AN ACT to alter the Name of the Incorporation of the Dutch Con- gregation of Greenbush, in the County of Rensselaer.
HEREAS the minister, elders and deacons of the Dutch congregation of Greenbush, in the county of Rensselaer,
have, by their petition presented to the legislature, stated, that their
said congregation was incorporated agreeable to the directions of
an act, entitled "an act making such alterations in the act for in-
corporating religious societies, as to render the same more conven-
ient to the reformed protestant Dutch congregations, passed the
seventh day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-
eight," and that the said incorporation took place at the time when
the said town of Greenbush formed a part of the county of Albany,
and that they assumed the name of the minister, elders and deacons
of the reformed protestant Dutch church of Greenbush, in the coun-
ty of Albany; therefore,
BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented
in Senate and Assembly, That the said congregation shall hereafter
be distinguished and known by the name of the reformed protest-
ant Dutch congregation of Greenbush, in the county of Rensselaer,
E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represent- ed in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the
supervisors of the said county of Jefferson, to levy and raise by tax,
on the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, a sum not ex-
ceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; and to apply the said
money so to be raised, in building a jail in said county, at the place
fixed upon by law for building the same, under the direction of the
said supervisors, by three superintendents, to be appointed by the
said supervisors for that purpose; and the said superintendents shall
account annually to the said supervisors for all the disbursements
and expenditures arising to them, in building the said jail; and the
supervisors aforesaid shall audit the same, and cause the amount so audited to be paid out of the monies aforesaid.
E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- 1
sented in Senate. and Assembly, That the judges and assist-
ant justices in the county of Madison, may, in their discretion, at
their next term of the court of common pleas, to be held in and for
the said county, on the first Tuesday in June next, divide the said
county into two districts, as nearly equal as may be convenient, and
shall cause the said division to be entered on the minutes of the
court, which entry shall designate each of said districts.
II. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of said county shall 2
immediately after the division of the said county in manner as afore-
said, 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 re-
maining boxes the name of the other of the said districts and it 3
shall be the duty of the said clerk to put the slips of paper contain-
ing 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 districts in which such
persons shall severally reside.
III. And be it further enacted, That jurors for the trial 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, to be
held in and for said county of Madison, at any time after the first
Tuesday of June next, shall be taken from one of the jury boxes be-
longing to the district in which either of the said courts is 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. Part of Norwich annexed to Columbus-2. Poor, &c. of De Ruyter how divided.
AN ACT to annex a Part of the Town of Norwich to the Town of Co- lumbus, in the County of Chenango, and for other Purposes.
cluded in the town of Norwich, shall be and the same is hereby an- nexed to the town of Columbus.
II. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the
first Tuesday in April next, the supervisors and overseers of the
poor of the town of German, in the county of Chenango, and the
town of De Ruyter, in the county of Madison, on notice being
first given for that purpose, shall meet together, and divide the mo-
ney and the poor belonging to the said town of De Ruyter previous
to the division thereof, agreeable to the tax-list of eighteen hundred
and five, and that each of the said towns shall for ever thereafter
respectively maintain their own poor.
1. Fire Districts, limits of-9. A certain law to operate within the bounds thereof. 2. Fire-Engine, 1200 dollars to be raised for the purchase of,
Commiflioners to purchase-4. Overplus money, if any, how applied. 5. Firemen, 24 additional ones to be elected-6. Time of fervice-7. Election. 8. ...... May fill all vacancies in their own number.
district in the town of Brooklyn, be extended from the still-house,
along the East-river southwardly, to the public landing, near the
dwelling house of Ralph Patchin; thence eastwardly, up the road
leading from the said landing to its junction with Red-Hook lane,
to where it intersects the road leading from Brooklyn ferry to Bed-
ford; thence a northeast course to the head of the Wallabout mill-
pond; thence, in the original line of demarkation to the place of
beginning.
II. And be it further enacted, That the supervisors of the county
of Kings, or the major part of them, are herby authorized and di-
rected, at their meeting in October next, to cause to be raised, by
tax on the estates real and personal of the freeholders and inhabi-
tants of the fire district in said town of Brooklyn, one thousand two
hundred dollars, for the purpose of purchasing one large fire-engine
and implements thereto, in the same manner that the contingent
charges of the several towns in this state are raised, levied and col-
lected, and to be collected by the collector of the town of Brooklyn;
which sum, when so raised and collected, shall be paid over into the
hands of the overseers of the poor of the town of Brooklyn, at the
same time, and under the same restrictions, as the money for the
support of the poor and other contingent charges of the said town
are directed to be paid.
III. And be it further enacted, That John Garrison, John M. Hicks and Jacob Hicks, be and they are hereby appointed commis- sioners to purchase the said engine and implements; and it shall
and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of them to purchase one large fire-engine, and the necessary imple- ments thereto, and to draw upon the said overseers of the poor of said town of Brooklyn, who are hereby required to pay to the or- der of the said commissioners, or of the majority of them, the mo- ney which shall come to their hands by virtue of this act; and it is hereby made the duty of the said commissioners to account with the supervisor and justices of the peace of the said town of Brook- lyn, when they shall be thereunto required; and the overplus mo- ney, if any there be, shall be applied to such uses and purposes as a majority of the inhabitants of the said fire district shall, at their public meetings, direct.
IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful s for the freeholders and inhabitants of the said fire district, at their election, on the second Tuesday of May next, to elect twenty-four able bodied and discreet men, for firemen, in addition to the num- ber that is allowed by the act hereby amended; and all the firemen 6 hereafter to be elected by the freeholders and inhabitants of said fire district, shall be elected to serve for five years; and that every succeeding election for firemen in said district, shall be held once in five years for ever hereafter on the second Tuesday in May, any thing in the act hereby amended contained to the contrary not- withstanding.
V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful & for the said firemen, at their monthly meetings, by a majority of votes, to fill all vacancies that may happen in the number of fire- men within the period of the five years' election, by death, resigna- tion, or otherwise.
VI. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "an act 9 to regulate the keeping of gunpowder within the fire district in the town of Brooklyn, in Kings county," passed the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, shall be in force within the whole bounds of the said fire district, as the lines are by this act established.
1. Richland erected from part of Williamstown-2. Part to retain its prefent name- 3. And another part annexed to Redfield-4. Poor, &c. how divided.
AN ACT to divide the Town of Williamstown, in the County of
Passed February 20, 1807.
E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represent- ed in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of Williamstown, known and distinguished on the map of this state made by the surveyor-general, by the names of Campania, Rhada- mant, Longinus, Richland and Alkmain, shall be and is hereby erected into a separate town, by the name of Richland; and that the first town meeting be held at the dwelling house of Thaddeus
1. Masons' Society in New-York, incorporated-13. To continue 10 years, with proviso. Name 3. Privileges-9. Powers-4. Estate limited.
15. Act declared public, and to be favorably construed.
14. Funds, if applied to other objects than those contemplated, charter to cease. 10. Members refractory, may be expelled-11. By the votes of 2-3rds of the members 12. And thereafter debarred from the advantages of the corporation.
5. Officers---8. First named---6. Election, manner of---7. Vacancies how supplied.
AN ACT to incorporate the New-York Masons' Society.
Passed February 20, 1807.
THEREAS divers persons, inhabitants of the city of New-
WHORE, being Tut's RS, bricklayers or plaisterers, have formed
themselves into an association, under the name and style of "the New-York masons' society," and have by a petition presented to the legislature, set forth, that the objects they had in view were to promote a friendly intercourse and good understanding among one another, to relieve each other when in distress, to provide for the education of the children of deceased and indigent members, and to endeavor to render themselves more perfect in their respective callings; for which purpose they have raised a fund, a part of which, not exceeding one fourth, may be appropriated towards the purchase of a library to be chiefly composed of such books as may have a tendency to improve them in their business, and the residue of the said fund, after defraying the incidental expenses of managing the concerns of the society, to be exclusively applied towards the relief of distressed members, as well as of their widows and orphan chil- dren, and for establishing a school for the education of the children of deceased and indigent members. And whereas the said society, in order that they may be enabled more beneficially to carry into effect their charitable and laudable intentions, have prayed that the said society may be incorporated for the purposes aforesaid, un-
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