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pany to an amount equal to the amount of the stock they
severally shall have subscribed or held in said company,
over and above such stock, to be recovered of the stock-
holder who is such when the debt is contracted, or of any
subsequent stockholder; and any stockholder who may
have paid any demands against said company, either vol-
untarily or by compulsion, shall have a right to resort to
the rest of the stockholders who were liable to contri-
bution.

§ 20. No person holding stock in said company as exeto be liable cutor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as a stockholder of said company, but the person pledging said stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estate and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator or intestate, or the ward or person interested in such fund would have been if he had been living and competent to act and held the stock in his own name.

Contracts to be in writing.

§ 21. Every contract to be made under this act, by which said company shall obtain credit, shall be in writing, and there shall be attached to the copy of said contract delivered to the creditor, a printed copy of the twenty-first section of this act.

§ 22. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap 514.

AN ACT for the preservation of fish in the waters
of Crooked Lake.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. No person shall take, catch or procure with
any seine or other net, any fish in any part of the waters
of the Crooked lake or in the outlet thereof.

§2. No person shall, during the months of November, December or January, in any year, take, catch or procure with hook and line, or in any other manner, any trout fish in any part of the waters of said lake.

§3. No person shall, knowingly, sell or offer for sale, any fish so caught or taken in any part of said lake.

4. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections, shall, for every offence, forfeit the sum of twenty dollars as a penalty therefor.

§ 5. The penalties imposed by this act shall be sued for and recovered, with the costs of such suit, by and in the name of the superintendent or superintendents of the poor of the county in which the offence is committed, before any court having cognizance thereof, and the penalties when so recovered and collected, shall be paid into the treasury of said county, for the use of the poor thereof. If such action shall not be commenced by such superintendent or superintendents within thirty days after the occurring, or ten days after personal notice thereof, then the same may be brought by any other person, upon his giving security to the satisfaction of such court, or of the county judge of the county where the action is intended to be brought, conditioned to pay all costs in case he shall fail to recover judgment therein; and the penalty or penalties so recovered and collected shall be paid by said court, one half to the superintendent or superintendents of the poor of said county where such offence was committed, for the use of the people thereof, and the other half, after deducting the costs of such prosecution, to the person by whom such action was brought.

Chap. 515.

AN ACT in relation to the Chaplains of the Marine Hospital.

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 annual compensation of the chaplains of the marine hospital, now located on Staten island, shall hereafter be six hundred dollars each, in lieu of all other compensation to said chaplains now provided by law. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 516.

AN ACT to change the name of Patrick Connolly to David Patrick Connolly.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the person heretofore known by the name of Patrick Connolly to assume the name of David Patrick Connolly, but nothing in this act shall be so construed as to invalidate any act or contract heretofore made by the said Patrick Connolly.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 517.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Mariners' Savings Institution in the city of New-York," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

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. Section six of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Mariners' Savings Institution in the city of New-York," is hereby amended by striking out the following words: "But not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars from any individual," and substituting in lieu thereof the following words: "But not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars from any individual." § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 518.

AN ACT to extend the time for a compliance by the Troy and Boston Railroad Company with the forty-seventh section of the general railroad act, passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty.

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 in which the Troy and Boston railroad company shall be required to perform any of the several acts specified in the forty-seventh section of the act entitled "An act to authorise the formation of railroad corporations and to regulate the same," passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby extended two years from the time of the passage of this act. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Commissioner.

Vacancy.

Power and duty of commissioner.

Supervisor to borrow money.

Chap. 519.

AN ACT to provide for the dyking and improving the public highway in Frankfort, Herkimer county, known as the road leading from the village of Frankfort to the Central Railroad depot in the town of Schuyler, in said county.

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. Gerrit Widrick, of the town of Frankfort, is hereby appointed commissioner to dyke and improve the public highway leading from the village of Frankfort, in the town of Frankfort, Herkimer county, to the central railroad depot, in the town of Schuyler, in said county, and in case a vacancy should occur by the death or refusal or neglect of said commissioner, or his successor in office, to serve, such vacancy may from time to time, and as often as it shall happen, be filled by appointment in writing, under the hand of the county judge of said county, of any suitable freeholder of said town.

§ 2. Such commissioner shall have power to dyke and improve said road so as to make it passable at all times, at an expense not exceeding five hundred dollars; but he shall, before he enters on the duties of his office and within ten days after he shall have notice so to do, execute a bond to said town, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved of in writing, by the supervisor of said town and by him filed in the clerk's office of said town, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.

§ 3. The supervisor of said town is hereby authorised and required to borrow, on the credit of the said town, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be from time to time paid over to such commissioner and by him applied to the payment of the expenses of dyking and improving said highway.