Temporary loans. Funded debt. all the real property within its bounds, to be ascertained by the last corrected valuations of the assessors thereof, as established by the board of trustees, common council or board of supervisors, as the case may be. § 873. No money shall be borrowed on temporary loan by any municipal corporation, except in anticipation of the taxes of the current fiscal year, and the same shall always be made payable and shall be paid within eight months from the time of making the loan. § 874. No funded debt shall be contracted by any municipal corporation, except for a specific object expressly stated in the ordinance proposing it, nor unless such ordinance was passed by twothirds of all the members elected to the common council or board of trustees, and submitted to and approved by a majority of the tax-payers of the corporation, at a special election to be appointed for that purpose by the common council or board of trustees, nor unless the legislature shall by law have ratified the ordinance and have provided for raising annually, by tax, a sum sufficient to pay the interest and to provide a sinking fund of at least five per cent, upon the amount of the debt, per annum. Such tax shall be annually collected and the sinking fund remain inviolate until sufficient is realized to pay and extinguish both princi pal and interest. All the laws relating to the election of municipal officers of any such corporation shall apply, so far as applicable, to every election pursuant to this section. or incurring debt in other modes forbidden. § 875. No municipal corporation shall borrow Borrowing any money or incur any debt, except in the mode provided in the preceding four sections; and any evidences of debt not issued in conformity therewith are void. But nothing in this or the four preceding sections affects any law existing on the 21st day of July, 1853, authorizing any corporation to do so. The provisions of the Revised Statutes (1 R. S., 665, 711) relating to the cases in which justices, jurors and witnesses are disqualified, by reason of being inhabitants of a county or town interested, and relating to costs and judgments in actions against counties, towns or officers, are properly within the scope of the CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. TITLE II. THE GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES. CHAPTER I. Counties as bodies corporate. II. County officers. III. County charges. IV. Division or alteration of bounds of counties. Every county is a body corporate. Power vest ed in board of supervisors. Enumeration of powers. CHAPTER I. COUNTIES AS BODIES CORPORATE. SECTION 876. Every county is a body corporate. From 1 R. S., 676. § 876. Every county is a body politic and corporate, and as such has the powers specified or necessarily implied in this title, or in special statutes, and no others. § 877. Its powers can only be exercised by the board of supervisors, or in pursuance of a resolution adopted by them; but a conveyance authorized by subdivision 2 of the following section, made in any manner, for the use of the inhabitants, shall have the same effect as if made to the board of supervisors. § 878. It has power: 1. To sue and be sued in the name of the board of supervisors; 2. To purchase and hold lands within its limits and for the use of its inhabitants, subject to the power of the legislature; 3. To make such contracts and purchase and hold such personal property as necessary to the exercise of its powers; 4. To make such orders for the disposition or use of its property as the interests of its inhabitants require. CHAPTER II. COUNTY OFFICERS. ARTICLE I. The board of supervisors. II. The county treasurer. III. The county clerk. IV. The sheriff. V. The surrogate. ARTICLE I. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. SECTION 879. Meetings of the board of supervisors. 880. Quorum. 881. Chairman. 882. Powers of the board. 883. Votes: 884. Notice of certain applications. 885. Removal of county buildings. 886. Record of change. 887. Application to alter towns. 888. Mode of notice. 889. Map to be furnished. 890. Certain provisions for new towns. 891. Duty of secretary of state. 892. Power to require attendance of witnesses. 893. Service of subpoena. the board of SECTION 894. Neglect to comply. 895. Adjournment. Bond to appear. 896. Proceedings on the bond. 897. Examination of witnesses. 898. Form and verification of accounts to be audited. 899. Fees, &c., of officers for criminal proceedings. 900. Fees for subpoenaing witnesses. 901. Accounts to be numbered and preserved. 902. Town charges. 903. The clerk, his compensation. 904. Duty of the clerk. 905. Clerk to make annual statement. 906. Board to publish annual statement of accounts audited. 907. Solitary cells for convicts. 908. Compensation of the supervisors. 909. Supervisors to render accounts. 910. Penalty for neglect of duty. Meetings of § 879. The board of supervisors in each county supervisors. shall hold an annual meeting at such time and Quorum. Chairman. Powers of the board. place as they may fix. They may hold special meetings at the call of their clerk, on the written request of a majority of the board, and in such other cases as are specially provided by law. They may adjourn from time to time. Every meeting shall be open to all persons. § 880. A majority of the board constitute a quorum. § 881. They shall at each annual meeting choose one of their number as chairman for the ensuing year. In his absence at any meeting, the members present shall choose a temporary chairman. § 882 The board have power: 1. To make such orders respecting the corporate property of the county as they deem expedient; |