Commission er in Oswego. Recorder of This act to take effect. CHAP. 43. AN ACT authorising the appointment of a Supreme Court Commissioner, to reside in the County of Oswego, and to vest certain powers of a Judge of the Common Pleas, in the Recorder of the city of Hudson. Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. There shall be appointed, in the manner now prescribed by law, a supreme court commissioner, who shall reside in the county of Oswego, and who shall possess the powers of a supreme court commissioner, as defined and limited in the second article of the second title of the third chapter of the third part of the Revised Statutes. $ 2. The recorder of the city of Hudsonis hereby authorised and empowered to do and perform all such duties as any judge of the court of common pleas of the county of Columbia could do and perform out of court, with the like compensation for such services, as any such judge of said court of common pleas is by law allowed. $3. This act shall be in force and take effect upon its final passage. One thousand dollars to be pel and school lot. CHAP. 44 AN ACT appropriating certain poor funds in the town of Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. It shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of the paid to trus- town of De Kalb, in the county of St. Lawrence, or their tees of gor- successors in office, within six months after the passing of this act, to pay over and deliver to the trustees of the gospel and school lot in said town, one thousand dollars, out of the funds in their hands, raised and collected for the support of the poor in said town. Trustees to loan the same. $2. It shall be the duty of the said trustees, on receiving said money, to loan out the same, in their corporate name, on bond secured by mortgage on unincumbered real estate of at least double the value loaned, exclusive of buildings erected : thereon the interest on such loans shall be made payable annually, on the first day of January, to the said trustees. $3. The said trustees shall pay over the interest arising Interest. from such loan, to the commissioners of common schools in said town, to be paid to the several school districts in said town, in the same manner as moneys are required to be paid by law. trustees. S 4. The said trustees shall possess all the powers and au- Powers of thority relative to the said one thousand dollars, that they possess relative to the gospel and school lot in said town, and shall exhibit their account, and be answerable for all acts relating thereto, in the same manner as is prescribed in and by title four of chapter fifteen of the first part of the Revised Sta tutes. CHAP. 45. AN ACT to change the Surname of Elnathan Hoar. Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. From and after the passage of this act, Elnathan Hoar, of the town of Greenwich, in the county of Washington, shall be known by the name of Elnathan Horr. CHAP. 46. AN ACT to amend "An act to establish the Albany and Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. All the provisions in the fourth article of the first title of the eighteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes, relating to the duties of inspectors of turnpike roads, shall hereafter apply to the Albany and Bethlehem turnpike road, in the same manner as if their act of incorporation did not contain any special provision for the inspection of the said road. Town of Amity erected. Angelica and Scio to remain. Funds, &e. to be divided. CHAP. 47. AN ACT to erect the Town of Amity, in the County of Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. From and after the twentieth day of March next, three miles by nine shall be taken from the south part of the town of Angelica, and three miles by nine shall be taken from the north part of the town of Scio, containing the whole of township number three in range number two, and part of range number one on Morris' reserve; which territory shall constitute a new town by the name of Amity, and the first town-meeting shall be held at the school-house near Arnold Hill's, in said town. $2. All the remaining parts of the towns of Angelica and Scio, shall, after the said twentieth day of March, be and remain separate towns, by the names of Angelica and Scio, and their town-meetings shall be held at the places to which they were adjourned. $3. The supervisors and overseers of the poor of the towns of Angelica and Amity, shall, as soon as may be after the first town-meetings therein, upon notice of not less than three days, to be given by the said supervisors, or one of them, meet together at such place as shall be specified, and apportion the poor and poor moneys of said town of Angelica, and that part of Angelica set off to Amity, agreeably to the last assessment roll of the town of Angelica; and in like manner, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the towns of Scio and Amity, shall, as soon as may be after the first townmeetings therein, upon notice of not less than three days, to be given by the said supervisors, or one of them, meet together at such place as shall be specified, and apportion the poor and poor moneys of said town of Scio, and that part of Scio set off to Amity, agreeably to the last assessment roll of the town of Scio. CHAP. 48. AN ACT to incorporate the New-York Law Institute. Passed February 22, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Corporation $ 1. The members of the association formed in the city of created. New-York, under the name of "The New-York Law Institute," and all persons who shall hereafter become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the said name of "The New-York Law Institute," for literary purposes, the cultivation of legal science, the advancement of jurisprudence, the providing of a seminary of learning in the law, and the formation of a law library and for attaining the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of the said incorporation, shall have power to take, hold, and convey, real estate to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars; and also all such books or library as may be necessary for the use of the said corporation; which said real estate, and the property in said library, shall be divided into shares, which shall be deemed personal property, and be transferable as such. $2. The officers of the said corporation shall be, a presi- Officers. dent, first, second, and third vice-president, a treasurer, secretary, librarian, and such others as the corporation, by its bylaws, may direct and appoint. 3. The present officers and standing committees of the Property. said association, shall be and remain such in the said corporation, until others shall have been chosen in their places; and all real and personal estate now held by the said association, or by any person or persons in trust therefor, or for the use and benefit of the same, including choses in action, which, by the terms thereof, are payable to the said association, or to any person or persons in trust therefor, shall, by virtue and operation of this act, vest in, become the property of, and may be sued for and recovered in the name of the said corporation hereby created, devoted. S 4. The estate, property, and funds of the said corpora- How to be tion, shall be held for, and devoted solely to, literary and scientific purposes. S 5. The said corporation shall be subject to the provisions General of title three of chapter eighteen of the first part of the Re- powers. vised Statutes; and in addition to the general powers therein granted, the said corporation shall have the power of prescribing, in its by-laws, the quorum necessary and sufficient for the transaction of business. Public act, When to take effect. Town of New-Albion erected. Cecilius erected. Little-Valley to remain. Funds, &c. $6. This act is hereby declared a public act, and shall, in all courts and places, be construed benignly and favorably for. every beneficial purpose therein intended; and no misnomer or misdescription of the said corporation in any will, deed, gift, grant, demise, or other instrument of contract or conveyance, shall vitiate or defeat the same; but every such will, deed, gift, grant, demise, or other instrument of contract or conveyance, shall take effect in like manner as if the said corporation were rightly named therein, provided it be sufficiently described to ascertain the intent of the parties. $7. This act shall commence and take effect from and immediately after the passage thereof. CHAP. 49. AN ACT to divide the Town of Little-Valley, in the County of Cattaraugus. Passed February 23, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : S 1. From and after the first day of March next, all that part of the town of Little-Valley, in the county of Cattaraugus, known as the fourth township in the eighth range of townships, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of New-Albion, and the first town-meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday of March next, at the house of John A. Kinnecutt. S2. All that part of the said town known as the fourth township in the seventh range of townships, shall be, and the same is hereby, erected into a separate town, by the name of Cecilius, and the first town-meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday of March next, at the house now occupied by Reuben Newton. $3. All the remaining part of the town of Little-Valley, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of LittleValley, and the first town-meeting therein shall be held at the house now occupied by Dimmick Marsh. S 4. The supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns shall, when they meet to divide the moneys and funds of the town of Little-Valley, divide the poor of the said town, in the same ratio that the property and funds are divided. |