Term. Qualifica apectors. CHAP. 263. AN ACT altering the time for holding the circuit court and court of oyer and terminer in and for the county of War ren. Passed April 12, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The circuit court and court of oyer and terminer for the county of Warren, shall be held on the second Wednesday after the first Monday in October next, instead of December, as now ordered by the circuit judge. CHAP. 264. AN ACT regulating the inspection of green hides and skins in certain places. j Passed April 12, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Article fifteenth of Title second of Chapter seventeenth tions of in- of Part first of the Revised Statutes, is amended so as to read as follows: The person to be appointed inspector of green hides and skins in each of the cities of Albany, Hudson, Troy, Schenectady, and Rochester, and in the villages of Catskill, Lansingburgh, and Waterford, shall be an experienced manufacturer of leather, residing in the said city or village for which said appointment shall be made. Of their de- § 2. The deputies to be appointed by said inspectors shall also be experienced manufacturers of leather. puties. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 265. AN ACT to incorporate the Susquehanna Centre Bridge Company. Passed April 12, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: created. § 1. All persons who shall become stockholders of the corpo- Corporation ration created by virtue of this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the "Susquehanna Centre Bridge Company," for the purpose of building a toll_bridge across the Susquehanna river, in the town of Colesville, Broome county, on the most eligible site between the dwelling houses of Samuel Doolittle and John Lackeys. stock. tions. § 2. The capital stock of the said corporation shall be five Capital thousand five hundred dollars, to be divided into two hundred and twenty shares of twenty-five dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable in such manner as the corporation shall in its by-laws direct; and Hiram Subscrip Blakslee, Jonathan T. Wasson, David Bartow, Jonas Abbott, Nathan Noble, John Freeman, Samuel Doolittle, Freeman Putnam and William Doolittle, are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions at such time and place in the town of Colesville, as they, or a majority of them, shall designate, on public notice thereof given. subscrip §3. If the whole of the capital stock shall not be taken at Further the time appointed for opening the book of subscription, the tions. said commissioners may receive further subscriptions at such other time as they may appoint, until the whole capital stock shall be taken up, and the persons subscribing for the stock shall pay the said commissioners at the time of subscribing, one dollar on each share by them respectfully subscribed. directors. § 4. The stockholders shall meet at such time and place as Election of the said commissioners may designate, for the purpose of choosing directors for said corporation, such election shall be by ballot and by a plurality of votes of the stockholders and their proxies then present, one vote to each share of stock. rectors 5. The said commissioners shall pay over to the directors Money to be all moneys that may have been received by them, and the direc- paid to ditors shall have power to require the stockholders respectively to make payment of all sums of money by them subscribed at such times and in such proportions as said directors shall see fit, under pain of forfeiture of the shares upon which such payments are required, and all previous payment thereon, to the corporation. toll. 6. As soon as the said bridge shall be completed, and a Rates of certificate from any two of the judges of Broome county shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said county setting forth List of the rates of toll that said bridge is well and sufficiently constructed for the safe passage for loaded waggons and other carriages, the directors may erect a gate at either end of the said bridge, and demand and receive the following rates of toll from all persons' passing over said bridge :-For every waggon or other carriage drawn by one horse or other animal, six cents; for every additional horse or other animal, two cents for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse or other animal, four cents; and for every additional horse or other animal, two cents: for every horse and rider, three cents for every score of horses or cattle, twenty cents, and in that proportion for a greater or less number: for every score of sheep or swine, eight cents, and in that proportion for a greater or less number: for every footman, one cent. § 7. The said corporation shall cause to be affixed, in a conto be put up. spicuous place at the end of said bridge near the toll gate, a list of the rates of toll that may be lawfully demanded, and if any person shall forcibly pass the gate without having paid the legal toll, such person shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation two dollars with costs of suit; and if any toll gatherer shall unreasonably delay or hinder any passenger or traveller at the gate or shall demand or receive more than the legal toll, such toll gatherer shall forfeit for every such offence, the sum of five dollars, to be recovered with costs, to the use of the person so unreasonably delayed, hindered or defrauded. Bridge, how to be built, &c. General powers. Du ration. § 8. The bridge shall be built in such manner as not to injure or impede the passage of rafts, boats or other craft navigating said river; and if the bridge shall not be completed within four years from the passage of this act, or after the same shall have been completed shall become impassable for the term of thirty days for the want of repairs, unless carried away by unavoidable accident or taken down for the purpose of being rebuilt, or if the same shall not be rebuilt within eighteen months, then, in either event, the corporation shall be dissolved, and the said bridge shall become a public bridge, and may be maintained at the expense of the county of Broome. § 9. The corporation hereby created shall possess the powers and be subject to the provisions of the eighteenth Chapter of the first Part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable and have not been repealed. 10. The corporation hereby created shall continue twenty years, and the legislature may at any time alter or repeal this act. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 266. AN ACT authorizing the town of West-Turin to construct a bridge across the Black river. Passed April 12, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : be built and § 1. The town of West-Turin in the county of Lewis, is Bridge may hereby authorized to construct a bridge across the Black river, moneyraised at or near the High falls, and for that purpose to raise by tax in the same manner as the town charges are levied and raised, such sum or sums of money as its inhabitants qualified to vote at town meetings see fit to raise, not exceeding in all the sum of eight hundred dollars. whom paid. § 2. The money when raised shall be paid over to the corn- Money to missioners of highways of said town, to be by them expended for the purpose aforesaid, and in pursuance of the vote or resolution of the town meeting raising the same. § 3. A special town meeting may at any time be called by Special town the supervisor, town clerk and assessors of said town for the meeting. purpose aforesaid, giving ten days' notice thereof in writing fixed up in five of the most public places in said town. clause. § 4. This act shall not confer any authority to construct said Saving bridge, unless the said town shall at the town meeting voting the said tax, authorize by a resolution the commissioners of highways to construct the same. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 267. AN ACT authorizing Aaron Davis to change the channel of the Genesee river, in the town of Portage. Passed April 12, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: river may be 1. Aaron Davis, of the town of Portage in the county of Course of Allegany, is hereby authorized to change the course of the Ge- changed. nesee river, by making a channel across lots number two hundred and twenty-three and two hundred and twenty-four, in said town, commencing at or near the mouth of the cove, which discharges into the river near the south line of lot number two hundred and twenty-three; thence running in a northeasterly direction, to its intersection with the present channel of the river. Damages to be repaired. Amendment tion of act of 1834. § 2. If in consequence of such alteration of the river, a change in the location of any road or roads shall become necessary, or if any land shall be appropriated, for which damage may be claimed, said Davis shall defray the expenses attending the construction and relocation of such road or roads, and also the damage for lands appropriated; such expense and damage to be determined by the commissioners of highways of said town. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 268. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the purposes. Passed April 12, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The first section of the act entitled "An act to incorpoof first sec- rate the Clyde High School," passed April 24, 1834, is hereby amended by striking out the words "fourteen and," in the first line, so that the said first section when amended shall read as follows: School district number seventeen, in the town of Galen in the county of Wayne, shall form a permanent school district, not subject to alteration by the commissioners of common schools of said town of Galen, and shall hereafter be known by the name of "The Clyde High School." be rented. § 2. The trustees of said Clyde High School may from time Rooms may to time rent or lease for scholastic purposes such rooms or apartments in their school house, as in their judgment may not be required for the use of schools therein established by them. trict No. 14 a common school. 3. School district number fourteen in the said town of GaSchool dis- len, is hereby restored to its original rights and liabilities as a common school district in said town: but nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize or empower said school district number fourteen to demand, have or receive, any return or restitution from the Clyde High School, of the moneys heretofore appropriated or expended by them in the purchase of the lot or the erection, of the school house thereon in the said Clyde High School district. 4. This act shall take effect on and after the first day of May next. |