river himself, teams and family, or any produce or other articles raised or kept on the said premises of such person. of bridge. § 10. The said bridge shall be built not less than seven- Dimensions teen feet wide in the clear, and shall be well secured by a railing on each side not less than four feet high. put up. § 17. The directors may put up and maintain in conspicu- Notice to be ous places at each end of said bridge, a notice in large characters, in the following words: One dollar fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk, or for driving more than twenty head of cattle over it in one drove :" and whoever shall, during the continuance of such notice, ride or drive on said bridge faster than a walk, or shall drive more than twenty head of cattle over it in one drove, shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation, for every such of fence, the sum of one dollar, to be sued for in the name of their treasurer. § 18. If the said bridge shall not be constructed within Time limited three years after the passage of this act, or if the same shall be carried away or destroyed and not rebuilt within eighteen months thereafter, then the said corporation shall from thenceforth cease, and this act shall be null and void. provisions. § 19. The said corporation shall be subject to the provi- General sions contained in the third title of chapter eighteen of the first part of the Revised Statutes, and the legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal this act. CHAP. 173. AN ACT to incorporate the Fultonville fire company. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. § 1. Angus McKinlay, Elijah Wilcox, Henry P Voor- Corporation hecs, William Shuler, William B. Wemple and John Putman, and such other persons as united in, and contributed to the purchase of a fire engine, in the village of Fultonville, in the county of Montgomery, may meet together in said village, at any time after the passage of this act, and choose not less than three nor more than five of their number to be trustees, to be called "The Fultonville Fire Company," who shall be a body corporate, and shall have perpetual succession, and by that name be capable of suing and being sued in all courts and places, in all manner of actions, and to take, hold and convey property, real and personal, necessary for the purpose of extinguishing fires, and the preservation of engines, tools and implements of the said company. General powers. Fines. § 2. The corporation hereby created, and the members of said company, shall possess and enjoy all the privileges and provisions which are granted to and made in favor of the corporation created by the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Sauquoit Fulton fire company," passed May 11, 1836, and of members of that company, and shall be subject to all the conditions and restrictions, which by the act aforesaid are imposed upon the corporation and members of the company in that act mentioned, except as herein provided. § 3. The eighth section of the act mentioned in the last preceeding section, shall not apply to the corporation created by this act; and all fines incurred under this act, may be recovered before any justice of the peace of the said county of Montgomery. Commis sioner to be СНАР. 174. AN ACT authorizing the appointment of a supreme court commissioner for the county of Richmond. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. There shall be appointed in the manner now preappointed. scribed by law, a supreme court commissioner for the county of Richmond, who shall possess the powers of a supreme court commissioner, as defined and limited in the Revised Statutes, and who shall also be empowered, authorized and required to perform all the duties, and execute every act, power and trust, which the first judge, or any other judge of the county courts in the said county of the degree of counsellor at law in the supreme court, may or can perform and execute out of court, and to receive therefor the fees allowed by law to said judges for like services. Act to take effect. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas sage. CHAP. 175. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of two additional lumber inspectors in the city and county of New-York. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ors to be § 1. The governor, with the advice and consent of the Two inspect senate, shall appoint two lumber inspectors in the city and appointed. county of New-York, in addition to the number now pro vided for by law. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately after the pas- Act to take sage thereof. СНАР. 176. AN ACT to increase the capital stock of the Green-Hill wharf company. Passed April 10, 1837., The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: effect. creased. §1. The capital stock of the Green-Hill wharf company Stuck in is hereby increased to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be applied exclusively to the purposes declared in its original act of incorporation; and the president and directors of said company shall issue certificates of stock for four hundred and forty shares of twenty-five dollars each, for the additional stock hereby authorized to be created. to stock. §2. The president and directors of said company, or any Subscription two of them, may open a book at some convenient place in the town of Southhold, in the county of Suffolk, to receive subscriptions for the additional stock of said corporation, upon giving ten days' previous notice in one of the newspapers in the county of Suffolk, of the time and place of the opening of said books of subscription. stockholders §3. The time for the stockholders of such additional stock Calls on to pay in the whole or any part thereof, shall be determined by the board of directors or the by-laws of said corporation. § 4. The legislature may at any time alter or repeal this Right to act. repeal. § 5. This act shall take effect immedietely after its pas- Act to take sage. effect. laid out. CHAP. 177. AN ACT to alter the map or plan of the city of New-York, by establishing a public square or place in the sixteenth ward of said city. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Square to be § 1. All that piece of land in the sixteenth ward of the city of New-York, bounded northerly by Twenty-sixth-street; westerly by the Fifth Avenue, southerly by Twenty-thirdstreet, and easterly by a certain street established by law, being seventy-five feet wide, and lying between the Fourth and Fifth Avenues, is hereby declared, and shall be hereafter known on the map or plan of the said city as a public square or place, in like manner and with the like effect, as if the same had been laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act entitled "An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of New-York, and for other purposes," passed April 3rd 1807. Bounty for destroying wolves. CHAP. 178. AN ACT for the destruction of panthers and wolves, in the counties of Montgomery and Hamilton. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The electors of the several towns in the counties of panthers and Montgomery and Hamilton, may, at their annual town meetings, or at any special town meeting which may be called for the purpose, make such provision, and allow such rewards, for the destruction of panthers and wolves in their respective towns, as they may deem necessary, not exceeding twenty dollars for each full grown panther and wolf, or for each whelp not exceeding ten dollars. Persons entitled thereto. § 2. No person shall be entitled to such bounty, unless he is an inhabitant of the town by which the same is granted; and all persons claiming such rewards for the destruction of panthers and wolves, shall produce the same evidence as is required in the second and third sections of title eighteenth, chapter twentieth of the Revised Statutes, for Certificate to the destruction of wolves. be given to person enti. § 3. If it shall appear to the justice and officer associafled to boun- ted with him, upon such examination, that the panther or ty. wolf was taken and killed within the town by a resident thereof, and if such justice and officer so appointed are satisfied that such affidavit is just and true, they shall award and give a certificate to the person so applying, such sum as the electors of said town may have decided on as aforesaid. The person receiving such certificate may present the same to the supervisor of said town, whose duty it shall be to pay the amount thereof out of the moneys that may come into his hands not otherwise appropriated. CHAP. 179. AN ACT to appoint commissioners to alter and lay out a road from the Dutchess county line, to the house of Reuben Lapham, in Taghkanick, Columbia county. Passed April 10, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ers. § 1. Fite Rockerfeller, Abraham F. Miller, John T. Bush, Commission William Tanner and Duncan McCarther, are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or any three of them, are authorized to alter and lay out a public highway of the width of three rods, from the Dutchess county line, near the house of Elisha Trip, in the town of Gallatin, and running thence in a northerly direction, passing through the lands of Philip Lown; from thence intersecting the old Ancram turnpike; from thence to alter and repair said road to the house of Reuben Lapham, in the town of Taghkanick, in Columbia county; and also to alter and repair the road from the house of Jacob F. Suydam, in Gallatin, to or near the Ancram Furnace, in the town of Ancram, on the most eligible and direct route. ers to take § 2. Before they enter upon the duties aforesaid, the said Commissioncommissioners shall take and subscribe an oath before a jus- oath. tice of the peace, or some other officer authorized to administer oaths, to lay out the said road without favor or partiality. The said commissioners shall proceed diligently in the discharge of their duties, and after laying out the said road, shall cause an accurate description from actual survey, by courses and distances, of so much of said road as shall be in each town, to be drawn up, subscribed by them, or any three of them, and filed in the office of the clerk of the town in which such part of the said road shall lie. The said clerks shall enter and record the same, in the same manner as they are required by law to record the orders of commissioners of highways. Damages how to be § 3. The damages sustained by any owner or occupant of paid. |