CHAP. 110. AN ACT authorizing the purchase of a dwelling-house for the governor of this state. Passed March 25, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: house may ed. § 1. The trustees of the new state-hall are hereby au- Dwelling. thorized to purchase a house for the governor of this state, be purchas in the city of Albany, and a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the aforesaid object, to be paid by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. report. §2. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas-Trustees to sage, and the trustees shall report to the next legislature their proceedings. CHAP. 111. AN ACT to incorporate the Tioga county agricultural society. Passed March 28, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. § 1. James Pumpelly, Anson Camp, Ezra Canfield, Fran- Corporation cis Armstrong, Stephen Strong, Henry McCormick, Ira Clizbe, John Coryell, Erastus Goodrich, Asa Wolverton, Ira Woodford, Russel Gridley, Henry Miller, George Fisher, Stephen Wells junior, Ezekiel Rich, David Williams, Horatio Collins, Joseph T. Waldo, Abraham Hotckins, Otis Lincoln, Nicholas Shoemaker, Samuel Mills, Isaac Shepard, William Platt, and all such other persons as shall hereafter be associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Tioga County Agricultural Society," for the purpose of improving the condition of agriculture, horticulture, and the household arts. personal es. tate. § 2. The said corporation shall have the power to pur- Real and chase, hold and convey, such real and personal estate as its purposes shall require, not exceeding five thousand dollars. §3. The said corporation shall possess the general pow- General ers and be subject to the provisions contained the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable, and have not been repealed. powers. Duration of this act. pas § 4. This act shall take effect immediately after its sage, and shall continue in force for twenty years thereafter; but the legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal the same. Part declar. ed a highway. Penalty. Saving clause. Stock inoreased. Subscrip tions to stock. CHAP. 112. AN ACT declaring a part of the Little Genesee creek a public highway. Passed March 28, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. That part of the Little Genesee creek extending from the saw-mill, now owned and occupied by Messrs. T. & M. Cowls, in the town of Bolivar, in the county of Allegany, to the Pennsylvania line, is hereby declared a public high way. 2. Any person who shall obstruct in any manner whatsoever the navigation of that part of said creek which is hereby declared a public highway, and shall not remove the same in twenty-four hours thereafter, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered with costs, by any person who shall sue for the same before any justice of the peace, and shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishaable by fine and imprisonment. § 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any erection upon or across said creek for hydraulic purposes. CHAP. 113. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Hudson and Berkshire rail-road company," passed April 26, 1832. Passed March 28, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The capital stock of the Hudson and Berkshire railroad company is hereby increased to the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the officers of said company are authorized to issue certificates for two thousand shares of fifty dollars each, for the additional stock hereby authorized to be created. § 2. It shall be the duty of the directors of said company, within six months after the passage of this act, to open books for subscription to said increased stock, at some suitable place in the city of Hudson, and at such other places as they shall deem advisable, giving at least fourteen days' notice of the time and places of opening such books, in one or more newspapers printed in the city of Hudson, and one or more newspapers printed in the city of New-York; and shall require of the persons subscribing, at the time of subscription, the payment of five dollars upon each share so subscribed; and unless the same be paid, such subscription shall not be valid; and if a greater amount than one hundred thousand dollars be subscribed to said stock, the directors of said company shall distribute the same in such manner as a majority of them shall deem most advantageous to said corporation: but if said amount of one hundred thousand dollars shall not be subscribed, then said directors may open said books, at such other time and place, and in such manner and on such notice, as they or a majority of them shall direct; and said corporation shall have the same power, and the holder of the stock the same privileges, and be subject to the same conditions and regulations, in relation to the stock hereby created, as to that created by the act hereby amended. § 3. No person, body politic or corporate, who shall be- Votes. come the owner or purchaser of the stock authorized to be created by this act, shall be permitted to vote upon such stock for directors or any of the officers of said company, or on the location or termination of said road, until they shall have paid on said stock as much per cent as has been paid by the original stockholders of the stock of said company. be borrowed §4. In case the stock hereby created shall not be sub- Money may scribed and paid in, or shall not be sufficient for completing and putting in operation the entire road of said corporation, the directors thereof are authorized to borrow, upon the credit or security of said corporation, an amount of money sufficient for that purpose. § 5. The eighteenth section of the act aforesaid is hereby Amendment. amended, by inserting the words "or the village of WestStockbridge," next after the word "Pittsfield," in said sec tion. Loan of $500,000. Money how to be invested. Portion may be loaned to banks. CHAP. 114. AN ACT to authorize the corporation of the city of Troy to borrow money for the purposes therein mentioned. Passed March 28, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. It shall be lawful for the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Troy, to borrow, on the faith and credit of said city, any sum of money not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, for a term not exceeeding twenty-five years, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum; and to execute bonds therefor under the common seal of the corporation of said city, and the signature of the mayor, or recorder. And as further security for the money so to be borrowed, the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty may pledge, hypothecate or mortgage, any real or personal property belonging to said city, or to which they may become entitled under the provisions of this act: That the bonds so to be executed, may be for sums not less than five hundred dollars each, and not exceeding in the aggregate the said sum of five hundred thousand dollars; the said bonds to be in such form, and the principal and interest made payable at such places and times, not exceeding twenty-five years, as may be agreed upon with the lenders. § 2. The moneys to be borrowed by authority of this act, shall be invested in the stock of the Schenectady and Troy Rail-Road Company, and employed and used in the construction of the said road, its buildings and necessary appurtenances, and for no other purposes whatever and for that purpose, the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Troy, in their corporate name, may subscribe for or purchase stock of the said company, to the amount of the said sum of five hundred thousand dollars; and by virtue of said subscription, or purchase of stock, and upon receiving certificates, or the transfer of certificates, for the amount of said stock so by them to be subscribed for or purchased, the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of said city, shall acquire all the rights and privileges, and be liable to the same responsibilities, as other stockholders in said company. § 3 It shall be lawful for the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Troy, to loan to any of the incorporated banks in the cities of Troy, Albany or Schenectady, during the time allowed by law for constructing the said rail-road, any portion of said sum of five hundred thousand dollars, which may not be immediately wanted for the payment of the stock so be to subscribed for or purchased by them, or in the construction of the said rail-road. how to be §4. In case the dividends arising from the stock so to be Interest, &c. subscribed for or purchased by the said mayor, recorder, paid. aldermen and commonalty of said city, shall not be sufficient in any one or more years to pay incidental expenses and the interest of the moneys to be borrowed by virtue of this act, it shall be and hereby is made the duty of the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty, and the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of said city are hereby authorized to cause to be assessed, levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other contingent expenses of said city are assessed, levied and collected, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to make good such deficiency, and to apply the same to the payment of such interest. CHAP. 115. AN ACT to authorize the purchase of land for salt manufacturing purposes, in the town of Salina. Passed March 28, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: may be pur § 1. The superintendent of the Onondaga salt springs, Five lots and inspector of salt, in the county of Onondaga, may purchased of F chase of Freeman Hughes, lots number one, two, three, Hughes. four and five, in block sixteen, in the village of Geddes, and take a deed therefor to the people of this state, if they can procure the same for a fair price; which deed shall be recorded in the clerk's office of Onondaga county, and in the office of the secretary of this state; provided they can pay Proviso. for the same by an exchange therefor of so much of farm lot number three hundred and twenty-four, in the town of Salina, on such terms as the superintendent and inspector shall deem reasonable and beneficial to this state; but such purchase or exchange, before it be valid, shall be approved of by the commissioners of the land-office. given in ex said lots. §2. If the superintendent and inspector shall agree with Land to be said Hughes to exchange lands, they shall cause a survey and change for map to be made of the part of said farm lot to be exchanged, and report the same to the commissioners of the land office, who shall cause a patent to be granted therefor to said Hughes, whenever they shall be satisfied that a good and sufficient title to said village lots has been granted to the people of this state. §3. As soon as a good title shall be obtained to said vil Lots to be leased. |