ers to receive lay the same not less than three rods wide, and cause a survey of the same to be made, and a map, which shall be filed in the clerk's office of the county of Greene; and that each of the said commis- Commission sioners shall be allowed at the rate of two dollars per day, for every 2 dollars per day they shall be employed in the same, to be paid, together with the day expense of surveying and filing said map, by the said directors; that the said president and directors shall make the arch of the said road Road how not less than twenty feet wide, and that so much of the fourth, third and sixth sections of the act entitled "an act relative to turnpike companies," as is not inconsistent herewith, shall apply to this act as far as it respects the said road. made responsible 5. And be it further enacted, That for all debts which shall be Stockholders due and owing by said company, the persons composing said cor- individually poration shall be responsible in their individual and private capacity, for debts to the extent of their respective shares, at the par value thereof, and no further, in any suit or action to be brought or prosecuted by any creditor or creditors of said corporation. CHAP. 58. AN ACT relative to Improvements in the City of New-York. Passed February 25, 1826. issue letters mayor, &c. of the water, contiguous to lands of cor poration 1. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, repre- Com's of the sented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful, land-office to for the commissioners of the land-office, and they are hereby direct- patent to the ed to issue letters patent, granting to the mayor, aldermen and com- N York, for monalty of the city of New-York, and their successors forever, all lands under the right and title of the people of this state, to the lands covered with water along the easterly shore of the North or Hudson's river, contiguous to and adjoining the lands of the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty, within the said city of New-York, at and from low water mark,and running four hundred feet into the said river, from a point on the easterly shore of said tiver, four miles north from Bestavers Killitje, and extending therefrom north along the easterly shore of said river to Spytden Duyvel creek, otherwise called Kingsbridge creek or Harlæm river; and also all the land covered with water along the westerly shore of the East river or Sound, contiguous to and adjoining the lands of the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty, at and from low water mark, and extending four hundred feet into the said river or sound, from a point on the westerly shore of said river or sound, two miles north from Corlaer's Hook, and extending therefrom north along the westerly shore of the said East river or sound, to Spytden Duyvel creek, otherwise called Harlæm river Provided always, That the proprietor or proprietors of the lands adjacent, shall have the pre-emptive right in all grants made by of lands adja the corporation of the said city, of any lands under water granted to the said corporation by this act. Proprietors cent to have pre-emptive right Tompkins exterior 2. And be it further enacted, That Tompkin's-street along the East river, as laid out and approved of by the mayor, aldermen and declared the commonalty of the city of New-York, shall be the permanent exte- street on the #ior street on the East river, between Grand-street and Twenty East river Former act continued Commission office to grant third-street; and that all grants made or to be made by the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty shall be construed as rightfully made to extend thereto, and that all the provisions of the act, entitled "an act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the city of New-York into one act," passed April 9th, 1813, and the several acts amendatory thereof, and in addition thereto, shall be construed to apply to said Tompkins-street. CHAP. 59. AN ACT to continue in force an act entitled "An Act directing the mode of appointing certain officers, whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by the constitution," passed April 19, 1823. Passed February 25, 1826. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the act entitled " an act directing the mode of appointing certain officers, whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by the constitution," passed April 19th, 1823, be and the same is hereby continued in force for three years from and after the nineteenth day of April next. CHAP. 60. AN ACT directing the sale of certain unappropriated Lands therein mentioned. Passed March 2, 1826. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repreers of land- sented in Senate and Assembly, That the commissioners of the certain lands land-office be, and they are hereby required to cause to be surveyed, to R Morse, and shall grant to Ralsey Morse, Preston Thompson, Roswell ThompR Thompson son and Franklin Jenkins, out of the unappropriated land in the &F Jenkins town of Lewis, in the county of Essex, each a lot not exceeding P Thompson, two hundred acres, to be laid out as nearly in a square as may be, so as to include their respective improvements, at such prices as shall be ascertained by appraisements to be directed by the said commissioners to be the value thereof, which grants shall be made to the above named persons on their complying with the terms and conditions on which the unappropriated lands of this state are by law directed to be sold: Provided, The applicants pay all the expenses of surveying and appraising said land. CHAP. 61. AN ACT relative to Highways in the Towns of Greenbush, Schodack and Stuyvesant, in the Counties of Columbia and Rensselaer. Passed March 2, 1826. missioners 1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, re- Duty of cam presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of highways of the towns of Greenbush, Schodack and Stuyvesant, in the counties of Columbia and Rensselaer, to compel the persons assessed, to work on the highways, living within a quarter of a mile east of the Farmer's turnpike; and all persons residing west of the same, and who elect to work upon the old or cross roads, to work the same as far as the said commissioners may order and determine; and, that hereafter the commissioners and overseers of highways of the said towns, shall not be precluded from compelling the said person so electing to work the old roads, from working the old or cross roads, beyond the distance of a quarter of a mile from the said turnpike. tionment 2. And be it further enacted, That if a new apportionment of the New appor road districts in the said towns, shall be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the commissioners of highways of said towns, forthwith to make such new apportion ment. CHAP. 62. AN ACT regulating the Fees of Coroners in the several Cities and Counties of this State, so far as relates to the taking of Inquisitions. Passed March 2, 1826. to audit 1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, rep- Supervisors resented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this act, the compensation to be paid to the coroners of the several cities and counties of this state, for taking a view of dead bodies, and all incidental expenses shall be fixed, and their accounts audited and allowed by the board of supervisors of the several cities and counties, in the same manner as other contingent expenses in said cities and counties are audited and allowed. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled Former act an act regulating the fees of the several officers and ministers of repealed justice within this state," passed April 9th, 1813, as relates to the taking of inquisitions, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Town meet? Same in CHAP. 63. AN ACT to alter the time of holding Town Meetings in the Town of Castile, in the County of Genesee, and in the Towns of Pompey and Lysander, in the County of Onondaga. Passed March 2, 1826. 1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the annual town-meetings of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Castile, in the county of Genesee, shall hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of March, in every year; and that all town officers of the said town of Castile, whose duty it is to meet on the last Tuesday in March, shall meet on the last Tuesday in February in every year, to do and transact such business, as to their respective offices may appertain. 2. And be it further enacted, That the annual town-meetings in Pompey and the towns of Pompey and Lysander, in the county of Onondaga, shall Lysander hereafter be held on the last Tuesday in April: and that all town officers of said towns whose duty it now is to meet on the last Tuesday in February, shall hereafter meet on the Tuesday next preceding the last Tuesday in April. Jurisdiction U States CHAP. 64. AN ACT to Cede to the United States the Jurisdiction of this BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repreceded to the sented in Senate and Assembly, That the jurisdiction of this state, in and over the tract of land hereinafter described, be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States; that is to say, all that piece or parcel of land lying in the town of Cornwall, in the county of Orange, and bounded as follows: Begining at the north easterly corner of the piece of land herein intended to be described, at the mouth of a small creek which enters into the Hudson river near the old stores, and thence up and along the southeasterly side of the said creek, to its intersection with the northeasterly side of the road leading from West-Point to John Kronkhites; thence southeasterly along the northeastly side of the said road, to its intersection with the road which leads from West-Point southerly to the widow Kinsleys; thence from said point of intersection due south to a point seven chains south of the line which divides the Gridley farm from the post of West-Point; and from thence south eighty-one degrees east, to the Hudson's river, on a line parallel with the said division line; and from thence northwardly along the low water mark of the said river, to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and twenty acres or thereabouts: Provided nevertheless, That such jurisdiction so ceded as aforesaid, shall not extend or be construed to extend, so as to impede or prevent the execution of any process, civil or Proviso criminal, under the authority of this state, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States, within the said above described tract of land. CHAP. 65. AN ACT to repeal the second section of the act entitled " An Act for the preservation of Fish, in the Crooked Lake, in the Counties of Steuben and Yates.” Passed March 2, 1826. repealed BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- Former act sented in Senate and Assembly, That the second section of the act entitled "an act for the preservation of fish in the Crooked Lake, in the counties of Steuben and Yates," passed April 1, 1824, which prohibits fishing in the Seneca Lake, be, and the same is hereby repealed. CHAP. 66. AN ACT to amend the Act, declaring a part of Flint Creek, in the Passed March 2, 1826. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- Former act sented in Senate and Assembly, That so much of the act entitled repealed "an act declaring part of Flint creek, in the county of Ontario, a public highway," passed April 14, 1815, as relates to that part of the said creek which lies between Edward Craft's mill dam, in the town of Gorham, (now the mill dam of Samuel Stewart, and of the heirs of George D. Stewart,) and the mill dam of Leonard Isenhorn, in the town of Seneca, now occupied by Robert M. Kane, be, and the same is hereby repealed. CHAP. 67. AN ACT authorising the Supervisors of the different Towns in this State to take and hold Lands for Burial Grounds. Passed March 8, 1826. in trust 1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- Supervisors sented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for to hold lands the supervisors of the different towns in this state, for themselves and their successors in office, to receive, by gifts or donations in trust, for their several towns, lands for burial places or public cemeteries; and that such lands shall be and remain the property of the town in which such burial place or cemetery shall or may be situated, for the use and convenience of the inhabitants of such town. |