counties of this state, to sue for and recover in behalf of and in the name of his county, the money received by any officer for or on account of such county or any town or city therein, and not paid to the County Treasurer of such county as provided in the preceding section of this act. Laws 1863, chap. 404, § 3.

§ 1110. Such moneys, how disposed of.

All moneys belonging to any town or city in such county, which shall be received by the County Treasurer, shall be distributed to the several towns or cities entitled to the same, by resolutions passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors at any legal meeting thereof, which resolutions shall be entered at length in the minutes of the proceedings of said Board. Ibid., § 4.

§ 1111. Failure to comply with this act a misdemeanor.

Each officer of the several counties of this state, who shall neglect or refuse to make the report, or to pay over moneys received by him, as provided in sections one, two and three of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Ibid., § 5.

§ 1112. Supervisors may compel such reports to be made. The said Boards of Supervisors shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, to require any county officer, or any officer whose salary is paid by the county, to make a report under oath to them, on any subjects or matters connected with the duties of their offices: and the said officers are hereby required to make such report whenever called upon, by resolution of any such Board; and if any such officer neglect or refuse to make such report, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Laws 1849, chap. 194, § 4; subdv. 14.

COMMISSIONERS OF EXCISE.

§ 1113. To make annual report to Supervisors.

The Commissioners of Excise in the several counties of this state are hereby required to make annual reports to the Boards of Supervisors of said counties, at each annual meeting of said Boards, and within the first

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five days from the first day of such annual meeting in each and every year after the passage of this act. 1860, chap; 274, § 1; 3 R. S. (8th ed.) 2235.

§ 1114. Contents of such report.

Such report shall be in writing, and shall be signed by the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, and shall contain a true statement of all moneys received by them as such Commissioners in their official capacity during the year preceding the date of said report, and also the name of every person in said county to whom the said Commissioners have granted a license to sell strong and spirituous liquors under any section of the excise law, passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty seven. Ibid., § 2.

1115. To report fines and penalties. Report to be verified. Such report when so made as aforesaid, shall be verified by oath or affirmation of the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, and shall contain a written statement indorsed thereon, signed by the County Treasurer of the county, setting forth the whole amount of money paid over to him by said Commissioners during the same year in which such report shall be made, and the said Commissioners shall also report to said Boards the whole amount of fines or penalties received by them in their official capacity, from any and every person for any violation of the act entitled "An act to suppress intemperance, pauperism and crime," passed April 16, 1857, and in case said Commissioners, or either of them, shall neglect or refuse to report as aforesaid, he or they shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal, to the use of the people of the county in which he or they may reside. Ibid., § 3.

All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. lbid., § 4.

CHAPTER XXIII.

OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS-MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES.

§ 1116. Division of counties into assembly district.

§ 1117. Protection of fish and game.

§1118. Preservation of game and fish.

§ 1119. Game Constables.

§ 1120. Discrimination against non-residents prohibited. § 1121. Legalizing informal acts of towns, etc.

SELECTION OF NEWSPAPERS TO PUBLISH SESSION LAWS.

§ 1123. General laws to be published in newspapers.

§ 1124. Local laws, where published.

§ 1125. Supervisors to select newspapers for that purpose.

§ 1126. Allowance for publishing laws.

§ 1127. Selection of newspapers to publish election notices.

§ 1130 Audited accounts to be published.

§ 1131. Supervisors' compensation to be published. § 1132. Abstract of town audits to be published.

§ 1133. Report of town debts to be published.

§ 1134. Resolutions of Board to be published.

§ 1135. Powers of Board as to printing.

§ 1136. County Sealer of Weights and Measures.

HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.

§ 1137. Damages on laying out roads to be audited.

§ 1138. Mandamus will issue if Board refuse.

§ 1139. Bridges between towns.

§ 1140. Reimbursement of individuals who erect or repair bridges.

§ 1141. Supervisors to raise money for bridges.

§ 1142. Amount that may be raised.

§ 1143. Commissioners may appeal.

§ 1144. Power to raise greater sums for bridges.

BRIDGE COMPANIES.

§ 1145. Application for lease to erect bridges.

§ 1146. Assent of Board.

PLANK ROAD AND TURNPIKE COMPANIES.

§ 1147. Application to Supervisors.

§ 1148. Special meeting to hear application. § 1149. Owners of land may be heard.

§ 1150. Assent, when given.

§ 1151. Commissioners to be appointed.

§ 1152. When application need not be made.

§ 1153. Inspectors to be appointed.

§ 1154. Commissioners of Highways are plank road inspectors.

§ 1155. Extension of charters of plank roads.

§ 1156. Filing consent to such extension.

§ 1157. Abandoning parts of plank roads.

§ 1158. Commissioners for county railroads.

§ 1159. Reports of Village Water Commissioners. § 1160. Burial of soldiers and sailors.

§ 1161. Such interments regulated-headstones.

MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES.

§ 1116. Supervisors to divide counties into assembly districts.

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The Supervisors of each of the aforesaid counties, which are by the provisions of this act entitled to more than one Member of Assembly, except in the City and County of New York, and in said city and county, the Board of Aldermen of said city, shall meet and shall proceed to divide their respective counties into so many assembly districts as they are entitled respectively to Members of Assembly under this act, and shall thereupon make their certificates, respectively, containing a description of each assembly district, specifying the number of each district and the population thereof according to the last census. Said certificate shall be signed by a majority of such Supervisors respectively, except in the City and County of New York, in said city and county, by a majority of the Board of Aldermen of said city, and they shall cause duplicate certificates to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and the office of the Clerk of their respective counties. Laws 1879, chap. 208, $3; 1 R. S. '8th ed.) 289.

§ 1117. Supervisors may make ordinances for protection of fish and game.

It shall be lawful for the Board of Supervisors of any county, at their annual meeting, to make any regulations or ordinances protecting other birds, fish or game

than those mentioned in this act, and also for the further protection of such birds, fish or game as are in this act mentioned, except wild deer, and to this end to prohibit hunting or fishing in particular localities or waters lying within their respective counties, for limited periods and during certain months of the year, and to prescribe punishments and penalties for the violation thereof, and adopt all necessary measures for the enforcement of such punishment and the collection of such penalties. And such regulations and ordinances shall be published in the papers in such county in which the session laws are published; and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the county, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as conferring upon the Board of Supervisors of any county the right or authority to prohibit the owner or owners, in whole or in part, of lands and waters wholly private, or the lessee or lessees, thereof, whether such owner or owners, lessee or lessees, be an individual or individuals, association or associations, society or societies, corporation or corporations, from angling and taking fish in a lawful manner during the months not allowed by the laws of this state. This act is intended to apply only to such owner or owners, in whole or in part, of lands and waters, or the lessee or lessees thereof, who shall have complied with the provisions of section twenty-seven of chapter five hundred and thirty-four of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and the acts amendatory thereof. Laws 1879, chap. 534, § 37, as amended by Laws 1884, chap. 212.

§ 1118. Preservation of game and fish.

Boards of Supervisors are vested with power to provide for the protection and preservation, subject to the laws of this state, of game, animals and birds, and of fish and shell fish in all the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the county, and to prescribe and enforce the collection of penalties for the violation of any laws or regulations they may make pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Laws 1875, chap. 482, § 1, subdv. 16.