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aforesaid shall receive from the chamberlain of the said city of Their duty New-York, the money which shall from time to time be appor- ing the motioned and paid to the city and county, together with such monies as shall be raised by the mayor, recorder and aldermen as herein before directed, and which the said chamberlain is hereby authorised and required to pay to the said commissioners; and the said commissioners shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, distribute and pay the said monies so received from the said chamberlain, to the trustees of the free school society in the said city of New-York, and the trustees or treasurers of the orphan's asylum society, the society of the economical school in the city of New-York, the African free school, and of such incorporated religious societies in said city as now support or hereafter shall establish charity schools within the said city, who may apply for the same; and such distribution shall be made to each school in proportion to the average number of children between the ages of four and fifteen years, taught therein the year preceding such distribution, free of expense: Provided, That no money shall be distributed by the commission- Proviso. ers aforesaid to the trustees of such free school, or of such charity schools, as shall not have been kept for the term of at least nine months during the year preceding such distribution as aforesaid.

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V. And be it further enacted, That the trustees or treasurers Returns to of the aforesaid societies in the said city as support charity be made to schools therein, shall respectively, on or before the first day of sioners of May in each year, certify under their respective corporate seals, of children to the commissioners aforesaid, the whole number of children from 4 to 15 between the ages of four and fifteen years who shall have been taught in their respective schools, free of expense, during the preceding year, specifying the number of regular scholars therein at the end of each quarter in such year, and the time during which their respective schools shall have been regularly kept for such preceding year; and after the first distribution of school money shall have been made, the trustees or treasurers aforesaid shall respectively certify in manner aforesaid the amount of money which they shall have received from the said commissioners during the preceding year, and the manner in which the same shall have been expended, whereupon the commissioners aforesaid shall make report to the clerk of the city and county of New-York, who shall transmit the same to the superintendent of common schools in the manner directed by the seventeenth section of the act for the establishment of common schools.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money which the respective trustees or treasurers aforesaid shall from time to time receive from the commissioners aforesaid, shall be applied by them to the payment of the wages of the teachers to be employed by them respectively and to no other purposes whatever.

VII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees or treasurers of the aforesaid societies in the said city as now or hereafter may support charity schools therein as aforesaid, shall be inspectors of the schools in their respective societies, and shall possess the like powers and perform the like duties relating to

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their respective schools as the inspectors of schools are authorised and empowered to do in and by the sixth section of the act for the establishment of common schools.

CHAP. LIII.

An ACT authorising the Treasurer of the county of Tioga to pay certain Monies therein mentioned, and for other purposes.

Passed March 12, 1813.

I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of the county of Tioga, and he is hereby directed to pay to Andrew Purdy, or his legal representatives, the lawful interest on the sum due him for building the court house and gaol in said county, from the first day of May last until the same shall be paid; the amount of which shall be levied, collected and paid in the same manner as other contingent charges of said county.

II. And be it further enacted, That the eighth and ninth sections of the act entitled "an act to divide the county of Tioga into jury districts, and for other purposes," passed the eighth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that the fifth, sixth and last sections of an act entitled "an act to appoint commissioners to fix the site for the court house and gaol in the county of Tioga, and for other purposes," passed the seventeenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, be and the same are hereby revived: Provided, That the clerk's office of the said county shall be removed and kept within two miles of the new court house, in the town of Spencer, at some convenient place, from and after the first day of May next.

CHAP. LIV.

An ACT amending the act relative to District Attornies, passed
April 4th, 1801.

Passed March 12, 1813.

BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the counties of Seneca, Ontario, Genesee, Niagara and Chautauque, be and hereby are erected into a separate district; and the counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, be and hereby are erected into a separate district, as to all proceedings under the act entitled " an act relative to district attornies," passed April 4th, 1801, and the acts amending the same and relating thereto; and it shall be the duty of the person administering the government of this state, by and with the advice of the council of appointment, to appoint and commission some proper persons qualified according to the said recited acts, to the office of district attorney in each of the said districts, who shall be subject to the same duties and have the like powers, and be entitled to the like compensation

as is provided by law for the district attornies of the other districts respectively: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to alter any of the districts heretofore established by law, other than as respects the counties by this act provided for.

CHAP. LV.

An ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the
Fort Miller Bridge Company.”

Passed March 12, 1813.

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I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, re- A new presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful bridge may for the president and directors of the Fort Miller bridge company to build a new bridge over the Hudson river, at any place within forty rods of the site of the present bridge, which said bridge shall be at least twenty feet wide, and be well covered with plank not less than three inches thick, the sides of said bridge to be secured with good substantial railing, and so constructed that at least one opening under said bridge of not less than sixty feet between the piers, shall be left for the passage of rafts.

II. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the said bridge shall be completed, and the judges of the courts of common pleas for the counties of Saratoga and Washington, not interested therein, or any two of them, shall upon inspection certify under their hands, that the said bridge is well and sufficiently completed, and will admit the passage of teams with loaded carriages, it shall and may be lawful for the said president and directors to erect a gate at the end of the said bridge, and demand and take for the use of the said corporation from every person who shall pass the said bridge, a toll not exceeding the following rates, to wit: for every four wheel pleasure carriage drawn by Rates of toll four horses, forty cents, if drawn by two horses, thirty cents; every curricle, chaise, chair or sulkey drawn by one horse, eighteen cents, if drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents, every additional horse, six cents; every waggon and two horses, twenty-five cents, and six cents for every additional horse; every sled or sleigh drawn by two horses, twelve and an half cents, and six cents for every additional horse; every ox waggon or cart drawn by two oxen, twenty-five cents, and each additional yoke of oxen, twelve and an half cents; every one horse cart, waggon, sleigh or sled, twelve and an half cents; every man and horse, nine cents; every foot passenger, two cents; every horse, jack or mule, four cents; every cow or other neat cattle, three cents; every sheep or hog, one cent.

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value of so much of the same, as may be necessary for making the said bridge, and erecting and establishing the gate, toll house, and all other works to the said bridge belonging; and in case of disagreement between the parties as to the value of the lands, the same shall and may be ascertained and determined in the manner directed by the fifth section of the act hereby amended.

IV. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall pass crossing the the said bridge so to be erected, or the bridge now built, with a bridge faster than a walk. horse, or with a horse or horses and carriage, faster than on a walk, the person or persons offending shall forfeit and pay to the treasurer of the said corporation, for the time being, for the use of the said company; the sum of one dollar, to be recovered in an action of trespass, in any court having cognizance thereof, which action shall in every instance be considered as transitory in its nature.

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V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the directors to keep a notice posted up or written in large characters on each end of the said bridge, in the most conspicuous part thercof, in the following words, to wit: one dollar penalty for passing this bridge faster than on a walk by any person or persons riding or driving any horse or carriage.

VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said president and directors to demand and take, for the use of the said corporation for passing the bridge now erected and until a new bridge shall be completed as aforesaid, the same rates of toll which by this act are allowed to be demanded and taken for passing the said new bridge.

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VII. And be it further enacted, That whenever the said bridge shall be impassable for travellers, by reason of the terry may be company repairing the same, or rebuilding an arch thereof, it shall be lawful for the said president and directors to establish a ferry across the river, at or near said bridge, and make use of the necessary boats for that purpose, and demand and receive ferriage like in amount to the rates of toil for crossing said bridge: Provided the said ferry shall not be kept longer than one year, and not interfere with any private rights.

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VIII. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said act hereby amended as relates to the rates of toll to be received by the said president and directors, and the proviso contained in the eighth section of said act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAP. LVI.

An ACT to repeal the sixth section of the act entitled “an act to incorporate the American Insurance Company of NewYork."

Passed March 12, 1813. ̧

BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the sixth section of the act entitled "an act to incorporate the American Insurance Company of New-York," be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LVII.

An ACT to vest certain Powers and Privileges in the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Village of Manlius.

Passed March 12, 1813.

I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, repre- Bounds of sented in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of the village. Manlius, in the county of Onondaga, contained in the following bounds, to wit: beginning in the Seneca turnpike road, half a mile easterly of the southwest corner of lot number eightyseven in said town, thence running south half a mile, thence westerly, running parallel with the said Seneca turnpike one mile, thence north one mile, thence easterly running parallel with said turnpike one mile, thence south to the place of beginning, shall be known and distinguished by the name of the Village of Manlius; and the freeholders and inhabitants residing within the same, qualified to vote at town meetings, may, on the first Tuesday in May, meet at some proper place within the said village, to be appointed by any justice or justices of the peace residing within the said town of Manlius, a notice whereof shall be put up in at least three public places within said village ten days previous to said first Tuesday of May next, and then and there proceed to Five trustees elect five discreet freeholders, resident within the said village, to be elected to be trustees thereof, who, when chosen, shall possess the several powers and rights hereinafter specified; and such justice or justices shall preside at such meeting, and shall declare the several persons having the greatest number of votes duly elected trustees; and on every first Tuesday of May after the election of trustees, there shall in like manner be a new election of trustees for said village, and the trustees for the time shall perform the duties required from the said justice or justices in respect to notifying the meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of said village and presiding at such election.

II. And be it further enacted, That all the freeholders and in- Their style habitants residing within the said limits, be, and they are hereby and powers. ordained, constituted and declared to be, from time to time and for ever hereafter, a body politic and corporate, in name and in fact, by the name and style of " The Trustees of the Village of Manlius," and by that name they and their successors for ever shall and may have perpetual succession, and be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, and defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever and in all manner of actions, causes and 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, aqueducts and digging any reservoirs for water for the use of said village, and keeping in repair such buildings, aqueducts and reservoirs, of purchasing and keeping in repair fire engines, ladders, buckets and other instruments for extinguishing fire, improving the streets, erecting hay scales, and of making any other regulations for preventing and extinguishing fires, preventing and removing nuisances, and relating to the price of bread in said village, that the said trustees may from time to

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