$6. The legislature may at any time repeal, alter or mo- Right to dify this act. repeal. CHAP. 197. AN ACT authorising the establishment of a certain Road in the Village of Geneseo. Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : $1. The commissioners of highways in the town of Geneseo and county of Livingston, are authorised to lay out and establish a public highway, less than three rods in width, leading from Front-street to Second-street, between North and Centre-streets, in the village of Geneseo. CHAP. 198. AN ACT to incorporate the Utica Cotton Printing Company. Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. Ebenezer B. Shearman, Kellogg Hurlburt, Asahel Corporation Seward, Simon N. Dexter and William Walcott, and their created. present and future associates, are hereby declared and constituted a body corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Utica Cotton Printing Company," for the purpose of manufacturing and printing cotton, or either of them separately, in the county of Oneida. S2. The capital stock of the corporation shall be one hun-stock. dred thousand dollars, to be divided into four hundred shares of two hundred and fifty dollars each. $ 3. Subscriptions to the capital stock of said company Subscriptions shall be opened under the direction of the trustees hereafter named; and it shall be the duty of the trustees for the time being, to call for and demand of the stockholders respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed, at such times and in such proportions as they shall see fit, under penalty of forfeiture of their shares and all previous payments made thereon, to the said company; always giving thirty days' notice by their secretary or agent; which notice shall be inserted in Trustees. Election may be held on any day. By-laws. one of the public newspapers printed in Utica, during the thirty days aforesaid. t $ 4. The capital stock, property and concerns of said corporation, shall be managed by five trustees, to be chosen annually, from among the stockholders, on the first Tuesday in December, at such place as a majority of the trustees for the time being shall direct; and Ebenezer B. Shearman, Kellogg Hurlburt, Asahel Seward, Simon N. Dexter and William Walcott, shall be the trustees from the date of this act until the time of the first election, which shall be on the first Tuesday of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, or till others are chosen; and public notice shall be given of the time and place of holding such election, not less than fourteen days previous thereto, in one of the public newspapers as aforesaid; and the said election shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy; and all elections shall be by ballot, allowing each share one vote; and the five persons having the greatest number of votes, shall be trustees. As soon as may be after their election, they shall proceed to elect, by ballot, one of their number to be their president; and whenever any vacancy shall happen among the trustees, by death, resignation or removal out of the state, such vacancy shall be filled, for the remainder of the year, by the remainder of the trustees for the time being. $5. If it should happen that an election of trustees should not be made on the day designated in this act, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful, on any other day to make and hold an election of trustees, in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of said corporation. $6. The stock of said company shall be assignable and transferable, according to such rules as the trustees shall make and establish; and no stockholder indebted to said company shall be permitted to make a transfer or receive a dividend, until such debts be paid to the satisfaction of the trustees. $7. The trustees for the time being, or a majority of them, shall form a quorum for the transaction of all business of the corporation, and shall have power to make all such bylaws, rules aud ordinances, as to them shall appear needful and proper, touching the management and disposition of the property, estate and effects of said corporation, and all such matters as appertain to the concerns of the institution; and they shall have power and authority to appoint and employ all such agents, officers, clerks and servants, as they may think proper for the transaction of the business and concerns of the said corporation, and to displace such agents, officers, clerks and servants, at pleasure. $ 8. The trustees shall at all times keep or cause to be Agent. kept at their manufactory, or at the warehouse of their agent, or at the office of their secretary, proper books of account, in which shall be regularly entered all the transactions of said corporation; which book shall be subject at all times to the inspection of the stockholders; and the trustees, on going out of office, shall account to their successors, and pay over all moneys of the company in their hands. $ 9. The duration of the corporation created by this act, Duration of shall be twenty-one years. act. S 10. This act shall be and is hereby declared to be a pub- Public act. lic act, and the same shall be construed, in all places and courts, benignly and favorably for every purpose therein intended. CHAP. 199. AN ACT to incorporate the Charlotte Turnpike Company. Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. Jacob Dietz, William Angel, Frederick A. Fenn, Corporation Samuel Stephens, and such other persons as may be associated created. with them, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, for the sole and only purpose of making a turnpike road, and constructing a toll-bridge across the Susquehannah river, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. $ 2. Thomas B. Cook, William Angel, Joseph T. Gilbert and Frederick A. Fenn, shall be commissioners to receive subscriptions to the stock of said company; who, when not less than two-thirds of said stock shall be subscribed for, shall give public notice, not less than ten days, to the stockholders, of the time when and the place where an election of directors shall be held; which time shall continue to be the anniversary of their election, until changed by their by-laws. Stock. S3. After the said company shall be so organized, directors Road to be chosen, and one of their number designated and elected as laid out. president, they may apply to the person administering the government of this state, for the appointment of three commissioners to lay out said turnpike road, Repeal riage drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, six cents, and for every additional horse, three cents; for a waggon drawn by one horse, three cents; for every cart, sleigh or sled, drawn by two horses, oxen or mules, four cents; and for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse, three cents. But the said corporation shall not receive toll for passing the said gate, from the first day of January to the fifteenth day of February in each year; nor shall they exact toll from persons residing within one mile of said gate, unless such persons shall be engaged in transporting or conveying goods, produce or passengers, for hire. S8. The act entitled "An act to incorporate the Rome and New-London turnpike company," passed April 17th, 1829, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 201. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled “ An Act to incorporate the Cayuga Lake and Inlet Steam-Boat Company," passed February 25th, 1828. Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The capital stock of the said company shall be increased to fifty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each. $ 2. The directors of the said company may issue scrip therefor, to such persons as shall be entitled to receive the same. CHAP. 202. AN ACT to amend an Act to incorporate the Mohawk 1800. Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders in the company called the president, directors and company of the Mohawk bridge company, to vote at every election of the said company upon each and every share held by said stockholder. ་ CHAP. 203. AN ACT in relation to the Poughkeepsie and New-Paltz Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in $ 1. It shall and may be lawful for the Poughkeepsie and CHAP. 204. AN ACT to incorporate the Orange Town Point Steam- Passed April 16, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Corporation $1. John Blaunch, Cornelius I. Blauvelt, Peter H. Taul- $2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand Stock, $ 3. The affairs of said company shall not be conducted by Directora tors. $ 4. Until the first Tuesday in January in the year one First direc ... |