Section  1. Section  one  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty-one  of  the  laws  of
eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-one,  entitled  "An  act  for  the  protection  of  tax
payers,"  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows:

§  1. All  officers,  agents,  commissioners,  and  other  persons  acting,  or  who  have
acted,  for,  or  on  behalf  of,  any  county,  town,  village,  or  municipal  corporation  in
this  State,  and  each  and  every  one  of  them,  may  be  prosecuted,  and  an  action  or
actions  may  be  maintained  against  them  to  prevent  any  illegal  official  act  on  the
part  of  any  such  officers,  agents,  commissioners,  or  other  persons,  or  to  prevent
waste  or  injury  to,  or  to  restore  and  make  good  any  property,  funds  or  estate  of
such  county,  town,  village,  or  municipal  corporation,  by  any  person  whose  assess-
ment, or  by  any  number  of  persons,  jointly,  the  sum  of  whose  assessments  shall
amount  to  one  thousand  dollars,  and  who  shall  be  liable  to  pay  taxes  upon  such
assessment  or  assessments  in  the  county,  town,  village,  or  municipal  corporation,  to
prevent  the  waste  or  injury  of  whose  property  the  action  is  brought,  or  who  have
been  assessed,  or  paid  taxes  therein,  upon  any  assessment  or  assessments
of  the  above-named  amount  within  one  year  previous  to  the  commencement
of  any  such  action  or  actions. Such  person  or  persons,  upon  the  com-
mencement of  such  action,  shall  furnish  a  bond  to  the  defendant  therein  to
be  approved  by  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  or  the  county  judge  of  the
county  in  which  the  action  is  brought,  in  sucb  penalty  as  the  justice  or  judge
approving  the  same  shall  direct,  but  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,
and  to  be  executed  by  any  two  of  the  plaintiffs,  if  there  be  more  than  one  party
plaintiff,  provided  said  two  parties  plaintiff  shall  severally  justify  in  the  sum  of
five  thousand  dollars  Said  bond  shall  be  approved  by  said  justice  or  judge,  and
be  conditioned  to  pay  all  costs  that  maybe  awarded  the  defendant  in  such  action,
if  the  court  shall  finally  determine  the  same  in  favor  of  the  defendant. The
court  shall  require,  when  the  plaintiffs  shall  not  justify  as  above  mentioned,  and
in  any  case  may  require  two  more  sufficient  sureties  to  execute  the  bond  above
provided  for. 