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any other meeting duly notified, are hereby authorized to choose three inhabitants being freeholders as assessors, one treasurer, one collector and as many fire-wardens as the trustees or the major part thereof may direct.

V. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer, collector, assessors and fire-wardens, shall after such election and before they proceed to the exercise of their several offices, respectively take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before any justice of the peace of the county of Rensselaer, for the faithful execution of the office to which they may be severally chosen.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer and give fecurity. collector hereafter to be elected shall before they enter upon the execution of their respective offices, give such security for the faithful performance of the trusts reposed in them as the major part of the trustees shall deem sufficient.

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VII. And be it further enacted, That if any of the ferve as affef. said inhabitants, qualified as aforesaid, shall hereafter be chosen trustee, or to the office of assessor or fire-warden, and having notice of his said election shall refuse or neglect to take upon him such office, it shall then be lawful for the trustees or the major part of them, to impose upon every such person such reasonable fine or sum of money as they may think fit, so as such fine for each refusal or neglect How impofed shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars; all which and collected. fines shall be recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace or court having cognizance of the same, to be prosecuted and recovered by and to the use of the said trustees, freeholders and inhabitants of said village. of Lansingburgh.

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VIII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees or choose a pre- the major part of them, within five days after their being elected in every year hereafter, shall assemble and appoint some one suitable person of their body to be president of the said board of trustees, whose duty it shall be when present to preside at the meeting of the trustees, to order extraordinary meetings of the trustees whenever he may find it for the interest of the village so to do, to receive complaints of the breach of any of the bye laws, to see that all the rules and ordinances are faithfully executed, and prosecute in the name of the trustees all offenders against such bye laws, to receive and lay before the trustees the returns of the fire-wardens, and with consent of the major part of the trustees, to appoint under his hand and the seal of the said village the company of firemen, to inspect the utensils belonging to the said village for extinguishing fires, and particularly to see the engines and fire utensils, engine houses, and all other public property belonging to said village suitably and properly kept, and to do all such other acts and things as may be proper for him to do as president of the board of trustees.

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IX. And be it further enacted, That the collector, trea- Compenfation ́surer and assessors shall be paid for their services such treafurer and compensation as the said freeholders and inhabitants or affeffors. a majority of them at their annual meetings shall deem reasonable and proper.

X. And be it further enacted, That the district of country Bounds of the contained within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning Troy. village of on the north side of a certain creek called Poesten-creek where there was formerly a saw mill fifty-eight chains from Hudson's river, and runs from thence down along the said creek to the said river, thence up along the said river to a small creek called the Meadow-creek, thence along the said creek into the woods south seventy degrees easterly forty chains, thence south twenty-three degrees and thirty minutes westerly along the west side of the land of the late Albert Bradt one hundred and six chains to the place of beginning (the above course to be run as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty) shall continue to be known and distinguished by the name of the village of Troy; and that the Freeholders freeholders and inhabitants who may from time to time and inhabi reside in the said village shall be a corporation by the tants incorponame and style of "The trustees of the village of Troy," the like and shall have the same rights, privileges, powers and immunities as by this act are given to the corporation of the village of Lansingburgh, subject however to the same regulations, restrictions, orders and provisions.

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XI. And be it further enacted, That the firemen appointed Privilege of or to be appointed within the said corporations, shall be exempted from serving as jurymen or in the militia, except in cases of actual invasion or insurrection; Provided, That Their number the number of firemen in each village do not exceed twenty in twenty; And provided further, That it shall not be lawful each village. for the trustees of the village of Lansingburgh to purchase Refriction as or hold any real estate not lying or being within the limits chafe of real of the patent of Stone-Arabia or village of Lansingburgh, nor for the trustees of the village of Troy to purchase or hold any real estate not being within the limits of their corporation.

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CHA P. CVIII.

An ACT to vest certain Powers in the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Part of the Town of Brooklyn in Kings County.

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E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Bounds of the village of represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be Brooklyn lawful for the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Brooklyn in Kings county, having a right to vote at town meetings and residing near the ferry, within a line to be

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gin at the East-river opposite to and to be drawn up the road that leads from the still-house, late the property of Philip Livingston deceased, and including the same stillhouse and the other buildings on the south side of the said road to and across the road leading from Bedford, south of the house now or late of John B. Johnson, and from thence northeasterly including all the houses on the east side of the road last mentioned to and including the house and mills of John Jackson at the East-river aforesaid, and from thence down the East-river to the place of beginning, to assemble together on the second Tuesday in May in every year, at such place as shall have been agreed on by a majority of votes at their last meeting, and then and there by a majority of the votes of those so met, and having a right to vote, choose so many able bodied and discreet men residing within the limits aforesaid as a majority of those so met shall think proper, not exceeding thirty in the whole, to have the custody, care and management of the fire engine or engines and the other tools and instruments for extinguishing fires within the limits aforesaid; and all or any of the persons so by them to be chosen from time to time at any such meeting to remove and to elect others in their,stead as aforesaid, and the persons so to be chosen shall be called "The firemen of Brooklyn,” and shall be ready at all times, as well by night as by day, to manage, work and exercise the fire engines and other tools or instruments aforesaid, and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the freeholders and inhabitants, residing within the said district and having a right to vote as afore sain shall at such meeting from time to time make and esInhabitants to tablish for the better government of the said firemen, and likewise at every such meeting to choose in manner aforesaid a proper person residing within the said district to be their clerk, whose duty it shall be to enter all the names of such persons chosen firemen as aforesaid in a book to be by him provided and kept for that purpose, and to make an entry of all the proceedings in the said book at every Inhabitants to such meeting; and likewise that a majority of the freeholders and inhabitants at their meetings as aforesaid are hereby empowered to require the inhabitants and owners of houses to provide themselves with such and so many fire-buckets, to be ready in their respective houses, for the purpose of extinguishing fires which may happen in And impofe the said district, and to impose such reasonable fines and penalties for every neglect, default or disobedience of such rules and regulations or deficiency of buckets as a majority of the said freeholders at their said meetings as How recover aforesaid shall think proper; which fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be recovered before any justice of the peace in and for the said county by the said clerk, in an action of debt. with costs in his own name, and when recovered

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shall be applied towards keeping in repair the said fireengines and tools thereunto belonging.

II. And be it further enacted, That every person so to be Privileges of chosen a fireman shall during his continuing as a fireman firemen. and no longer, be exempted from serving in the office of overseer of the highways or constable, and from being impanneled on any jury or inquest, and from militia duty except in cases of invasion or other imminent danger, and a certificate from the clerk aforesaid shall be sufficient evidence of such exemption.

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III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful thabitants to for the said freeholders and inhabitants, or a majority of raise money to fupport the them, so entitled to vote as aforesaid, at any such meeting fire-engines. to direct such sums of money as they shall deem necessary and proper for repairing the fire-engines and other instruments for extinguishing fires now provided, or hereafter to be provided within the said district, to be raised, levied How to be and collected from the freeholders and inhabitants resid- levied and ing within the said district, at the same time and in the same manner as the monies for the maintenance of the poor within the town of Brooklyn are by law directed to be raised and collected, and agreeable to the assessors' tax lists in the said town; and the said monies when collected shall be paid to the said clerk, to be by him applied for the purposes aforesaid, at such time and in such manner as the major part of such firemen shall from time to time direct.

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IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Inhabitants the said freeholders and inhabitants at their annual meet- to choose perings aforesaid, to choose in like manner as the said firemen are chosen not less than three nor more than five discreet freeholders, residing within the limits aforesaid, who may from time to time make such prudential rules and regulations as they shall judge necessary for the prevention of fires by the burning of chimnies, and for the sweeping or otherwise cleaning of the same, under such penalties as Under a penthey or a majority of them shall deem expedient, not ex- alty. ceeding the sum of five dollars for any one offence, to be recovered before any court having cognizance of the same with costs of suit, in an action of debt by any one of the freeholders so to be chosen as aforesaid, which sum when recovered shall be applied by the said freeholders for the defraying of the expense of providing lamps for lighting the streets in the said town; Provided always, That such Provifo. rules and regulations shall be recorded by the said clerk, and advertised by the said freeholders in at least three public places within the limits aforesaid eight days before any person shall be liable to such penalties.

V. And be it further enacted, That no baker or other person within the limits aforesaid shall sell any bread at any higher price or rate than bread of the like quality at the time of such sale shall be assized in and for the city of D d

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New-York by the corporation of the said city, under the penalty of one dollar for every offence, to be recovered by the overseers of the poor of the said town of Brooklyn in any court having cognizance of the same, in an action of debt, with costs of suit, for the use of the poor of the said town.

Certain copies VI. And be it further enacted, That all copies and abstracts of records taken from the records of the said councorded in the ty, relative to roads and highways in the said town of town deemed Brooklyn, examined and certified to be true copies by the cords of the clerk of the said county, and registered by the clerk of the said town in a book to be provided by him for that purpose, shall be deemed to be the records of the said town, and of the same validity as the original records remaining in the office of the clerk of the said county.

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CHA P. CLX.

An ACT to vest certain Powers in the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Village of Waterford.

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Passed 6th April, 1801.

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the freeholders and inhabitants qualified to vote at town meetings, and resident within that part of the town of Halfmoon called Waterford, and comprehended within the following limits, viz. Beginning at a point of land commonly called Halfmoon-point which is formed by the junction of the northernmost branch of the Mohawk-river with Hudson's river, and runs thence up and along the waters of Hudson's river to the northeast corner of the lands lately belonging to Hendrick Vander Werkin deceased, thence westerly along the north bounds of the lands aforesaid to lands belonging to Barent Ten Eyck and others, thence along the same to the south side of Ballston-street, thence with the same line continued to the northernmost branch of the Mohawk-river aforesaid, thence down the waters of the said river to the place of beginning, to assemble on the second Tuesday in May in every year, at such place and at such time of the day as the trustees or the major part of them shall by public advertisement appoint, and under the direction of the said trustees or such of them as shall be present, who are hereby made inspectors of such election, then and there by a majority of voices to elect seven discreet inhabitants, being How long to freeholders, to be trustees as aforesaid, who shall continue in office until the second Tuesday in the month of May in the next ensuing year, and until others shall be chosen in their place.

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