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 ■60 FEDERAL REPORTBB. �Bundry papera attaohed together and marked on the outsîde thereof as filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Wayne, on the 23d of Decemher, 1870. �The first paper in the roU was an order of the county judge, of Wayne county, appointing three persons to be rail- road commissioners of said town, to carry into effect the pro- visions of the act of May 11, 1868, (Laws of New York, 1868, e. 811,) authorizing certain towns in certain counties, includ- ing Wayne, to issue bonds and take stock in and for the con- struction of the Lake Ontario Shore Eailroad, and of the amendatory act of April 19, 1869. Laws of New York, 1869, c. 241. �The second paper was a verified application of 1 8 freehold- ers and residents of said town, to the said county judge, for the appointaient of the said three persons to be railroad ■commissioners for said town, in pursuance of the provisions of said acts. �The third paper was an affidavit, as follows. �"State of New York, Wayne county, ss. John M. Bishop, John Dickerson and Joseph Middleton, being duly sworn, each for himself says that they are the assesaors of the town of Ontario, in said county, and that the consent has been obtained, in writiug, of persons owning more than one-half of the taxable property assessed, and appearing upon the last assessment roll of said town, and a majority of the tax payera, as appears by said assessment roll, whieh consent Jias been proved and acknowledged according to the provis- ions of an act entitled, 'An act to authorize certain towns in the counties of Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne to issue bonds and take stock in and for the construction of the Lake Onta- rio Shore Eailroad,' passed May 11, 1868, and the act amend- atory thereof, passed April 19, 1869, (chapter 241 of Laws of 1869;) that the commissioners of the town of Ontario, ap- pointed to carry into effect the purposes of said act and the act amendatory thereof, are now authorized by the terms of said act, and the act amendatory thereof, to borrow, on the iaith and credit of said town of Ontario, the sum of $107,000 ; and these deponents further say, and each for himself says, ����