rest by a tax to be levied, assessed and collected of the respective towns, and paid in the same manner as the annual tax is assessed, levied and collected. 5. The commissioners aforesaid shall not borrow the The town to money aforesaid, until the inhabitants of their respective vote. towns shall, at an annual town meeting, by their vote have determined that such loan should be made, and the amount of said loan. certificate. $6. The said commissioners shall respectively grant to Commissionthe individual or corporation of whom the said loan is to give made, a certificate stating the amount of money borrowed for the town for which they are commissioners, and the terms of said loan; and the credit of each town is hereby pledged for the payment of the loan made for its benefit. $7. Should any loan or loans be made as aforesaid, it Money to be shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the coun- raised by tax. ty of Jefferson, to cause a sufficient amount to be levied and collected of each town respectively, as other town charges, to discharge the loan on account of such town. according to the terms of said loan. $8. This act shall take effect immedietely after its Act to take passage. effect. CHAP. 98. AN ACT relative to the office of register for the city of New-York. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. All the acts of Gilbert Coutant, as register for the city of New-York from the first day of January last up to the time when William H. Bunn, the incumbent, entered upon the duties of said office, are hereby confirmed and declared valid. $ 2. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas sage. 16 Lands may be leased. Ronts. CHAP. 99. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Dutchess whaling company. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The time within which the said company is required to have fifty thousand dollars of its capital stock paid in, and an affidavit made by the president of the said company, shewing that the said sum of fifty thousand dollars has been so paid in, filed in the office of the secretary of state, in order to entitle the said company to commence its said business, and with that capital to conduct and carry on the same, is hereby extended until the first day of March next, any thing in the said act or the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. $ 2. This act shall take effect from the passage thereof. CHAP. 100. AN ACT relative to the south half of the gospel and school lot in the town of Guilford, in the county of Chenango. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. The supervisor and overseers of the poor of the town of Guilford, shall have power from time to time to lease out for the benefit of said town, any land in the south half of lot number fifty of the gospel and school lot, which has not been leased, and also any part of said south half on which the existing lease or leases may become forfeited, on such terms as they shall deem beneficial to the interest of said town. $2. The inhabitants of said town of Guilford shall have power, at any annual town meeting hereafter held, to appoint one or more persons to receive the rents accruing from said lot; and that the rents and proceeds thereof which have already accrued, after deducting necessary charges, shall be equally divided between the legally incorporated religious societies in said town; and the rents and proceeds hereafter accruing, shall be appro priated to the use of common schools, in such manner as the inhabitants of said town shall, at their annual town meeting, from time to time direct. CHAP. 101. AN ACT to authorize the building of a school-house in the village of Lewiston. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: house. S1. The trustees of school district number one, in the Site of school village of Lewiston, are hereby authorized to purchase a site for an additional district school-house, and to build, hire or purchase, keep in repair and furnish such additional school-house with necessary fuel and appendages, out of the funds collected and paid to them for such pur poses. $ 2. The inhabitants of said district entitled to vote, Tax. when lawfully assembled in district meeting, shall have power by a majority of the votes of those present, to lay such tax on the taxable inhabitants of the district, as the meeting shall deem sufficient to carry into effect the provisions contained in the first section of this act. CHAP. 102. AN ACT authorizing John A. Seaverson, Philip Seaverson and Richard V. V. Waldron to erect a dam across the Susquehannah river. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. It shall be lawful for John A. Seaverson, Philip Dam. Seaverson and Richard V. V. Waldron, their heirs and assigns, to erect a dam across the Susquehannah river, in the town of Conklin, in the county of Broome, opposite to the north half of lot number twenty-three, in Thomas' patent, not exceeding twenty inches above the low water level; but there shall be constructed and maintained in said dam, a sluice-way of such dimensions and construction as to render the passage safe and easy for boats, arks and rafts, at all times during the continuance of said dam. Saving clause $ 2. Such dam shall not be so constructed as to affect or injure the rights or property of any person, unless the consent of such person shall first be obtained; and this act and every thing herein contained shall be deemed subject to a right in the Legislature at any time hereafter to alter, modify or repeal the same. CHAP. 103. AN ACT to alter the time of holding the February term of the court of common pleas and general sessions, in the county of Greene. Passed April 11, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact s follows: S1. The present term of the court of common pleas and general sessions in and for the county of Greene, now held on the first Monday in February, shall hereafter be held on the second Monday in February in each year. CHAP. 104. AN ACT to incorporate the village of Springville. The People of the State of New-York, represented in S 1. All that district of country in the town of Concord Location: and county of Erie, designated as lots number two, three, eight and nine, in the sixth town and sixth range of townships, according to a map and survey made for the Holland land company by Joseph Ellicott, surveyor, shall hereafter be known and distinguished by the name of the village of Springville. croated. $ 2. The inhabitants of said village shall be a corporaCorporation tion, by the name of "The Trustees of the Village of Springville," and may take, hold, purchase and convey such real and personal estate as the purposes of the corporation may require; but no purchase or conveyance of real estate shall be made, unless authorized by a vote of the electors at an annual meeting. Annual meeting. $ 3. There shall be an annual meeting, at some proper place in the said village, on the first Tuesday in May, and all inhabitants qualified to vote at town-meetings may vote to elect off at all village meetings. All meetings shall be called by notice published for two weeks in all the public newspapers published in said village, or by posting a notice in writing in three public places in said village, for ten days, which notice shall designate the time and place of meeting. The first meeting shall be called by a justice of the peace of the town of Concord, and any justice of said First meeting town may preside thereat, and all subsequent meetings cers. shall be called by the trustees of said village, who shall preside at the same. The said inhabitants at their annual meetings, may elect by ballot, and by a plurality of votes, five trustees, three assessors, one clerk, one treasurer, one collector, one constable, and one pound master, all of whom shall be inhabitants of said village. All persons elected or appointed to any office or place in said village, shall, within ten days after such election or appointment, and before they commence the duties of their offices, give notice in writing of their acceptance. Those elected at the first annual meeting shall give notice of their acceptance to the justice who presided thereat, to be by him delivered to the clerk, and all others to the clerk of said village, and no oath of office shall be required. The inhabitants of the said village liable to pay taxes assessed upon their real and personal property, may, at an annual meeting, vote to raise by tax a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year, and shall specify the purposes for which it is intended and to which it shall be applied; and may determine the compensation to be allowed to any officer of the said village. The presiding officers at said meetings shall have the same powers as inspectors of elections, and shall canvass the votes and declare the results. The duration of all elective offices shall be one year; but the treasurer and clerk shall continue in office until their successors have filed their acceptance. $4. Vacancies in the board of trustees occurring in Vacancies. any manner, shall be filled at a special meeting of the inhabitants called by the remaining trustees, and conducted in the same manner as an annual meeting. Vacancies in all other offices shall be filled by appointments by the trus tees. All appointments shall be by warrant, signed by the trustees and under their corporate seal. In case of a failure to elect trustees at an annual meeting, or if from any cause there should be no trustees, the treasurer and clerk shall call and preside at a meeting for the election of trustees. $5. Within ten days after their election, the trustees President. shall elect one of their number to be their president, and may designate any other member to preside at their meet |