B. Coles shall at his own expense, keep the road from the bridge across Haerlem-river to Eastchester in repair during the time he shall exact any additional toll for passing the said bridge, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That the said John B. Coles shall lay out and expend, in repairing the said road, one hundred dollars, by the first day of July in each year, during the term he shall exact or take an additional toll of more than twenty-five per cent for passing over his bridge, in such manner that each of the towns of Westchester and Eastchester, shall be benefited thereby, in proportion to the work necessary to be done on the said road in each of the said towns; and shall render an account of the expenditure of the said one hundred dollars to the commissioners of highways of the towns of Westchester and Eastchester, on or before the first day of September in every year.

TWENTIETH SESSION.

CHAP. LIX.

An ACT to incorporate the Cayuga Bridge Company.

W

Passed the 28th March, 1797.

John B. Coles repairing the road one hun yearly.

to lay out in

dred dollars

HEREAS Charles Williamson, Thomas Morris, Preamble. John Harris, Wilhelmus Mynderse and Joseph Annin, are desirous of being incorporated, together with such persons as may hereafter become their associates, for the purpose of building a bridge across the Cayuga-lake in this state: Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Cayuga represented in Senate and Assembly, That there shall be es- bridge com pany incorpotablished a company of stockholders for the purpose of rated. building a bridge over the Cayuga-lake, or the outlet

- thereof, within this state, and to be called and known by the name of "The Cayuga bridge company," and so to remain for the term of twenty-five years; and by that Their corponame they and their successors for and during the said rate rights. -term of twenty-five years, shall and may have succession,

and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being su

ed, pleading and of being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure, and also that they and their successors, by the name of "The Cayuga bridge company," shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the public use of the said corporation; Provided, That Proviso, -the whole of the stock and real estate of the said corpora

Five directors and a treasurer to

be chofen annually.

Vacancies how to be filled.

Firft directors named.

Shares not to exceed 500, and amount of each.

Votes how

tion shall never exceed in value twenty-five thousand dollars; And provided further, That such real estate shall never exceed two hundred and fifty acres of land on each side of the said lake adjoining the said bridge.

II. And be it further enacted, That the stock, property, affairs and concerns of the said corporation, and the manner of obtaining subscriptions thereto, shall be managed, directed and conducted by five directors, who shall be stockholders, and shall together with a treasurer be annually chosen and elected on the first Wednesday in May in every year, at such time of the day, and at such place as the directors for the time being shall, forty days at least prior to the day of election, appoint by notice thereof in two of the public newspapers of this state; that all elections for the treasurer and directors shall be by ballot, and such person who at any such election shall have the greatest number of votes given at such election as treasurer, shall be the treasurer, and in like manner such five persons who shall have the greatest number of votes at such election shall be the directors, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall be chosen in their place; that if any vacancies shall happen among the directors by death, resignation or otherwise, such vacancies shall be filled for the remainder of the year in which they may happen by the appointment of the remainder of the directors for the time being, or a majority of them; that the first directors shall be Thomas Morris, John Harris, Charles Williamson, Wilhelmus Mynderse and Joseph Annin, and the first treasurer Jacob Hallet, who shall hold their offices. until the first Wednesday in May next, and until others shall be chosen in their place.

III. And be it further enacted, That the number of shares or subscriptions constituting the stock or funds of the said corporation, shall not exceed five hundred shares, and that the amount to be paid for each share or subscription shall be fifty dollars, and that each stockholder be enapportioned. titled to a number of votes proportioned to the number of shares which he or she shall have or hold in his or her name, according to the following ratio, that is to say: Every owner of one or more shares to the number of four, shall have one vote; of five shares and less than ten, three votes; of ten shares and less than twenty, five votes ; of twenty shares, eight votes, and one vote for every five shares above twenty.

Duty of the directors.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the directors for the time being, or a major part of them, shall have the disposition of the funds of the said corporation to and for the uses and purposes aforesaid, and shall annually on the first Wednesday in May, lay before the stockholders of the said corporation a general statement of their accounts and proceedings, which same statement of accounts and pro

ceedings it shall be the duty of the directors to lodge with the treasurer, at least ten days previous to such annual meetings, for the inspection and examination of the stockholders; and the directors for the time being, or a major part of them, shall have power to make and prescribe such bye-laws, rules and regulations as to them shall appear needful and proper, touching the management and disposition of the stock, property, estate and effects of the said corporation, and touching the duties and conduct of their secretary, clerks, agents and servants employed therein, and touching all such matters as appertain to the said corporation, with power to appoint such and so many workmen, clerks and servants, for the erecting and building of the said bridge, and relating to the same, and with such allowances and salaries as to them shall seem meet; Provided, That such bye-laws, rules and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States and of this state.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That this act be and is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be construed benignly and favourably for every beneficial purpose herein intended.

[Refidue of this act repealed, fee next act. E.]

This act declared a pub

fic act.

TWENTY-SECOND SESSION. CHAP. XXI. An ACT to amend the Act, entitled "An Act to incorporate. the Cayuga Bridge Company.

Passed 1st March, 1799.

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the time limited in and by the act hereby amended, for completing the bridge across the Cayuga-lake, shall be and hereby is extended to the first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one; and if the said bridge shall be completed within that time, then the said Cayuga bridge company shall be continued for the period of seventy-five years from and after the passing of this act.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect any bridge or establish any ferry or ferries within three miles of the place where the bridge aforesaid shall be erected and built by the said company; neither shall it be lawful for any person or persons to cross the said lake, after the aforesaid bridge is completed within three miles thereof, without paying to the corporation for their use the toll established by law; but it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to pass and repass with his or their own boat without being subject to such toll.

Certain per. fons not to pay toll for

paffing faid bridge on foot for 7 years.

Corporation

to be diffol

ved

III. And be it further enacted, That all such inhabitants as reside within three miles of the said bridge shall not be subject to the payment of any toll for passing and repassing the said bridge on foot for the term of seven years from and after the passing of this act.

IV. And be it further enacted, That in case the aforewhen deemed said bridge shall not be erected, built and completed on or before the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, then the corporation created by the act hereby amended shall be adjudged and considered as dissolved.

Rates of toll.

After 75 years faid bridge to become ftate

property.

V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to demand, receive and take for the use of said bridge, a toll not exceeding the following rates, viz. Every four wheel pleasure carriage drawn by two horses, one dollar, if drawn by four horses, one dollar and twenty-five cents; every two wheel pleasure carriage drawn by one horse, fifty cents, and if drawn by two horses, sixty-two and an half cents; every waggon and two horses, fifty-six cents and one quarter, if drawn by four horses, seventy-five cents; each sled and horses, thirty-seven and an half cents; each ox cart and two oxen, fifty-six cents and one quarter, each other yoke of oxen, twenty cents; every one horse cart, twenty-five cents; every one horse sled, twenty-five cents; every ox sled drawn by one yoke of oxen, thirty-seven and an half cents, every other yoke of oxen, twenty cents; every man and horse twenty-five cents; every foot passenger, six cents; every horse, jack or mule, ten cents; every cow or other neat cattle, six cents; every sheep, hog or calf, one and an half cents.

VI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the expiration of the aforesaid term of seventy-five years, the said bridge, with its appurtenances, together with the road or highway leading through the lands of the said cor-< poration, on each side of the said bridge, shall become the property of and be vested in the people of this sate.

Certain parts VII. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first of an act re enacting clause of the act, entitled An act to incorporate pealed. the Cayuga bridge company, passed the 28th of March, 1797, as respects the duration of said corporation, and the fifth, sixth and seventh sections of the said act, shall be and the same are hereby repealed; Provided nevertheless, That any troops in the service of this state or any of the United States, and all artillery, all waggons and other carriages, and stores of every kind, belonging to this state or to the United States shall pass said bridge without paying toll.

Provifo.

In what cafe

faid corpora

VIII. And be it further enacted, That if the said bridge tion to be dif. after the same shall have been completed, shall at any time during the said period of seventy-five years be impassable for the term of thirty days, that the said corporation shall

folved.

be, and the same is hereby declared in such case to be dissolved; Provided nevertheless, That no such dissolution of Provifo. the said corporation shall take place by reason of the said bridge being carried away by the ice, if the said bridge shall be rebuilt within eighteen months after the same shall have been so carried away; And provided also, That no- Further prothing in this act contained shall prevent the erection of one or more ferry or ferries at any of the places in this act designated, whenever the said bridge shall be carried away as aforesaid, and to continue the same until it shall be rebuilt.

vifo.

TWENTIETH SESSION. CHAP. XCVII. An ACT making Provision to keep in repair the Bridge over the Mohawk-river, below the Cohoes-Falls.

Passed the 3d April, 1797. :

E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Rates of toll. Bertenanted in Senate and Assembly, That from an

after the first day of June next, the following toll shall be collected from every person crossing the said bridge, viz. For every carriage crossing the said bridge and drawn by a single horse, six cents; for every wheel carriage or sled crossing the said bridge and drawn by two horses,' mules or other working cattle, the sum of eight cents; for every carriage or sled drawn by more than two horses, two mules or two other working cattle, at and after the rate of two cents for each additional creature; for a man and horse or mule, the sum of four cents; for every single horse, mare, colt or mule, the sum of one cent; for every bull, ox, cow, heifer or calf, the sum of two cents, and for sheep and hogs at and after the rate of ten cents per score. [RESIDUE OF THIS ACT REPEALED.]

An ACT to amend the Act, entitled "An Act making Repealed. Provision to keep in repair the Bridge over the Mohawk-River, below the Cohoes-Falls.

Passed March 30th, 1798. Sess. 21, ch. 61.

TWENTY-FIRST SESSION. CHAP. CII. An ACT concerning the Bridge over the Mohawk-River, below the Cohoes-Falls.

Passed April 6th, 1798.

I. E it enacted by the People of the State of New-York,

Commiffion

named to

Van Schoonhoven, Enoch Leonard and Garret Groesbeck, leafe the