LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT THE EIGHTIETH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN JANUARY SIXTH, AND ENDED APRIL EIGHTEENTH, 1857, IN THE REGIA MONACENSIS CERTIFICATE. State of New-Pork, SECRETARY'S OFFICE. } ALBANY, July 1, 1857. Pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An act relative to the publication of the Laws,” passed April 12, 1843, I hereby certify that the following volume of the Laws of this State, was printed under my direction. J. T. HEADLEY, Secretary of State. In this volume, "every act which received the assent of three-fifths of all the Members elected to either House of the Legislature," pursuant to Section 14, of Article 7, of the Constitution of this State, is designated under its title by the words "Three-fifths being present." [See Laws of 1847, Vol. 1, Chap. 253.] And every "act which received the assent of two-thirds of all the Members elected to cach branch of the Legislature," pursuant to Section 9, of Article 1, of the Constitution, is designated under its title by the words "By a two-third vote." [See Laws of 1842, Chap. 306.] LAWS AN ACT in relation to the Assessment of Taxes Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in sections the thirteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Certain Statutes, entitled "Regulations concerning the assessment repealed. of taxes on incorporated companies, and the commutation or collection thereof," and the ninth and tenth sections of said title as amended by chapter six hundred and fifty- four of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, are § 2. The fifteenth section of the said title is hereby amended to read as follows: The amount of taxes assessed on all incorporated com- |