Right to al ter or re peal. U. S. Senator to be elected. Seal of Ful documents, and other printing ordered by either house, a forms, circulars, instructions and other matter directed to printed by any executive officer, or by any board, at pri adapted to, and not exceeding the rates ordinarily charged printers in the city of Albany, for similar services; which c tract shall be reported to the legislature; and until such c tract be made, the same compensation shall be made the printer to the state appointed by this act, for all print executed by him, as is allowed to the state printer under isting contracts; but such allowance shall not continue more than ten days after the passage of this act. § 5. The legislature may at any time, alter, modify, or peal this act. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 2. AN ACT to provide for the election of a Senator in Congre [Passed January 13, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Sen and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. There being now a vacancy in the office of senator congress to represent this state, by the expiration of the ter of office of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, on the third day of Mar last, the legislature shall, upon the day next after the passage this act, at twelve o'clock at noon, proceed to the election a senator in congress to fill such vacancy, in the manner a form prescribed by Article fourth of Title sixth of Part First Chapter sixth of the Revised Statutes of this state. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 3. AN ACT in relation to the seal of the county of Fulton. [Passed January 20, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Send and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The seal now in the office of the clerk of the county ton county. Fulton, is hereby declared to be the seal of the county cour of said county; and all subpoenas issued under said seal sing the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and fort shall be deemed as valid as the same would have been if th act had been on that day in force. thereof to be § 2. The clerk of the county of Fulton shall, forthwith, and Description within thirty days from the passage of this act, draw up a filed. specific description of the seal of said county, now in the office of said clerk, and under the seal of said county, certify the accuracy thereof, and file and preserve the same in the office of said clerk. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 4. AN ACT concerning certain records in the counties of Montgomery and Hamilton. [Passed January 22, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All records of deeds, mortgages, assignments of mort- Certain regages, foreclosure of mortgages, and mortgages given to the transcribed commissioners of loans and loan officers, under the several laws authorizing the same, and powers of attorney for the sale of real estate, which are now recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Montgomery, that may relate to or affect real estate in the county of Hamilton; and also all that portion of the docket of judgments rendered in the court of common pleas of said county of Montgomery, and the docket of judgments from transcripts made by justices of the peace, and of the collector's docket, that may have been docketed in the clerk's office of the said county of Montgomery, from the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to the thirty-first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, inclusive, may, at the expense of the said county of Hamilton, be transcribed and copied by some person authorized for that purpose. sioners. § 2. Cyrus H. Brownell, Leonard Anibal and Almon Olm- Commisstead, are hereby appointed commissioners; a majority of whom shall have power to procure necessary books and stationery, and to contract with such person or persons as they shall deem fit to transcribe and copy the said records and dockets, on such terms as they shall deem equitable and just; and the said person or persons so employed, shall give a bond, with approved sureties, to the said commissioners, for the faithful performance of the duties required of him or them. clerk of § 3. The clerk of the county of Montgomery is hereby re- Duty of quired to permit the person or persons employed by the said Montgomecommissioners for that purpose, to transcribe and copy all such ry county. portions of the records and dockets as above provided. Treasurer of § 4. The treasurer of the said county of Hamilton, is here- Hamilton to by authorized and directed to execute a bond as treasurer of transcribers. Money to be raised by ilton county said county, to the person or persons that may be employe by the said commissioners to transcribe and copy the said re cords and dockets by virtue of this act, conditioned for th payment of such sum or sums of money, with interest thereo at seven per cent per annum, as shall be necessary to pay fo the transcribing and copying of the said records and dockets according to the terms of the contract that may be made by and between the said commissioners and the person or per sons with whom they shall have contracted to transcribe th said records and dockets herein before enumerated; whic said sum or sums of money shall be ascertained and reported by the said commissioners to the said treasurer as soon as the said records and dockets shall be transcribed and copied ac cording to the provisions of this act. § 5. The board of supervisors of the said county of Hamilton tax in Ham- are hereby authorized and required to raise by tax on the sai county, in the same manner as other county charges are rais ed, such sum or sums of money, over and above the expense of collecting the same, as shall be sufficient to pay the princi pal and interest on the bond hereby directed to be given by the treasurer of the said county of Hamilton, whenever the same shall become due and payable; which said sum or sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the aforesai bond: And when the said records and dockets, in the firs section of this act mentioned, shall have been transcribed and copied as aforesaid, the person or persons making the same shall certify on oath, before the clerk of the said county of Ha milton, that they are true copies of all such records and docket remaining in the clerk's office of the county of Montgomery and the said copies when so completed and certified, shall be deposited. deposited in the clerk's office of the said county of Hamilton which said copies or exemplifications, or sworn or certified copies thereof, shall thenceforth be received, accredited and considered in all courts and places as evidence, and have the same force and effect as the original records, or sworn or cer tified copies or exemplifications thereof, could or would have Copies where to be Pay of com § 6. The said commissioners, for services rendered under missioners. the provisions of this aet, shall receive such compensation as may, by the board of supervisors of the said county of Hamil ton, be deemed reasonable and proper, to be paid by said county in like manner as other county charges. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 5. AN ACT to extend the time for collecting the taxes for the year 1839. [Passed January 31, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tended. § 1. If any collector of taxes in any of the towns or cities Time exin this state, except the city of New-York, shall, within the time now provided by law, pay over all moneys by him collected, and shall within ten days thereafter renew his bond to the satisfaction, in towns, of the supervisor of such towns, or in his absence, of the town clerk; and in cities, a majority of the supervisors of such city, to be expressed in writing on such bond, which bond shall be filed and have the effect of a collector's bond as provided by law: the time for collecting the taxes and making the returns thereof by such collector, shall be extended to the first day of March next. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 6. AN ACT to authorize Joel Edson Johnson to change his name. [Passed February 1, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Joel Edson Johnson is hereby authorized to assume the name of Joel Edson Rockwell, and by that name shall be hereafter known and designated. CHAP. 7. AN ACT to change the name of Oliver Hoar and others. [Passed February 1, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. Oliver Hoar and Polly Hoar his wife, Albert Hoar his son, and Chloe Hoar, Betsey Hoar, Mary Hoar, Lucy Hoar and Minerva Hoar, his daughters, may assume the name of Oliver Horr, Polly Horr, Albert Horr, Chloe Horr, Betsey Horr, Mary Horr, Lucy Horr and Minerva Horr, respectively, by which names they shall hereafter be severally known and designated. A sum not exceeding be raised. CHAP. 8. AN ACT relative to certain insolvent insurance companies in the city of New-York. [Passed February 1, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The time allowed by law for the receivers of certain insurance companies in the city of New-York, to make a final dividend of their assets by the act passed the twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An act in relation to certain insolvent insurance companies in the city of New-York," is further extended to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 9. AN ACT to authorize William Smith to change his name. [Passed February 1, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senat and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. William Smith, captain in the corps of engineers of the United States, is hereby authorized to assume the name o William Davidson Fraser, and by that name shall be hereaf ter known and designated. СНАР. 10. AN ACT to enable the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York to raise money by tax. [Passed February 4, 1840.] The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of New $746,000 to York, as the supervisors of the city and county of New-York of whom the mayor or recorder shall be one, are hereby em powered as soon as conveniently may be after the passage o this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax, on the estate real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of, and situated within the said city, and to be collected a sum not ex ceeding seven hundred and forty-six thousand dollars, to be |