Providing for distribution of annuities to Cayuga nation of Indians by Comptroller. See chap. 355. L. 1849. Overseer of the poor of the city of Albany authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits. Wilful false swearing therein to be perjury, to be punished accordingly. See chap. 275, L. 1842; chap. 329, L. 1864; chaps. 1 and 77, Town of Schuyler erected from Plattsburgh, Clinton county, and property to be divided. See chap. 64, L. 1788. Boards of supervisors of Livingston, Sullivan, Broome, Cortland, Orange, Allegany, Seneca, Franklin, Onondaga and Ulster counties may restore distinction between town and county poor. All contracts by poor authorities for support of paupers in pursuance of bids at auction shall be absolutely void. See chap. 163, L. 184. Amending chapter 52, Laws 1843, in reference to trustees of Seamen's Fund and Retreat in City of New York, and repealing section 1 of act providing for sick and disabled seamen, chapter 234, Laws 1831. Dog tax law for Queens county. Surplus after paying for sheep injured to go to use of poor of towns. Amending charter of New York Institution for the Blind, chapter 214, Laws 1831. Institution to be also for the purpose of affording an asylum and employment for other blind persons. $15,000 appropriated for 1848 and 1849 for erection of buildings. See chap. 110, L. 1803; chap. 234, L. 1929; chap. 156, L. 1852. Appropriation of $60,000 to supply deficiencies of hospital moneys for Marine Hospital, Staten Island. See chap. 352, L. 1848. Appropriation of $19,700 for Western House of Refuge. See chap. 143, L. 1846. (1848) Chapter 122 Chapter 139 Chapter 160 Chapter 175 Chapter 176 Chapter 177 Chapter 191 Chapter 192 Chapter 194 Chapter 206 (1848) Chapter 208 Chapter 219 Chapter 240 Chapter 252 Chapter 260 Chapter 294 Chapter 307 Chapter 314 Appropriation of $10,000 for Stockbridge tribe of Indians, now residing in Calumet county, Wisconsin. See chap. 92, R. L. 1813; chap. 37, L. 1850; chaps. 677 and 679, L. 1892. Act for protection of emigrants arriving in State of New York. Commissioners of Emigration given further powers. See chap. 195, L. 1847; chaps. 320 and 432, L. 1849; chap. 579, L. 1857; chap. 410, L. 1882. Amending chapter 51, Laws 1820, relative to the poor in Rensselaer county by reducing the number of superintendents of the poor to be elected, from five to three. Appropriating $1,500 to each of the three dispensaries in the city of New York. Annual Supply Act. Appropriates $500 to the commissioners appointed to supervise the receipts and expenditures of certain charitable institutions in New York and Staten Island for incidental expenses. See chap. 227, L. 1893. Amending chapter 460, Laws 1847, section 99, regulating county and State prisons (passed December 14, 1847), providing that after expiration of term of insane convict sent to State lunatic asylum he may be removed to his own county to be cared for by superintendents of the poor thereof and given $10 for trav eling expenses. See chap. 460, L. 1847; § 2, chap. 382, L. 1889. Supervisors of Kings county authorized to direct superintendents of the poor to take charge of penitentiary and workhouse and provide food and clothing for prisoners. (Amending section 4 of chapter 81, Laws 1846.) Amending sections 1 and 3 of chapter 498, Laws 1847, authorizing the election of county superintendents of the poor by the people, so as to allow the election of five superintendents of the poor in Kings county. Appropriation to New York Institution for Instruction of Deaf and Dumb of amount paid by it (not exceeding $5,200) previous to July 15, 1847, for clothing State pupils. General "Act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies." See chap. 273, L. 1849; chap. 487, L. 1853; chaps. 50 and 218, L. 1854; chap. 302, L. 1857; chap. 242, L. 1860; chaps. 58 and 239, L. 1861; chap. 302, L. 1862; chap. 419, L. 1864; chap. 971, L. 1867; chaps. 51 and 253, L. 1870; chap. 875, L. 1871; chaps. 104, 209 and 649, L. 1872; chap. 453, L. 1875; chap. 190, L. 1876; chap. 252, L. 1879; chaps. 254, 428, 526 and 641, L. 1881; chap. 367, L. 1882; chap. 446, L. 1883; chap. 88, L. 1885; chaps. 546 and 547, L. 1886; chap. 125, L. 1890; chap. 144, L. 1891; chaps. 332 and 338, L. 1893; chap. 559, L. 1895. The full text of this act is as follows: OF BENEVO AN ACT FOR THE INCORPORATION CHAPTER 319, LAWS OF 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Any five or more persons of full age, citizens of the United States, a majority of whom shall be citizens of this state, who shall desire to associate themselves for benevolent, charitable, scientific or missionary purposes, may make, sign and acknowledge before any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds in this state, and file in the office of the secretary of state, and also in the office of the clerk of the county in which the business of such society is to be conducted, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated the name or title by which such society shall be known in law, the particular business and objects of such society, the number of trustees, directors or managers to manage the same, and the names of the trustees, directors or managers of such society for the first year of its existence, but such certificate shall not be filed unless by the written consent and approbation of one of the justices of the supreme court of the district in which the place of business or principal office of such company or association shall be located, to be endorsed on such certificate. § 2. Upon filing a certificate as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged such certificate, and their associates and successors, shall thereupon by virtue of this act, be a body politic and corporate by the name stated in such certificate, and by that name they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued; and they and their successors (1848) Chapter 316 Chapter 319 (1848) may have and use a common seal, and the same may alter and change at pleasure; and they and their successors, by their corporate name, shall, in law, be capable of taking, receiving, purchasing and holding real estate, for the purposes of their incorporation, and for no other purpose, to an amount not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars in value, and personal estate, for like purposes, to an amount not exceeding the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars in value, but the clear annual income of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; to make by-laws for the management of its affairs, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States; to elect and appoint the officers and agents of such society, for the management of its business, and to allow them a suitable compensation. § 3. The society so incorporated may annually elect from its members its trustees, directors or managers, at such time and place, and in such manner as may be specified in its by-laws, who shall have the control and management of the affairs and funds of said society, a majority of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business; and whenever any vacancy shall happen among such trustees, directors or managers, by death, resignation or neglect to serve, such vacancy shall be filled in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of such society. § 4. In case it shall at any time happen that an election of trustees, directors or managers shall not be made on the day designated by the by-laws, said society for that cause shall not be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful on any other day to hold an election for trustees, directors or managers, in such manner as may be directed by the by-laws of such society. § 5. The provisions of this act shall not extend or apply to any association or individuals who shall in the certificate filed with the secretary of state, or with the county clerk, use or specify a name or style the same as that of any previously existing incorporated society in this state; nor shall they authorize the formation of any corporation which can be incorporated under the act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of religious societies," passed April 5, 1813, and the several acts amending the same, or the formation of any secret societies. § 6. Any corporation formed under this act, shall be capable of taking, holding or receiving any property, real or personal, by virtue of any devise or bequest contained in any last will or testament of any person whatsoever, the clear annual income of which devise or bequest shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; provided, no person leaving a wife or child or parent, shall devise or bequeath to such institution or corporation more than one-fourth of his or her estate. after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of such one-fourth, and no such devise or bequest shall be valid, in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator. § 7. The trustees of any company or corporation organised under the provisions of this act, shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts due from said company or corporation, contracted while they are trustees, provided said debts are payable within one year from the time they shall have been contracted, and provided a suit for the collection of the same shall be brought within one year after the debt shall become due and payable. § 8. All institutions formed under this act, together with their books and vouchers, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the justices of the supereme court, or by any person or persons who shall be appointed by the supreme court for that purpose, and it shall be the duty of the trustees, or a majority of them, in the month of December in each year, to make and file in the county clerk's office where the original certificate is filed, a certificate under their hands, stating the names of the trustees and officers of such association or corporation, with an inventory of the property, effects and liabilities thereof, with an affidavit of the truth of such certificate and inventory, and also an affidavit that such association or corporation has not been engaged directly or indirectly, in any other business than such as is set forth in the original certificate on file. § 9. Each corporation formed under this act shall possess the general powers conferred by and be subject to the provisions and restrictions of the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the third part of the Revised Statutes. § 10. The legislature may at any time amend, annul or repeal any incorporation formed or created under this act. Act requiring all superintendents of the poor (except in New York county) hereafter elected to give bonds to be approved by boards of supervisors for faithful discharge of their duties. See chap. 498, L. 1847; chap. 116, L. 1849; chap. 12, L. 1850; chaps. 677 and 686, L. 1892. The full text of this act is as follows: AN ACT TO REQUIRE SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE CHAPTER 327, LAWS OF 1848. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Every person hereafter elected to the office of superintendent of the poor, shall, within ten days after his election, give a bond to the supervisors, with two or more sufficient (1848) Chapter 327 |