marked property: driver of carriage running his horses; defacing marks, or putting false marks on floating timber; all offences against the laws and ordinances relating to excise, and the regulation of taverns and groceries, applicable to said city; all cases of drunkenness; all violation against the laws and ordinances of the city of Oswego, when such violation is a misdemeanor; all attempts to commit any of the offences herein named or referred to, when such attempt shall be a misdemeanor. men for ser § 3. The mayor and aldermen associated in holding the court, Pay of mayshall be entitled to receive two dollars per day for their services or and alderin court, which shall be paid by the county treasurer on the cer- vices in court tificate of the clerk of the court. The recorder's court shall be deemed always open for the transaction of all business, and making all applications contemplated by the act incorporating the city of Oswego. § 4. The first and third sections of the act entitled "An act to Repeal organize and establish a recorder's court in the city of Oswego," passed April 12, 1848, are hereby repealed, and the following sections inserted in their stead: § 1. The recorder of the city of Oswego alone, or in case of Court of civil his absence or inability to serve, the mayor and any two aldermen jurisdiction. of the said city, shall hold a court of civil jurisdiction, to be called "the recorder's court of the city of Oswego," which shall be a court of record, and shall be held once in each month, except in those months in which a circuit court of oyer and terminer, county court or court of session of the peace, for the trial of civil or criminal causes, shall be authorized to be held in said city, at which a grand and petit jury shall have been called, and shall commence on the fourth Monday in each month. criminal ju § 3. The said recorder, with the mayor and an alderman, or Court of with any two aldermen of the said city, or in case of the absence risdiction. of the said recorder, the mayor and any two aldermen of the said city, may and shall at the times aforesaid, hold a court of criminal jurisdiction, which shall also be called "the recorder's court of the city of Oswego," which shall have criminal jurisdiction to the same extent, and in the same manner, and with the same powers, as the courts of sessions of the peace, of the several counties of this state, in all criminal matters and proceedings whatsoever within its jurisdiction, and in the indictment and trial of all offences committed in said city, or in the adjoining towns of Oswego and Scriba, or committed in this state on board of any vessel or boat, or float navigating or floating on any river, lake or canal, which boat, vessel or float, shall come within the jurisdiction of said court; and in all cases of larceny or embezzlement, in which the property stolen or embezzled shall be brought or found within such jurisdiction; and in all recognisances in matters of which such court has jurisdiction, may be returnable at such court, and conditioned for the appearance of persons thereat. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Buildings to be insured. Members draw from company. Chap. 135. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Passed March 26, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. No building or other property shall be insured by the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of the county of Erie, except dwelling houses, out houses, barns, and other buildings, connected with and appertaining to farms, household furniture, clothing and provisions, carriages, stock, grain, forage, farming implements, and other property appertaining to farms as may be in such dwellings, out houses and barns; and the dwelling houses, out houses, and barns, located in the country, out of any city or village, and owned or occupied by a mechanic, and the household furniture, clothing and provisions, and the stock, carriages, grain and forage in such dwelling houses, out houses and barns, provided that such dwelling houses, out houses and barns are not used for manufacturing purposes, and that the shop or manufacturing establishment of such mechanic is not in such proximity to such houses or barns as to increase the hazard beyond the risk of farm buildings. § 2. Any member may at any time surrender his policy and how to with- withdraw from the company as a member thereof, and shall be entitled to receive his deposit note on the payment of his proportion of all losses and expenses of the company, up to the date of such surrender; and the directors of said company may also cancel any policy issued by said company on giving notice to the insured and cancelling the deposit note so far as to absolve the insured from, any liability for any loss that shall happen after the cancelling of his policy and refunding any money that may have been paid on said note that shall exceed the proper proportion of the insured during the period the policy existed, but no re-pay ment of the cost of survey and the price of the policy shall be claimed on any such cancelling. Chap. 136. AN ACT to confirm the official acts of Hiram W. Jackson, of the town of China, as superintendent of common schools. Passed March 26, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The acts of Hiram W. Jackson, as superintendent of com- Official acts mon schools of the town of China, in the county of Wyoming, from confirmed. the first day of April, one thousand, eight hundred and forty-eight to the eighth of November in the same year, are hereby declared as valid and effectual as if he had executed a new bond at the time of his appointment, and all penalties incurred by him, by reason of not executing such bond, are hereby remitted. § 2. This act shall not effect any suit or proceeding commenced Saving before the passage thereof. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 137. AN ACT to authorise the board of supervisors of Oswego county to make certain assessments. Passed March 26, 1849, "three fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: clause. when to be made. § 1. Whenever it shall, by competent proof, be made to appear, Assessments to the board of supervisors of the county of Oswego, that the several collectors of taxes in the towns of said county for the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, neglected to add the five per cent fees allowed by law to the sum of three thousand forty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents, that being the amount of the several taxes returned by said several collectors in said year, then it shall be the duty of said board, at their next annual meeting thereof, to add said five per cent to the taxes thereafter to be levied upon and collected from the owner or owners of such lands or other property as were originally liable therefor, in the same manner as the ordinary expenses of said county are levied and collected. Place of meeting. Chap. 138. AN ACT to fix the place of meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Ulster. Passed March 26, 1849. The People of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. The annual meetings of the board of Supervisors of the county of Ulster, shall hereafter be held at the Court House in said county. created. Chap. 139. AN ACT to incorporate the Life-Saving Benevolent Association of New-York. Passed March 26, 1849. The People of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Corporation § 1. Walter R. Jones, Bache McEvers, Josiah L. Hale, George Griswold, Daniel Lord, Anthony B. Neilson, Charles H. Marshall, Moses H. Grinnell, William S. Wetmore, Thomas Tileston, Henry Coit, Augustin Averill, Joseph Walker, Lambert Suydam, Henry Chauncey, John C. Green, John L. Aspinwall, Edwin Rartlett, Abiel A. Low, Solomon T. Nicoll, Walter R. Jones, jr., Robert C. Goodhue, Edward K. Collins, Oliver Slate, jr., John D. Jones, Mortimer Livingston, Frederick A. Delano, Theodore Dehon, the collector of the port of New-York, ex-officio, and the president of the chamber of commerce, ex-officio, and such others as they may associate with themselves and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, forever, by the name and style of "The Life-Saving Benevolent Association of New-York;" and the persons whose names are mentioned above, are to be the first managers, and are hereby authorised to organize the corporation, and to elect a president, vice-president, secretary, and other officers, who are to act for one or more years, as may be determined on by the managers at the time of the election, and to hold over until others are elected to fill their places. § 2. The said corporation shall have power to determine the mode of succession and the mode of increasing their numbers, and to declare membership and the qualification of voters. Membership, &c. Real estate. § 3. The said corporation is hereby declared and made capable in law of having, holding, purchasing, and taking in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, devise or otherwise, any lands, landings, tenements or other estate, real and personal, for carrying out the objects of their charity, and also to sell, alien, or dispose of the same; but the annual income of the property owned by the said corporation, shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. § 4. The said corporation may have a seal, and alter the same seal. at pleasure; and be capable in law of suing and being sued, defending and pleading, and to possess all the usual powers appertaining to charitable incorporations. made. 5. On the second Wednesday of January, of each year, or Annual rewithin ten days thereafter, a meeting is to take place, between port to be the hours of ten A. M., and five P. M., to receive a report of the affairs of the corporation, and to transact such other business as may come before said meeting. meetings § 6. Until a secretary is appointed, or in case of his death, ab- Notice of sence, or inability to act, it shall be lawful for three of the mana-m gers to give notice, in three of the public commercial newspapers given. of the city, daily for five days, stating the hour and place of meeting, and it shall be lawful for such managers as attend after such public notice from three managers, or for those attending under a like public notice from the secretary, to transact the business of the said corporation, even should there be less than ́a majority of all the managers. Other meetings may be called by the officers from time to time, on the request of any six managers, or at the request of six subscribers in writing, directed to one of the officers of the association, who shall call a meeting by giving notice of the place, day, and hour of meeting in one or more daily commercial newspapers of the city, or by giving a personal notice, at the discretion of the officer. § 7. The said managers shall have power to make by-laws and By-laws. regulations for the government of said corporation, and of the officers and subordinates, which they may from time to time appoint or employ, and may determine the time of holding occasional meetings; and may also determine from time to time the number, less than a majority, to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but the number of such quorum shall not be changed, at any other than at their annual meeting in the month of January of each year. &e. § 8. The said corporation shall have power to receive, collect Donations, and hold donations and subscriptions, and to invest any surplus thereof for accumulation; such accumulation, however, is to be only for the purposes connected with the charity by them conducted. Rewards for good con § 9. Said corporation shall have power and authority to encourage meritorious conduct, to grant rewards, give donations and duct. premiums, in money, medals and diplomas, letters of thanks and commendation; to build or purchase and use life-boats and other boats, boat and station houses, offices, articles and material suitable to afford facilities in saving life, in cases of shipwrecked and damaged vessels or otherwise; to employ officers, men and laborers, and by themselves and others to perform any services of benevolence and charity within the provisions of this act. |