2. All liabilities or forfeitures incurred by the said Jo- Liabilities seph Boyer for having executed any of the duties and func- remitted. tions of said office of commissioner of deeds, without hav

ing taken the oath of office as required by law, are hereby remitted.

§3. The passage of this act shall not affect or impair Saving any suit or legal proceedings that may have been had or clause. commenced in consequence of the invalidity of any proceedings before such commissioner.

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

sage.

CHAP. 79

AN ACT for the relief of Sarah Roach.

Passed March 16, 1837.

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

effect.

firmed.

§ 1. Sarah Roach, of the village of Catskill, in the coun- Title conty of Greene, the widow of John C. Roach, deceased, is hereby authorized to take and hold in fee simple, the real estate devised to her by the said John C. Roach, situate in the said village, as fully as if she was a native citizen of the United States; and to lease, mortgage, sell, devise, dispose of, and convey the same, in the same manner as a native citizen of the United States, may or can do; subject, however, to all debts and legal claims against the estate of the said John C. Roach.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately after the pas- Act to take sage thereof.

effect.

CHAP. 80.

AN ACT to enable the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York to raise money by tax.

Passed March 17, 1837.

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

$843,000 to

§ 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of The sum of New-York, as the supervisors of the city and county of be raised by New-York, of whom the mayor or recorder shall be one, tax. are hereby empowered, as soon as conveniently may be af ter the passage of this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax on the estates real and personal of the freeholders

and inhabitants of and situated within the said city, and to be collected, a sum not exceeding eight hundred and fortythree thousand dollars, to be applied towards defraying the various contingent expenses properly chargeable to the said city and county, and such expenses as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York, may in any manner sustain or be put to by law; and also such further sum, by a tax as aforesaid, as is required by law to be raised by tax in the said city for the support of common schools; and as may be necessary for supplying the deficiency of taxes upon any and every one of the wards of the said city, imposed or laid during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, owing to the insolvency of the collectors of the said wards, or any or either of them and their sureties, or their inability to collect the said tax; and also for defraying the whole of the expenses for assessing and collecting the taxes to be raised as aforesaid, (such deficiencies, however, to be assessed on the estates real and personal of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the wards respectively where they shall happen as aforesaid;) and also Also $260,000 a further sum, not exceeding two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, by a tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within that part of the city of New-York which may be designated by an ordinance or resolution of the common council of the said city, as the "watch district," to be applied towards defraying the expenses of watching and guarding such part of the said city: and also a further sum, not exceeding one Also $147,000 hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars, by a tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants. of and situated within that part of the city of New-York which may be designated by an ordinance or resolution of the said common council, as the "lamp district," to be applied towards defraying the expenses of lighting such part of the said city last mentioned: and also such further sum, by tax as aforesaid, as may be necessary for supplying the deficiencies of taxes upon all that part of the city to the southward of a line running through the centre of Twentyfirst-street from the North to the East river, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, owing to the insolvencies of the collectors of any of the wards of the said city, and their sureties, or their inability to collect the said tax; and also for defraying the expenses of assessing and collecting said taxes; such deficiencies however to be assessed upon the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and within the said wards respectively where they shali happen as aforesaid to the southward of the line aforesaid.

How to be collected.

§ 2. The said several sums of money shall be assessed and collected in the manner provided by law for the assess

ment and collection of taxes within this state, except so far as the same may be contrary to the provisions contained and referred to in the act entitled "An act respecting the collection of taxes in the city of New-York," passed April 6, 1825, and in the act to amend the same, passed April 20, 1830: also in the fourth section of the act entitled "An act to enable the mayor, aldermen and recorder of the city of New-York, to raise money by tax," passed March 10, 1820; and also in the act entitled "an act authorizing a per centage to be added to unpaid taxes in the city of NewYork," passed April 13, 1835; which said provisions, so far as they relate to the assessment and collection of all or any taxes in the city of New-York, are hereby declared to be in full force and effect; and each person's tax in every separate ward of the said city, shall be collected in one payment; and the moneys so collected shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer or chamberlain of the said city, at such times and in such manner as is directed by law.

CHAP. 81.

AN ACT to incorporate the Cattaraugus county mutual insurance company.

Passed March 17, 1837.

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

created.

§ 1. Benjamin Chamberlin, Staly N. Clarke, Peter Ten- Corporation Broeck, James Burt, Thomas J. Wheeler, Thomas J. Williams, Truman R. Colman, Bethual McCoy, Dan Allen, David Day, Abner Chase, Frederick S. Martin and Richard Wright, and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The Cattaraugus County Mutual Insurance Company," for the purpose of insuring their respective dwelling-houses, stores, shops and other buildings, household furniture, merchandize and other property, against loss or damage by fire.

Directors.

§ 2. The persons named in the first section of this act, shall be the first directors of the said corporation. The business of the said corporation shall be carried on and conducted at such place in the village of Ellicottville in the county of Cattaraugus, as shall be designated by a majority of the board of directors present at any regular meeting. § 3. The corporation hereby created shall possess all the General powers and privileges, and be subject to all the restrictions and limitations which are granted to or imposed upon "The Madison County Mutual Insurance Company," by the act

powers.

Act to take effect.

of land to be gold.

incorporating that company, which was passed March 23, 1836.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately after the passage thereof.

CHAP. 82.

AN ACT for the relief of James Thomson.

Passed March 17, 1837.

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

Two pieces § 1. The court of chancery, on a petition for that purpose, may order a sale by or under the direction of one of the masters of the said court, of the two several gorcs of land which have been created by the extension of Plattstreet, in the city of New-York, from Gold-street to William-street, in virtue of certain proceedings lately had in the supreme court, by or on behalf of the corporation of the said city, and which gores are the remaining parts of two certain lots of land belonging to the estate of James Thomson, late of said city, deceased, after taking so much of said lots as was necessary for the extension of Platt-street aforesaid.

Proceeds

how to be

§ 2. Upon the confirmation by the court of chancery of disposed of such sale, the master shall execute a deed to the purchaser, and shall pay the proceeds, deducting the costs and charges to be taxed, into the supreme court, to be secured, disposed of and improved, as the said supreme court shall direct.

Rights of C. Minton secured.

Act to take effect.

3. The sale so to be made as aforesaid, shall be subject to the rights of Charles Minton, to whom the two lots aforesaid had been leased before the opening of the said street over the same, unless said Minton should elect to join in the sale; in which case, so much of the proceeds shall be paid to said Minton as the court of chancery may deem equitable and just.

4. This act shall take effect on the day of the passage thereof.

CHAP. 83.

AN ACT to incorporate the Buffalo mutual insurance com

pany.

Passed March 17, 1837.

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

created.

§ 1. Millerd Fillmore, Noah P. Sprague, John W. Beals, Corporation Hiram Pratt, Elijah Ford, William Ketchum, Jonathan Mayhew, Cushing Swift, Ralph Plumb, and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner herein prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The Buffalo Mutual Insurance Company," for the purpose of insuring their respective dwelling-houses, stores, shops and other buildings, household furniture, merchandize and other property, against loss or damage by fire.

§2. The persons named in the first section of this act Directors. shall be the first directors of the said corporation. The business of the said corporation shall be carried on and conducted at such place in the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie, as shall be designated by a majority of the directors present at any regular meeting.

powers.

§ 3. The corporation hereby created shall possess all the General powers and privileges, and be subject to all the restrictions and limitations, which are granted to or imposed upon "The Madison County Mutual Insurance Company," by the act incorporating that company, which was passed March 23, 1836.

CHAP. 84.

AN ACT to appoint commissioners to lay out a road through the towns of Castleton and Northfield, in the county of Richmond.

Passed March 17, 1837.

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

ers.

§ 1. Peter N. Haughwout, Richard D. Littell and Wil- Commission liam B. Townsend, are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or any two of them, are authorized to lay out a road from Mersereau's ferry to the village of Richmond, of the width of seventy feet, commencing at Heberton-street, at Mersereau's ferry, and ending at Stapleton avenue, and opposite or near Bristol avenue in the village of Richmond.

To take an

2. Before they shall enter on the duties aforesaid, the oath and file said commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath before description.