General powers. Right to repeal. Loan of $1,000. Certificate to S6. The corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities, prescribed in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. $7. The legislature may at any time modify, alter or repeal this act or any of its provisions. CHAP. 28. AN ACT authorizing a further loan to the county of Cayuga, to complete the new stone jail in said county. Passed March 7, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. The treasurer of this state, upon the warrant of the comptroller, to be drawn for that purpose, is hereby directed, out of any moneys in the treasury belonging to the capital of the common school fund, to pay to Bradley Tuttle, Truman J. McMaster and Joshua Hoskins, or any two of them, commissioners for building a new stone jail in the county of Cayuga, the sum of one thousand dollars, to be expended and applied by them in completing said jail; which sum of one thousand dollars shall be charged in the books of the comptroller as a debt due from the county of Cayuga to the people of this state, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum; and the said debt shall belong to the common school fund. $ 2. The commissioners at the time of receiving the be produced. comptroller's warrant for the said sum of one thousand dollars, shall produce to the comptroller a certificate made by the treasurer of the county of Cayuga, that they have executed to the said county a bond, with sureties approved by the said treasurer, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, to account to the board of supervisors of said county, when thereunto required, for the faithful expenditure and application of the sum of one thousand dollars in the manner hereinabove directed; and the comptroller at the time of issuing such warrant, shall take the receipt of the said commissioners for the said sum. Tax. $ 3. The board of supervisors of the county of Cayuga, are hereby directed at their annual meeting, to be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour, in addition to the sums of money by the third section of the act of February twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, directed to be levied and collected from the taxable inhabitants of the county aforesaid, to cause to be levied the said sum of one thousand dollars, with the interest thereon, until the third Tuesday of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, over and above all expenses of collecting the same. paid. $ 4. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county Loan to bo of Cayuga, on or before the third Tuesday in February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to pay into the treasury of this state, the said sum of one thousand dollars, with the interest thereon; and on such payment being made, the debt of the said county for the said sum and interest shall be extinguished. $ 5. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas- Aet to take sage. CHAP. 29. AN ACT to raise money in the county of Genesee, for the improvement of bridges in the town of Pembroke. Passed March 7, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the county of Genesee, at their next annual meeting, to cause to be levied, collected and paid to the county treasurer of said county, in the same manner as other contingent charges of said county are by law directed to be levied, collected and paid, the sum of five hundred dollars, together with treasurer's and collector's fees thereon, to be applied in the improvement of bridges in the town of Pembroke in the said county. effect. The sum of ed $500 to be How to be $ 2. The said sum of five hundred dollars, when collected and paid to the county treasurer, shall be subject applied. to the order of the commissioners of highways of the said town of Pembroke, whose duty it shall be to apply the same towards building or repairing the bridges in said town; and they shall account for the same in like manner as for other moneys which shall come to their hands for the improvement of roads and bridges. 4 Act revived. Time allow izu. CHAP. 30. AN ACT to revive an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Oneida Insurance Company," passed March 23, 1832, and to extend the time for organizing the same. Passed March 7, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SI. The act entitled "An act to incorporate the Oneida Insurance Company," passed March 23, 1832, is hereby revived and continued in force from the time of the passing of this act, until the expiration of the term for which the said company has been incorporated. $ 2. Further time is hereby allowed until the first day ed to organ of December next, for the organization of the said com-pany, for the payment or securing of the capital stock thereof, for the making and filing an affidavit thereof as required by the statute in such case made and provided, and for the commencement of operations by the said compa ny. Annual clec tion. Watering the streets. СНАР. 31. AN ACT further to amend the charter of the village of Passed March 8, 1834. $1. The annual election for electing village officers of the village of Lansingburgh, shall hereafter be holden on the first Monday of April annually, instead of the third Tuesday of May, as provided in the act incorporating said village, passed February 16, 1798; and that in addition to the persons now entitled by law to vote for trustees, every taxable inhabitant actually taxed on the assessment roll of the town of Lansingburgh, and residing in said village, shall be entitled to vote for trustees of said village. $2. It shall be lawful for the trustees of said village, upon the petition of a majority of the owners and occupants of the lots on any street in said village, and on which buildings are erected, to order and direct the watering or sprinkling of so much of any such street, as they may think proper, with water in dry weather, and to levy and collect the expense of such watering or sprinkling of such street, of the several owners or occupants of such lots, by a just and equitable assessment upon the same, to be made by the assessors of said village, in the same, manner as the assessments for improvements in said village are made; and when such assessments are completed, to collect the same in the same manner that the taxes of said village are collected. CHAP. 32. AN ACT to incorporate the Fire Department of the city of Passed March 10, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Corporation S.1. All such persons as now are or hereafter shall be the chief or sub-engineer, or who now do or shall belong created. to the board of fire wardens, to hook and ladder, hose or engine companies, in the city of Hudson, and who shall conform to the by-laws to be enacted by the trustees hereinafter mentioned, shall be a body corporate by the name of "The Fire Department of the city of Hudson. " $ 2. The real and personal estate of said corporation Estate. shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. $ 3. The trustees of said corporation shall consist of the chief engineer, so long as he shall be elected by the fire department of said city, and of one member from each hook and ladder, hose and engine company, to be chosen by their respective companies, and one from the board of fire wardens, to be chosen in like manner: but in case any company or board shall neglect or refuse to choose its trustee as herein directed, the board of trustees shall consist of those chosen by the other companies until the vacancy shall be properly filled. Trustees. S 4. Such trustees shall be chosen on the last Monday when to be of December in each year, and shall enter upon the du- chosen. ties of their office on the first Monday of January thereafter, and shall hold their offices for one year and until others are elected in their stead. The first election to take place within thirty days after this act shall take effect. other officers $ 5. The trustees shall annually, and in the month of President & January in each year, choose out of their body, one president, one vice-president, one secretary and one treasurer, Management of affairs. and from time to time fill any vacancy which may happen in said offices. $6. The trustees shall manage the affairs and dispose of the funds of the corporation for such charitable objects as may be recognized by the by-laws of the corporation. Meetings of $ 7. The trustees shall meet quarterly on such days in the months of January, April, July and October in each year, as the by-laws shall designate, and at such other times as the president shall call them together. trustees. Treasurer to $ 8. The treasurer shall give such security as the trusgive security tees may require for the faithful performance of his trust, and shall report the state of the funds at such times as the trustees shall require. Officers may S9. The trustees may displace for mal-conduct any of be displaced. the trustees or officers of the corporation, and elect other officers in the place of those displaced; and when a trustee is displaced, shall, within two days, give notice thereof to the board or company clecting him, which board or company shall, within two days afterwards, elect some other person in his stead. Vacancies. By-laws. Election. Funds. Members. S 10. In case of any other vacancy in the office of trustee, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the year, by the board or company in which such vacancy shall occur, at a special election to be called for that purpose, by the chief officer of the company or by the said trustees, S 11. The trustees shall have power to make by-laws, rules and regulations, touching the management and disposition of their funds; touching the meetings of the corporation; touching the duties and conduct of their officers and trustees, and touching all such other matters as appertain to the purposes for which this corporation is created. $12. In case any election shall not be made on any day when, pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved; but such election may be held in such manner as shall have been regulated by its by-laws. $ 13. The funds of the corporation shall consist of the sum already raised and in the hands of the chief and subengineers, and of a yearly payment not exceeding one dollar by each member of the corporation, to be collected in such manner as the by-laws shall point out. $14. Every fireman, engineer or warden, who shall have served as such the time required by law, and who shall contribute to the funds, such sum as the by-laws shall |