Statutes Concerning Applications to the Legislature. [Chapter 7, Title 3, Part 1, of Revised Statutes.] § 1. All persons applying to divide or alter the bounds of any county, city or village; or to erect a new county; or to incorporate a new city or village: And all persons applying for the removal of any court-house, or the imposing of a tax for making or improving a road, or for any other local purpose in any county, where all or any of the inhabitants of such county a e proposed. to be taxed: Shall give notice of such intended application, by advertisement to be published for at least six weeks successively, immediately before such application, or before the first day of the session at which the same is to be made, in a newspaper printed in the county or in each of the counties where the objects of such application are intended to be carried into effect, and also in case of intended application for the imposition of any tax as aforesaid, in the state paper. § 2. Every association intending to apply to the legislature for an act of incorporation, and every corporation intending to apply for an alteration, amendment, or extension of its charter, shall cause the like notice of such application to be published in the state paper, and also in the newspaper printed in the county in which such corporation is intended to be, or shall have been established. § 3.. If no newspaper be printed in a county in which any notice is required. to be published, such notice shall be published in like manner, in the place nearest thereto in which a newspaper shall be printed. § 4. If the application be for an act of incorporation, the notice shall specify the amount of the capital stock requisite to carry the objects of such incorporation into effect; and if the application be for an alteration in any charter already granted, and the notice shall state specifically the alteration intended to be applied for. § 5. The notice of all other applications, of which notice is required to be given, shall specify the nature and object of such intended applications. AN ACT relative to applications to the Legislature for grants of escheated lands.. Passed April 25, 1829. Revised Statutes, vol. 3, p. 171. § 1. Every person hereafter applying to the legislature for a release of lands escheated to the state, shall give the like notice of such application in the county where such lands may be situate, and in the state paper, as is required by the third. Title of the seventh Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. AN ACT requiring the publication of notices, in certain cases. Passed April 27, 1829. Revised Statutes, vol. 3, p. 171. § 1. In all cases of applications to the legislature for the passage of laws authorizing the construction of dams, in or across the streams and waters of this state, which are by law public highways, like notices shall be given and published as are required to be given and published by the third Title of the seventh Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes, in cases of applications for acts of incorporations, and in the other cases therein specified. COURTS. UNITED STATES COURT. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK. Comprising the following counties: Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Kings, New-York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester. Officers of the Courts. Smith Thompson, Associate Justice U. S. Sup. Court, Circuit Judge. U. S. Commissioners to take Affidavits, Depositions, Bails, &c. The Clerks of the Circuit and District Courts, their chief deputies, and the Deputy Marshal, are Commissioners ex-officio for the City and County of New-York; and the County Clerks of the remaining counties comprising the Southern District of New-York, are Commissioners ex-officio for those counties. Court Terms. U.S. CIRCUIT COURT. Equity and Criminal Terms, last Monday in February and July. U. S. DISTRICT COURT. General Terms, first Tuesday in each month. NORTHEN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK. Comprising the following counties: Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauque, Chenango, Chemung, Clinton, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Madison, Niagara, Oneida, Ontario, Onondaga, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. OFFICERS OF THE COURT. Alfred Conkling, Judge, Auburn. Aurelius Conkling, Deputy Clerk, Auburn. Israel G. Wood, Deputy Marshal, Auburn. TERMS OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH- First Tuesday after the third Monday in June, at Canandaigua. TERMS OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH- October, at Buffalo. Second Monday in July, at Utica. One term annually in the county of St. Lawrence, Franklin or Clinton, at such time and place as the Judge shall appoint. NEW-YORK STATE COURTS. The Courts of Common Pleas, within their several counties, have a jurisdiction concurrent with the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in civil cases. They have also an appellate jurisdiction of causes arising in Justices' Courts. The Judges of the Common Pleas, or one Judge of the Common Pleas and two Justices of the Peace form the Court of General Session of each county, which has jurisdiction in all criminal cases of an inferior degree to those the punishment of which is imprisonment in the state prison for a less term than ten years. The Circuit Courts are each held by a Circuit Judge. Their business is the trial of questions of facts arising upon causes in litigation in the Supreme Court. They have no original jurisdiction. They are Vice-Chancellors except in the first and eighth Circuits. Courts of Oyer and Terminer are held simultaneously with the Circuits. These are courts of criminal jurisdiction, and are constituted of the Circuit Judge and two more of the Judges of the County Courts for the county. They have cognizance of all criminal offences. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction of all civil actions, at law, arising within the State. Practically, however, this jurisdiction only extends to actions where the amount in controversy exceeds $50. It has also an appellate jurisdiction in crimnal cases brought before it from courts having the original jurisdiction, by certiorari or writs of error. The Court of Chancery comprehends all the courts of equity jurisdiction in the State. Proceedings in it are brought either before the Chancellor or one of the Vice-Chancellors. All actions where relief in equity is sought, may be brought before the Chancellor; and any action where such relief is sought, may also be brought before the Vice-Chancellor of the Circuit in which the cause of action arose, or where either of the defendants live. The proceedings in either case are entitled in Chancery, and the particular court before which they are brought is designated. In addition to his original jurisdiction, the Chancellor has an appellate jurisdiction in all cases decided by a ViceChancellor, or by any Surrogate. Surrogates' Courts-have now the probate of all wills of real as well as personal estate, the control of executors and administrators and the charge of infants' estates. The Chancellor also has power to issue commissions to take proof of wills of both real and personal estates in cases where the witnesses reside out of this State. He also has power to appoint general and special guardians of the persons and the estate of infants. The Court for the Correction of Errors is constituted of the President of the Senate, Senators, Chancellor, and Judges of the Supreme Court, &c. It has appellate jurisdiction only, and has the review of decrees made by the Court of Chancery, which are brought before it upon appeal, and the judgments of the Supreme Court brought up upon writ of error. When sitting as a court of appeals from the decrees made by the Court of Chancery, the Chancellor has no vote in its decisions, and in like manner when acting upon writs of error from the Supreme Court, the Justices of that Court have no vote. The decisions of this court are final. Officers of the Court of Chancery. Reuben H. Walworth, Chancellor, Saratoga Springs, John M. Davison, Register, Albany. Hiram Walworth, Assistant Register, New-York. Alonzo C. Paige, Reporter, Schenectady. Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, Chancellor's Clerk, Saratoga Springs. FIRST CIRCUIT. William T. McCoun, Vice-Chancellor, New-York. Lewis H. Sandford, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, New-York. Hiram Walworth, Clerk, ex officio, New-York. Charles Edwards, Reporter, New-York. Lewis H. Sandford, Injunction Master, New-York. Thomas Addis Emmet, Taxing Master, New-York. Philo T. Ruggles, Stephen Cambreleng, " SECOND CIRCUIT. Charles H. Ruggles, Vice-Chancellor, Poughkeepsie. Charles Swift, Injunction Master, Poughkeepsie. Charles Borland, Taxing Master, Montgomery, Orange county. Frederick J. Coffin, Exception Master, Somers, Westchester county. Nathan Reeve, Exception Master, Newburgh. Charles A. Floyd, Exception Master, Huntington, Suffolk county. THIRD CIRCUIT. John P. Cushman, Vice-Chancellor, Troy. Benjamin F. Potter, Exception Master, Schenectady. 66 Giles B. Kellogg, John Willard, Vice-Chancellor, Saratoga Springs. G. M. Davison, Clerk, Saratoga Springs. Perry G. Ellsworth Injunction Master, Saratoga Springs. Marinus Fairchild, Exception Master, Salem. Charles Gray, William A. Dart, 66 Herkimer. 66 Potsdam. FIFTH CIRCUIT. Philo Gridley, Vice Chancellor, Utica. John G. Crocker, Taxing Master, Útica. Joseph C. Patridge, Exception Master, Watertown. John S. Randall, James Hyde, Daniel Moseley, Vice-Chancellor, Onondaga. Stephen A. Goodwin, Clerk, Auburn. Henry Millard, Injunction Master, Auburn. Daniel F. Moseley Taxing Master, Skaneateles. Joseph D. P. Freer, Exception Master, Cortlandville. Frederick Whittlesey, Vice-Chancellor, Rochester. E. Darwin Smith, Clerk, Rochester. Charles Lee Clarke, Reporter, Rochester. 4th Monday in January and August, at Albany, and of May and October in New-York. Motion Courts. 1st and 3d Tuesdays in every month during the vacations, at the Capitol in the city of Albany; except between the May and August terms, when they are held at the Chancellor's dwelling house, at Saratoga Springs. Also each Monday of every stated term. Vice-Chancellor's Stated Terms. FIRST CIRCUIT.-Vice-Chancellor. At New-York, 1st Monday in January, April, July and October. Assistant Vice-Chancellor. 1st Monday in each month except July and August, and except in those months when he holds a term elsewhere. (See laws of 1839, ch. 101. 1840. ch. 314.) SECOND CIRCUIT. 3d Monday in February, and 2d in August, at Poughkeepsie, and 1st in June and December, at the Court House in Newburgh. Special Terms at times and places appointed for holding Circuit Courts. THIRD CIRCUIT. 2nd Monday in February and December, at Albany; and Wednesday after 2d Monday in June, and Wednesday after 3d Monday in August, at the Court House in Troy. FOURTH CIRCUIT. Monday before 1st Monday in February, at the Court-House in Canton; last Tuesday in April and October, and first in September, at Ballston Spa. Special Terms at times and places of Circuits, for hearing causes by consent, and for decrees in pro confesso and foreclosure suits. FIFTH CIRCUIT. 1st Monday in September, December and March, and 4th Monday in July, at Utica. SIXTH CIRCUIT. 3d Monday in February at Ithaca; Saturday after 2nd Monday in May, at Binghamton; Saturday after 4th Monday in August, at Owego; 2nd Monday in November, at Norwich. SEVENTH CIRCUIT. 1st Monday in February, 2d in May, 4th in July and October, at Auburn. EIGHTH CIRCUIT. 4th Tuesdays in February, May, August and November, at Rochester. Vice-Chancellor's Motion Courts.-2d and 4th Tuesday in each month. 1st Circuit.-At the City-Hall, New-York. 3d Circuit.-At the Capitol in Albany, and in each of the other Circuits at the places of residence of the Vice-Chancellor, or at such other places as they shall appoint for the purpose. |