Cattaraugus, Cayuga,. Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango,.. Clinton,... Columbia, 40,834 44,176 68,593 77,268 93,279 103.681 113,916 115,504 133,108 *Name changed from China to Arcade, in 1866. 59,179 35,341 GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE ERECTION AND ALTERATION OF COUNTIES CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS. [Title 6, chap. 2, part 1st, Revised Statutes.] SECTION 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. SEC. 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. SEC. 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. SEC. 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 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. SEC. 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. SEC. 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 surveyor-general, as above provided. (Chap. 194 of the Laws of 1849, as amended by chap. 18 of the Laws of 1871, confers the same powers, as to towns, upon boards of supervisors.) SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the several counties in the state, the county of New York excepted, at their annual meeting, shall have power, within their respective counties by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected, |