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AMENDING ACT.

LAWS OF 1877, CHAP. 416.

AN ACT

TO AMEND CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTYSIX, ENTITLED “AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS, OFFICERS OF JUSTICE, AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS," AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE ACT AS AMENDED.

PASSED JUNE 5, 1877; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. [The amendments adopted by this section have been incorporated into the Code.]

§ 2. The commissioners to revise the statutes are hereby authorized and required, within sixty days after the final adjournment of this session of the legislature, to correct the text of the act entitled "An act relating to courts, officers of justice and civil proceedings." passed June two, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, by incorporating therein the amendments made by this act, so that the text will read as it is intended by this act that it shall read, and by appending thereto any matters added thereto, by any act or acts supplemental to chapter four hundred and forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, passed at this session of the legisla ture. The commissioners must make the amendments and corrections specified in this act by causing the act, thus corrected and amended, to be written or printed in

a book, and depositing the book in the office of the secretary of state, with a certificate thereupon, signed by the commissioners, or a majority of them, to the effect that it contains the correct text of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended and completed by the acts of the legislature passed since its enactment. The book so deposited shall be presumptive evidence of the matters so certified. A copy thereof may be read in evidence, if it contains a written or printed certificate of the secretary of state, or of the commissioners to revise the statutes, or a majority of them, to the effect that it is a correct transcript of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended and completed by the acts of the legislature, passed since its enactment.

3. This act and any act or acts, passed at this session of the legislature, supplemental to chapter four hundred and forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, shall not be printed or published for the use of the State, or of any State department or State officer, or otherwise in any manner at the expense of the State, except in the volumes containing the laws of this session, to be printed and published as prescribed by law; nor shall they be printed or published in any newspaper at the expense of the State or of any county. Any act or acts, passed at this session of the legislature, supplemental to chapter four hundred and forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and also the standard text of the Code of Civil Procedure, prepared by the commissioners to revise the statutes, and deposited in the office of the secretary of state, as provided for by the last preceding section of this act, with the certificate of the said commissioners, thereupon, shall be printed in a separate volume of the session laws, which shall contain no other law passed at this session, and the said standard text of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be separately indexed at the end of the said volume, but the other act or acts in the said volume shall not be indexed.

4. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

REPEALING ACTS.

LAWS OF 1877, CHAP. 417.
LAWS OF 1880, CHAP. 245.

CHAPTER 417.

AN ACT

TO REPEAL CERTAIN ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS.

PASSED JUNE 5, 1877.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Acts repealed, etc. - The following acts and parts of acts, heretofore passed by the legislature of the State, are hereby repealed, to wit:

1. [Revised Statutes.] Of the first part of the Revised Statutes:

Section* twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven, of title fourth of chapter fifth.

2. Of the second part of the Revised Statutes:

(1.) Section* five and six of title fifth of chapter first. (2.) Sections sixteen, seventeen and twenty-seven of chapter third.

(3.) The following portions of chapter fifth: All of article first of title first.

The concluding portion of section seventeen of article sixth of the same title, beginning with the words “but whenever any person shall have remained charged." 3. Of the third part of the Revised Statutes: (1.) The following portions of chapter first.

All of article third of title first.

All of title second, except sections thirty-eight, thirtynine, forty-three and forty-five, and articles sixth and seventh of that title.

So in the original.

All of title third.

Sections one to twenty-seven, both inclusive, and sec tion forty-five of title fourth.

All of title fifth, except sections four, five, six, seven, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-eight and twenty-nine thereof, and except so much of sections eleven and fourteen thereof, as relates to criminal courts.

(2.) The following portions of chapter second:

Sections two hundred and forty-five, two hundred and forty-six, two hundred and forty-seven and two hundred and forty-eight of title fourth.

(3.) All of chapter third, except section fourteen of title first; and sections forty, forty-one, forty four, fortyfive and forty-eight, and sections fifty-four to sixty-one, both inclusive, of title second.

(4.) Sections twenty-two to twenty-nine, both inclusive, of title fifth of chapter fifth.

(5.) All of chapter sixth, except sections twelve and thirteen of title second; section fourteen of title fourth; and articles first and second of title sixth.

(6.) All of chapter seventh, except sections fifteen and sixteen of title second; and sections sixty-three to seventy, both inclusive, and sections seventy-four, seventyfive and seventy-six of title third.

(7.) The following portions of chapter eighth:

All of title first.

All of title second.

Section eight of title third.

All of article first of title fourth, except sections one to three thereof, both inclusive, and sections twelve to fifteen thereof, both inclusive.

The following portions of title sixth, to wit: so much of sections sixteen to twenty-one thereof, both inclu sive, as relates to petit jurors, and sections thirty-seven to forty-two thereof, both inclusive.

Section one of title thirteenth.

All of title seventeenth, except sections one, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twentynine, thirty, thirty-two and thirty-five thereof.

(8.) The following portions of chapter ninth :

All of title third, except section sixty-six thereof, and so much of article third thereof as applies to appeals from surrogates' courts.

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