ernment, conduct, duty and behaviour of such fire-men A. D. 1811 as to them shall appear necessary and proper. chase of fire raised VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may Monies for be lawful for the said owners of houses and lands, at the purtheir annual meeting for electing trustees, by a majority engines, &o of voices, to determine what sum in the aggregate shall how to be be raised, levied and collected from the said owners of houses and lands, and freeholders and inhabitants resident within the said limits, to purchase a fire-engine, with necessary tools and implements for extinguishing fires, and thereupon the said trustees shall apportion the sum to be raised amongst the owners of lands and freeholders and inhabitants in proportion to the advantages which they shall deem to result to each from any such purchase, and shall by their warrant, appoint and authorize some proper person or persons to levy and collect such sum or sums so apportioned, who shall proceed in like manner in making such collection as collectors of the contingent expences of the county are by law directed to proceed in, and shall be in like manner accountable to the said trustees as the collectors aforesaid are by law made accountable to the treasurers of the respective counties: Provided always, That than $300 such sum or sums shall not in any one year exceed the sum of three hundred dollars: And provided further, That if any person shall conceive him or herself aggriev- allowed ed by any such apportionment as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such person to appeal from the determination ment of the of such trustees to any three justices of the peace residing in the town of Tompkins, giving notice to the said trustees, or a majority of them, of such appeal, and of the time and place for determining thereon by such justices, who shall hear the same and do therein what to justice shall appertain: Provided, That such rules, orders and regulations as shall be made by the trustees aforesaid shall not be inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state. Not more to be raised in one year An appeal from the ap portion trustees A. D. 1811. W CHAP. CLIX.. An ACT to enable the trustees of the several Churches and congregations therein mentioned, to sell their respective parsonage lands for the purposes therein mentioned. Passed April 5th, 1811. ⠀ HEREAS the trustees of the first Presbyterian church in Florida are seized and possessed of a certain tract or lot of land situate in the vilPreamble. lage of Florida, containing about sixty-one acres ; and whereas the said trustees have represented to the legislature, that it would have a tendency greatly to increase the funds of the said corporation for the support of the gospel in said church and congregation, as well as to improve the said village, if they should be authorised and empowered by law to sell in fee simple the said tract of land in building lots, or otherwise: Therefore, I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of NewReal estate York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the of 1st pres-trustees of the first Presbyterian church and congrechurch in gation in Florida, and their successors, shall be and byterian Florida may be sold Proviso. hereby are authorised and empowered to sell and convey in fee simple, any part or the whole of the said tract belonging to the said trustees, containing about sixty-one acres, to be laid out in building lots or otherwise, as may seem most likely to promote the interests and advantage of the said corporation: Provided, That no part of the lot on which the church and burying ground is situate shall be sold or conveyed by said trustees, or their successors, under any pretence or law whatsoever. II. And be it further enacted, That the money arisMonies arising from the sale or sales of the said lot or lots shall, ing from sale how by the said trustees and their successors, be put out disposed of and kept out at interest on approved landed security of at least double the value thereof, from time to time, as the same shall be received by the said trustees or their successors, and the interest arising from the monies so to be put out and kept out at interest shall be by the said trustees and their successors appropriated to the use of the minister for the time being in said church, and for the support of the gospel there- A. D. 1811. in, or to be added to their principal money, and put out at interest as aforesaid, and upon the like security, as to the said trustees shall appear most likely to carry into effect their intentions in support of the gospel. trustees part of the III. And be it further enacted, That if the said Penalty on trustees or their successors, or so many of them as who make shall be present and do consent to dispose of or make use of any use of the whole or any part of the principal money principal. as permanent funds arising from the sale or sales of the said lot or lots, or any of them, contrary to the directions of this act, they shall be jointly and severally liable to pay the same to the use of the said church and congregation, with costs of suit, in an action of debt to be brought against him or them in any court of record having cognizance thereof, by the clerk of the said board of trustees, or their successors, whose duty it shall be to commence said action in his own name at the request of any two members of said congregation, and when the said money shall be recovered, after all necessary expenses are deducted, it shall be paid to the treasurer of the said corporation, and become a part of the permanent funds of the said church and congregation. And whereas it is represented to the legislature, Preamble, that the trustees of the town of Marbletown, in the county of Ulster, in and by a certain deed bearing date the 7th day of May, 1804, did give and grant unto the said elders and deacons, and their successors forever, in trust for the use, benefit and behoof of the congregation of said church, a certain tract or parcel of unimproved land in Marbletown aforesaid, adjoining the northeasterly side of the public Ashocan road, containing about seventy acres, to hold the said parcel of land unto the said elders and deacons, and their successors, in trust for the benefit and behoof of the said elders and deacons and their successors forever: and whereas it is also represented that the said elders and deacons have involved themselves in debt to a considerable amount in the building a church or meet A. D. 1811. ing-house for the use of the said congregation, and exposed their individual property for the payment thereof, and pray the legislature to authorise them to sell the said lot of land in order to extinguish the said debt: Therefore, A lot belonging to in Marble IV. Be it further enacted, that it shall and may be the church lawful for the said elders and deacons, or their suctown may cessors, to sell and dispose of the said lot of land so be sold. conveyed unto them by the said trustees, or any part thereof, in fee simple, and out of the monies arising by such sale to extinguish the debts contracted and Money aris ing from remaining unpaid for the building of the said church, or meeting-house, and if there should remain any surplus, to appropriate the same to the best advantage of the said church or meeting-house. such sale how appro priated. CHAP. CLX. An ACT to alter the terms of the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace in and for the county of Cortland. Passed April 5th, 1811. 1. E it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace in and for the county of Cortland shall, after the ensuing May term, be held at the three several terms following, to wit: on the second Tuesday of May and September, and the last Tuesday of December in each year and that the said several terms of the said courts may be continued and held from the time of the commencement thereof until the Saturday following inclusive, which said terms shall be called by the name of the months in which the same shall respectively be held as aforesaid. II. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect until the termination of the next May term of the said courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace in and for the said county, at which time the said courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace, and all matters therein depending or being, shall be deemed and taken to be continued unto the second Tuesday of September next, with the like effect to all intents and purposes as the same would have been con tinued to the third Tuesday of October next if this act A D. 8111 had not been passed. CHAP. CLXI. An ACT to divide the town of Kingston, in the county I. of Ulster. erected. to be held. E it enacted by the people of the state of New-Town of York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Esopus from and after the eighth day of April instant, all that part of the town of Kingston, in the county of Ulster, bounded by the middle of the channel of Hudson's river from the middle of the Ronduit creek where it empties into Hudson's river on the east, by the north bounds of the town of New-Paltz on the south, by the east bounds of the town of Hurley until where it crosses the Ronduit creek on the west, and by the middle of the Ronduit creek on the north, shall be and hereby is erected into a separate town by the name of Esopus; and the first town meeting in the said town Town meet shall be holden at the dwelling house of William Els-ing where worth, in the said town, on the third Tuesday of April instant; and that all that other part of the said town of Kingston, bounded by the north line of Ulster county on the north, by the middle of the channel of Hudson's river on the east, by the line established between the Flatbush class and the seventh class of lots in the division of the commons of Kingston from Hudthe son's river to the Esopus creek, and from thence up middle of the said creek to the mouth of the PlatteKill, and from thence up the middle of the Platte-Kill stream until the line established between the first and second class of lots in the division of the said commons, thence along the said line and continuing the course of the said line unto the east bounds of the town of Woodstock on the south, and by the east bounds of the town of Woodstock on the west, shall be and here- Town of Saugerties by is erected into a separate town by the name of Sau- erected. gerties, and the first town-meeting in the said town shall be holden at the dwelling-house of Christian First town Fiero, on the third Tuesday of April instant; and all where to the remaining part of the said town of Kingston shall be held. meeting |