May borrow money. Number of directors may be reduced. Copies of resolution fied and filed. 3. The said board of supervisors may borrow money to pay the two-thirds of the amount so audited, reimbursable as the same shall be collected by tax, as above provided. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 2. AN ACT to authorize the shareholders of the Lockport Gas Light Company to reduce the number of the directors of said company. Passed January 25, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The shareholders of the Lockport Gas Light Company may, at any annual meeting of said shareholders, by resolution, in writing, to be adopted by the affirmative vote of those owning at least a majority of the shares of said company, reduce the number of directors of said company to any number not less than five, and constitute any number of such directors, not less than three, a quorum for the transaction of business, and may, at the same meeting, choose such reduced number of directors. S2. Copies of such resolution, certified by the presito be certi dent and secretary of said company and acknowledged by them as by the act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of gas light companies," passed February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the certificate of incorporation of such companies is required to be acknowledged, shall be filed as required by said act, as to such certificate, and thereupon the number of directors of said company and the quorum for business, shall be as provided by said resolution. Certified copies to be S3. A copy of such resolution, certified as required evidence. by the act aforesaid, as to said certificate of incorporation, shall be evidence, in the same manner and to the same extent as a copy of such certificate is evidence. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 3. AN ACT to expedite the canvass of votes for member of assembly in the first assembly district of the county of Delaware, at a special election to be held in such district on Tuesday, the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, under proclamation by the governor. Passed January 25, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: county can SECTION 1. The board of county canvassers of the Duty of county of Delaware shall meet at the court house in vassers. said county on the Friday following the special election in the first assembly district of said county (ordered by proclamation of the governor, and to be held on the seventh day of February, A. D., eighteen hundred and sixty), at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and canvass the votes and determine the result of such special election. S2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, immediately upon the passage of this act, to transmit to the clerk of said county of Delaware fifty copies of this act. Copies of this act to be transmit ted. olerk. S3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said county Duty of of Delaware, immediately upon the reception of the said co copies of this act, to send one copy thereof to each of the supervisors and town clerks of said county. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 4. AN ACT to repeal the act entitled "An act to authorize the election of a special judge and surrogate in the county of Essex." Passed January 28, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to authorize the election of a special judge and surrogate in the county of Essex," passed April fifteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby repealed. Chap. 5. AN ACT to legalize the acts of John Kelly as plankroad inspector. Passed January 28, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. All proceedings and official acts by John Kelly, of the city of Buffalo, as plankroad inspector of the county of Erie, since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, shall be deemed to be of the same force and validity as if said John Kelly had qualified as such plankroad inspector, in the manner and within the time required by law. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 6. AN ACT to authorize county clerks to enter satisfaction of judgments in certain cases. Passed January 28, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Sheriff may tified copies tions when satisfied. deliver cer of execu SECTION 1. Upon the payment to the sheriff of a county of the amount due upon any execution in his hands, issued upon a judgment obtained in any other county, such sheriff shall, on demand, deliver to the person paying the same, a copy of such execution, and of his indorsement of satisfaction thereon, and shall certify the same to be a copy, and shall be entitled to receive twenty-five cents therefor; and upon filing such certified copy with the clerk of the first mentioned county, such clerk shall enter satisfaction of the said Clerk to judgment upon the docket, in the same manner and with faction of the like effect as if the said judgment had been obtained judgmen in such county and the original execution had been returned satisfied; but nothing herein contained shall exempt the sheriff from returning the original execution to the clerk of the county in which the judgment was obtained. enter satis upon docket of judgment county $2. Satisfaction of such judgment may also be entered Satisfaction by the clerk of any county where the same shall have may be enbeen docketed, upon producing to and filing with such tered by clerk the certificate of the clerk with whom the copy of clerk. the execution and indorsement of satisfaction was filed, as aforesaid, stating that such copy has been filed and such judgment discharged. S3. This act shall take effect immediately. Money may be raised by autuorized. Chap. 7. AN ACT authorizing the trustees of School Dis- The People of the State of New York, represented in SECTION 1. The trustees of school district number trustees if twelve, in the towns of Ridgeway and Shelby, Orleans county, are hereby authorized, upon a vote of a majority of all the taxable inhabitants of said district at any school district meeting of said district regularly called, to levy and assess upon the taxable property of said district, and collect the sum of two hundred dollars, to be applied to the purchase, protection and cultivation of shade trees around and upon the school grounds of said district, and to be applied to no other purpose. May levy tax. S2. The trustees of said district are hereby authorized to levy upon the taxable property of said district, and collect the sum of fifty dollars in any one year hereafter, for the purposes named in the first section of this act, upon the vote of a majority of the taxable inhabitants of said district present at any annual meeting thereof. S3. This act shall take effect immediately. Commis sioners, Chap. 8. AN ACT in relation to the poor house and paupers in Dutchess county. Passed January 28, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : S1. Walter Wodell, of the town of Washington, William S. Ketcham, of the town of Dover, William |