the absence of speculation and unsafe theorizing, in the opinion of the committee, clearly includes within its operation all the bills above referred to. Were there doubts upon the question however, it is suggested that an adherence to the former practice in cases of the kind, until a judicial sanction of a departure from it, shall be obtained, is better policy than to risk placing in our statute books the forms of a set of laws, upon the validity of which important and extensive rights and interests may depend, and which, by possibility upon judicial investigation might be found to be worthless. No. 112. IN ASSEMBLY, January 28, 1836. REPORT Of the select committee upon the petition of Horace M. White. Mr. Stetson, from the select committee to which was referred the petition of Horace M. White, collector of taxes in the town of Champlain, Clinton county, praying for the passage of an act extending the time for collecting the taxes in said town, REPORTED: That the petitioner represents that he is the collector of taxes in the town of Champlain, county of Clinton, and has diligently applied himself in collecting a great proportion of said taxes; that his warrant will expire on the first day of February next, and that he will be unable to collect the residue of the taxes within the life of the warrant, for the reason that on the 14th day of January, instant, he was duly served with a subpoena, issued out of the district court of the United States, for the northern district of the State of New-York, commanding him, under a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars, personally to be and appear before the judge of the district court of the United States, aforesaid, at a stated session of said court to be held at the city of Albany, on the 19th day of January, instant, to testify in a certain cause, then and there to be tried in said court, and in which the United States of America were a party; that the petitioner as in duty bound, suspended the collection of the taxes, and obeyed the said writ of subpoena; and that there is every reason to expect that he will be detained as a witness beyond the duration of his said warrant. The facts set forth [Assem. No. 112.] 1 in the memorial of the petitioner, are certified by his oath, taken before J. Vanderpoel, circuit judge, at Albany, on the 21st day of January, instant. Your committee are informed that the petitioner has been discharged from longer attendance upon the said court, and that two days since he left Albany to return home; but the great distance which he has to travel, over bad roads, will prevent him from reaching home in time to do any thing by virtue of his said warrant; they have arrived at the conclusion, that the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable and ought to be granted: and they ask leave to introduce a bill accordingly. No. 113. IN ASSEMBLY, January 28, 1836. REPORT Of the Eagle Fire Company, in answer to a resolution of the Assembly of the 13th January, 1836. SIR OFFICE OF THE EAGLE FIRE COMPANY, } 25th January, 1836. I have seen circulars addressed by you to several of the Fire Insurance Companies in this city. None has been received by the Eagle Fire Company. I however deem it proper to give the information requested by you in the same. This company was chartered in April, 1806, with no limitation as to time. Its capital is five hundred thousand dollars, which it now possesses, together with a surplus or contingent fund of one hundred thousand dollars and upwards. It had at risk, on the 18th day of December, ten millions three hundred and forty thousand dollars, almost the whole of which was in the city of New-York. This, I believe, answers all that was asked; but any other information you may desire, shall be given with pleasure. Your humble servant. E. W. LAIGHT, President, E. F. C'y. P. REYNOLDS, Jr. Esq. Clerk of the House of Assembly. |