Laws of the State of New York

Commiflioners to purchase-4. Overplus money, if any, how applied.
5. Firemen, 24 additional ones to be elected-6. Time of fervice-7. Election.
8. ...... May fill all vacancies in their own number.

AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled "An Act to vest certain Powers

in the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Part of the Town of Brooklyn,

in Kings County.”

Passed February 20, 1807.

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre-

II.B dan senate and Assembly, That the limits of the fire

district in the town of Brooklyn, be extended from the still-house,

along the East-river southwardly, to the public landing, near the

dwelling house of Ralph Patchin; thence eastwardly, up the road

leading from the said landing to its junction with Red-Hook lane,

to where it intersects the road leading from Brooklyn ferry to Bed-

ford; thence a northeast course to the head of the Wallabout mill-

pond; thence, in the original line of demarkation to the place of

beginning.

II. And be it further enacted, That the supervisors of the county

of Kings, or the major part of them, are herby authorized and di-

rected, at their meeting in October next, to cause to be raised, by

tax on the estates real and personal of the freeholders and inhabi-

tants of the fire district in said town of Brooklyn, one thousand two

hundred dollars, for the purpose of purchasing one large fire-engine

and implements thereto, in the same manner that the contingent

charges of the several towns in this state are raised, levied and col-

lected, and to be collected by the collector of the town of Brooklyn;

which sum, when so raised and collected, shall be paid over into the

hands of the overseers of the poor of the town of Brooklyn, at the

same time, and under the same restrictions, as the money for the

support of the poor and other contingent charges of the said town

are directed to be paid.

III. And be it further enacted, That John Garrison, John M.
Hicks and Jacob Hicks, be and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners to purchase the said engine and implements; and it shall

and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of
them to purchase one large fire-engine, and the necessary imple-
ments thereto, and to draw upon the said overseers of the poor of
said town of Brooklyn, who are hereby required to pay to the or-
der of the said commissioners, or of the majority of them, the mo-
ney which shall come to their hands by virtue of this act; and it is
hereby made the duty of the said commissioners to account with
the supervisor and justices of the peace of the said town of Brook-
lyn, when they shall be thereunto required; and the overplus mo-
ney, if any there be, shall be applied to such uses and purposes as
a majority of the inhabitants of the said fire district shall, at their
public meetings, direct.

IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful s
for the freeholders and inhabitants of the said fire district, at their
election, on the second Tuesday of May next, to elect twenty-four
able bodied and discreet men, for firemen, in addition to the num-
ber that is allowed by the act hereby amended; and all the firemen 6
hereafter to be elected by the freeholders and inhabitants of said
fire district, shall be elected to serve for five years; and that every
succeeding election for firemen in said district, shall be held once
in five years for ever hereafter on the second Tuesday in May,
any thing in the act hereby amended contained to the contrary not-
withstanding.

V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful &
for the said firemen, at their monthly meetings, by a majority of
votes, to fill all vacancies that may happen in the number of fire-
men within the period of the five years' election, by death, resigna-
tion, or otherwise.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "an act 9
to regulate the keeping of gunpowder within the fire district in the
town of Brooklyn, in Kings county," passed the fourteenth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and six, shall be in force within
the whole bounds of the said fire district, as the lines are by this act
established.

CHA P. VIII.

CONTENTS.

1. Richland erected from part of Williamstown-2. Part to retain its prefent name-
3. And another part annexed to Redfield-4. Poor, &c. how divided.

AN ACT to divide the Town of Williamstown, in the County of

Oneida.

Passed February 20, 1807.

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represent-
ed in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of
Williamstown, known and distinguished on the map of this state
made by the surveyor-general, by the names of Campania, Rhada-
mant, Longinus, Richland and Alkmain, shall be and is hereby
erected into a separate town, by the name of Richland; and that
the first town meeting be held at the dwelling house of Thaddeus

2 Harman, in said town; and that the township distinguished on the

map aforesaid by the names of Franklin and Middleburgh, shall be

and remain a separate town by the name of Williamstown; and

that the first town meeting in said town of Williamstown shall be

held at the place to which it now stands adjourned.

II. And be it further enacted, That the township known and distin-

guished on the map aforesaid by the name of Arcadia, shall be an-

nexed to and become part of the town of Redfield.

III. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the

first town meeting shall be held in the town of Richland, the

supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns of Williams-

town and Richland, on notice being first given for that purpose, shall

meet together and divide the money and poor belonging to the town

of Williamstown previous to the division thereof, agreeable to the

last tax-list; and that each of said towns shall thereafter respec-

tively maintain their own poor.

CHA P. IX.

CONTENTS.

1. Masons' Society in New-York, incorporated-13. To continue 10 years, with proviso.
Name 3. Privileges-9. Powers-4. Estate limited.

15. Act declared public, and to be favorably construed.

14. Funds, if applied to other objects than those contemplated, charter to cease.
10. Members refractory, may be expelled-11. By the votes of 2-3rds of the members
12. And thereafter debarred from the advantages of the corporation.

5. Officers---8. First named---6. Election, manner of---7. Vacancies how supplied.

AN ACT to incorporate the New-York Masons' Society.

Passed February 20, 1807.

THEREAS divers persons, inhabitants of the city of New-

WHORE, being Tut's RS, bricklayers or plaisterers, have formed

themselves into an association, under the name and style of "the
New-York masons' society," and have by a petition presented to
the legislature, set forth, that the objects they had in view were to
promote a friendly intercourse and good understanding among one
another, to relieve each other when in distress, to provide for the
education of the children of deceased and indigent members, and to
endeavor to render themselves more perfect in their respective
callings; for which purpose they have raised a fund, a part of which,
not exceeding one fourth, may be appropriated towards the purchase
of a library to be chiefly composed of such books as may have a
tendency to improve them in their business, and the residue of the
said fund, after defraying the incidental expenses of managing the
concerns of the society, to be exclusively applied towards the relief
of distressed members, as well as of their widows and orphan chil-
dren, and for establishing a school for the education of the children
of deceased and indigent members. And whereas the said society,
in order that they may be enabled more beneficially to carry into
effect their charitable and laudable intentions, have prayed that
the said society may be incorporated for the purposes aforesaid, un-

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