a tion which shall be made to any person or persons, shall be assignable by indorsement thereupon under the hand or hands of such person or persons, his, her or their assignee or assignees, and so as absolutely to transfer and vest the property thereof in each or every assignee or assignees respectively; and to enable such assignee or assignees to bring or maintain an action thereupon in his, her, or their own name or names, and bills or notes which may be issued by order of the said corporation promising the payment of money to any person or persons, his, her or their order, or to bearer, though not under the seal of the said corporation, shall be binding and obligatory upon the same in like manner and with the like force and effect as upon any private person or persons if issued by him, her or them, in his, her or their private and natural capacity or capacities, and shall be assignable and negotiable in like manner as if they were so issued by such private person or persons. Monies ed may be XI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the directors, for the time being, to call and subscribdemand from the stockholders respectively (excepting demanded the shares held by or for the president, directors and company of the bank of Hudson) all such sums of money by them subscribed or to be subscribed, at such times and in such proportions as they shall see fit, under pain of forfeiture of their shares and all previous payments made thereon to the said company; always, however giving thirty days previous notice of such call and demand in one of the newspapers to be published as aforesaid. This act user. XII. And be it further enacted, That the present act of incorporation shall in no wise be forfeited by not to be any non-user whatsoever at any time before the last forfeited Tuesday of May, which will be in the year one thou-by any non sand eight hundred and fourteen, and that it shall on that day be lawful for the stockholders above mentioned to assemble for the purpose of carrying the same into effect, any want of notice in the manner above prescribed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Dividends how to be made. Rate of interest. President and direc XIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the directors to make half yearly dividends of so much of the profits of the said bank as to them, or a majority of them shall seem adviseable, and that every cashier and clerk before he enters upon the duties of his office shall give bond with two or more securities to be approved by the directors for the time being, or a majority of them, in a sum not less than ten thousand dollars for such cashier, and two thousand dollars for such clerk, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their several duties. XIV. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall not demand any greater interest on any loan or discount than at the rate of six per cent. per annum. XV. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be tors shall lawful for the president and directors of the said Cats kill bank to ask, demand or receive any compensa mand pay tion for their services as directors. not de rectors of may open XVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the The presi-duty of the said president, directors and company of dent & di- the bank of Hudson, in case of subscribing as a for the bank said, to withdraw their office of discount and de of Hudson posit from the village of Catskill, and it shall be lawful an office of for them to establish a like office of discount and de discount at posit in the town of Coxsackie, with the same power and under the same restrictions as are given and pre scribed in the act authorizing the establishment of said office of discount and deposit in the village of Catskil aforesaid. Coxsackie XVII. And be it further enacted, That this act be This is a and it is hereby declared to be public act, and that public act. the same be construed in all courts and places benig ly and favorably for every beneficial purpose therein mentioned. CHAP. LXXXI. An ACT for the relief of the Collectors of Taxes of the several Towns therein mentioned. Passed March 26, 1813. HEREAS it is represented to the legislature, that by reason of sickness, the collectors of WHEREAS the towns of Sempronius and Owasco were severally unable to attend at the office of the treasurer of the Preamble. county of Cayuga within the time prescribed by law, in order to complete their returns of the arrears of taxes for the present year, as required by the act entitled "An act for the assessment and collection of taxes," passed April 8th, 1801, and did accordingly take oath, as prescribed by the said act, before one of the magistrates of the said county: Therefore, co. to pay I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the Treasurer duty of the comptroller to accept of the said returns of of Cayuga the arrears of taxes from the treasurer of the said coun- arrears of ty of Cayuga, in the same manner as if the said collec-taxes. tors had taken the oath before the said treasurer, and the comptroller is hereby authorized and required to proceed in the collection of the said taxes as in ordinary cases. To settle .collectors II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may with the bbe lawful for the treasurer of the said county of Cayu-of Wolcott ga, at any time before the first day of May next, to and Cato. afsettle with the collectors of the towns of Wolcott and Cato, the taxes of the said towns for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in the manner prescribed by the above recited act; and it shall be and hereby is made the duty of the said treasurer, within twenty days thereafter, to transmit to the comptroller the returns of the arrears of taxes for the said towns, and the comptroller is hereby authorized to accept of the same and to proceed in the collection of said taxes as in ordinary cases. Treasurer III. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of of Washington to the county of Washington shall be and he is hereby settle cerauthorized and required to settle the accounts of the tain acc'ts. collector in the town of Thurman in the said county, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, on or before the tenth day of May next, in the same manner as he might have done had the same been presented for settlement on the first day of February last, and shall within twenty days thereafter transmit the transcripts of unpaid taxes on non-residents to the comp Treasurer certain ac counts. troller, who is hereby required to receive and proceed to collect the same as the law directs. IV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of Genese of the county of Genesee be and he is hereby authoto settle rized and required to settle the accounts of the collec tor of the town of Leicester, in the county of Genesee, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, on or before the first day of July next, in the same manner as he might have done had the same been pre sented for settlement on the first day of February last and shall within twenty days thereafter transmit the transcripts of unpaid taxes on non-residents to the comp troller, who is hereby required to receive and proceed to collect the same as the law directs. W CHAP. LXXXII. An ACT for the relief of Abigail Green, Amaziaḥ Allen 1st, Amaziah Allen 2d, and Jacob Lanton. Passed March 26, 1813. WHEREAS Stephen Allen, on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and Preamble, three, became entitled as occupant to the pre-empti of lot number one hundred and twenty eight, in the town of Scipio, in the county of Cayuga, on the eas side of the Cayuga lake, in the late Cayuga reservation containing two hundred and fifty acres of land, at the price of five dollars and fifty cents per acre, payable by instalments according to the act entitled "An act for the sale of the unappropriated lands, and for other purposes," passed April 5, 1803, and before the tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and five, pai the whole consideration into the treasury but did not obtain letters patent for the said lot: And whereas of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, the commissioners of the land-office sold the same lot by mistake to Jacob Mancius for the sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-five dollars, under the supposed authority of the "act for the disposal of the lands remaining the property of this state," in the late Indian reservation, passed February 28th, 1806, and on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand า eight hundred and eleven, letters patent were issued to the said Jacob Mancius for the same lot, and afterwards, to wit, on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, letters patent were likewise ised for the said lot to the said Stephen Allen, containg special recitals, and on the supposed ground that the former patent to the said Jacob Mancius was inoperativ and void, but the supreme court having in January teri. last determined that the patent to the said Jacob Mane was valid, and having given judgment in actions of eje nent instituted in that court for the recovery of the said in favor of the said Jacob Mancius against Abigail Green Amaziah Allen 1st, Amaziah Allen 2d, and Jacob Law the occupants and purchasers of the said lot from theid Stephen Allen: Therefore, די Claim of J. I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That t commissioners of the land-office be, and they are here- Mocius by authorized to extinguish the claim of the said Jacob to be tinguishe Mancius, his heirs and assigns, of, in and to the said lot, in such way and manner as they shall deem right and just, or according to the provision contained in the ninth section of the act "relative to the sale of lands belonging to the people of this state," passed March 15, 1811, and upon such extinguishment, to receive from the said Jacob Mancius, his heirs or assigns, a conveyance to the people of this state of all his and their claim to the said lot, which conveyance shall enure to the benefit of the said Abigail Green, Amaziah Allen 1st, Amaziah Allen 2d, and Jacob Lawton, their heirs and assigns. dit certain costs. II. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller Comptrolshall audit and allow the reasonable costs and charges ler to auwhich the said Abigail Greene, Amaziah Allen ist, Amaziah Allen 2d, and Jacob Lawton, or either of them, have sustained or been put to, by reason of the actions of ejectment instituted against them or either of them, as aforesaid, and such other reasonable sums of money as they or either of them, shall appear to be equitably entitled to, in relation to the said lot, or in |