231 - Presentation of claims to court of claims.

§  231.  Presentation of claims to court of claims. Any county of this  state, containing one or more  towns,  villages  or  cities  which  have  heretofore  issued  bonds  to  aid  in  the construction of any railroad  passing through such towns, villages or cities, may present to the court  of claims a claim for the amount of state taxes collected from  or  paid  by  any  such  railroad  within the several towns, villages or cities of  such county which were so bonded to aid in the construction of any  such  railroad,  since  the  eighteenth  day  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-nine, and which said taxes were paid by the  county  treasurer  of  such  county  to  the  state treasurer. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred  upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine such claims and to  make awards and render judgments therefor against the state and in favor  of such claimants.