Corporation created. General' powers., Stock. Route of road. How to be CHAP. 167. AN ACT to incorporate the East creek turnpike company. The People of the State of New-York, represented in § 1. All persons who shall become stockholders pursuant to this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The East Creek Turnpike company." S2. The corporation hereby created shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities of turnpike corporations, as prescribed in the first title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes of this state, except so far as the same shall be altered by this act. $ 3. The capital stock of this company shall consist of three hundred shares of twenty dollars each; and Luther Pardee, Stephen Bowen and David B. Winton, shall be commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions. S4. The said corporation may construct a turnpike road in the town of Manheim, along the valley of the EastCanada creek, and as near to said creek as may be safe and convenient, from the Mohawk turnpike company's road, and near their bridge across said creek, to the state road near Brocket's bridge, across said creek, or only along so much of the route above designated, as is not the site of a highway at the time of the passing of this act. $5. The said road may be constructed of such materi constructed. als as the natural surface of the ground may afford, and of a width not less than twenty feet, except those places where the creek on one side, and a steep bank or ledge of rocks on the other, makes it extremely difficult to build the road of twenty feet in width, in which places it shall not be less than fifteen feet in width, and shall be protected on the lower side by a wall or a strong railing. Directors. Rates of toll. S6. The said company may elect five directors, and the concerus of the company may be managed by three of them, as a board for the transaction of business. $7. As soon as the said road shall be completed and approved according to law, the said corporation shall be authorized to erect one toll gate, or two half-toll gates, on said turnpike road, and receive the following rates of toll for passing said full toll gate, or half said tolls at each half-toll gate: For every coach, coachee, wagon, cart, or any other carriage drawn by two horses or other beasts, twelve and a half cents, for every additional horse or oth er beast, three cents; for every chair, sulky, chaise, wagon, cart, or any other carriage drawn by one horse, six and one-fourth cents; for every horse and rider, or horse led, four cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses or other beasts, six cents, for every additional horse or other beast, two cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse or other beast, four cents; for every score of cattle, horses or mules, twelve and a half cents; for every score of sheep or swine, six cents; and in like proportion for a greater or less number. S8. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or Right to repeal this act, or any of its provisions. CHAP. 168. AN ACT authorizing the supervisors of the county of Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. It shall and may be lawful for the board of supervisors of the county of Schenectady, to raise by tax, from time to time, and in such instalments as they may deem necessary, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid to the county treasurer, and to be applied by him to the payment of the balance due from said supervisors, upon their contract for the erection of a new court-house, jail and fire proof clerk's office, and other expenses incident to the same. repoal. CHAP. 169. AN ACT for the relief of certain taxable inhabitants of the village of Lansingburgh. Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. From and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the trustees of the village of Lansingburgh, whenever any tax shall be voted by the freeholders and taxable inhabitants of said village, for general improvements in said village, to exempt and excuse such of the in Writs. Rules. habitants of said village as reside south of the south bounds of the patent of Stone Arabia, from taxation or assessment for such tax, for or in respect to any taxable property south of said bounds, if, in the opinion of said trustees, the said inhabitants will not be benefitted by any such improvements to be made; in which case such taxes shall be levied and assessed upon the residue of the taxable inhabitants of said village. CHAP. 170. AN ACT relative to the superior court of the city of Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. All writs or process which shall issue out of the said court, may be tested in any day of the term in which such court shell sit, and be made returnable on any other day of the same term, or at the next term. $ 2. The said court may establish by its rules, the time to be allowed for entering and perfecting bail in suits pending therein, and to be given to the sheriff in such cases before an attachment can issue against him; also the time to be allowed for pleading in such suits, and for noticing the issues in fact joined in the same for trial; but in none of the above cases shall such time be less than eight days. Corporation created. CHAP. 171. AN ACT to incorporate the Mayville academy. Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SI. William Peacock, Benjamin Evans, William Green, Martin Prendergrast, Samuel Willing, William T. Howell, Ebenezer P. Upham, Jabez B. Burrows, Hezekiah Tinkcom, Anselm Potter and William Smith, shall be, and they are hereby constituted, a body corporate, by the name of "The Mayville Academy," to be located in the county of Chautauque, for the purpose of establishing and conducting a seminary of learning for the education of youth of both sexes; and the persons above named shall be trustees of said corporation. $ 2. The said corporation shall have power to purchase, Real estate. take and hold real and personal estate to the annual income of six thousand dollars; and to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same, for the use of said institution. fund. $ 3. The corporation hereby created, shall not be enti- Literature tled to any portion of the literature fund, until it shall comply with all the regulations and requisitions of the regents of the university. $ 4. There shall be eleven trustees of said corporation, Trustees. a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. S5. The corporation hereby created shall possess the General powers and be subject to the provisions contained in the powers. eighteenth chapter and first part of the Revised Statutes. $6. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or Right to repeal this act. repeal. CHAP. 172. AN ACT to incorporate the Holland Patent academy. Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. $1. Robert Wells, Aaron White, Benjamin E. Bowen, Corporation Horace I. Hulbert, William Townsend, Simeon Guthrie, Oliver Combs, James Wetmore, Joseph Hamlin, and their successors, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the "Holland Patent Academy," to be located at the village of Holland Patent, in the town of Trenton, in the county of Oneida, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and conducting a seminary of learning for the education of youth of both sexes; and the persons above named shall be trustees of said corporation. sonal estate $2. The said corporation shall have power to purchase, Resl and pertake and hold real and personal estate, to the annual income of six thousand dollars, and to lease, sell or otherwise dispose of the same for the use of said institution. S3. There shall be nine trustees of the said corpora- Trusteos. tion, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in the board. $ 4. The said corporation shall not be entitled to any share of the literature fund, until it shall have complied with the rules prescribed by, and subjected itself to the visitation of the regents of the university. $5. The corporation hereby created, shall possess the powers, and be subject to the provisions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter and first part of the Revised Statutes. License for forry. Rents. General provisions. Trustees to report. СНАР. 173. AN ACT in addition to an act entitled "An act authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of St. Lawrence, to levy a tax on the town of Oswegatchie, to be invested in an academy and lot, and for other purposes," passed April 26, 1833. Passed April 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. The supervisor and town clerk of the town of Oswegatchie, in the county of St. Lawrence, and the president and clerk of the village of Ogdensburgh, as the trustees of the Ogdensburgh academy, are hereby authorized and empowered to grant licenses to so many and such persons as they shall think proper, to keep a ferry across the St. Lawrence river, from Ogdensburgh, including both sides of the Oswegatchie river, to Prescott, in Upper Canada, subject at all times to such rates of ferriage and to such rules and regulations as the court of common pleas of the said county of St. Lawrence shall from time to time establish. $2. The rents, profits and income, if any, from the said ferry, after paying all charges, shall enure to and belong to the said Ogdensburgh academy, and until the completion of the duties of the commissioners named in the third section of the act to which this is an addition, the same shall be paid over to the said commissioners, and after the termination of their duties, the same shall be paid over to the treasurer of said academy. $ 3. The provisions of the fourth, seventh and eighth sections of title second, chapter sixteenth, part first of the Revised Statutes shall apply to the licenses and ferry named in this act. S4. The said trustees shall annually report to the said court the amount of moneys so received. |