Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York for the Year ...

Speaker; and upon each list shall be written a copy of the section of the Revised Statutes in regard to this matter above set forth.

15. Twenty days before the opening of any annual session of the Legislature, the Librarian shall report in writing to the Trustees the title of every book, map, chart, print, engraving or other article missing from the library since the Catalogue of the previous year was made out, or, if no such Catalogue has been made, then since the date of the said Librarian's last annual report to the Trustees; together with the name or names of the persons who appear, from the entries of the Librarian, to have borrowed or detained the same, to the end that such list may be submitted to the Legislature by the Trustees.

16. All penalties imposed under any of these rules may be remitted by the Library Committee, either wholly, or on such terms as they may deem proper.

[Title 6, Chap. 2, Part 1st, Revised Statutes.]

General Provisions concerning the Erection and Alteration of Counties, Cities, Villages and Towns.

SEC. 1. All persons intending to apply to the Legislature for the erection of a new county, or for the incorporation of a city or village, or for any alteration of the bounds of any county, city or village, shall cause notice to be published of such intended application, as required by law" and shall also procure an accurate survey and map of the territory described in such application.

2. Such survey and map shall be duly verified by the oath of the surveyor making the same, and shall be laid before the Legislature before any such application shall be acted on.

3. In case any law shall be passed by the Legislature pursuant to such application, the aforesaid survey and map shall be filed in the office of the [State Engineer and Surveyor] of this state.

4. No town in this state shall be divided or altered in its bounds, nor shall any new town be erected, without an application to the Legislature by the inhabitants of such town so to be divided or altered, or of the several towns out of which such new town is to be erected, or some of them; and notice in writing of such intended application, subscribed by at least five persons resident and freeholders in such town or towns, shall be affixed on the outer door of the house where the next town meeting is to be held, in each of the towns to be affected thereby, at least ten days previous to the town meeting in each of those towns.

5. A copy of such notice shall also be read at the town meeting of every town to be affected thereby, to the electors there assembled, by the clerk of the town, immediately before proceeding to the election of town officers.

6. The persons applying for the division or alteration of the bounds of any town, or for the erection of a new town, shall also procure such survey and map as is required in the first section of this title, which shall be laid before the Legislature, and filed with the [State Engineer and Surveyor] as above provided.

1 See chap. 7, first part R. S., titie 3, sec. 1.

[Title 3, Chap. 7, Part 1st, Revised Statutes.]

OF APPLICATIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE.

SEC. 1. All persons applying to divide or alter the bounds of any county, city or village, or to erect any new county, or to incorporate a new city or village, and all persons applying for the removal of any court-house, or the imposing of a tax for making or improving a road, or for any other local purpose in any county, where all or any of the inhabitants of such county are prepared to be taxed, shall give notice of such intended application by advertisement, to be published for at least six weeks successively immediately before such application, or before the first day of the session at which the same is to be made, in a newspaper printed in the county or in each of the counties where the objects of said application are intended to be carried into effect; and also, in case of intended application for the imposition of any tax, as aforesaid, in the state paper.

2. Every association intending to apply to the Legislature for an act of incorporation, and every corporation intending to apply for an alteration, amendment or extension of its charter, shall cause the like notice of such application to be published in the state paper, and also in a newspaper printed in the county in which such corporation is intended to be or shall have been established.

3. Every person hereafter applying to the Legislature for a release of lands escheated to the State, shall give the like notice of such application in the county where such lands may be situate, and in the state paper, as is required by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

4. In all cases of applications to the Legislature for the passage of laws authorizing the construction of dams in or across the streams and waters of this state which are by law public highways, like notices shall be given and published as are re

quired to be given and published by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes in cases of applications for acts of incorporation, and in the other cases therein specified.

5. If no newspaper be printed in the county in which any notice is required to be published, such notice shall be published in like manner in the place nearest thereto in which a newspaper shall be printed.

6. If the application be for an act of incorporation, the notice shall specify the amount of the capital stock requisite to carry the objects of such incorporation into effect; and if the application be for an alteration in any charter already granted, the notice shall state specifically the alteration intended to be applied for.