A. D. 1811, In what case comp troller to CHAP. LXXXIII. An ACT to provide for the punctual payment of the prizes in Union College Lottery number Two. I. Passed March 29, 1811. E it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That borrow in case the promissory notes of Naphtali Judah, indorspay prizes. ed by William L. Rose and by John Reid, deposited money to measures to ment of notes. Monies when re applied. for collection by the managers of Union College lottery number two, in the Manhattan bank on the account of said lottery, and also the note of Judah and Lazarus, deposited in the said bank, shall remain unpaid when they severally become due, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to borrow from any of the banks in this state such sum or sums as shall be neComptrol. Cessary for the payment of the prizes that may be ler to take drawn in said lottery by the managers thereof; and it obtain pay- shall be the duty of the comptroller to take all legal certain and proper measures to cause the said notes, or such amount of the same as may be practicable, to be col- . lected and paid into the treasury of this state, to be ceived low applied to the payment of the sums that may have been borrowed as aforesaid; and in case the whole amount of the said notes cannot be collected from the said Naphtali Judah, William L. Rose, John Reid and Deficiency Judah and Lazarus, it shall be the duty of the manby lottery. agers of the lotteries now authorised by law, to raise, under the direction of the comptroller, such additional sums byeach or any of the said lotteries as shall be ler to draw required for the payment of the sums that may have warrants been borrowed by virtue of this act, together with the purposes interest thereon; and the comptroller is hereby auspecified in thorised to draw his warrants on the treasurer for the several purposes specified in this act: Provided, That Provico. nothing in this act contained shall authorise the postponement of the application or payment of any money directed to be raised by lottery in or by any act of the legislature of this state in the order of time in which such money was directed to be paid. to be raised Comptrol for several this act. Authorised to com pound with N. Judah II. And be it further enacted, That the comptroland others. ler is hereby authorised to compound and settle with any or all of the said persons indebted as aforesaid, in A. D. 1811. such manner as he shall conceive most beneficial for the interests of the state: Provide always, That nei ther the assumption of the said notes and securities on behalf of this state in manner aforesaid, nor any thing required by this act to be done by the comptroller, shall be construed or deemed to release or exonerate the managers of said lottery, or their sureties, or any or either of them, from any liability to the people of this state for or on account of misconduct or omis- not releas sion of duty (if any) in said managers, or any or ci- ed from ther of them, in the sale of tickets, or in the execution miscon of any of the duties enjoined on them by law in regard to said lottery: And provided also, That the comptrol- Notes not to any Managers liability for duct. without consent ler shall not assume or receive the said notes and se- be received curities on behalf of this state until the said managers went of respectively to whom said notes and securities were managers. severally given and made payable shall have expressed in writing his or their consent that the said notes and securities be assumed and received on the part of this state, subject to the provisions and conditions of this act. CHAP. LXXXIV. An ACT for the further encouragement of free schools in the city of New-York. W Passed March 30, 1811. HEREAS the trustees of the free school soci ety of New-York have, by their memorial solicited the aid of the Legislature in extending the ben. efits of their institution: Therefore, I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That out of the monies appropriated by the act entitled "An act to lay a duty on strong liquors, and for regulating inns and taverns," to the payment of the contingent charges of the city of New-York, and which shall come into the treasury of the said city after the first Tues- be paid to day of May next, there shall be paid to the said trustees trustees of the sum of four thousand dollars for the purpose of schools. erecting another building for the instruction of poor chil $4000 to free A.D. 1811. dren; and every year hereafter until the pleasure of the legislature shall otherwise determine, there shall be paid to the said trustees out of the proceeds of the said fund, in addition to the annual sums heretofore granted, the And $500 sum of five hundred dollars for the purpose of promotannually. ing the benevolent objects of the said corporation. not to de II. And be it further enacted, That no misnomer of Misnomer the said corporation in any deed, will, testament, gift, feat grants. grant, demise or other instrument of contract or conveyance, shall vitiate or defeat the same, provided the corporation shall be sufficiently described to ascertain the intention of the parties. Certain a CHAP. LXXXV. An ACT to designate and set apart certain apartments of the Capitol for public purposes. I. Passed March 30, 1811. BYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That E it enacted by the people of the state of New the following apartments in the Capitol shall be and they partments are hereby required and set apart for the public purposappropriat- es and uses hereinafter mentioned: the front room or ed for public uses. apartment now used by the Governor and the councils of revision and appointment shall be and hereby is required and set apart for the exclusive use and ocupation of the person administering the government of this state for the time being, and of the said councils; and the rooms and lobbies, and the cellar under the senate chamber, and the north half of the cellar under the assembly chamber, now used by the senate and assembly, shall be and hereby are appointed to their exclusive use and occupation. Right re the legisla II. And be it further enacted, That the right of alterserved to ing this arrangement in their discretion, and of designating such other and further apartments in the said make alter-buildings as they may require for their own accommodation, or for other public purposes, is hereby express ture to ations this ar rangement. ly reserved to the legislature, CHAP. LXXXVI. An ACT for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum Society. BE E it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the treasurer shall pay, until the further order of the legislature, to the trustees of the orphan assylum society in the city of New-York, the annual sum of five hundred dollars out of the fund arising from auction duties, and appropriated to the support of foreign poor in the city of New-York, and that the first payment under this act shall be made on the first day of May next. CHAP. LXXXVII. An ACT to vest certain powers and privileges in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer. A. D. 1811. Bounds of Falls. Passed March 30, 1811. E it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the village all that part of the town of Herkimer, in the town and of Little county of Herkimer, contained in the following bounds, beginning at a point or place on the north side of the Mohawk river, at the corner between the lands occupied by Robert Hinchman and Jost Tygart, thence in a northerly direction to the southern boundery of Evans Wharry's farm, thence easterly along the ridge of high lands to the boundary line between the counties of Herkimer and Montgomery, thence southerly along the said boundary line to the north shore of the Mohawk river, thence along the said shore to the place of beginning, shall for fifteen years be known and distinguished by the name of " the village of Little Falls ;" and the freeholders and inhabitants of the said village residing within the same, qualified to vote at town meetings, shall annually, on the first Tuesday in May, meet at some proper place to be appointed by the trustees, and notified to the inhabitants of said village at least one week previous thereto, and then and there proceed to choose five discreet freeholders resident within said village, to be annu A. D. 181. to be trustees of said village, who, when chosen shall 5 trustees possess the several powers, and rights herein after ally elect specified, and the trustees shall preside at said meetings, and shall declare the several persons having the Their pow-greatest number of ballots as duly chosen trustees. ed. ers. and its eor porate rights. II. And be it further enacted, That all the freeholders and inhabitants residing within the aforesaid limits be and they are hereby ordained, constituted Style of the and declared to be from time to time, and forever corporation hereafter, a body politic and corporate, in name and in fact, by the name and style of the trustees of the village of Little Falls," and by that name they and their successors forever shall and may have perpetuall succession, and be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, and of defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, and in all manner of actions, causes or complaints whatsoever, and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at pleasure, and shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate real or personal, for the public use of said village, and of erecting any buildings, digging any reservoirs for water for the use of said village, and of raising a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year, for erecting such buildings, diging such reservoirs, or for improving or repairing such buildings and reservoirs, for purchasing and keeping in repair fire engines, ladders, buckets, and other instruments and utensils for the extinguishing of fires, and for the making of any other improvements or regulations in said village that the said trustees may from Consent of time to time deem necessary: Provided, That no tax frechts shall be levied or money raised, assessed or collected for raising for the purposes aforesaid, and no purchase or sale of any real estate to be made, and no public building or reservoir to be made or disposed of, without the consent of the freeholders of said village, or the major part thereof, in open and legal meeting first obtained. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawto make by-ful for the trustees of the said village, or the major part of them, and their successors, to make, ordain, con freeholders monies, &c. Trustees authorised laws. |