Comptroller directed to 000 dollars from the bank of America. ry to this act, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one month nor more than six months, in the discretion of the court having cognizance thereof; and it shall be the duty of the courts of Oyer and Terminer and general sessions of the peace, in the several counties of this state in which any part of said lands are or may be situated, to charge the grand juries of their respective counties specially to indict all offenders against the provision of this section. LXV. And be it further enacted, That the compborrow 1,000 troller of this state be and he is required to borrow, on behalf of the people of this state, from the bank of America, one million of dollars, or any part thereof, at convenient times, and to draw on the treasurer annu ally for the payment to said bank of the interest of such sum, at the rate of five per cent per annum, agreeably to the thirteenth section of the act, entitled “an act to incorporate the stockholders of the bank of America ;" and the said comptroller shall, out of the said sums so to be borrowed, pay and discharge the several . sums due from this state to various banks therein. And for the re-payment of the said principal sum of one million dollars, the legislature will make seasonable provision. CHAP. CCXL. An ACT to enable certain persons therein named to purchase and hold real estate within this state. I. Passed June 19, 1812. Bork, presented in venate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for George Cooper, of Schenectady, Robert Liddle, John Liddle, Thomas Liddle and Alexander Liddle, of the towns of Princetown and Duanesburgh, William Denbow Kirwan, of Whitestown, Oneida county, Joseph Patterson, of Arguyle, in the county of Washington, Robert Hoyle, of Ches terfield, Essex county, William Coburn, Martha Coburn, Jane Coburn, James Coburn, John Coburn, Sọphia Coburn, William Coburn, jurior, of the town of Huntington, in the county of Suffolk, Malcom McKinnon, Donald McKinnon, Allen McKinnon, Duncan McKinnon, John McKinnon, Hugh McKinnon, John McQuarie, of Masonville, in the county of Delaware, George Fearony, Nathaniel Tackaberry, Denis Kavanaugh, Peter McStea, J. Black Anderson, James McIntosh, John Kearn, junior, James Connor, Rosalie Noel, John Westwood, Michael Fagan, Thomas Doige, William Stephenson, Elizabeth Stephenson, John Stephenson, Thomas Stephenson, Eleanor Stephenson, Patrick Stephenson, Hugh Stephenson, Hannah Stephenson, William Stephenson, Isaac Stephenson, Mark Stephenson, James Shepherd, Christian Henry Kauffman, William Blacgbome, David Brown, William N. Bunn, Platt Kennedy and William Harvey, severally to take and hold by purchase or descent, lands, tenements and hereditaments within this state respectively, to have and to hold the same to them and to their respective heirs and assigns forever as fully to all intents and purposes as any natural born citizen may or can do, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. 11. And be it further enacted, That no lands, ténements and hereditaments heretofore purchased by any person herein before named, shall escheat to the people of this state, by reason or on account of such persons then being aliens, but all such lands, tenements and hereditaments shall be understood as having vested in such purchaser or purchasers, any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, That no alienation of any lands purchased or to be purchased or held by virtue of this act, shall be good and effectual other than to a citizen of the United States. 62 CCXLI. An ACT to enable John B. Smith to put up beef and W pork. Passed June 19, 1812. HEREAS John B. Smith and James Carr have represented, among other things, to the legislature, that they supply the United States navy with near one thousand barrels of beef and pork annually; that by their contract they are obliged to furnish it of a quality superior to the highest denomination of merchantable beef and pork, and they warrant the same to keep two years in any climate; that notwithstanding the superiority of their beef and pork, they are obliged, by the existing laws, to have the same repacked and inspected, whereby its safety is endangered and its quality underrated. They have therefore prayed that John B. Smith, one of the petitioners, be permitted to put up those articles upon his own credit, without being subject to the inspection laws, which petition the legislature being willing to grant, BE it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the said John B. Smith, for the space of three years from the passing of this act, to pack and put up beef or pork, for the supply of the United States navy, without the same being liable to be repacked and inspected; but he shall make use of barrels of the same dimensions, and shall contain the same weight of beef or pork as is required by the laws regulating the inspection of those articles, and shal also cause his name to be branded at full length on each barrel of such beef or pork. CHAP. CCXLII. An ACT for the establishment of Common Schools. Passed June 19, 1812. E it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That there shall be constituted an officer within this 1. ent to be state, known and distinguished as the superintendent superintend of common schools, which superintendent shall be ap- chosen. pointed by the council of appointment, and shall keep his office at the seat of government, and shall be allowed an annual salary of three hundred dollars, but not to be under pay until he shall give notice of the first His salary. distribution of the school money, payable in the same way as is provided for other officers, by the act, entitled "an act for the support of government." He shall di gest and pre pare plans provement schools, &c. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the superintendent aforesaid, to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of for the imthe common school fund, and for the better organiza- of common tion of common schools; to prepare and report estimates and expenditures of the school monies, to superintend the collection thereof, to execute such services relative to the sale of the lands, which now are or hereafter may be appropriated, as a permanent fund for the support of common schools, as may be by law required of him; to give information to the legislature respecting all matters referred to him by either branch thereof, or which shall appertain to his office; and generally to perform all such services relative to the welfare of schools, as he shall be directed to perform, and shall, prior to his entering upon the duties of his office, take an oath or affirmation for the diligent and faithful execution of his trust. tion of the shall be ade terest to III. And be it further enacted, That no distribution No distribu of the interest of the school funds shall take place school fund amongst the common schools in this state, until it until the inshall arise to fifty thousand dollars a year; and it shall moun not be lawful for the superintendent aforesaid to distri-0,000 dolls. bute any more than fifty thousand dollars a year until he shall find he will be able to distribute sixty thousand, and the sum of sixty thousand until the interest shall arise to seventy thousand, and so on as often as the interest shall increase ten thousand dollars, it shall be lawful for the superintendent to add to the sum last distributed ten thousand dollars more; and in all cases when he shall find he will be enabled to add ten thousand dollars to the sum last distributed, the next year it shall be his duty to send a notice to the county clerk, Interest received after tribution to and for said county clerk to notify the several town clerks in his county previous to such increase of monies to be distributed in the same form and manner as is provided in the fifth section of this act, to be made previously to the first distribution. IV. And be it further enacted, That the interest of the first dis the school funds which shall accumulate annually bebe re-loaned. tween the time of the first distribution of fifty thousand dollars, and sixty thousand dollars, and seventy thousand dollars, and so on from time to time, shall, by the comptroller, be loaned and re-loaned, in the same form and manner, and on the same security as he is now by law directed to loan the monies belonging to the common school fund of this state, and shall become principal in said funds. given to county clerks 13 fore first distribution. Notice to be V. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent of common schools shall, in the month of January, which will be thirteen months before the first distribution of the interest of the school fund, send a notice in writing to each of the county clerks in this state, informing them that there will be a distribution of the interest of the school fund in the month of February, which will be thirteen months after the date of said notice, stating the amount that will be assigned to each county. And it shall be the duty of the said county clerks, to send a like notice to the clerk of the board of supervisors, and to each town clerk in his county, stating the amount of money to be distributed, and the time when, which notice the town clerk shall read at the opening of the next town meeting, to the intent that the town meeting may direct by their vote the supervisor, to levy on said town, at the Each town next meeting of the board aforesaid, the sum for certain sum. the support of common schools, required by this act to entitle said town to its proportion of the interest of said fund to be distributed; and the supervisor of each town so complying, shall, on or before the first Tuesday of June after, in each year, leliver a notice in writing, of such compliance, to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, and said clerk shall, at the opening of the next meeting of said board, report the several notices so received to the board of supervi shall levy a |