Chap. 224. AN ACT to amend and continue the act entitled "An act to provide for the laying out and construction of a road from the town of Pierrepont, in St. Lawrence county, to the road from Carthage to Lake Champlain," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Passed April 10, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: extended. SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to provide for Provision the laying out and construction of a road from the town of Pierrepont, in St. Lawrence county, to the road from Carthage to Lake Champlain," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby amended, and its provisions extended so that the same shall continue in force for four additional years. S2. Townships number twelve, fourteen and fifteen, in great tract number three of McComb's purchase, in the town of Fine, St. Lawrence county, and the east half of township number nine, called Sarahsburgh, partly in the said town of Fine, and partly in the town of Russell, in said county, shall be stricken out from the second section of the said act, and the highway taxes in said towns of Russell and Fine, in said townships number twelve, fourteen and fifteen, and the east half of said township number nine, shall be payable to and expended by the highway commissioners of the said towns of Russell and Fine respectively. S3. That portion of the said road which has been laid out and partly constructed, and being in the said town of Fine, shall be considered the same by the town commissioners as though it had been duly laid out by them; and in the expenditure of moneys derived from the highway taxes, derived from townships number fourteen and fifteen, shall be partly expended on said road south of "Brown's mill," in said town. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. ghway whom pay taxes, to able. Interest of state to certain land released. $3 of act of March 2, 1858, how to be construed. Chap. 225. AN ACT for the relief of John Haring. Passed April 10, 1860; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the right, title and interest of the people of the State of New York, in and to the farm or piece of land situated in the town of Orangetown, in the county of Rockland, and devised by Cornelius Bogert to John Haring, of said town, is hereby released to the said John Haring; and the said John Haring is hereby authorized to hold, give, grant and convey the same with the like authority and effect, as though the persons from whom the said Haring derives title, had been citizens of this state. S2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 226. AN ACT relative to the village of Deposit. Passed April 10, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section third of the act entitled "An act to establish and amend the charter of the village of Deposit," passed March second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, shall not, nor shall any other act heretofore enacted in relation to said village, be so construed as to impair, weaken or affect the right, privilege, power, or obligation of the town of Tompkins, in the county of Delaware, or the commissioners of highways therein, to make, repair and maintain a bridge or bridges across the Delaware river in said village of Deposit, nor the right, privilege, power or obligation of the town of Sanford, in the county of Broome, or the commissioners of high ways therein, to make, repair and maintain a bridge or bridge across the Oquaga brook in said village. And said towns and commissioners of highways shall make appropriation therefor, respectively, in the same manner and to the same extent as if such acts had not been passed. dent corpo S2. Non-resident corporations holding property within Non-resi the limits of said village, liable to assessment for high- rations. way labor, shall pay to the president of the board of trustees of said village the commutation for road labor fixed by statute, unless the same shall be worked within said limits according to law. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 227. AN ACT to confirm the title of Le Grand Marvin and George L. Marvin to real estate conveyed to them by Alexander Turnbull. Passed April 10, 1860; by a two-third vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All claims which the people of this state have of, in or to, any real estate heretofore conveyed to Le Grand Marvin and George L. Marvin, of the city of Buffalo, county of Erie, by Alexander Turnbull, by reason of the alienage of said Alexander Turnbull, are hereby released to said Le Grand Marvin and George L. Marvin; and the said Le Grand Marvin and George L. Marvin may hereafter hold and convey the said lands in the same manner, and with the same effect as if the said Alexander Turnbull had been a citizen of the United States at the time of the execution of such conveyance or conveyances by him. $ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 48 Claims of tain lands released. state to cer Words to be inserted in April 1, 1859. Chap. 228. AN ACT to amend the act entitled “An act for the protection of the proprietor or proprietors of Hugg Town pond, in Spencer, Tioga county, in, the production and preservation of fish in said pond," passed April first, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Passed April 10, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The following words shall be inserted at $2 of act of the end of section two of the above recited act, and shall be taken as a part thereof, viz.: "Such action shall be brought in the name of, and for the benefit of the proprietor or owner of the land covered by that part of said pond where said fish shall be taken; and no consent given by one proprietor to take fish from said pond shall authorize the taking of fish from any part of said pond of which such proprietor so consenting shall not be the owner. But each proprietor or owner may give such consent to take fish from said pond upon such part thereof only as shall cover his own land, and from no other part of said pond. And the consent of any person or persons owning or occupying lands upon the stream above or below the said pond, and not being owners of any part of the land covered by said pond, shall not authorize the taking of fish from said pond." So that the said section two, so amended, shall read as follows: Penalty. 2. Whoever shall intentionally violate the preceding section shall forfeit and pay to the proprietor or proprietors of said pond the sum of five dollars for the first violation, and ten dollars for each and every violation after the first, to be recoverable in any action before any justice of the peace in the counties of Tioga or Tompkins, in the name of the person or persons who are, or shall be, for the time being, proprietors of said pond; and the several justices of the peace of said counties of Tioga and Tompkins are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to entertain and try all such actions, Act to be certain published in newspapers Chap. 229. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Fireman's Benevolent Association of Buffalo," passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Passed April 10, 1860. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The first section of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Fireman's Benevolent Association of Buffalo," passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: |