$13. This corporation shall possess the general powers General and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities powers. contained in chapter eighteenth of part first of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are now in force.

this act.

$14. The corporation hereby created shall continue Duration of twenty years, and no longer, and the legislature may at any time modify, alter or repeal this act.

stockholders.

$ 15. The stockholders of said corporation shall be, Liability of jointly and severally, personally liable for the payment of all debts or demands contracted by the said corporation, or their authorised agent or agents, or demands for which the corporation may become liable as common carriers: and any person having any demand against the said corporation, may sue any stockholder, director or directors, in any court having cognizance thereof, and recover the same with costs.

$ 16. Before suit shall be commenced upon any de- suit. mand under the preceding section of this act, judgment shall have been obtained against said company upon such demand, and execution issued thereon and returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, or the said corporation shall have been dissolved.

CHAP. 16.

AN ACT to authorise the county clerks of the counties of Herkimer and Chenango, to procure new seals for the courts of common pleas of said counties.

Passed February 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Clerk of He

cure a new

$1. The county clerk of the county of Herkimer is hereby authorised to cause to be made a new seal for the kimer to pro court of common pleas of said county, of such device and seal. form as he may deem fit and proper; which seal, when procured, shall be deposited in his office, and shall be used as the seal for said county in all cases authorised and required by law and it shall be the duty of the said court to file in the office of the clerk of the county, and of the secretary of state, a particular description of said seal.

valid.

$2. All process, acts, deeds and certificates, which by Acts done law are required to be under the seal of such court of under to ba common pleas, shall be as valid and effectual under the seal by this act authorised, as under any former seal of

Former seal

S3. In case the former seal of said court shall at any to be destroy time be found, the said court shall order the same to be

ed.

Expense to

be paid.

Chenango

eQunty.

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destroyed.

S4. The expense of procuring said seal shall be certified by said court of common pleas, and paid by the county treasurer out of any money in his hands not otherwise appropriated.

$5. The county court of the county of Chenango, whenever they shall deem it necessary to cause a new seal thereof to be made, shall have power to alter the same, subject to the provisions herein before contained. $6. This act shall take effect from and after the day of its passage.

General ses. sions.

Ib.

Commence.

CHAP. 17.

AN ACT extending the powers of mayor's courts, and of the court of general sessions of the county of Albany,

Passed February 1, 1833, The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S1. The mayor's court of the city of Albany, when exercising criminal jurisdiction, shall have power to try all indictments found in the court of general sessions of the peace of the county of Albany, which shall have been sent by order of such court of general sessions to, and received by the said mayor's court.

2. The said mayor's court, when exercising criminal jurisdiction, may, by an order to be entered in their minutes, send all indictments found at any such court for offences triable at the said court of general sessions, to such court of general sessions, to be proceeded on and tried therein.

$3. The said court of general sessions shall have power to try all indictments found in the said mayor's court, which shall have been sent by order of said mayor's court to, and received by the said court of general sessions.

S 4. The said court of general sessions may send all indictments found therein, which are cognizable by the said mayor's court, to the said mayor's court, there to be determined according to law.

$ 5. All the provisions of the first title of chapter six of ment of suits. the third part of the Revised Statutes, relating to the commencement of suits, shall hereafter apply to the com

mencement of suits in the mayor's courts of the several cities of this state, and that actions in said mayor's courts may be commenced in the same manner as in the supreme court and courts of common pleas.

$ 6. When any action shall be commenced by filing a Clerk's fees declaration in said mayor's courts, it shall be the duty of the clerks of such courts to demand and receive the first motion fee, at the time of the filing of such declaration, and no declaration in such case shall be filed until the payment thereof.

CHAP. 18.

AN ACT directing an additional term of the court of common pleas to be held annually in and for the county of Oneida.

Passed February 1, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. An additional term of the court of common pleas February shall be held annually, in and for the county of Oneida, term. alternately at the court-houses in the towns of Rome and Whitestown, to commence on the second Monday of February in each year, and be continued from day to day, as long as the judges thereof shall think proper, but not to be continued longer than Saturday of the second week.

plicable to

S2, All the provisions of law, applicable to the court Provisions ap of common pleas, in and for the county of Oneida, as it at this court. present exists, except so far as the same may be modified by this act, shall be applicable to the courts herein directed to be held.

S 3. All process hereafter to be issued in the said court of common pleas after the passage of this act, and before the second Monday of February next, may be made returnable at either the said February or March terms; and the passage of this act, shall not affect any process already issued.

Process.

$ 4. The first term of the said court hereby provided First term. for, shall be held at the court-house in the town of Whitestown, but no issues of fact shall be tried at said first term, nor shall any jury be drawn therefor.

$5. At any December term of the court of common Law term. pleas and general sessions to be hereafter held in said county, the judges thereof may, by an order to be made

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in open court, and entered in the minutes thereof, direct that the next ensuing term provided for by this act, shall be a law term, in which case no jury for said term shall be drawn, and no issues of fact shall be tried thereat.

S6. This act shall take effect immediately after its

passage.

CHAP. 19.

AN ACT relative to the state library.

Passed February 4, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. From and after the passing of this act, the state library shall be kept open every day in the year, Sundays excepted, such hours in each day as the trustees of said library may direct.

S2. From and after the passage of this act, the salary of the state librarian shall be at the rate of seven hundred dollars per annum.

CHAP. 20.

AN ACT to authorise the board of supervisors of Orange county to raise moneys in aid of their poor fund.

Passed February 5, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

S 1. The board of supervisors of Orange county, at their next annual meeting, or at any subsequent annual meeting, may cause to be levied, collected and paid to the county treasurer, in the same manner as the contingent charges of the county are by law directed to be levied, collected and paid, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be applied to the purchase of real property for the benefit of the poor-house establishment of said county.

S2. The county treasurer shall pay out and account for all moneys which shall come to his hands, by virtue of this act, in the same manner as other moneys belonging to the poor fund of said county.

CHAP. 21.

AN ACT authorising an additional term of the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace, in and for the county of Tioga, and regulating the terms of the said courts.

Passed February 6, 1833.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

$1. An additional term of the courts of common pleas Additional and general sessions of the peace, shall hereafter be held term. in and for the county of Tioga.

$2. The terms of the said courts in said county shall Terms when hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of March, second to be held. Tuesday of June, first Tuesday of September, and third Tuesday of December, in each year.

Where to be

S3. The terms of the said courts shall be held alternately at the court-house in the village of Elmira, and held. at the court-house in the village of Owego.

$ 4. The first term of the said courts, to be held un- First term. der this act, shall be held at the court-house in the village of Elmira, on the first Tuesday of March next.

S5. All writs, process, recognizances, and other pro- writs & proceedings which have been or may be issued or taken, and cess. made returnable in the said courts at the next May term thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be returnable in the said courts on the first Tuesday of March next: and all continuances, adjournments, rules and notices to or for the said May term, shall be deemed and taken to be to and for the said June term of the said courts.

$6. The provisions of the statutes of this state, which are now in force, and applicable to the said courts, shall not be affected by the passage of this act: except so far as their provisions are inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act.

Saving clause

$7. So far as the provisions of any statute or statutes Repeal. of this state are inconsistent with, or repugnant to the provisions of this act, the same are hereby repealed. 38. This act shall take effect immediately after the passage thereof.

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