Preamble.

Lotteries.

Release.

CHAP. 306.

AN ACT fixing the period for closing all the lotteries authorised to be drawn within this state.

Passed April 30, 1833.

Whereas John B. Yates and Archibald M'Intyre, assignees of all the unsatisfied lottery grants made by this state, have executed to the people thereof an agreement, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of January last, that alk lottery grants heretofore made by this state, shall cease and determine from and after the close of the present year, and releasing and acquitting the people of this state from all right, title and clam to continue or draw any lottery within this state, after the last day of December next, providing the legislature will pass an act declaring that the lotteries authorised by this state, may be continued until the close of the present year: Therefore,

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

$1. The lotteries authorised by law to be drawn within this state may be continued until the close of the present year; after the end of which period, it shall not be lawful to continue or draw any lottery within this state; but all and every lottery heretofore granted or authorised within this state, shall absolutely cease and determine.

S2. That the said agreement and release of the said John B. Yates and Archibald M'Intyre, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state.

CHAP. 307.

AN ACT to extend the fire limits in the city of New-York,

Passed April 30, 1833.

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

S 1. All dwelling-houses, store-houses, and other buildings which, after the first day of August next, shall be built or erected in the city of New-York, without the fire limits of the said city, as the same may have been defined or extended by any act or acts heretofore passed, and within the following boundaries, that is to say, beginning on Orchard-street at a point distant one hundred feet northerly from the northerly line of Rivington-street, and run

ning thence northerly through Orchard-street to Northstreet; thence westerly through North-street to a line drawn one hundred feet distant easterly from the easterly side of the First avenue and parallel thereto; thence northerly along the said line to Second-street; thence easterly through Second-street to North-street; thence still easterly through North-street to the easterly side of Lewis-street; thence southerly along the easterly side of Lewis-street to a line drawn one hundred feet distant northerly from the northerly side of Rivington-street and parallel thereto, and thence westerly along the said line to the place of beginning, shall be deemed to be within the fire limits of the said city, and shall be subject to all the provisions of the act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New-York, passed April 11th, 1815, and of the several acts to amend or in addition to the

same.

CHAP. 308.

AN ACT to incorporate the Moriah turnpike road

company.

Passed April 30, 1833.

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

S 1. All persons who shall become stockholders pursu- Corporation ant to this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate, created. by the name of "The Moriah Turnpike Road Company.

S2. The corporation hereby created shall possess the General general powers and privileges, and be subject to the ge- powers. neral liabilities of turnpike incorporations, as prescribed in the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, except so far as the same shall be altered by this

act.

S3. The capital stock of the said corporation shall Stock. consist of three hundred shares at twenty-five dollars. each; and if the said capital stock be insufficient for the purchase and completion of said road and its appurtenances, the said capital may, from time to time, by vote of the directors, or a majority of them, be increased to such an amount, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, as shall be sufficient for the accomplishment of that purpose, and to fulfil the ends of the corporation: and ten thousand dollars is hereby prescribed as the amount of

real and personal estate which the said corporation may hold and enjoy.

Subscriptions $ 4. Duncan M'Martin, William Meacham, Jonathan B. Spencer, Lucius A. Foot, Daniel Tarbell, Nathan Sherman, Nathaniel S. Storrs, Hiram Everet, James Green, Samuel B. Wellington and Eli C. Clark, shall be commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions.

Route of road.

$5. The said corporation may construct a turnpike road from the state road in West Moriah (so called), to commence at or near the house now occupied by George B. Smith in said West Moriah, and extend easterly ten miles in a direction leading as near as the situation of the ground will admit, to Cedar Point, on the west shore of Lake Champlain in the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex. How to be $ 6. The said road may be constructed of such mateconstructed. rials as the natural surface of the ground may afford; and

Rates of toll.

the said corporation shall not be required to have the said road laid out of a greater width than fifty feet, nor to make the bed or arch thereof more than twenty feet in width; and where the steepness of side-hills, rocks, or other obstacles render it impracticable or unnecessary, in the opinion of the commissioners, to complete it of that width, it shall be lawful for said company to make and complete it of such less width, and without a ditch on the lower side, as the commissioners may direct; but in no place, however, shall the bed of the said road be made of less than fifteen feet.

S7. When said road shall have been completed, the said corporation may erect thereon one toll-gate, at such place as the directors or a majority of them may designate; and at which gate may be exacted and received for passing the same, except as is excepted in article third, title first of the said chapter, the following rates of toll, to wit: For every wagon, cart or other wheel carriage drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, twelve and a half cents, and for every additional horse, mule or ox, three cents; for every coach, stage, coachee, hack, phaton, curricle, or other pleasure carriage drawn by two horses or other animals, eighteen and three-fourth cents, and for every additional horse or other animal, three cents; for every cart, sulky or wagon, drawn by one horse or other animal, nine cents, and for every additional horse or other animal, three cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses or other animals, six cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse or other animal, three cents; for every score of horses, mules or cattle, twenty cents, and for every score of sheep or swine, six cents, and in like proportion for a greater or less number.

$8. The corporation shall have power, in lieu of such Half toll full toll-gate above mentioned, whenever they may deem gaten. it expedient, to erect and maintain two toll-gates on the said turnpike, at each of which they may demand and receive one-half of the tolls mentioned in the next preceding section; but such gates shall not be placed at a less distance than four miles of each other.

$9. The legislature may at any time modify, alter, Rights reamend or repeal this act.

CHAP. 309.

AN ACT to establish a public place, and to lay out certain new streets, in the twelfth ward of the city of New-York.

Passed April 30, 1833.

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

served.

S 1. All the land in the twelfth ward of the city of Public place. New-York, bounded northerly by Thirty-fourth-street, southerly by Thirty-first-street, easterly by a line drawn one hundred feet distant easterly from the easterly side of the Fourth avenue, as established by law, and parallel with the said avenue; and westerly by a line drawn one hundred feet distant westerly from the westerly side of the said avenue, as established by law, and parallel with the said avenue, shall be hereafter known on the map or plan of the said city, as a public place, and the said land is hereby declared to be such public place, and may be opened as such according to law, in like manner as if the same had been laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act, entitled "An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of NewYork, and for other purposes," passed April 3d, 1807: Provided however, that in the opening, laying out and regulating of the said public place, the Fourth avenue and Thirty-second and Thirty-third-streets shall be continued and shall intersect the same, as the said avenue and streets are now established by law; and provided also, that a space of forty feet wide shall be left open, and uninclosed on the easterly and westerly sides of the said public place respectively.

$ 2. All that piece or parcel of land being seventy-five Strees feet wide, lying in the said twelfth ward of the city of New-York, and running between and parallel to the Third and Fourth avenues, from the northerly line of Thirtieth

Street.

Names.

street to the southerly line of Forty-second-street, (the easterly line or side of the said piece of land being four hundred and twenty feet distant westerly from the westerly line of the said Third avenue and the westerly side thereof, being four hundred and twenty-five feet distant easterly from the easterly line of the said Fourth avenue,) is hereby declared, for all legal purposes, to be one of the streets of the said city, in like manner as if the same had been so laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act above mentioned.

$ 3. All that piece or parcel of land being seventy-five feet wide, lying in the said twelfth ward of the city of New-York, and running between and parallel to the Fourth and Fifth avenues, from the northerly side of Twentythird-street to the southerly side of Forty-second-street, (the easterly line or side of the said piece of land being four hundred and twenty-five feet distant westerly from the westerly line of the said Fourth avenue, and the westerly side thereof being four hundred and twenty feet distant easterly from the easterly side of the said Fifth avenue,) is hereby declared, for all legal purposes, to be one of the streets of the said city, in like manner as if the same had been so laid out by the commissioners appointed in and by the act above mentioned.

S4. The said streets shall be known by such names as the common council of the city of New-York may hereafter determine for the same respectively.

СНАР. 310.

AN ACT to amend title second, article nine, part first of the Revised Statutes, relating to the inspection of sole

leather.

Passed April 30, 1833. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

1. Section one hundred and fifty-nine of article nine of title second, chapter seventeenth of the first part of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Seneca," the word "Steuben."