gate, complete five miles more of said road as aforesaid, they may erect another half toll-gate, and exact the like tolls thereat, and so on as often as five miles of said road shall in like manner be finished and completed. Within two years after the completion of the preceding five miles as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said company to construct a half toll-gate thereon in the manner above provided, and to exact tolls thereat, as in this act provided; but no gate shall be continued on any part of said road, unless the whole of said road shall have been completed, according to the provisions of this act, within six years from the passage of this act; and unless the whole road shall be finished within the said six years, this act shall cease and be abrogated.

S 9. Whenever a certificate shall have been filed, of the Rates of toll. completion of five miles of said road, as herein before provided, and the same shall have been approved of, as is required by the provisions of title first, chapter eighteen, part first of the Revised Statutes, the said company may exact and receive at each of their toll-gates, the following rates of toll, to wit: for every score of sheep or hogs, five cents; for every score of cattle, horses or mules, twelve and a half cents, and in that proportion for any greater or less number of sheep, hogs, cattle, horses or mules; for every horse and rider, two cents; for every sulkey, chair or chaise drawn by one horse, six and a quarter cents; for every cart drawn by one horse, ox or mule, three cents; for every one horse wagon drawn by one horse, three cents; for every chariot, coach, coachee, phaton or other pleasure carriage, drawn by two horses, twelve and a half cents, and for every additional horse, two cents; for every stage, wagon or other four wheeled carriage drawn by two horses, eight cents, and for every additional horse, two cents; and for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse, mule or ox, three cents, and for every additional horse, mule or ox, one cent. But it shall not be lawful to receive more than three cents for every wagon usually employed in the transportation of produce or merchandize at the gate to be erected nearest the city of Troy.

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S 10. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed saving in any manner to abridge or impair the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of Troy, or the trustees of the villages of Lansingburgh or Waterford, in regard to the police and good government of the said city and villages, nor shall said road be in any part thereof so constructed as to obstruct or injure the free passage into any street, in either of the said places, or the water courses of the same. $11. All expenses that may be incurred preparatory Expenses to the incorporation and organization of said company, paid.

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shall be audited and allowed by the commissioners, and the amount thereof shall be carried to the credit of those respectively, who may have paid the same, as so much stock by them subscribed and paid in, which amount shall be entered in the books of said company, and be considered as a part of the capital stock.

$12. This corporation shall be dissolved when the rewhen to take ceipts arising from the tolls shall have compensated the place. said company for all moneys in purchasing, making, re

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pairing and taking care of said road, and they shall have received in addition thereto an average annual interest at the rate of ten per cent, and thereupon the same shall become the property of the counties of Rensselaer and Saratoga, and the rates of toll to be collected thereon shall be thenceforth reduced to one-half the rates provided in and by this act, or so much less as shall be determined by the board of supervisors of said counties, who shall have the control of the same.

S 13. Moses Williams, Jonathan Owen, Eli M. Todd, Jacob C. Lansing, George W. Kirtland, John Knickerbocker and Robert D. Silliman, are hereby appointed commisioners to designate and lay out said road, a majority of whom may act in the premises.

S 14. So much of the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Saratoga turnpike company," passed April 26th, 1832, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed.

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CHAP. 139.

AN ACT for the relief of certain foreign creditors of James de Le Ray de Chaumont.

Passed April 11, 1833.

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

S1. It shall be lawful for Pierre Joseph De Caters and Jeanne Antoinette his wife, Charles Joseph Gulliand Depurchase and lafaille, Jean Joseph Renier Osy, and Jean Joseph Pirisen, all of Antwerp, in the kingdom of Belgium, and Jean Baptiste Francois de Seran and Honorine Camille Athenais de Latour du Pin, both of Paris, in the kingdom of France, and all other persons being creditors of James de Le Ray de Chaumont, of the county of Jefferson, in the state of New-York, and beneficially interested, under a certain deed of conveyance, dated the thirty-first day

of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, made by James de Le Ray de Chaumont, to Vincent Le Ray de Chaumont, upon trust, for the benefit of creditors; and also interested in a decree in the court of chancery of this state, made in a suit depending in the said court, between Pierre Joseph De Caters and wife, complainants, and the said Vincent Le Ray de Chaumont and one Samuel C. Kanady, defendants, and the heirs or personal representatives of such creditors; and also for any person or persons in trust for them or any of them, severally to purchase and take any of the lands and premises which may be sold under the said decree; and for them and their respective heirs and devisees, notwithstanding their alienism, to hold the same for the term of fifteen years from the passage of this act, provided that all conveyances to be made to any such persons in pursuance of this act, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which such lands may be situate, within one year after the date thereof; and provided further, that as to all such of the said lands as shall remain vested in the said persons, or their heirs or devisees, being aliens, or upon trust for any such aliens, after the expiration of the said fifteen years, shall, ipso facto, vest in the people of this state.

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$ 2. It shall be lawful for the persons hereby authori- And to sell sed to purchase and hold the said lands, to sell and con- the same. vey the same, and to take and receive mortgages to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase

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S3. This act shall take effect immediately after its To take of passage.

CHAP. 140.

AN ACT authorising Samuel Nichols to erect a dock in the town of Flushing.

Passed April 12, 1833.

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

S1. It shall be lawful for Samuel Nichols, of the town of Flushing, in the county of Queens, his heirs and assigns, to erect and maintain a dock adjacent to his land in said town, lying on the Sound, or East river, at Lawrence's neck, and extending into said river a northerly course to a certain rock called Lone or Fishing rock, not

exceeding two hundred and fifty feet from high water mark; from thence a southwesterly course five hundred and forty feet; from thence a southeasterly course one hundred and thirty-five feet, to high-water mark, and to receive reasonable wharfage and dockage from persons using the same: but the legislature may at any time here after regulate the rates of wharfage and dockage to be received by said Nichols, in such manner as shall be deemed just and reasonable.

CHAP. 141.

AN ACT for the relief of Anne Mary La Coste, widow of John Peter La Coste, deceased.

Passed April 12, 1833.

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

$1. The sale made under the order of the surrogate of the city and county of New-York, of lots one hundred and seventy-one and one hundred and seventy-one and one-half, in Orange-street, in the said city, for the payment of the debts of John Peter La Coste, deceased, an alien, is hereby confirmed; and the surplus moneys arising from such sale remaining in the hands of the said surrogate, shall be paid by him to Anne Mary La Coste, widow of the said John Peter La Coste, to whom the title of the people of this state to the said surplus moneys is hereby released, without being subject to the provisions of the "Act concerning escheats, and to derive a revenue therefrom," passed April 26, 1832; but subject to the liability hereby declared of the said Anne Mary La Coste, for any debts of the said John Peter La Coste, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said surplus moneys had been bequeathed to the said Anne Mary La Coste by the said John Peter La Coste.

CHAP. 142.

AN ACT for the relief of Isaac Jackson, sheriff of the county of Montgomery.

Passed April 12, 1833.

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

$1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to Isaac Jackson, sheriff as aforesaid, the same mileage and expenses as is provided by law in ordinary cases of transporting convicts to the state's prison, for conveying two convicts, John Sweetman and George Scouten, to the state's prison at Mount-Pleasant, in pursuance of the sentence of the court of oyer and terminer of said county; and the like compensation for re-conveying said convicts back to the village of Johnstown.

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CHAP. 143.

AN ACT to incorporate the New-Paltz academy.

Passed April 12, 1833.

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

$1. Douw Van Olinda, Jacob I. Hasbrouck, John Bo- Corporation gardus, Benjamin Van Wagenen, Levi Hasbrouck, Solo- created. mon E. Elting, Peter Elting, Josiah Dubois, Jesse Elting, and others who now are or shall hereafter become their associates, are hereby declared and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of, "The New-Paltz Academy;" and by that name they and their successors shall be capable in law to purchase, receive, hold and enjoy any estate, real and personal, by devise or otherwise, and to lease, sell or convey, or otherwise dispose of the same; but the yearly income, rents and profits of such real and personal estate shall not at any time exceed two thousand dollars.

S2. The affairs of said corporation shall be managed Trustees. by a board of trustees, nine in number, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business. And the persons named in the first section shall be the first trustees until the first Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. On that day, and on the first Tuesday in