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Ambrose Hecox, Alanson Edwards, Jonathan Berry, Jonathan Edwards, and all such other persons as shall associate for the purpose of making a good and sufficient turnpike road, to begin on lot number forty-five in the town of Homer, in the county of Cortland; thence in the most direct route, as land and circumstances will admit. through the towns of Scott, Spafford, and the village of Skaneatelas; thence to the store of Messieurs Munro and Son, in the village of Elbridge, in the town of Camillus, in the county of Ononda ga; and that their successors and assigns be, and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name. by the name of the Homer and Elbridge turnpike road company; and by that name they and their successors shall and may have coutinual succession, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions and complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and by the same name and style shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of the said corporation: Provided, That such estate, as well real as personal, so to be purchased and held, shall be such only as shall be necessary to fulfil the end and intent of the said corporation. II. And be it further caacted, That the stock of the said compastock. ny, hereby incorporated, shall consist of sixteen hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each; and that Townsend Ross, Peleg Babcock, Ebenezer Pomeroy, Warren Hecox and Nathan Munro, be and they Commission are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions for the ers to receive said stock, in the manner directed in and by the act, entitled " an subscriptions act relative to turnpike companies," passed March 13, 1807. Amount To lay out road. Rights. Proviso. May erect a gate. Tolls. of III. And be it further enacted, That Elijah Miles, Truman Adams and John McFadden, or any two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish said road. IV. And be it further enacted, That the said company, hereby incorporated, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, powers and immunities, which are given and granted in and by the aforesaid act, entitled "an act relative to turnpike companies," and shall be subject to all the conditions, provisions, restrictions and regulations in the said act: Provided, That the said company shall be allowed five years, from the passing of this act, for completing the said road, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. V. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the whole or any ten miles of the said road shall be completed, it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors hereafter to be chosen, to erect a gate or gates and turnpike upon and across the same, and to appoint toll-gatherers to collect and receive of and from all and every person and persons using the road, at each and every of the said gates, the following tolls and duties, to wit: for every coach, or four wheeled pleasure carriage or pleasure waggon, drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents, for every waggon or coach, drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, twelve and an half cents, and three cents for every additional horse, mule or ox, attached to such waggon or cart; for every cart, or other carriage, drawn by one horse, mute or ox, six cents, and for every additional horse, mule or ox, attached to such cart, three cents; for every horse and rider, six cents'; for every horse or mule, led or driven, three cents; for every chaise, chair, sulkey, or other pleasure carriage, drawn by one horse, twelve and and an half cents, and six cents for every additional horse; for every sleigh or sled, drawn by two horses, mules or oxeo, six cents, for every additional horse, mule or ox, three cents; for every sleigh or sled, drawn by one horse, mule or ox, four cents; for every score of cattle, horses or mules, twenty cents, and for every score of sheep or hogs, eight cents, and so in proportion for a greater or less number. CHAP. CXXII. AN ACT to incorporate the Oswego and Sodus branch turnpike company. Passed March 28, 1817. Route Í. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York,_represented in Senate and Assembly, That Henry Moore, John Cooper, David Arne, jun. Roderick Matson, John Crowell, and all such other persons as shall associate for the purpose of making a turnpike road, to begin at the turnpike road on lot number sixteen, in the township of Aurelius, on the west side of the Owasco creek, in the town of Mentz, and county of Cayuga, and running from thence to or near the dwelling house of Harry Moore, in the town of Cato, in said county, and from thence to John Cooper's mills, in the town of Sterling, and from thence to the village of Oswego, in the county of Oswego, and also from or near to the said dwelling house of Henry Moore, in the town of Cato, to intersect the state road (so called) west of and near to the mills, in the town of Wolcott, in said coupty Incorporate of Cayuga, called Melvin's mills, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name of "the president, directors and company of the Oswego and Sodus Style. branch turnpike company," and they are hereby ordained, constituted and declared, to be a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and Rights. being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, and in all manner of actions and complaints, matters and causes; and by the same name and style shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real aud personal, for the use of the said corporation: Provided, that such estate, as well real as personal, shall be such only as may be necessary to fulfil the end and intent of the said corporation. Provise Stock. Commission II. And be it further enacted, That the stock of the said company hereby incorporated shall consist of two thousand four hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars each; and that John Cooper, Henry Moore, David Arne, jun. Nathaniel Garrow and Roderick Matɛon, ers to receive be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscrip- subscriptions tions for said stock, in the manner directed by the act, entitled "an act relative to turnpike companies," passed March thirteenth, 1807. P Tolk. Subject to the act pass ed March 1807. III. And be it further enacted, That the said company here by incorporated, shall be entitled to exact and receive, at each of the gates or turnpikes to be erected on said road, for any number of miles not less than ten in length of said road, the following sums of money, and so in proportion for any greater or less distance, from all persons travelling on or using the same, to wit: for every score of hogs or sheep, three cents: for every score of cattle, horses or mules, six cents; for every chair, sulkey or chaise, with one horse, twelve and an half cents; for every horse, rode, led or driven, four cents; for every chariot, coach, coachee, phaeton, pleasure waggon or pleasure carriage, drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents, for every additional horse, six cents; for every cart drawn by one horse, six cents; for every stage, waggon, or other four wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, twelve and an half cents, for every additional horse, mule or ox, three cents; for every cart, drawn by two oxen, eight cents; and for every additional yoke of oxen, or pair of horses or mules, three cents; for every sled, travelling the above road from the fifteenth day of December to the fifteenth day of March, in each year, one half of the tolls herein demanded for carriages for the transportation of burthens IV And be it further enacted, That the said company hereby incorporated, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, powers and immunities, which are given and granted in and by the aforesaid an act relative to turnpike companies," and shall be act, entitled " subject to all the conditions, restrictions and regulations, contained in the said general act, passed the thirteenth day of March, 1807. CHAP. CXXIII. AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Tefft and Samuel Brown. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, That the benefits of the provisions contained in the third section of an act, entitled "an act to amend an act, entitled "an act concerning the commissioners of the land of fice, and the sale of unappropriated lands, and for other purposes," passed April 14th, 1815, be and the same are hereby extended to the fifteenth day of May next, so far as relates to lots number seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-nine and thirty-two, in the Tongue mountain tract. CHAP. CXXIV. AN ACT to amend the act, entitled "an act to incorporate the academy instituted in the city of New-York, for the promotion of the arts." Passed March 28, 1817. I. BE it enacted and declared by the people of the State of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the corporation mentioned in and created by the act hereby amended, shall hereafter be called and known by the name, style and description, of "the American academy of the fine arts." II. And be it further enacted, That the property and concerns of the said corporation, shall be managed hereafter by a president, vice president and eleven directors, who shall be stockholders of the said academy, and shall have such other qualifications as the by-laws of the said academy may prescribe. II. And be it further enacted, That the stockholders shall, on the first Monday in May next, proceed to elect so many directors, in addition to those who are now elected, as will make up the said number of eleven directors, and that the said additional directors shall have the same power, and serve for the same time, as if they had been elected at the last annual election of directors. CHAP. CXXV. AN ACT relative to the medical society in the county of Sullivan. Passed March 28, 1817. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, That the county medical society, organized in the county of Sullivan, on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and nine, be and it is hereby declared to be, and to have been from its commencement, a legal and lawful organized medical society, agreeable to the requisitions of the act, entitled" an act to incorporate medical societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state," and that the anniversary day of the meeting of said society be hereafter the first Wednesday after the second Tuesday in June, annually. CHAP. CXXVI. AN ACT to divide the town of German, in the county of Che nango. Passed March 28, 1817. I. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of German, in the county of Chenango, comprised and known by the name of the seventh township, shall be and hereby is erected into a separate town, by the name of Otselic; and the first town meeting in the said town of Otselic shall be held at the dwelling house of Ebenezer Hill, in said town, at the time fixed by law for holding annual town meetings in said county, and that all the remaining part of the town of German, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of German, and the next annual town meeting in the said town of German, shall be held at the dwelling house of Benjamin Fairchild in said own. II. And be it further enacted, That the said towns of German and Otselic, and the officers by them to be elected, shall be entitled to all the previleges, and subject to all the penalties, that the other towns in this state are by law entitled and subject to. III. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be convenient, after the next annual town meeting the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns of German and Otselic, on notice being first given by the said supervisors for that purpose, shall meet together and divide the money and poor belonging to the town of German previous to the division thereof, agreeable to the last assessment roll, and that each of the said towns shall forever there, after respectively support their own poor. CHAP. CXXVII. AN ACT declaring some part of Mud creek to be no longer a public highway, Passed March 28, 1817. WHEREAS all that part of Mud creek, above its junction with Canandarque outlet, is almost useless as a public highway, and as the prosperity and convenience of the people of that vicinity will be promoted in a greater degree by appropriating the said creek to the use of the mills: Therefore, BE it enacted and d clared by the people of the State of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of Mud creek west of the village of Lyons, in the town of Lyons, shall, from and after the passage of this act, cease to be a public highway; and so much of the act, entitled "an act declaring certain waters to be public highways," passed April 2d, 1813, as relates to the aforesaid part of Mud creek, be and the same is hereby repealed. Preamble. Style. Rights. CHAP. CXXVIII, AN ACT to incorporate the Hamilton baptist missionary society WHEREAS John Peck, and certain other persons have formed themselves into a society, by the name and style of "the Hamilton baptist missionary society," for the purpose of propagating the gospel among the destitute, and have prayed to be incorporated, the better to promote their benevolent designs: Therefore, I. BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all such persons as now are or hereafter may become members of said society, according to such rules as they may agree on or establish, shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and appointed, a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of "the Hamilton baptist missionary society," and by that name they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and |