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one of the trustees of said village to attend to its more immediate concerns: Therefore,

X. Be it further enacted, That the trustees within ten days af- President to ter their election in every year thereafter, or the major part of them be chosen. shall, and it is hereby made their duty, to assemble in some convenient place in said village, and there to choose and appoint some one suitable person of their body, to be president of said board of trustees, whose duty it shall be when present, to preside at the meeting of the trustees, to order extraordinary meetings of the trustees whenever be shall think proper; to receive complaints of the breach of any of the laws; to see that the by-laws, rules and ordinances are faithfully executed and observed, and to prosecute in the name of the trustees, all offenders against such by-laws; and whose duty it shall be more particularly to see that the public property belonging to the said village, and relating to the fire engines and utensils be suitably taken care of and kept in order, and to do such other acts and things as may be proper for him as president of the board of trustees to do; and in case of the death or disability of such president, the said trustees shall proceed to choose out of their body a successor, in manner as above mentioned; and it is hereby made the duty of the said trustees to keep a record of their doings, especially of the passing of their by-laws, rules and regulations.

lected to be

XI. And be it further enacted, That the collector shall within Money call such time as shall be hereafter specified by the by-laws of said cor- paid over to poration, next after the receipt of his warrant for the collection of the treasurer. any tax that may have been ordered to be raised, collect and pay over the same to the treasurer; and all monies at any time in the hands of the treasurer, shall be liable to be drawn out by the trustees, or a major part of them, and applied and disposed of as shall have been directed by the inhabitants of said village.

XII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees shall keep a Accounts be just and accurate account of their necessary expences and disburse- be kept. ments, at all reasonable times open to the inspection of the inhabitants of the said village, and on exhibiting the same to the treasurer, shall be entitled to receive the amount thereof out of any money in the treasury; and that the treasurer, collector, assessors and clerk shall be paid for their several services, such suitable compensation as the said trustees, or a majority of them, by a by-law of the corporation, shall provide; and that the said trustees shall reserve for their services such reasonable compensation as the inhabitants of said village at their annual meetings shall think proper to grant and allow. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees to be elect- Duration of ed by virtue of this act, shall continue in office and be authorised to trustees. exercise all the powers and perform all the duties in this act contained and belonging to their office of trustees as aforesaid, until the first Monday of May next following after their election as trustees as aforesaid, and until a new election for trusteesof the said village shall be made pursuant to this act, and until the said trustees so last chosen shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation of the office of trustee.

the office of

XIV. And be it further enacted, That the said village of Au- Village erectburn be, and the same is hereby constituted a road district, sub-ed into a road

district.

Firemen to be chosen.

ject to be subdivided by the said trustees, and that the same be exempt from the superintendance of the commissioners of the highways of the town of Aurelius; and the said trustees of the village of Auburn shall have all the powers over the said road district, and discharge all the duties which by law are given to or enjoined upon the said commissioners of highways, and subject to the like restrictions and appeals: and it is hereby declared lawful for the inhabitants of the said village, at their annual meetings as aforesaid, to choose an overseer of highways for each and every subdivision in said road district, as shall be laid out by the said trustees, which overseers or path-masters shall have all the powers, and discharge all the duties in their several districts or subdivisions, which by law are given to or enjoined upon other overseers of highways, giving in their lists and being accountable to said trustees in the same manner as other overseers of highways are bound by law to do, to the town clerk and to the commissioners of the highways.

XV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said trustees, or a majority of them, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint and elect, under the hand of the president of the board, and seal of the village, four fire-wardens, and a company of twenty-four firemen, out of the inhabitants of said village, to have the care, management, working and use of the fire engine or engines which may belong to the said village, and also the tools and implements for extinguishing fires; and the said trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to remove or displace all or any of the fire-wardens or firemen so as aforesaid to be elected and appointed, when, and as often as they shall think fit, and others in their stead to elect, nominate and appoint.

ed to plete the bridge.

CHAP. CCXXIX.

An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to authorise the building of a toll bridge over the Mohawk river," passed April 9th, 1811.

Passed April 18, 1815.

I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, reTime extend-presented in Senate and Assembly, That the time limited in the fifth section of the act hereby amended, for completing the said bridge, be, and the same is hereby extended to the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; and that the company by the said act incorporated is hereby declared to be in full force, notwithstanding their omission to complete the said bridge in the time specified in the said fifth section of the act hereby amended.

Tolls.

Proviso.

11. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to take and receive such rates of toll from all persons crossing the said bridge as they were allowed to take by the before recited act: Provided always, That they shall not ask, receive or take toll from any person or persons crossing the said bridge on foot to or from any house of public worship.

CHAP. CCXXX.

An ACT to amend the act entitled "An act for the relief of the creditors of the estate of Peter Dubois, deceased."

Passed April 18, 1815.

WHEREAS John A. Schuyler, of the state of New-Jersey, by his petition presented to this legislature, hath represented that Peter Dubois and Catharine his wife, on the seventeenth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, grant- Preamble. ed and conveyed his estate to the honorable Henry White, Esquire, Jacob Walton and James Duane, Esquire, and Samuel Ver Planck, merchant, all of the eity of New-York, trustees for the payment of his debts, and the further uses and purposes in the deed mentioned and expressed: And further, that part of the estate so conveyed to the said trustees was by them sold, but what portion thereof he does not precisely know, and that some one or more of the said trustees were attainted or convicted of an adherence to the enemy in the revolutionary war; that Samuel Ver Planck, another of them, declined actively interfering with the estate, and that James Duane, the active trustee, died some few years after the revolutionary war, leaving the trust partly unexecuted; that he was only recently apprised of these circumstances, and finds considerable sums still due to the creditors of the said Peter Dubois; that doubts exist whether, under the act entitled "An act for the relief of the creditors of Peter Dubois," passed the 9th day of April, 1813, appointing the petitioner trustee of the estate of the said Peter Dubois, he is so seized as to enable him to maintain an action for the recovery thereof in his own name, praying that all the estate, right and title of the said trustees, or the survivors or survivor of them, as the same existed before the death of the said acting trustee James Duane, may be vested in him, with the same right to sell, dispose of, sue for and recover the whole or any part or parcel of the said trust estate, to the uses and purposes expressed in the act above referred to, and that any conveyance heretofore by him executed, under or by virtue of that act, may be ratified and confirmed, which prayer being reasonable: Therefore,

ers vested in

I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all the estate, right and Certain powtitle of Henry White, Jacob Walton and James Duane, Esquires, John A. and Samuel Ver Plank, merchant, all late of the city of New-York, Schuyler. trustees of the estate of the late Peter Dubois, Esquire, deceased, or of the survivors or survivor of them, shall be and hereby is vested in the said John A. Schuyler, his heirs and assigns, in as full and ample a manner as the same was held by the said trustees, the survivors or survivor of them, at any time before the death of the said James Duane, with the same right, power and authority to sell, dispose of, sue for and recover the same, or any part thereof, as the said trustees, the survivors or survivor had at any time before the death of the said James Duane, and with full power to sell, grant and dispose of the same to the uses and for the purposes mentioned and expressed in the said recited act; and that any conveyance or Conveyances heretofore executed by virtue of the said recited act be, and they are hereby ratified and confirmed.

The chancel

rect certain

And whereas it is represented that money hath been paid inte the court of chancery of this state for the use of the creditors of the said Peter Dubois, some of whom were also attainted or convicted of an adherence to the enemies thereof during the revolutionary war, and that others of them cannot be found: Therefore, lor may di- II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the chansums to be cellor of this state, on the proper application of the said John A. paid to John Schuyler, to direct all such monies to be paid to him on such terms as regards the parties who cannot now be found, or their legal representatives, as the said chancellor may deem correct and proper, which monies, when received by the said John A. Schuyler, shall be applied in the manner directed by the last section of the act hereby amended.

A. Schuyler.

CHAP. CCXXXI.

An ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the repacking and inspecting Beef and Pork," and for other purposes.

Passed April 18, 1815.

I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, reInspectors presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall hereafter be lawmay inspect ful for the inspectors of beef and pork within this state, in their refor the navy. spective counties, to inspect and repack beef and pork for the use of the navy of the United States as is hereinafter mentioned.

beef & pork

Pork how to be cut.

Beef.

to be made.

II. And be it further enacted, That in the pork to be inspect ed and repacked for the use of the navy of the United States, the legs, heads and hands shall be excluded, and the remainder of the animal shall be cut up into pieces, as nearly as may be, of eight pounds each, so that twenty-five pieces shall make a barrel containing two hundred pounds of pork, and that the swine so to be put up shall be large, well fatted, and of the best quality.

III. And be it further enacted, That in the beef to be inspect ed and repacked for the use of the navy of the United States, the legs, shins, necks, shoulders and leg rounds shall be excluded, and the remainder of the animal shall be cut up into pieces, as nearly as may be, of ten pounds each, so that twenty pieces shall make a barrel containing two hundred pounds of beef, and that the animal so to be put up shall be large, well fatted, and of the best quality, nor under the age of three years.

IV. And be it further enacted, That all barrels in which any Barrels how beef or pork for the use of the navy of the United States shall be repacked, shall be made of good seasoned heart of white oak staves and heading, free from any defect, and fully bound or hooped with good hickory, white oak, or other equally substantial hoops, and shall contain not more than thirty nor less than twenty-eight and a half gallons, and shall contain two hundred pounds weight of beef or pork; the staves and heads to be made of good thick materials, the heads not less than half an inch thick, the staves as nearly streight as possible, and each stave on the edge of the bilge shall not be less than half an inch thick, and at each chime not less than half an inch thick; when finished, each barrel shall measure in

length, from one end of the stave to the other, twenty-eight inches, and from the outside of each head, twenty-six inches, and between the chimes shall measure not more than seventeen nor less than sixteen inches; the hoops on each barrel to be well set and drove, each barrel to be branded with the initials of the maker's name at least; and every barrel containing beef or pork for the use of the navy, intended to be repacked according to this act, and which shall not be constructed in the manner herein described, and the beef or pork therein contained put up in all things in conformity to the directions of this act, shall be condemned by the said inspectors or repackers when brought to them respectively.

Beef to be laid in salt

V. And be it further enacted, That all beef for the use of the navy of the United States, and all beef intended for exportation hereafter to be inspected or repacked, shall, before it is put up, be before being laid in salt a sufficient length of time to extract the blood to the packed. satisfaction of the inspector; and that all beef and pork repacked under this act shall be pickled with strong good pickle, made of as much good clear salt as will dissolve in good fresh water; and that all beef for the use of the navy, or intended for exportation, hereafter to be repacked and inspected, shall not have less than two and a half pecks of good coarse salt, and four ounces of salt petre, in each barrel, and in proportion for every half barrel; and that all pork for the use of the navy, or intended for exportation, hereafter to be repacked and inspected, shall not have less than two pecks of good coarse salt and four ounces of salt petre in each barrel, and in proportion for every haif barrel.

this state may

VI. And be it further enacted, That the salt manufactured in Salt made in this state may be used in packing and putting up beef and pork bed. for the use of the navy, or intended for exportation, so that the same be of good quality, and be in quantity not less than forty-six pounds weight for every barrel, and twenty-three pounds weight for every half barrel.

VII. And be it further enacted, That all pork put up in the manner as in and by this act directed, and in barrels constructed in conformity to the provisions and directions of this act, shall be denominated and called "navy prime pork ;" and every barrel of beef so as aforesaid put up, shall be denominated and called “navy prime beef;" and each and every barrel of pork put up in the manner herein before directed, shall be branded on one of the heads by the said inspectors or repackers, "U. S. navy prime pork" with the year in which the same was put up, and the words "NewYork city," if inspected in the city and county of New-York, and "New-York," if inspected in any other part of this state, with the name of the county in which the same shall he put up; and each and every barrel of beef so as aforesaid put up, shall be branded on one of the heads by the said inspectors or repackers, "U. S. navy prime beef," with the year in which the same was put up, and the words "New-York city," ifinspected or repacked in the city and county of New-York, and "New-York," if inspected in any other part of the state, with the name of the county in which the same shall be put up, and the name of the inspector who shall brand the same. VIII. And be it further enacted, That no beef or pork shall be inspected or repacked in any place in the city and county of New

Barrels how

marked,