LAWS PASSED AT THE FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGIS- $1. Whenever the office of vice-chancellor of any Common or circuit is vacant, common orders, orders by consent of $ 2. When the office of vice-chancellor of a circuit is Hearing. vacant, or the vice-chancellor, by reason of continued sickness, or a legal disability, is unable to hear the ap- plication, a motion or petition in any suit or proceeding pending before the vice-chancellor of such circuit, may be heard by the chancellor, upon the usual notice of the application to the adverse party. And the decree or or- der made upon such motion or petition, shall be entered with the register, assistant register, or clerk residing in such circuit, with the name of the chancellor in the cap- S3. This act shall take effect immediately after the Act to take CHAP. 2. AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Ward, the survivor of Passed January 18, 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 Joseph Ward, the survivor of Henry Ward, deceased, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and twenty-one dollars, for extra labor performed on the Oswego canal, as ascertained and allowed by the commissioners of the canal fund. S2. That this act shall go into operation immediately after its passage. Ground may CHAP. 3. AN ACT relating to the Jail and Work-House in the county of Albany. Passed January 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The board of supervisors of the county of Albabe purchased ny, are hereby authorized to purchase so much ground in the city of Albany, as they may deem necessary for the erection of a common jail for said county, and also for the construction of suitable buildings to be attached thereto, for work-shops, and other appropriate erections for a work-house, for the confinement of convicts in the said county, who may be setenced to confinement in such jail, at hard labor. Present jail $2. The present jail, and the ground belonging to the may be sold. said county, attached thereto, may be sold by the said board of supervisors, at public auction, either together or in separate lots and parcels; and the money arising therefrom applied to the payment of the expenses of the purchase of the ground and the erection of a new jail and work-house. exceed $10,000. Tax not to $ 3. At the next annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Albany, they shall raise by tax, to be levied and collected from the taxable property of the said county of Albany, in the same manner as other contingent charges of the said county are raised, levied and collected, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be applied as aforesaid. ing of super $4. There shall be a special meeting of the said board Special meet of supervisors, at their usual place of meeting in the said visors. county, on the second Tuesday of February next, for the purpose of making the purchase of such ground, and for entering into contracts, or making other preparations for the erection of such jail and work-house, during the present year, in case the said board shall judge that the purchase can be made, and the buildings erected at prices consistent with the public interest of the said county; and the said board may meet and adjourn from time to time, as often as they deem it necessary for such purpose. $ 5. It shall be lawful for the said board to appoint Agents. any agent or agents to superintend the erections of the said buildings, if they shall see fit; and when the said jail and buildings are so far completed as, in the opinion of the sheriff of the said county, to enable him to have the safe custody of the prisoners therein, it shall be his duty to remove the persons then in confinement, from the present jail to the said jail so to be erected. may be re $6. In case the said board of supervisors shall not be Present jail able to make contracts or agreements for the purchase of puired, &c. such site, and the erection of such buildings, at such price as they may judge expedent for the benefit of said county, it shall then be the duty of the said board of supervisors, to cause the present jail to be repaired in a manner safe for the detention of prisoners, and to build and erect such additions thereto, for work-shops, cells and dormitories, as they may deem necessary for the proper employment of convicts who may be sentenced to hard labor in the jail of the said county; and the said sum of money so to be raised by tax, shall be applied and expended for the purpose aforesaid. point super. $7. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county of Sheriff to ap Albany, every year to appoint a superintendent and keep- intendent. er of the said jail and work-house, whose duty it shall be to furnish food and rations, and support for all the prisononers and convicts confined in the said jail; to direct the employment of such convicts, or make contracts for the labor of any of them, purchase materials, make sales of articles produced or manufactured, and under the direction of the sheriff of the said county, have the general care of the said persons and convicts, and of the said buildings and appurtenances. The first appointment to take effect on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Duty of su $8. Such superintendent and jailor shall, at each anperintendent. nual meeting of the board of supervisors, render to them. under his oath, a full and detailed statement and account current of the expenses for the support and maintenance of the prisoners and convicts, the actual costs of all materials purchased, and the receipts of the avails for the labor of such convicts, and of materials on hand; and as near as may be, the estimated value thereof; and any deficiency shall be ordered to be paid by the said supervisors to the superintendent; and any surplus in his hands, paid to the treasurer for the use of the said county. His salary. Repeal. S9. The said superintendent and jailor shall receive from the said county, such salary as the board of supervisors shall by resolution determine upon, previous to any such appointment, and no more, in lieu of all fees and perquisites, heretofore attached to the office of jailor, and payable by the county. S 10. All laws inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, are hereby repealed: And this act shall take effect on the passage thereof. CHAP. 4. AN ACT to limit the number of inspectors of lumber in the city of Troy. The People of the Passed January 24, 1834. State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The number of inspectors of lumber hereafter to be appointed in the city of Troy, shall not exceed six. CHAP. 5. AN ACT relative to a town-house, in the town of Steuben, in the county of Oneida. Passed January 24, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Lot to be S1. The inhabitants of the town of Steuben, in the purchased. county of Oneida, are hereby authorized to purchase in the name of said town, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, a lot of land with a suitable building |