transcribe documents in Europe relative to the colonial history of this state," or such portions thereof as the state officers hereinafter named shall deem advisable shall be translated and printed for the use of the state. be prepared. § 2. The governor, secretary of state and comptroller shall By whom to cause said documents to be prepared, printed and bound in volumes of such size as they may determine upon, and for such purpose are hereby authorised to employ some suitable person to translate such parts thereof as are necessary at a reasonable compensation to be fixed and certified by them. be issued for § 3. The said state officers shall issue proposals for the print- Proposals to ing and binding of such numbers of copies of said documents as printing and they shall deem advisable to cause to be printed not exceeding binding. five thousand, in the same manner as proposals are required to be issued for the printing and binding of Legislative documents, and shall make a contract for such printing and binding with such person or persons as shall have submitted proposals therefor which all things considered they may deem most advantageous to the interests of the state provided, any of said proposals shall be, by them considered reasonable. eotyped. § 4. The said state officers are hereby authorised to cause such Portions portions of said documents to be stereotyped as they may deem may be sterthe interests of the state to demand, and to secure or sell the copy-right thereof as in their judgment shall be for the interest of the state. § 5. One thousand copies of said documents when printed and The printed bound shall be deposited with the secretary of state and one copy copies how to be dispos thereof delivered by him to each member of the present legisla- ed of. ture the president of the senate, clerks and elective officers of the present senate and assembly, and twenty-three copies therof (being one to each) to the several state officers who are entitled to bound copies of legislative documents, and the residue of said one thousand copies shall be by said secretary of state retained until disposed of as the governor, secretary of state and comptroller may direct for the purpose, and in the way of literary exchanges,and the remaining copies which shall be printed under the provisions of this act shall be sold under the directions of said state officers for such price as shall be determined by them not less than twenty-five per cent over the actual cost of preparing, printing and binding the same, and the proceeds thereof paid into the state treasury. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Petition for the dis debtors. Chap. 176. AN ACT to amend an act for the relief of partners and joint debtors, passed April 18, 1838. Passed March 30, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Any creditor or creditors of any copartnership firm or of charge of any joint debtors, may unite with any one or more of the members of any such copartnership firm, or with any one or more of any such joint debtors, in a petition for the discharge of such partner or partners, joint debtor or debtors from his or their debts under and in accordance with the provisions of article third, of title one, of chapter five of part two of the Revised Statutes, and the discharge of any partner or partners, joint debtor or debtors, in consequence of any such petition, shall have the same force and effect as the note or memorandum in writing mentioned in the act hereby amended, and shall not discharge any copartner or joint debtor, except such copartner and joint debtors as may be designated by the petitioning creditor. Money to be Chap. 177. AN ACT authorising the supervisors of the county of Oswego to raise money to construct a free bridge over the Oswego river. Passed March 30, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate, and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The supervisors of the county of Oswego are hereby auraised by tax, thorised and required at their next annual meeting to be caused to be levied, collected and paid over to the mayor and common council of the city of Oswego, in the same manner as other taxes of the said county are by law directed to be levied, collected and paid, together with collector's fees thereon, the sum of seven thousand dollars, for the purpose of constructing a free bridge over the Oswego river, at Utica street in the city of Oswego, in said county; the same to be levied and collected in instalments of thirty-five hundred dollars each, during the two first years hereafter, from the towns of Scriba and Oswego and the city of Oswego, according to their respective valuations. be made. Contracts to § 2. The mayor of the city of Oswego, and the supervisors of the third and fourth wards of said city, and of the towns of Oswego and Scriba, or a majority of them, shall have full power to contract for the materials and construction of said bridge to the extent of the amount hereby authorised to be levied, and if nec essary for its immediate completion they may borrow the sum herein named or any part thereof, to be paid when collected and paid over as provided in the first section of this act. be connected § 3. The said mayor and supervisors, or a majority of them, Bridge may may, if by them deemed for the interests of said city, construct with R. said bridge in connection with the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Road. Company, provided said company shall pay such proportion of the cost of construction and repairs as shall be agreed on between said company and said mayor and common council, and provided further that it is used by said company in such manner as not to discommode the public. city authori § 4. The bridge when constructed shall be under the control To be under and direction of the authorities of the city of Oswego in such control of the manner as are the public highways of said city, but that portion ties. of the repairs not paid by the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad company shall be levied and collected by the supervisors upon the same property and territory named in the first section of this act. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 178. AN ACT Further to amend the acts in relation to insurances on property in this state made by individuals and associations unauthorised by law. Passed March 30, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: be paid to fire department New York. § 1. There shall be paid to the treasurer of the fire depart- Moneys to ment of the city of New-York, for the use and benefit of said fire department, on the first day of February in each year, by every person who shall act in the city and county of New-York as agent for or on behalf of any individval, or association of individuals, not incorporated by the laws of this state, to effect insurances against losses or injury by fire in the city and county of NewYork, although such individuals or association may be incorporated for that purpose by any other state or country, the sum of two dollars upon the hundred dollars, and at that rate, upon the amount of all premiums which during the year or part of a year ending on the next preceding first day of September, shall have been received by such agent or person, or received by any other person for him, or shall have been agreed to be paid for any insurance effected or agreed to be paid for any insurance effected or agreed to be effected or promised by him, as such agent or otherwise, against loss or injury by fire in the city and county of New-York. Appropriations. Schools fund. U. S. de posite fund. Libraries. Money to be emies. Chap. 174. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of common schools for the years 1849 and 1850. Passed March 30, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed to be paid out of the income of the several funds hereinafter designated in each of the years eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and eighteen hundred and fifty. 1. For the use of the common schools one hundred and twenty thousand dollars out of the revenue of the common school fund. 2. For the like purpose one hundred and ten thousand dollars out of the revenue of the United States deposite fund. 3. For the district school libraries the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars out of the income of the said deposite fund. The said appropriations shall be paid on the conditions prescribed in the existing statutes of this state relating to common schools and according to the apportionment to be made by the state superintendent. § 2. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptrolpaid to acad-Ier out of the income of the United States deposite or Literature Funds, not otherwise appropriated to the trustees of one or more academies, as the regents of the university shall designate, in each county in this state, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per year for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty and one thousand eight hundred and fifty one; provided such academy or academies shall have instructed in the science of common school teaching, for at least four months during each of said years at least twenty individuals, but no such one county shall receive a larger sum than two hundred and fifty dollars. Colonial do be printed. Chap. 175. AN ACT to provide for the publishing of certain documents relating to the colonial history of the State. Passed March 30, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The manuscript documents relating to the colonial history cuments to of this state now in the office of the secretary of state, which were procured under and by virtue of an act of the Legislature, passed May 2, 1839, entitled " An act to appoint an agent to procure and transcribe documents in Europe relative to the colonial history of this state," or such portions thereof as the state officers hereinafter named shall deem advisable shall be translated and printed for the use of the state. be prepared. § 2. The governor, secretary of state and comptroller shall By whom to cause said documents to be prepared, printed and bound in volumes of such size as they may determine upon, and for such purpose are hereby authorised to employ some suitable person to translate such parts thereof as are necessary at a reasonable compensation to be fixed and certified by them. be issued for § 3. The said state officers shall issue proposals for the print- Proposals to ing and binding of such numbers of copies of said documents as printing and they shall deem advisable to cause to be printed not exceeding binding. five thousand, in the same manner as proposals are required to be issued for the printing and binding of Legislative documents, and shall make a contract for such printing and binding with such person or persons as shall have submitted proposals therefor which all things considered they may deem most advantageous to the interests of the state provided, any of said proposals shall be, by them considered reasonable. eotyped. § 4. The said state officers are hereby authorised to cause such Portions portions of said documents to be stereotyped as they may deem may be sterthe interests of the state to demand, and to secure or sell the copy-right thereof as in their judgment shall be for the interest of the state. to be dispos § 5. One thousand copies of said documents when printed and The printed bound shall be deposited with the secretary of state and one copy copies how thereof delivered by him to each member of the present legisla-ed of. ture the president of the senate, clerks and elective officers of the present senate and assembly, and twenty-three copies therof (being one to each) to the several state officers who are entitled to bound copies of legislative documents, and the residue of said one thousand copies shall be by said secretary of state retained until disposed of as the governor, secretary of state and comptroller may direct for the purpose, and in the way of literary exchanges,and the remaining copies which shall be printed under the provisions of this act shall be sold under the directions of said state officers for such price as shall be determined by them not less than twenty-five per cent over the actual cost of preparing, printing and binding the same, and the proceeds thereof paid into the state treasury. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. |