By-laws. tion, or to the board of directors, or to any other person or persons for the use or benefit of said corporation, and of selling, leasing, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of, in whole or in part, any real or personal estate for the uses and purposes aforesaid; provided, however, that the annual value of the real estate held by said corporation shall not exceed five thousand dollars. § 6. The real estate and personal property which the said corporation shall hold under this act, shall be and remain free and exempt from all taxation whatsoever, so long as the revenues and income thereof shall be used and disbursed for the uses and purposes contemplated by this act. § 7. The said board of directors, or a quorum of their number, shall have power to make all such by-laws, rules and ordinances from time to time as may be necessary and not contrary to law, and to appoint or employ such teachers, servants and agents as they may deem proper to carry out the objects and purposes of this act. § 8. The said corporation 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 first part of the Revised Statutes. § 9. This act shall take effect immediately. Award. Chap. 458. AN ACT authorising the payment of money to George Guenther, for work done on the Erie canal. Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller is hereby directed to pay to George Guenther, his legal representatives or assigns, the sum of two hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents, with interest from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, out § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 459. AN ACT for the relief of Little and Company. SECTION 1. The comptroller, secretary of state and Damages. §2. The treasurer of this state shall pay to Little and company, on the warrant of the comptroller, the sum which shall be awarded to them under the provisions of the first section of this act, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Award Special judge. Chap. 460. AN ACT to provide for the payment of canal damages to Hull and Shipman, caused by the suspension of their work by the state. Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The canal board shall hear and determine the claim of Hull and Shipman, contractors for the construction of the south branch reservoir of the Black river canal, and shall award to them such sum of money as they shall be equitably entitled thereto, (without including any prospective profits,) for the damages sustained by said contractors in consequence of the suspension of their work on the twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. § 2. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to said Hull and Shipman, such sum of money as shall be awarded them in pursuance of the first section of this act, out of any moneys appropriated for the payment of canal damages. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 461. AN ACT to authorise the election of a Special Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. There shall be elected in the county of Essex an officer to discharge the duties of County Judge and Surrogate, in case of vacancy or inability of such officer, in pursuance of the fifteenth section of the sixth article 2. Such special judge and surrogate shall be elected Powers, &c. §3. Such special county judge and surrogate shall pos- P sess the powers and perform the duties of the county judge and surrogate in said county, in the case of inability of said county judge and surrogate to perform the duties of his office, or in case of vacancy in the office of county judge and surrogate of said county; and any proceedings commenced before such special judge and surrogate, and any act done by such special judge and surrogate shall be presumed to have been done in the case provided for in this section, until the contrary be shown. § 4. Such special county judge and surrogate, in case 5. Such local officer shall receive for the services to Salary. 1 Resolution declareds valid. Chap. 462. AN ACT to legalize the action of the Board of Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The resolution passed January twentysecond, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by the board of supervisors of the city and county of New-York, in the following words, viz: Resolved, That the bill of Mr. Samuel E. Holmes, for the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, for surveying and making maps of the nineteenth ward of the city of NewYork, for the use of the tax commissioners and ward assessors, be and the same is hereby audited and allowed. Resolved, That A. V. Stout, esq., county treasurer, be and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant for twentyfive hundred dollars in favor of Samuel E. Holmes, for the services mentioned in the foregoing resolution, are hereby declared to be valid, and the same shall be carried into effect. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |