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 lEWIN V. TOWN OP ONTAKIO. 53 �■wholly detective and insufficient. The objection was over- ruled by the court, and the counsel for the defendant excepted. The counsel for the defendant also objected to reading in evi- dence the consent of tax payera, with the signatures thereto verified by said Casey, on the ground that such verification did not conform to the statute, in that it did not state that each or any of the persons subscribing such consent informed the said subscribing witness that they knew the contents thereof. The objection was overruled by the court, and the counsel for the defendant excepted. The plaintiff then intro- duced the assessment roU of the town of Ontario for the year 3869. No question was raised upon it. The counsel for the plaintiff then proved the execution by the railroad eommis- sioners of the bonds and the coupons set forth in the com- plaint, and that the same were delivered to the Lake Ontario Shore Eailroad Company in payment for the subscription for the stock of said company made by such commissioners. The bonds were in ail respects alike, except the numbers, and the time when the coupons became due. �The bonds were in this form : "No. 6. 11,000. �"United States of America, town of Ontario, county of Wayne, state of New York. -Lake Ontario Shore Eailroad Company. Issued by virtue of an act of the legislature of the state of New York, 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 Ontario Shore Eailroad,' passed May 11, 1868, (chapter 811 of the Laws of 1868,) and an act amending the same, passed April 19, 1869, (chapter 241 of the Laws of 1869.) These acts authorize any town, incorporated village or city, except the city of Eochester, in either of the counties of Os- wego, Cayuga, Wayne, Monroe, Orleans, or the second assem- bly district of Niagara, situate along the route of the Lake Ontario Shore Eailroad, to subscribe for the stock of the Lake Ontario Shore Eailroad, and to issue town, village or city bonds in payment therefor. �"Know ali men by these presents, that we, the undersigned ����