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CHAP. 27.

AN ACT to renew and amend an act, entitled, "An act relative to the general society of mechanics and tradesmen of the city of New-York," passed April 3d, 1811.

Passed February 18, 1833.

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

S1. The act entitled, "An act relative to the general Act renewed society of mechanics and tradesmen of the city of New- and extended York," passed April 3d, 1811, as amended by the act relating to the said society, passed January 26th, 1821, is hereby renewed and extended to the first Monday in April, of the year eighteen hundred and sixty.

to be used.

$2. The said society shall have power to use their Funds how funds for the support of indigent members of the said corporation, and the widows and children of any person having been a member thereof; for the establishment, support and maintenance of a school for the gratuitous education of the children of deceased or indigent members of the said society; and for the establishment, support and maintenance of a library and reading rooms for the use of the apprentices of mechanics and others, in the city of NewYork.

$3. The initiation fee for the admission of a member Initiation fee. of said society, shall be such sum as the said corporation shall direct, provided it be not less than thirty dollars; and the said society shall set apart, as a distinct and separate fund, one-third of the initiation fees so received, which, together with such donations or bequests as may from time to time be made for that purpose, they shall appropriate exclusively for promoting and disseminating literary and scientific knowledge.

members.

$4. Every candidate for membership being a citizen of Admission of the United States, and a mechanic or tradesman, shall be proposed and vouched for, by at least four members of the said society at a meeting previous to his election, by ballot; and no person shall be entitled to receive any pecuniary aid or assistance from the funds of this corporation, nor to have his children gratuitously educated in their school until he shall have been a member for at least two years; but in case of his death, then his family shall be entitled to all the benefits of this society immediately after his de

cease.

$5. The said society shall be in law, capable of pur- Real estate, chasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or per

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sonal, for the use and benefit of said corporation, but the lands, tenements, hereditements and personal estate, which it shall be lawful for the said corporation to possess, shall not at any one time exceed in amount the sum limited by the act aforesaid, passed April 3d, 1811.

$6. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage, and the legislature may at any time hereafter, alter, modify or repeal the same.

CHAP. 28.

AN ACT concerning commissioners of deeds.

Passed February 19, 1833.

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

$ 1. All rules heretofore entered by the judges of the county courts authorising the appointment of commissioners of deeds, not exceeding four in any one town, shall be deemed in force until revoked or rescinded by the judges of such court, by a rule to be entered in their minutes; and the official acts of all commissioners of deeds, shall be deemed as valid and effectual as if the judges had caused such rule to be entered annually at each county court next preceding the annual meeting of the judges and supervisors for the purpose of appointing commissioners of deeds.

S 2. All rules hereafter made by the judges of the county courts, designating the number of commissioners of deeds, shall be and remain in full force until revoked and rescinded by the judges of the county court.

$ 3. All acts done under color of authority by commissioners of deeds, who have been heretofore duly appointed, and who have taken the oath of office prescribed by law, though the same may not have been taken within fifteen days after they shall have been respectively notified of their appointments, shall be valid and effectual.

$ 4. So much of the fifth section of title first of chapter fifth of the first part of the Revised Statutes as is inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed.

СНАР. 29.

AN ACT extending the time for the collection of taxes in the town of Cohocton, in the county of Steuben.

Passed February 21, 1833.

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

$ 1. If Almond Egglestone, the collector of taxes in the town of Cohocton, in the county of Steuben, shall renew his securities in such manner as the supervisor of said town shall reasonably require, the time for collecting and making the return of taxes therein shall be extended to the thirtieth day of March next; and for that purpose he shall have and exercise the same power that he possessed previous to the first day of February last in said town. $ 2. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage.

CHAP. 30.

AN ACT to authorise John Arden Babcock to change his

name.

Passed Febrary 21, 1833.

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

$ 1. It shall be lawful for John Arden Babcock, of the eity of New-York, to assume the name of John Babcock Arden, by which name he shall hereafter be known.

СНАР. 31.

AN ACT to alter the time of the annual election of trustees of the village of Cooperstown, in the county of Ot

sego..

Passed February 21, 1833.

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

S1. The annual election of trustees of the village of Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego, shall hereafter be held on the second Tuesday of March, in each year, instead of the time now fixed by law for that purpose; and

Duty of canal

ers.

so much of the act entitled, "An act to amend the act entitled 'An act to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Cooperstown, in the coun ty of Otsego,' passed April 13th, 1829," as relates to the time of holding such elections, is hereby repealed.

CHAP. 32.

AN ACT for the construction of the Chenango canal.
Passed February 23, 1833.

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

S1. The canal commissioners shall proceed, with all commission, reasonable diligence, to construct and complete a canal, from Binghamton, in the county of Broome, up the valley of Chenango river, to its head waters, and thence by the most advantageous route, to the Erie canal, without taking any of the waters of the Oriskany or Sauquoit creeks. And the said commissioners, in determining the route and termination of the said canal at the Erie canal, shall be influenced by a regard for economy, public utility, and the relinquishment of damages, and the amount of gifts, grants and donations.

Canal how to be made.

Money to be borrowed.

S2. The canal shall be constructed of the same width and depth as the Erie canal; and the locks shall be made of wood, supported by stone walls, in the manner recommended by Mr. Hutchinson, engineer, in the report of his survey, presented to the legislature at its session in eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, unless the said commissioners shall deem locks of a different construction, cheaper, and more useful.

$ 3. The commissioners of the canal fund shall borrow, on the credit of the state, for the construction of the said canal, a sum not exceeding one million of dollars, at an interest not exceeding five per cent; and the said commissioners shall contract for a loan of the whole sum required to construct the said canal, not exceeding the sum before mentioned, at once, to be paid at such times, and in such parcels, as the said commissioners shall specify; or the said commissioners shall borrow, from time to time, such sum or sums as shall be required for the construction of the said canal, as they shall find most for the interest of the state.

$4. All loans made for the purpose aforesaid, shall be when payapayable at the discretion of the commissioners of the ca- ble. nal fund, after the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, or sooner, if the debt now charged on the canal revenues shall have been paid; and for such loans, certificates of stock shall be issued, in the manner directed in and by the "act to improve the funds and provide for the redemption of the funded debt of this state."

$5. Rates of toll not less than those which may be les Rates of toll. gally established on the Erie and Champlain canals, shall be imposed and collected on the canal to be constructed by virtue of this act; and such tolls, and all grants, gifts and donations that may be made to the state on account of said canal, shall be pledged, appropriated and applied to the payment of the interest and principal of the sums borrowed for the construction of said canal; and such rates of toll shall never be less than those now established on the Erie and Champlain canals, until such payment is completed.

$6. All premiums obtained on loans made for the con- Premiums off struction of said canal, shall be deposited with some safe incorporated company, at the highest rate of interest that can be obtained, and applied to the payment of the inte

rest on such loans.

supplied.

$7. If the funds appropriated in the preceding sections, Deficiency shall not prove sufficient to pay the costs and expenses of how to be the Chenango canal at the time when the certificates of stock shall become due, then it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the canal fund, to pay the same out of any moneys which may be on hand belonging to the canal fund, which may not be pledged by the constitution of this

state:

$8. Such canal shall be known by the name of the Name: Chenango canal.

СНАР. 33.

AN ACT authorising an additional sum of money to be raised in the town of Whitestown, in the county of Oneida, for the support of roads and bridges.

Passed February 25, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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$1. The inhabitants of the town of Whitestown, in the day county of Oneida, may, at their annual town-meeting in

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