron, or covered with copper or iron or other fire-proof materials to be approved of by the superintendent of buildings. Every store, storehouse or other building that now is or may be hereafter erected shall have a scuttle or place of egress in the roof thereof roofs. proper size, to be approved by the said superintend

of

Buildings usi

to have scuttles in

and lad

ent of buildings, and shall have ladders or stairways Stairways leading to the same, and all such scuttles and stairways ders." or ladders leading to the roof shall be kept in readiness for use at all times.

§3. Section twenty-two of said act is hereby amended 80 as to read as follows:

of shingle

roof.

may be

for peaked

If any brick front frame dwelling-house or wooden Removal building already erected within the fire district described or board in section nine of this act, or as the same may be extended, having a board or shingle roof, shall require new roofing, it shall and may be lawful for the owner or owners or proprietors thereof to put on a new roof of boards or shingles, and it shall be lawful for the pro- Fire-proof prietor or proprietors, owner or owners thereof to sub-flat-roofs, stitute a flat in place of a peaked roof, provided that substituted such new roofing shall be made of copper, slate, tin, roofs. iron, zinc, or other fire-proof material to be approved by the superintendent of buildings, and be equally capable of withstanding the influence of fire; provided, also, Height of that it shall not be lawful in substituting a flat roof to thus roofed. carry up the front or rear of any frame building to a greater height than the original peak; and it shall and Raising of may be lawful for the owner or owners, or proprietors roofed of any frame dwelling-house or wooden building with flat roof within the said district, or as the same may be extended, to raise any such building, provided the same be supported front and rear and on both sides, to the height raised, by walls of brick or stone not less than twelve inches in thickness, and also provided that such

certain flat

authorized.