that all the remaining part of the town of Lumberland shall be and remain in a separate town, by the name of Lumberland; and the first town meeting shall be held at the place where it now stands adjourned.

II. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the 2 first Tuesday in April next, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns of Liberty and Lumberland, on notice being first given by the said supervisors for that purpose, shall meet together at the house of Ebenezer Taylor, in the town of Lumberland, and divide the money and poor belonging to the town of Lumberland previous to the division of said town, agreeable to the last tax list; and that each of the said towns shall for ever thereafter respectively maintain their own poor.

CHA P. XL.

CONTENTS.

1. Company incorporated-2. Name-3, 10. Privileges-6, 11. Election-4. Estate. 7. Bridge, how to be made-8. When completed-12. Who to certify its completion. Within what distance ferries, bridges-16. and roads, prohibited.

13. ....

14. .... When to revert to the state.

5. Commissioners to receive subscriptions.

9. Toll, rates of-15. Who exempt from paying.

AN ACT to incorporate the Sidney Bridge Company, across the Susquehannah-River.

I.

IBE

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Witter Johnston, John Avery, Peter Bradley, Solomon Martin and David M'Master, and all such others as shall associate for the purpose of making a bridge across the Susquehannah-river, at or near Avery's ferry, in the town of Sidney, in the county of Delaware, their successors and assigns, shall be and hereby are created a body corporate and politic, 2 by the name of " The president and directors of the Sidney bridge company;" and they are hereby ordained, constituted and declared 3 to be a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name; and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, plead ing and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts of law and equity, in all ways and manner whatsoever by the same name and style; and be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of the said corporation: Provided, The same does not exceed three thousand dollars.

II. And be it further enacted, That Solomon Martin and John Avery, shall be commissioners for the purpose of receiving subscriptions; that a share in the stock of the company shall be twenty-five dollars, and the whole amount of capital stock shall and may be three thousand dollars, and no more; that when fifteen hundred dollars shall be subscribed, the said commissioners shall cause a notice to be published in any of the newspapers printed in the county of Otsego, appointing a time and place in the town of Unadilla

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or Sidney, for the election of five directors of the said company, at which election one of such commissioners shall preside; that the said bridge shall be made twenty feet wide, and equally secured with a good and sufficient railing, as is mentioned and required in 8 and by the act for incorporating the Jerico bridge company; and that the said bridge shall be made and completed by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

III. And be it further enacted, That the said Sidney bridge company shall have, hold, enjoy, be vested with and entitled to two10 thirds of the toll, all the rights, remedies, penalties, privileges, powers and immunities, and be subject to the same duties, penalties, restraints, regulations, conditions and limitations, in every respect, not otherwise provided for in and by this act, as if every clause in the said act applying to and incorporating the Jerico bridge company were herein particularly repeated and applied to the said Sidney 11 bridge company: Provided, That the annual day of election for

choosing directors shall be on the first Monday in September, in every year, after the first election to be held by virtue of this act : 12 And provided further, That instead of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Chenango, mentioned in the said act, that the same duties, in relation to certifying the completion of the said bridge, shall be applicable to and be performed by the judges of the court of common pleas, in and for the county 13 of Delaware: And provided further, That instead of the distance of two miles, mentioned in and by the said act incorporating the Jerico bridge company, above and below the said bridge, within which bridges are prohibited from being erected or ferries established, that the distance of the same prohibition applicable to the 14 Sidney bridge company shall be one mile And provided further, That from and after the expiration of fifty years, after the completing of the said bridge, the same shall revert to, be vested in 15 and become the property of the people of this state: And provided further, That no toll shall be demanded or received of and from any person or persons whatsoever going to or returning from pub16 lic worship, funeral, grist-mill, or physician or midwife: And provided further, That it shall not be lawful to lay out and establish any public or private road or highway across said river within one mile of the said Sidney bridge.

CHAP. XLI.

AN ACT directing the Treasurer, to pay to his Excellency the Governor, two thousand Dollars, for the Purposes therein mentioned. Passed March 20, 1807.

BE it enacted by the

ed in Senate and Assembly, That the treasurer be and he is hereby directed, on the warrant of the comptroller, to pay unto his excellency the governor, or his order, any sum of money not excceding two thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying the christian party of the Oneida nation of Indians, a sum stipulated to be paid them immediately, on account of a purchase of part of their

reservation, and for the necessary expenditure in completing the said purchase.

CHA P. XLII.

AN ACT authorizing the Supervisors in the several Towns in the County of Washington, to raise a further Sum of Money, to complete the Court-House in the Town of Kingsbury, in the said County of Washington.

BE

Passed March 20, 1807.

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the supervisors, or a majority of them, at their next annual meeting in October next, shall be and are hereby authorized and required to direct to be levied and collected on and from the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, the sum of one thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing the said court-house, which sum shall be levied, collected and paid into the treasury, in the same manner as the other contingent charges of the county are levied, collected and paid; and the treasurer is hereby required to pay the money so levied and collected, as it comes to his hands, over to the commissioners appointed for that purpose, and it hereby made the duty of the said commissioners to account with the supervisors of said county for the money which they shall have received by virtue of this act, when they shall be thereunto required.

CHA P. XLIII.

AN ACT more effectually to compel the Supervisors of the Towns in the different Counties in this State, to raise such Sums of Money as they are directed to raise and levy by Acts of the Legislature. Passed March 20, 1807.

WH

THEREAS the supervisors of the different towns of the several counties in this state, have on some occasions neglected to direct to be raised such sums of money, as by law they were required to raise, whereby great evils have and may result from such neglect or refusal. For remedy whereof,

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That in all cases where the supervisors of any county in this state have or shall be directed by law to raise monies for the erection of public buildings or other purposes, and shall neglect or refuse to raise the sum so required to be raised, in the manner so directed by any act or acts of the legislature, every supervisor so neglecting or refusing to conform to the directions of any law passed or to be passed for the purposes aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, the one moiety whereof, when recovered, shall be paid into the treasury of this state, and the other moiety shall go to the benefit of the person who shall prosecute the same to effect.

AN ACT authorizing John Swift to erect a Dam, across Mud-Creek, in the Town of Palmyra, in the County of Ontario.

BE

Passed March 20, 1807.

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 John Swift of the town of Palmyra, in the county of Ontario, to erect a dam across Mud-creek, in said town, for the purpose of supplying a mill and other works with water; and it shall be the duty of the said John Swift, his heirs and assigns, to cause to be made on such dam a sufficient lock or canal to permit the passage of boats or rafts not less than sixteen feet in width, and which all persons shall have the liberty of passing at all times, free of expense; and also to keep the said lock or canal in good repair as long as the said dam shall be continued across the said creek; and if the said John Swift, his heirs or assigns, shail unreasonably delay or hinder any person with rafts or boats from passing such lock or canal, he or they shall for every such offence forfeit and pay two dollars for every hour's detention, to be recovered, with costs, to the use of the persons so delayed or hindered, before any justice of the peace of said county of Ontario.

CHA P. XLV.
CONTENTS.

1. Catskill mechanical society incorporated-2. Powers and privileges-3. Officers.

AN ACT to incorporate the Catskill Mechanical Society.

Passed March 20, 1807.

THEREAS John Blanchard, Stephen Root, David Thorp, Ephraim Baker, Nathaniel Hinman, Reuben Janderson, Isaac Nichols, James Cole, Adonijah Baker, Henry Ashley, Benjamin Sole, Elisha Ferguson, John Hyde, Francis Botsford, Mackay Croswell, Lemuel Hall, Adonijah Sherman, Peter Breasted, John Doan, Richard Hill, Hiland Hill, John P. Bolen, Jehiel Preston and Henry L'Hommedieu, mechanics of the village of Catskill, in the county of Greene, havc, by their petition to the legislature, represented, that they are associated into a body, under the name of "The Catskill mechanical society," for the relief of their unfortunate and indigent members, their widows and children, and other charitable objects, and pray to be incorporated into a body politic, for the purpose of securing and confirming the funds of said society to those benevolent purposes: And whereas the views of the said petitioners appear to be laudable, and worthy of legislative patronage and assistance. Therefore,

1 I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all such persons as now are or hereafter may become members of the Catskill mechanical society, shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and appointed a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The

Catskill mechanical society ;" and that by that name, they and their successors, as a corporation, shall be vested with the same powers, privileges and immunities, and made liable to the same restrictions as the Provident society of New-York, and certain other societies, incorporated by an act of the legislature, entitled "An act to incorporate the Provident society, the Mutual benefit society, the Benevolent society, and the Albion benefit society, in the city of New-York, and the Social society, in the city of Schenectady," passed the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and five.

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II. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the Catskill 3 mechanical society shall consist of a president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, and board of five directors, to be elected agreeably to the provisions of the act aforesaid; and that John Blanchard shall be the first president, Richard Hill the first vice-president, John Ashley the first treasurer, Adonijah Sherman the first secretary, and Stephen Root, Francis Botsford, Richard Hill, John Doan and John P. Bolen, the first board of directors, of the said corporation, to hold their offices respectively until the third Wednesday in February next, after the passing of this act, or until others shall be elected in their room.

CHA P. XLVI.

AN ACT further to suspend the Execution of David Williams, convicted of the Murder of Ira Lane.

Passed March 20, 1807.

Wind general gaol delivery, held in and for the county of

THEREAS David Willams, at a court of oyer and terminer

Cayuga, on the twenty-sixth day of June, anno domini 1805, was convicted of the murder of Ira Lane, and sentenced to be executed on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and five: And whereas his excellency the governor did suspend the execution of the said David Williams, until the session of the legislature, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six : And whereas the legislature at the aforesaid session, did further suspend the execution of the said David Williams, until the present session of the legislature: And whereas doubts exist, whether the said David Williams, at the time of his killing the said Ira Lane, was in his right mind. Therefore,

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the execution of David Williams be postponed until the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and that the judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Cayuga be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to provide some suitable place to confine the said David Williams, for the term aforesaid, and that the legislature will make provision for the expense attending such confinement.