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collection of taxes on the lands of non-residents and to provide for the sale of 

 such lands for unpaid taxes," as amended by chapter four hundred and fifty- 

 three of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby further amended so as- 1 

 to read as follows : 



$ 74. The occupant of any such lot, or any other person, may, at any 

 time before the service of said notice by the purchaser or the person naming 

 under him, and within three years from the expiration of the two years allowed 

 by law for the redemption thereof, redeem any land so occupied, by filing in the 

 office of the comptroller satisfactory evidence of the occupancy required, and 

 by paying to him the consideration money for which the land to be redeemed 

 was sold, and thirty-seven and one-half per centum thereon, together with the 

 sum paid for the deed, if any, and such amount as may have been paid to the 

 State for subsequent taxes thereon, or for the redemption from subsequent tax sales 

 thereof, and, in addition thereto, providing such lot has been legally exempt from 

 taxation for one or more years subsequent to the sale in question, of a sum that 

 would represent the gross amount of taxes and interest that would have been 

 due thereon, provided it had been taxed during each of the years it may have 

 been exempt, on its assessed valuation and at the rate per cent, of taxation 

 thereon, lor the year when last returned to the comptroller's office. In all cases 

 of tax sales heretofore made by the comptroller, where the land sold was in the 

 actual occupancy of any person at the expiration of the two years allowed for 

 the redemption thereof, and the purchaser or the persons naming under him shall 

 have failed to serve notice of such sale upon the occupant or occupants thereof, and 

 to file evidence of such service in the comptroller's, office as provided by section 

 sixty-eight of this Act, and the occupant or any other person shall fail to file in 

 the comptroller's office within one year after this Act shall take effect a written 

 notice of such occupancy, together with an application for the redemption of such 

 lands, and to furnish the comptroller with satisfactory evidence of the occupancy 

 required, and make such redemption within two years after this Act shall take 

 effect, then and in all such cases the said tax sales of such land, and the convey- 

 ance thereof by the comptroller shall become absolute, and the occupant and 

 occupants, and all other persons interested in the said land, shall be forever 

 barred from all right and title thereto. 



2 All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby 

 repealed. 



3 This Act shall take effect immediately. 



FIREWARDENS. 



The organization of the force of firewardens in the State of New York has 

 not been effected without considerable care and labor, it having involved the care- 

 ful consideration of 281 separate appointments. 



The maintenance of this system entails also a large amount of office work in 

 the way of correspondence and in forwarding to each firewarden the necessary 

 packages of posters, rules, and other supplies. In addition to the 281 fire- 

 wardens in the counties of the forest preserve, there are the 430 supervisors in 

 the other counties who are firewardens ex officio, with each of whom a corres- 

 pondence is maintained. 



No salary is attached to the position of firewarden ; still the commision has- 

 succeeded in filling the places with good citizens, intelligent men who have shown 

 themselves equal to the responsibilities devolving upon them, and have evinced a 



