drew K. Morehouse, and their associates, shall have constructed and put in operation a rail-road, in continuation of the aforesaid raii-road, suitable for the transportation of passengers and freight, from the said Piseco lake to Long lake in the county of Hamilton, if within six years from the passage of this act, a conveyance in fee shall be made by this state to the said Jeremiah Drake, Daniel B. Winton and Andrew K. Morehouse, of township number eight, in the Moose River tract, and of the said townships, half township and triangle aforesaid, in Totten and Crossfield's purchase, on their paying to this state twenty-five per cent of the said appraised value thereof, and securing the balance by bond and mortgage, to be paid by six equal and annual instalments, with interest at six per cent, payable annually. §3. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas- Act to take sage. eftert СНАР. 444. AN ACT to incorporate the Tailoresses' and Seamstresses' benevolent society of New-York Passed May 15, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. There shall be established and located in the city of Name. New-York a charitable society, by the name of "The Tailoresses' and Seamstresses' Benevolent Society.' created. §2. All such persons as are, or may become members of Corporation said society, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name aforesaid. the society. § 3. The objects of this society are charitable, to afford Objects of relief to themselves and other females, in cases of sickness, infirmity or inability to get employ; and to attain that end, to buy and sell such merchandise as is necessary to give them employ, and to keep a store or other necessary establishment to effect said object. 4. The corporation shall have power to prescribe rules By-laws. and regulations for the admission of members and their government; election of its officers and their duties; appointment of agents, and superintendence of their business ope rations; and expelling any of its members for not observing its by-laws. limited. § 5. The nett annual income of the real and personal Income estate which said corporation may at any time hold shall not exceed five thousand dollars; and all property and rights to the present society appertaining and belonging shall vest in the corporation hereby created, in like manner General powers. Right to re peal. as property hereafter by them acquired, and with the like rights and remedies to take, reccive, recover and hold the same. § 6. The corporation shall possess the general powers and privileges, be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statues. § 7. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal this act. Messenger counties. СНАР. 445. AN ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act directing the manner of choosing electors of president and vice-president," passed April 15, 1829. Passed May 15, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The fifth and eleventh sections of the act hereby amended, are hereby so amended as to read as follows: "§ 5. The board of canvassers of each of the counties of of certain Franklin, St. Lawrence, Chautauque, Cattaraugus, Tompkins and Suffolk, immediately after canvassing the electoral votes of their respective counties, shall appoint a messenger to receive and carry the certified copies of such statement of votes as herein directed; which appointment shall be certified by the president and clerks of the respective boards, under the seal of the county clerk." Of Temp. kins county. 66 "§ 11. The messenger appointed in the county of Tompkins, shall, immediately after his appointment, receive the certified copy of the statement of the electoral votes of the county, and forthwith proceed, with all reasonable diligence, to the offices of the clerks of the counties of Chemung, Tioga, Broome, Delaware and Greene, and receive from the several clerks the certified copies of the statement of electoral votes in those counties respectively, and such others as shall have been delivered to such clerks, as herein provided, and deliver the same to the secretary of state." CHAP. 446. AN ACT to release to the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York a certain piece of ground in the sixth ward of the said city. Passed May 15, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: rected to be § 1. The commissioners of the land-office are hereby au- Ground dithorized and directed to release and convey to the mayor, released. aldermen and coinmonalty of the city of New-York the following lot, piece or parcel of ground, situated in the sixth ward of the said city, (being part of a larger tract heretofore granted and conveyed to the state by the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty.) and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of White-street, distant fifty feet westerly from the northwesterly corner of White-street and Centre-street, as the same now actually is, and running thence northerly, along the westerly boundary of a certain piece of land heretofore released to the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty in pursuance of an act, entitled "An act releasing to the corporation of the city of New-York a certain lot of ground in the sixth ward of the said city," passed April 16, 1828, (and now belonging to the trustees of the New York dispensary.) eighty-nine feet; thence westerly, on a line parallel with White-street, twenty feet; thence southerly, on a line parallel with the easterly boundary of the said piece of land hereby intended to be described and released, eighty-nine feet, to the northerly line of White-street; and thence easterly, along the northerly line of White-street, twenty feet, to the place of beginning. § 2. This act shall take effect from the passage thereof. Art to take CHAP. 447. AN ACT to incorporate the Windsor academy. Passed May 15, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Se nate and Assembly, do enact as follows: effect. created. § 1. Franklin G. Wheeler, Andrew H. Bronson, Carver Corporation Hotchkiss, George Dusenbury, Giles Orcutt, David Hoadley, Nathan P. Waller, Gideon Hotchkiss, Enos B. Rexford, and such other persons as may associate with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Trustees. Windsor Academy," to be located in the village of Windsor, in the county of Broome, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and conducting a seminary of learning, for the education of youth of both sexes. 2. The estate, property and concerns of the said corporation shall be managed by a board of nine trustees. The persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first trustees of the said corporation, and shall be divided by lot into three classes; the term of service of the first class shall expire on the second Monday of January next; that of the second in one year, and that of the third in two years thereafter. Election. § 3. On the second Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, and on the second Monday of January in each succeeding year, there shall be an election of three trustees, who shall hold their offices for three years, and until others shall be elected in their places. The elec tion shall be by ballot, and by a plurality of the votes of the members present. Literature fuud. General powers. Act to take affect. Bale made executed, § 4. The said academy shall participate in the distribution of the literature fund, whenever the regents of the university shall be satisfied that it has complied with the requisitions which would authorize them to incorporate the same. § 5. The corporation hereby created shall possess the power, and be subject to the provisions of the fifteenth and eighteenth chapters of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable and have not been repeal ed. § 6. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof. CHAP. 448. AN ACT for the relief of John Jackson and others. Passed May 16, 1837. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The sale heretofore made by John Jackson, as speand deeds cial guardian of Edward Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson, Ann euuficed. Jackson, Rosetta Jackson and Fanny Jackson, infant children of the said John Jackson, together with Stephen Jackson, Isaac Jackson, Jacob S. Jackson, Charles Jackson, Coe D. Jackson, Parmenus Jackson, Richard Jackson, and Bedell Baldwin and Rosanna his wife, (the said Stephen, Isaac, Jacob S., Charles, Coe D., Parmenus, Richard and Rosanna, being adult children of the said John Jackson,) in pursuance of an order of the court of chancery, made by the vice-chancellor of the first circuit, bearing date the twenty fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix, and the deeds of conveyance ade, and which shall be made in pursuance of said sale, is hereby declared to be valid and effectual to convey to the purchasers respectively in fee simple absolute, the same title to the parcels of land respectively by them purchased, as was vested in Samuel Jackson immediately before his conveyance thereof to the said John Jackson, by deed. bearing date the fifteenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Kings, on the twenty-first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, of all those lots and parcels of land which are laid down upon the map made for and used at said sale, entitled "A map of property of John Jackson and others, in the seventh ward of the city of Brooklyn,” dated June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, on the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and which are situate between Willoughby-street, as laid down upon said map, upon the north; Grand street, as laid down upon said map, upon the east; a line parallel to and about two hundred feet southerly from De Kalb-street, as laid down on said map, on the south, and Ryerson Avenue, or street as laid down upon said map, on the west; but the said title conveyed, or to be conveyed, as aforesaid, shall be subject to all liens and incumbrances effected thereon by any of the above named parties in interest. how to be 2. The proceeds of said sale shali be and remain sub- Proceeds ject to the control and direction of the vice-chancellor of disposed of the first circuit, and after deducting and allowing in such manner and under such terms as the said vice-chancellor has determined, or hereafter shall determine, the gross value of the lite estate of the said John Jackson in the said premises, to be paid to or retained by him; said vice chancellor shall and may direct the appropriation of such proceeds, or such part thereof as he shall deem just and equitable to the payment of such assessments, for local improvements as have been laid upon the land, or any part thereof conveyed by said deed of conveyance from time to time, and shall direct the investment of such proceeds not appropriated as aforesaid, in such manner as he shal! judge will be most beneficial to the parties in interest, and shall have the same control and direction of ali the proceeds and inves'men's, and the securities taken for the same, as he would have had had the proceedings before him been in all respects valid and effectual. 3. This act shall take effect upon the passage thereof. Act to take effect. |