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CHAP. XXXI.

An ACT relative to the Albany Water Works.

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Passed February 12, 1813.

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E it enacted by the people of the state of NewYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Stock to the stock of the Albany water works shall consist of 1,600 sixteen hundred shares of fifty dollars each; that each shares. of the present shares be divided into two shares, on each one of which (after the payment of the money heretofore required to be paid on each share shall have been made) forty dollars shall be deemed to have been paid; that the present proprietors may within ten days after having been notified of the passing of this act by the trustees of the said Albany water 1 works, become subscribers for any number of shares not exceeding the number of old shares they shall resst pectively hold after having been so divided, paying at the time of such subscription five dollars on each new share so subscribed; that the shares remaining unsubescribed for at the expiration of the said ten days shall be offered for subscription by the said trustees, under such regulations as they shall prescribe; that no money shall be required of the proprietors of the old shares until the proprietors of the new shares shall have been called upon to pay to the amount of forty dollars on each new share; after which all the proprietors shall be equally subject to requisitions to the amount of their shares; that all expences of repairing and sup1porting the present works be borne exclusively by the proprietors of the old shares, and all dividends be I made to them exclusively until the water shall have been received for use into the reservoir of the said trustees through the permanent range of conduits intended to be constructed from the sources of the said water to the said reservoir, and let into the distributing conduits.

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Former II. And be it further enacted, That all and singular privileges the rights, privileges, and immunities heretofore granted to the trustees and company of the Albany water works, shall be, and the same are hereby continued until the next annual election of the trustees of the same, and shall be, and the same are hereby confirmed, any non-user, mis-user or laches having heretofore occurred notwithstanding.

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III. And be it further enacted, That if any annual election shall not in future be held on the day for that purpose appointed, the same may be held on any other day with like effect as if held on such day.

CHAP. XXXII.

An ACT to lay out and improve a road from Hadley
Landing, to intersect the great road leading from
Glen's Falls to the Schroon Lake.

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Passed February 12, 1813. E it enacted by the people of the state of NenYork, represented in Senate and Assembly, Tha Jeremy Rockwel, Duncan Cameron, and Berry Fen ton, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners and they or any two of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to lay out a public road four rods wide, in as direct a route as the face of the country will admit, beginning at the center of the highway opposite the dwelling-house of Isaac Woodworth, at Had ley Landing, thence northerly on the west side of the Hudson river to the Sacondaga river, at or near its junction with the said Hudson river, thence across the Sacondaga river, thence northerly on the west side of the Hudson river so far as to pass the mouth of the Schroon river, thence across the Hudson river, thence to the great road leading from Glen's Falls to the Schroon Lake.

II. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid before they enter upon the duties of their office, shall respectively take and subscribe before some justice of the peace, an oath faithfully and impartially to execute the trust reposed in them in and by virtue of this act, and the said oaths shall by the

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said commissioners respectively be filed in the office of the town clerk of the town of Hadley aforesaid.

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III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Survey of eduty of the said commissioners after having laid such the road to road, to make or cause to be made an accurate survey bill of the same, and deliver the same to the clerks of rt the several towns through which the said road shall run, and it shall be the duty of the said clerks to record the same; and when so recorded, the said road shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public highways are kept in repair; and all damages which shall accrue in consequence of laying out such road, shall be assessed and paid in the same manner as is directed by the act entitled "An act to regulate highways," and the acts amending the same. IV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars out of the first monies arising from ation for Appropriquit rents due to the people of this state on lands in the laying out En towns of Hadley, Thurman and Johnsburgh, be and the road., ha the same is hereby appropriated for laying out of the en said road and making the necessary bridges, to be ex

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pended under the direction of a superintendant to be e appointed by the person administering the government od of this state for that purpose; and the said superintendant, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond in double the amount of the said G sum, to the people of this state, with two sureties, to be approved of by two of the judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Saratoga, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of all the monies he shall receive under and in pursuance of this act, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and also for accounting to the comptroller for the said expenditure within three years thereafter; and the said superintendant shall moreover, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath before some justice of the peace, faithfully to execute the trust reposed in him as superintendant appointed under this act, to the best of his knowledge and understanding, which said oath shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of the said town of Hadley.

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V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Allow duty of the treasurer to pay, on the warrant of the commis's. Comptroller, to the said superintendant the said sum of money out of the said fund, to be by the said superintendant applied as soon as may be thereafter to the laying out of the said road, and the building of the necessary bridges thereon.

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VI. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners and the said superintendant shall each be To be paid entitled to receive for their services and expences out of the whilst necessarily employed in their duties aforesaid, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day in addition to the wages and necessary expences of such persons as they shall necessarily einploy in and about the business aforesaid, payable out of the said appropriation: Provided nevertheless, That the whole expence of laying out the said road, making the survey bill thereof and recording the same, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars; and that the remainder of the said appropriation shall be expended in constructing the bridges across the Sacandaga and the Hudsons rivers at such places as shall be appointed by the said com missioners.

CHAP. XXXIII.

An ACT for the relief of the Elders, Deacons, Trus-
tees, and members of the Lutheran Congregation at
Loonenburgh, in the village of Athens, and town
of Catskill.
Passed February 12, 1813.
HEREAS the elders, deacons, trustees, and

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Loonenburgh, now village of Athens, in the town of Catskill, have by their petition to the Legislature set forth, that they are desirous of applying so much of the rents, profits, and revenues, arising from their estate towards the support of the protestant episcopal clergyman at Athens aforesaid, as the trustees of the said Lutheran congregation may deem proper: There

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Be it enacted by the people of the state of Nen York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it

shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the Lutheran congregation in the village of Athens and town of Catskill to apply the whole or any part of the rents, profits and revenues of the real and personal estate of the said Lutheran congregation at Loonenburgh, now village of Athens, towards the support and for the use of the protestant episcopal clergyman in the said village of Athens and town of Catskill, for any term or time the said trustees, or a majority of them, may deem proper, any condition in the grant or grants of land to the said Lutheran congregation to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

CHAP. XXXIV.

An ACT for the relief of Samuel Godard and Daniel Hutchenson.

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Passed February 12, 1813.

HEREAS Samuel Godard and Daniel Hutchenson are owners or proprietors of the water privileges immediately above and below the bridge on the Seneca turnpike road, where the same crosses the nine mile creek in the town of Marcellus, and the lands adjacent thereto: And whereas the said proprietors are desirous of availing themselves of the full benefit of the said water privileges by erecting a dam and other works for the purpose of mills and other machinery within the limits of said turnpike road, or near the same, as shall be found most convenient. Therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the said Samuel Godard and Daniel Hutchenson, and their heirs and assigns, shall be and are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a dam, and such other hydraulic works as may be necessary for the use of mills and other machinery, within the limits of and contiguous to said road, at the place aforesaid: Provided always, That no such dam or other fixture shall be so erected without the consent of the president and directors of said turnpike corporation: And provided further, That no such mill or other fixture shall be so constructed or

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