for each passenger transported or conveyed on their Chap. 455. AN ACT to appropriate money for the building of a bridge over the Cayuga Inlet, in the village of Ithaca. Passed May 1, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ation to bridge. SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is Approprihereby appropriated out of the general funds of the build State in payment for the construction of a swing bridge over Cayuga inlet, authorized by chapter nine hundred and twelve of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. lieu of ation. Treasurer warrant room to pay on § 2. The said sum of five thousand dollars shall be To be in in lieu of the appropriation made by said chapter nine former hundred and twelve of the Laws of eighteen hundred appropri and seventy-one, no part of the same having been drawn from the treasury or expended upon said work. § 3. The Treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, the said sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as the Canal Commissioner in charge of the middle division of the canals shall certify has been actually expended upon said bridge, and the Comptroller is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for such sum as the said Canal Commissioner shall so certify, not exceeding the said sum of five thousand dollars. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. troller. Canal Commissioners to bridge over Chemung canal, in Watkins. Expense limited. Chap. 456. AN ACT to authorize the Canal Commisioners to construct a road bridge over the Chemung canal, in the village of Watkins, in Schuyler county. Passed May 1, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Canal Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to construct, or cause to be conconstruct structed and maintained, at the expense of the State, over the Chemung canal, at a point where the extension of Montour street, in the village of Watkins, in the county of Schuyler, would cross said canal, an iron road bridge in such manner as they may deem advisable, and the expense of the same not to exceed the sum of fortyfive hundred dollars, may be paid from any money appropriated or to be appropriated for extraordinary reCommis pairs of the canals; provided, that after investigation and examination into all the facts in relation to the application for said bridge, the board of Canal Commissioners shall be of the opinion that the State is under legal or equitable obligation to build said bridge; and provided, further, that before proceeding to the construction of any such bridge, the Canal Commissioners shall require Claims to and receive a full and sufficient release, legally executed, sioners not to build bridge unless State is under obligation' to build same. be re leased. acknowledged and delivered, free of expense to the State, of all claims for damages in consequence of the construction of said bridge or of the approaches and embankments of the same; and also a good and sufficient license or permission to the State, duly executed, acknowledged and delivered as aforesaid, to alter, raise or change such bridge, approaches or embankments whenever necessary, which necessity is to be determined by the Canal Commissioners from all persons whose property, rights or interest may be affected by said bridge, approaches or embankments; and provided, further, that said bridge shall not be so constructed according to the provisions herein contained until the said Montour street be extended through to Franklin street be kept. in said village of Watkins. The said Canal Commission- Record to ers shall enter, or cause to be entered, in a book of records, to be kept in their office, all the testimony and facts appearing upon the investigation and examination above referred to, whether such determination be favorably or adverse to such application. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 457. AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain officers and employees of the Senate and Assembly for their services. Passed May 1, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ployees rarily em ployed by lature to certificate siding the Legis be paid on of pre officer. SECTION 1. The officers and employees of the Senate oficers and Assembly, who have served either of said bodies and emtemporarily between the first of January, eighteen hun- tempodred and seventy-two, and the time of the passage of an act entitled "An act prescribing the officers and employees that may be elected, appointed or employed by the Senate and Assembly, fixing the salary and compensation thereof, and regulating the proceedings of investigating committees and providing for the payment of the expenses thereof," shall, on the certificate of the President of the Senate in case of officers or employees of the Senate, and of the Speaker of the Assembly in case of officers and employees of the Assembly, respectively, be paid at the rates specified in said act, together with mileage as therein allowed, and in the manner as set forth in section three of said act. In the case of officers Amount whose salary is fixed by said act at a certain amount for to be paid the annual session of the Legislature, the President of having the Senate, or Speaker of the Assembly, as the case may salary. be, shall certify what proportion of the amount of such salary will be a fair compensation for such officers for the period of their service between January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and the time of the passage of said act; and such amount shall be paid to officers fixed Names of senate employees. Names of assembly oflicers and employees. Doorkeepers. said officers and employes, on such certificate, in the same manner as provided in section three of said act; but the certificates to be given and the amount of time to be certified therein shall be confined to the persons, and shall not exceed the time for each such person as herein specified, to wit: In the Senate, R. D. Evans, clerk's and bank messenger, seventeen days, and Nathaniel Goodwin, janitor, ten days. In the Assembly, Lyman B. Smith, assistant clerk, twenty-six days; Walter A. Cook, journal clerk, thirty-five days; Burnet Forbes, deputy clerk, twenty-one days; Daniel S. Lamont, deputy clerk, ten days; A. S. Burdick, deputy clerk, ten days; Worden E. Payne, for taking and reporting testimony for committee on privileges and elec tions, at fifteen cents per folio, not exceeding three hundred dollars; James C. Huston, librarian, seventeen days; William H. Lee, assistant librarian, twenty-six days; Benjamin F. Betts, superintendent of documents, thirty-two days; Lewis J. Dickinson, as clerk of the committee on the affairs of villages for the session, the same per diem allowance as other clerks of committees; to J. G. Rhoads, sergeant-at-arms; Andrew S. Scoby, doorkeeper; James Keenan, first assistant doorkeeper; Allen W. Seamen, second assistant doorkeeper, and L. G. Coleman, deputy postmaster, for each of them pay for one day's attendance, and mileage the same as is allowed by law to members of the legislature; Joseph B. Zeiser, librarian's messenger, twenty-nine days; Edward E. Coventry, clerk's messenger, fourteen days; John T. Huntley, William A. Tracy, Peter Malone, Jeremiah Grogan, Felix Riley, Harvey J. Stone, Lewis M. Miller, Edward Riley, John Boyle and Orville Snyder, doorkeepers, each thirty-two days; G. W. Nichols, doorkeeper, four days; John W. Lawyer, keeper of cloak room, thirty-two days; John Mulville, janitor, thirty-six days; Thomas Acherson, postmaster, fortytwo days; Addison Seymour, assistant postmaster, fortytwo days; John P. Flynn, postmaster's messenger, fifteen days; Victor M. Lobdell, postmaster's messenger, forty-nine days, to be paid to his legal representatives; Charles H. Walter, John K. Hoyt and George Courtright, sergeant-at-arms' messengers, each thirty-two days; Henry D. Keller, speaker's messenger, ten days; William W. Bennett, assistant sergeant-at-arms, seventy-five days; John Cassady, Leonard Courtright, Jacob Fish, Robert Gray, Edward L. Ullman and Michael Moran, pages, each twenty days, and Joseph Jennings, general messenger, seventeen days; Albert Miller, messenger to the sergeant-at-arms, thirty-two days; Edward Lee, messenger of committee on claims, forty-two days; Charles H. Tracy, as messenger to the committee on public education, twenty days. In no case shall any person herein named receive double compensation for any services rendered this Legislature. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 458, AN ACT to provide for the formation of free public libraries. Passed May 1, 1872; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Double. sation not compen to be paid. Towns lages may and vil establish SECTION 1. Each town and city and village in this State may, by resolution duly adopted by their com mon council, board of trustees and town auditors, res- and mainpectively, establish and maintain a free public library tain free public therein, with or without branches, for the use of the in- libraries. habitants thereof, and provide suitable rooms therefor, under such regulations for its government as may from time to time be prescribed by the board of town auditors of the town, or the city council, or the board of trustees of the village. Provided, nevertheless, when Proviso any village shall establish a library under this act it as to shall be exempt from any charge for the establishment or maintenance of any library in the town in which it is situated. that may be appro priated. § 2. Any town, or city or village, may appropriate Amount money for suitable buildings or rooms, and for the foundation of such library a sum not exceeding one dol lar for each of its legal voters who voted at the next preceding annual election therein, in the year next preceding that in which such appropriation is made; and |