be closed. thousand dollars; and that the stockholders thereof should, at the future elections to be held, alone choose directors of the company, which said directors should have the power of adjusting and settling the concerns of the original subscription, and dividing among the holders of said stock the balances that may remain, after all its engagements have been settled: And whereas a subscription of five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, hath been subscribed and paid or secured to be paid by stockholders of the said corporation and others, and the said subscribers to the said last mentioned capital stock, are desirous of continuing the business and operations of the said corporation, as stockholders, upon the said last mentioned capital stock, and of having the time of the duration of the said corporation prolonged and extended to the second day of March, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; and the president and directors of the said company, having prayed for an act of the Legislature, for the more effectual accomplishment of said purposes: Therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represent ed in enate and assem ly, That the business, concerns and operaBusiness of tions of the said corporation, so far as relates to the original stock the original company to and stockholders, be closed and discontinued, and that the estate, funds and effects thereof, after the payment of all the debts, and the extinguishment of all the covenants, contracts and engagements of the said corporation, contracted, made and entered into, during its operations on the said original capital stock, shall be distributed among the said stockholders according to their rights therein; and that the said stockholders shall cease to be stockholders of the said corporation, in respect to its operations and concerns, since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, unless, and except they have or shall become stockholders of the new capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, so subscribed as aforesaid. Japital stock Style & dur ation. company. II. And be it further enacted, That the subscribers to, and the stockholders in the said new subscribed capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, shall be and continue, and are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of "The New-York Firemen Insurance Company;" and that they, and their successors, by such name, shall and may, until the second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, have continued succession, and shall have power, and be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded. defending and being defended, answering and being answered unto, in all courts and judicatures whatever; and also of contracting and being contracted with, relative to the purposes, objects and business of the said corporation, and shall and may con tinue to have a common seal, and alter or destroy, and renew the same at pleasure. III. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall Fowers of the have power and authority to make contracts of insurance with any person or persons, body politic or corporate, against loss or damage by fire, of or to any houses or buildings, or goods or chattles or per sonal estate, and also to make all kinds of marine insurance, and to loan money on bottomry respondentia or mortgage of real estate, and chattels real, and generally to do and perform all matters and things relating to the said objects, and shall and may have and exercise all the powers and authorities which are by law vested in the said corporation of the New-York firemen insurance company : Provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall, in any way, be construed to grant banking powers. IV. And be it further enacted, That the present directors and president of the New York firemen insurance company, shall be, and continue, under this act, until the second Monday of December next, and until others shall be duly chosen in their place, and enter upon the duties of their office. Proviso. Directors V. And be it further enacted, That the directors of the said corporation, and their successors in office, shall have the charge, Their duty. management, liquidation and settlement of the business and concerus of the original stockholders, and stock of the said corporation, relative thereto, and shall keep separate accounts of what may relate to such said business and affairs, and after payment of all debts and extinguishment of all covenan's, contracts and engagements of the said corporation, on that account, out of the estate, funds and effects belonging thereto, shall distribute and pay the residue and overplus of such said estate, funds and effects, unto and among the said original stockholders and their respective lawful representatives, in proportion to their respective rights and intererests in the same. tinued in VI. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "an act Parts of for to incorporate the firemen of the city of New York, as an insurance mer acts con company," passed the second day of March, one thousand eight force hundred and ten, and the act, entitled "an act to amend the act, entitled "an act to incorporate the firemen of the city of New-York," passed the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and all and singular the powers and provisions therein contained, shall be and hereby are continued in force, and made applicable, and shall apply to the said corporation; and the new stock and stockholders are hereby authorised and continued, and the property and concerns thereof, in like manner to all intents and purposes, as though the same were hereby enacted in form, but that all such parts of the said act, as are inconsistent with this act, or any of the provisions herein contained, shall be, and the same are bereby repealed. VII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be liberally construed to effect the ends and purposes hereby intended and contemplated. CHAP. XVII. AN ACT to incorporate the New-York Typographical Society. WHEREAS Adoniram Chandler, Mortines Swain, Thomas nolds, and others, have associated themselves together, under the name and description of "The New-York Typographical Society," for the purpose of affording relief to indigent and distressed members of said association, their widows and orphans, and others, who may be found proper objects of their charity and they therefore pray that the legislature will be pleased to incorporate them for the purposes aforesaid, under such limitations and restrictions as to the legislature may seem meet: Therefore, I. BE it enacted by the People of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That such persons as now are, or shall from time to time hereafter, become members of said society, shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the title Style & pow and designation of "The New-York Typographical Society;" and that by that name, they and their successors shall have succession, and shall 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 change and alter it at their pleasure; and that they and their successors, by the same name and title, shall be capable in law, to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, any real estate, in fee simple, or for a term of life or lives, or otherwise, and any goods, chattels or personal estate, for the purpose of enabling them the better to carry into effect the benevolent design of affording relief to the indigent and distressed of their members or society: Provided, That the yearly value of such real and personal estate, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and that they and their successors shall have full power and authority to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of the said real and personal estate, or any part thereof, at their will and pleasure; and that they and their successors shall have power, from time to time, to make, constitute ordain and establish, repeal, alter and amend such by-laws and regulations, as they shall judge proper, for the admission, government and expulsion of members, for fixing the times and places of the meetings and elections of the officers of their society, for the management, application and disposition of the estate, property and funds of the said corporation, for regulating and determining the obligations and duties of the officers and members of the society, for imposing and collecting fines and penalties for the violation and breach of said bylaws, and generally to carry into effect all the before mentioned powers, and promote the charitable and laudable objects of the institution: Provided always, That such by laws and regulations shall contain nothing in them repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this state. Provico. Proviso. Officers. II. And be it further enacted, That the officers of this society shall be and consist of a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary, to be chosen annually, or at any other time or times, and with any additional officers for any different periods which the society may deem fit and necessary; and Adoniram Chandler is hereby appointed and shall be president; Mortines Swain the vicepresident; Thomas Kennedy the treasurer, and Augustus P. Searing the secretary, of the said corporation or society, until the next annual or periodical meeting of the society, for the election or ap pointment of officers, or for such periods or terms as the by-laws of the society may provide and determine. III. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and hereby A public net. is declared to be a public act, and that the same shall be constru ed in all courts and places, benigoly and favorably for every beneficial purpose therein contained. Duration. IV. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and remain in full force and virtue, for the term of fifteen years, from the passing thereof, and no longer, unless it be renewed and its duration prolonged by the legislature of this state, at any time hereafter: Provided nevertheless, That in case the said society or corporation Proviso. shall at any time, or in any manner, divert or appropriate its funds, or any part thereof, to any purpose or use, other than those intended or contemplated by this act, or shall at any time pass any law or regulation respecting the price or wages of labor or workmen, or any other articles, or relating to the business which the members thereof practise or follow for a livelihood, and shall thereof be convicted by due course of law, that thenceforth the said corporation shall cease and determine, and the estate thereof, whether real or personal, shall be forfeited by the society and vest in the people of this state: And provided further, That nothing herein contained Proviso shall be construed to prevent the legislature of this state, at any time, in their discretion within the period above limited, from altering or repealing this aet: And further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to grant to the said incorporation any banking privileges whatever. CHAP. XVIII. AN ACT for the preservation of the fish in certain natural ponds of water in South Salem, in Westchester county. Passed February 27, 1818. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represent ed in senate and aseembly, That from and after the passing of this act, until the first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, it shall not be lawful for auy person or persons whatsoever, to fish or angle in the three natural ponds, situate in South Salem, in the county of Westchester, called the north pond, south pond and long pond, or in any of the waters running into or issuing from said ponds within said town; and every person offending herein, shall for every such offence, forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by any person who will sue for the same, by an action of debt, with costs, before any court have ing cognizance thereof. CHAP. XIX. AN ACT to alter the time of holding town meetings in the town of Lysander, in the county of Onondaga. Passed February 27, 1818. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in senate and assembly, That the annual town meetings in the town of Lysander, in the county of Onondaga, shall, after the first Tuesday of April next, be held on the first Tuesday of March annually, and that all such town officers, whose duty it was to meet on the last Tuesday in March, shall meet on the last Tuesday in February, to do and transact such business as to their respective of fices may appertain. CHAP. XX. AN ACT for the relief of Henry Molt. Passed February 27, 1818. WHEREAS Henry Mott, late a collector of taxes in the town of Hempstead, in Queens county, by his petition represents, that by reason of sickness he was unable to collect all the tax of said town, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, within the time limited by his warrant, and prays that a law may be passed authorising him to collect the same: Therefore, Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, That the time limited in the said warrant for the said Henry Mott, to collect and pay over the said tax, be extended to the first day of July next: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to discharge the surety or sureties of the said Heary Mott, from any liability they may have incurred or shall incur by reason of any misfeasance or negligence or any act or conduct of him the said Henry Mott, as collector as aforesaid. CHAP XXI. AN ACT to alter the time of holding town meetings in the towns of Middlebury, Pembroke and Orangeville, in the county of Genesee. Passed February 27, 1818. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, That from and after the day preceding the first Tuesday in March uext, the annual town meetings in the towns of Middlebury, Pembroke and Orangeville, in the county of Genesee, shall be held on the first Tuesday of March, in each and every year; and that all such town officers, whose duty it is to meet on the last Tuesday of March, shall meet on the last Tuesday of February in every year, to do and transact such business as to their respective offices may appertain. |