CHAP. 149. AN ACT for the relief of John H. Johnson. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The comptroller is hereby authorised and directed to pay to John H. Johnson, the sum of two hundred and four dollars and ten cents, upon receiving satisfactory evidence that he has become the assignee of a receipt given by the treasurer of this state to E. F. Willey, for the above sum, on the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, being the amount of taxes and interest erroneously paid on lot number seventy-five, Hannibal, Oswego county. CHAP. 150. AN ACT to alter the Time of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Warren. Passed April 18, 1831. 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 annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Warren shall be on the second Wednesday of November in each and every year. СНАР. 151. AN ACT relative to the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the County of Queens. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. The fall term of the court of common pleas and generall sessions of the peace in the county of Queens, shall commence on the last Tuesday of October in each and every year, and may continue to be held from the commencement thereof, in each term, until Saturday of the same week, inclusive; and the November term of the said court is hereby abolished. CHAP. 152. AN ACT to alter the Bounds of the Village of Sackett'sHarbor. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. All that part of the village of Sackett's-Harbor, lying north and east of Pleasant or Mill creek, is detached therefrom, and exempt from the operation of the act entitled "An act to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of "Sackett's-Harbor," passed April 15th 1814, and all other acts relating to the same. CHAP. 153. AN ACT authorising the Surveyor-General to renew and extend the Lease of John Moore. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The surveyor-general is hereby authorised and empowered, to renew and extend the lease now held by John Moore for lands in the St. Regis reservation, for nine years from the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, reserving the same rent, and in all respects following the covenants, conditions, reservations and exceptions made and contained in the lease now held by the said John Moore, in pursuance of an act passed April 3d, 1821. СНАР. 154. AN ACT to alter the Boundaries of the Towns of Windsor and Conklin, in the County of Broome Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. Lots number one, three, five and seven, and the west half of lots number two, four, six and eight, in the southwest corner of the town of Windsor, in the county of Broome, are hereby annexed to the town of Conklin in said county. CHAP. 155. AN ACT to change the Name of the Town of Erie, in the County of Erie. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. All that part of the county of Erie, now known as the town of Erie, shall hereafter be called and known by the name of Newstead. S2. Nothing contained in this act shall in any way affect the rights of any inhabitant or officer of said town, or of the town itself, or of any other person. CHAP. 156. AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Cockett. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. Samuel Cockett, of the town of Hartwick, in the county of Otsego, is hereby restored to all the rights forfeited by his conviction for perjury, at the general sessions of Otsego county, in June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and released from all the disabilities consequent thereon. CHAP. 157. AN ACT authorising the Surveyor-General to lease a certain Lot of Land belonging to the State, in the St. Regis Reservation. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. It shall and may be lawful for the surveyor-general to lease to Catharine McLaughlin, thirteen acres of land within the Mile square, in the St. Regis Reservation, being the lot which she is now in possession of by lease, for the term of nine years from the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, for the annual rent of one dollar and fifty cents, to be paid into the state treasury; but a clause shall be contained in said lease, authorising the state to re-enter into full possession of the said premises whenever the legislature may deem it fit and proper. CHAP. 158. AN ACT relative to boring the Earth for Water in the Passed April 18, 1831. $1. It shall be lawful for the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York, in common council convened, wherever they shall deem it expedient, to cause the earth to be bored for the purpose of obtaining water, in any street, road or public highway in the said city, and to order the same to be done accordingly, in such manner and at such place or places in the said city, as they shall think most advisable; and the expense thereof, and of pumps and other fixtures connected therewith, shall be estimated and assessed among the owners or occupants of the houses and lots of ground intended to be benefitted thereby, and shall be collected in like manner as is now authorised by law with respect to public wells and pumps and cisterns in the said city. CHAP. 159. AN ACT relative to the Town of Cameron, in the County of Steuben. Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The overseers of the poor of the town of Cameron, in the county of Steuben, are hereby directed to pay over the sum of fifty dollars of the poor funds now in their hands, belonging to said town, to the commissioners of common schools of said town, and shall, from time to time hereafter, pay over to the commissioners of common sohools of said town, so much of the poor funds in their hands, as shall be directed by the inhabitants of said town, or a majority of them, to be determined by a vote to be taken at any annual town-meeting in said town. Division of Lisle. $2. All moneys received by the commissioners of common schools from the overseers of the poor thereof, as above directed, shall be apportioned among the several school districts, and, parts of districts, and accounted for by said commissioners in the same manner as is directed by the third article of chapter fifteen of title second of the first part of the Revised Statutes. AN ACT to divide the Town of Lisle, in the County of Passed April 18, 1831. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. The town of Lisle, in the county of Broome, is herethe town of by divided into four towns, in manner following, to wit: by lines running as nearly central as may be from north to south, and from east to west, through said town; the line running from north to south, commencing at the northeast corner of lot number ten, in the first township of the triangle, in the north line of said town, running thence south on the east lines of said lot number ten, and of lots number seven, six and five, to the northeast corner of lot number five; from thence south to the south line of the said town: the line from east to west commencing at the southwest corner of lot number three hundred and fifty-one, in the Grand Division of the Boston Purchase, in the west line of said town, and running thence east on the south lines of lots three hundred fifty-one, three hundred fiftytwo, three hundred fifty-three and three hundred and fifty-four, to the southeast corner of lot three hundred and fifty-four; thence northwardly by the line of lots to the northeast corner of lot number three hundred and sixty-six in the said division of the Boston Purchase; thence eastwardly to the east line of said town. Three new towns erected. Town-meetings. $2. The name of the northwest part or division of said town, shall be Lisle; the name of the northeast division shall be Triangle; the name of the southeast division shall be Barker; and of the southwest division, Nanticoke. $ 3. The annual town-meetings of the said towns of Lisle, Triangle, Barker and Nanticoke, shall hereafter respectively be held on the first Tuesday of March in each year; the first town-meeting of the town of Lisle at the house of David Clark 2d, in said town; the first town-meeting of the town of Triangle at the house of George Wheeler, in said town; the first town-meeting of the town of Barker at the house of |