31 same authority and power, civil and criminal, within the limits of the said village, as are by law vested in the constables chosen in and for the town of Ballston. VII. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "An act for the more effectual punishment of persons who shall be guilty of the trespasses therein mentioned in the cities of New-York, Albany and Hudson, and the township of Schenectady," passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, shall be and hereby is extended to all persons who shall be guilty of the trespasses therein mentioned in the village of Ballston Spa, as fully in all respects as it extends to those guilty of the like trespasses in either of the said cities or in the said township; and the justices of the peace residing in the said village shall have and exercise the same power and authority, with respect to the trespasses and misdeeds mentioned in the said act within the said village, and with respect to the persons who shall be guilty of the same, as are in and by the said act given to the mayor, recorder and aldermen of the said cities, and to the justices of the peace residing in the said township, with respect to such trespasses and misdeeds done and committed in the said cities and township re32 spectively; and any forfeiture imposed and collected upon any conviction of any person, pursuant to the direction of the said act and the authority hereby given, shall be paid, one moiety to the treasurer of the said village, for the use of the said corporation, and the other moiety to the person who shall effectually prosecute for the 33 34 same. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the father or guardian of any infant, the master or mistress of any slave or servant shall be liable respectively to pay any fine, penalty or forfeiture, which such infant, slave or servant shall incur or be liable to pay, by reason of any breach or violation of any ordinance or bye-law of the said trustees. IX. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees or any two of them shall have power from time to time, as they shall deem expedient, to cause common sewers, drains and vaults to be made in any part of the said village, and to order, direct and complete the pitching, paving, repairing, altering, improving, cleansing and Scouring of any street, alley or lane, or the filling up or raising of 35 any lot within the said village; and to cause to be made estimates of the expense of conforming to such orders and regulations as they shall so make in relation thereto, and a just and equitable assessment thereof among the owners or occupants of all the houses and lots intended to be benefitted thereby, in proportion as nearly as may be to the advantages which each shall be considered to ac36 quire thereby; such estimate and assessment to be made by the assessors, or any two of them, of the said village, chosen in the manner herein before provided and directed; and their certificate, or the certificate of any two of them, in writing, of the said estimate and assessment being returned to the said justices, and ratified by them, or any two of them, shall be binding and conclusive upon the owners and occupants of such houses and lots so to be assessed re spectively; and such owners and occupants shall also respectively 37 be liable, upon demand, to pay to the collector of the said village the sum at which such house or lot, owned or occupied by him, shall be so assessed, to be paid by the said collector into the hands 38 of the treasurer of the said village, to be applied by the said trustees in such manner as they, or any two of them, shall deem proper, towards the making, repairing, altering, pitching, paving, cleansing, scouring and improving such streets, lanes and alleys, and making and repairing such sewers, drains and vaults as aforesaid; and in default of such payment, or any part thereof, it shall 39 be lawful for the said trustees, or any two of them, by warrant, under their hands and seals, directed to the collector of the said village, which warrant he is hereby directed to execute, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such owner or occupant refusing or neglecting to pay the same, rendering the overplus, if any, to such owner or occupant, his or her legal representatives, after deducting the charges of such distress and sale. X. And be it further enacted, That if, upon the completion of 40 any such improvement, regulation or establishment as aforesaid, it shall appear to the said trustees that a greater sum of money hath been bona fide expended in making and completing the same than the sum estimated, assessed and collected as aforesaid, it shall then be lawful for the said trustees, or any two of them, to cause a further assessment, equal to such excess, to be made and collected in the manner aforesaid: Provided, That such further sum shall not exceed one-fourth of the sum first ordered to be raised as aforesaid. XI. And be it further enacted, That the amount of every such 41 estimate and assessment, shall be and remain a lien on the houses and lots so estimated and assessed, from the time of the complction and return of such estimate and assessment as aforesaid, until the same shall be paid or otherwise satisfied; and it shall be lawful 42 for the said village trustees, instead of the remedy before mentioned, if they or any two of them shall deem proper, in case the owner or occupant of any house or lot within the said village shall refuse or neglect to pay any such assessment so as aforesaid made, within the time limited by the said trustees for the payment thereof, to sue for and recover the amount of such assessment from the owner or owners of such houses or lots so as aforesaid assessed, with interest and costs, in any court in this state having cognizance thereof, in an action of debt for the same, and the said estimate and assessment shall be conclusive evidence for the plaintiffs in any such action. XII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the said 43 village, or any two of them, shall have power to call special meetings of the inhabitants of the said village as often as they shall judge that the interest of the said village requires them, giving public notice of the said meetings, of the time and place, when and where they will be held, at least three days before the time of such meeting; at which meeting the said trustees or any two of them shall 44 preside, have power by warrant under their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of any one of them, directed to any consta 45 46 1 ble of the said village, whose duty it shall be to execute the same, to commit any person or persons, who shall behave disorderly at any such meeting, and refuse to obey such orders as the said trustees or any two of them shall make and declare, for the well ordering of such meetings, to the common gaol of the county of Saratoga, for a contempt, then and there to remain without bail or mainprize, not exceeding six days, for such time as they or any two of them shall order to be expressed in the said warrant. XIII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be regarded as a public act, and be construed in all courts and places favourably and Lenignly, for every beneficial purpose therein intended. XIV. And be it further enacted, That this act shall remain in force for fifteen years, unless sooner repealed by the legislature. CHA P. LVI. AN ACT directing the Confinement of Stephen Arnold in the StatePrison, at hard Labour, for Life. WH Passed March 21, 1807. HEREAS Stephen Arnold, at a court of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery, held in and for the county of Otsego, on the fourth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, was convicted of the murder of Betsey Van Amburgh, and sentenced to be executed on the nineteenth day of July, in the year aforesaid: And whereas his excellency the governor did suspend the execution of the said Stephen Arnold until the session of the legislature, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six: And whereas the legislature, at the aforesaid session, did further suspend the execution of the said Stephen Arnold, until the present session of the legislature: And whereas, in consequence of such suspension, further legislative interference has become necessary. Therefore, BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That instead of the punishment of death, the said Stephen Arnold shall be and he is hereby directed to be confined in the state-prison, at hard labour, for and during the term of his natural life; and that it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county of Otsego, on or before the first day of May next, after the the passing of this act, to remove the said Stephen Arnold from the prison in the said county of Otsego, and him safely deliver to the keeper or keepers of the said state-prison; and that it shall be the duty of the said keeper or keepers of the said stateprison to receive the said Stephen Arnold into the said state-prison, and him to keep during his natural life. 1. Freetown erected from part of Williamson-2. Poor and money, how divided. AN ACT to divide the Town of Williamson, in the County of Ontario, Passed March 27, 1807. 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 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, all that part of the present town of Williamson, known and distinguished by number thirteen and fourteen, in the third range of towns, in Phelps' and Gorham's purchase, shall be and is hereby erected into a separate town, by the name of Freetown; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the dwelling house of Stephen Douglas, in said town, on the first Tuesday of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and that all the remaining part of the town of Williamson shall be and remain a separate town by the name of Williamson; and the next town meeting shall be held where it now stands adjourned, in said town. 4 II. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the 2 first Tuesday of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the aforesaid towns, on notice being previously given by said supervisors for that purpose, shall meet and divide the poor and money belonging to the said town of Williamson previous to the division thereof, agreeably to the last tax list; and that each of the said towns shall for ever thereafter respectively support their own poor. CHA P. LVIII. AN ACT for the Relief of the Representatives of Coral Rennee. WHEREAS of Coral Rennee, for lot number forty, in the HEREAS it appears that the letters patent have issued, in township of Fabius, and the said grant was intended to have been for lot number forty-two, in the said township. Therefore, BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the said letters patent shall be deemed to have vested the said lot number forty-two in the said Coral Rennee, in the same manner as if the said lot had been inserted in the said letters patent, at the time of the issuing thereof: Provided always, That this act shall not take effect until the heirs or legal representatives of the said Coral Rennee shall have released to the people of this state, all the right and title acquired by the said patent to the said lot number forty. CHA P. LIX. AN ACT to alter the Name of the Presbyterian Society of Acre, in the Town of Canton, in the County of Greene, and for other Purjoses. BE Passed March 27, 1807. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the Presbyterian society of Acre, in Canton, shall for ever hereafter be called and known by the name of the Presbyterian society of Canton; and the first an nual meeting of said society shall, in every year for ever hereafter, be held on the second Tuesday of April, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. CHA P. LX. CONTENTS. 1. Windsor erected from part of the town of Chenango-2. Poor & money, how divided. AN ACT to divide the Town of Chenango, in the County of Broome. Passed March 27, 1807. 1 I. 2 B E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the last Tuesday of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, all that part of the town of Chenango, lying east of the following lines, to wit; beginning on the north line of the county of Broome, at the northeast corner of Jay and Rutherford's patent; thence south, along the east line of said patent to the southeast corner thereof; thence westerly, along the south line of said patent to the northeast corner of lot number two, in Watts' patent, about fifty chains from the northwest corner thereof; thence southerly, to the northeast corner of lot number eight, in Thomas's patent; thence along the east line of the same to the Pennsylvania line, shall be and hereby is erected into a separate town, by the name of Windsor; and that the first town meeting shall be held at the meeting-house, near the now dwelling house of Nathaniel Bacon ; and that all the residue of said town of Chenango, shall be and remain a separate town, by the name of Chenango; that the first town meeting in the town of Chenango, shall be held at the court-house in the town of Chenango. II. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be after the first Tuesday of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns of Chenango and Windsor, on notice being first given by the supervisors for that purpose, shall meet together and divide the money and poor and other property belonging to the town of Chenango previous to the division thereof, agreeable to the last tax list, and that each of the said towns, shall for ever thereafter, respectively support their own poor. W CHA P. LXI. AN ACT for the Relief of Adam Koppernol. Passed March 27, 1807. HEREAS the commissioners of the land-office, by virtue of an act of the legislature, passed the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, have issued letters patent to Adam Koppernol, for six hundred acres of land, in a tract set apart for the use of the troops of the line of this state, lately serving in the army of the United States, for and during the natural life of the said Adam Koppernol; and at his death, to the children of the said Adam, as tenants in common: And whereas, The said Adam Koppernol, by his petition, represents that he is in embarrassed circumstances, and, unless permitted to sell and dispose of said land, he will be subject to, and |