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same is hereby declared in such case to be dissolved; Provided nevertheless, That no such dissolution 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.

X. And be it further enacted, That the said bridge shall not be less than twenty feet wide, and shall be well secured with a good and sufficient railing on each side thereof, not less than four feet and six inches high; and that if the navigation of the said river shall during the said term of forty years, be so improved as to be navigable by boats with fixed standing masts, the said president, directors and company shall construct or cause to be constructed a good and sufficient draw at least ten feet wide, and shall whenever applied to for that purpose by any person or persons ascending or descending the said river in any such boat or boats, raise and open the said draw and permit such boat or boats to pass free of any expense; Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed so as to prejudice the corporate rights of the western inland lock navigation company.

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Roads and Bridges.

An ACT granting to Alexander J. Turner and Adonijah Skinner an exclusive Right of Running a Stage on the Route therein mentioned.

Passed March 30, 1798. Sess. 21. ch. Ixii.

[As this act will expire on the ift May, 1803, it was thought unneceffary to reprint it. E.]

TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION. CHAP. LXXXIX. An ACT to authorize Robert Merritt and John Merritt to build a Bridge over the southwest Arm of Saw-Pit-Creek, in the Town of Rye, in the County of Westchester.

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Passed 30th March, 1801.

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

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build a bridge Merritt and John Merritt, their heirs or assigns, be and they or either of them are hereby empowered and authorized, at their own expense, to build a bridge from the public landing called Saw-pit-point over the southwest arm of Saw-pit-creek to the land of the said Robert Merritt, between the store-house belonging to Silvanus Seaman, and the bake-house belonging to Benjamin Rockwell, and south of the said store-house and not within two rods of the same, agreeable to the dimensions and directions, following, that

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519 is to say The said bridge shall not be less than fifteen To be confeet wide, with good and sufficient railings on each side, a and be so constructed that it shall have a good and sufficient draw of not less than twenty feet wide, for the free passage of vessels with their masts standing.

II. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall neglect or refuse to close the said draw within thirty minutes after they have passed through the same, they shall forfeit and pay for every such neglect or refusal two dollars, to be recovered by the said Robert Merritt and John Meritt, or their heirs or assigns, in an action to be brought before any justice of the peace in said county, with costs of suit.

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III. And be it further enacted, That the said Robert Conditions on Merritt and John Merritt, their heirs and assigns, be and bridge to be they are hereby authorized to build the said bridge on the built.

express condition, that the said bridge when completed,

shall be a public bridge; and that they the said Robert Merritt and John Merritt, or their heirs or assigns, give to the public, land for a good and sufficient road from the said bridge to a place called Negro-point adjoining Byram-river, and a sufficient quantity of land at said point for a public landing, which shall be for no other use, and to be laid out by the commissioners of highways where they shall judge it most convenient for the public.

CHA P. CXII.

An ACT to authorize John Drake, junior, and Samuel Bogardus to erect a Bridge across Wappinger's Creek in the County of Dutchess.

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Passed 2d April, 1801.

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Bretresented in Senate and Assembly, That John Drake Jun and Sam junior, and Samuel Bogardus, their heirs or assigns, shall authorized to build a bridge be and hereby are authorized, at their own costs and ex- at the place penses, to erect and build a bridge across the mouth of the Wappinger's creek in the county of Dutchess, to extend from or near the wharf of the said John Drake junior, which is on the southeastern side of the said creek to a point of land opposite thereto, known by the name of the Sandy-point distant about one hundred and nineteen feet from the said wharf (the fee of the said land on both sides of the said creek being in the said John Drake junior) said bridge to be built of wood sufficiently strong for the safe passage of loaded carts and waggons, to be supported by To be conpiles well driven into the bottom of the said creek; said a draw, &c. bridge to be built at least fourteen feet wide, and to be and the fame well covered with oak or pine plank not less than three in- free,

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ches thick, the lower string pieces to lie so high as at com mon high water. to be at least six feet above the water; the sides of the said bridge to be secured by close substantial railings, and to be so constructed, with a draw to open at least twenty-four feet, so as conveniently to admit masted vessels to pass and repass said bridge, and that the residue of the piles to be so drove as to leave another space of thirty feet clear in the channel of the waters of said creek under the said bridge, both which said passages shall be a free open highway, and shall be freely used with. out toll or reward.

II. And be it further enacted, That the said John Drake junior and Samuel Bogardus, shall on or before the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, compleat and finish said bridge, and shall at all times thereafter, as well by night as by day, provide and keep sufficient person or persons to attend and open the said draw bridge during the season of navigation; and such person or persons so attending, on sufficient notice being given to them by the master or owner of any vessel having necessary business or occasion to pass said bridge, by the blowing of a horn or otherwise, such person or persons so attending said bridge shall immediately open or cause the said draw to be opened, and shall permit every such vessel whose mast cannot easily be unstepped, or whose lading will not admit of her passage under the said bridge, to pass through the said draw unmolested and freely as aforesaid.

III. And be it further enacted, That when any such vessel, masted or laden as aforesaid, shall be unnecessarily detained from passing through said draw for more than fifteen minutes, by the refusal, neglect or delay of any person or persons so attending the said bridge after such notice given as aforesaid, the said John Drake junior and Samuel Bogardus shall on demand, pay to the master or owner of such vessel so unnecessarily detained, the sum of four dollars for every half hour such vessel shall be so detained beyond the said fifteen minutes; and the master or owner of any masted vessel as aforesaid, at whose request fuch veffels in the said draw shall be opened, shall use all due diligence not ufing due diligence in and expedition in passing such vessel through said draw, paffing the fame. under the like forfeiture of four dollars for every half hour of unnecessary delay after the said draw shall so have been opened to admit such vessel to pass through.

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IV. And be it further enacted, That any master or owner of any vessel, or any person or persons whatsoever, who in passing through the said draw bridge, or at any other time, shall wilfully injure or damage said bridge, or any part thereof with a vessel or otherwise, such master or owner of such vessel, or other person or persons so offending, shall on demand pay to the said John Drake junior

and Samuel Bogardus, or their proper representatives, such sum or sums of money as shall be amply sufficient to repair such damages.

V. And be it further enacted, That whenever any rafts of saw logs or other lumber, shall be brought to the said bridge to be passed up the said Wappinger's creek, and such raft of saw logs or other lumber shall be so large as that the space under the bridge will not admit the passing thereof without breaking up such raft, then the said John Drake junior and Samuel Bogardus, their heirs and assigns, shall at their own expense within twenty-four hours after due notice given by the owner or conductor of such raft to the person or persons attending said bridge, cause such raft to be passed above or below said bridge, and shall there within twelve hours, deliver such raft to the owner or conductor thereof in as good order and connected together as it was when delivered to them, and shall be answerable to the owner or conductor of such raft for all damages which may have been sustained in separating and again connecting such raft, and in passing the same above said bridge.

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VI. And be it further enacted, That if the said John In what cafe Drake junior and Samuel Bogardus, their heirs or assigns, shall neglect or refuse to keep the said bridge in proper and sufficient repair within a reasonable time after any injuries shall happen to the same, or shall neglect or refuse to comply with the terms mentioned in this act, or if the said bridge shall cause material obstructions in the channel of the said creek by sand bars or otherwise, and shall thereby become a public nuisance, and complaint thereof being made to the court of general sessions of the peace held in and for the county of Dutchess, the said court on due proof thereof, shall have power to order the said nuisance or bridge to be removed at their discretion.

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VII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall con- This act how tinue in force for the term of seven years from and after long to be, the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and force, &c. two, and no longer; and that all forfeitures and penalties incurred by virtue of this act shall be recovered, with costs of suit, in any court within this state having cognizance thereof.

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Incorporations.

[Several of the acts under this head relate exclusively to the private interests of the individuals incorporated, and the community at large are not particularly interested therein or affected by them. In all such cases it has been deemed sufficient to print the titles of the acts only. E.]

VOL. II.

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All former rights to be enjoyed by the prefent corporation.

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SESSION. CHAP. XXX.

An ACT to remove Doubts concerning the Corporation of the
Chamber of Commerce, and to confirm the Rights and
Privileges thereof.

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Passed 13th April, 1784.

ND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporation of the chamber of commerce of the state of New-York, and their successors, shall and may for ever hereafter peaceably have, hold, use and enjoy all and every the rights, powers, liberties, privileges, franchises, usages, lands, tenements, estates and hereditaments, which have heretofore by virtue of the above recited charter been given or granted unto the said corporation, by the name of the corporation of the chamber of commerce of the city of New-York in America.

[The charter was recited at large in the preamble to this act. E.]

An ACT for the Payment of certain Sums of Money, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

Passed 5th May, 1786. Sess. 9, ch. Ixvi.

[The 29th fect. of this act and that only related to the N. York marine society. E.]

THIRTEENTH SESSION.

CHAP. XXVI.

An ACT to incorporate the Stockholders of the New-York

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Manufacturing Society.

Passed 16th March, 1790. HEREAS James Nicholson and others, associated as a company under the style of the New-York manufacturing society, for the laudable purposes of establishing manufactories, and furnishing employment for the honest industrious poor, by their petition presented to this legislature have prayed to be incorporated, to enable them more extensively to carry into effect their patriotic intentions: Therefore,

I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, of the manu represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted facturing fociety incorpo- by the authority of the same, That all such persons who now are and hereafter shall be stockholders of the said socorporation. ciety, shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be one body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The New-York manufacturing society," and that by that name they and their successors, for twenty-five years hereafter, shall and may have succes. sion; and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and of being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all

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