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such by-laws, rules and regulations as they shall deem proper, respecting the management and disposition of the business, stock, property and estate of said company, the duties of the officers, agents, artificers and servants by them employed, the election of trustees, and all such matters as appertain to the concerns of said company, and to appoint so many of such officers, agents, clerks and servants for carrying on the business of said company, and with such wages or compensation as to them shall seem proper and reasonable: Provided, That such by-laws be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States.

Property to

personal es

Late.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the stock and property of the said company, of whatever nature or description, shall be deemed deemed personal estate, and be transferable in such manner as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said company, and that for all debts which shall be due and owing by the said company at the time of its dissolution, the persons then composing such company shall be individually responsible to the extent of their respective shares of stock in the said company, and no further.

lic act.

VII. And be it further enacted, That this shall be deemed a This is a pubpublic act in all courts and places, and be benignly and favorably construed for all the beneficial purposes expressed therein.

CHAP. CCLXII.

An ACT to regulate the Fees of Public Notaries.
Passed April 18, 1815.

Fees allowed to public no

I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That no notary public, or other person, shall exact, demand or ask, or be allowed any greater or other fee or reward, for or in respect to any protest, than after the taries. rate hereinafter specified, that is to say: for drawing and copying every protest on a promissory note or bill of exchange, twenty-five cents; for drawing and copying every other protest, twenty cents for every folio of an hundred and twenty words; for sealing the same, twenty-five cents; for drawing every notice of protest, copy and service, twenty-five cents; for drawing and copying every affidavit taken before him, twenty cents for every folio of one hundred and twenty words: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed or construed to apply to the city and county of New-York.

Proviso.

changing

II. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall knowingly or wilfully exact or compel any person to pay for any of the services aforesaid, any other or greater fee, sum of money or re- Fenalty for ward than is herein before allowed for the same, every such per- or than is son, upon conviction thereof, either at the suit of the party grieved, herein allowor upon information or indictment, shall pay to the party grieved treble damages, and such fine to the people of this state as the court in which such conviction shall be had shall think proper to impese, and shall also lose his office.

ed.

chaptains of

ture.

Allowance to warrant of the comptroller, to each of the several clergy who shall th legisla have attended the legislature as chaplains, during the present session of the legislature, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for every day they may have so attended, and that the number of days each shall have attended, shall be certified by the president of the senate, or the speaker of the assembly.

II. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall, on the Incidental warrant of the comptroller, pay to the person administering the government of this state, to defray the incidental expences of administering the same, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

expences of

the governor.

III. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall, on the warrant of the comptroller, pay the rent and taxes for last year, taxes of his of the house occupied by his excellency the governor.

Rent and

house.

Postage to G. Mancius.

Secretary's

to distribute

journals.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall, on the warrant of the comptroller, pay to George W. Mancius, late post-master, the sum of two hundred and six dollars and ninety-six cents, being the amount of his bill for the postage of certain laws transmitted by the secretary to the respective town clerks in this state, pursuant to a concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly, of the twenty-fourth day of October last.

V. And be it further enacted, That in order to the speedy disduty relative tribution of such laws and journals as are directed by resolution or mg laws and act of the legislature, to be distributed to the members of the legislature, and the county and town clerks, it shall be the duty of the secretary of this state, as soon as may be after the laws and journals of each session shall have been deposited in his office, to cause the requisite number for the respective counties to be put up in boxes, and to notify the county clerks thereof, and on being so notified, it shall be the duty of the county clerks respectively, as soon as may be thereafter, to cause the said laws to be transported to their respective offices, and shall for that purpose send by some proper person, au order to the secretary to deliver the said laws and journals, and the secretary shall deliver the same on such order, and not otherwise; and the secretary is also directed to put up in boxes the laws directed to be sent to the respective states in the union, and to transmit the same in the manner that shall appear to him the most eligible; and the treasurer is hereby directed, on the warrant of the comptroller, to pay the cost of said boxes and packing up the said laws and journals.

Number of laws to be

VI. And be it further enacted, That eight hundred and fifty printed an- copies of the laws of the present and future sessions of the legisla ture shall be printed by the state printer, and deposited in the se-. cretary's office for the use of this state.

Dually.

Allowance to

J. R. Van Rensselaer for certain laws.

returns to be

VII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, forty-eight dollars, for so much money paid by him on the purchase of six sets of the laws of the United States for the use of the legislature, pursuant to a concurrent resolution of both houses, passed the seventeenth day of October last past.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That all such returns of the Certain tax arrears of the tax of the year one thousand eight hundred and fouradmitted by teen, es have or may be made to the comptroller's office, if examined and certified in the manner prescribed by the eleventh section

che comp

troller.

of the act for the assessment and collection of taxes, shall be admit ted by the comptroller, and be as valid to all intents as if the same had been examined and certified in the manner prescribed by the seventh section of the act, entitled "An act concerning the valuation of real property in the county of Sullivan, and for other purposes, and to amend the act for the assessment and collection of taxes," passed 15th April, 1814.

tain sheriffs.

IX. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer, on the war- Fees to cer rant of the comptroller, shall pay to such sheriffs as have or may serve on public defaulters, citations of the comptroller to account their fees for such services.

X. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor-general be, and he is hereby authorised to make such repairs to the State Hall as he shall deem necessary and proper, and that the treasurer, from time to time, on the warrant of the comptroller, pay him such sum and sums of money as shall be necessary to defray the expences, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars.

State hall to

be repaired.

1. Denniston.

XI. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller be autho- Allowance to rised to allow Isaac Denniston, agent of Indian affairs, in his account of expenditures, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the entertainment of Indians visiting the seat of government, the sum of seventy-nine dollars and ten cents, which his said account of expenditures exceeded the appropriation by law for that purpose.

official letters

XII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Postage of comptroller to draw on the treasurer for the expence of the postage of the comptroller and treasurer's official letters.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That an interest of seven per Interest on cèntum per annum, shall be charged on the monies loaned under certain loans. and pursuant to the act, entitled "An act for loaning monies belonging to this state," passed 14th March, 1792, from and after the first Tuesday of May next, instead of the third Tuesday of June next, as provided by the act, entitled "An act to extend the time for the payment of monies loaned by the loan officers and the commissioners of loans, and for other purposes," passed March 3d, 1815.

allowed cer

XIV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer, on the Comptroller warrant of the comptroller, shall pay the expence of printing the tain expences act, entitled "An act to create a public and transferable stock, and to lay and collect additional taxes for the use of this state," and also the expence of publishing the necessary notices under said act; and in case the comptroller shall find it necessary, in order to carry into effect the provisions of said act, to go to the city of New-York, it shall be lawful for him to draw on the treasurer for the amount of his reasonable expences.

legislature.

XV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall Additional pay, allowance to on the warrant of the comptroller, to the president of the senate and members and the speaker of the house of assembly, the sum of one dollar and officers of the fifty cents per day for each day's attendance in their respective stations; to each member of the senate and assembly, the sum of one dollar per day for each day's travel and attendance in the legislature; to the clerks of the senate and assembly, and to their respective deputies, and to the sergeant at arms and the door-keeper of

To the clerks

for indexes.

the senate and assembly, the sum of one dollar for each day's attendance for both meetings of the present session of the legislature, in addition to the compensation allowed them respectively in an act entitled "An act for the support of government."

XVI. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, of the sense on the warrant of the comptroller, to John F. Bacon, clerk of the and assembly senate, fifty dollars for making an index to the journals of the senate, and to Aaron Clark, clerk of the assembly, for making an index to the journals of the house of assembly, fifty dollars, and the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day to the said Clark, as a compensation for an additional assistant clerk employed by him at this session.

Allowance

to the clerk of assembly

for sundries.

Allowance

for rent to

XVII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to Aaron Clark, two hundred and fifty dollars, in full of his account for furnishing for the house of assembly, two book cases, one set of Graydon's Digest of the laws of the United States, and one set of the laws of the United States.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That for the payment of the rent of the ground leased by the commissioners of fortifications, in behalf of this state, from the heirs of Cornelius Fountain, deceasthe heirs of ed, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, be paid, as the same shall become due, out of any monies in the treasury of this state not otherwise appropriated, that the treasurer shall pay the same on the warrant of the comptroller.

C. Fountain.

for furniture

XIX. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, Allowance on the warrant of the comptroller, to Aaron Clark, such sum as for the assem shall be audited by the comptroller, for the purchase of a clock, bly chamber. new carpet, and all other necessary furniture and repairs for the assembly room of this state.

commission

avigation of

Accounts of XX. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller of this ero state be, and he is hereby authorised to audit and allow the account proving the of Cornelius Lansing, Joseph S. Mabbet, David Henry, Charles Hudson's riv. Selden, Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, Hezekiah Ketchum, Samuel er, to be au Stewart and Joseph Alexander, commissioners appointed in and by dited by the Comptroller. the act, entited "An act to improve the navigation of Hudson's river between the villages of Lausingburgh and Troy," passed March 1st, 1799, of their expenditure of inonies received pursuant to said recited act; the act, entitled "An act making further provision for improving the navigation of the Hudsons river between the city of Albany and the village of Waterford," passed 14th March, 1800, and the act, entitled "An act further to amend the act, entitled "an act making further provision for improving the navigation of the Hudson river between the city of Albany and the village of Waterford," passed 6th April, 1801, without exacting the usual vouchers in support of the charges in their said accounts, provided they produce the affidavit or affidavits of such of their board, or of such others as were appointed their agents for paying out the monies expended, that the monies charged in their said accounts were actually expended as stated therein.

XXI. And be it further exacted, That the notice required in and by the fifth section of the act entitled "An act relative to the man

sale of lottery

agers of lotteries," to be given by the managers of lotteries for the Notice of the sale at public auction of lottery tickets, shall be published in the tickets how manner directed in and by said section, for at least four weeks suc- to be publishcessively, immediately preceding the commencement of any such sale at auction.

ed.

XXII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall, on Allowance to the warrant of the comptroller, pay to Edward W. Laight the bal. E. W. Laight ance which may be due on his account for services as clerk of the courts of oyer and terminer and general sessions of the peace in and for the city and county of New-York, as the same shall be audited and allowed by the court of exchequer.

prison.

XXIII. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, To the agent on the warrant of the comptroller, to the agent of the state-prison, of the statea sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in such sum or suns, and at such time or times as the inspectors may require, for the support of the institution; and further, that the principal keeper of the prison be allowed one hundred and twenty-five dollars in addition to his present salary, so as to make it one thousand dollars.

clerk in the

XXIV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer, on the To A. Oake warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to Abraham Cake, clerk in treasurer's the treasurer's office; the sum of three hundred dollars in addition office. to the salary allowed him by law, and to be computed from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.

XXV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, To L. Ward, on the warrant of the comptroller, to Levi Ward, junior, three hun-jun. for armis, dred and sixteen dollars, for sundry arms and accoutrements furnished by him for the use of this state.

purposes.

XXVI. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer shall pay, To P. Adams on the warrant of the comptroller, to Parmenio Adams, fifty-nine for certain dollars and sixty-two cents, to be paid by him to the persons hereafter mentioned, for arms and accoutrements furnished by them for the use of this state, in the following proportions, to wit: to Dyer Fitch, three dollars twelve cents; to Joseph Johnson, twelve dollars and fifty cents; to Lemuel Morton, ten dollars; to Asa Johnson, ten dollars; to Elias Ward, twelve dollars; to Elias Pierson, twelve dollars.

cases.

XXVII. And be it further enacted, That the sheriff's fees in the Fes to sher several counties in this state for serving an execution issuing out of iffs in certain any court of common pleas or mayor's court within this state, for or under two hundred and fifty dollars, shall be six cents for every two dollars and fifty cents, any thing in the act entitled "An act regulating the fees of the several officers and ministers of justice within this state," passed April 9th, 1813, to the contrary notwithstanding.

the stateprison.

to

XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That instead of the allow- Allowance te ance to sheriffs, made in and by the sixteenth section of the act en- sheriffs for titled "An act concerning the state-prison," for their services and conveying expences in the transportation of convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the state-prison, there be allowed and paid to them respectively for their said services and expences, the following sums, to wit: for the conveying a single convict, for each mile from the county jail from which such convict shall have to be conveyed, to the state-prison, fifty cents; for conveying two convicts, for each mile

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