for stationary, and for their services, in auditing whereof the comptroller shall allow such sum for every folio copied or engrossed by such clerks containing seventy-two words as the said William P. Van Ness and John Woodworth shall certify to be reasonable, and the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, is hereby directed to pay the same out of any monies in the treasury. Clinton to be XLVII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer pay, on Portrait of G. the warrant of the comptroller, to such person as the secretary purchased. of state, the comptroller and the surveyor-general shall direct, such sum as shall be by them allowed for a full length portrait of the late George Clinton, which they are hereby authorised to purchase for the senate chamber, with such embellishments as they shall think proper. ny allowed to XLVIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law- Union turnful for the president, directors and company of the Union turn- pike compa pike road to take at each gate upon their road, upon every one take addi. horse pleasure waggon, six and one quarter cents, for passing said gate, any thing in their act of incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding. tional toll. the relief of XLIX. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the first Firft fection section of the act entitled " an act for the relief of debtors from of the act for the imprisonment of their persons," shall be deemed or con- debtors, &c. amended. strued to extend to imprisonment of plaintiff, or lessors of the plaintiff for costs only, in any suit hereafter to be brought. L. And be it further enacted, That in all executions to be issued on judgments hereafter to be recovered upon contracts, it shall be lawful to direct the collection of the interest on the said Judgment from the time of recovering the same until paid. Intereft to scments on contracts from crue on judg the time of recovery. directed to LI. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller is hereby Comptroller required to postpone the sale of the lands for the tax laid in pur- poftpone cer suance of the act entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an tain fales. act supplementary to an act for improving the road from Chester to Canton," passed the 15th June, 1812, and advertised to be sold on the first Monday of May next, until the first Monday which will be in the month of April next, and that he shall forthwith give notice of such postponement in the newspapers in which the said lands are advertised for sale, and continue such notice once a week for three weeks successively; and it shall not be necessary to continue the publication of the said advertisement nor of the said notice of postponement, beyond the And give no times by this and the said act required, but that he shall give poftpone notice in the said newspapers once a week for six weeks suc. ment. cessively, immediately preceding the said first Monday of Apri! next, that such of the lands that remain charged with the said tax, and that were so as aforesaid advertised to be sold on the said first Monday of May, will be sold on the said first Monday of April, as will be necessary to pay the said tax, and the charges of advertising and of sale. tice of fuch 11 cts. to be LII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer on the 52 doks, and warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to John Richards, out of paid to Joh the proceeds of the tax raised in pursuance of the act entitled Richards. "an act to amend an act entitled an act supplementary to an act for the improving the road from Chester to Canton," passed the 15th June, 1812, fifty-two dollars and eleven cents, in addi Affeffment made by him in June lait rendered va lid. 50 dolls, to be Southwick. tion to the compensation allowed him in and by said act, in full for his services as assessor under that act and the act amended by the same. LIII. And be it further enacted, That the assessment made by the said John Richards in the month of June last, shall be as valid as if the same had been made in the month of May last, any thing in the act entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act supplementary to an act for the improving the road from Chester to Canton," passed the 15th June, 1812, to the contrary notwithstanding. LIV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer, on the paid to H. C. warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to Henry C.Southwick, fifty dollars for stitching five thousand copies of the report to the legislature of the commissioners for taking into consideration all matters relating to the improvement of the internal navigation of this state. CHAP. CCIV. An ACT concerning the execution of Writs ad quod damnum. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That in all cases in which a writ ad quod damnum is to be executed to ascertain the damages of any person whose lands may be taken for the use of the United States, it shall be lawful for the chancellor, when in his opinion a fair and impartial assessment cannot be had by a jury of the county in which the lands are situate, to order a struck o foreign jury for the execution of such writ. OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT THE THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF ALBANY, THE TWENTYFIFTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1814. WITH REFERENCES AND EXPLANATORY NOTES; The whole to be And also, in an abridged form, such of the Reports and Documents laid before the Legislature as are of public concern. accompanied by a copious Index. ALBANY: PRINTED BY H. C. SOUTHWICK. |