CHAP. 815.

AN ACT entitled an act to amend chapter six hundred and forty-three of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled an act to empower the levying of a tax on Union School District No. One, in the town of Clarence, county of Erie, for the purpose of creating a permanent fund for the employment of teachers, and to regulate the investment and management of said fund. Also, to create the office of loan commissioner for said district, and to provide for the exemption of said district from taxes for the payment of teacher's wages, passed May eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

PASSED June 19, 1873; three-fifths being present.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to suppress intemperance, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

PASSED June 23, 1873, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of the "Act to suppress intemperance, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

22. The penalties imposed by this act, except those provided for by sections fifteen and nineteen, shall be sued for and recovered in a civil action in the manner provided by law for the recovery of penalties, by and in the name of the overseers of the poor of the town in which the alleged penalty was incurred, and the amount so recovered, when collected, together with all the costs of the proceedings for such recovery and collection, shall, within thirty-days after such collection, be paid by the officer or party receiving the same to the county treasurer of the county, for the support of the poor of such county, except as is otherwise provided by law.

§ 2. Section thirty of the said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 30. In case the parties or persons whose duty it

is to prosecute for any penalty imposed for any violation of the provisions of this act shall, for the period of ten days after complaint to them that any person has incurred such penalty, accompanied with reasonable proof of the same, neglect or refuse to prosecute for such penalty, any other person may prosecute therefor, in the name of the overseers of the poor of the town in which such alleged penalty was incurred, and in the manner provided by section twenty-two of this act, as the same is amended by section one of this chapter.

CHAP. 821.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the benefit of married women in insuring the lives of their husbands,' passed April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,' passed April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy." PASSED June 23, 1873, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The second section of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the benefit of married women in insuring the lives of their husbands,' passed April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty eight,' passed April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Any policy in favor of a married woman, or of her and her children, or assigned in her, or in her and their favor, on written request of said married woman duly acknowledged before a commissioner of deeds, or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, in the same manner as required by law, to pass her dower right in lands of her husband, and on the written request of the policy holder may be surrendered to and purchased by the company issuing the same in the same manner as any other policy. And such married woman may, in case she have no child or children born of her body, or any issue of any child or children born of her body, dispose of such policy in and by a last will and testament, or any instrument in the nature of a last will and testament, or by deed duly executed and acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, in the same manner as required by law to pass her dower rights in lands of her husband, which disposition lawfully made shall invest the person or persons to whom such policy shall have been so bequeathed, or granted and conveyed, with the same rights in respect thereto as such married woman would have had in case she survived the person on whose life such policy was issued, and such legatee or grantee shall have the same right to dispose of such policy as herein conferred on such married woman.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 822.

AN ACT to incorporate "The Arcadian Club" of the city of New York.

PASSED June 23, 1873.

CHAP. 823.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to elections in the city and county of New York, and to provide for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suf

frage thereat," passed May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

PASSED June 23, 1873, three-fifths being present.

CHAP. 824.

AN ACT to amend section nineteen of chapter five hundred and seventy of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to ascertain by proper proofs the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage in the State of New York except in the city and county of New York and the city of Brooklyn, and to repeal chap1er five hundred and seventy-two of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act in relation to elections in the city and county of New York.'" PASSED June 23, 1873, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section nineteen of chapter five hundred and seventy of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to ascertain by proper proofs the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage in the State of New York, except in the city and county of New York and the city of Brooklyn, and to repeal chapter five hundred and seventytwo of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled An act to amend an act entitled An act in relation to elections in the city and county of New York,' is hereby amended so as to read as follows: This act shall apply in all the incorporated cities in his State, except New York and Brooklyn, and in all incorporated villages containing over ten thousand inhabitants as determined by the last census.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. 825.

AN ACT to authorize the laying of rails and to run cars thereon for the transportation of passengers in certain streets and avenues in the upper part of the city of New York.

PASSED June 24, 1873, three-fifths being present.

CHAP. 826.

AN ACT to repeal the charter of the Manhattan Marble Company of Rutland, Vermont.

PASSED June 24, 1873, three-fifths being present.

CHAP. 827.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the construction of a work-house in the county of Monroe," passed May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

PASSED June 25, 1873, three-fifths being present.

CHAP. 828.

AN ACT to authorize the purchase of a farm for the town poor of the town of Dix, in the county of Schuyler.

PASSED June 25, 1873, three-fifths being present.

CHAP. 829.

AN ACT to empower the board of water commissioners of the city of Buffalo, together with the common council of said city, to establish or designate free public hydrants in said city, and providing for the appointment of water commissioners in said city.

PASSED June 25, 1873, three-fifths being present.