Act to take effect. Corporation created. Directors. General powers. Act to take effect. lage lots, the superintendent shall cause them to be surveyed, and laid out into lots of suitable size for fine salt manufactories, and lease the same, as is now provided by law for that purpose. § 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. CHAP. 116. AN ACT to incorporate the Steuben county mutual insurance company. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Ziba A. Leland, William S. Hubbell, Moses H. Lyon, William H. Bull, Henry Brother, Reuben Robie, David McMasten, William Hamilton, Thomas J. Magee, Ten Eyck Gansevoort, John W. Fowler, Robert Campbell jr. and Elisha Hempsted, and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The Steuben 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. § 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 Bath, in the county of Steuben, as shall be designated by a majority of the directors thereof present at any regular meeting. §3. The corporation hereby created shall possess all the 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 23d, 1836. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately after the passage thereof. CHAP. 117. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Columbian fire insurance company in the city of New-York. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tended. § 1. All the provisions of the act entitled "An act to in- Time excorporate the Columbian fire insurance company of the city of New-York," passed May 25, 1836, are hereby extended for the term of one year from the passage of this act. § 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. CHAP. 118. AN ACT to incorporate the Glen-Cove mutual insurance company. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Act to take effect. § 1. John B. Coles, Elwood Valentine, Jacob Titus, Corporation George D. Coles, William M. Weeks, Thomas Coles, Hen-created. ry Titus, Simon Craft, Jarvis Frost, James C. Townsend, Thomas Underhill, Isaac Covert, Samuel J. Underhill, Peter Luyster, John D. Peeks, William Hicks, Benjamin Albertson, Andrew C. Hageman, Samuel Youngs junior, William Titus and Richard Udall, and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The Glen-Cove 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 village of Glen-Cove, in the county of Queens, as shall be designated by a majority of the directors thereof, 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 powers. and limitations, which are granted to or imposed upon "The Madison County Mutual Insurance Company," by the act incorporating that company, passed March 23, 1836. created. СНАР. 119. AN ACT to incorporate the Yates county mutual insurance company. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Corporation § 1. James C. Robinson, Henry Bradley, Andrew F. Oliver, Francis M. Potter, Benedict W. Franklin, William Chapin, Stephen M. Whitaker, Elisha Doubleday and Augustus Torrey, and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be a corporation by the name of "The Yates 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. General powers. created. § 2. The persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first directors of said corporation. The business of said corporation shall be carried on and conducted at such place in the village of Penn-Yan, in the county of Yates, as shall be designated by a majority of the directors thereof, present at any regular meeting. § 3. The corporation hereby created shall possess all the 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, except the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a board of directors consisting of nine members, instead of thirteen, as mentioned in the act above referred to, who shall be chosen in the same manner, and have the like powers and privileges, and be subject to the same restrictions and limitations, as the directors of said Madison county mutual insurance company. CHAP. 120. AN ACT to incorporate the Lyons academy. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Corporation § 1. John Adams, William Sisson, Abraham L. Beaumont, Newell Taft, Thaddeus B. Bigelow, William H. Adams, John M. Holley, Daniel Chapman, Reuben H. Foster, Eli Johnson, Joseph Cole, Daniel Watrous, E. Fitch Smith, Jacob Leach, Graham H. Chapin, and such other persons as may associate with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Lyons Academy," to be located in the village of Lyons, in the county of Wayne, 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 cor- Trustees. poration shall be managed by a board of fifteen trustees. §3. The persons named in the first section of this act First shall be the first trustees of the said corporation, and shall trustees. 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. § 4. On the second Monday of January, one thousand Election. eight hundred and thirty-eight, and on the second Monday of January in each succeeding year, there shall be an election of five trustees, who shall hold their offices for three years, and until others shall be elected in their places. The election shall be by ballot, and by a plurality of the votes of the members present. fund. §5. The said academy shall participate in the distribution Literature 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. § 6. The corporation hereby created shall possess the General power and be subject to the provisions of the fifteenth and powers. eighteenth chapters of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable and have not been repealed. § 6. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof. CHAP. 121. AN ACT to amend title six of chapter III of the first part of the Revised Statutes, relating to the enumeration of the inhabitants of this state. Passed March 29, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Act to take effect. Section § 1. The seventh section of chapter three of title six of, the first part of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended, amended. by striking out of the sixth column of the table, the word "male." $10,000. CHAP. 122. AN ACT to increase the capital stock of the Alexander classical school. Passed March 30, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Stock to be § 1. The second section of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Alexander classical school," passed May 6, 1834, is hereby amended so as to read "ten thousand dollars," instead of "three thousand dollars." Act to take effect. Part repealed. Toll gates. Road how to be preserv. § 2. This act shall take effect from the CHAP. 123. passage thereof. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Passed March 30, 1837. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The eighth section of the act to incorporate the Buffalo and Williamsville McAdam road company is hereby amended, by repealing so much of said section as requires curbstone to be set in the construction of said road. §2. The said company may erect one full, or two halftoll gates, on said road, between Buffalo and the Elevenmile creek; and one full, or two half-toll gates, between the Eleven-mile creek and Clarence hollow, under the provisions contained in the eleventh section of the act hereby amended, instead of every nine miles. § 3. The said corporation shall preserve and maintain ed and kept. the said road, when completed, as a McAdam road, according to the plan of its construction, and for this purpose, shall from time to time make such repairs as shall preserve and maintain the said road, at all times, in the condition and order of a complete McAdam road. General powers. 4. The said corporation shall possess the powers, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities, prescribed in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth sections of the first title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. |