277 To tranfmit money and certificates to the treasurer, and account every fix months, 132 How to fell lands mortgaged for new emiffion, 133 How to fell lands to holders of certificates given for depreciation of pay, 134 May make partition of lands held in common, May fell the part of the flate without partition, To make abftracts of fales and file them, To report fales and impediments to the governor, To collect the rents of forfeited eftates, May profecute on ftatutes of forcible entry and detainer, Empowered to fummon witneffes, May demife forfeited lands for a year, To maintain certain flaves, Not to fell certain eftates, Allowance for their fervices, Indemnified for making and giving leafes, To receive certain rents in certificates, Of eastern district may fell lands at the coffee-houfe in New-York, COMMISSIONERS of SEQUESTRATION, Indemnified for felling effects of Benjamin Smith, 309 50 Their powers repealed, 138 To be accountable, and monies arifing by fales to belong to the ftate, ibid. ed into the treafury, 156 Not to be fued for any act done in the execution of their truft, COMMON PLEA S, court of, Firft judge to hold his office during good behaviour, or until fixty years And to hold no other office except fenator or delegate, New commiffions to be iffued to the other judges and the justices, once in every three years, Seal thereof to be devised and made, When and where to be held, Judges to meet fupervisors to infpect accounts of loan-officers, 279 19 20 11 ibid. 11, 12 18 19, 306, 307 249, 250 No execution to iffue until judgment is figned, ibid. 326, 327 341 431 Judges and affiftant juftices to canvafs votes for members of affembly if fupervisors neglect it, Manner of proceeding where fpecial bail is not required, May try all tranfitory actions, CONGRESS, Recommend the establishment of governments, CONGRESSES and COMMITTEES, Government by them introduced from neceffity, CONGRESSES of the colony of New-York, Their refolutions part of the law of the state, CONSTABLES, To be chofen by the people, 2 5 24,25 1 ibid. 13 To prevent private lotteries and games of chance, How to be punished for concealing or neglecting to arrest felons, CONSTITUTION, Of the ftate of New-York, CONTINENTAL DEMANDS, How to be recovered, Frauds therein, how punished, Empowered to establish a government in this flate, Their refolutions part of the law of this ftate, 12 60 267 336 1 to 15 24 CONTINENTAL EMPLOY, 24 CONVENTION, CONVEYANCES, Good againft fellers and their heirs, and all claiming to their use, Of goods in truft to the ufe of the perfon making them void, Executed, proved and acknowledged in the fouthern diftrict during the By husband of his wife's land, not to prejudice her or her heirs, CORONERS, To be annually appointed in every county, No perfon to hold the office for more than four years fucceffively, II, 331 12 331 to 333 Where there are feveral defendants and one or more acquitted, In what cafes plaintiff fhall pay colts where he does not recover above rol. ibid. Their dequency, how to be punished, In what cafes the return of one of them is fufficient, Page 332, 333 333 ვენ How to be punished for concealing or neglecting to arreft felons, Actions against them, in what cafes to be laid where the fact was done, 343 CORPORATIONS, Regious. Religious focius how to be incorporated, May hold eftates of the yearly value of 12001. Triennially to ibit an account and inventory of their eftates and Plaintiff recovering damages fhall recover colls, 1 Where plaintiff might have had cos if he recovered fendant to have ibid. 71 78,76 73,76 76 313,314 314 ibid. ibid. For not declaring, and on difcontinuance or nonfuit, To certain officers in fuits concerning their offices, To defendants in actions for things done by authority of ftatutes, On abating writ for naming fheriff a difleifor by collufion, 343 344 394 400 429, 439. The affembly once in every year to nominate a fenator from each dif The governor to be prefident of the council, No fenator eligible for two years fucceffively, Secretary to be clerk of the council, COUNCIL of REVISION. The governor, chancellor, aud judges of the fupreme court, conftituted a council to revife bills about to be paffed into laws, To be called the council of revifion, If any bill appears to them improper to become a law, they fhall return ibid. Bills to become laws, if not returned by the council in ten days, Bills not appearing to the council improper to become laws, or having been before them ten days and not returned, fhall be delivered by the governor, with a certificate indorfed, to the fecretary, to be recorded, COUNSELLORS at LAW, How to be appointed, licenfed and regulated, To take an oath, Those found in default to be put out of the roll, COUNTIES. The names of the counties of this State, The legiflature may divide the state into other counties, COUNTY CLERKS, Their duty refpecting elections, Page 17 11,357 357 ibid. ibid. 358 359 67, 79 9 322,326 To record fines and affix a note thereof on the door of the court-house, 381 COUNTY TREASURERS, See Admiralty. Chancery. Circuit Courts. Common Pleas. Errors. Exchequer. Gaol Delivery. New Courts. Oyer and Terininer. Probates. Seffions of the Peace. Supreme Court. AMAGED GOODS and VESSELS, HOW and by whom to be furveyed, DAMAGES, To be recovered in affifes, writs of entry and all poffeflory actions, In dower, In wafte, For fuing in the admiralty for things done on land, For difleifin by an officer by colour of his office, For diffeifin by virtue of a grant of this ftate without title, In affife where the entry is found to have been with force, DEANE, JAMES, Land granted to him, DEBTORS, 399 ibid. 399,400 286 Who removed to or remained with the enemy, and have fince left this ftate, how to be proceeded against, Departed or concealed, how to be proceeded against, 114 to 117 153, 214 Judge of the fupreme court, on proof, to iffue a warrant to attach fuch debtor's cftate, How fuch warrant is to be executed, 214 215 Notice of iffuing fuch warrant to be given, Page 215 216 216 Payment of money or delivery of goods to the debtor after fuch notice, deemed fraudulent, Sales and conveyances by debtor after fuch notice void, 223, 224 How perfons against whom fuch warrants are wrongfully iffued, may If debtor does not return, trustees to be appointed, Trustees to notify their appointment, 216, 217 217 218 And require debts and effects to be paid and delivered to them, 218 ibid. To make dividends, To recover and fell debtors' eftates and effects, ibid. May examine any perfon on oath, 219, 220 To fettle all accounts between debtor and creditor, 221 ibid. ibid. 225, 226 226 ibid. ibid. ibid. 218, 219 219 To record their appointments, if they fell real eftate, To render account on oath in open court, Their allowance for their trouble, Perfons concealing debts or effects, forfeit double the value, Courts may compel fuch perfons to anfwer on oath, And justice, on application, to fend for any perfon to be examined on oath, Examinations to be in writing, and figned, Perfons refufing, to be committed until they fubmit, Not to be discharged for want of form in the warrant, Discoverer of fecreted effects allowed ten per cent. 219, 220 219 220 ibid. ibid. ibid. 220, 221 221 Creditors whofe debts are not then due, entitled to a dividend on a re- Creditors neglecting to deliver or fettle their accounts, excluded from a Creditors refiding out of the flate, entitled to the benefit of this act, Firt judge of common pleas, and mayor and recorder of the city of 222 ibid. 223 ibid. ibid. 224 ibid. Where warrants are iffued by a judge of the fupreme court and a judge of the common pleas, mayor or recorder, the proceedings before ibid. Judge iffuing warrants to report proceedings, ibid., Judge appointing truftees to indore allowance to record it, ibid. |