VII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be Monies sub. scribed may lawful for the said directors to call on and demand from the be demanded stockholders respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed or to be subscribed, at such times, and such proportions, as they shall think fit, under pain of forfeiture of their shares and of all previous payments made thereon, to the said president, directors and company.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That if any person or per- Penalty for injuring the sons shall wilfully do or cause to be done any act whatsoever, bridge. whereby the said bridge or any thing appertaining to the same, shall be impaired, weakened or injured, the person or persons so offending, shall forfeit and pay to the said company, double the amount of damages sustained by means of such offence or injury, to be recovered by said company, with costs of suit, and by action of debt in any court having cognizance thereof, which action shall, in every instance be considered as transitory in its nature, and shall and may be triable in any court in this state.

IX. And be it further enacted, That the said bridge shall be Bridge to be at least twenty feet wide, and be well covered with plank not less 20 feet wide. than three inches thick, the sides of said bridge to be secured with good and substantial railings.

obstruct the

X. And be it further enacted, That the said bridge shall be It shall not so constructed as not in any manner to obstruct the channel of channel. the said river, or prevent in any wise the free passage of rafts and boats.

XI. And be it further enacted, That this act be, and the same This a public is declared to be a public act, and shall be construed favorable act. for every beneficial purpose therein mentioned.

be dissolved

XII. And be it further enacted, That if the said bridge, af- Company to ter the same has been completed, shall at any time be impassa- if the bridge ble for the term of three months, that then the corporation shall is impassable for 3 months. cease, and the same is hereby declared in such case to be dissolved: Provided nevertheless, That no such dissolution of the corporation shall take place if the said bridge shall be carried away by ice, freshets, or any unavoidable accident, in case the same shall be rebuilt within one year after the same shall be carried away.

gate without

XIII. And be it further enacted, That if any person or per- Penalty for sons shall forcibly pass the gate to be erected over the said passing the bridge in pursuance of this act, or shall cause his or their paying rou. horses, carriage, waggon, sled, or other thing or things, to pass the same, without paying the legal toll for passing the said bridge, such person or persons shall pay a fine of five dollars, to be recovered by the treasurer of the said corporation, to their use in an action of debt, with costs of suit.

be in force

XIV. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue This act to in force for twenty years from the time of its passage, and no for 20 years. longer.

XV. And be it further enacted, That so much of the ninth Part of a law clause of the act passed June 10th, 1812, entitled "an act au- repealed. thorising Simeon Rogers, Robert Ogden Edwards and William Rose to build a toll bridge across the Tioghnioga branch of the Chenango river," as directs the said bridge to be twenty-five feet in width, be and is hereby repealed, and that the said bridge shall be at least twenty feet in width.

Preamble.

W. H. Cook

and others in

CHAP. CXLI.

An ACT to incorporate the Lenox Water Company.
Passed April 6, 1813.

WHEREAS Moses H. Cook, together with sundry other citizens, have associated for the purpose of supplying that part of the town of Lenox, in the county of Madison, situated on the Seneca turnpike road, called Federal Hill, with pure and wholesome water, for the use of such of the inhabitants thereof, and others, as may be inclined to take the same: Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, recorporated. presented in Senate and Assembly, That Moses H. Cook, Abraham V. Camp, Ambrose Andrews, and such others as may become interested in the association or company, formed for supplying that part of the town of Lenox, in the county of Madison, situated on the Seneca turnpike road, called Federal Hill, with water, by means of conduits or aqueducts, shall be, and are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic, in fact Their style, and in name, by the name of the "Lenox Water Company," and by that name shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of record; but shall not be capable of holding any real estate, excepting such as may be necessary for such conduits or aqueducts, in any other place than in that part of the aforesaid town, called Federal Hill, aforesaid, or any real or personal estate, exceeding the annual value in the whole, of five hundred dollars, exclusive of the profits or income of such conduits or aqueducts.

&c.

Officers how to be elected.

Proviso.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any three of the said persons so associated, or to be associated, by a notice to be given in writing, at two of the most public places in Federal Hill, five days at least previous to any meeting, to convene the said company or association at the most convenient and public place therein, and such of the members of the said association, being at least a majority of the whole number, as shall so convene, shall be, and are hereby au-. thorised by a vote of a majority present, to elect and appoint a treasurer, clerk and collector of such association, and such other agents as may be necessary to carry into effect the objects of the association; to make and ordain all such by-laws, rules and regulations, relative to the said conduits or aqueducts, as they may deem proper and necessary for the superintendence, regulation and management of the same, and of such as may be added thereto; and for the alteration, preservation and reparation thereof; or for the equal assessment and collection amongst the proprietors of the same aqueducts, in proportion to their respective rights or shares, of all costs and expenses arising in the execution of all such by-laws, rules and regulations aforesaid: And further, to institute such suits in the name of such company or association, as may be necessary to recover damages that may be done to the said aqueducts, or for any penalty imposed as aforesaid: Provided, That no penalty be imposed by virtue of any such by-laws or regulations as aforesaid, shall be contrary to the laws of this state, or exceed twenty dollars for any one offence.

III. And be it further enacted, That the said treasurer shall

officers.

receive and pay out all monies collected by virtue of this act, Duty of the agreeably to the orders and directions of the said association ; and the said clerk shall enter in writing, all the proceedings of the same association or company, when convened as aforesaid, under this act; and the said collector shall levy and collect all such taxes and sums of money so as aforesaid to be voted in pursuance of this act, agreeably to such tax-list or assessment roll as shall be made out and delivered him by the said clerk, the same being by him first certified and subscribed, and shall pay the same monies over to the treasurer of the said association; and the said collector shall have the like powers, and may proceed in like manner, in the said collection, as is by law prescribed to the collector of any town, in the collection of the con tingent charges of the county.

made.

IV. And be it further enacted, That all transfers of shares Transfers in the said association or company, shall be made and entered how to be in a book to be by them provided for that purpose, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the said association.

CHAP. CXLII.

'An ACT for the Relief of the Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Union Village. Passed April 6, 1815.

WHEREAS Charles Ingalls did in his life time receive a conveyance for a certain lot of land, situate in the town of Greenwich, in the county of Washington, in trust for such persons as should associate and form themselves into a religious society: And whereas such society has been formed under the name and style of the "Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Union Village," and have erected a church upon the said lot of land: And whereas the said Charles Ingalls has since deceased, leaving two children, minors, above the age of fourteen years: And whereas the said minister, elders and deacons have, by their petition presented to the legislature, prayed relief in the premises: Therefore,

BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the children of the said Charles Ingalls, by and with the advice and consent of their guardian, or the administrators of the estate of the said Charles Ingalls, to convey to the said minister, elders and deacons, and to their successors in office, the said lot of land conveyed to him in trust as aforesaid, which conveyance when made as aforesaid shall be obligatory and binding upon the children of the said Charles Ingalls and all other persons claiming under him or them, nothwithstanding their minority.

CHAP. CXLIII.

An ACT altering the Time of holding Town Meeting in the Town of Rossie, and the Name of the Town of Bellona.

Passed April 6, 1813.

WHEREAS by an act entitled "an act dividing the town of Russell," passed January 27th, 1813, a new town by the name

of Rossie, was erected, and no election of town officers was held at the usual time in said town of Rossie for the want of notice of such division: Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the first town meeting for the election of town officers for said town of Rossie, shall be held on the third Monday of April instant, at the house of Reuben Streater in said town, and that the same shall be as valid as if held at the usual time, any thing contained in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the tenth day of May next, the town of Bellona so called, in the county of Genesee, shall be known and called by the name of Le Roy, and all returns, laws, records and proceedings heretofore made or had from, to, of or respecting that town, either by the name of Bellona or Le Roy, shall be as valid in law as if the said town had been heretofore called or known by the name of Le Roy.

CHAP. CXLIV.

W.Mynderse

An ACT to incorporate the Seneca Lock Navigation Company.
Passed April 6, 1813.

I. BE it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, repreand others in- sented in Senate and Assembly, That Wilhelmus Mynderse, corporated. Samuel Colt, Abraham Dox, Elisha Williams, Herman, H.

Their style, &c.

Bogart, Benjamin Dey and Robert S. Rose, and all such persons as shall associate with them for the purpose of improving the navigation between the Seneca and Cayuga lakes, be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The President, Directors and Company of the Seneca Lock Navigation," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued, defend and be defended, implead and be impleaded in all courts and places whatsoever; and may have a common seal, and may change the same at pleasure; and the affairs and business of said corporation shall be and are hereby intrusted to the management and direction of seven directors, to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned, four of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and the first directors shall be the following persons, to wit, Wilhelmus MynFirst direc- derse, Samuel Colt, Abraham Dox, Elisha Williams, Herman H. Bogart, Benjamin Dey and Robert S. Rose, who shall hold their offices until the first Monday of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and until others be chosen in their stead; and annually on that day thereafter, the directors of the said corporation shall be elected at such place as the board of directors shall previously appoint at least thirty days before such election, which appointment shall be published for three weeks successively in one of the public newspapers printed in the village of Geneva, and the directors shall choose one of their number to be president: but in case he shall be absent at any meeting of the directors, they may appoint a president pro hac vice; but the corporation shall not be dissolved by rea

tors.

son of not holding the annual election at the day and place appointed; and the directors may provide for such omission, and for holding an election at some other time; and if any vacancy shall occur in the board of directors before an election shall be held, such vacancy, for the remainder of the year, may be filled by the rest of the directors.

II. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said Stock. company shall consist of two thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars each; and that Abraham Dox, Wilhelmus Mynderse and Elisha Williams, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to open three books, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said corporation, in each of which shall be written as follows:-"We whose names are under written, severally for ourselves and legal representatives, promise to pay the president, directors and company of the Seneca lock navigation, twenty-five dollars for every share of stock set opposite our respective names, in such times and portions as the said president, directors and company shall require:" and every subscriber shall at the time of his subscription, pay to the said commissioners, or one of them, two dollars and fifty cents on each and every share so subscribed; and it shall be lawful for the said president and directors to call for and demand payment of such further portion of the said stock as in their judgment may from time to time be necessary, under the penalty of forfeiting their said stock and all previous payments made thereon, they giving at least sixty days notice in a newspaper printed at Geneva of such requisition, and of the time and place when and where payable; and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to keep the said books open for every person to subscribe, until the whole number of shares shall have been subscribed; and if a greater number than two thousand shares are subscribed, the said three commissioners shall apportion the stock as near as may be among all the subscribers, in proportion to their respective shares: the commissioners shall deliver over the subscription books, when filled, or sooner, if called for by the said president and directors, to them, and pay over all money deposited on the subscriptions, as aforesaid, to the said president and directors: Every stockholder shall be entitled Votes. to as many votes as he has shares of stock in said corporation.

be made.

III. And be it further enacted, That the said president and By-laws may directors shall have power to pass such by-laws, rules, orders and regulations, for the well ordering the concerns of said corporation, as they shall deem necessary, provided the same are not contrary to the constitution or laws of this state or of the United States, and the corporation may take, purchase or enjoy, lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, or any estate, real or personal, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value; and the president and directors may convene special meetings of the stockholders, giving at least thirty days notice, by publication as aforesaid, of the time and place of such meeting; the said board of directors shall also have power to appoint such and so many officers, agents, clerks, superintendents, engineers, toll-gatherers, workmen and other persons, as they shall deem proper, in and about the business and concerns of the said corporation; to require or receive of and

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