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CHAP. 182.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the New-York and Erie rail-road company," passed April 24, 1832.

Passed April 19, 1833.

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

S 1. The commissioners of the New-York and Erie rail-road company, or any five of them, shall have power to open the books for subscriptions to the stock of said company, on the second Tuesday of July next, at the Merchants' Exchange in the city of New-York, and from day to day, or from time to time thereafter, as they may deem most advantageous to the said company.

$2. If the full amount of the capital be not subscribed within three days after the opening of said books, then the said commissioners shall proceed to ascertain what amount has been applied for; and if one million dollars shall have been subscribed, or as soon thereafter as ore million dollars shall be subscribed, then the said commissioners may proceed in the same manner to the organizing of the said company, and the commencement and prosecution of its objects, as is provided in the charter, when the whole of the capital shall be taken; but the whole route of said road shall be surveyed before the construction of any section thereof shall be undertaken; and the said commissioners shall not issue certificates for any more stock than shall have been subscribed for, and on which ten per cent shall have been paid according to the provisions of the bill hereby amended.

$ 3. If the directors shall be chosen, and the company organized by virtue of the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the directors so chosen, or their successors from time to time, to cause the books for the subscriptions of stock to be opened, until a sum sufficient to complete the work from Hudson river to Lake Erie, shall be subscribed; but the time for the completion of said road shall not be deemed to be extended by this act.

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СНАР. 183.

AN ACT to incorporate the Squakie-Hill bridge company.
Passed April 19, 1833.

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

$ 1. William C. Dwight, Jellis Clute and Reuben Sleeper, together with such other persons as shall become stockholders of the corporation hereby created, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Squakie-Hill Bridge Company," for the purpose of building a toll bridge across the Geneva river at Squakie-Hill, in the county of Livingston.

$ 2. The capital stock of the said corporation shall be five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and William C. Dwight, Jellis Clute and Reuben Sleeper are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock; and the said commissioners shall open a book of subscription at such time and place, either in the town of Leicester or MountMorris, as they, or a majority of them shall designate, by a notice to be published at least three weeks successively, in a public newspaper printed in the county of Livingston. S3. If the whole of the capital stock shall not be taken up at the time appointed for opening the book of subscription, the said commissioners may receive further subscriptions at such other time as they, or a majority of them shall appoint, until the whole capital stock shall be taken up; and the persons subscribing for the stock shall pay to the said commissioners, at the time of subscribing, one dollar on each share by them respectively subscribed.

$4. The stockholders shall meet at such time and place as the said commissioners may designate, for the purpose of choosing five directors for said corporation, and each subscriber shall be entitled to give as many votes as he may hold shares of said stock, and the five persons having the greatest number of votes shall be the directors. $5. The said commissioners shall pay over to the directors all moneys that may have been received by them, except the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, each, for every day they may have been actually employed in the business of said corporation, together with the amount they may have paid out and expended for the benefit of said corporation.

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$6. The stockholders shall pay to the directors, when Calls on required, such proportion of their subscription, from time to time, as may be necessary for the purpose of erecting said bridge.

$7. As soon as the bridge may be completed, and a Ratos of toll. certificate from any two of the judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Livingston, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said county, setting forth that said bridge is well and sufficiently constructed for the safe passage of loaded wagons and other carriages, the directors may erect a gate at either end of said bridge, and demand and receive the following rates of toll from all persons passing over said bridge, except the inhabitants of the towns of Leicester and Mount-Morris, who shall only be required to pay two-thirds of the amount of said toll, viz: For every four wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by four horses or mules, twenty-five cents; for every four wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by two horses or mules, nineteen cents; for every two wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by one horse or mule, twelve and an half cents; for every wagon drawn by two horses or mules, twelve and an half cents, and for every additional horse or mule, three cents; for every wagon or cart drawn by two oxen, twelve and an half cents, and for every additional ox, three cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, nine cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse or mule, six cents; for every wagon or cart drawn by one horse or mule, nine cents; for every horse and rider, six cents; for every score of neat cattle, twenty cents, and in that proportion for a greater or less number; for every score of sheep or swine, ten cents, and in that proportion for a greater or less number; for every foot passenger, three cents; but all persons who are by law required to perform military duty, shall be allowed to pass over said bridge free of toll, when going to, or returning from the place of parade, either in carriages or otherwise.

$ 8. The said corporation shall cause to be affixed in a List of rates. conspicuous place at the end of said bridge near the gate, a list of the rates of toll, which may be lawfully demanded; and if any person shall forcibly pass the gate without having paid the legal toll, such person shall forfeit and pay to the said company, two dollars, with costs of suit; and if any toll-gatherer shall unreasonably delay or hinder any passenger or traveller at the gate, or shall demand or receive more than the legal toll, such toll-gatherer shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of five dollars, to be

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recovered with costs to the use of the person so unreasonably delayed, hindered or defrauded.

S9. The bridge shall be built in such a manner as not to injure or impede the passage of rafts, boats or other craft navigating said stream; and if the bridge shall not be completed within two years from the passage of this act, or after the same shall have been completed shall be impassable for the term of fifteen days for want of repairs, unless carried away by ice or freshets, or other unavoidable accidents, or taken down for the purpose of rebuilding the same, or if the same shall not be rebuilt within eighteen months, then, and in either event, the corporation shall be dissolved, and the said bridge shall thereupon become a public bridge, and may be maintained by the supervisors of the county of Livingston, at the expense of the county, whenever the said supervisors shall so direct.

$10. The directors may put up and maintain in conspicuous places at each end of the bridge, a notice with the following words in large characters, "One dollar fine for riding or driving faster than a walk on this bridge;" and whoever shall ride or drive faster than a walk on said bridge, when such notices are affixed, shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation, the sum of one dollar.

S11. After the bridge shall have been completed, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect a bridge or establish a ferry across said river at any place within one mile of said bridge; and all persons crossing said stream within one mile of said bridge shall be required to pay the tolls herein before mentiond; but if said bridge shall be impassable at any time, it shall be the duty of the said company to keep and maintain a good and sufficient ferry-boat for the passage of said stream, and shall be entitled to receive the same rates of ferriage as is above provided for tolls for crossing said bridge.

S 12. The said corporation shall possess the general powers enumerated in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, and shall be subject to the provisions contained therein.

S 13. The said corporation shall continue for twentyfive years, unless dissolved by a violation of the provisions of this act.

S 14. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage.

CHAP. 184.

AN ACT in relation to the election of justices of the peace, in and for the towns of Cochecton and Maryland.

Passed April 19, 1833.

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

$1. The time for giving notice of the election of justices of the peace, in and for the towns of Cochecton, in the county of Sullivan, and Maryland, in the county of Otsego, and of their drawing for their respective terms of office, is hereby extended until the first day of June next. S2. This act shall take effect from and after the passage thereof.

CHAP. 185.

AN ACT to reduce the capital stock of the North American mining company.

Passed April 19, 1833. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. From and after the passage of this act the shares of the capital stock of the said company shall be thirty dollars each; and that the capital stock of the said company shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

CHAP. 186.

AN ACT to erect the town of Stockport, in the county of
Columbia.

Passed April 20, 1833.

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The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. All that part of the city of Hudson and of the towns of Ghent and Stuyvesant, in the county of Colum- Stockport bia, lying within the following limits, to wit: beginning on the bank of the North river, seventeen links north of a round rock lying at the termination of a point of land south of a gully in the lands of Harder, in the city of

erected.

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