CHAP. 93.

AN ACT relative to the ferry lot at Lewiston, in the county of Niagara.

Passed April 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The commissioners of the land-office are hereby authorised and required to renew to the trustees of the Lewiston academy for the term of ten years from its expiration, the lease of the ferry lot at Lewiston, executed under and by virtue of the act of April the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, relative to the ferry on the Niagara river at Lewiston, on the same terms, and with the same conditions as are provided by the said act.

CHAP. 94.

AN ACT to authorise the Hector and Catherine turnpike road and bridge company to alter the route of the west end of their road.

Passed April 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$ 1. The Hector and Catherine turnpike road and bridge company are hereby authorised to alter the route of their road, so that the same shall extend from the Newtown turnpike road eastwardly along Washington-street, in the village of Jefferson, in the county of Tioga, at the head of the Seneca Lake, as the street is laid down on a map of the said village of Jefferson, so far as the said street extends, and thence eastwardly in a line with the said street, until such line intersects the said turnpike road as now used; provided such alteration 'shall be made within one year from and after the passing of this act.

S2. The said company having completed their said road on the route aforesaid, in pursuance of the requirements of the act incorporating the said company, are hereby authorised to relinquish that portion of the road as now used, lying west of the intersection of the road to be made in pursuance of the first section of this act, with the road as now used.

CHAP. 95.

AN ACT to extend the time for organizing the Oneida insurance company.

Passed April 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. The commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the Oneida insurance company shall have until the first Monday of December, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to receive subscriptions to said stock, and organize said company.

CHAP. 96.

AN ACT to vest in the United States of America jurisdiction to land therein described.

Passed March 30, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

thers.

S 1. The jurisdiction in and over a tract of land of not Land on less than one acre nor more than five acres, of the island North Bro called the North-Brothers, (said tract to be selected from the western extremity of said island,) in Long-Island sound, in the county of Queens, within this state, be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States of America, for the purpose of erecting a light-house on the same. But the jurisdiction so ceded shall not extend, nor be construed to extend, so as to impede or prevent the execution of any process of law, civil or criminal, under the authority of this state, except so far forth as such process may affect any of the real or personal property of the United States of America within the said tract of land: and all the lands and tenements within the limits aforesaid shall be and continue forever hereafter, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of this state.

$2. The jurisdiction of this state in and over a tract Rondout of land covered with water, at or near the junction of the creek. Rondout and Hudson rivers, not exceeding two acres, in the town of Esopus, in the county of Ulster, be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States of America, for the purpose of erecting a light-house, or beacon light, on the same; but the jurisdiction so ceded shall not ex

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tend nor be construed to extend so as to impede or prevent the execution of any process of law, civil or criminal, under the authority of this state, except so far forth as such process may affect any of the real or personal property of the United States of America, within the said tract of land: and all the lands and tenements within the limits aforesaid, shall be and continue forever hereafter, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of this state.

§ 3. The jurisdiction of the state of New-York is hereby ceded to the United States of America, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon arsenals, magazines, and other necessary buildings, over all that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, and bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone set in the ground, marked U. S. number 2, standing at the south side of the Shaker road, and running thence from the said stone along the said road north seventy-two degrees east, sixteen chains and twenty-four links, to a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 6; thence south twenty-two degrees west, ten chains seventy-six links, to a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 7; thence north sixty-eight degress west, twelve chains eighty-one links, to the place of beginning, containing six acres and eighty-nine hundredths of an acre. Also over all that other certain tract, piece or parcel of land situate, lying in and being in the town of Watervliet and county of Albany aforesaid, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone set in the ground marked U. S. No. 4, and running thence north twenty-two degrees east, six chains and thirty-four links, to a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 3, standing at the south side of the Shaker road; thence south seventytwo degrees west, sixteen chains and twenty-four links, to a stake, (a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 8,) on the north side of the old Schenectady road; thence along the said road southeasterly twenty-two chains and fiftynine links, to the westerly corner of the burial ground; then along the outside thereof north fifty-seven degrees forty-five minutes east, three chains and twenty-nine links, to the most northerly corner of the said burial ground; thence south thirty-two degrees fifteen minutes east, three chains twenty-nine links, to the most easterly corner of the said burying ground; thence south sixty-nine degrees east, one chain forty-four links, to a stake, (a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 9;) thence south seventy-nine degrees fifteen minutes east, twelve chains eighty links, to a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 10, on the

west side of the Erie canal; thence along the canal north ten degrees east, nine chains and ninety-three links, to the south line of the land belonging to the people of the United States, (designated by a stone in the ground marked U. S. No. 11;) thence along the said line north sixty-eight degrees west, twenty-four chains fifty links, to the place of beginning, containing thirty-eight acres and one-tenth of an acre: but always excepting and reserving out of the lands above described, one rod in width along the west side of the Erie canal.

4. The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States Conditions over the said tracts of land mentioned in the last preceding section, is granted upon the express condition that the state of New-York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said tracts of land, so far as that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the state of New-York, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed within or without the said tracts of land, may be exccuted therein in the same way and manner as if this jurisdiction had not been ceded, and is to take effect when the purchase by them of the said tracts of land is completed, and the evidences thereof recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany, and they are to retain such jurisdiction so long as the said tracts of land shall be used for the purposes expressed in the foregoing section and no longer.

$5. The jurisdiction hereby first ceded shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to the land mentioned in the preceding section, either by purchase or in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

$ 6. If the United States cannot acquire the title to the said premises first above described by purchase, the same may be taken, and the damages may be ascertained and paid in the manner prescribed in the fourth article of the second title of chapter nine of the third part of the Revised Statutes, and the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as prescribed in the said article.

CHAP. 97.

AN ACT in relation to highways in the county of Rich

mond.

Passed April 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. The act entitled "An act to regulate highways in the county of Richmond," passed April the fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, is hereby repealed.

$2. The first title of the sixteenth chapter of part first of the Revised Statutes shall immediately on the passing of this act be in force in the county of Richmond.

CHAP. 98.

AN ACT to extend Wooster-street to Union Place, in the city of New-York.

Passed April 1, 1833. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The street now known as Wooster-street, in the city of New-York, shall be continued on the map or plan of the said city northerly from Eighth-street to Fourteenth-street, so that the westerly line of the said street, when so continued, shall strike the southwesterly corner of Union Place, as now established by law; and the said part of Wooster-street to be so continued is hereby declared to be one of the streets of the city of New-York, and may be opened as such according to law in like manner as if the same had been laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act entitled "An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of New-York, and for other purposes," passed April 3d, 1807.