and the said five directors shall be elected on the first Tuesday of March in every year, at such time of the day and at such place within the county of Otsego, as a majority of the directors for the time being may ap point; and public notice shall be given by the said directors not less than ten days previous to the time of holding the said election; and the said election shall be made by such of the stockholders of the corporation as shall attend for that purpose in their proper persons or by proxy; and all elections shall be by ballot, each share of the stock having one vote, and the five persons having the greatest number of votes at an election shall be directors; and the said five directors, as soon as may be after their election, shall proceed in like manner to elect by ballot one of their number to be their president; and if any of the directors so to be elected shall at any time remove out of this state, the office of such director or directors shall be considered as vacant; and if any vacancy or vacancies shall at any time happen among the directors elected by the stockholders, by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled for the remainder of the year in which they may happen, by such person or persons as the remainder of the directors for the First direc time being, or a major part of them, shall appoint; that the first directors shall be John Russell, William Tew, Arnold Wilkinson, Bille Williams, junior, and Perez Bradford, and shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

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Corpora- IV. And be it further enacted, That in case it should be dissolv- at any time happen that an election of directors should ed if clec- not be made on the day that pursuant to this act it heldon the ought to be made, the said corporation shall not for day ap- that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful to hold such election on such other day in the manner aforesaid, as shall be prescribed by the Directors bye-laws and ordinances of the said corporation. V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawmand mo- ful for the president and directors of said corporation scribed. to call and demand of the stockholders respectively,

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all such sums of money as are by them subscribed, at such times and in such proportion as they shall deem fit, under pain of forfeiture of their shares, and of all previous payments thereon, to the said corporation, always however giving at least sixty days previous notice of such call and demand.

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VI. And be it further enacted, That a majority of the bye-laws. 'directors for the time being shall form a board or quo- &c. rum for transacting all the business of the said corpor1 ation, and shall have power to make and prescribe such bye-laws, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States or of this state, as to them shall appear needful and proper, touching the management and disposition of the stock, property, estate and effects of the said corporation, the duties and conduct of the overseers, workmen and servants employed therein, the election of directors, and all such other matters as appertain to the concerns of the institution; and shall also have power to employ so many overseers, workmen and servants for carrying on the said business, and with such salaries and allowances as to them shall seem meet.

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VII. And be it further enacted, That no transfer of Transfers stock shall be valid or effectual until such transfer shall how made be entered or registered on the book or books to be kept by the president and directors for that purpose.

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CHAP. XXVI.

An ACT to alter the time of holding Town-meetings in
the town of Cincinnatus, in the County of Cortland.
Passed February 12, 1813.
E it enacted by the people of the state of New-York,
represented in Senate and Assembly, That the
town-meetings hereafter to be holden in the town of
Cincinnatus, shall be held on the first Tuesday of
March annually; and that all such town officers whose
duty it was to meet on the last Tuesday in March,
shall meet on the last Tuesday in February to do and
transact such business as to their respective offices may
appertain.

CHAP. XXVII.

An ACT for the relief of the Bristol Glass, Cotton and Clay Company, in the County of Ulster, and for other Passed February 12, 1813.

purposes.

E it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders of the said company to assemble and annually, from among themselves, to elect on the first Tuesday of May in every year, at such time of the day, and such place in the city of New-York as a majority of the directors for the time being shall direct, five persons, being stockholders of the said corporation, to manage and conduct the same for and in behalf of the said company, any thing contained in any former act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, That the notice to be given of such election, and the manner of conducting the same, shall in all things conform with the act hereby amended.

II. And be it further enacted, That the stockholders "of the Eastern turnpike road company may hold an election for the choice of directors of the said company, on the second Tuesday of March next, having given one week's notice of the time and place of holding said election, in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Albany; and that the provision in the general turnpike law for cases where the election of any turnpike company may not have been held on the day provided by law for holding the same, to hold the same on any other day shall equally apply to the said Eastern turnpike company, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. XXVIII.

An ACT to authorize the Supervisors of the County of Schoharie to raise money by tax for the erection of a fire-proof Clerk's Office.

Passed February 12, 1813.

1. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New

York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the county of Schoharie, and they are hereby authorized and direct

ed, at their annual meeting in October next, to cause a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars to be levied on the freeholders and inhabitants of the said county, together with the additional sum of five cents on each dollar for collecting the same, which sums shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the other contingent charges of the said county are raised, levied and collected, for the purpose of erecting a fire-proof building for the use of the clerk of the said county, and in which all the public records and papers belonging to the office of the clerk of said county shall be kept after the said building shall be completed.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said supervisors to purchase and procure a convenient lot for said building, adjoining the street near the court-house in said county of Schoharie, and to appoint a commissioner or commissioners to superintend the erection of the same, at such time and in such manner as they may direct, and of such materials as shall in their judgment be proof against fire.

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CHAP. XXIX.

An ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Albany Lancaster School Society." Passed February 12, 1813. HEREAS the trustees of the Albany Lancaster school society have by their petition represented, that the object of their incorporation will be promoted by certain amendments to their charter, relative to the admission of members: in order therefore to remedy the inconveniencies experienced from the existing provision,

I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of NenYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That any person who shall contribute to the benefit of the said society the sum of twenty-five dollars, shall thereupon be a member thereof, and shall be entitled, during the life of such contributor, to send one child to be educated gratuitously at any school under the care and direction of the said society, subject however to the bye-laws, rules and regulations of the corporation:

Town of Jersey erected.

And further, that any person who shall contribute to the benefit of the said society any sum of money not less than five dollars, shall thereupon be a member thereof, and be entitled to the privileges granted to members by the act hereby amended; and none others but contributors to the said society as aforesaid shall be deemed members thereof.

II. And be it further enacted, That the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Albany Lancaster school society," be and the same is hereby repealed."

CHAP. XXX.

An ACT for dividing the town of Wayne, in the County
of Steuben.
Passed February 12, 1813.

I.

E it enacted by the people of the state of New

B York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That

from and after the first Monday in March next, all that part of the town of Wayne south of township number five in the first range of towns, and south of the easterly half of township number five in the second range of towns, and also the gore of land lying on the east side of number four in the first range, and contained between the old and new pre-emption lines, and on the west bounds of the county of Tioga, is hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Jersey, and that the first town-meeting shall be held at the house of John N. Hight, inn-keeper in said town.

II. And be it further enacled, That all the remaining part of the town of Wayne shall be and remain a separate town by the name of Wayne; and that the next town meeting shall be where their last annual town meeting was held.

III. And be it further enacted, That as soon as may be, after the first Tuesday in March next, the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the said towns of Poor and Wayne and Jersey, on notice being first given for that poor mo- purpose by the supervisors thereof, shall meet together and divide the money and poor belonging to the town of Wayne previous to the division thereof,

ney divided.