for them to commence and prosecute the same by the name and style of "The Commissioners for ditching and draining the Flint Creek and Nettle valley swamp, in the town of Potter, in the county of Yates, and Gorham, in the county of Ontario." S8. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or Right to rerepeal this act. peal. a CHAP. 62. AN ACT further to amend the act entitled “An act to in- Passed March 31, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in tended and $ 1. The Brunswick and Pittstown turnpike compa- Turnpike ny are hereby authorised to extend their turnpike road may and easterly from its present termination near the house of altered. Charles Haskins, in the town of Pittstown, till it intersects the road laid out by the Troy turnpike and rail-road company, near the house of Joseph Wadsworth, and also to make such alterations in the route of said road, as the president and directors of the said company shall think expedient: provided that no such alteration shall divert the said road more than fifteen rods from its present line, unless by consent of the owner or owners of the land through which said road shall be constructed. owners of $ 2. Such alterations and extension of said road may with conbe made by the said president and directors, with the con- ent of the sent of the owners of land necessary to be taken there- land. for; but where no agreement shall be made by the said president and directors with the said owners for such alterations and extension of said road, the compensation to the owners of land taken therefor, shall be made in the manner provided by the Revised Statutes for laying out turnpike roads. $ 3. The said company are hereby authorised to receive Subscriptions subscriptions to their capital stock from time to time, un- to stock. til it shall amount to fifty thousand dollars, and to expend the same in extending and altering the route of said road, and in MacAdamizing or otherwise improving the said road, but not to be expended in the ordinary repairs thereof; and it shall be the duty of said company, after the said road shall be completed according to the requirements of Tolls. Right to re peal. Money may tax. the existing laws, and after the costs of its construction shall be reported to the comptroller, annually to make a further report of the amount of money expended during the preceding year, by virtue of this act. $ 4. The tolls authorised to be taken by the said corporation by virtue of the fifth section of the act hereby amended, and of the act amending the same, "for every -coach or four wheeled pleasure wagon or other four wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by two horses," shall hereafter be the same as that authorised by the said act to be taken, "for every wagon drawn by two horses;" and the said tolls specified, " for every chair, chaise or other pleasure carriage drawn by one horse," shall be the same as that authorised by the said act to be taken "for every one horse wagon or cart drawn by one horse;" and so much of said act as is repugnant hereto, is hereby repealed. $5. The legislature may at any time alter, modify or repeal this act or any of its provisions. CHAP. 63. AN ACT to authorise the board of supervisors of the county of Herkimer to raise money to build a court-house in said county. Passed March 31, 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 Herkibe raised by mer, are hereby directed to raise by tax, as hereinafter directed, upon the inhabitants of said county, to be levied and collected as other contingent expenses of said county are levied and collected, a sum not exceeding four thou sand six hundred dollars, for the purpose of building and completing a court-house in the village of Herkimer. Building commission ers. Materials. $2. The said court-house shall be built under the direction and superintendence of Francis E. Spinner, Arphaxed Loomis and Prentice Yeomans, or a majority of them, as commissioners. The said board of supervisors may, at any time, remove all or any of said commissioners, and appoint others in their stead, $ 3. The said commissioners shall cause said court-house to be built of brick, containing a court room, jury rooms, and a room suitable for the grand jury, and the meeting of the board of supervisors of said county. S4. The comptroller is hereby authorised to loan to Lon the county of Herkimer, a sum not exceeding four thou sand six hundred dollars, out of the moneys now in the treasury of the state, belonging to the capital of the common school fund, on receiving from the treasurer of said county a bond, conditioned for him, as treasurer, and his successor in office, to pay the said sum of four thousand six hundred dollars, in annual instalments of five hundred dollars each, from and after the year eighteen hundred and forty, together with the annual interest on the said loan from the time it is made, at the rate of six per cent per annum. tax annually. $5. The board of supervisors shall annually raise, in Amount of the manner aforesaid, a sum sufficient to pay the annual interest on said loan, and shall have authority annually at any time after the passage of this act, to raise a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to pay the princpal of said loan, until the whole debt is extinguished; which sum or sums so raised, the treasurer is hereby directed to receive for the purposes aforesaid, and pay the same into the treasury of the state. ers to give $ 6. The said commissioners shall give to the board Commissionof supervisors a bond in the sum of six thousand dollars, cont for the faithful discharge of their duties under this act, with three sureties, to be approved of by a judge of the Herkimer county courts, and shall deliver said bond to the county treasurer; and upon delivering the treasurer's bond to the comptroller, they shall be authorised to receive a sum sufficient for the above mentioned purposes, not exceeding the said sum of four thousand six hundred dollars. $7. The said commissioners shall render annually, an To account account of their proceedings and expenditures to the said annually. board of supervisors, until they shall have fully executed their duties under this act; and the said board of supervisors shall allow said commissioners such compensation for their services as they shall deem to be reasonable and proper, to be paid as other contingent expenses of said county are paid, supervisors. S8. After the completion of said court-house, the board Meetings of of canvassers of elections, and the board of supervisors of said county shall hold their annual meetings therein, in the same manner as they are now directed to be held in the county clerk's office. tofore raised. $9. The money raised by the board of supervisors of Money heresaid county for repairing the court-house recently burnt therein, shall be appropriated by said commissioners in building said court-house. Contractors rity. $ 10. The commissioners, before commencing the erecto give secution of said court-house, shall contract for the building of the same, and shall receive from the contractor or contractors, a good and sufficient security, to be approved of by them, that the said court-house shall be completed for a sum, not exceeding in the whole, five thousand dollars. $ 11. This act shall take effect and become a law from the passage thereof. Act to take effect CHAP. 64. AN ACT for the relief of Holmes Hutchinson. Passed April 1, 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 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and ninetythree dollars and fourteen cents, in full compensation for his services on examining the inclined planes of the Morris canal, of the state of New-Jersey, under the direction of the canal commissioners of this state. CHAP. 65. AN ACT to change the name of John Swartout Smith Duvall. Passed Arpil 1, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $ 1. From and after the passage of this act, John Swartout Smith Duvall, of the town of Mentz, in the county of Cayuga, shall be called and known by the name of John Clark. CHAP. 66. AN ACT in relation to the State-Hall. Passed April 1, 1834. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, the speaker Trustees of the state-hall. of the assembly, the secretary of state, the attorney-gene- land in Alba state prison agent. S3. The agent of the state prison at Mount-Pleasant Duty of the shall cause to be prepared and delivered at the prison on the order of the trustees, the stone and all such other articles necessary for the building as can be manufactured at the said prison, and shall charge the same at a reasonable price. sell the pre S4. The said trustees shall sell the present state-hall Trustees to and the lands belonging thereto, as soon as the same canent state be done on terms advantageous to the public, and may con- ball tract to deliver possession of the same at such time, as in their judgment, the new offices will be completed. $5. The additional sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, and may be drawn from the treasury on the order of the said trustees. Appropriation of $40,Ouo. report. $ 6. The said trustees shall report to the legislature at Trustees to its next session, within twenty days after the commencement thereof, a particular statement of the expenditures which have been made under this act, together with a plan of the building and an estimate of the expense of completing the same. S7. This act shall take effect on the passage thereof. Act to take effect. |