the supervisor of the town of Olean shall not be a resident of the seventh and eighth wards of the city of Olean when this act takes effect, such office for said wards shall be deemed vacant. On the fourth Tuesday of January next after this act takes effect, an election shall be held in the seventh and eighth wards of said city for the purpose of electing two aldermen from each of said wards, one of whom in each ward shall hold office until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and nine, and one of whom in each ward shall hold office until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and ten. The common council of said city shall, within eight days after this act takes effect, designate a suitable polling place within the limits of each of said wards, and the mayor of said city shall, within ten days after this act takes effect, appoint election officers for each of said wards as required by law, who shall serve until their successors are appointed in the manner provided by law. Such election officers shall be selected equally from members of the two political parties entitled to nominate election officers as provided by the election law. Nominations shall be made and filed, notice of the election given, and such election shall be conducted and the result thereof canvassed in the manner provided by this act for special elections in said city. Any person whose name appears upon the registry lists of the town of Olean for the general election next preceding the time this act takes effect, and who is a resident of either of said wards at the time of such election, and shall have been a resident of the same ward for thirty days prior thereto, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the ward in which he resides and has so resided. 9. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and nine. Chap. 370. AN ACT to legalize the filing of official undertakings of district attorneys. Became a law, May 19, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The failure of any district attorney elected to such office in November, nineteen hundred and seven, to file an official undertaking within fifteen days after January first, nineteen hundred and eight, shall not work a forfeiture of, or create a vacancy in, such office, provided that such district attorney has already filed, or shall, within fifteen days after the passage of this act, file such undertaking, duly approved as required by law, in the office of the county clerk of the county in which he resides. § 2. Such filing, pursuant to this act, shall operate to ratify and confirm all official acts of such district attorney, and perfect his title to such office for the term for which he was elected, and be of the same effect as if filed within the time prescribed by law, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 371. AN ACT to amend chapter fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Barrett Bridge Company," in relation to tolls. Became a law, May 19, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eleven of chapter afty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Barrett Bridge Company," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 11. As soon as said bridge shall be completed, it shall be lawful for, and said company is hereby authorized and em powered to erect a toll-gate or gates at or near said bridge, and to make such gates and erections as the directors may deem expedient to guard the entrance of said bridge; and demand, receive and take, for the use of the said corporation, a toll not to exceed the following rates, to wit: For every four-wheeled pleasure carriage, drawn by four horses, fifty cents; if drawn by two horses, twentyfive cents; every stage or wagon, drawn by four horses, twentyfive cents, and if by two horses, twenty-five cents; every curricle, chaise or sulky, drawn by one horse, fifteen cents; if drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents; every wagon and two horses, mules or oxen, twenty-five cents, and five cents for every additional horse, mule or ox; every sled or sleigh, drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, twenty-five cents, and five cents for every additional horse, mule or ox; every cart, drawn by two horses, or two oxen, or two mules, twenty-five cents; every one-horse cart, wagon, sled or sleigh, fifteen cents; every automobile having a seating capacity of not more than three persons, fifteen cents; every automobile having a seating capacity of more than three persons, twenty-five cents; every man or woman or child, except for school purposes, two cents; every man and horse, twelve cents; every horse, jack or mule, five cents; every cow or other neat cattle, three cents; every score of sheep or hogs, twenty cents, and so in proportion for more or less; and it shall be lawful for the toll-gatherers at said gate or gates to stop every foot passenger and every person driving, riding or leading any beast or carriage from going through said gate, until they shall have respectively paid the toll herein allowed to be collected. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 372. AN ACT to create the board of trustees of the Hanover Congregational Church Society, in the county of Oneida, and defining its powers and duties. Became a law, May 19, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Marinus W. Terry, Charles I. Peck and Edward Barton of Waterville, Oneida county, are hereby constituted a board of trustees to be known as "The Board of Trustees of the Hanover Congregational Church Society." They shall elect their successors in office and they and their successors in office shall serve without pay. § 2. The said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to assume and take charge of all and singular the property, both real and personal, of the society formerly known as the Hanover Congregational Church and with the exception of that part of the real property belonging to such society, located in the town of Marshall in said county, used as a cemetery, may sell and, by deed signed by them, or their successors, in their official capacity, convey all real property belonging to such association, or any part thereof, and may sell and dispose of all personal property, if any, belonging to such society. Such sale or sales shall be at public auction to the highest bidder and notice of such sale, stating the time and place thereof and the property to be sold, shall be published once each week for six successive weeks in at least two newspapers published in said county which will give the greatest publicity to such notice. § 3. All moneys derived from the sale of such property, less the actual costs and disbursements of such sale, shall be held in trust by the trustees above named and their successors in office, and shall be invested and reinvested by them in such securities as savings banks are permitted by law to invest their funds, and the income therefrom, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended by such trustees in the care of such cemetery. 4. The trustees making such sale shall within thirty days thereafter make and file with the surrogate of Oneida county a statement of their proceedings under this act, the amount received from the sale of the property, the costs and expenses incurred and paid in making such sale and the amount invested and how invested, and shall annually thereafter make and file with such surrogate an account of all funds in their hands as provided by section twenty-eight hundred and forty-two of the code of civil procedure, which shall be verified as provided by section twentyeight hundred and forty-three of the code of civil procedure. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 373. AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to applying to villages the provisions thereof relating to the registration of dogs. Became a law, May 19, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section one hundred and twenty-eight of chapter six hundred and eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act in relation to counties, constituting chapter eighteen of the general laws," as added by chapter four hundred and fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and amended by chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, and chapter two hundred and twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, and chapter two hundred and ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 128. Adoption by county of dog registration provisions.— The board of supervisors of any county may, by resolution adopted at an annual meeting, determine that the provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-eight to one hundred and thirty-six, both inclusive, of this article shall apply to such county, or to any specified town or village therein, after a date to be designated in such resolution, which date shall be subsequent to the last publication of the resolution as herein required, but no such resolution shall be adopted affecting any town or village in such county separately, except upon the written application of the town board of such town or the trustees of such village. Such resolution shall also prescribe the annual registration fee to be paid within such county, or within the several towns or villages specially affected by it, for every dog over four months old. A certified copy of such resolution shall be filed in the offices of the secretary of state and of the county clerk of such county, and also in the office of the clerk of the town or village affected by any such resolution if it relates to a single town or village; and such resolution, together |