Pauperswhen

and how to

III. And be it further enacted, That whenever, after the said be sent to h. house of industry shall be completed, any poor persons belonging of industry. to any city or town in said county shall apply to any overseer of the poor of such city or town for relief, and also when any poor person in any city or town of said county, not belonging to, nor having a settlement in, any city or town of the same county, and who shall be so sick or debilitated, that it would be improper to remove him or her to his or her last place of legal settlement, shall apply for relief as aforesaid, the said overseer of the poor shall make application to a justice of the peace of said county, which said justice and overseer, shall enquire into the state and circumstances of the person so applying for relief as aforesaid; and if it shall appear to the said justice and overseer of the poor, that such person is in such indigent circumstances as to require relief, it shall and may be lawful for such justice, instead of ordering relief in the manner directed in and by the twenty-fifth section of the act, entitled "An act for the relief and settlement of the poor," to issue his warrant under his hand, directed to any constable of such city or town, whose duty it shall be to execute the same, thereby requiring said constable forthwith to take such person, so applying for relief, and remove him or her to said house of industry, and there deliver him or her to the care of the keeper of the same house, to be relieved and provided for as his or her necessities shall or may require, until he or she shall be discharged therefrom by order of the superintendents of the same house or some one of them.

Disorderly

also be there

IV. And be it further enacted, That in case the said superpersons may visors, by a resolution to be passed by a majority of the board, committed, shall give permission, and so long, and no longer, as such permission shall be continued, it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said county, whenever, and as often as any person or persons shall be convicted, before him, of being a disorderly person, under or within the meaning of the act, entitled "An act for apprehending and punishing disorderly persons," instead of the punishment directed by the same act, by warrant, under his hand and seal, to commit such disorderly person or persons to said house of industry, into the custody of the keeper thereof, there to be kept at hard labour, for any time not exceeding six months, unless sooner discharged therefrom, by order of said superintendents, or a majority of them, in which warrant it shall be sufficient to state and set forth generally, that such person has been duly convicted of being a disorderly person, without more particular specification of the offence.

Beggars to be there sent.

V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the overseers of the poor of any town or city in said county, to take up any child under the age of fifteen years, who shall be permitted to beg or solicit charity from door to door, or in any street or highway of such city or town, and carry or send him or her to said house of industry, there to be kept and employed, and instructed in such useful labour, as he or she shall be able to perform, and supported until discharged therefrom by order of said superintendent, whose duty it shall be to discharge such child, as soon as he or she shall be able to provide for himself or herself.

VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Persons there keeper of said house of industry, to require and compel all per- in to labour, sons, committed to his care or custody in the same by virtue of this act, to perform such work, labor and service, towards defraying the expense of their maintenance and support, as they shall severally be able to perform, or said superintendents shall from time to time direct; and in case any such person shall neglect or refuse to perform the work, labor and service required of him or her, or shall at any time refuse or neglect any rule, regulation or by-law, which shall as aforesaid be made and established by said superintendents, for the well ordering and government of the persons committed to or placed in said house of industry, or shall at any time depart therefrom, until he or she shall be regularly and duly dismissed and discharged therefrom, in each and every such case, it shall and may be lawful for the keepers of the same house, to place and keep each and every such person in solitary solitary conconfinement in some part of the same house, and feed him, her or finement. them with bread and water only, until he or she shall submit to perform the same labor, work and service, and obey, conform and observe the rules, regulations and by-laws aforesaid, or for such time as said keeper shall judge proportioned to his or her respective offence or offences: Provided however, That every such per- Provise. son, who shall think himself or herself aggrieved by the conduct of such keeper towards them, may and shall be permitted to make his or her complaint to said superintendents, or any one of them, who shall immediately examine into the grounds of such complaint, and make such order and direction in the case, as to him or them shall appear fit and proper, which order shall be final and conclusive in the case.

how bornę.

VII. And be it further enacted, That the expense of support- Expenses ing and maintaining such persons as shall or may be sent to or placed in said house of industry, pursuant to the provisions to this act, and all expenses incident to keeping, maintaining and governing said house of industry, shall be a charge upon said county of Rensselaer; and it shall and may be lawful for the supervisors of said county, to cause such sum as may and shall be necessary to defray the same expenses, to be annually asssessed and collected, by a tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of the same county, in the proportion to the number and expenses of paupers the several towns respectively shall have in the said house of industry, or in such other manner as the said supervisors may elect; which monies, when collected, shall be paid by the collectors of the city of Troy and the several towns in said county, into the hands of the treasurer of the county of Rensselaer, subject to the orders of said superintendents, to be by them applied to the paying and defraying of the same expenses.

Raw materi

VIII. And be it further enacted, That the said superintendents may, at the expense of said county, from time to time, purchase als to be praand procure such raw materials, to be wrought and manufactured vided. by the persons in said house of industry, and shall and may, at all times, sell and dispose of the produce of the labor of the same persons, in such manner as they shall judge most conducive to the interests of said county; and it shall be the duty of the said superintendents annually, at the meeting of the supervisors of said coun

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ty, on the first Tuesday of October in each year, to account with be rendered. the board of said supervisors, for all monies by them received and expended as such superintendents, and pay over any such monies remaining in their hands as such superintendents unexpended, to the superintendents who shall then be chosen and appointed in their stead.

Paupers in

Excise monies.

IX. And be it further enacted, That the poor of said city of other towns. Troy, and the several towns of said county, who shall stand in need of relief, and whom the overseers of the poor of said city, or any of such towns, shall not deem it expedient to send to said house of industry, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall be relieved, supported and maintained in the manner now directed by law, any thing in this act notwithstanding: And if the monies arising from the duty of excise, received from the licences to retail strong and spirituous liquors, and to keep inns or taverns in said city, or either of said towns, in any year shall be more than sufficient to defray the expense of relieving and maintaining the poor thereof, who shall not be sent to said house of industry as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor in such city or town, at the close of the year, to pay over such money remaining in his hands unexpended, into the hands of the superintendents of said house of industry, for the support of the poor of the same county, which money shall pass to the credit of said town so paying the same: Provided however, That nothing in this act contained, shall extend to any town in said county, or the poor thereof, or authorise the raising of any money for the purposes in this act mentioned, upon the estates of the freeholders and inhabitants of any town in said county, unless such town, at a public town meeting, to be by the clerk thereof duly notified, shall by the vote of the same meeting, or a majority thereof, signify their consent, and transmit the same to the board of supervisors of said county, to be included within the provisions of this act: And all the powers, rights and privileges vested by this act in the supervisors of the said county, shall be vested in, and may be exercised by, the supervisors of the city of Troy, and of such towns in said county only, as shall so signify their consent thereto as aforesaid, for the use and benefit of the same city and towns, any thing in this act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

Proviso.

Act extended

ties.

Proviso.

X. And be it further enacted, That the powers conferred by to other coun- this act, may be extended to, and exercised by, the boards of supervisors of the different counties in this state, respectively: Provided however, That the same shall not be exercised without the concurrence of two thirds of said boards, of which meeting, and the object thereof, at least six weeks notice shall be given in each town in said county, by affixing the same, signed by the clerk of the board, at three conspicuous places in said towns; which meeting the said clerks are hereby authorised to call, at the instance of a majority of the supervisors of the respective counties.

CHAP. LII.

AN ACT for the relief of Rudolph C. Cook and John T. Get

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Passed March 3, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the supervisor of the town of Palatine, in the county of Montgomery, be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to discharge the said Rudolph C. Cook and John T. Getman, from the judgment and execution obtained against them, as the sureties of Henry H. Cook, late a collector of the said town of Palatine, on the payment by them of the costs of the said judgment and execution: Provided however, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed in any manner to release the said Henry H. Cook from any liability as collector of the said town of Palatine, in any manner incurred by him.

CHAP. LIII.

AN ACT for the relief of the settlers on the lands lately purchased by this state of the Stockbridge Indians.

Passed March 3, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, re- Duty of land presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be the duty of office. the commissioners of the land office, to sell and convey, the lot occupied by each actual settler, upon the land lately purchased by the state, of the Stockbridge Indians, according to the appraisement made by Charles C. Broadhead, surveyor, and upon the conditions of payment prescribed by law, for the sales of unappropriated lands: Provided, That such occupants shall, within two months after the passing of this act, comply with the conditions of Proviso sale, according to law.

CHAP. LIV.

AN ACT to amend " an act to provide for the inspection of distilled spirits," passed April 13, 1814.

Passed March 3, 1820.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, presented in Senate and Assembly, That the compensation allowed in and by the third section of the act hereby amended, to the inspector or deputy inspector of distilled spirits, shall be six cents for every cask inspected and marked, in the city of NewYork, and twelve cents for every cask inspected and marked elsewhere: Provided however, That it shall be lawful for the said inspector or deputy, to receive the like compensation as is provided

Fees of inspector.

Proviso.

in the section before mentioned, in case any parcel of casks of spirits which he may be called upon to inspect, at any one time and place, shall be less in number than five.

Privileges to certain occupants.

BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the occupants of the unappropriated lands, in the county of Otsego, lying on the south side of a tract of land granted by letter's patent, to Israel Spencer and others, shall, until the expiration of one year from the thirteenth day of April next, be entitled to the privileges granted to them by the first section of the act hereby amended: Provided Proviso. however, That any person purchasing, agreeable to the provision of this act, shall pay interest on the sum at which such lands are apprised, from and after the thirteenth day of April next.

Bounds of village of Fort-Ann.

CHAP. LVI.

AN ACT to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Fort-Ann.

Passed March 7, 1820.

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the district of country within the town of Fort-Ann, in the county of Washington, contained in the following bounds, that is to say, " beginning at the southeast corner of the bridge that crosses mud brook, near George Clark, Esquire, thence north down said brook, to its junction with half way brook; thence down the middle of said brook, to the east bank of the canal; thence south along the east bank of said canal, to the south line of lot number thirty-one, in the Artillery patent; thence westerly along said south line, to the southwest corner of the village, as laid out and surveyed by George Wray, and particularly described on a map of said village, now on file in the clerk's office of said town; thence northerly along the west boundary of said village, to the place of beginning; containing all the village lots and streets, as laid out and described on said map," shall hereafter continue to be known and distinguished by Powers of in- the name of the " Village of Fort-Ann :" and the freeholders and inhabitants residing within the same, qualified to vote at town meetings, may meet on the second Tuesday of May next, at the school house in said village; a notice whereof shall be made in writing, signed by a justice or justices of the peace, residing in said county, and put up in at least three public places, ten days before said se

habitants.