CHAP. 9.

AN ACT for the relief of Jane Nugent.

Passed February 5, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to Jane Nugent, widow of John Nugent deceased, the sum of eighteen dollars and cight cents, being the amount due him for his services as a clerk in the comptroller's office from the first to the eleventh of October, one thousand eight and hundred thirty-three.

CHAP. 10.

AN ACT reducing the duties upon salt manufactured in any of the counties of this state.

Passed February 12, 1834.

The People of ths State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. There shall be paid and collected upon all salt manufactured in any of the counties of this state, a tax or duty of six cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds weight, which duties shall be appropriated as declared in the second title, ninth chapter and first part of the Revised Statutes of this state.

$2. The second section of the first article, tenth title, ninth chapter and first part of the Revised Statutes, in relation to the duty on salt, is hereby repealed.

СНАР. 11.

AN ACT explanatory of "An act for the erection of a court house and jail in the county of Kings," passed April 25,

1833.

Passed February 17, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The second section of the act entitled "An act for the erection of a court-house and jail in the county of Kings," passed April 25, 1833, is hereby declared in its

true interpretation, to authorise the supervisors therein named, to create the public stock, in said section mentioned, as well for the purpose of paying the consideration money of the site, or sites purchased, or provided, or to be purchased, or be provided as mentioned in the first section of said act, as for the purpose of erecting the buildings mentioned in said act.

$ 2. This act shall take effect immediately on the passing thereof.

CHAP. 12.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes, in the town of Rotterdam, in the county of Schenectady.

Passed February 17, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

$ 1. If the collector of taxes of the town of Rotterdam shall renew his security in such manner as the supervisor of said town shall reasonably require, the time for the collection and making the returns of taxes shall be extended to the first day of April next; and the said collector shall continue to have, exercise and enjoy all the powers and authorties in relation to his office that he possessed previous to the day on which he should have made his return.

$ 2. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof.

СНАР. 13.

AN ACT to authorize the erection of a new court-house in the county of Chautauque.

Passed February 19, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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$1. The board of supervisors of the county of Chau- Money to be tauque shall cause to be assessed and collected, in the same manner as ordinary county charges are by law directed to be assessed and collected, the sum of five thousand dollars in five equal annnal instalments, beginning with the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven,

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for the purpose of building a new court-house in said county.

S2. Thomas B. Campbell, of Westfield, and William Peacock and Martin Prendergrast, of Mayville, in said county, are hereby appointed commissioners to contract for and superintend the building of the said court-house; and in case either of the said commissioners shall die, resign, or refuse to serve, the supervisors of said county shall supply the vacancy; and a majority of such commissioners shall in all cases have power to act under the provisions of this act.

S3. The said commissioners, before they shall enter upon the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall each of them enter into a bond, with security, to be approved of by the treasurer of said county, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, to the supervisors of the said county, for the due and faithful performance of the trust reposed in them; and the said commissioners shall receive for their services one dollar and fifty cents per day, for each day they may be actually employed in the duties of their office, and their accounts shall be audited by the board of supervisors, and paid as other contingent charges of the county.

S4. If before the said moneys shall be collected, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall certify to the treasurer of the said county, that the whole amount contemplated by the first section of this act, or any specified proportion thereof, will be required for the fulfilment of any contract made by them in the performance of their trust, it shall thereupon be the duty of the said treasurer, and he is hereby authorized to borrow, on the credit of the county, the amount specified in such certificate, and to reimburse the same, with annual interest thereon, out of the moneys to be collected by virtue of this act, as soon as the same shall come into his hands. .

$ 5. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer to report annually to the said board of supervisors, the amount of interest becoming due in such year, upon any loan which may have been effected by virtue of the fourth section of this act, which amount shall be audited by the said board, and paid as other contingent charges of the county are paid.

$ 6. The said commissioners shall have full power to ors to drawer draw upon the treasurer of said county, from time to time, for such moneys as may be required for the purposes contemplated by this act, and the said treasurer is hereby directed to pay over to them, or a majority of them, any

moneys in his hands which may have been collected in pursuance of this act, exclusive of the amount collected for interest due upon loans.

$7. The commissioners appointed by virtue of this act, To account shall at all times when required by the supervisors of said county, account with them for the faithful expenditure of all the moneys received by them, or either of them, by virtue of this act.

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$8. The said court-house shall be built upon one of the Location of public squares in the village of Mayville, or on such other lot of ground in the vicinity of the new jail, as some proprietor of land in that village shall convey, and assure to the said county, in fee simple, free of expense, and the said commissioners shall accept.

CHAP. 14.

AN ACT authorizing the trustees of school district number twelve, in the town of Chenango, to sell a school lot.

Passed February 19, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

$1. Vincent Whitney, Samuel Smith and Samuel S. Hill, trustees of school district number twelve, in the town of Chenango, or their successors in office, are hereby authorized to sell and convey, in fee simple, the lot belonging to the said district, and on which their school-house stands, and to apply the proceeds to the purchase of another lot and the erection of a new building for the benefit of the said district.

CHAP. 15.

AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Spalding, collector of the town of Bleecker, county of Montgomery.

Passed February 21, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

$1. The official acts of Jacob Spalding, of the town of Bleecker, county of Montgomery, as collector of said town, done and performed prior to the passage of this act, are hereby ratified and confirmed in as full and complete a

manner as if the said Spalding had been legally elected or appointed to said office.

$2. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas

sage.

CHAP. 16.

AN ACT in relation to town meetings.

Passed February 21, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The time for holding town meeting shall include the first Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in May; and all town meetings which have been held on either of those days, shall be as valid and effectual as though they had been held on any Tuesday between those days.

CHAP. 17.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to subject certain debts owing to non-residents to taxation," passed April 27, 1833.

Passed February 26, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. The act entitled "An act to subject certain debts owing to non-residents to taxation," passed April 27th, 1833, shall not be so construed as to subject any debt owing to the school fund of the state of Connecticut to taxation under the provisions of the said act.

CHAP. 18.

AN ACT extending the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Albany.

Passed February 26, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. If the collectors of taxes in the several wards of the city of Albany shall renew their securities respectively