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$6. All lines, which, in the bounds of the said cities or wards, are described by courses indicated by the magnetic needle, are respectively to be taken as the magnetic needle pointed at the several times dle pointed at when such lines were originally established.

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establish- $7. None of the bounds or lines assigned for the limits of any of the said cities or wards, shall be construed to affect the right or title ties not to be of any person or body politic, or to confirm the bounds or right of any patent whatsoever.

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[The preceding fourth and fifth Titles of Chapter II. of the FIRST PART OF THE REVISED STATUTES, were passed on the Sd of December, 1827, being included in the Act "concerning the territorial limits and divisions, the civil polity, and the internal administration of this state," approved and signed on that day, by DE WITT CLINTON, Governor of the State.]

GENERAL REPEALING ACT.

An Act to repeal certain Acts and parts of Acts. Passed December 10, 1828.

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

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$1. From and after the thirty-first day of December, in the year Certain sta one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following acts and parts of sta parts of acts, heretofore passed by the legislature of this state, shall be repealed, viz:

1. An act concerning the rights of the citizens of this state; passed the 26th of January, 1787.

2. An act authorising magistrates within this state, to take affidavits to be used in the manner therein mentioned; passed 10th April, 1784.

3. An act to prevent the firing of guns and other fire-arms within this state, on certain days therein mentioned; passed 22d April, 1785.

4. An act for regulating trials on writs of right; passed 6th February, 1786.

5. An act to abolish entails, to confirm conveyances by tenants in tail, to regulate descents, and to direct the mode of conveyances to joint tenants; passed 23d February, 1786, excepting the second and seventh sections of the said act.

6. An act for taking away and abolishing all right and claim of purveyance within this state; passed 26th January, 1787.

7. An act for the recovery of damages in writs of assize and real actions; passed 26th January, 1787.

8. An act concerning dower; passed 26th January, 1787.

9. An act supplementary to an act passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, relative to dower; passed April 7, 1806.

10. An act for preventing waste; passed 30th January, 1787. 11. An act for preventing usury; passed 8th February, 1787. 12. An act concerning murder; passed 14th February, 1787. 13. An act concerning wrecks of the sea, and giving remedy to merchants and others, who may be robbed, or whose goods shall be lost on the sea; passed 16th February, 1787.

14. An act concerning tenures; passed 20th February, 1787. 15. An act concerning uses; passed 20th February, 1787. 16. An act for the prevention of frauds; passed 26th February, 1787.

17. An act for giving further remedy, and regulating the process and proceedings in assizes and other actions; passed 12th March, 1787.

18. An act for giving further remedy by action of account; passed 6th February, 1788.

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ed from and after the 31st Dec. 1829.

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19. An act to prevent abuses and delays in actions of replevin; passed 6th February, 1788.

20. An act to prevent forcible entries and detainers; passed 6th February, 1788.

21. An act to redress disorders by common informers, and to prevent malicious informations; passed 6th February, 1788

22. An act for the more effectual discovery of the death of persons beyond sea, or absenting themselves, upon whose lives estates do depend; passed 6th February, 1788.

23. An act for rendering the proceedings upon writs of mandamus and informations in the nature of quo warranto, more speedy and effectual; passed 6th February, 1788.

24. An act for ascertaining the measure of land; passed 7th February, 1788.

25. An act against buying and selling of offices; passed 7th February, 1788.

26. An act for the prevention and punishment of extortion; passed 7th February, 1788.

27. An act making it felony in such who shall levy any fine, suffer any recovery, or acknowledge any deed, recognizance, bail or judgment in the name of another, not being privy and consenting thereto; passed 7th February, 1788.

28. An act to prevent stealing and avoiding records; passed 7th February, 1788.

29. An act declaring it to be felony in servants to embezzle their masters' goods; passed 7th February, 1788.

30. An act to restrain all persons from marrying until their former wives and former husbands be dead; passed 7th February, 1788. 31. An act for apprehending and punishing disorderly persons; passed 9th February, 1788.

32. An act concerning amendments and jeofails; passed 20th February, 1788,

33. An act for preventing any inconveniences that may happen by privilege; passed 20th February, 1788.

34. An act to prevent firing the woods; passed 12th March, 1788. 35. An act relative to mines; passed 6th February, 1789. 36. An act for determining differences by arbitration; passed 28th February, 1791.

87. An act concerning pardons; passed 12th March, 1794.

38. An act to prevent intrusions on lands within the jurisdiction of this state, under pretence of title from the state of Connecticut; passed 11th March, 1796,

39. An act regulating the future meetings of the legislature; pass ed 6th April, 1798.

40. An act authorising the arrest of ships or vessels for debts contracted by the master, owner or consignee, for and on account of such ships or vessels, in this state; passed August 10th, 1798; and all acts and parts of acts amending the same or relating thereto.

41. An act to preserve and support the jurisdiction of this state; passed August 10th, 1798.

42. An act concerning the court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors; passed 20th February, 1801.

49. An act concerning apprentices and servants; passed 20th February, 1801.

44. An act for preventing abuses in suing out writs of habeas corpus and certiorari; passed 24th February, 1801.

45. An act prescribing the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators to represent this state in the senate of the congress of the United States of America; passed 20th March, 1801. 46. An act concerning writs of error, and to prevent delays of execution; passed 20th March, 1801.

47. An act relative to treason; passed 20th March, 1801.

48. An act concerning idiots, lunatics and infant trustees; passed 20th March, 1801.

49. An act for the better apprehending of felons and other offenders; passed 20th March, 1801.

50. An act concerning coroners; passed 21st March, 1801.

51. An act concerning promissory notes; passed 21st March, 1801. 52. An act to regulate the exportation of flax-seed, and the compensation to measurers of grain; passed 21st March, 1801.

53. An act to prevent excessive and deceitful gaming; passed 21st March, 1801.

54. An act for the more easy pleading in certain suits; passed 21st March, 1801.

55. An act to prevent and punish rapes, and the forcible taking of women; passed 21st March, 1801.

56. An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors; passed 21st March, 1801; and all acts amending the same, or relating to the subject matter thereof.

57. An act for regulating outlawries; passed 21st March, 1801. 58. An act relative to the money of account of this state; passed 21st March, 1801.

59. An act to prevent malicious maiming; passed 21st March,

1801.

60. An act to prevent injury by dogs; passed 24th March, 1801. 61. An act to prevent perjury; passed 24th March, 1801.

62. An act to prevent and punish champerty and maintenance; passed 30th March, 1801.

63. An act declaring it to be felony to steal bonds, notes and other securities for payment of money; passed 30th March, 1801.

64. An act to prevent digging up and removing dead bodies for the purpose of dissection; passed 3d April, 1801.

65. An act to lay a duty on strong liquors, and for regulating inns and taverns; passed 7th April, 1801.

66. An act to prevent and avoid alienations by tenants for life, and recoveries by collusion; passed 7th April, 1801.

67. An act for the limitation of criminal prosecutions and of actions at law; passed 8th April, 1801.

68. An act concerning the execution of writs ad quod damnum; passed April 13th, 1813.

69. An act to prevent horse-racing, and for other purposes therein mentioned; passed March 19th, 1802.

70. An act to amend an act to lay a duty on strong liquors, and for regulating inns and taverns; passed April 2d, 1806.

71. An act for the appointment of guagers; passed April 9th, 1804.

72. An act relative to turnpike companies; passed March 13th, 1807.

73. An act for the inspection of lumber; passed March 27th, 1807; and all acts amending the same, or relating to the subject matter thereof.

74. An act relative to the jurisdiction of this state over the territory therein mentioned; passed April 6th, 1808.

75. An act for the punishment of public defaulters; passed April 11th, 1808.

76. An act for the relief of the creditors of corporations created by any law of this state; passed April 9th, 1811.

77. An act relative to incorporations and the division of counties; passed March 26th, 1813.

78. An act for the relief of judgment and mortgage debtors to the people of this state; passed March 26th, 1813.

79. An act concerning the state prison; passed May 21st, 1812; and all other acts amending the same, or relating to state prisons.

80. An act for the relief and settlement of the poor; passed April 8th, 1813, and all acts and parts of acts amending the same or relating to the subject matter thereof.

81. An act concerning the commissioners of the land-office, and the sale of the unappropriated lands; passed April 6th, 1813, excepting the eighth and thirty-third sections thereof.

82. An act for the relief of cities and towns from the maintenance of bastard children; passed February 25th, 1813.

83. An act concerning executors and administrators, and the distribution of intestates' estates; passed April 6th, 1813.

84. An act for the relief of creditors against heirs and devisees; passed April 10th, 1813.

85. An act concerning the supreme court; passed February 25th, 1813.

86. An act to appoint commissioners to perform certain duties of judges of the supreme court; passed February 25th, 1813, and all other acts and parts of acts authorising the appointment of such commissioners, and prescribing their duties.

87. An act relative to the acknowledgment and surrender of bail in the supreme court, and to proceedings on recognizances of bail; passed February 25th, 1813.

88. An act for regulating trials of issues, and for returning able and sufficient jurors; passed February 25th, 1813.

89. An act concerning the circuit courts and sittings and the courts of oyer and terminer and jail delivery; passed April 5th, 1813. 90. An act concerning costs; passed April 12th, 1813.

91. An act for the relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; passed April 9th, 1813, and all acts and parts of acts amending the same, or relating to the subject matter thereof.

92. An act to prevent unjust imprisonment by securing the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; passed April 5th, 1813.

93. An act concerning fines and recoveries of lands and tenements; passed April 5th, 1813.