river to the north branch of the Seneca turnpike road, in the town of Onondaga. II. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, before they shall enter on the duties imposed on them by this act, shall severally take and subscribe an oath before the clerk of the county of Onondaga, well and faithfully to execute the trust reposed in them by this act, without favor or partiality; and on exhibition of the certificate of the clerk of Onondoga, that the said commissioners have taken and subscribed such oath, the comptroller shall be authorized to issue his warrant for the sums aforesaid respectively, and that the said commissioners render to the board of supervisors of the county of Onondoga an account of the expenditure of the said sums respectively. AN ACT to authorize the Supervisors of the County of Jefferson to raise Money by Tax, for the Purpose of building a Court House and Gaol in said County. BE Passed February 19, 1808. ( E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the said county of Jefferson, and they are hereby required, at their next annual meeting, to levy and raise, by tax, on the property of the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, and to apply the said money, so to be raised, in building a court house and gaol, at the place in said county fixed upon by law for erecting the same, and under the direction of three superintendents, appointed or to be appointed by the said board of supervisors of said county; and the said superintendents shall account annually with the said supervisors, for all expenditures arising to them in building said court house and gaol; and the supervisors aforesaid shall audit the same and cause the amount so audited to be paid out of the monies raised as aforesaid. AN ACT granting an additional Sum to defray the Expenses incurred in administering the Government of this State. BE Passed February 26, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to pay to the person administering the government of this state, such sums as he shall require to defray the incidental charges in and about the administering the government of the state, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. CHA P. XXIV. AN ACT to extend the Time for the Payment of Monies loaned by the Loan-Officers. I. BE Passed February 26, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the time for payment of the monies loaned to sundry persons, by virtue of the act, entitled " an act for emitting the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in bills of credit," passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and the act, entitied "an act for loaning monies belonging to this state," passed the fourteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, be and the same is hereby extended to the first Tuesday in June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: Provided nevertheless, That the interest of the monies loaned by virtue of the above recited acts, and which may hereafter be re-loaned in pursuance of this act. shall be annually paid, according to the directions of the said recited acts: And provided also, That it shall be lawful for the several loan-officers, appointed under the said recited acts, and they are hereby required, at their annual meeting, to receive so much of the principal loaned by them respectively as is allowed to be paid in, pursuant to the said recited acts, and to re-loan the same according to the directions of the same acts, payable on or before the said first Tuesday of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said several loan-officers to alter the forms of the mortgages to be taken by them respectively for any monies re-loaned conformable to the true intent and meaning of this act. AN ACT to annex Part of the Town of Union to the Town of Chenango, in the County of Broome. I. Passed February 26, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of Union, in the county of Broome, comprehended within the following limits, that is to say: Beginning on the Pennsylvania line where the same crosses the Susquehannah-river in the said town; thence westwardly along the said line to the southwest corner of a patent of land granted on the thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by the people of the state of New-York to Robert Morris; thence northwardly to the southwest corner of lot number thirty-two in the township of Chenango; thence northwardly to the northwest corner of lot number one hundred and eighty-one in said township; thence eastwardly to the southeast corner of lot number two hundred and nineteen in said township; thence in a line of lots northwardly to the northeast corner of lot number forty-seven in said township; thence in a straight line to the southeast corner of lot number one hundred and fifty-six in the grand division of the Boston purchase so called; thence in a line eastwardly to the southeast corner of lot number one hundred and sixty on the Chenango-river; thence down the said Chenangoriver to its confluence with the Susquehannah-river; thence up the said Susquehannah-river to the place of beginning, shall from and after the last day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nine, be annexed to the town of Chenango in said county. II. And be it further enacted, That all the remaining part or the said town of Union shall be and remain a seperate town, by the name of Union. III. And be it further enacted, That the poor belonging to that part of the town of Union, which is hereby annexed to the town of Chenango, on the last day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, shall be maintained by the inhabitants of the said town of Chenango. AN ACT to amend the Act, entitled "An Act for the Inspection of Flour and Meal.” I. B Passed March 4, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the person administering the government of this state, by and with the advice and consent of the council of appointment, to appoint an inspector of flour and meal in the county of Kings, and that the power of the inspector of flour and meal in the city and county of NewYork to appoint a deputy in the 'county of Kings, shall henceforth cease and determine. II. And be it further enacted, That the several inspectors of flour and meal in this state, shall annually hereafter, on the fifteenth day of February, report to the legislature the quantity of flour and meal which shall be inspected by them respectively. CHA P. XXXII. AN ACT concerning Roads in the County of Rockland. Passed March 4, 1808. BE in enacted by the Belle of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the commissioners of highways in the towns of Orange and Clarkstown in the said county of Rockland, are hereby authorized to lay out one or more public highways in the said county of Rockland, between the public highway called the Clarkstown road and the public highway called the Greenbush road, in such place as in their opinion will best accommodate the public, of a breadth not less than two rods wide, any thing in the seventeenth section of the act, entitled "an act to regulate highways," to the contrary notwithstanding. CHA P. XXXIV. AN ACT further to continue the Act, entitled "An Act relative to the Office and Duties of the Comptroller of this State, and for other Purposes. I. BE Passed March 11, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the act, entitled "an act relative to the office and duties of the comptroller of this state," passed the 18th day of April, 1801, shall be and hereby is revived and further continued in force, until the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve. II. And whereas the duties of the office of comptroller have been performed by Archibald M'Intyre since the expiration of the time to which the duration of the act aforesaid has been extended: And whereas doubts may arise on the validity of such acts; Therefore, Be it further enacted, That all acts done and performed by the said Archibald M'Intyre, in relation to the duties of the said office, since the twenty-eighth day of February last past, in conformity to the directions of the above recited act, shall to all intents be valid. AN ACT altering the Name of the Town of Pinefield in the County of Delaware. BE Passed March 11, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the first day of April, in the year 1808, the town of Pinefield, in the county of Delaware, shall be called and known by the name of Tompkins. AN ACT for the Relief of the Occupants who are entitled to the Right of Pre-emption to Lands on the Cayuga Reservation, and for the Relief of William Sacket. W Passed March 11, 1808. HEREAS it is declared, by an act of the legislature, passed the 9th day of April, 1795, entitled "an act for the better support of the Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians, and for other purposes," that the occupants on the Cayuga reservation should have their farms at the average price of the whole tract, and as part of the said reservation has been bid off at prices so far beyond its value, that the same have been suffered to revert to the state, in consequence of which the legislature passed a law the first of April, 1797, fixing the price of the pre-emption lands on the Cayuga reservation at the mean price of the lands actually sold south of the Genesee road, but as no provision was made by said law for carrying into effect the deduction, the benefits by means whereof intended by the same, have not been extended to the occupants on said reservation; and as it appears from the report of the surveyor-general, that thirty-six lots more have reverted to the state: Therefore, I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the surveyor-general be and he is hereby directed to fix the price of the lands on the Cayuga reservation, to those who hold by right of pre-emption, at the average price of the whole reservation, including the lands so reverted to the state, at four dollars and sixty cents per acre, being the price calculated by the surveyor-general, to bear the same rate of interest on said sum, and for the same period, as is by law provided for said occupants. II. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of the landoffice be and they are hereby authorized and required to issue letters patent to William Sacket, of the town of Aurelius, in the county of Cayuga, for lot number sixty-one in the late Cayuga reservation, which lies on the east side of the Cayuga lake; provided the said William Sacket shall comply with the terms mentioned in the last section of the act, entitled "an act relative to the sale of certain lots in the Cayuga, Onondaga and Oneida reservation," passed February 27, 1807, except as to the price of said land, which shall be ascertained by an appraisal, to be directed by the surveyor-general, and upon such principle as to include in the appraisal, the value of the improvements made on said lot at the time the same was surrendered to the state by Richard Dunn CHA P. XXXVIII. CONTENTS. 2. Allegany county, part of Steuben annexed to. 3. Commiflioners, to fuperintend erection of public buildings—4, 16. To account, 7. Prifoners, when to be confined in gaol of Allegany. 14. Streams, navigable, monies to be raised for improving. 9. Towns erected-10. Alfred-13. Caneadea-12. Nunda—11. Offian. 5. Treasurer's fees-15. His duty. AN ACT to annex Part of the County of Steuben to the County of Allegany, and to establish a Court House and Jail for the County of Allegany, and for other Purposes. I. Passed March 11, 1808. 1.BEt enacted by the moly, That all that part of the county of Steu E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented 1 ben, lying west of the division line, between the sixth and seventh ranges of towns in the said county, and south of the division line between the sixth and seventh towns of the said seventh range of towns, be annexed to the county of Allegany; and that the remaining part of the said county of Steuben, be and remain a separate county, by the name of Steuben. II. And be it further enacted, That the supervisors in the county of 2 Allegany, for the time being, or a majority of them, shall and they are hereby authorized and required to direct to be raised and levied, on the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the building a court house and jail in and for the said county, with the additional sum of five cents on each dollar for collecting the same, which money shall be raised at such times, and levied and collected in the same manner as the other contingent charges of the county are levied and collected: Provided, That no real or personal estate shall be taxed for the same of any person who shall not hold more than two hundred acres of land. III. And be it further enacted, That Moses Van Campen, John 3 Gibson and William Higgins, or any two of them, be and they hereby are appointed commissioners to superintend the building of the court house and jail in the county of Allegany, which said court house and jail shall be erected on one of the public lots near the square of the village of Angelica, and on such plan as the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall judge most expedient; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may contract with workmen and purchase materials for the building the said court house and jail, and shall from time to time draw upon the treasurer for the time being, of the said county, for such sums of money for the purposes afore |