to profecute fuch indictment, or caufe the fame to be profecuted in the ufual manner of profecution; and upon conviction to adjudge fuch fines and penalties as are herein after directed, together with the cofts of profecution, and to order execution; and to direct the fines or penalties, when recovered, to be applied in the manner herein after directed. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Lotteries prohibited. That no perfon or perfons fhall, within this ftate, open, fet on foot, carry on, promote, draw or make, publicly or privately, any lottery, game or device of chance, of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatever name, denomination or title it may be called, known or diftinguifhed, or fhall by any fuch ways or means, expofe or fet to fale, any houfes, lands, tenements or real estate, or any goods, wares, merchandifes, cafh, or other thing or things whatsoever: And that every perfon who fhall offend Offenders to forfeit, in the premises against the true intent and meaning of this on conviction, the act, and fhall thereof be convicted, by the oath of one or amount of the lottery, more credible witnefs or witneffes, in either of the courts herein before mentioned, in any part within this ftate, fhall forfeit the amount of the whole fum or value for which fuch lottery was made; and if fuch fum or value fhall not be fatisfactorily afcertained to the faid court at the time of the trial, then each such ofender fo convicted, shall forfeit five hundred Or 500l. pounds; and that fuch offender fhall be committed to the common gaol of the county, until fuch forfeiture, with the cofts of profecution, be paid; the one half of fuch forfeiture How applied. to be paid to the treasurer of this ftate, for the use of the people of this ftate, to be applied for the fupport of government; and the other half to the perfon or perfons who fhall have voluntarily given information of fuch offence, and profecuted the fame to effect; and for defect of fuch voluntary informant, then to be paid and applied as the first moiety of fuch forfeiture, is hereby directed to be paid and applied. Pet fons felling or purchafing tickets, or any ways concerned in promoting lotteries, III. And be it further enaded by the authority aforesaid, That if any perfon fhall vend, fell or barter, or offer to vend, fell or barter, any ticket or tickets of any fuch private lottery, game, or device of chance; or if any perfon or perfons fhall purchase the fame, or in any other way become adventurer or adventurers therein, or be any ways concerned in any fuch lottery, game, or device of chance; either by printing, writing, or any other ways publishing an account thereof, or where tickets may be had or obtained for the fame, or be in any wife aiding or affifting in the fame; every perfon fo offending, fhall, on being convicted thereof as before-mentioned, in any of the courts before-mentioned, forfeit and pay for every fuch offence, the Forfeit Iol. fum of ten pounds; and the cofts of profecution, to be levied and applied in like manner as is directed with refpect to the other forfeitures herein before-mentioned. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any perfon or perfons, who fhall be adventurer or adventurers in any fuch lottery, game, or device of chance as aforefaid, for transferring of any property by lot or chance, fhall become entitled to any prize or prizes, he, fhe or they, Adventurers to for- fhall be liable to forfeit, and fhall forfeit the fame, with cofts fet their prize. of fuit, to fuch perforor perfons who fhall give information thereof, fo that fuch o ender may be convicted in manner before directed; and for the recovery of fuch prize or prizes, fuch perfon or perfons fo informing, fhall be entitled to maintain an action in any court of record within this ftate, against any perfon who fhall have opened, fet on foot, carried on, or made fuch lottery, game, or device of chance, or against any perfon or perfons who fhall have fold, or offered for fale any ticket or tickets: And if the perfon or perfons fo informing, be or fhall have been an adventurer only in fuch lottery, game, or device of chance, he, fhe or they fhall, upon giving fuch information as aforefaid, be exempted from the penalty otherwife incurred by this act: And any perfon or perfons adventuring as aforefaid, whofe ticket or tickets fhall be drawn or turn out blank, fhall, upon giving information as aforesaid, so that the perfon or perfons who fhall have opened, fet on foot, carried on, drawn, or made the faid lottery or other game, or device of chance, or shall have fold or bartered, or offered for fale or barter fuch ticket or tickets, may be convicted, be entitled to recover against any fuch person or perfons fo convicted, double the fum which he, fhe, or they adventured in fuch lottery, game, or device of chance, with double cofts of fuit, by action of debt in any court of record within this ftate. And if any perfon or perfons who fhall have fo opened, fet on foot, carried on, drawn or made fuch lottery, game, or device of chance, as aforefaid, fhall neither before or after the drawing or finishing of the fame, give information thereof, fo that the perfons who have adventured therein, fhall be convicted in the manner before directed, he, fhe, or they, fo giving information, fhall not only be exempted from the penalty otherwife incurred by this act, and be entitled to the reward allowed to perfons in fuch cafe informing, but fhall alfo have a right to retain all fuch monies or other effects, as he, ske, or they may have received by the fale or barter of tickets. V. And be it further enabled by the authority aforesaid, That every grant, bargain, fale, conveyance or transfer, of any lands, tenements, hereditaments or real eftate, or of any goods or chattels whatfcever, which fhall hereafter be made in pursuance of any fuch lottery, game, or other device, to be determined by chance or lot, are hereby declared void, and of none effect. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That where any two or more perfons fhall be concerned in fetting on foot, carrying on, drawing, or making any fuch lottery, game, or device of chance, as aforefaid, or be joint adventurers in the fame, the penalties herein before directed, for fuch offences refpectively, may be recovered against and levied from all, or each, or either of them; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. and penalty remitted. pealed VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Offences against a That all ofences against an act, entitled, An act for the former act pardoned, more effectual prevention of private lotteries, palled on the And farmer laws re- ninth day of March, 1774, committed tince the fourth day of July, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-fix, and not hitherto prefented or indicted by a grand jury, are hereby pardoned; and all penalties and forfeitures thereby incurred, are remitted; and the faid act, except as to fuch perfon or perfons, against whom prefentment or prefentments, indictment or indictments have been prefented, is hereby repealed. And that as to all fuch perfon or perfons, againit whom any prefentment or indictment has been preferred for fuch offence, and judgment remains to be rendered, fuch court to which fuch indictment or prefentment was preferred, fhall and may, at a future feffion of fuch court, difcharge the offender or of fenders, on his, her, or their paying the colls of pre.ecution, refpectively: And for neglect of payment of the cofls of profecution, that fuch court before whom fuch offender is indicted, do commit fuch ofenders refpectively to the common gaol of the county, until they fhall respectively have paid the cofts of profecution; and that all former laws of this ftate refpecting lotteries, be, and the fame are hereby repealed. civil officers to pre VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Juftices and other That the juftices of the peace, mayors, fheriffs, bailiffs, vent lotteries. conflables and other civil officers, within their respective jurifdictions, are hereby empowered, directed and required, to use their utmolt endeavours, by all lawful ways and means, to prevent the opening, fetting on foot, or drawing of any fuch unlawful lotteries, games or devices of chance, prohibited by this act. Frovided always, That this act, or any United States lot matter, claufe or thing therein contained, fhall not affect, or teries not affected by be deemed, judged, or conftrued to affect any lottery or lotteries, established or to be established by, or under the authority of the United States in congrefs aflembled, or any act, matter or thing, done or to be done in any wife, relating to fuch lottery or lotteries, by any perfon whomfoever. this act. CHA P. XVII. An ACT to incorporate the Minifter, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Proteftant Dutch Church, of Tappan, or Town of Orange, in Orange Paffed 25th February, 1783. 7HEREAS Daniel Declark, Peter Haring, Johannis County. aries of the lot of land WHBattell, Danibert Stith and Cozine Haring, ori Reciting the bound ginal patentees of the tract of land called Tappan, or the granted to the Dutch town of Orange, in Orange county, did, by a certain deedchurch at Tappan. poll, bearing date the thirteenth day of October, 1729, releafe, quit claim, and confirm unto the then church officers of the reformed proteftant Dutch church of Tappan aforefaid, and their fucceffors, to the ufe of the faid church, a certain piece or lot of land, lying and being in Tappan aforefaid, in the faid county of Orange, beginning by a beech-tree, flanding a little to the north of Gyfbert Bogert's path; and from thence running weft twenty-feven chains, to the line of Johannis Meyer, to a tree there marked; then fouth, nine degrees weft, one chain and ten links, to a stake; then caft, one degree fouth, feventeen chains, to an oak marked; then fouth, nine degrees weft, thirty chains, to old Tappan road, to a flake; then eaft by north, eighteen chains, to the Spar-Kill; then northerly along the SparKill and the land of Gyfbert Bogert, to the place where it first begun, containing fifty-five acres. And whereas the prefent minifter, elders and deacons of the church aforefaid, by their humble petition, prefented And the petition of the minifer, elders to the legislature, fet forth, that from the time of the conveyance aforesaid, until the prefent day, the church officers of the church aforefaid, for the time being, have held and enjoyed the faid picce or lot of land; and that the predeceffors of the faid petitioners have been at confiderable expence in erecting on the faid piece or lot of land, a decent edifice, in which the public worfhip of God is carried on, according to the ufage and cuftom of the reformed proteftant Dutch churches of the United Frovinces in Europe, and in erecting other buildings for the reception and convenience of the minifer of the faid church: And further, That they the faid petitioners and their predece flors, for feveral years paft, have laboured under dificulties and difadvantages, for the want of corporate powers; and deacons. and therefore pray to be incorporated, and to have the faid piece or lot of land and buildings thereon, confirmed to them and their fucceffors and affigns for ever; 1. Be it therefore enacted by the people of the fate of New-York, reprefented in fenate and affembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the fame, That Samuel Verbryck, minifler of the faid reformed proteftant Dutch church of Tappan, or town of Orange, in Orange county; Teunis BlauMinifter, elders and velt, Robert Sickles, Abraham I. Haring and Martin Paulus, deacons and their fuc elders; and Abraham T. Blauvelt, Barent H. Nagel, John ceffers incorporated. I. Haring and Gerret Jos Bauvelt, deacons of the fame church, and their fucceffors, elected, chofen, or appointed according to the mode practifed in or by the reformed proteftant Dutch churches or congregations, be, and they are hereby made and conftituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance for ever, by the name, file, and title of, The minifter, elders and deacons of the reformed protestant Dutch church of the town of Orange, in Orange county. lands and goods to per annum. II. And be it further enaked by the authority aforefind, And enabled to hold That they the faid minifter, elders and deacons, and their the amount of 5ool. fucceffors, by the name, ftile and title aforefaid, fhall for ever hereafter, be perfons able and capable in law, to have, take, receive, acquire, purchase, poflefs and enjoy lands, tenements, heredicaments, and goods, chattels, property and effects, of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, as any perfon or perions, or any corporation or body poic, can or lawfully may do, to the annual value of five hundred pounds, equal to one thoufand one hundred and eleven ounces, and one ninth part of an ounce, of Sevil, Pillar or Mexico plate, and no more; and the fame lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, property and effects, to leafe, grant, demife, alien, bargain, fell and difpofe of, at their own will and pleasure. To fue and be fued. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That they the faid minifter, elders and deacons, and their fucceffors, by the name, ftile and title aforesaid, at all times, for ever hereafter, fhall be perfons able and capable in law, to fue and be fued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered unto, to defend and be defended, in any court or courts, in all and all manner of fuits, complaints, pleas, caufes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form they may be, and all and every matter and thing therein, to do in as full and effectual manner, as any other perfon or perions, or corporation, or body politic within this flate, may or can do. To have a common fal. IV. And be it further enafled by the authority aforefaid, That they the faid minifter, elders and deacons, and their fucceffors, fhall have full power and authority to make, have, and ufe one common feal, with fuch device and infcription as they fhall think proper; and the fame feal to break, alter and renew, at their pleature.. Prefilent, treafirer exted. V. And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, archrk, how to be That it fhall and may be lawful, to and for the faid minifter, elders and deacons, and their fucceffors, from time to time, to elect, from among themfelves, a prefident, and to clect and appoint, from anong themfelves, or others, a treasurer, a clerk. and fuch other officers as they shall stand in need of; and the fame prefident, treasurer, clerk, and other officers, or any of them, at their pleafure, to remove, change or continue. Their title to the faid lot confirmed. VI. And be it further enacled by the authority aforefaid, That all the eftate, right, title and intereft, which they the faid herein before named Daniel Declark, Peter Haring, Johannis Blauvelt, Lambert Smith, and Cozine Haring, or any or either of them, immediately at and before their executing the aforefaid deed-poll, had of, in, or to the herein before described piece or lot of land, and buildings and improvements thereon, be, and the fame are hereby vefied in, and confirmed to the faid minifter, elders and deacons of the reformed proteftant Dutch church of the town of Orange, in Orange county, and their fucceffois and afligns, to have and to hold the fame unto them, their fucceflors and affigns, to and for their only proper use and behoof for ever. 7th feff. ch. 54.Lec.2. Remedy extended An ACT for granting a more effectual Relief in Cafes of cer- The characters en it fhall and may be lawful for any perfon or perions, who are, or were inhabitants of this ftate, and who by reafon of the invasion of titled to bring fuits, the enemy, left his, her, or their place or places of abode, and against whom. and who have not voluntarily put themfelves refpectively into the power of the enemy, fince they refpectively left their places of abode, his, her, or their heirs, executors or adminiftrators, to bring an action of trefpafs against any perfon or perfons who may have occupied, injured, or deftroyed his, her or their eftate, either real or perfonal, within the power of the enemy, or against any perfon or perfons who fhall have purchased or received any fuch goods or effects, or against his, her or their heirs, executors or adminiftrators, in any court of record within this state, having cognizance of the fame; in which action, if the fame fhall be Defendant held to brought against the perfon or perfons who have occupied, injured or deftroyed, or purchased, or received fuch real or perfonal estate as aforefaid, the defendant or defendants fhall be held to bail. [The remainder of this act is repealed, 10th fell. ch. 71.] bail. CHA P. XL. An ACT for fufpending the Profecutions therein mentioned. Preamble. WHI Pafled 21st March, 1783. HEREAS many zealous friends to the freedom and independence of the United States of America, have, during the prefent conteft with Great Britain, committed and done acts in fupport of the faid freedom and independence which were not conformable to the firict letter of the law; and whereas no fufficient difcrimination can be made before the refloration of public tranquillity, between wanton acts of violence, and acts which proceeded from a defire to promote the public fafety; 1. Be it therefore enacted by the people of the fate of New-York, reprefented i fenate and affembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the fame, |