by the comptroller, in a penalty of double the amount of such warrant, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of the money, to be received on such warrant, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, and for accounting with the comptroller under oath for the expenditure thereof, and payment of the balance unexpended within one year from the date of such bond. IV. And be it further enacted, That after such gun-houses are com- 7 pleted, the same together with the field pieces and implements placed therein, shall be deemed to be under the care and custody of the commandant of the corps for whose accommodation they may be erected, and that any neglect or default of such commandant, by reason whereof such gun-houses, or the guns, carriages, implements or ammunition to be placed therein, may be damaged, injured or lost, shall be deemed an impropriety degrading to the office which he holds, within the meaning of the fourth section of the act supplementary to an act to amend an act, entitled "an act to organize the militia of this state," passed the fifth day of April, 1803; and 8 that every such commandant, upon being promoted, removed from office, or suspended therefrom, shall upon the request in writing of his successor in office, or command, surrender and deliver the key of such gun-house and the artillery, implements and ammunition belong ing to the said corps into the care and custody of such successor, and 9 for neglect so to do, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of the said corps, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered by such successor, in his own name, in an action of debt, in any court having cognizance thereof. V. And be it further enacted, That so much of the public ground 10 adjacent to the government house in the city of New-York, as shall be necessary to open and extend Bridge-street, in continuation from its present limits to the battery, be and the same is hereby granted to the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York for that purpose: Provided nevertheless, That the opening and extending the said street shall not interfere with the plans or arrangements of the United States for defensive preparations, and shall be sanctioned by the commissioners appointed this session for the purpose of ceding such of the lands and jurisdiction of this state to the United States, as may be deemed necessary for the defence of the city and port of New-York. CHA P. CLXIX. AN ACT to repair the Court Room in the Academy, in the Village of Newburgh, in the County of Orange. I. Passed April 8, 1808. . BE it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the supervisors of the several towns in the county of Orange, for the time being, or a majority of them, shall and are hereby authorized and required to direct to be raised and levied on the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, the sum of five hundred dollars for repairing the court room in the academy, in the village of Newburgh, in the said county, completing a room in the said academy, for the confinement of prisoners, during the sitting of the courts at that place, and for making sundry repairs on said academy, for the better accommodation of the said courts, with the additional sum of five cents on every dollar for collecting the same; which said sum shall be raised, levied and collected, in the same manner, as the other necessary and contingent charges of the said county are levied and collected. II. And be it further enacted, That the said sum of five hundred dollars, shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the said county, on or before the first day of March next, and the treasurer of the said county is hereby required and directed to pay the said sum of five hundred dollars, to the order of the commissioners hereby appointed to superintend the repairs and alterations to be made on the said academy, retaining in his hands the sum of one cent on the dollar, for receiving and paying out the same. III. And be it further enacted, That Isaac Belknap, junior, of the said village of Newburgh, and Joseph Morrell, of the town of NewWindsor, and Reuben Hopkins, of the town of Goshen, in the said county of Orange, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the altering and repairing the said academy, in the village of Newburgh in the county aforesaid; and the said commissioners, or a major part of them, may contract with workmen and purchase materials for altering and repairing the same, and shall from time to time, draw upon the treasurer of the said county, for such sums of money, for the purposes aforesaid, as shall come into the treasury, by virtue of this act; and the treasurer is hereby required, out of the monies aforesaid, to pay to the order of the said commissioners, the several sums of money to be by them drawn for; and it is hereby made the duty of the said commissioners to account with the supervisors of the said county, for the monies they shall have received from the treasury, when thereunto required. CHA P. CLXX. AN ACT to divide the State into Districts for the Election of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. 1. B Passed April 8, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That for the election of representatives in the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, this state shall be and is hereby divided into the following districts, to wit: The counties of Suffolk, Kings and Queens, shall compose the first district. The city and county of New-York, and the counties of Richmond and Rockland, the second district. The counties of Westchester and Orange, the third district. The county of Dutchess, the fourth district. The counties of Ulster and Greene, the fifth district. The counties of Columbia, Rensselaer and Washington, the sixth district. The city and county of Albany the seventh district. The counties of Saratoga, Essex, Clinton and Franklin the eighth district. The counties of Montgomery and Schoharie, the ninth district. The counties of Herkimer, Lewis, Jefferson and St. Lawrence, the tenth district. The counties of Oneida and Madison, the eleventh district. The counties of Chenango, Onondaga and Broome, the thirteenth district. The counties of Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben and Tioga, the fourteenth district. The counties of Ontario, Genesee, Allegany and Niagara, the fifteenth district. II. And be it further enacted, That the electors in each of the said districts, except the said second and sixth districts, shall at every future election of representatives in congress, until the said districts shall be altered by law, elect one representative, and the electors in said second and sixth districts each two representatives. III. And be it further enacted, That the act for regulating the elec tion of representatives of this state, in the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, passed the twentieth of March, 1804, shall be and is hereby repealed: Provided, That the said act shall be considered in full force, so far as is necessary to supply any vacancy which has happened or may happen in the representation of this state in the present congress. CHA P. CLXXI. AN ACT to divide the Town of Northampton, in the County of Genesee, into four Towns. I. Passed April 8, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the day next preceding the first Tuesday in April next, all that part of the town of Northampton, in the county of Genesee, known and distinguished by the name of East and West Pulteney, shall be erected into a separate town by the name of Riga; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the dwelling house of Henry Widener, of said town. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day aforesaid, all that part of the town of Northampton, known and distinguished by the name of the Triangle, together with all the lands lying west thereof, in said town of Northampton, shall be erected into a separate town, by the name of Murray; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the dwelling house of William Dunshaw, in said town. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the same day all that part of the town of Northampton, known and distinguished by the names of Fairfield, the Gore and Braddock's bay, together with the territory north thereof to lake Ontario, shall be erected into a separate town by the name of Parma; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the dwelling house of George W. Wiley, in said town. IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said first Tuesday in April next, all the remaining part of the said town of Northampton, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of Northampton; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the dwelling house of Jeremiah Olmsted, in said town. V. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the first town meeting in said towns, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the aforesaid towns, shall by notice previously given for that purpose by the supervisors thereof, meet together and apportion the poor maintained by the said town of Northampton, and the poor money belonging to the same previous to the division thereof, agreeably to the last tax list, and that each town shall for ever thereafter maintain their own poor. I. CHA P. CLXXII. AN ACT to divide the County of Orange into two Jury Districts. Passed April 8, 1808. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the judges and assistant justices of the court of common pleas in the county of Orange, may, in their discretion, at their next term of the court of common pleas to be holden in and for the said county, on the last Tuesday in May next, or at the then next ensuing term of the said court of common pleas to be held in and for the said county, on the first Tuesday of September next, divide the said county into two districts, as they shall deem proper, and may cause the said division to be entered on the minutes of the said court, which entry.shall designate each of said districts. II. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of said county shall immediately after the division of the said county in manner aforesaid, provide four jury boxes for said county, and shall mark on two of said boxes the name of one of the said districts, and on the remaining boxes the name of the other of the said districts and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to put the slips of paper containing the names of persons residing in each of the said districts, who are or shall be returned to him in pursuance of the act, entitled "an act for regulating trials of issues, and for returning able and sufficient jurors," into one of the boxes belonging to the district in which such persons shall severally reside. III. And be it further enacted, That juries for the trials of issues in the circuit court, court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, and court of common pleas and general sessions of the peace, shall be taken from one of the jury boxes belonging to the district in which either of the said courts then next to be held, in the manner directed in and by the act herein recited, and as if each of the said districts were separate and distinct counties, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. 1. CII A P. CLXXIII. AN ACT to amend the Acts concerning Escheats Passed April 8, 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 attorney-general, in every case where an inquisition shall be taken pursuant to any of the acts now in force concerning escheats, to cause notice to be given thereof in all the newspapers in which the acts of the legislature are directed to be printed, for the space of eight weeks successively, requiring the persons claiming any interest in the lands described in such inquisition, to appear and traverse the said inquisition within twenty days after the expiration of the time limited in the said notice. And further, That no judgment shall be given upon the said inquisition, until after the expiration of the said twenty days. II. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which any such inquisition shall be taken, if the real estate to be affected thereby shall be possessed by any person residing on or improving the same, it shall be the duty of the attorney-general to cause notice of such inquisition to be served on each of the tenants occupying such real estate, at least forty days before any judgment shall be entered on such inquisition; which notice shall set forth the taking of such inquisition, and that judgment will be rendered thereon at the time limited in such notice, unless said tenants shall appear and traverse the same. III. And be it further enacted, That the trial of any traverse to be had on any such inquisition, shall be in the proper county in which the lands to be affected thereby are situate; and on such trial it shall be incumbent on the prosecutor, in behalf of the people of this state, to prove all such matters as are requisite in judgment of law to establish any such escheat, without prejudice to the defendant from the finding of the inquest in any such case. CHA P. CLXXIV. AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled "An Act for altering the Bounds of the Counties of Orange, Ulster and Albany.' Passed April 8, 1808. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all deficiencies arising from loans made by the loan-officers of the county of Ulster, to persons resident in the towns of Newburgh, New-Windsor, Montgomery, Wallkill and Deer-Park, in the county of Orange, shall be assessed and levied on the freeholders and inhabitants of the said towns; and the said loan-officers of the county of Ulster, shall certify the amount of all such deficiencies to the supervisors of the county of Orange, who shall thereupon assess and levy the same in the manner aforesaid, and pay the same to the said loan-officers of the county of Uister. II. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled "an act for altering the bounds of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Albany," passed April the fifth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, as authorized all deficiencies arising from loans, made by the loan-officers of the county cf Ulster to be assessed and levied on the freeholders and inhabitants of that part of the said county of Orange, which heretofore belonged to the said county of Uister, be and the same is hereby repealed. |