Right to re peal. Election, when to be held. peal, Right to repeal. Corporation created. Capital stock. of the receipts and expenditures of the company on said bridge. § 6. The legislature may at any time alter or repeal the charter of said company. CHAP. 94. AN ACT to change the day of election for directors of the Passed March 25, 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 annual election for directors of the Bank of Whitehall for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and for every year thereafter, shall be held, and such directors shall be elected on the first Tuesday of June in each year. § 2. So much of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the president, directors and company of the Bank of Whitehall," passed April 30th, 1829, and of the act entitled "Act to revive the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the president, directors and company of the Bank of Whitehall,'" passed April 15th, 1831, as are inconsistent with the first section of this act, are hereby repealed. § 3. The Legislature may at any time alter or repeal this act. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 95. AN ACT to incorporate the Gilboa and Jefferson Turnpike Passed March 28, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. All persons who shall become stockholders pursuant to this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of The Gilboa and Jefferson Turnpike Company, for the sole purpose of constructing a turnpike road from the village of Gilboa, in the county of Schoharie, on the most convenient and eligible. route through the town of Blenheim to intersect the Blenheim, Jefferson and Harpersfield turnpike road in the town of Jefferson, not exceeding two miles easterly of the academy. §2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, and be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, and transferable in such manner as the said corporation shall by its by-laws direct. § 3. Mr. Archibald Croswell, John Cornwell and William Subscription Utter, are appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said corporation. to be made. §4. The said corporation shall make a good and sufficient road Road, how and shall make the arch of said road twenty-two feet in width; and when the steepness of side hills, rocks or other obstacles render it impracticable or unnecessary, in the opinion of the commissioner, to complete it of that width, it shall be lawful for said company to make it of less width and without a ditch on the lower side, but in no place shall the bed or arch of said road be less than sixteen feet wide. § 5. Whenever said road shall be completed according to Rates of toll law, the said company shall be authorized to erect one full toll gate or two half toll gates for every nine and a half miles, and no more or other gates shall be erected on said road, and receive at the full toll gate the following rates of toll, viz: For every coach, wagon, cart or other carriage drawn by two horses or other beasts, twelve and a half cents; for every additional horse or beast, three cents; for every chair, sulkey, cart or other carriage drawn by one horse or other beast, six cents; for every additional horse or other beast, six cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse or other beast, three cents; for every horse and rider or horse led, four cents; for every score of horses, cattle or mules, twenty-five cents; for every score of sheep or swine, twelve and a half cents; and in the same proportion for a greater or less number of horses, cattle or mules, sheep or swine; and at each of the said half toll gates, half of the above rates of toll. powers. § 6. The said corporation shall possess all the privileges, General and be subject to the liabilities and restrictions contained in the eighteenth Chapter of the Revised Statutes. §7. The Legislature may at any time alter, modify or re- Right to peal this act. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 96. AN ACT authorizing the supervisors of the county of Passed March 28, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : repeal. § 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Greene are Money to be authorized, at their next annual meeting, to levy and collect raised by tax Road may be from the inhabitants of the town of Catskill, in the same man- CHAP. 97. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Butternuts and Oxford Turnpike Company. Passed March 28, 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 president and directors of the Butternuts and Oxmortgaged. ford Turnpike Company, by and with the consent of a majority of the stockholders of said company at a meeting to be duly called for that purpose, are hereby authorized to mortgage the road of said company, and its capital stock, with all its appurtenances and corporate rights, to any person or persons to secure the payment of the debts due, or to grow due by said corporation, to such person or persons. Mortgage may be foreclosed. § 2. In case the condition of said mortgage shall be broken, the holder or holders of said mortgage, may foreclose the same in a court of chancery, or by giving notice and proceeding in the manner in which mortgages are authorized by statute, to sell under a power of sale, The purchasers of said road shall be considered as holders of the stock of said company, and may transfer the said stock, or part thereof, to any other person or persons, and shall, at their first meeting after the sale of said road, fix the number of the directors thereof at nine, or any number less than nine, a majority of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall elect the directors for the ensuing year, which election shall be thereafter annually, held on the same day of the same month on which said first election shall be held, and may continue the corporation under the original charter, and the acts amending the same according to the provisions thereof. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 98. AN ACT For the appointment of a police justice for the city of Schenectady. Passed March 28, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : tice, how to ed. § 1. The supervisors of the county of Schenectady are Police jushereby authorized to designate, as often as they may think pro- be designat per, from among the magistrates in the city of Schenectady, having criminal jurisdiction, one as police justice, and the person so designated shall be such police justice until another shall be designated in his place, or his term of office as such magistrate shall expire. 2. Such police justice shall attend to all complaints, examinations, proceedings and trials of a criminal nature which may be brought before him at all reasonable hours. Duty of justice kept. §3. The said police justice shall keep an office in some cen- office, tral part of said city of Schenectady, or in the city hall of said where to be city; and the said supervisors are hereby authorized to let to said police justice a room in said city hall at an annual rent not exceeding one hundred dollars. receive a § 4. The said police justice shall not be entitled to receive Justice to any fees for his own use for services performed in attending to salary and complaints, examinations, proceedings and trials of a criminal not fees. nature; but in lieu thereof, he shall receive an annual salary of not more than eight hundred dollars a year, and at that rate for the time he shall exercise the duties of police justice as aforesaid, to be fixed from year to year at the time such police justice is designated by the board of supervisors of said county of Schenectady, which shall be allowed, raised and paid by the said board of supervisors, as other county charges are allowed and paid. Such sums as shall be received by the said police justice for warrants or complaints for assault and battery, from the persons making such complaints, shall be annually accounted for and paid over by the said police justice to the said board of supervisors on the first day of their annual meeting. § 5. No justice of the peace or other magistrate in the said Restriction. city, or who shall hold an office within three-fourths of a mile of said city, except the said police justice, shall have or receive any fees for, or be bound to render any service in criminal cases, other than as associate justice in courts of special sessions, except in the absence or during the inability of said police justice, or when there shall be no such police justice. But this act shall not be construed to apply to any proceedings other than those which are by law within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace. § 6. All laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Repeal. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Money to be paid. Corporation created. CHAP. 99. AN ACT for the relief of Sarah Skinner and Benjamin Skinner. Passed March 28, 1842. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The commissioners of the canal fund shall pay to Sarah Skinner and Benjamin Skinner, the sum of seventy-five dollars, (for damages sustained by them in the destruction of a certain saw mill, of which said Sarah and Benjamin Skinner were the owners of one-fourth undivided share, and to whom the canal appraisers allowed the said sum of seventy-five dollars, as follows, viz. to the said Sarah Skinner the sum of thirty-nine dollars, and to the said Benjamin Skinner the sum of thirty-six dollars,) out of any moneys appropriated for the payment of allowances for damages on the Chenango canal. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 100. AN ACT to incorporate the New-Hartford Crockett Fire Passed March 29, 1842, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. It shall and may be lawful for George W. Waitt, Thomas P. Morse, John B. Winship, and such other persons residing in and near the village of New-Hartford, in the county of Oneida, as may have associated, or may associate with them, by subscribing the sum of one dollar, or more, for the purpose of procuring a fire engine, or other implements, for the extinguishing fires in said village, to meet together at any time after the passage of this act, and choose not less than three nor more than five of their number, to be trustees, to be called "The New-Hartford Crockett Fire Company, number two," who shall be a body corporate, and shall have perpetual succession, and by that name be capable of suing and being sued in all courts and places, in all manner of actions, and to take, hold and convey property, real and personal, necessary for the pose of extinguishing fires, and the preservation of the engines, tools and implements of the company, not exceeding in amount the sum of three thousand dollars; and the corporation hereby created shall continue during the term of twenty years. pur |