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Preamble.

Right of the state vested

CHAP. XXVII.

AN ACT for the relief of Charles Reade.
Passed January 28th, 1820.

WHEREAS Charles Reade, of the city of New-York, patent spiral truss manufacturer, hath, by his petition, represented that the said Charles Reade removed from Dublin, in Ireland, to the city of New-York, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and became naturalized in the month of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight That Anne Reade, his late and second wife, during his temporary absence from New-York, on business, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, purchased the house and lot of ground, number five, William-street, in the city of New-York, with monies belonging to the said Charles Reade, remitted home to his said late and second wife, and took the conveyance or title thereof in her own name: That the said Anne Reade was at the time of the said purchase, and also at the time of her death, an alien, and died without issue, but that the said Charles Reade was and is a naturalized citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New-York, and hath prayed legislative aid and relief in the premises. Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, in C. Reade represented in Senate and Assembly, That all the right, title, claim, and interest, which this state now has, or may, (in virtue of the alienism of Anne Reade, the late and second wife of the said Charles Reade, of the city of New-York,) hereafter have into and to that certain house and lot of land in the city of NewYork, known as distinguished as No. 5, number five, Williamstreet, with its hereditaments and appurtenances shall be and hereby are vested in the said Charles Reade, his heirs and assigns for ever, subject to all legal incumbrances thereon.

Certain act repealed.

II. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled “ An act for the relief of Charles Reade, passed on the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Prizes or

put in the

wheel.

CHAP. XXVIII.

AN ACT to amend the Act, entitled " An act relative to Lotteries," passed April 13th, 1819.

Passed January 28, 1820.

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reblanks to be presented in Senate and Assembly, That the managers of lotteries which now are, or hereafter may be authorised by any law of this state, shall be permitted, in any lottery hereafter to be drawn, to put into the wheel and draw either the prizes only, or both blanks and prizes, as shall appear to them most conducive to the interest of the state.

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II. And be it further enacted, That the manager of lotteries who shall have the direction of the office for vending tickets for the Agents to be benefit of the state, in the city of New-York, shall have power, appointed. with the approbation of a majority of the board of managers, to appoint agents wheresoever he may think proper, to vend tickets or shares of tickets, under his direction, except in said city. Pro- Proviso vided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect, in any manner, the state office establishment in the city of NewYork, which the managers may establish according to the act hereby amended. And further, That the thirty-fourth section of the act hereby amended, shall not authorise any such agent to divide tickets, but that the prohibitions contained in, and the powers granted by that section, shall be considered as applicable only to venders of tickets, who shall have purchased from the managers for their individual benefit. And further, Such shares as are requisite for each agent, shall be signed and forwarded to them by the manager conducting the office in the city of New-York.

kets howsold.

III. And be it further enacted, That the managers of lotteries State lottery shall not hereafter be compelled to receive sealed proposals for tic- office, and tic kets in any future lotteries, or offer them for sale by auction, but shall always be at liberty to retain the whole, or any number of tickets they may think proper, for the purpose of vending them in the state lottery office and by their agents; and that so much of the act hereby amended as requires the managers of lotteries to receive proposals for tickets, and offer them, in case they shall not be thus sold, by public auction, be and the same is hereby repealed.

IV. And be it further enacted, That so much of the ninth, tenth and eleventh sections of the aforesaid act, as requires venders of tickets residing in the city of Albany, Hudson, Schenectady and Troy, or in any town or county, in this state, except the city of New-York, to take out a license to retail or vend lottery tickets, and the proviso contained in the eighth section of the same act, be and the same are hereby repealed; such repeal of said proviso not to take effect until after the first day of July next so far as respects the sale of any ticket or tickets in any lottery or lotteries authorised by the general government.

Certain sec

tions, &c, repealed.

rendered to

give bond.

V. And be it further enacted, That the manager having the Amount to be direction of the state lottery office and sales of tickets by agents, comptroller. shall, within twenty days after the close of each drawing, render a full account of the operations in that class, to the comptroller, and pay over to him such monies as shall have been received by him, the said manager, or such prize tickets drawn in said class, which shall have been taken from and paid to the holders. VI. And be it further enacted, That every agent shall, before Agents to he executes the duties assigned him, together with one or more sureties, to be approved by the board of managers, enter into a bond to the said managers, in such sum as they shall deem sufficient, conditioned that such agent shall well and truly vend for the said managers, at such price, and in such manner as they shall, from time to time, direct, not less than the scheme price, and pay over to the secretary of the said board of managers, the monies arising from such sales, whenever thereunto required, and return, on the like demand, such tickets as remain unsold.

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Land-office

to convey to
C. Rust.

CHAP. XXIX.

AN ACT for the relief of Catharine Rust.
Passed February 4, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the commissioners of the land-office be and they are hereby directed to convey unto Catharine Rust, all the right, title, and interest of the people of this state, of, in, and to lot number eighty, in the eastern allotment of Kingsborough, situate in the town of Johnstown, in the county of Montgomery, upon the said Catharine Rust paying to the people Conditions. of this state, one eighth part of the amount of the debt lately due to the people of this state from David Rust, late of the said town of Johnstown, together with the interest and costs that have or may accrue, in and about the sale that has been, or which shall be made, by or in behalf of the people of this state, of the said land, and for securing the payment of the residue of the said sum with the interest thereof, in seven equal annual payments, executing to the people of this state, a mortgage of the said lot; and such conveyance by the commissioners of the land-office, shall be subject to such right of dower as Frances Rust might after the death of David Rust, her husband, have had in the premises, if the same had not been mortgaged by him to the people of this

state.

Preamble.

CHAP. XXX.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Cumpston.

Passed February 4, 1820. WHEREAS Thomas Cumpston has, by his petition, represented that he did, in the month of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, purchase from Robert Jump and Lucy his wife, and George Ketson and Jane his wife, two small lots of ground, situate, lying and being in Broad-street, in the first ward of the city of New-York, and which was conveyed to him by two certain deeds of indenture bearing date the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, one executed by the said Robert Jump and Lucy his wife, and Further reci- the other by George Ketson and Jane his wife: And whereas the said Thomas Cumpston, in and by his said petition, has further represented, that the said Lucy, wife of the said Robert Jump, and Mary, the mother of the said George Ketson, are the only children of Stephen Shakespeare, late of the said city of New-York, deceased, who was in his life time seised in fee, of the said two lots of ground, and that he, the said Stephen Shakespeare, died intestate That the said Mary is also deceased, leaving the said George Ketson, her only son and heir, and the grand child and heir of the said Stephen Shakespeare, and who as such took possession of a moiety of the said lots of ground: And whereas doubts

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have been suggested as to the title of the said Thomas Cumpston, in consequence of the alienism of the said Robert Jump and Lucy his wife, and of the said George Ketson and Jane bis wife, (they being subjects of the king of Great Britain,) in consequence of which it is supposed that the people of this state may have and claim the said property. Therefore,

estate.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reT. Cumpston declared seispresented in Senate and Assembly, That he, the said Thomas ed of certain Cumpston, his heirs and assigns, shall be, and is and are hereby declared to be seised and possessed of the said two lots of ground so as aforesaid conveyed to him by the said Robert Jump and Lucy his wife, and the said George Ketson and Jane his wife, in as full and ample a manner, as if they the said Robert Jump and Lucy his wife, and the said George Ketson and Jane his wife, and their parents, had been citizens of the United States at the time of the death of their ancestor, Stephen Shakespeare, 'any right to the said property in the people of this state to the contrary notwithstanding.

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CHAP. XXXI.

AN ACT for the relief of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the town of New-Utrecht, in King's county.

Passed February 4, 1820.

mitted to N, Utrecht.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, re- Fishing perpresented in Senate and Assembly, That notwithstanding any thing contained in the fifth section of an "Act to protect the fishing in Hudson's river, and to prevent obstructions in the navigation thereof," passed April 11th, 1815, and the proviso thereto, it shall and may be lawful for the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of New-Utrecht, in King's county, to use any hoop-nets or fikes, for the taking of fish, in the waters bordering on their town, or between the place commonly known by the name of Rockhald, on the shore of New-Utrecht, and the point of Coney-Island, on the eastern shore: Provided, That such privilege shall not be Proviso. construed in to extend into the channels of the waters of this state, nor to the places where seines are now usually drawn, so as to obstruct the drawing of such seines, nor to authorise the obstruction of any boat channel or passage which may be in common use within the said point of Coney-Island and Rockhald.

CHAP. XXXII.

AN ACT for suspending the Sales of Lands, now advertised to
be sold for Arreurages of Taxes.

Passed February 4, 1820.

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Sale of lands represented in Senate aud Assembly, That the comptroller of this suspended to state be and he is hereby required to suspend the sales of all lands

1821.

Postponement declared valid, &c,

by him advertised to be sold on the eighth day of February next, for the arrearages of taxes, to the first Tuesday of February, which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

II. And be it further enacted, That the sale shall be made by the comptroller, without further advertisement, other than a general notice of postponement, the publication of which notice of postponement shall be continued until the time of sale, and the sale shall be deemed as valid as if the same had been made at the time first appointed by the comptroller for that purpose.

Moneys payable to com

CHAP. XXXIII.

AN ACT to provide for a deficit in the fund to be distributed for the benefit of Common Schools, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty.

Passed February 4, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, remon schools. presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to pay the entire amount contemplated by the act, entitled "An act to change and increase the fund for the support and encouragement of common schools, and for other purposes," passed April 13th, 1819, to be distributed in the current year, for the benefit of common schools, notwithstanding that there may be a deficit in the specific funds set apart for that purpose in and by the said act: Provided, such deficit shall not exceed thirteen thousand five hundred dollars ; and the treasury shall be reimbursed the amount which may be paid under this act, out of the first monies to be received on account of quit rents and the sale of escheated lands in the military tract appropriated to the school fund.

Proviso.

G, L. Dox

treasurer.

CHAP. XXXIV.

AN ACT to appoint a Treasurer of this State.

Passed February 11, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reappointed presented in Senate and Assembly, That Gerrit L. Dox be, and he is hereby appointed treasurer of this state, to remain in office until the twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

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