ary. term. of the court of common pleas and general sessions of the peace for three weeks instead of two, as now authorized by law. §2. The jury summoned to said court shall be discharged on or before the second Saturday of each term. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 3. AN ACT directing an additional term of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Chenango. Passed January 18, 1844. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: Additional § 1. An additional term of the court of common pleas shall hereafter be held annually, in and for the county of Chenango, at the court-house in the town of Norwich, to commence on the first Monday of May in each year, and be continued from day to day as long as the judges thereof shall think proper, but not to be continued longer than Saturday of the second week. How to be Process. First term. § 2. All the provisions of law, applicable to the court of common pleas in and for the county of Chenango, as it at present exists, except so far as the same may be modified by this act, shall be applicable to the courts herein directed to be held. 3. All process hereafter to be issued in the said court of common pleas, after the passage of this act and before the first Monday of May next, may be made returnable at either the said May or the June term of said court; and the passage of this act shall not affect any process already issued. § 4. The first term of the said court hereby provided for, shall be held at the court house in Norwich, on the first Monday of May next, and each of said May terms of said court shall be a law term, and no jury shall be drawn for either of said May terms of said court, and no issues of fact shall be tried thereat. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 4. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes for the year 1843. Passed January 23, 1844. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1843. § 1. If any collector of taxes in any of the towns or cities Taxes of of this State, except the city of New-York and the county of Kings, shall, within the time now provided by law, pay over all moneys by him collected, and shall, within ten days thereafter, renew his bond to the satisfaction, in towns, of the supervisor of the town, or in his absence, of the town clerk, and in any city, of a majority of the supervisors of such city, to be expressed in writing on such bond, which bond shall be filed and have the effect of a collecctor's bond as provided by law: the time for collecting the taxes and making the returns thereof, shall be extended to the first day of March next. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. СНАР. 5. AN ACT to confirm and ratify the tax list of the several towns in the county of Ulster, and for other purposes. Passed January 23, 1844. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: confirmed. §1. The several tax lists of the several towns in the county Tax lists of Ulster, as settled and subscribed by the board of supervisors of the said county, on the twelfth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and now in the hands of the collectors of the several towns in said county are hereby ratified and confirmed. And the several collectors are hereby directed and authorized to proceed in the collection of such taxes, in the manner provided by law. supervisors. §2. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the county Duty of the of Ulster, at their next annual meeting, to correct the error in equalizing and apportioning the state and county taxes for the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, by adding to the charges of each town whose taxes have been diminished by such error, the amount of such diminution, and by de Provision as to the ducting from the charges of each town whose taxes have been increased by such error, the amount of such excess. §3. If any of the collectors of taxes in the several towns collectors. in the said county, shall, within the time now provided by law or within ten days thereafter, pay over all moneys by him collected, and shall renew his bond to the satisfaction of the supervisor of the towns respectively, or in his absence of the town clerk, which bond shall be filed and have the effect of a collector's bond, as provided by law, the time for collecting the taxes and making the returns thereof by such collector, shall be extended to the first day of March next. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. administra. A. Dean and mond. CHAP. 6. AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Blair, John Tuffs, and others. Passed January 24, 1844. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Letters of § 1. The surrogate of the county of Albany is hereby aution may be thorized, directed and required to grant letters of adminisgranted to tration in the usual form, of all the effects, goods, chattels, J. D. Ham- rights and credits, which were of Joshua Tuffs, late of the city of Albany, deceased, to Amos Dean of the city of Albany and Jabez D. Hammond of Cherry-Valley, county of Otsego, on the execution and filing with said surrogate, a bond to the people of the State of New-York, executed by said Amos Dean and Jabez D. Hammond, in the penalty of forty thousand dollars, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, who shall justify to the amount of the penalty of said bond, which bond shall be conditioned that all the debts, dues, demands and liabilities, due and owing from the said estate of Joshua Tuffs, deceased, be fully cancelled, paid off and satisfied, and that said administrators will faithfully discharge their duties as such in all other respects according to law. The surrogate may re §2. If it shall at any time be made satisfactorily to apvoke the let-pear to the surrogate of the county of Albany, that said · ters of ad- Joshua Tuffs deceased, at the time of his death was owing tion. debts and under liabilities to an amount exceeding twenty thousand dollars, he may and shall revoke the letters of ad ministra. ministration hereby directed to be granted, unless said administrators shall, upon being required by said surrogate so to do, execute and file with said surrogate a new bond, in the form above described in a penalty of double the amount of such debts and liabilities, with two good and sufficient sureties, who shall justify in the amount of the penalty of such new bond, §3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 7. AN ACT to amend the "Act to incorporate the Apollo Association for the promotion of the fine arts," passed May 7, 1840. Passed January 29, 1844, by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The name of the Apollo Association for the promo- Name tion of the fine arts in the United States, is hereby changed changed. to the American Art Union. when distri § 2. The distribution of works of art belonging to the Works of association, provided for in the constitution thereof, and the art, &c. annual election of officers, shall be held on the Friday pre- buted. ceding the twenty-fifth day of December in each year, instead of the time stated in the fourth section of the act hereby amended. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 8. AN ACT in relation to the January terms of the Court of Passed January 30, 1844. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. Hereafter the January terms of the court of common Law terms. pleas of the county of Clinton, shall be held only as law terms, at which terms the said court shall continue to have all the powers it now possesses, except the trial of issues of fact by a jury. § 2. Hereafter no jury shall be drawn or summoned to at- Jury. tend the January terms of the court of common pleas of the county of Clinton. § 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Returns to be made to troller. CHAP. 9. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to construct a road from Carthage, in Jefferson county, to Lake Champlain, in the county of Essex," passed April 14th, 1841. Passed January 30, 1844. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The commissioners appointed by the act entitled "An the comp act to construct a road from Carthage, in Jefferson county, to Lake Champlain, in the county of Essex," passed April 14, 1841, are required to make returns to the comptroller of this state of all lands, together with the taxes thereon, which have been assessed by them for the construction of said road in the years eighteen hundred and forty-two and eighteen hundred and forty-three, with such description of the lands so'taxed as will enable the comptroller to sell the same. In case of the nonpayment of the tax so assessed, said commissioners shall designate in said returns the lands upon which the tax has been paid to them, specifying what portion has been paid in labor, and also what portion has been paid in money; they shall also make a like return of the tax which shall be levied by them in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four. §2. The comptroller is hereby authorized and required to receive and admit the unpaid taxes so returned to him by said commissioners, in the same manner as the ordinary taxes are admitted; and he is further authorized to sell the land so assessed, and upon which the assessment remains unpaid, in the same manner and upon the same conditions as for ordinary taxes. 3. As soon as the comptroller receives said returns, he shall place the amount of the unpaid taxes in the same to the credit of said commissioners, deducting therefrom such amount as is assessed upon lands not properly described, so that the same can be sold by the comptroller in case of the nonpayment of the tax, and return the land and tax so rejected, to said commissioners for reassessment; which said reassessment shall be returned and collected in the same manner as the original assessment. § 4. The comptroller is hereby authorized and required to pay to the order of any two of said commissioners, as soon as he receives the returns of the tax for either of the years eighteen hundred and forty-two or eighteen hundred and forty-three, in addition to the sum already drawn, such sum or sums of money as they shall certify has been expended |