tion, or for a space not exceeding one mile north or south of the old Cayuga bridge, except as hereafter provided, he or they shall forfeit and pay five dollars for each offense, to such persons as may be proprietors or owners of the ferry established by this act; and the person or persons who may be owner or owners of the ferry at the time of the offense, may sue for the same before any justice of the peace or magistrate having cognizance thereof. SECTION 7. Nothing in this act contained shall interfere with the right of any person to use, for transportation without compensation therefor, his own boat or vessel. SECTION 8. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act. Chap. 31. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating "The Dutchess County Mutual Insurance Company," passed April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and extended for twenty years by an act passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Passed February 11, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section six of the act entitled "An act to incorporate The Dutchess County Mutual Insurance Company," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. Every person who shall become a member of said corporation by effecting insurance therein, shall, before he receives his policy, deposit his promissory note for such a sum of money as shall be determined by the directors; a part, not exceeding twenty per cent of said note, shall be immediately paid; and the remainder of said deposit note shall be payable, in part or the whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the same § 6 of act of April 12, 1836, amended. $1,053,873.04 appro support schools. requisite for the payment of losses by fire, and such incidental expenses as shall be necessary for transacting the business of said company; and at the expiration of the term of insurance the said note, or such part of the same as shall remain unpaid, after deducting all losses and expenses occurring during the said term, shall be relinquished and given up to the maker thereof. And it shall be lawful for said corporation to loan such portion of their money on hand as may not be immediately wanted for the purpose of said corporation, to be secured by a mortgage on unincumbered real estate of double the value of the sum loaned. S2. This act shall take effect immediately.. Chap. 32. AN ACT to appropriate the proceeds of the state Passed February 11, 1860; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The sum of one million and fifty-three priated for thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and commet of four cents, being the amount of the tax of three-fourths of a mill on each dollar of the aggregate assessed valuation of the real and personal property of this state, for the support of common schools, is hereby appropriated for the support of common schools during the current fiscal year, to be apportioned and distributed according to law. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 33. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: April 16, 1859, amen SECTION 1. Section two of the act entitled "An act $2of act of for the relief of Thomas F. Woodworth," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ded. to pay award on 2. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the Treasurer auditor, such sum, if any shall be or shall have been amount of awarded, from any funds appropriated or to be appro- warrant of priated for canal repairs, under the provisions of the first auditor. section of this act. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 34. AN ACT to provide for the election of a police Passed February 15, 1860; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. The electors of the town of Watertown, shall, at the next annual town meeting of said town, in addition to the officers now by law provided to be chosen, elect, as other town officers are elected, an officer to be designated "the police justice of the village of Watertown," who shall enter upon the duties of his office within ten days after his election, and hold his office for four years, and until another is elected in his place. Elect a po lice justice. Powers and duties. Official residence. Office to be. come va cant in caso and another elected. SECTION 2. The said police justice shall possess the same powers, in all criminal cases and proceedings, and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as the justices of the peace in the several towns in this state. SECTION 3. The said police justice shall reside in the village of Watertown, and keep an office in some convenient place said village. SECTION 4. The said police justice shall attend to all complaints of a criminal nature, which may be brought of removal before him at all reasonable hours; and in case of his removal from said village, or if elected to and accepts the office of justice of the peace of the town of Watertown, his office as police justice of the village of Watertown shall become vacant, and another shall be elected to supply his place for the residue of his term unexpired. Duty of said police justice. No justice residing in to receive fees, in criminal cases. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the said police justice to try, and he shall (except in case of his absence from the said village or inability from sickness or other cause to act) try all criminal cases which shall arise in the village of Watertown, or within one mile from any of its boundaries, as a court of special sessions, that may now by law be tried by any justice of the peace or by court of special sessions, in the said village, or at any place within one mile from any boundary of the said village of Watertown. SECTION 6. No justice of the peace residing or keepsaid village ing his office in the said village of Watertown, or within one mile of any boundary of said village within the town of Watertown, shall be entitled to receive any fees for, or bound to render any services in criminal cases arising as aforesaid, except during sickness, absence or inability of the said police justice as aforesaid, or during a vacancy in said office, in which case it shall be the duty of the several justices aforesaid to render the same services, and they shall receive the same fees therefor as if this act had not passed. Keep an account of done, verify SECTION 7. The said police justice shall not be entitled business to receive any fees for any services performed under this and deliver act. But he shall keep an account of the business done town board by him as such police justice in two separate parts, of of auditors. which one shall consist of such items as are town charges and shall verify and deliver such town charges to the board of town auditors, and the other of such as are county charges, and shall deliver such account, or a copy thereof, to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson within the first three days of the annual meeting of said board. SECTION 8. In lieu of fees, the said police justice shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars, which salary shall be allowed and paid by the said board of supervisors during his term to said police justice, on the presentation of his account of fees as aforesaid, duly verified; said salary shall be apportioned by said board of supervisors from and according to said account as town and county expenses; and shall be raised and paid by the said board of supervisors as town and county charges are allowed and paid. SECTION 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to affect the jurisdiction of any justice of the peace residing in the village of Watertown or elsewhere, in the county of Jefferson, in civil causes, or as granting jurisdiction to the police justice herein named in any civil matters. shall reannual ceive an salary. I Not to affect juris diction in civil causes. issued by justice and returned in proceedings his absence before any justice of peace in the town of Watertown SECTION 10. When any warrant issued by the said Warrant police justice shall be returned during his absence from said police said village of Watertown, sickness or inability to act, or during a vacancy in said office, any further proceedings on such warrant may be had before any justice of the bend peace residing in the town of Watertown the same as if the same had been returned to said police justice, and any such justice to whom said warrant shall be returned shall have power, and it shall be his duty to continue such proceedings as aforesaid; and for proceedings in such case he shall receive the same fees as if this act had not been passed, and all warrants issued by said police justice for the apprehension and commitment of criminals, shall have the same effect and be subject to the same restrictions as warrants issued by justices of the peace in like cases. SECTION 11. The said police justice shall keep a correct account of all fines and penalties received by him, and shall at the same time he presents the account hereinbefore mentioned of fees, present also to the said board of supervisors such accounts, under oath, of said fines and penalties received, and shall also account to said board of supervisors for the amount of the same. To keep an fines and account of penalties. |