of such prior incumbrances, if it shall appear to him to be for the interest of the state to do so; and the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay such sums as the attorney general may require for such purpose. CHAP. VI. AN ACT authorising a tax in Dutchess county to defray the expenses for repairs done to the court-house. Passed November 12, 1816. I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the county of Dutchess, to meet at the court-house in the said county, on the first Monday in December next, and then and there to examine and audit the accounts for the repairs done to the court-house, and for the alterations made in, and articles furnished for, the court-room since the first day of July last: And further, at such meeting, to issue their warrants to the collectors of the said county, according to the last assessment rolls, to collect from the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, by way of tax, a sum equal to the aggregate of such accounts, together with the fees of the treasurer and collector. II. And be it further enacted, That the collectors aforesaid shall, within the time limited by the act for the assessment and collection of taxes, and in the manner prescribed by such act, settle with the county treasurer for the said tax; and that it shall be the duty of the said treasurer, to pay the monies, to be received by him on such tax, to the persons and in the proportions to be named by the supervisors, as the same shall be certified to him in writing by the said supervisors. CHAP. VII. AN ACT relalive to Hamilton village. Passed November 12, 1812. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the village of Hamilton, in the county of Madison, to meet on the third Tuesday in November instant, and elect their officers agreeably to the act, entitled " an act to incorporate the village of Hamilton, in the county of Madison," passed April 12, 1816, and that such election shall be as valid as if the same had been held at the time in said act mentioned; and it shall be lawful for the officers of said incorporation, to hold their respective offices, until others shall be chosen in their stead; and in case the annual meeting for the election of officers shall not be held on the days in and by said act mentione 1, it shall be lawful for such inhabitants to meet on such other day as shall be determined by one of the justices of the peace, residing in the said village: but in that case, notice shall be given in the same manner as notice for the first meeting of the said inhabitants is required by said act to be given, and not otherwise. CHAP. VIII. AN ACT authorising the Commissary General to fill up the ground adjoining the state arsenal, in the city of New-York. Passed November 12, 1816. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the commissary general, to cause that part of the street, called Collectstreet, adjoining to and running along the land of the state, on which the arsenal, in the city of New-York, now stands, to be filled up, agreeably to the regulation of the corporation Taxes when ad. CHAP. IX. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “an act for laying out and im proving certain roads, in the county of St. Lawrence," passed April 15, 1816, and for other purposes. Passed November 12, 1816. I. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, repreto be collect sented in Senate and Assembly, That the collection of the taxes assessed, or to be assessed, in pursuance of the act hereby amended, be postponed until the first day of July next; and that it shall not be lawful for any collector, whose duty it may be to collect such taxes, to levy or sell therefor, until the said first day of July, and that it shall be the duty of such collector or collectors to levy, collect and pay over such taxes (in the same manner that other taxes are, by law, levied, collected and paid over) to the county treasurer, on or before the fifteenth day July aforesaid, and that the warrant annexed to the assessment rolls, to be delivered to the collectors, in pursuance of the act hereby amended, be made out in conformity to the provisions of this act. New-Antrim burg turn II. And be it further enacted, That the time for commencing and Waynes the operations for making the turnpike road, authorised in and by pike time ex- the act, entitled "an act to incorporate the New-Antrim and completing Waynesburg turnpike," shall be, and hereby is extended to the first tended for the. Rockland turnpike, time extend ed for com pleting the. day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, any thing in the same act or the act relative to turnpike companies to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That the time heretofore limited and appointed by the act, entitled " an act to amend the act, entitled "an act. to amend the act, entitled "an act to establish a turnpike company, in the counties of Orange and Rockland," passed March 27, in the year 1809, for completing the road, authorised to be made by the said corporation, shall be, and hereby is extended to the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, any thing in the said act or acts hereby amended, or the act relative to turnpike companies, to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAP. X. AN ACT for the relief of the Second Baptist Society, in the town of Norwich. Passed November 12, 1816. WHEREAS, by a mutual understanding between the parties, the owner of two acres of land on the east side of the turnpike road, running through the town of Norwich, in the county of Chenango, opposite the ground on which the court-house stands, agreed to add to the court-house common the said two acres, allowing to the Second Baptist Society, in the town of Norwich, the privilege of erecting their meeting house thereon: And whereas, pursuant to the said understanding, said meeting-house was erected, but by omision in the conveyance of the title to the county of Chenango, no provision was made, securing to said society said privilege: Therefore, BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the supervisors of the county of Chenango, or a majority of them, at any meeting of their board, to lease to the said Second Baptist Society, of the town of Norwich, for such term of time, and on such conditions, as they shall think proper, so much of the land belonging to said county, on the east side of the public square, in the village of Norwich, as will embrace the ground on which the meeting-house of said society now stands, and sufficient space adjacent, in which to dig a well for the use of the same. CHAP. XI. AN ACT for the relief of the Stockholders of the Stephentown Turnpike Road. Passed November 12, 1816. WHEREAS an act, to establish a turnpike corporation for improving the road, in the town of Stephentown, in the county of Rensselaer, was passed the third day of April, 1801, and the said road laid out and completed agreeable to the provisions of the said act, and a licence obtained from the governor to erect a gate on said road: And whereas, in consequence of the legislature incorporating a company to erect a toll bridge across the Kinderhook creek, about one mile south of the west end of the said road, and also incorporating a company to improve the road from the village of Bath to Massachusetts line, with a branch to Stephentown, which said roads, running nearly parallel with the said Stephentown turnpike road, have so reduced the travel on said road, as that the toll will B by no means keep the same in repair; the stockholders are there> føre desirous to relinquish the whole stock in the said road, and be exonerated from the same. Therefore, I. B it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the said corporation be, and the same is hereby dissolved, and the said turnpike shall be and remain a public highway; and the commissioners of highways of the town of Stephentown, are hereby authorised and required to divide the said turnpike road into road districts, and to assess the inhabitants, living thereon, to work the same, agreeable to the act to regulate highways. II. And be it further enacted, That Abijah Bush, Jairod Root and Charles Mason shall be, and hereby are appointed trustees, to sell and convey the toll house and lot of ground belonging to the said turnpike company, and to divide the proceeds thereof, among all the stockholders, agreeable to the number of shares held by them respectively: Provided however, and this act is upon this condition, that the president aud directors of said company, shall, within six months, file their assent to the provisions of this act, under the seal of the said corporation, in the clerk's office in the county of Rensselaer. Preamble. M. Scher. merhorn and others incorporated. Style and powers of the society. CHAP. XII. AN ACT to incorporate the Schenectady Lancaster School Society. WHEREAS Maus Schermerhorn and others, have associated for the purpose of establishing a Lancaster school, in the compact parts of the first or second ward of the city of Schenectady, in order to render the benefits, resulting from the school fund, more extensively useful and beneficial to the inhabitants of said wards: And whereas a great number of said inhabitants have presented a petition to the legislature, setting forth the benefits that would result from such an institution, and praying an act of incorporation for that purpose: Therefore, I. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Maus Schermerhorn and all such other persons as now are, or shall hereafter be associated for the aforesaid purpose, shall be, and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Schenectady Lancaster School Society," and by that name, they and their successors, fo ever hereafter, shall and may have continual succession; and by that name, shall and may be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure and that they and their successors, by their said name, shall be forever capable in law, to purchase, take, re ceive, hold and enjoy any estate, real or personal whatsoever, of what nature or quality soever, to the use of them and their succes. sors: Provided always, that the yearly income of the real and personal estate and hereditaments, held by the said corporation, do not, nor shall at any time, exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and that they and their successors shall have full power and authority to lease such real estate and hereditaments on such terms as they shall judge most beneficial, and also dispose of such personal estate at their will and pleasure, as shall appear to them most advantageous for promoting the benevolent pusposes of said institution. in the police, II. And be it further enacted, That all money raised, or to be Money raised hereafter raised, in that part of the first and second wards of the city how to be ap of Schenectady called the police, under the act relative to common propriated." schools, together with their proportion of the school fund from the state, and the money in the hands of the commissioners of schools belonging to the freeholders and inhabitants, within the bounds of the police, shall be paid to the trustees of the said corporation; and the money raised in the remaining parts of the said first and second wards, together with their proportion of the common school money, be paid to the trustees, to be elected in the district which shall be composed of the said remaining part of the first and second wards, under the act relative to common schools, which territory is hereby made a school district for that purpose, unless the freeholders and inhabitants thereof shall elect to be annexed to a district or districts, in the town of Neskayuna, when it shall be lawful for them so to do. III. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, forever, First trustées. hereafter, thirteen trustees of the said corporation, who shall conduct and manage the affairs thereof; and that the first trustees of the said corporation, shall be Maus Schermerhorn, Henry Yates, jun. Cyrus Stebbins, Jacob Van Veghten, Hooper Cumming, Isaac Riggs, Elisha Taylor, Eliphalet Nott, James Bailey, David Boyd, Abraham S. Groat, Charles Kane and James C. Duane, who shall hold their offices until the second Saturday of March, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen; and the trustees of the said corporation, for the time being, shall have power to establish one or more schools in the first or second wards of said city, for the purpose aforesaid, whenever they shall deem it expedient. IV. And be it further enacted, That on the second Saturday of Trustees how March, in every year hereafter, it shall be lawful for the inhabitants to be elected. of the said first and second wards, residing within the police of said city, entitled to vote for charter offices in said city, to meet at the court house or city hall, of said city, and then and there, by a majority of such of them as shail so meet, shall, by ballot, elect thirteen citizens to be trustees of the said corporation, for the year Dext ensuing; and the trustees shall have power to choose out of their number, a president, a treasuser and secretary, who shall immediately enter on the duties of their offices, and hold the same from the time of such election for one year, and until others shall be elected in their stead; and in case of the resignation, death, or of refusal to serve, of any of the trustees, it shall be in the power |