For interest on stock issued for a loan from the school fund, for Do. arsenal. the erection of the New-York arsenal, eight hundred and twenty five dollars. Indians. For interest on stock issued for the benefit of the Stockbridge Stockbridge Indians, three hundred and sixty dollars. For interest on comptroller's bonds issued for temporary loans Temporary to the treasury, ninety thousand dollars. loans. For the payment of annuities to Indian tribes; Onondagas, two Indian annuthousand four hundred and thirty dollars; Cayugas, two thou- ities. sand three hundred dollars; Senecas, five hundred dollars; St. Regis, two thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty seven cents. For payment of principal of comptroller's bonds, issued for Temporary temporary loans to the treasury, twenty thousand dollars. From the Common School Fund. loans. For dividends to common schools, one hundred and twenty Common thousand dollars. schools. For refunding moneys paid for the redemption of lands sold by Refunding. the attorney general, and the state engineer and surveyor, for arrears of consideration, three thousand dollars. For refunding surplus moneys arising from the sale of lands Refunding. by the attorney general and the state engineer and surveyor, one thousand dollars. For assessments, survey and appraisements, and other expenses of lands, five hundred dollars. For investments of the capital of the fund, one hundred thousand dollars. Assessments & c. Investments. From the Literature Fund. For investment of the capital, twelve thousand dollars. From the United States deposite fund. To the school fund for amount annually set apart by the constitution, twenty-five thousand dollars. Investment. School fund. To the school fund of the surplus revenue of the United States School fund. deposite fund not otherwise appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars. For refunding surplus moneys paid to the commissioners of the Refunding. United States deposite fund on foreclosure of mortgages and sale of premises, two hundred dollars. For refunding erroneous payments made into the treasury by Refunding. the commissioners of the United States deposite fund, five hundred dollars. From the Bank Fund. For payment of interest on stock issued on account of the bank fund, fifty thousand dollars. Interest. For payment of principal of stock issued on account of the Principal. bank fund, one hundred thousand dollars. Bills. Investments. A. & R. railroad. Tonawonda railroad. Hudson and Berkshire railroad. Long Island railroad. &c. For redemption of bills of insolvent safety fund banks, five hundred dollars. For investments of the capital, fifty thousand dollars. From the Auburn and Rochester railroad sinking fund. Tioga coal. From the Tioga coal and iron mining and manufacturing company sinking fund. For investments of the capital, one thousand dollars. § 2. Whenever the amount or sum applicable to any object for which an appropriation is made by this act is specified by law, no greater amount shall be drawn from the treasury under this act than the amount so expressed, though a larger sum be hereby appropriated; but nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to limit or restrain the appropriation for contingent objects, or for those not provided for by any law. Chap 431. AN ACT to incorporate the Albany Hospital. Passed April 11, 1849. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Marcus T. Reynolds, John L. Schoolcraft, Erastus Corning, Amasa J. Parker, Greene C. Bronson, James D. Wasson, William James, Ezra P. Prentice, Arthur H. Root, Samuel Pruyn, Joel A. Wing, Clark Durant, John Taylor, Barent P. Staats, Franklin Townsend, Stephen O. Shepard, Dyer Lathrop, Thomas W. Olcott, James Goold, Friend Humphrey, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John C. Spencer, Abel French, T. Romeyn Beck, James P. Boyd, Herman Pumpelly, Ralph Pratt, Thurlow Weed, Jacob H. Ten Eyck, Charles B. Lansing, and such persons as shall or may hereafter associate with them, in such manner and upon such terms as shall be specified in the by-laws of this incorporation are hereby constituted and appointed a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name and style of the "Albany Hospital," for the purpose of establishing and maintain ing a public hospital in the city of Albany; and by that name, they and their successors and associates, shall be capable of taking by direct purchase or otherwise, holding, conveying or otherwise disposing of any real or personal estate for the purpose of this incorporation, which estate shall not at any time exceed the net annual income of twenty thousand dollars. ernors to be elected. § 2. The members of this incorporation at any annual meeting Fifteen govto be held at such time and place as the by-laws of said corporation shall direct and appoint, elect from their own number by ballot and by a majority of the votes given at such election, fifteen persons as governors of the said corporation; and the persons so elected, together with the mayor and recorder of the city of Albany, for the time being, by virtue of their offices, shall constitute a board of governors; and the governors so elected shall hold their offices for one year and until others are elected in their places. § 3. The board of governors shall annually, and as soon as may Officers. be convenient after the said annual election, elect by ballot from among their own members a president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall hold their respective offices for one year, and until others are elected in their room. § 4. The following named persons shall until the first annual First Goverelection be held as aforesaid, be Governors of the said corporation, nors. and together with the mayor and recorder of the city of Albany, constitute the first board of governors as aforesaid, to wit: Marcus T. Reynolds, Greene C. Bronson, William James, Ezra P. Prentice, Barent P. Staats, Dyer Lathrop, Friend Humphrey, Samuel Pruyn, James Goold, James D. Wasson, James P. Boyd, T. Romeyn Beck, Ralph Pratt, John C. Spencer and Clark Ďurant. § 5. The said board of governors shall have power to conduct Their powers and manage all the business and concerns of the said corporation; to fill, until the time of the next annual election, any vacancy in the board occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise; to make such by-laws as may be necessary and not contrary to law relative to the management and disposition of the estate and concerns of the said corporation, and to the admission of members, and to appoint such officers and servants as they may deem necessary. 6. Five governors, including the president or vice-president, quorum. shall be a quorum for the transaction of all business except the sale or alienation of any of the real or personal estate of the said corporation, or the leasing of any of the real estate thereof for a longer term than one year, or for the discharging of any officer, or for the suspending or discharging of any physician or surgeon of the said hospital, for which purposes, or any of them, the consent of a majority of all the members of the said board shall be necessary. 7. The said corporation shall be subject to the general pro- General pow visions and liabilities contained in the third title of the eighteenth ers. chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Persons keeping boarding houses to take out license. Notice in guages to be put up in each house. Chap. 432. AN ACT to amend "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the State of New-York." Passed April 11, 1849, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The third and seventh sections of the act entitled "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the state of NewYork," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. All persons keeping houses in any of the cities of this state for the purpose of boarding emigrant passengers, shall be required to have a license for said purpose from the mayor of the city in which such houses are located, and such person so licensed shall pay to the said city the sum of ten dollars per annum, and shall give bonds satisfactory to said mayor, with one or more sureties, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, for their good behavior, and the proper conduct of all agents and runners in their employ, and said mayor is hereby authorized to revoke and license for cause. Every keeper of such boarding house shall, various lan- under a penalty of fifty dollars, cause to be kept conspicuously posted in the public rooms of such house, in the English, German, Dutch, French and Welch languages, and printed upon business cards, to be kept for distribution as hereinafter provided, a list of the rates of prices which will be charged emigrants per day and week for board and lodging, and also the rates for separate meals, which card shall contain the name of the keeper of such house, together with its number and the name of the street Copy thereof in which such house is situated. The keeper of such house shall also file a copy of said list in the city of New-York in the office of emigra- of the commissioners of emigration, and in each of the other cities of this state, with the mayor of said city, and with the agent of the commissioners of emigration, and the keeper of any emigrant boarding house who shall neglect or refuse to post a list of rates, or to keep business cards so as above provided, or who shall charge or receive, or permit or suffer to be charged or received for the use of such keeper or for any other person, any greater sum than according to the rates of prices so posted and printed on business cards, and if any runner employed by any emigrant boarding house keeper or any emigrant boarding house keeper himself, shall engage any emigrants as guests for such boarding house, without delivering to every such emigrant a printed business card as above provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be deprived of his or her license, and be punished by a fine not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in the city of New-York by the commissioners of emigration, and in the other cities of this state by the mayors thereof, and any person who shall keep a boarding or lodging house for emigrants to be filed with com. tion. within any of the cities of this state, who shall refuse or neglect to obtain a license in pursuance of the provisions of this section, shall, upon the first conviction forfeit the penalty of one hundred dollars, and upon a subsequent conviction, shall forfeit the penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered by the persons and in the manner above set forth. booking emi license. have notice s Tickets to be issued. § 7. No person or persons shall exercise the vocation of book- Agents or ing emigrant passengers, or taking money for their inland fare, or persons for the transportation of the luggage of such passengers, without grant paskeeping a public office for the transaction of such business, nor sengers to keep an ofwithout the license of the mayor of the city in which such office fice and have shall be located, for which shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars per annum. Every such office and place for weighing luggage, shall be at all times when business is being transacted therein, open to the commissioners of emigration or their agent, duly appointed, and no scales or weights shall be used for such purpose but such as have been inspected and sealed by the city inspector of weights; and every such establishment shall have posted Establishin a conspicuous place and manner at its place of business, in the ments to English, German, Dutch, French, and Welch languages, a list of posted, &c. prices or rates of fare for the passage of emigrant passengers, and the price per hundred pounds for transportation of their luggage to the principal places to which the proprietors thereof undertake to convey such passengers; and shall also deliver a copy of such list to the commissioners of emigration, or to their agent in any city where such agency shall be established; and any person or company who shall charge or receive, or allow to be charged or received, by any person in his or their employment, a greater amount than is specified in said list of prices, or who shall defraud any emigrant in the weight of his or her luggage, or who shall receive money from an emigrant or emigrants for their passage or for the transportation of their luggage, and shall refuse or neglect to issue to the person or persons so paying their fare, or for the transportation of their luggage, a ticket which shall state the time and place of such issue, the number of persons so paying, the distance in miles to the place to which fare is received, the amount so received, the number of pounds of baggage, and the price per hundred pounds for its transportation; which said ticket shall be signed by the person or persons in whose names the establishment is conducted, and if more than one person is interested in the concern as a partner, then the full name of all the persons so interested in said concern shall be printed or written on the ticket; or who shall issue any such ticket directed to an agent without first having made arrangements with some responsible person or persons to act as his, her or their agent, or who shall issue a ticket so as aforesaid for the passage of any emigrant, or his or her luggage, which shall not be promptly redeemed by the agent or consignee, according to the terms of the agreement, as set forth in the ticket, or who shall in any way fail or neglect to fulfil any contract for the passage of |