Fy-laws. Privileges Rights reserved. Fire Company;" and by that name they and their successors during the continuance of this act shall have succession. $ 2. The said corporation shall have full power to make and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as they from time to time shall think proper, as to the time, place and manner of electing their officers, and as to the time and period of their continuance in office, and as to the powers and duties of said officers, and for fixing the time and place of meeting of said company, for regulating the manner of conducting their business when met, and to compel the attendance of its members at the meetings of the company and at fires, and with respect to all such other matters whatsoever as relates to the purposes for which this corporation is hereby constituted and appointed, and for no other purposes whatever. $ 3. The members of said fire company shall be exempt from the performance of militia duties, except in cases of insurrection or invasion, and from service on juries, except in justices' courts held in said village; and they shall, after twelve years service in said company, be forever thereafter exempt from the performance of militia duties; and a certificate signed by the captain shall be competent evidence in all cases, that the person to whom it is given is a member of said company. $4. It shall at all times hereafter be lawful for the legislature of this state to repeal, alter or amend this act. Coporation created. СНАР. 135. AN ACT to incorporate the Albany gas light company. The People of the State of New-York, represented in $1. That Erastus Corning, John W. Bay, Volkert P. Douw, John S. Walsh and Peter Bain, and their present and future associates, shall be, and are hereby, created a body corporate, by the name of the "Albany Gas Light Company," with full power to make and sell gas, to be made from rosin, coal, oil, or any other material, and to furnish such quantities of gas as may be required in the city of Albany for lighting stores and buildings. The capital stock of the said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and a share in the same shall be fifty dollars. The real estate which this corporation may hold shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. $ 2. Books of subscription to the capital stock of this Subseriptions corporation shall be opened under the direction of the directors herein named, and subject to such rules as they may prescribe; and the stock of this corporation shall be considered personal property, and transferrable by attorney, or in person by the holders. S3. The affairs of the company shall be managed by Directors. five directors, being shareholders, and who shall hold their offices for one year from the time of their election; and the first election shall be on the first Monday in May in each year, after the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. Notice of such election shall be published in one of the daily papers printed in the city of Albany two weeks previous to said election; and each shareholder shall be entitled to one vote on each share held by him or her at least six days previous to an election, either in person or by proxy. S 4. The directors shall elect one of their number to President. be president of the said corporation, and they may make and ordain such rules and by-laws as they find necessary for the interest of said corporation. stock holders. S 5. It shall be lawful for the directors to require such Calls on payments on the subscription to the capital stock as they may direct, and in such sums and at such times as they may see fit; the place and time of such payments to be advertised the same as for notice of an election. $6. Erastus Corning, John W. Bay, Volkert P. Douw, First direc John S. Walsh and Peter Bain shall be the first directors, and hold their offices until the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and until others are chosen. $7. Any person wilfully injuring any property of this Ponaity. corporation shall forfeit treble the amount of the damages, to be recovered in any court having cognizance there of. $ 8. This corporation shall have all the privileges and Privileges. be subject to all the liabilities and provisions contained in title 3d of chapter 18th of the first part of the Revised Statutes. S9. This corporation shall conform to all reasonable Regulations. regulations which may be made by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Albany, as to the time and manner of laying their pipes, and to prevent the works from becoming a nuisance. Public act. Rights reserved. $10. This act shall be deemed a public act for all the purposes herein expressed. $ 11. The Legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal this act, or any of its provisions. CHAP. 136. AN ACT to alter the time of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of Chenango county. Passed April 11, 1833. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. The annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Chenango shall hereafter be held on the Monday next after the general clection in each year. Comptroller to audit ac counts of sheriff of Oneida. CHAP. 137. AN ACT for the relief of Samuel M. Mott and Joseph S. Palmer. Passed April 11, 1833. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The comptroller shall audit the account of Samuel M. Mott, sheriff of Oneida county, for transporting Charles C. Kinney, Urgat Utley and Daniel W. Hallenbeck, three convicts, from the town of Rome, in the county of Oneida, to Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess, and from thence back to the said town of Rome. Of sheriff of $2. The comptroller shall also audit the account of Madison. Amount to Joseph S. Palmer, sheriff of the county of Madison, for transporting Loring L. May and James Murdock, two convicts, from the town of Morrisville, in the county of Madison, to the city of Albany, and from thence back to the said town of Morrisville. S3. The comptroller in auditing said accounts, shall be allowed. allow the same compensation to said sheriffs respectively, as is allowed by law for carrying convicts to the state prison in this state. To be paid. S4. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the said sheriffs respectively, the amount of their respective accounts so audited by the comptroller as aforesaid. CHAP. 138. AN ACT to alter and amend the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Saratoga turnpike company," passed April 26th, 1832. Passed April 11, 1833. created. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. Moses Williams and James M. Cook, of Ballston Corporation Spa, Eli M. Todd and John House, of Waterford, Jacob C. Lansing, Samuel H. Mulford, of Lansingburgh, Ebenezer C. Barton, Townsend M'Coun, Stephen Warren, Isaac McConnihe, Robert D. Silliman, Alsop Weed and Abraham Van Tuyl, of Troy, and all such persons as shall associate with them for the purpose of making a good and permanent McAdam road, on the most direct and practicable route, from the lower ferry in the city of Troy, by way of Union bridge in the village of Lansingburgh, and thence by the most direct and practicable route by the house of Ephraim Stevens, in the town of Clifton-Park, in the county of Saratoga, to some eligible point in the village of Ballston Spa, passing near the house of James Jones, shall be, for the purposes mentioned, a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Troy and Saratoga McAdam Road Company," and by that name they and their successors shall be capable of suing and being sued, answering and being answered unto, impleading and being impleaded in all courts and places whatsoever. But nothing in this act contained shall authorise the said company to lay out or construct said road from Washington-street, in the village of Lansingburgh, north to Union bridge, on the east side of the now dwelling-house of Cornelius Lansing, without his permission in writing, first obtained for that purpose. §2. The said company shall have power to make and Real estate. use a common seal, to purchase and hold such real and personal estate for the use of the said corporation, and enter into such contracts as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the said corporation is above stated to be incorporated. 3. The stock of said company shall consist of three Stock. thousand shares of fifty-dollars each, and the persons 1 General powers. Road how to be made. Superintendents. Cerrtificate to be filed. Rates of toll. nåmed in the first section of this act are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions for said stock. S4. The said company shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities of turnpike corporations, as prescribed in title first, chapter eighteen, part first of the Revised Statutes, except as the same are altered or modified by this act. S 5. The said road shall be at least forty feet wide, and not less than twenty feet nor more than thirty feet in width thereof, from the city of Troy through the village of Waterford, and not less than eighteen feet in width thereof from the said village of Waterford to Ballston Spa, shall be constructed in the following manner: It shall be excavated to the depth of at least twelve inches, where the ground is clayey or of an alluvial quality, and filled in to the depth of four inches with hard gravel; and there shall then be placed a bed of solid stone work upon the said gravel eight inches deep, which as well as the interstices shall be covered over and filled in with pounded stone of a durable quality, so as to form a smooth surface and impervious to water: but when a rocky or gravelly bottom is found, the excavation and stone work may be reduced to six inches in depth: and the arch of said road shall be raised at least six inches in the centre, above the extremity of the sides, and the sides shall be well secured by solid curb stone sufficient to sustain the road in proper shape: and the bridges across said road shall be built of stone or wood, and shall be so constructed in the city of Troy, and the villages of Lansingburgh and Waterford, as not to interfere with or alter the pitch or level of the gutters or side-walks of any street, without the consent of the respective corporations of said city or villages. S6. The superintendent shall receive for his services such compensation from the said company as shall be agreed upon, or in case of disagreement, as shall be certified to be reasonable by the comptroller. $7. No toll shall be received at any of said gates until the superintendent shall have made under oath and filed in the office of the clerks of the counties of Rensselaer and Saratoga, a certificate that so much of the said road as lies within the said respective counties has been in all respects constructed according to the provisions of the fifth section of this act. $8. As soon as the said company shall have completed five miles of said road, as in this act provided, they may erect a half toll-gate thereon, and exact tolls thereat, at the rates in the next section of this act provided; and if the said company shall, within two years after the erection of such |