shares; which book shall at all reasonable times be opened for the inspection of the creditors and stockholders of the said corporation, at the office or principal place of business of said corporation.

§ 15. The provisions of title three, chapter eighteen, part first of the Revised Statutes, shall as far as the same may be applicable and be consistent with the provisions of this act, apply to the corporation hereby created. 16. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 507.

AN ACT to audit the claims of the Commissioners of Highways of the town of Danube, in the county of Herkimer, for money expended by them in making and improving the roads and bridges in said town.

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 town auditors of the town of Danube, in the county of Herkimer, may at any time audit and allow to the commissioners of highways of said town, such a sum, including interest, as they or their predecessors in office, or any of them have, since the year eighteen hundred and fifty, expended beyond the amount authorised by law, in making and improving the roads. and bridges in said town, and in defraying all necessary charges arising there from since said year, and make out and deliver to the supervisor of said town a certificate of the amount so audited and allowed by them.

§ 2. The amount which shall be audited and allowed for said claims and expenses by the board of supervisors as aforesaid, shall be assessed, levied and collected upon and out of the taxable real and personal estate in the said town of Danube, in the same manner as other town and county taxes are levied and collected, and be paid over

by the collector to the supervisor of said town, and said board shall issue their warrant for the collection thereof.

§ 3. The supervisor of said town upon receiving such money, shall pay over the same in satisfaction and discharge of the claims so audited and allowed as aforesaid. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Hold real estate.

Trustees.

Chap. 508.

AN ACT to incorporate the New-York Hygieo
Therapeutic College.

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. Russel T. Trall, Oliver W. May, Pliny H. Hays, Geo. H. Taylor, Silas O. Gleason, Geo. F. Adams, C. R. Blackall, Charles Wakeley, W. A. Alcott, C. B. Le Baron, Samuel R. Wells, L. N. Fowler, Thaddeus Hyatt, Chauncey Bush, James O. Bennett, and their associates, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the New-York Hygieo Therapeutic College, for the purpose of promoting medical science and instruction in all the departments of learning connected therewith.

§ 2. The said corporation may hold personal and real estate to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the funds and properties thereof shall not be used for any other purposes than those declared in the first section of this act.

§ 3. The said Russel T. Trall, Oliver W. May; Pliny H. Hays, Geo. H. Taylor, Silas O. Gleason, Geo. F. Adams, C. R. Blackall Charles Wakeley, W. A. Alcott, C. B. Le Baron, Samuel R. Wells, L. N. Fowler, Thaddeus Hyatt, Chauncey Bush, James O. Bennett, are hereby appointed trustees of said incorporation, with power to fill vacancies in the board, and the mayor and recorder of the city of New-York, for the time being, shall be members of the board of trustees. No less than seven

of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for the board of trustees to ap- Professors.
point professors, and such other instructors as they may
deem necessary subject to removal by a vote of
two-thirds of the members constituting said board, when
found expedient and necessary.

§ 5. The trustees for the time being shall have the
power to confer the degree of doctor of medicine upon
the recommendation of the board of professors of said
college, and upon the recommendation of at least three
curators of the medical profession, appointed by said
trustees; but no person shall receive such degree unless
they are twenty-one years of age, and shall have a good
English education, and shall have studied the medical
sciences at least three years, after the age of eighteen,
with some physician and surgeon duly licensed by law to
practice his profession.

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§ 6. The college shall be subject to the visitation of the Regents; regents of the university, and shall report to them annualy.

from free

7. The college shall gratuitously admit to a course of Students instruction, not exceeding five at a time, students from academy. the free academy.

§ 8. The corporation shall possess the powers and be subject to the provisions of chapter eighteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, as far as applicable and have not been repealed.

§ 9. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 509.

AN ACT authorising the supervisor of the town of Wawarsing, county of Ulster, to borrow money to build a bridge, and to provide for the payment thereof.

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 supervisor of the town of Wawarsing, in the county of Ulster, and the commissioner or commissioners of highways of said town, are authorised to build a bridge across the Rondout creek, near the village of Port Benjamin, in said town, or to contract for the building thereof; which bridge shall not cost over the sum of three thousand dollars. And when the said bridge shall be so built or contract made for the building thereof, the supervisor of said town is authorised to borrow money on the credit of the town, to pay for the building of said bridge, and other incidental expenses incurred in relation thereto, and apply the said money so loaned, in payment thereof.

2. The board of town auditors of said town shall audit the amount of moneys expended and incurred pursuant to the first section of this act, and certify the same to the board of supervisors of said county; and it shall be the duty of the said boad of supervisors, at their annual meeting in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, to levy and assess upon the taxable inhabitants of said town of Wawarsing, such sum of money equal to one third part of the money so borrowed and certified together with the interest on the whole amount so borrowed, also together with the amount of the incidental expenses incurred in relation to the continuation of said bridge, and in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight said board of supervisors are hereby directed to levy and assess in like manner the second one-third part of said sum with interest on the amount

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unpaid, and the remaining one-third part to be levied.
and assessed in like manner by said board of supervisors
with interest in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap, 510.

AN ACT to extend the time for the construction
of the Utica and Binghamton Railroad.

Passed April 15, 1857.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The time within which the Utica and Bing-
hamton railroad is by law required to be constructed and
put in use, is hereby extended five years from the date of
passage of this act.

the

Chap. 511.

AN ACT relating to the purchase of supplies for
the support of the poor and other inmates of the
Public Institutions of the county of Kings.

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 board of supervisors of the county of
Kings shall have power, and they are hereby authorised
at any meeting thereof lawfully assembled, to make such
laws and regulations as they may deem necessary, and
provide for enforcing the same, regulating the manner,
whether by contract or otherwise, and how payments
shall be made, in which the superintendents of the poor
of said county shall purchase all such articles as may be
necessary for the support and maintenance of the poor

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