THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE ; STATE OF NEW YORK, AS ALTERED BY SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION; TOGETHER WITH THE Other Statutory Provisions of a General and Permanent Nature, (Except the Code of Civil Procedure, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Penal Code,) PASSED FROM THE YEAR 1778 TO FEBRUARY 1, 1889, And Now in Force; ARRANGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SAME OR KINDRED SUBJECTS IN THE REVISED STATUTES, TO WHICH ARE ADDED AN ANALYSIS OF THE ENTIRE WORK; REFERENCES TO JUDICIAL DECISIONS UPON STATUTES CONTAINED IN THE WORK. EDITED BY COUNSELLOR AT LAW, EIGHTH EDITION. VOLUME II. CONTAINING THE TENTH, ELEVENTH, TWELFTH, THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH THE REVISED STATUTES, AND THE GENERAL LAWS CONNECTED THEREWITH. 1889. NEW YORK. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, BY BANKS & BROTHERS, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, BY BANKS & BROTHERS, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, BY BANKS & BROTHERS, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, BY BANKS & BROTHERS, 154145 ANALYSIS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS, TITLES AND ARTICLES CONTAINED IN VOLUME SECOND. PART I OF THE REVISED STATUTES—Continued. J-................. 823 CHAPTER X. I R. S. PAGE 285 Of the militia, and the public defence .. 823 [Repealed.] Title 104.-The Military Code of the State, and other provisions relating to the national guard ......... 823 [The Military Code ; L. 1883, Chap. 299) ..... Article 1.- Persons subject to military duty................. 824 825 Article 4.-Staff departments and duties............ 827 Article 5.- Election and appointment of commissioned and non-cominissioned officers. ........... 830 Article 6.-Enlistment and transfer......................... 833 Article 7.- Discharges of commissioned officers and enlisted men 834 Article 8.-Of arms, uniforms and equipments. .............. 836 Article 9.-Armories....... 838 Article 10.- Military duty required.. ...... 841 Article 11.-Invasion, insurrection, and breaches of the peace.. 844 Article 12.-Rifle practice.................. 845 Article 13.-Pay and allowances..................... 847 Article 14.-Military courts..................... 849 Article 15.--General provisions...................... 856 [Other statutes relating to the national guard] ---... concern 859 Title 10B.–Of the bureau of records of the war of the re bellion, and the State repository for relics and 869 So.. CHAPTER XI. 336 Of the powers, duties and privileges of towns....... 337 Title 1.-Of towns, as bodies corporate........... 337 Article 1.-Of the powers and rights of towns, as bodies corporate....... 337 Article 2.-Of the effects of the division of a town, on its corporate rights and liabilities....... 339 Title II.-Of town-meetings, and the time, purposes and manner of holding them........ 339 Article 1.-Of annual and special town-meetings........... 878 879 879 884 342 888 888 343 Artic 344 347 889 894 895 348 898 898 900 901 903 906 R. S., Part I-Continued. the tenure of their offices........ offices..................................................... hundred thousand inhabitants ................ Title IV.-Of the general duties of certain town officers, and of various matters connected therewith. 348 Article 1.-Duties of the supervisor.... 350 Article 2.-Duties of the town clerk........ Article 4.-Of division and other fences ..... 355 Article 5.--Of the board of auditors of town accounts....... ...... ..... 356 Article 6.-Of the compensation of town officers. ......... Title V.–Of legal proceedings in favor of and against towns...... 368 Title VI.-Miscellaneous provisions of a general nature ............ 359 Title VII.-Local and special provisions .............. Title 74.-Provisions relating collectively to towns, villages, cities, and counties, or any two of them......... tion of railroads, and the debts created thereby .. ............................ Article 1.-Of the incorporation of villages .......... porated and unincorporated villages, and the officers thereof................ Title 7°-Of cities 350 353 911 356 912 913 927 931 931 940 946 961 961 991 1012 CHAPTER XII. 364 Of the powers, duties and privileges of counties, and of certain county officers...... ........ 1018 364 Title 1.–Of counties as bodies corporate ......... ............ 1018 364 Article 1.-Of the powers and rights of counties as bodies corporate ...... 1018 365 Article 2.-Of the effects of a division of a county, on its corporate rights and liabilities ................. ........... 1019 366 Title II.—Of certain duties of county officers, and of various matters i connected therewith . 1019 365 Article 1.-Of the board of supervisors. ....... 1019 368 Article 2.-Of the county treasurer 1048 Article 3.-Of loan officers and commissioners of loans . 1055 [Abrogated.] 375 Article 4.-Of the clerks of counties ............ 1055 Also of registers of deeds..... ........... 1055 378 Article 5.-Of sheriffs and coroners .................................... 1061 382 Article 6.-Of surrogates.............................................. ................ 1065 382 Article 7.-Of district-attornies ........................................ 1066 Article 7A. -Of the compensation of certain county officers. 1071 384 Title III.—Of legal proceedings in favor of, and against counties ... 1077 385 Title IV.-Miscellaneous and special provisions ........ ............ 1078 371 |