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There shall be in each county a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law : said boards shall have such powers as are or may be conferred by law, until revoked or modified by the Legislature ; and, subject to legislative modification, shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the following cases :
1. The location, erection, purchase and repair of bridges, except over navigable streams, where the general or existing special laws of the State shall be insufficient to accomplish the object ; but where such bridges shall be between adjoining counties, the concurrent action of the boards of supervisors of such counties shall be necessary ;
2. The purchase of real estate and the location, erection and care of buildings, for county purposes ; but no change of location of any county buildings shall be made, unless by the vote of two-thirds of the whole number composing said boards, for two years successively, under such regulations as shall be established by law ;
3. The erection of portions of public highways into separate road districts in the cases not provided for by general laws ;
4. The use of abandoned turnpike, plank and macadamized roads as public highways ;
5. The improvement of public highways’ laid out in pursuance of general laws, in cases where such laws may be insufficient for the purpose ;
6. The legalization of informal acts of town meetings in raising moneys authorized to be raised by law, and the legalization of irregular acts of town officers on the recommendation of the county court ;
7. The regulation of the salaries of county officers, except as otherwise provided in this constitution, and the number, grade and pay of clerks and subordinates in county offices whose compensation may be a county charge ;
8. The borrowing of money for town and county purposes in anticipation of taxation authorized by law ;
9. But jurisdiction in the cases aforesaid shall not be exercised without the assent of a majority of all the members elected to such board, to be determined by yeas and nays which shall be entered on its journal.
The board of supervisors of the county of New York shall have no other power or jurisdiction than such as is now or shall hereafter be conferred upon it by law, subject to repeal or modification by the Legislature.