Trustees of the capitol. Repairs. Repeal. Superinten dent. Rooms may be leased Corporation of Albany. CHAP. 249. AN ACT concerning the Capitol, and providing for the appointment of a Superintendent thereof. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. The governor and lieutenant-governor, the speaker of the assembly, the secretary of state, the attorney-general and the comptroller, by right of office, are, and shall continue to be, trustees of the capitol; and the custody and care thereof shall be, and hereby is vested in the said trustees. $ 2. The said trustees shall have power, from time to time to cause such repairs to be made as may be necessary for the preservation of the said capitol; and the comptroller shall draw his warrant on the treasury for the expense thereof, not exceeding two hundred dollars in any one year. $ 3. The second section of title seven of chapter nine of the first part of the Revised Statutes, is hereby repealed. $ 4. The said trustees shall appoint some suitable person to be superintendent of the capitol, who shall reside therein, and shall observe such orders and directions relating to the preservation of the same, as shall from time to time be given by the said trustees. $5. Such rooms in the said capitol as are not appropriated to public use, and not necessary for the accommodation of the legislature and the courts authrised by law to be held there, may be leased by the said trustees, from year to year, upon such terms and conditions as to the said trustees shall seem proper. $6. The corporation of the city of Albany, and its officers, may continue to occupy and use such parts of the said capitol as heretofore has been usual, until the city-hall of said city shall be completed and finished. The clerk of the city and county of Albany may continue to use and occupy that part of the capitol heretofore appropriated and used as a clerk's office, until the time aforesaid: but the use and occupation authorised and permitted by this section, shall not in any case extend beyond the first day of January next, unless the said trustees shall consent thereto. CHAP. 250. AN ACT authorising the appointment of an additional Inspector of Lumber for the City of Albany. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. That the governor shall nominate, and with the consent of the Senate, appoint, an additional inspector of lumber for the city of Albany. S2. This act shall commence and take effect from and immediately after the passage thereof. CHAP. 251. AN ACT to authorise the Board of Supervisors of the County of Columbia, to raise the sum of Four Hundred Dollars, to pay the Debts of the Town of Stuyvesant, in said County. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the county of Columbia, at their next annual meeting, to cause the sum of four hundred dollars to be assessed, levied and collected, in the town of Stuyvesant, in the said county, for the purpose of paying the debts of the said town; and the said sum of four hundred dollars, when so levied and collected, shall be paid by the collector of the said town of Stuyvesant, to the supervisor of the said town, to be applied by him to the payment of the debts of said town, and to be accounted for by him according to law. CHAP. 252. AN ACT to extend the Jail Liberties of the County of Rensselaer. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 6 St. The jail limits of the county of Rensselaer shall be, and the same are hereby extended so as to embrace and con tain the six wards in the city of Troy; provided always, that the court of common pleas of the said county of Rensselaer may, in session, at any stated term of their said court, so alter the said liberties as to reduce the same to the four first wards of said city. CHAP. 253. AN ACT to authorise the Medical Society of the County of Herkimer, to alter the Time of holding their Anniversary Meeting. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. It shall be lawful for the Medical Society of the county of Herkimer, to hold their anniversary meeting at such time and place as the said society may for that purpose appoint. Dam. Time limited. Tolls. CHAP. 254. AN ACT to authorise Clark Hilton to erect a Dam and Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. It shall and may be lawful for Clark Hilton, his heirs or assigns, to erect, continue, and keep up a dam across the Tonawanda creek, at or near the place where said Hilton's dam is now erected, in the town of Clarence in the county of Erie, not exceeding seven feet in height. $2. The said Clark Hilton, his heirs or assigns, shall, within two years and six months after the passage of this act, construct and keep in repair a lock in said dam, of the usual dimensions of the locks on the Erie canal, for the safe and easy passage of boats, rafts and other crafts, at all times during the continuance of said dam. S3. The said Clark Hilton, his heirs or assigns, may receive such tolls for the passage of any boat, raft or other craft, through said lock, as the court of common pleas of the county of Erie shall from time to time order and determine. $4. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect Saving the rights of individuals, who may be injured by reason of said clause. dam; and the legislature may at any time alter or repeal this act. CHAP. 255. AN ACT to amend the Act to incorporate the Lansingburgh Turnpike Company. Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: stockholders $1. In order to enable the president and directors of said Calls on company to finish and complete their road, and to pay the debts due by said company, a sum not exceeding six dollars may be assessed on each and every share of stock which may be holden by any stockholder of said company, payable at such times and places as the said president and directors of said company shall appoint and direct, by a notice to be inserted once a week for four weeks in a newspaper printed in the village of Lansingburgh; and if any stockholder shall refuse or neglect to pay any such assessment for thirty days after the time of payment mentioned in the said notice, then and in such case the stock which they may hold shall and may be forfeited to the use of said company; but not more than three dollars on each share of the said stock shall be assessed within one year from and after the passing of this act. extended. § 2. The said president and directors may, at any time Road may be within six years after the passing of this act, extend their said road from the north end thereof to the Hoosick river in the county of Rensselaer, and from the south end thereof to Union bridge, by such route and direction as shall be designated by commissioners to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of the second article, chapter eighteen, part first, title first, of the Revised Statutes; and may construct, work, and improve the said extended road, from the place and in the manner provided in and by the act hereby amended, for constructing, working, and improving the road therein mentioned: But before any extension of said road shall take effect, the assent in writing of a majority of the stockholders of said company shall be obtained, and filed with the clerk of said company. subscriptions. $3. If the said company shall extend the said road in the Additional manner provided in the second section of this act, it shall be lawful for the president and directors thereof to receive subscriptions for three hundred additional shares of stock to said Toll-gate. company; and the capital stock of said company shall from and thenceforth be increased to eight hundred shares in all: Calls and assessments shall be made upon said additional shares, in the same manner as is provided in this act or the act hereby amended. $4. When the said extended road shall be completed, it shall be lawful for the said president and directors to erect and establish an additional toll-gate upon said extended road, not less than five miles from the gate to be erected on the present road of said company; and to exact and receive from all persons using said road, the same rate of toll as are provided and mentioned in the act hereby amended, for passing the gate therein mentioned. Name. Corporation created. Banking powers Real estate CHAP. 256. AN ACT to incorporate the President, Directors and Passed April 17, 1830. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. There shall be established, in the ninth ward in the city of New-York, a bank, to be called "The Greenwich Bank;" whose operations of discount and deposit shall be carried on in the city of New-York, and in the ward above mentioned, and not elsewhere. $ 2. All persons who shall become holders of the capital stock of the said bank, pursuant to this act, shall be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The President, Directors and Company of the Greenwich Bank;" and such corporation shall continue until the first Monday of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. $3. The said corporation shall have power to carry on the business of banking, by discounting bills, notes, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, and bills of exchange; by issuing bills, notes, and other evidences of debt; and by exercising such other incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on such business. S 4. The real estate which it shall be lawful for the said corporation to purchase, hold, and convey, shall be, 1. Such as shall be requisite for its immediate accommodation in the convenient transaction of its business; or, |