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peace of said county, to lay out and straighten said road without favor or partiality; and they shall, after laying out said road, cause to be made an accurate map of the survey of said road, and sign and file the same in the clerk's office in the towns in which the said Clerk's duty road shall be laid out; and it shall be the duty of the clerks of said towns to receive and immediately record the same, and give notice in writing to the commissioners of highways of their respective towns, of laying out and recording of said road, whose duty it shall be within their respective towns, to cause the said road to be opened in the time and worked in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled " An act to regulate highways, and the acts amending the same ;" and if the said road shall be laid through any lands to the damage or injury of the owners thereof, the damages, if required, shall be levied and paid as is prescribed in and by the act last aforesaid.

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3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners and their surveyor shall each be allowed two dollars, and the chain bearers one dollar each per day, for every day they shall be necessarily employed in the duties aforesaid, and the supervisors of said county shall audit the accounts of said commissioners, surveyor and chain bearers, and cause the same to be equally assessed on the towns through which the said road shall be laid out, and the sum so audited or allowed to be paid over to the said commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

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CHAP. 149.

AN ACT supplementary to the act entitled "An Act to incorpor › ate the Orange and Sussex Canal Company," passed April 9,

1824.

Passed April 11, 1826.

1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reing books ex presented in Senate and Assembly, That the time for opening the books of subscription for the capital stock of the said company be, and the same is hereby enlarged and extended unto the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and it shall be lawful for the said commissioners appointed by and under the said act, after continuing the said books open for the space of two days, either finally to close the same or to adjourn from time to time, until the whole capital stock shall be subscribed. 2. And be it further enacted, That the stockholders of the said responsible corporation shall be holden in their individual capacities, responsible, jointly and severally, for the payment of all debts contracted by the said company, to the nominal amount of the stock held by such stockholders respectively, and any person having any demand against the said company, may sue any stockholder thereof, and recover in any court having cognizance thereof: Provided such suit shall not be maintained without proof that such demand had been presented to the proper office of the said company for payment, and the payment thereof neglected or refused: And provided also,

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3. And be it further enacted, That the legislature may at any Right to re time alter, amend or repeal this act, and the act hereby amended.

CHAP. 150.

AN ACT to amend the Act, entitled “ An Act relative to the different Tribes and Nations of Indians in this State," passed April 10, 1813.

Passed April 11, 1826.

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BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- 3d section of sented in Senate and Assembly, That the provisions of the third former act ex section of the act entitled "an act relative to the different tribes and Seneca and nations of Indians in this state," passed April tenth, eighteen hun- St. Regis In dred and thirteen, so far as they may be applicable, be, and they are hereby extended to the Seneca and St. Regis tribes of Indians, and that any person or persons who shall sell to any Indian of said tribes, or to any Indian residing with or visiting said tribes, any rum, bran- Sellingardent dy, gin or other ardent spirits, within the county of Cattaraugus spirits to them or Franklin, shall be deemed guilty of a public offence, and be sub- public offence ject to the penalties provided in and by the said section, to be recovered and paid in the manner therein prescribed.

CHAP. 151.

AN ACT to authorise the Supervisors of the County of Rensselaer to raise a further sum of Money to build a Gaol in said County.

Passed April 11, 1826.

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1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- Supervisors sented in Senate and Assembly, That the supervisors of the coun- raise D5000 ty of Rensselaer, be and they are hereby authorised at their next by tax meeting, or at any other meeting thereafter, to raise a sum in addition to the sum already raised, not exceeding in amount the sum of five thousand dollars over and above the ordinary fees for collecting the same, by tax upon the freeholders, inhabitants and taxable property of the said county of Rensselaer, for the purpose of building a for building gaol for the said county, and such out buildings and appurtenances therefor, as shall by the said board of supervisors be considered necessary, which sum shall be raised, levied and collected in the same manner as other contingent charges of said county are raised, levied and collected.

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2. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the money author- Money to be ised to be raised by the first section of this act, shall have been col- Paid to com lected and paid over to the treasurer of the said county, the said supervisors, or a majority of them, shall order the said treasurer to pay over the same to the commissioners already appointed or who may

be hereafter appointed by the said supervisors for the purpose of building the said gaol, or to a majority of them, to be expended by them for the purposes aforesaid, after deducting a fair compensation for the services of the said commissioners.

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CHAP. 152.

AN ACT to amend the Act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Village of Buffalo, in the County of Erie," passed April 17th,

1822.

Passed April 11, 1826.

1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repthe village resented in Senate and Assembly, That the bounds of the said village of Buffalo shall be so extended eastwardly as to comprise the outer lots designated on a map of the said village made by Joseph Ellicott, and all the docks, piers and wharves now erected or hereafter to be erected at or adjoining the mouth of Buffalo creek.

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2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the trustees of the said village to regulate the number and determine the regulate inns qualifications of the persons to be licensed to keep inns or taverns within the same, and to determine the sums which persons applying for such licenses shall respectively pay, not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than five dollars, exclusive of the sum of one dollar to be paid for each license to the president of the trustees of said village for making out such license, and taking the recognizance as required by law; and it shall be lawful for the said trustees to grant licenses to so many persons applying for the same as they shall think proper, to keep groceries or victualling houses, or shops or houses. where spirituous liquors are intended to be sold to be drank in such groceries, victualling houses or shops as aforesaid, and on granting such licenses, to require such person to enter into a bond to the trustees of said village in the sum of one hundred dollars, conditioned that such person will not, during the term of his, her or their license, keep a disorderly house or shop, nor suffer any gaming, raffling, or playing with cards or dice, nor keep a gaming table within such grocery, or sell or give to any Indian any spirituous liquors; and in case such person shall, during the time for which such license was granted, be guilty of any offence contrary to the condition of such bond, it shall be lawful for said trustees to revoke such license; and any person keeping such grocery as aforesaid without a license first obtained, shall be subjected to a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs, before any magistrate in said village; and all such fines when so recovered, and all monies collected for licenses, shall be paid over by said trustees to the overseers of the poor of the town of Buffalo, for the support of the poor of the said town.

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3. And be it further enacted, That the village of Buffalo is hereby declared to be a road district, and the trustees thereof and their successors shall be and are hereby declared to be commissioners and overseers of roads and highways within said village, and shall yearly and every year assess the freeholders and inhabitants of the said

village to work on the public streets and roads such number of days' works, and at such times and places, as the said trustees shall deem just and proper: Provided always, That no person shall be assessed more than thirty days nor less than one day in any one year.

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4. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Trustees to for the said trustees, or a majority of them, to open and improve any street heretofore laid out in said village, and they shall have the ex- ac clusive power to lay out the streets and roads within said village of such width, extent and dimensions as they shall deem most conducive to the public good; and on the oath of twelve disinterested freeholders requiring the same, to alter and discontinue, and order to be discontinued or altered, any road or highway within said village, or any part or parts, either in length or width thereof: Provided how- Provise ever, That any person or persons through whose land any street or road may hereafter be laid out, shail feel himself or themselves ag- grieved may grieved thereby, he or they shall be entitled to have the damages occasioned thereby assessed by a jury, as provided in the sixteenth by a jury section of the act, entitled "An act regulating highways ;" and it shall be the duty of the said trustees to notify a meeting of the freeholders and taxable inhabitants of said village, and if they shall approve of the award of said jury, the damages so awarded shall be assessed and paid as other contingent expenses of said village; but such roads shall not be opened until such appraisal shall have been approved as aforesaid.

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5. And be it further enacted, That the board of trustees of the $2000 may be said village shall and may, from year to year, cause a sum not ex- raised by tax, ceeding two thousand dollars to be raised by tax, to defray the expense of lighting the streets in said village, supporting a nightwatch therein, and for defraying the expense of any local improvement, and to defray the contingent expenses of said village; and the sum so raised shall be levied and assessed upon the real and personal estates of the owners and occupants, in a just and equitable manner, in proportion as nearly as may be to the advantages which each shall be deemed to receive thereby; and the monies so raised shall be levied, assessed and collected in the same manner as is provided in the act hereby amended, and be paid into the treasury of said village, and be subject to the order of the board of trustees.

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6. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees be and they Duty of trus are hereby authorised from time to time to cause such piers and to piers and wharves to be erected on the north side of Buffalo creek as they wharves shall deem necessary to confine the channel thereof within proper limits at its entrance into the lake, and to make all necessary repairs to the works already erected and to those hereby authorised; and To receive on application to the commissioners of the land-office, they are of land under hereby authorised to grant and convey to the trustees of the said water village, the land under the water in lake Erie occupied by the works aforesaid, also the land formerly occupied by the old channel of the said creek, from which the current has been diverted, or any lands created or reclaimed in consequence of constructing said pier.

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7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled Parts of "An act to incorporate the village of Buffalo, in the county of Erie," former act repealed passed April 17th, 1822, as is inconsistent with this act act, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that this act shall be deemed a Public aet public act, and shall be construed in all courts and places favorably

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for every beneficial purpose therein intended: Provided, That the privileges granted by this act shall be deemed and taken as a quitLegislature claim of the interests of the state only, and that the legitlature shall at all times have the power, without payment of any compensation, to alter, modify or repeal this act.

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CHAP. 153.

AN ACT extending the time for the completion of the Highland
Turnpike Road.

Passed April 11, 1826.`

1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reped 10 years resented in Senate and Assembly, That the time for completing the Highland turnpike road be, and the same is hereby extended for ten years from and after the passing of this act.

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2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the sixteenth section of the "act to incorporate the Highland turnpike company," passed April 2, 1806, as directs the appointment of commissioners to inspect the road thereby authorised to be constructed, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the said turnpike road shall be How inspect Subject to the inspection and controul of the commissioners who have been or may be appointed pursuant to an act appointing commissioners for the inspection of turnpike roads, and for other purposes," passed April 9, 1804, in the same manner as if no special provision for inspecting the said road had been inserted in the said act of incorporation.

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3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the tolls to be ex said president, directors and company, within six months after the comptroller, passage of this act, to exhibit to the comptroller of this state, under the oath of the president or one of the directors, the amount specified in the thirteenth section of the act incorporating the said company aforesaid, and also an account of all sums received by the said company from tolls or otherwise, since the organization thereof, and of the expenditure thereof; and it shall also be the duty of the said president and directors, annually hereafter on the first day of January, to render to the comptroller an oath as aforesaid, a similar account of all monies received since the last account rendered, and of the expenditure thereof, and a list of the existing stockholders of the said company, and that in case of a refusal or neglect to render such accounts as aforesaid, the said company shall be deemed to have surrendered all the rights and privileges conferred by this act. 4. And be it further enacted, That the rights and privileges may repeal hereby granted, are on the express condition that the legislature may at any time repeal, alter or modify this act, and any acts which have heretofore been passed relating to the said corporation: Provided nevertheless, and the privilege hereby granted is upon the Tolls in cer condition, That it shall not be lawful for the said company to ask, demand or receive from any person travelling the said road from the Blue Store toward the Dutchess county line, or across the same, or from the Dutchess county line toward or by the Blue Store, or to the post road, any greater amount or rate of toll at any gate between

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