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H. Hill and
S. Jenks.

CHAP. 82.

AN ACT for the relief of Henry Hill and others.
Passed April 8, 1834.

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

S1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to Henry Hill and Simeon Jenks, the sum of three hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-three cents, to which, according to a resolution of the canal board of the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, they are entitled, as an extra allowance for work done on the Oswego canal. H. Hill and $ 2. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to Henry Hill and Peter Failing, the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars, to which, according to a resolution of the canal board, of the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, they are entitled, as an extra allowance for work done on the Oswego canal.

P. Failing.

Aet to take effect.

S3. This act shall take effect immediately on its final passage.

Loan of $4,000.

CHAP. 83.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act authorizing the supervisors of the county of Jefferson to sell and convey the poor-house lot and establishment in said county, and for other purposes," passed January 25th, 1833.

Passed April 8, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The comptroller may loan to the commissioners of Jefferson county poor-house, mentioned in the third section of the act hereby amended, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, of any money in the treasury belonging to the capital of the common school fund; and such sum shall be paid to such commissioners by the treasurer of this state on the warrant of the comptroller, and shall be charged in the books of the comptroller as a debt due from the county of Jefferson to this state, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per cent per annum, to be paid in four equal annual instalments, with interest annually, and such debt shall belong to the common school' fund.

$2. The comptroller, at the time of the payment of Receipt. said moneys to such commissioners, shall take their receipt, or the receipt of a majority of such commissioners, for the same.

commission.

$3. Such commissioners shall have the power to borrow Powers of such sum of money of the comptroller.

ers.

how to apply

$ 4. All the provisions of the act hereby amended shall Provisions apply to the money hereby authorized to be loaned, in the same manner and with the like effect as they would apply to any moneys borrowed under the provisions of such act. S5. This act shall take effect immediately on the pas- Act to take sage thereof.

effect.

CHAP. 84.

AN ACT providing for the payment of the compensation due to Walter Cornell, deceased, late a member of the Assembly.

Passed April 8, 1834,

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

S1. The treasurer of this state is hereby authorised to pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the widow of Walter Cornell, a member of the last legislature, who died during the session, such compensation as he would have been entitled to, had he survived until the termination of the said session.

CHAP. 85.

AN ACT in relation to the Ogdensburgh and Canton road, in the county of St. Lawrence.

Passed April 8, 1834.

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

$1. The provisions of the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth sections of title first, chapter eighteen of the first part of the Revised Statutes, shall apply to the Ogdensburgh and Canton road, and to the gate erected thereon; and the penalties therein provided shall and may be sued for and recovered in the name of the people of the state of NewYork, by the treasurer of St. Lawrence county; and

when collected shall be applied in the same manner that the tolls are by law applied.

CHAP. 86.

AN ACT for the relief of William Ostrander.

Passed April 8, 1834.

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

$1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to William Ostrander, a revolutionary soldier, six hundred dollars, in lieu of his claim upon the state for bounty lands, as a soldier in the third New-York regiment.

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beach.

CHAP. 87.

AN ACT to preserve the grass on a part of the south beach, in the county of Suffolk.

Passed April 8, 1834.

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

S1. If any horses, neat cattle, sheep or hogs, shall be ses, &c. to run found on any of the beaches or islands lying between a certain creek called Horse Foot creek, otherwise called Long cove, on the west, and the place heretofore known and designated as Smith's inlet on the east, the owner or owners thereof shall forfeit and pay to the person who shall take and keep the same, five dollars for each horse or neat beast, and for each sheep or hog fifty cents, so found; and in case no person shall appear and pay the said sum within forty-eight hours after such horses, neat cattle, sheep or hogs shall have been so taken, the person taking the same shall advertise the same in two or more public places in the town of Brookhaven, at least six days, and at the expiration thereof shall sell the same at public vendue, and out of the monies arising therefrom may retain in his hands five dollars for each horse or neat beast and fifty cents for each sheep or hog so sold, together with the costs, not exceeding seventy-five cents for each horse or neat beast and twenty-five cents for each sheep or hog so taken, and shall return the overplus monies, if any there be, to the owner or owners thereof; but this act shall not

be construed to debar or prevent any person or persons having meadow on the said beaches or islands from carrying on, using and feeding so many oxen or horses on the said beaches or islands as shall be necessary for receiving and securing the hay during the season for getting the same, nor to prevent any person or persons from pasturing so many horses or oxen as shall be necessary to secure any property wrecked on said beach.

$ 2. All acts heretofore passed concerning said beaches, Repeal or so much thereof as may be repugnant to this act, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 88.

AN ACT relative to proceedings upon writs of homine re

plegiando.

Passed April 8, 1834.

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

supported.

$ 1. The person claiming the services of a fugitive from Fugitives in service, or his agent, shall pay weekly for the support of custody to be such fugitive the sum of two dollars per week, so long as said fugitive shall remain in custody, by virtue of the provisions of article first, title first, chapter ninth, part third of the Revised Statutes, and in default of such payment, such fugitive shall be discharged from custody, upon his own recognizance, by a judge of the court of common pleas or supreme court commissioner, upon application to be made at chambers.

may be held

$ 2. The person claiming any fugitive from service, or Person claim his agent, after a writ of homine replegiando has been is- ing fugitive sued, may be held to bail by an order of a judge of the to bail. court out of which such writ of homine replegiando issued, in such sum as said court shall order, not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, conditioned for the payment of all damages which may be sustained by such person, claimed to be a fugitive from service, in case it shall not be established that he is such fugitive.

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Name changed.

Old meeting

sold.

AN ACT to change the name of the associate reformed congregation of Union church, at New-Shawangunk, and for other purposes.

Passed April 8, 1834.

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

$ 1. The elders and trustees of the associate reformed congregation of Union church at New-Shawangunk, in the town of Walkill, Orange county, shall hereafter be known by the name of "The Elders and Trustees of the Associate Reformed Congregation of Union Church, Bloomingburgh," and by that name hereafter have succession, and retain all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the responsibilities which the said elders and trustees, as elders and trustees of the associate reformed church at New-Shawangunk now are entitled to, or would have been responsible for, had this act not have been passed

S2. The said elders and trustees, by permission of said house may be congregation, to be determined by a vote of the male members thereof, at a public meeting duly notified as is required for election of trustees thereof, may dispose of the building now used as a meeting-house for said congregation at public or private sale, the avails whereof shall be held by said elders and trustees, in trust for said congregation, to be appropriated as said congregation shall by vote at such public meeting direct.

Annual meet

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Repeal.

CHAP. 90.

AN ACT to alter the time of holding the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson.

Passed April 8, 1834,

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

$1. The board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson, shall meet annually on the Monday next after the the general election in each year, at the same place where they are now by law required to meet.

$2. So much of title second of chapter twelve, of part first of the Revised Statutes, as requires the board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson to hold their annual meeting on any other day than the one herein provided, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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