tants of and situated within the said city, to be collected, a sum not exceeding five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be applied to the support and maintenance of the poor of the said city and county; the support and maintenance of criminal persons; the support of the bridewell and penitentiary of the said city; the repairing and taking care of the other public buildings belonging to and under the care of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York; the making, regulating, repairing and improving the public roads in the said city and county; the defraying the other contingent expenses properly chargeable to the said city and county; and for defraying the expenses which the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city and county of New-York may sustain or be put to, in executing the powers vested in them by "An act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the city of New-York into one act," passed April 9th, 1813; and also such further sum, by a tax aforesaid, as is required to be raised by a tax in the said city for the support of common schools, and as may be necessary for supplying the deficiencies of taxes upon any and every one of the wards of the said city, imposed or laid during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, owing to the insolvencies of the collectors of the said wards, or any or either of them, and their sureties, or their inability to collect the said tax; and also for defraying the whole of the expenses for assessing and collecting the taxes to be raised as aforesaid, (such deficiencies, however, to be assessed on the estates, real and personal, of the inhabitants of and situated within the wards respectively, where they shall happen as aforesaid); and also a further sum, not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, by a tax on the estates, Also real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and $300,000. situated within the said city, to the southward of a line beginning on the East river at the foot of Twenty-first street, and running westerly through the centre of Twenty-first street to the North river, as the said street is laid down on the map of the said city, to be applied to the payment of so many watchmen as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York shall appoint and employ for watching and guarding the said city; to the purchasing of oil; providing and putting up of lamps, and repairing, cleaning and lighting those which now are or hereafter may be erected within that part of the said city last described; to cleansing and repairing public wells and pumps; and to defraying the other contingent expenses arising within and properly chargeable to that part of the said city, to the southward of the line aforesaid, as the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty, in common coun

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cil convened, may from time to time direet; and also such further sum, by tax as aforesaid, as may be necessary for the supplying the deficiencies of taxes upon all that part of the city to the southward of the line aforesaid, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, owing to the insolvencies of the collectors of the said wards, or any or either of them, and their sureties, or their inability to collect the said tax; and also for defraying the expenses of assessing and collecting said taxes; such deficiencies, however, to be assessed upon the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situate within the said wards respectively, where they shall happen as aforesaid, to the southward of the line aforesaid.

$ 2. The said several sums of money shall be assessed and collected in the manner directed in and by the thirteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, except so far as the said chapter may be contrary to the provisions contained and referred to in the act entitled "An act respecting the collection of taxes in the city of NewYork," passed April 6th, 1825, and of the act to amend the same, passed April 20th, 1830, and also in the fourth section of the act of March 10th, 1820, entitled "An act to enable the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York to raise money by tax," which said three last mentioned acts, so far as they concern the assessment and collection of all or any taxes and assessments in the city of New-York, and all the acts and provisions contained or referred to in the same, which relate particularly to the said city of New-York, are hereby declared to be in full force and effect, so far as aforesaid; and each person's tax in every separate ward of the said city, shall be collected in one payment, and the moneys so collected e paid into the hands of the treasurer or chamberlain of the said city, at such time as is appointed and directed agreeably to the law in such cases made and provided.

S 3. The assessment rolls of taxes for the several wards of the said city of New-York, prepared by the assessors of the said wards respectively, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, as altered, corrected or agreed upon by the general board of assessors, and adopted and approved by the board of supervisors of the said city, are hereby declared to be severally valid and effectual, any thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

AN ACT to extend the time for executing the act, entitled "An act for the relief of the personal representatives of John Thurman, deceased."

Passed April 26, 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 for the relief of the personal representatives of John Thurman, deceased," passed April 20th, 1832, may be executed at any time within two years from the time this act shall take effect; any thing in sections forty-four and forty-five of article third of title fifth of chapter ninth of part first of the Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding.

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AN ACT to amend and explain the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Plattsburgh."

Passed April 26, 1833.

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

S 1. No part of the said act, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Plattsburgh," passed April 26, 1831, shall be construed to apply to the bridges situate within the boundaries of the said village of Plattsburgh; but that the said bridges and abutments thereof, and embankments leading into the same, shall be and remain under the control, management and direction of the commissioners of highways of the town of Plattsburgh, and to be built, repaired and maintained by them, the same in all respects as if the said act of incorporation had not been passed; any thing in the aforesaid act of incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding.

$ 2. It shall be lawful for the trustees of the said village of Plattsburgh, to apply so much of the labor assessed on the inhabitants of said village, for the maintenance of highways as the said trustees and the commissioners of highways of said town, or a majority of them, shall adjudge to be just and proper; which labor any overseer of highways in said village, on receiving a written order from said trustees so to do, shall proceed to lay out on said bridges, abutments thereof, or embankments leading

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into the same, as a part of the highway work of said village, under the direction of the commissioners of highways of said town; and it is hereby made the duty of said overseers to comply with such directions in laying out and performing such work and labor as they shall from time to time receive from the said trustees and commissioners of highways in the premises.

CHAP. 248.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Little-Falls manufacturing company.

Passed April 26, 1833.

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

$ 1. Horatio Averill and Richard Ray Ward, are hereby substituted with James Monroe, instead of James Stevenson and John H. Webb, as corporators in the first section of the act hereby amended.

$ 2. Horatio Averill, Richard Ray Ward, Daniel Rogers and Arphaxed Loomis, are hereby constituted directors of said company, instead of James Stevenson, John H. Webb, Benjamin E. Bremner and Peter Gansevoort, in the third section of the act hereby amended.

$ 3. The act hereby amended, shall continue and remain in force for twenty years from and after this act shall become a law, subject to the general provisions of the Revised Statutes; and the said company may have one year from and after the passage of this act, to commence operations; and that for all debts which shall be due and owing by the company at the time of its dissolution, the persons then composing such company shall be individually responsible to the extent of their respective shares of stock in the said company, and no further.

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AN ACT authorising the board of supervisor's of the county of St. Lawrence to lay a tax on the town of Oswegatchie, to be invested in an academy and lot, and for other purposes:

Passed April 26, 1833.

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

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$1. The money now in the hands of the supervisor Money how and poor-masters of the town of Oswegätchie, or the se- to be dispocurities therefor, shall be paid or delivered over into the hands of the commissioners herein after named, to be laid out and expended as herein after provided.

S2. The board of supervisors of the county of St. Tax. Lawrence shall be authorised and required; at their next annual meeting, to cause to be levied and collected, upon the taxable property of the town of Oswegatchie, in the same manner that other town charges are levied and cellected, such sum as with the sum to be received under the preceding section, shall amount to two thousand dol lars; which money, when collected, shall be paid into the hands of the commissioners hereinafter named: Provided, That no such tax shall be levied or collected, until the in habitants of the village of Ogdensburgh, in the said town of Oswegatchie, shall have raised, or secured by volun tary subscription or otherwise, the sum of two thousand dollars; and the certificate or acknowledgment of the commissioners hereinafter named be produced to the board, that the said sum of two thousand dollars has been paid into their hands, or secured so that they hold themselves accountable for the same; to be expended for the purposes named in this act.

$3. That David C. Judson, Sylvester Gilbert, George Commission N. Seymour, Michael S. Daniel and Harvey Thomas, beers. commissioners for expending and laying out the monies raised and appropriated by this act.

S4. The said moneys shall be laid out in the purchasing How to lay or procuring of a lot and buildings, or in erecting build-out money. ings on the lot so purchased or procured in the village of Ogdensburgh, of suitable size; dimensions or proportions; for an academy; and to make such additions, improvements and appurtenant buildings as they shall think eligible and proper.

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