Supervisors to appoint er, &c. and of all others, in any of the public institutions of said county, which now are or which may hereafter be placed under the charge of said superintendents, including the articles required for temporary relief. And in case said board direct the purchase of any of said articles by contract, to designate what notice shall be given, when, where and in whose presence proposals shall be opened, and the amount of security to be given for the faithful performance of contracts. § 2. Said board of supervisors are hereby authorised store keep to appoint a store-keeper, with such principal and other assistants as they may deem necessary, to hold their offices during the pleasure of the board, in whose custody shall be placed all such articles as said board may direct to be purchased for the support and maintenance of the poor and of all others, in any of the public institutions of said county, which now are or which hereafter may be placed under the charge of said superintendents of the poor. Said board may designate and prescribe the duties of said store-keeper and assistants, fix and pay their salaries, as other county charges are paid, and require them to give such security as they may deem necessary for the faithful performance of their trust, and it shall be the duty of said superintendents, without delay, to furnish said store-keeper, for his guidance, with copies of all contracts and other evidences of purchase made by them or by their directions. Said store-keeper and his principal assistants, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and file the same in the office of the clerk of said county. Said board of supervisors may also cause to be erected on the county farm, in the town of Flatbush, such buildings as they may deem necessary for a store-house for the use of said store-keeper and assistants. County treasurer rected to borrow money, §3. Said board of supervisors may authorise and direct may be di- the county treasurer, when there is no money in the treasury applicable to the support of the poor, or the taxes imposed for the same are not collected, to borrow, from time to time, temporarily, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, and for periods not exceeding nine months, such sum or sums as may be necessary to meet such purchases and other expenses as they may designate, incurred for the support of the poor, to direct said county treasurer to give his official bond or bonds for the money so borrowed, the principal and interest of which to be paid out of the amount of taxes levied or applicable for said purposes; but no such borrowing shall, at any time, exceed such amount of taxes. § 4. No person shall be received and approved of as Sureties. surety, under the provisions of this act, unless, in the first place, he swears that he is worth the amount of the penalty named in the bond to which he affixes his signature, over and above the amount of his debts and liabilities. It shall be the duty of the said superintendents of the poor forth with, in their official name, to prosecute all contractors and their sureties who may violate the provisions of their contracts. to be inte sale of § 5. No supervisor, superintendent of the poor, store- Officers no keeper, and assistants, appointed, in pursuance of the pro- rested in visions of this act, keeper of the penitentiary, and deputy supplies. keepers, agents or others, appointed or employed by said superintendents of the poor, shall directly or indirectly be in any way interested in any contract or sale for supplies or materials furnished for any of the public institutions. or the support of the poor in said county, or in any arrangement by means of which any pecuniary benefit shall result to himself from the furnishing of said supplies or materials. It shall be the duty of the aforesaid supervisors, superintendents of the poor, store-keeper and assistants, and keeper of the penitentiary, or any of them, who may have any knowledge or information of the violation of this provision, to report the same forthwith to the supervisors of said county; and any person who shall be found guilty of the violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. ment of dents, &c § 6. The board of supervisors of said county shall have Impeachpower to impeach, before the supreme court, any of the superinten said superintendents of the poor, or any officer or agent connected with the alms-house department or penitentiary of said county, and the said court shall have power, at a general or special term, to remove any of said superintendents or other officers or agents hereinbefore referred to, for due cause shown, and to forbid their reappointment. Superin tendents § 7. The present superintendents of the poor of said shall make county shall make no contracts for supplies for the public no contract institutions under their charge, beyond the first day of Majority of board of Copies of resolutions. August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and from and after said first day of August, all moneys received by said superintendents or any one of them, in his or their official capacity, shall, within ten days after the receipt thereof, be paid over to the county treasurer of said county, who shall place the same to the credit of the funds provided for the support of the poor. And all payments made after said first day of August, for articles furnished, or services in any of the institutions under the charge of said superintendents, or for temporary relief, shall be made by said county treasurer, on orders approved by a majority of said superintendents, and signed by their chairman and clerk. § 8. None of the powers prescribed in this act shall be supervisors exercised, except by a vote of a majority of all the members elected in said county to said board of supervisors. § 9. Every resolution, direction or law passed by said board of supervisors, in pursuance of the provisions of the first and third sections of this act, and of so much of the second section as relates to designating and prescribing the duties of the store-keeper and his assistants, shall be signed by the chairman and clerk of said board, and be recorded in the book of miscellaneous records of said county, and a copy served upon said superintendents of the poor, or one of them, before the same shall go into effect. § 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. its Chap. 512. AN ACT authorising Justices of the Peace to Passed April 15, 1857. The People of the State of New-York, represented in SECTION 1. If any execution, issued by a justice of the § 2. All laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 513. AN ACT to incorporate the Fort Plain Water Passed April 15, 1857. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Corora SECTION 1. Peter G. Webster, Harvey E. Williams, Cor David Wieting, Leander Fox, S. O. Austin, Solomon Smith and David W. Erwin, and all such persons as are or may be hereafter associated with them, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Fort Plain water works company. Capital stock. Books to be opened. Directors. Term of office. § 2. The capital stock of said company shall be five thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, but may at any time be increased by the directors of the company; provided that such capital stock shall not be increased so as to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. § 3. Books of subscriptions to the capital stock of said company shall be opened under the direction of the directors hereinafter named, and subject to such rules as they may prescribe; and the stock of said company shall be considered personal property, and shall be assignable and transferable on the books of the company. § 4. The concerns of said company shall be managed by seven directors, who shall be stockholders, and residents of the town of Minden, and who shall hold their offices for one year, and until others are chosen in their places. The annual election of directors shall be held on the first Wednesday in May, in each year, at such place in the village of Fort Plain, and at such hour of the day, as the directors for the time being shall prescribe. Notice of such election shall be published once in each week, for three weeks, immediately preceding such election, in one newspaper published in said village. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote upon each share of stock held by him or her for thirty days next previous to such election. The election shall be by ballot, and votes may be given either in person or by proxy. § 5. The persons named in the first section of this act, shall be the first directors, and shall hold their offices until the first Wednesday of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and until others are chosen in their places. In case of a vacancy in the direction by reason of the death or resignation of any director, or of his ceasing to be a stockholder, or by his removal from the town of Minden, it may be filled by the remaining directors until the next annual election, or until some other person shall be elected to fill the same. The directors herein named may appoint two persons, who shall be stockholders, to be inspectors at the first annual election, after which the stockholders shall choose two such inspectors at the annual election; if no inspectors are so chosen the directors may appoint them from time to time. |