507. An act relative to the degree of doctor of medicine conferred by colleges without this state; passed April 7, 1827. 508. An act to abolish the distinction between town and county poor in the county of Warren, and for other purposes; passed April 9, 1827. 509. An act to amend an act passed the 24th day of March 1815, entitled “an act in addition to the act concerning infants ;" passed April 10, 1827. 510. An act requiring sheriffs to renew their security to the people of this state; passed April 12, 1827. 511. An act to amend an act, entitled "an act for the maintenance and protection of the Erie and Champlain canals, and the works connected therewith, passed April 13th, 1820, and for other purposes;" passed April 12, 1827; excepting the thirty-ninth section thereof. 612. An act for the preservation of bridges; passed April 13, 1827. 613. An act to provide permanent funds for the annual appropriation to common schools, to increase the literature fund, and to promote the education of teachers; passed April 13, 1827; excepting the first section thereof, and excepting so much of the third section thereof as relates to the literature fund. 514. An act to encourage the sale of the public lands appropriated to the common school fund, in the fourth senate district, and to promote geologicial and mineralogical researches; passed April 13, 1827. 515. An act concerning the clerks of the supreme court; passed April 13, 1827. 516. An act to regulate the culling of staves and heading in the city and county of Albany; passed April 13, 1827. 517. An act explanatory of the act relative to partnerships; passed April 14, 1827. 518. An act to amend the act, entitled "an act to amend the act for the relief and settlement of the poor, passed April 5th, 1817;" passed April 14, 1827. 519. An act extending the jurisdiction of the court of common pleas in and for the city and county of New-York, and amending and declaratory of the law in certain cases; passed April 14, 1827. 520. An act to authorise the appointment of an assistant justice and clerk for the ninth and eleventh wards of the city of New-York; passed April 14, 1827. 521. An act to alter the time of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of certain counties, and for other purposes; passed April 14, 1827. 522. An act for the appointment of an inspector of hops in the city of Troy; passed April 14, 1827. 523. An act directing the mode of selecting grand jurors; passed April 16, 1827. 524. An act further to provide for the gradual enlargement of the state library; passed April 16, 1827. 525. An act respecting lunatics; passed April 16, 1827. 526. An act in addition to the several acts concerning the inspection of pot and pearl ashes, of flour, and beef and pork; passed April 16, 1827. 527. An act to prevent the sale of tickets of unauthorised lotteries, and to prevent the forgery of lottery tickets; passed April 16, 1827. 528. An act to prevent kidnapping; passed April 16, 1827. 529. An act to alter the time of holding the annual town-meetings in the town of La Fayette in the county of Onondaga, and for the appointment of trustees of the school fund belonging to said town; passed April 16, 1827. 530. An act to amend the act, entitled "an act relative to the canals, passed April 18, 1826;" passed April 17, 1827. 531. The second section of the "act relative to the state prison at Auburn;" passed January 17, 1828. 532. An act to alter the time of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Orleans; passed March 20, 1828. 533. An act to amend the act, entitled "an act to prevent the sale of tickets of unauthorised lotteries, and to prevent the forgery of lottery tickets;" passed March 21, 1828. 534. An act to alter the time of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Greene; passed March 28, 1828. 535. An act to amend an act, entitled "an act concerning state prisons, and for other purposes, passed April 2, 1819;" passed March 31, 1828. 536. An act to amend the act, entitled "an act for the safety of passengers in steam-boats, and travellers by land and by water, passed April 17, 1826; passed April 5, 1828. 537. An act regulating the penalty for the destruction of fences on the banks or vicinity of the canals of this state; passed April 9, 1828. 538. The fifth section of the "act respecting the state prison, and concerning the penitentiary in the city of New-York; passed April 12, 1828. 539. An act to amend the act, entitled "an act to protect the fishing in the Hudson river, and to prevent obstructions to the navigation thereof, passed April 11, 1815;" passed April 18, 1828. 540. An act to authorise and regulate the inspection of shingles; passed April 19, 1828. 541. An act to regulate the packing and sale of pressed hay; passed April 19, 1828. 542. An act to provide for the inspection of leaf tobacco in the city of New-York; passed April 19, 1828. 543. An act relative to the duties of the comptroller, surveyor-general and attorney-general; passed April 21, 1828. 544. An act concerning the public administrator in the city of New-York; passed April 21, 1828. 545. An act concerning the surplus waters of this state; passed April 21, 1828. 546. The third, fourth and fifth sections of the "act in relation to public lands therein mentioned;" passed April 21, 1828. 547. An act to suppress duelling; passed April 21, 1828. 548. The fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth sections of the "act relative to the city of Schenectady;" passed April 21, 1828. 549. All statutes and parts of statutes consolidated and re-enacted in the Revised Statutes, or repugnant to the provisions contained therein. 550. All statutes and parts of statutes prescribing or altering the times of holding courts of common pleas or courts of general sessions of the peace, and all acts amending such statutes. 551. All statutes and parts of statutes establishing, increasing, or in any way altering any salaries or other compensation to the officers of this state. 552. All statutes and parts of statutes prescribing or altering the times of holding the annual meetings of the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this state, or of any of them. 553. All statutes and parts of statutes establishing or altering the names of the several towns in this state, or of any of them. bing times of meetings, 554. When the inhabitants of any town shall have determined the Acts proscri time and place of holding their town-meetings, pursuant to the provi- holding town sions of law, all acts and parts of acts prescribing any time or place when to be for holding such meetings, shall be deemed repealed; but the existing pealed. statutes in relation thereto, shall be in force until such determination be made. deen.ed re this act to be 32. Nothing herein contained, shall be construed to repeal any Nothing in statute consolidated and published in the Revised Statutes1; nor any construed as act of the legislature passed since the ninth day of September, one repealing Rothousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, unless such act be consoli- tutes, &o dated and re-enacted in the said Revised Statutes. vised Sta England and $3. None of the statutes of England or Great Britain shall be Statutes of considered as laws of this state; nor shall they be deemed to have Great Britain had any force or effect in this state, since the first day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. $4. No statute passed by the government of the late colony New-York, shall be considered as a law of this state. of not uot in force. Nor statutes of colony of New-York. clause, as to Saving acts done, rights aceru $5. The repeal of any statutory provision by this act, shall affect any act done, or right accrued or established, or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced in any civil case, previous ed, &c." to the time when such repeal shall take effect; but every such act, right and proceeding, shall remain as valid and effectual, as if the provision so repealed, had remained in force. tences com nalties incur 36. No offence committed, and no penalty or forfeiture incurred b. as to of previous to the time when any statutory provision shall be repealed, mitted, or peshall be affected by such repeal; except that where any punishment, red. forfeiture or penalty shall have been mitigated by the provisions of the Revised Statutes, such provisions shall apply to and control any judgment to be pronounced after the said Statutes shall take effect, for any offence committed before that time. prosecutions 37. No prosecution for any offence, or for the recovery of any pe- 1b as to nalty or forfeiture, pending at the time any statutory provision shall for offences be repealed, shall be affected by such repeal; but the same shall pro- or penalties. ceed in all respects, as if such provision had not been repealed; except that all such proceedings had after the time when the Revised Statutes take effect, shall be conducted according to the provisions of (1) The statutes here spoken of, are those portions of the First Part which took effect the 1st of January and 1st of May, 1828, and which were published by the state printer in December, 1827. Statutes heretofors re repealed. the said Statutes, and shall be in all respects subject to the said provisions. $ 8. All statutes and parts of statutes which were repealed or abpealed, to rogated by, or were repugnant to, any law hereby repealed, and which continue so have not been re-enacted and consolidated in the Revised Statutes, shall continue to be so repealed, and shall be deemed abrogated. Though re S 9. The repeal by this act, of any statute or part of a statute herepealed by this tofore repealed, shall not be construed as a declaration or implication that such statute or part of a statute has been in force at any time subsequent to such first repeal. act. struction tute not re Rule of con $10. Where any statute not hereby repealed, refers to and adopts where a sta- any statute or part of a statute which is herein repealed, the statute or pealed, refers part of a statute so referred to and adopted, shall not be deemed reto a repealed pealed by the provisions of this act, but shall be in force so far only statute. as the same shall have been so adopted, and for no other statute so re been revised. purpose, and Ib. where the S 11. But if the statute or part of a statute so referred to and ferred to, has adopted, shall have been revised and consolidated in the Revised Statutes, all provisions contained therein repugnant to or inconsistent with those of the said Revised Statutes, shall be deemed repealed at the time specified in this act; and every such provision so referred to and adopted, which shall be modified by the Revised Statutes, shall be deemed to be so modified in respect to any use or purpose, for which such provision is herein declared to be in force, from and after the time when the Revised Statutes shall take effect. subject to the provisions of the two next sections. Ib. where a rule of law is which has ed. S 12. Where any statute or part of a statute, which is not hereby referred to repealed, refers to and adopts any provision or rule of law which is been abrogat- abrogated or modified by the Revised Statutes, such provision or rule shall be deemed to be so abrogated or modified, as the case may be, as well in respect to such statute or part of a statute not repealed, as otherwise, from and after the time when the Revised Statutes shall take effect. Certain pro visions in for pealed. $13. The seventh section of the "act concerning the Revised mer acts re- Statutes, passed at the present meeting of the legislature," passed December 4, 1827, is hereby repealed; together with so much of the said act, as declares that the Chapters of the First and Second Parts of the Revised Statutes therein specified, shall commence and take effect on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Appoint ments made be affected. S 14. The repeal by this act of any statutory provision, which is under acts re- consolidated and re-enacted in the Revised Statutes, by virtue of pealed, not to which any appointment shall have been made, or any office is or shall be held, shall not be construed to vacate such office, or in any way affect such appointment; but the said appointments shall continue, and the said offices shall be held subject to the provisions of law in force after the repeal of such statutory provision. Provisions as $ 15. But where any office is abolished by the repeal of any act, to offices abo and such act is not consolidated and re-enacted in the Revised Stasuch repeal. tutes, such office shall cease at the time such repeal shall take effect. lished by ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE, WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REVISED, INCLUDING Those of GENERAL INTEREST WHICH have been PASSED [These acts are arranged under appropriate heads, corresponding with the subjects of the different Chapters of the Revised Statutes, and conforming, as nearly as practicable, to the general plan of that work; so that statutes on the same or similar subjects will be found collected together, without reference to the time when they were respectively passed.] Acts relating to the Civil Divisions of the State. county erect An act to divide the county of Montgomery into two counties, and for other purposes. Passed April 12, 1816.1 $1. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Hamilton represented in Senate and Assembly, That all that part of the coun- ed. ty of Montgomery, lying north of the tract of land called Jerseyfield, and the south bounds of the township of Benson continued to the west bounds of the county of Saratoga, be erected into a county by the name of Hamilton, and that the remaining part of the county of Montgomery be and remain a separate county, by the name of Montgomery; which said county of Hamilton, shall have the like powers and privileges, as other counties in the state possess and enjoy: Pro- Proviso vided, That the said county of Hamilton shall be organized, and for all county purposes shall act in conjunction with the county of Montgomery, as a part thereof, and shall remain so organized until it shall contain one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight taxable inhabitants, qualified to vote for members of assembly, which shall be ascertained in the following manner, to wit: The supervisors of the said counties of Hamilton and Montgomery, at their annual meetings, shall ascertain from the assessment rolls of the towns in the said county of Hamilton, the number of inhabitants of said county, qualified to vote as aforesaid, and when they shall amount to one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight, the said supervisors shall certify the same, under their hands and seals, to the person administering the government of this state, for the time being, and thereafter the said county of Hamilton shall be organized as a separate county. (1) Chap. 120, Laws of 1816, 39th session, p. 119. |