muel Renne, of the town of Crown-Point in the county of Essex, keep a ferry and his assigns, respectively, to set up, keep and maintain a ferry over Lake Champlain. across Lake Champlain, that is to say: From the landing of the said Samuel Renne, in the town of Crown-Point, to Bridport, in the state of Vermont, for and during the term of ten years, to from Sept. 1 be computed from the first day of September next.

For 10 years

1814.

II. And be it further enacted, That Samuel Renne and his His duty. assigns, shall, if they shall set up a ferry by virtue of this act, erect a convenient dock on the landing-place, if not already erected, on that part of the land of the said Samuel Renne, in the town of Crown-Point aforesaid, as shall be most suitable for the purpose; and shall, during the term aforesaid, keep a good and sufficient ferry-boat, capable of carrying four horses, and ready, at all reasonable times and seasons, to transport and ferry across the said lake, persons, goods and chattels.

the common

III. And be it further enacted, That the court of common pleas Power of of the county of Essex, in their sessions may and shall annually pleas of order, direct and determine, the several rates of the said ferry, Essex, and the several hours in each day, that the boats of the said ferry shall be kept in readiness.

IV. And be it further enacted, That if the above named Sa- Rates of fer muel Renne, or his assigns, or any ferryman or person, employed riage. by them, shall take, exact or receive, any greater or higher rates for transporting any person or persons, goods and chattels, or other things whatsoever, than shall be by the court of common pleas aforesaid, limited or established, he or they, so offending, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of three dol- Penalty. lars, to be recovered in any court within this state, having cognizance thereof, by any person who shall sue for the same.

others for

ferrying, &c.

V. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons Penalty on shall, after the first day of September next, set up, keep or maintain a ferry, or shall carry or transport any person or persons, goods and chattels, for hire or pay, across the said lake, within one mile south of the creek in Crown-Point, commonly known by the name of Putnam's creek, across the waters of Lake Champlain, other than the said Samuel Renne, or his assigns, such persons shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars, to be recovered in any court within this state, having Cognizance thereof, by any person who shall sue for the same :Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be constru- Proviso. ed to exclude any person or persons living or inhabiting on the bank of said lake, within the limits aforesaid, from the right of carrying themselves, their goods and chattels, respectively, in their own boats, without paying any rates of ferriage.

for misuser,

VI. And be it further enacted, That if it shall appear upon when this sufficient evidence to the court of common pleas of the said coun- act to cease ty of Essex, that the said Samuel Renne, or his assigns, shall ne- e. glect to comply with the directions of this act, in keeping the ferry aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said court to adjudge, that all the privileges granted to him or his assigns under this act, who shall be so in default, shall cease and be of no effect.

The division

CHAP. CCIX.

An ACT establishing the line between the towns of Stamford and Roxbury, in the county of Delaware.

Passed April 15, 1814.

BE it enacted by the People of the state of New-York, repreline between sented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the passing of Stamford and this act, the line run by Philip Walker, jun. about the year one Roxbury es tablished thousand eight hundred and one, from the eight mile tree in the

division line between lots number forty and forty-one in the Hardenbergh patent, to the high peak of mountain, near the head of Rose's brook, shall be and remain the division line between the towns of Stamford and Roxbury, in the county of Delaware.

[Note. For the former bounds of Roxbury and Stamford, see V. N. & W. v. 2, 61:3

Recital.

CHAP. CCX.

An ACT for the relief of the heirs of Abijah Wilson, deceased.

Passed April 15, 1814.

WHEREAS Abner Wilson, surviving administrator of the estate of his brother, Abijah Wilson, late of Hamburgh, in the county of Niagara, deceased, hath, by his petition presented to the legislature, set forth, that the said Abijah, in his life-time, viz. on or about the first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entered into a contract with one Robert Porter, Esquire, for the sale of a certain farm of land, of which he died seised, situate in the county of Steuben, and distinguished as lot No. 39, in township No. 6, in the third range of townships in the said county of Steuben, containing one hundred and sixty acres of land; by which contract, the said Robert was to pay to the said Abijah, one thousand dollars in one year from the date of the said contract, and on the payment of which the said Abijah covenanted to execute and deliver to the said Robert a good and sufficient warrantee deed for the said lot of land: And whereas, The said Abijab, in his life-time, purchased the assignment of a contract for two hundred acres of land, in the town of Hamburgh, in the said county of Niagara, on which said contract one instalment will become due on or about the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and which said contract will become forfeited unless the said instalment should be then paid: And whereas, It appears that the said Abner, surviving administrator as aforesaid, has not sufficient assets for the payment of the instalments which will become due as aforesaid, and to enable him to comply with said contract:Therefore,

A.Wilson I. BE it enacted by the People of the state of New-York, repreauthorised to sented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful

tain land.

for the said Abner, surviving administrator as aforesaid, to exe- convey cert cute and deliver to the said Robert, a good and sufficient warrantee deed, according to the tenor and effect of the said contract, the said described lot of land, situate in the said county of Steuben, on the full payment of the consideration money therein mentioned: Provided however, That the said conveyance shall not affect any right of dower which the widow and relict of the said Abijah may have, in and to the said premises.

Proviso,

II. And be it further enacted, That the said Abner, surviving A. Wilson administrator, as aforesaid, shall, before he enters upon the exe- to give a bond. cution of this act, give a bond, with two sufficient sureties, to the surrogate of the county of Niagara, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful appropriation of the money to be received from the said Robert, according to the true intent and meaning of this act.

[Note-This act requires no remark.]

CHAP. CCXI.

An ACT to annex part of the town of Greenland, in the county of Greene, to the town of Saugerties, in the county of Ulster.

Passed April 15, 1814.

BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represent- Part of ed in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the town of Greenland Greenland, in the county of Greene, lying to the eastward of a annexed to Saugerties. certain line beginning in the south bounds of said town of Greenland eighty chains, south eighty degrees west from the southeast corner thereof, and to run from thence north twenty-four degrees east to the Caderskill, thence down the same to the east bounds of said town, be annexed to, and from and after the passing of this act, shall form a part of the town of Saugerties, in the county of Ulster; and that the remaining part of said town of Green-Greenland land shall be a town by the name of Hunter.

Residue of

changed to Hunter.

[Note.-For the former bounds of Saugerties, see V. N. & W. v. 2. 58.—Greenland was erected as a town, January 27, 1813, from a part of Windham, see V. N. & W. v. 2. 120, 121.]

CHAP. CCXII,

An ACT for the relief of the infant heirs of Andrew Cole,

deceased.

Passed April 15, 1814.

WHEREAS it is represented to the Legislature, that Andrew

Cole died about two years since, seised of about one hundred Recital, acres of land in the town of Hosack, which land is almost destitute of wood and timber, and is subject to an annual rent of

twenty bushels of wheat to an hundred acres, and at the time of his decease left seven infant heirs, to wit, Anny Cole, Phebe Cole, Andrew Cole, Slade Cole, Rebecca Cole, Milly Cole and Anna Cole, the youngest of which is four, and the eldest sixteen years old; and that from the amount of rent, scarcity of wood and timber on the said premises, and the expense and difficulty of procuring proper persons to cultivate and manage the same, that it is for the interest of the said heirs that the same may be sold, and that the amount of the consideration might be vested in such manner as to afford a more certain and larger fund for the support and education of the infants, than can be obtained from said land: Therefore,

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Joseph Slade, Gardner Wood and James Eldred, guardians to the said infant heirs, are hereby authorised to sell and convey, for the best price they can obtain, all the estate and interest whereof the said Andrew Cole died seised in the said land, which conveyance shall be effectual to vest the title of the same in the purchaser or purchasers thereof: Provided, That no such sale shall be made, or conveyance executed, for any such lands by virtue thereof, until the approbation of the Chancellor of this state shall be obtained to the same, and until the said Joseph Slade, Gardner Wood and James Eldred, shall have executed a bond to the said infants, in such sums as the Chancellor shall require, with sufficient sureties, to be approved of by him, well and faithfully to account to the said infants, their heirs, executors or administrators, or any person or persons legally authorised to require the same, for the monies which they may receive in payment for the said land, and to appropriate the same under the order and by the direction of the said Chancellor.

Note This act requires no remark.]

Certain poor

divided.

CHAP. CCXIII.

An ACT for the relief of the town of Dansville, in the county of Steuben.

Passed April 15, 1814. 1. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, repremonies to be sented in Senate and Assembly, That the overseers of the poor of the towns of Bath, Dansville, Canisteo, Howard and Conhocten, in the county of Steuben, shall meet at the house of Howell Bull, in Bath, on the first Tuesday in May next, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and that a majority of the overseers of the poor so met, shall divide the monies and poor belonging to the said towns respectively, as contemplated by the act, entitled “an act for dividing the towns of Bath and Dansville, and erecting two new towns in the county of Steuben, by the name of Conhocton and Howard," passed the eighteenth day

of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and each of the said towns respectively shall forever thereafter maintain their own poor.

Penalty on

the overseers of the poor

neglecting to comply with

11. And be it further enacted, That should any of the said overseers of the poor refuse or neglect to comply with such distribution made as aforesaid, such overseer or overseers shall for feit and pay to the overseers of the poor of such town as shall be distribution. injured by such neglect or refusal, twenty-five dollars for every month they shall so neglect or refuse, to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the said overseers of the poor, by action of debt in any court having cognizance thereof, with costs of suit.

ascertained.

What each

III. And be it further enacted, That the said overseers of the certain expoor of the said several towns, at their meeting as aforesaid, or a penses to be majority of those who may meet, shall ascertain what sums of money may have been necessarily expended since the thirtyfirst day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and until the first Tuesday in May next, by the overseers of the poor of the town of Dansville, in the maintenance of such of the poor of said town as may, by such division as shall be made by virtue of this act, belong to any other town; and having so ascertained town is to the same, shall direct what towns, and how much each town shall pay pay of the said sum, with the interest from the time of the expenditures; which sum or sums the said overseers of the poor of such town or towns as may be thus indebted, shall pay to the said overseers of the poor of the town of Dansville, and in default whereof, due notice having been given, the said overseers of the poor of the town of Dansville may, by action of debt, sue for and recover from the overseers of the poor so in default, such sum or sums as they may be entitled to as aforesaid, with costs of suit.

[Note. The act referred to in the first section, is sess. 35. ch. 186. The last sec、 tion of that act not having been carried into effect, rendered the provision in the first section of this act necessary.]

CHAP. CCXIV.

An ACT for the preservation of the fishery in Salmon river.

Passed April 15, 1814.

WHEREAS it has been represented, that by reason of per- Recital. sons fishing near the mouth of Salmon river, in the county of Oneida, upon a bar therein, the salmon are diverted from their course up the said river, to the great injury of the fishery therein: Therefore,

BE it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall not be lawful for any person to draw any seine, set any net, make any weir, or use any spear or other contrivance whatever, for the purpose of taking salmon in Salmon river, below the west line of lot number fifty, on the Selkirk traet, and every person offending therein

Certain re

strictions as

of

to the fishery in part Salmon river