District of New-York, ss. BE it remembered, that on the first day of May, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, H. C. SOUTHWICK, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, passed at the thirty-seventh session of the Legislature, begun and held at the city of Albany, the twenty-fifth day of January, 1814. With references and explanatory notes, and also, in an abridged form, such of the reports and documents laid before the Legislature as are of public concern. The whole to be accompanied by a copious Index.” IN conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." THERON RUDD, Clerk of the District of New-York. INTRODUCTION. THE Abbreviations and References adopted in the Revised Laws of 1813, will be continued in the Laws of each Session, with this additional reference, that V. N. & W. will denote the present Revised Laws-as for example: V. N. & W. v. 2. 217. § 10. refers to Van Ness & Woodworth's Revision, volume 2, page 217, section 10. OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT THE THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF An ACT to alter the name of the Corporation of Trinity Church in Passed January 25, 1814. WHEREAS at the time of passing the act entitled, "An Act. for making such alterations in the charter of the corporation of Trinity Church, as to render it more conformable to the constitution of the State," and for some years afterwards, the said corporation, although possessing several places of public worship besides Trinity Church, was the only incorporated religious society in the city of New-York,in communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this State, but several other religious societies of the same denomination have since been formed in the said city and duly incorporated. And whereas, by an act passed the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, the said corporation of Trinity Church was enabled to take and use the name of "The Rector and Inhabitants of the city of New-York in communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of New-York," which name the said corporation by their petition to the Legislature pray may be altered as having now become improper, and that such further legislative provisions may be made as to remove all doubts respecting their char ter rights, occasioned by the formation of other religious societies, in the said city of New-York; Therefore, Recital I. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, repre- Corporate sented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the passing of Name. this act, the said corporation of Trinity Church, instead of their present name, shall take and use the name of "The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church in the city of NewYork." II. And be it further enacted, That all male persons of full age, Persons qualiwho for the space of one year, preceding any election, shall fied to vote. have been members of the congregation of Trinity Church aforesaid, or of any of the chapels belonging to the same, and forming part of the same religious corporation, and who shall hold, occupy or enjoy a pew or seat in Trinity Church, or in any of the said chapels, or have partaken of the holy communion therein, within Corporation may grant Corpora tious. Proviso. Recital the said year, and no other persons, shall be entitled to vote at the annual elections, for the Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the said corporation. III. And be it further enacted, That all grants and conveyances lands to other heretofore made or that hereafter may be made by the said corporation of Trinity Church of any of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments to any other religious society now incorporated, or that may hereafter be duly incorporated, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be valid and effectual according to the tenor thereof, Provided the annual value of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments at the time of such grant or conveyance together with the other estate real and personal of such other religious corporations shall not exceed the annual sum which they are or may be respectively entitled to hold. And whereas, Saint George's Church in the city of New-York, formerly called Saint George's Chapel, was one of the chapels heretofore belonging to the corporation of Trinity Church, and the pew holders in the said chapel and others qualified according to the charter of Trinity Church, and the laws of the State, were corporators of the said corporation of Trinity Church. And whereas, by mutual agreement and consent the said chapel called Saint George's Chapel with such of the corporators of the corporation of Trinity Church as belonged thereto or statedly worshipped in the said chapel, have been set off and organized as a distinct religious society, and have incorporated themselves as such under the name of the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen, of Saint George's Church, in the city of New-York, and the corporation of Trinity Church have granted to or vested in the said newly incorporated religious society the exclusive right to the said chapel with the appurtenances, and which are now enjoyed accordingly, but doubts are entertained as to the legal validity of the said transaction: Therefore, St. George's Church de elared a se parate Church from Trinity Church. IV, Be it further enacted, That the separation of Saint George's Chapel in the city of New-York, from the corporation of Trinity Church shall be and hereby is confirmed, and that the said Church now called Saint George's Church, shall not at any time hereafter, be held or taken to be, a church or chapel belonging to Trinity Church, so as to qualify any of the congregation thereof to vote at the elections of Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church above mentioned, and the said religious society called the Rector,Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint George's Church in the city of New-York, shall have a right to all the temporaliAnd to possess ties derived from the corporation of Trinity Church as aforesaid, its separate estate. Corporation anay set apart es, &c. and may enjoy the same in as full and beneficial manner as any such religious corporation can hold and enjoy its temporalities, howsoever the same may be acquired. V. And be it further enacted, That when and as often as it shall other Church- seem expedient to the said Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church in the city of New-York to divide the congregation or corporators belonging to the said corporation, it shall be lawful for them so to do, by setting apart as a separate church any of the churches or chapels that may belong to and form part of the said corporation, Provided the same be done with the assent of a majority of the persons entitled to vote as afore Proviso. |