names and periods to be searched, five cents for each month for each name. 16. For issuing a receipt for a chattel mortgage, bill of sale, conditional bill of sale, or other instrument affecting chattels, or a certificate for a copy of any such instrument, twenty-five cents. 17. For filing and indexing each map, fifty cents, and twentyfive cents for each square foot or major part thereof of map surface. 18. For copying any map which he may record, copy or certify, such reasonable fees for the service as may be fixed by the register, subject to the revision of the supreme court, by which the same may be taxed. 19. For returning recorded instruments by mail, five cents for each instrument, and for any other papers, the necessary postage. 20. The register may fix the fee for any service rendered by him, and for which no fee is herein specified, subject to review by the supreme court. 257-b. Account of fees. It shall be the duty of every register of the county of New York hereafter appointed or elected to keep an exact account in the book or books to be provided for that purpose, at the expense of the city of New York, of all fees, perquisites and emoluments actually received by him or his subordinates, for any service done by him or his assistants in his or their official capacity, by virtue of any law of this state, and of all fees, perquisites and emoluments which such register or his subordinates shall be entitled to demand and receive from any person for any service rendered by him or them in his or their official capacity, pursuant to law. Such books shall show when and for whom every such service shall have been performed, its nature and the fees chargeable therefor, and shall at all times during office hours be open to the inspection, without any fee or charge therefor, of all persons desiring to examine the same, and they shall be deemed a part of the records of the office in which they shall be kept, and shall be preserved therein as other books of record are. 8 257-c. Transcript of account to comptroller. A transcript of such accounts, to be made in such form as shall be prescribed by the comptroller of the city of New York, shall be transmitted by such register for each calendar month, and within ten days from the expiration thereof, to the comptroller, which shall be verified by the oaths of such officer, or of his assistants, which transcript shall contain a statement of all moneys received for fees, perquisites and emoluments, for services done by said register or his assistants, in his or their official capacity, by virtue of any law of this state since making the last preceding transcript and return, specifying the total amount received from each person, and the name of each person; and also a statement of the fees, perquisites and emoluments which such register or his assistants shall be entitled to demand from any person for services rendered in his or their official capacity, by virtue of any law of this state since making the last preceding return, which shall have been made by such officer, specifying the amounts chargeable to such person, the names of such persons and the character of the service rendered. And the verification of every account so transmitted to such comptroller shall be positive, and not upon information or belief. § 257-d. Penalty for neglect to account. Any officer referred to in this act who shall receive to his own use, or neglect to account for any fees, perquisites or emoluments by this act declared to belong to and be for the benefit of the city and county of New York, or who shall neglect to render to such comptroller an account of the fees accruing at his office, or to pay over the same as herein required, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable with a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not less than three months nor exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court before whom said. officer may be convicted and in addition shall forfeit any sum that may be due to him on account of his salary and shall be liable to the said city and county in a civil action for all moneys so received and not accounted for and paid over into the treasury of said city and county pursuant to the requirements of this article. 8257-e. Construction and application of article. This act shall not be construed to repeal or alter the provisions of the real property law respecting recording instruments affecting real property, and registering titles to real property; nor of the lien law, respecting chattel mortgages; nor of the tax law, respecting tax on mortgages. This article applies to the county of New York. § 257-f. Repealing clause. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this article are hereby repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule of laws repealed hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is specifically repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Laws, 1813 Chapter 86. County Law...... Article IX. Decedent Estate Sections 159 to 165, inclusive, Article II. So much of § 30 as relates to |