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Part repeal

ed.

Restriction

as to foreign corporations.

As to banks

and officers

this state.

CHAP. 20.

AN ACT to repeal in part the Revised Statutes, relating to unauthorized banking, and the circulation of certain notes or evidence of debt issued by banks.

Passed February 4, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. So much of title twenty, chapter twenty, part first of the Revised Statutes, relating to unauthorized banking, and the circulation of certain notes or evidences of debt issued by banks, as prohibits a person or association of persons not incorporated, from keeping offices for the purpose of receiving deposites, or discounting notes or bills, is hereby repealed.

§ 2. This act shall not be so construed as to authorize or permit any corporation created by the laws of any other state or country, to keep any office for the purpose of receiving deposites, or discounting notes or bills, or issuing any evidence of debt to be loaned or put in circulation as money within this state.

§ 3. No incorporated bank in this state, nor any officer of banks in or director thereof, shall open or keep an office of deposite or discount under this act, or be interested or concerned, directly or indirectly, in any such association: the bank officer or director shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars for each violation of any of the provisions of this section.

Act to take effect.

Coroner to

ed.

§ 4. This act shall take effect on its final passage.

CHAP. 21.

AN ACT authorizing the governor to appoint a coroner for the city and county of New-York, to supply a vacancy in said office.

Passed February 4, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The governor shall designate some fit person, who be designat is eligible to the office of coroner, to execute the duties of the same, for the city and county of New-York, until the vacancy existing in said city, shall be supplied by an elec

Act to take effect.

tion.

2. This act shall take effect immediately on the passage thereof.

CHAP. 22.

AN ACT to authorize a portion of the First Christian Party of Oneida Indians to purchase certain lands of the Second Christian Party of said Indians.

Passed February 8, 1837.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

tian Party

chase land

Christian

§ 1. It shall be lawful for the First Christian Party of First ChrisOneida Indians, now residing in the counties of Oneida and may purMadison, to purchase so much of the lands belonging to the from 2d said Second Christian Party of said Indians, situate in said Party. counties, as shall render the said portion of the said First Christian Party joint and equal owners of all of the said lands of the said Second Christian Party, in proportion to the number of individuals belonging to said portion of the said First Christian Party and to the said Second Christian Party.

to be made.

§2. The said sale shall be made by writing under the Sale how to hands and seals of the respective parties, which said writing shall secure to the said portion of the said First Christian Party, and their heirs forever, the same interest in and control over said lands, as if the said portion of the said First Christian Party had always belonged to the said Second Christian Party; which said writing shall be executed under the direction of the comptroller of this state, and of Isaac Denniston, the agent for the said Indians.

and when to

§3. Upon the execution of the said contract and pursu- Money how ant to the aforesaid provisions of this act, the treasurer of be paid. this state, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay over to said Indians the amount of moneys now remaining in the treasury of this state, belonging to the said First Christian Party, which have arisen from the sales of their lands to this state, under the act entitled "An act for the purchase of lands from the First Christian and Orchard Parties of the Oneida Indians," passed February 11, 1829; and also so much of the moneys granted to the said First Christian Party of the said Indians, by the act entitled, "An act for the relief of the First Christian Party of Oneida Indians," passed May 11, 1835, as have not been paid over and expended by virtue of the provisions of the said act; and that the same shall be in full satisfaction of the said grant and sale by the said Second Christian Party to the said portion of the First Christian Party; and that so much of the said several acts as is inconsistent herewith, and also the act entitled "An act concerning the First Christian Party of Oneida Indians,” passed May 5, 1834, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Act to take effect.

Loan to the
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ry.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas

sage.

CHAP. 23.

AN ACTto amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the court-house, jail and clerk's office in the county of Montgomery," passed May 24, 1836.

Passed February 9, 1837.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, Montgome shall, out of any of the moneys in the treasury belonging to the capital of the common school fund, pay to the commissioners appointed under the provisions of the act hereby amended, the further sum of five thousand dollars, for the purposes in that act mentioned, which sum shall be an additional loan to the county of Montgomery, and shall be charged in the books of the comptroller as a debt due from said county, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum, which said debt shall belong to the common school fund.

To be repaid within 10 years.

Act to take effect.

confirmed.

§2. The said sum shall be repaid within ten years from the passage of this act, at such times and in such proportions. as the board of supervisors of said county shall direct, with interest at the rate aforesaid, payable annually, on the whole sum which shall remain unpaid; and all the provisicns of the act hereby amended, in relation to the loan in that act mentioned, shall apply to the loan hereby authoriz ed.

§3. This act shall take effect on its passage..

CHAP. 24

AN ACT to confirm the proceedings of the village of Bath in the county of Steuben.

Passed February 9, 1837.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Proceedings § 1. The proceedings of the trustees of the village of Bath, in Steuben county, are hereby declared to be as valid as if the notice given for holding the first election of the officers of the corporation had been agreeable to the act to ncorporate said village, which passed May 6, 1836.

CHAP. 25.

AN ACT authorizing the establishment of a medical faculty in the University of the city of New-York.

Passed Febuary 11, 1837.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

granted to

doctor

§ 1. The provisions of the twenty-first section of title seven, Power chapter fourteen and first part of the Revised Statues, shall confer the not be deemed to apply to the diplomas conferring the de- degree of gree of doctor of medicine granted by the council of the medicine. University of the city of New-York, upon the recommendation of the medical faculty of the said University, established therein; but no person shall receive any such diploma, unless he shall have pursued the study of medical science for at least three years after the age of sixteen, with some physician and surgeon duly authorized by law to practice hist profession, and shall also after that age have attended two complete courses of all the lectures delivered in some incorporated medical college, the last of which courses shall have been delivered by the medical faculty of the University of the city of New-York: And all the provisions of said title seven which require an attendance upon the lectures delivered at an incorporated medical college, shall be deemed to apply to and include the lectures delivered by the medical faculty of the University of the city of New-York; and the diplomas granted pursuant to this act, shall have the same. force and effect as licenses to practise physic and surgery, as are given by law to the licenses granted by any incorporated medical society in this state.

prison at

§ 2. The agent of the state prison at Sing-Sing shall de- Duty of liver, at the prison, to the medical faculty of the University agent of state of the city of New-York, such dead bodies of convicts as Sing-Sing. are by law authorized to be dissected, not exceeding one half of the number of such bodies.

§ 3. Such parts of acts heretofore passed relative to such Repeal. dead bodies of convicts at Sing-Sing, as are repugnant to this act, are hereby repealed.

§ 4. The medical faculty of the University of the city of Delegate may be sent New-York are hereby authorized to appoint a delegate to to state Medi represent them in the state medical society, with all the can Society. powers and privileges which delegates from the respective medical colleges and faculties of this state possess.

§ 5. The legislature may at any time modify, alter or Act to take repeal this act.

effect.

Proceedings confirmed.

Saving dlause.

Ace.

CHAP. 26.

AN ACT confirming the official acts of Alonzo Beebe, a justice of the peace for the county of Ontario, and for other

purposes.

Passed February 14, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in So nate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. All proceedings which have been had by and before Alonzo Beebe, a justice of the peace in the town of Canandaigua, in the county of Ontario, since the first day of January, 1836, shall be and are hereby confirmed.

2. The passage of this act shall not affect or impair any suit or prosecution that may have been had or commenced in consequence of the invalidity of any such proceedings before said justice of the peace.

Oath of of §3. The said Alonzo Beebe may take the oath of office required by the constitution and laws of this state, before the clerk of the county of Ontario, anew, at any time before the first day of April next, he having taken the necessary oath, and the same having been reduced to writing, but mislaid by the clerk, and may continue to exercise and perform the duties of said office of justice of the peace during the term for which he was elected.

Art to take effect.

Loan of $150,000.

Act to take affect.

§ 4. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof.

CHAP 27.

AN ACT authorizing a loan for finishing the Chenango
Canal.

Passed February 16, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. The commissioners of the canal fund shall borrow, on the credit of the state, for completing the payments already due to the contractors on the Chenango canal, and for finishing said work, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at an interest not exceeding six per cent. All the provisions of the act entitled "An act directing a loan for the construction of the Chenango canal, and in relation to the Chenango canal contractors," which relate to the loans made under that act, shall be applicable to the loans made by virtue of this act.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof.

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