LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK PASSED AT THE SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE HELD IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, inclusive, BEING THE EIGHTH, NINTH, TENTH AND ELEVENTH SESSIONS. REPUBLISHED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, PURSUANT TO OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE. CHAPTER 341. AN ACT to provide for the publication of the session laws from seventeen hundred and seventy-seven to eighteen hundred and one, inclusive. PASSED May 27, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State is directed to republish, verbatim, preserving the original spelling and punctuation, the session laws of this State from seventeen hundred and seventy-seven to eighteen hundred and one, both inclusive. References showing when each law was amended or repealed, may be added. 2. The republication shall be in octavo volumes of not less than six hundred or more than seven hundred and fifty pages each, with an index to each volume, and of a material equal in style and quality to the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four. 3. The edition shall consist of one thousand copies and shall be distributed as follows: One copy to each judicial district library; one copy to the clerk's office of each county; one copy to each justice of the supreme court, and each judge of the court of appeals; one copy to each legislative library, and each State department; two hundred copies to the trustees of the State library, for literary and scientific exchanges. The remainder shall be delivered to the trustees of the State library, and such trustees shall reserve sufficient copies for the future use of the State, and in their discretion sell the balance at a price to be fixed by them, and pay the proceeds into the treasury of the State. $4. Six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry this act into effect, and the same shall be paid by the Treasurer on the warrant of the Comptroller in such sums and to such persons as the Secretary of State shall approve. The work herein authorized shall not be begun unless it can be completed for the sum herein appropriated. 5. The title page of each volume shall state that it was published pursuant to this act, and the same may be cited in any action or proceeding with the same force as the original edition. §6. This act shall take effect immediately. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. FREDERICK COOK, OFFICSTATE OF NEW YORK STATE,} SS. : Secretary of State. I hereby certify that the Laws, contained in this volume, were republished by me pursuant to chapter three hundred and forty-one of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. FREDERICK COOK, Secretary of State. LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE EIGHTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, CHAP. 1. . AN ACT further to continue the treasurer of this State in office. PASSED the 11th of November, 1784. term of WHEREAS by the act further continuing Gerard Bancker Esquire Preamble; treasurer of this State the time of his continuance in office was limitted treasurer's to sixty days after the rising of the Legislature at their next meeting office limafter the first Monday in July which would be in the year of our Lord ited. one thousand seven hundred and eighty four. Be it therefore enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the said Gerard Bancker shall be and he is hereby further Gerard continued in office as treasurer of this State until sixty days after the Bancker rising of the Legislature at their next meeting after the first Monday in for one July which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred year. and eighty five. continued And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said oath of Gerard Bancker shall on or before the first day of December next, take office. such oath as was directed and required by the third clause of the act entitled "An act to appoint a treasurer of this State," passed the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. to be And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the speaker Bond of of the Assembly for the time being shall take a bond from the above treasurer; named Gerard Bancker on or before the said first day of December lodged in next, with not less than four sufficient sureties, to the people of this State secretary's in the sum of twenty thousand pounds lawful money of this State, with a condition that he the said Gerard Bancker shall and will during his office. VOL. 2.-I. |