the same time, or in any court of common pleas or general sessions of that county; and also any number of jurors in addition thereto, that shall have been ordered according to law.

$2. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage.

CHAP. 10.

AN ACT directing a Special Circuit Court to be held in the County of Oswego.

Passed January 25, 1832.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

1. A special circuit court shall be held in and for the Special court county of Oswego, at the court-house in the eastern jury dis- in April 1839. trict thereof, to commence on the third Tuesday of April rext, and the said court may be continued by adjournment from day to day, as often, and continue as long as the said court shall deem proper.

shall

S2. All the provisions of law relative to circuit courts, Provisions of except so far as the same may be modified by this act, law. be applicable to the court herein directed to be held.

S3. It shall be the duty of the circuit judge of the fifth dis- Circuit judge trict, to attend at and hold the said circuit court, so long as he may deem it necessary to do so.

$ 4. No person bound by recognizance or otherwise to ap- Recognizan pear at any circuit court to be held in and for said county of ces. Oswego, shall be bound to appear at said court, authorised to be held by this act.

S5. No issue in any suit in ejectment shall be tried at the Ejectment court hereby authorised to be held.

$ 6. This act shall take effect from and immediately after Art to tako he passage thereof.

Act of 1819 extended.

Election of directors.

How to be

held and certified.

Owners of stock.

Board of directors.

CHAP. 11.

AN ACT to amend and extend the Act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Sodus-Bay Bridge Company," passed the 9th day of April, 1819.

Passed January 26, 1832. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. The act entitled "An act to incorporate the Sodusbay bridge Company," passed April 9th, 1819, is hereby extended, and shall continue in force, until the ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hnndred and fifty-two.

S2. There shall be an election of directors, on the first Monday in May next, at the tavern, now occupied by Mr. Graham, near the east end of the bridge, owned by the company; of which election, twenty days' written notice shall be given, by serving a copy thereof on all the persons interested in the stock of the said company, and on all the persons owning and interested in any portion of the property of the said corporation.

$3. Such election shall be held by Byram Green and Norman Sheldon, who shall declare the result thereof, and certify the same, under their hands, to the clerk of the county of Wayne, who shall file the same and deliver a copy of such certificate to the persons elected directors, or to some one of them. And the persons holding such election, shall be entitled to three dollars a day for their services.

$4. The persons owning the said bridge, and property of the said corporation, shall be deemed to be the owners of the stock of said corporation, and entitled to vote at such election, according to their respective interests, reference being had to the original number of shares of the stock of said company.

$5. The board of directors shall be organized in the manner prescribed by the act hereby amended; they shall issue certificates of the stock of the said company to the persons entitled thereto; they shall appoint a day and place for the annual election of directors, and twenty days' written notice of the time and place of holding such annual election, shall be given for all future elections; which notice shall be signed by the secretary of said company, and served on each stockholder, by delivering the same to him or her, or by leaving the same at his or her place of abode, and such subsequent elections shall be holden under the inspection of three stockholders, not being directors, to be appointed previous to every election, by the board of directors.

Statutes after

$ 6. From and after the ninth day of April, one thousand Subject to R. eight hundred and thirty-nine, the corporation, herein mention- 1839. ed, shall be subject to the provisions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

S7. Such parts of the act hereby amended, as are incon- Repeal. sistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 12.

AN ACT respecting the Loan Officers of the City and
County of New-York.

Passed January 30, 1832.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

may be as

S 1. It shall be lawful for the loan officers of the city and Mortgages county of New-York to assign and set over to any person or signed. corporate body, their heirs and assigns, on their paying the principal and interest due thereon, all mortgages on lands, which may have been mortgaged to said loan officers and their predecessors in office, which have not been cancelled and paid; and thereupon, the assignees of such mortgages, their heirs and assigns, shall be possessed of all the right, title and interest which the people of the state of New-York and the said loan officers have in and to the same, and shall be entitled to take all lawful means in their own name for the collecting of the money due, or to become due thereon, which the said people and the said loan officers now have, or may have, for the collection of the same: but the people of this state are in no event to be made liable by such assignment for the repayment of the principal and interest, or any part thereof, in case the same shall not be recovered of the mortgagor or mortgagors, their heirs or assigns, or from the sale of the premises thus mortgaged.

account.

$ 2. It shall be the duty of said loan officers to account with Officera to the comptroller of this state for their doings in the premises, and to pay to the treasurer of the state the moneys so received on transfer of the said mortgages.

Water-street may be conti nued.

Commission

ers.

Street, when

to be opened.

Name.

СНАР. 13.

AN ACT to empower the Commissioners of Highways of the Town of Watervliet to open a highway in said town.

Passed February 1, 1832. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S1. The highway known and designated as Water-street, in the village of Port Schuyler, in the town of Watervliet, shall be continued northwardly, and in the direction, and of the width of said Water-street, until it shall intersect the Watervliet turnpike road.

$2. William Peirce, Joseph D. Selden, and Harvey Betts, of the city of Troy, are hereby appointed commissioners for appraising the damages, which the owners of lands through which said street shall be continued, may sustain, to be estimated and appraised in the same manner as is required by article third, chapter ninth, part first, of the Revised Statutes, in cases of damages on the public canals. Said commissioners shall file in the office of the clerk of said town, a certificate, signed by them, of the names of the persons interested, and the sums estimated to each for their damages in opening said street.

$3. Whenever a sum of money shall be raised by voluntary subscription, and paid to the commissioners of highways. of said town, equal to the sums appraised to the owners of the ground appropriated to the public use in opening said street, then the commissioners of highways of said town shall cause the said street to be opened and worked, in the manner pointed out in the first section of this bill, as one of the highways of said town, and shall pay over the money to the persons to whom the same shall have been awarded by the appraisers.

CHAP. 14.

AN ACT to incorporate the Hebrew Benevolent Society of the City of New-York.

Passed February 2, 1832.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. There shall be established and located in the city of New-York, a charitable society, by the name of the Hebrew benevolent society of the city of New-York.

created.

$ 2. Moses B. Seixas, Louis Levy, Daniel Jackson, Solo- Corporation mon Seixas, John I. Hart, Myer Levy, Mordecai M. Noah, Myer Moses, Joseph Levy, and such other persons as are or may become members of said society, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name aforesaid.

$3. The objects of said society are charitable, and to afford Objects of relief to its members, in cases of sickness and infirmity.

society.

$ 4. The corporation shall have power to prescribe rules By-Laws. and regulations for the admission of its members and their government, election of its officers and their duty, and expelling. any of its members for not observing its laws.

come.

$5. The annual income of the real and personal estate, Annual in which the said corporation may at any time hold, shall not exceed two thousand dollars.

$6. The persons now acting as officers of the company or Officers. association, in the city of New-York, known as the Hebrew benevolent society, shall hold their offices until others are elected in their places.

$7. The corporation shall possess the general powers, and General pow be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities, prescribed er. in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

$8. The legislature may, at any time, modify, alter or re- Rights reserpeal this act, or any of its provisions.

CHAP. 15.

AN ACT authorising certain persons therein named, to change their names.

Passed February 8, 1832.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S1. Martin Hoar, Lorin Hoar, Lyman Hoar, and Lester Hoar, of the town of Harmony, in the county of Chautauque, may each respectively assume and take the surname or family name of Hobart; and after the passage of this act, the families of the said persons named in this section shall respectively be called and known by the name of Hobart, instead of Hoar.

ved.