Elections when helde Vacancies how fupplied Rules to be eftablished. that part of Stephentown aforesaid, and shall continue to be trustees for the purposes aforesaid until the last Tuesday in May next, and until others shall be chosen in their places; and that it shall and may be lawful for the freeholders residing in that part of Stephentown aforesaid for the time being, to assemble on the last Tuesday of May in each year, at such time of the day and place, as the trustees for the time being, or a major part of them shall, appoint by advertisement, and under the direction of the said trustees, or such of them as shall be present, who are hereby made inspectors of such election, and then and there by a majority of voices, to elect three discreet freeholders to be trustees as aforesaid, who shall continue in office until the last Tuesday in May in the next ensuing year, and until others shall be chosen in their places. III. And be it further enacted, That when and as often as any vacancy shall happen by death, removal, resignation or neglect to serve of any of the said trustees, it shall and may be lawful for one or more of the trustees to notify a meeting of the freeholders aforesaid, for the election of a trustee or trustees to fill such vacancy or vacancies, and that said trustee or trustees shall remain in office during such time as the person or persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen would have done in case such vacancy had not happened, and no longer. IV. And be it further enacted, That the said freeholders, at their annual meeting to be held as aforesaid, and at such other times in the year as the said trustees, or a majority of them, may think necessary to advertise for the purpose, shall be and they are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to make, ordain, constitute and establish such prudential rules, orders and regulations, as a majority of such freeholders so assembled shall judge necessary and convenient for the better securing to the said corporation the property hereby vested in them, for the more equal distribution of the income of all such corpo rate property among the schools within the bounds of said corporation, and also for well ordering and regulating the schools in such manner as will best promote the education of children. Obfolete. An ACT to direct the Distribution of the Money appropri ated by Law for the Encouragement of Schools in the. Counties of Orange and Rockland. Passed 25th March, 1800. Sess. 23, ch. Ixiii. TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION. CHAP. CLXXXIX. An ACT to direct certain Monies to be applied to the Use of 1. B Passed 8th April, 1801. council of the of the con tioned, each tain mouies E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Common represented in Senate and Assembly, That the may- city of Newor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York York to pay in common council convened, be and they are hereby trustees, &c. to the veltry, directed on or before the first day of August next, to pay gregations to the vestry of the Episcopal church, the vestry of Christ's herein menchurch, the trustees of the first Presbyterian church, the one eleven th minister, elders and deacons of the Reformed Dutch church, part of certhe trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, the trus- in their hands tees of the Scotch Presbyterian church belonging to the associate reformed synod, and to the trustees of the African school, and to the trustees of the united German Lutheran, the trustees of the German Reformed churches, to the trustees of the first Baptist church in the city of New-York, and to the trustees of the united Brethren or Moravian church, each one eleventh part of all the money which remains in their hands, which they have received by virtue of the act, entitled An act for the encouragement of schools, passed the 9th day of April, 1795; and the act, entitled An act to raise a sum of money for the use of this state by tax and for the further support of government, passed the 3d day of April, 1799. faid monies Return there annually to the common of to be made council. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty Appropri of the vestry, trustees and minister, elders and deacons tions of the aforesaid, to put out at interest on real security, the whole how made. amount of the respective shares which shall by them respectively be received, and the said vestry, trustees and ministers, elders and deacons, shall annually expend in the instruction of poor children in the most useful branches of common education the whole of the annual interest which shall accrue on their said respective shares; and shall on the second Tuesday of July in every year make return to the common council aforesaid, stating in writing the amount and manner in which they have disposed thereof, and how they have applied the income thereof, and such Penalty for of the said vestry, trustees and minister, elders and dea- neglect. cons who shall not apply such income as herein before directed, or who shall fail in complying with the other injunctions of this act, shall forfeit to the said common council such share or shares as by them shall have been so received, and on refusal to return the same, it shall be How recoverthe duty of the said common council to sue for and recover such share or shares as shall so become forfeited in any court having cognizance thereof, and the said common council are hereby directed to divide the amount ed & applied so recovered among the other free schools in the said city in equal proportion. [THIRD SECTION OBSOLete.]` Gospel& School Lots. TWELFTH SESSION. CHAP. XXXII. An ACT for the Sale and Disposition of Lands belonging to the People of this State. Surveyor-ger. II. eral's duty in laying out A Passed 25th February, 1789. ND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in every township so laid out or to be laid lands for the out as aforesaid,* the surveyor-general shall mark one lot fupport of the gospel and on the map gospel, and one other lot schools; which Ichools. lots shall be as nearly central in every township as may be, and the lots so marked shall not be sold, but the lots so marked gospel, shall be reserved for and applied to supporting the gospel in such township, and the lots marked schools, for the use of schools in such township. The 1ft fection of this act related to the Twenty Townships in Chenango, County. E. Supervisors and commifhioners empowered to take poffef fion of lands defignated as gofpel and fchool lots TWENTY-FIRST SESSION. CHAP. XLVIII. An ACT relative to the Lots of Land reserved for the Support of the Gospel and Schools, and for the Promotion of Literature, in the Military Tract in the County of Onondaga. 'Passed March 23d, 1798. I. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York Brepresented in Senate and Assembly, That the su pervisor of each of the towns in the county of Onondaga, for the time being in conjunction with such commissioners, not exceeding three in number, as the freeholders and inhabitants of any of the said towns shall at their annual town meeting respectively appoint, shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon and take possession of the lots of land, situate in the several towns for which such supervisors and commissioners shall have been appointed, which were designated for gospel and school lots by virtue of the act, entitled An act for the further direction of the commissioners of the land-office, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed the 11th day of April, And mayleafe 1796, and thereupon the supervisor and such commissioners of any of the said towns in which such lots of land may be situated, shall and may lease the same, upon such terms and for such period of time, as they in their discretion he fame. MILITARY LAND S. CHAP. XLIV. کو 265 An ACT to amend the Act, entitled " An Act for register. Gr.1.3.137%. ing Deeds and Conveyances, relating to the Military .. R. V.2·26. Bounty Lands." WHEREAS Passed 27th March, 1794. THEREAS by the act, entitled An act for registering Preamble. deeds and conveyances relating to the military bounty lands, which became a law on the eighth day of January last, it is enacted, That all deeds and conveyances there. tofore made and executed, or pretended so to be, of, or concerning, or whereby any of the said lands may be any way affected in law or equity, shall on or before the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, be delivered to, and deposited with the clerk of the city and county of Albany for the time being; and the said clerk shall on or before the first day of June, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, deliver all the said deeds and conveyances, so desposited in his office, to the clerk of the county of Herkimer for the time being, there to remain for the benefit of all persons interested therein; And whereas the said lands have been since erected into a separate county by the name of Onondaga; And whereas the time limited for depositing the said deeds and conveyances is too short; Therefore, I. Be it enacted by the People of the Stof New-York, represented in Senate and Ass80* 39 and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sae, That the time limited in and by the said act for delivering the said deeds and conveyances to the clerk of the city and county of Albany for the time being, and depositing the same with him, shall be and hereby is prolonged until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and that the clerk of the said city and county of Albany for the time being shall, on or before the first day of June which will be in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, deliver all the said deeds and conveyances which have been or shall be so deposited in his office, to the clerk of the county of Onondaga for the time being, there to remain for the benefit of all persons interested therein; any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of the county of Herkimer for the time being shall upon demand, deliver to the clerk of the county of Onondaga for the time being, all the books in which he shall have recorded since the eighth day of January last, in conformity to the said act, any deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, of or concerning, or whereby any of the said lands may be any way affected in law or equity, FOL. II. ᏞᎥ Time for de- tary deeds Clerk.of Her- kimer to de clerk of Onon. deeds, &c. kimer. together with all deeds and conveyances, of or concerning the same lands then in his possession, taking a receipt for the same; and that thereupon the operation of the said act, as to the said clerk of the said county of Herkimer shall And the clerk cease; and that the said clerk of the county of Onondaof Onondaga ga, for the time being, shall thereafter do, execute and to execute the duties re- perform all and every the duties and services required by quired by this act of the the said act to be done, executed or performed by the clerk of Her clerk of the county of Herkimer for the time being, and in the same manner and form, and shall be entitled to the like rewards, and subject to the like penalties, as such clerk of the said county of Herkimer is entitled and subject to by the said act, and every thing to be done in the premi ses by the clerk of the county of Onondaga for the time being, shall be of the same validity and effect as if done by the clerk of the county of Herkimer before the passing of this act; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. TWENTIETH SESSION. CHAP. LI. An ACT to settle Disputes concerning the Titles to Lands in the County of Onondaga. Gr.v.3.425. H.G. R. v.2.266. Preamble. 5. John. 139. Robert Yates ers relative WH Passed the 24th March, 1797. HEREAS a convention of delegates from a number of towns in the county of Onondaga, have by their petition presented to the legislature, prayed that a law may be passed, authorizing a speedy and equitable mode of settling disputes relative to the titles of land in that county: Therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Robert Yates, James Kent, and Vincent Matthews shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with full power to hear, the county of examine, award, and determine according to law and Onondaga. equity all disputes and controversies respecting the titles, and all claims whatsoever to any lands in the county of Onondaga, and to examine any party or parties submitting to their examination and witnesses on oath, and to commit any witness refusing to be sworn or to answer any question or questions touching the premises, to the gaol of the county in which they may then sit, there to remain until he or she shall submit to be sworn, and to answer such question or questions; Provided always, That no person shall be obliged to answer any question which may tend to charge himself or herself with any crime, nor shall any witness be compelled to answer any question or questions wherein he or she shall be interested. Commiffion. III. And be it further enacted, That the said commissionDie at Aurora ers shall, as soon as conveniently may be, after the first |