Saving clause. Town meet ing. § 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any suit commenced against any of said officers before the passing of this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 32. AN ACT to designate the place of holding the next annual town meeting, in the town of Broome in the county of Schoharie. Passed February 9, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The next annual town meeting in the town of Broome in the county of Schoharie, shall be held at the house of John Whitting's, in said town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 33. AN ACT to annex a part of the town of Middleburgh, to the town of Broome. Passed February 9, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows; Part annex- § 1. The territory lying in the town of Middleburgh, in the ed to Broome county of Schoharie which is embraced within the following des cribed boundaries, is hereby annexed to the town of Broome in the said county, viz; Beginning on the north line of the said town of Broome, at the point where the division line between the towns of Middleburgh and Fulton intersect the same, and running thence northerly along the said division line to Matthia's Patent; Thence westerly along the southerly line of said Matthia's Patent, thirtysix chains; thence south seventy-nine degrees east to the line of Albany county; thence southerly along the line of Albany county to the north line of the said town of Broome; thence westerly along the said north line of the town of Broome to the place of beginning. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 34. AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the funds of the Oneida annual conference and repeal the act entitled "An act to change the name of the corporation of the trustees of the fund of the Genesee conference," passed March 24, 1829, and for other purposes. Passed Febuary 9, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. § 1. Harnford Colbon, D. W. Bristol, Isaac Parks, W. W. Corporation Rundall, H. F. Rowe, David Holmes, Jr., and E. B. Tenny and their successors, to be appointed in a manner herein prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The trustees of the funds of the Oneida annual conference," for the purpose of raising a fund for the assistance of the itinerant supernumerary and superanuated ministers, their wives and children, belonging to said conference. First Trus § 2. The persons named in the first section of this act, shall be the first trustees of the said corporation. The business of the tees. said corporation shall be conducted at such place within the bounds of said conference, as shall be designated by a majority of the members thereof present, at any annual conference. § 3. The corporation hereby created, shall possess all the pow- General ers and privileges and be subject to all the restrictions and lim- powers. itations which are granted to or imposed upon the trustees of the funds of the Genesee conference by the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the members of the Genesee annual conference," passed April 13, 1819, except as provided in the following section. and hold pro quest. § 4. The corporation hereby created, shall be capable of taking, May receive holding or receiving any property, real or personal by virtue of perty by deany devise or bequest contained in any last will and testament of vise or be any person whatsoever, the clear annual income of which devise or bequest shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, provided no person leaving a wife or child or parent shall devise or bequeath to said corporation, more than one fourth of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator. Trustees. § 5. The trustees of the said corporation, shall be jointly and Liability of severally liable for all debts due from said corporation, contracted while they are trustees; provided said debts are payable within one year from the time they shall have been contracted, and provided a suit for the collection of the same shall be brought within one year after the debt shall become due and payable. Repeal of Annual Re port. Proceedings to be in force Saving clause. Property may be re bequest. § 6. The act entitled, "An act to change the name of the corporation of the trustees of the funds of the Genesee conference, and for other purposes," passed March 24, 1829, is hereby repealed, and the funds of the Genesee conference, shall be divided between the same and the Oneida annual conference, in proportion to the number of members thereof respectively. § 7. The said corporations shall each report annually, in writing, the state and condition of its funds to its respective conference at its annual meeting. § 8. All the proceedings which have been had, and all the acts and deeds of every name and kind, by the "Trustees of the funds of the Oneida annual conference," since the 27th of February, 1838, shall be held in all respects of the same force and validity, as if the said trustees had been legally incorporated on that day. § 9. This act shall not affect the right of any party, in any suit or proceedings, which have been had or commenced in consequence of the invalidity of any proceedings of the said trustees, previous to its passage. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 35. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the 1843. Passed Febuary 9, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Section second of the act entitled "An act to Incorporate the American Baptist Home Mission Society," passed April 12, 1843, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. This corporation shall be capable of taking, holding or received & held ceiving any property, real or personal, by virtue of any devise or by devise or bequest contained in any last will or testament of any person whomsoever, the clear annual income of which devise or bequest shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; provided no person leaving a wife or child or parent, shall devise or bequeath said corporation more than one fourth of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of such one-fourth and no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator; and provided that no verbal mistake in the name of the said corporation shall invalidate any gift, grant, devise or legacy intended for it. The net income of said society arising from their real estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, annually. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 36. AN ACT to establish the place for holding the town meeting in the town of Lincklaen for the year 1849. Passed February 10, 1849. The People of the State of New- York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The next annual town meeting of the town of Lincklaen, Town meet. in the county of Chenango, shall be held at the house of William ing. F. Davis, in said town, at the time prescribed for holding town meetings in said county according to law. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 37. AN ACT to provide for the support of the Marine Hospital, by transferring a portion of the commutation fund to that object. Passed February 10, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: part of com be made. § 1. The commissioners of emigration are hereby authorised Transfer of to transfer such portion of the commutation money collected pur- mutation suant to chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the laws of 1847, money, may as may be necessary to supply any deficiency already existing in the fund appropriated to the support of the marine hospital, or as may hereafter be necessary to the support of said hospital, which moneys so transferred shall be re-paid to said commutation fund from the funds belonging to said hospital, as soon as its means will permit; but nothing herein contained, shall authorise the transfer of any moneys paid under protest, nor to an amount exceeding twenty thousand dollars, unless the governor, attorney general and comptroller, shall certify that in their opinion more is necessary for the object aforesaid, and in such certificate certify the amount; nor shall the whole amount so to be transferred with or without such certificate, exceed thirty thousand dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Town meeting 1849. Future Chap. 38. AN ACT to fix the time and place for holding annual town meetings in the town of Carrolton, in the county of Cattaraugus. Passed February 12, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The next annual town meeting in the town of Carrolton, in the county of Cattaraugus, shall be held at the school house in school district number one, in said town, on the fourth Tuesday of February next. § 2. The board of supervisors of said county, at their next meetings. annual meeting, shall designate by resolution, the time of holding the annual town meetings thereafter to be held in said town; which time shall conform to the time of holding the annual town meetings in the other towns in said county. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Repeal. Chap. 39. AN ACT to repeal an act relating to road district number two in Persia, Cattaraugus county. Passed February 12, 1849. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The act entitled "An act relating to road district number two in Persia, Cattaraugus county, passed April 12, 1842," is hereby repealed. Interest of the State released to church. Chap. 40. AN ACT releasing the interest of the state in the property of St. James' church, in Milton, Saratoga county, to the wardens and vestry of Christ church, in the town of Milton, Saratoga county. Passed February 14, 1849, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All the interest and estate of the people of this state acquired by escheat in and to certain lands in the county of Saratoga, and being the premises conveyed by Stephen Wood to Joel |