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hundred and forty-nine, the Senate and Assembly Journal and Documents of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, with other books and pamphlets to be forwarded to the several county clerks and county treasurers, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Forfeited For compensation of discoverers of forfeited estates, two hundred dollars.

estates.

Refunding

erroneous

payments. Military fines.

State print.

ing

State Hall
Park.

State prisons.

Rent of governor's

house.

Teachers' institutes.

For refunding erroneous payments into the treasury on account of quit rents, three hundred dollars.

For military fines and commutations to be paid to county treasurers, one thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and four cents.

For printing for the state, twenty thousand dollars.

For improvements of the State Hall park, one thousand

five hundred dollars.

For books, maps, and stationery for the use of convicts in the state prisons, two hundred dollars.

For rent and taxes of the house occupied by the governor, five hundred and fifty-two dollars.

FROM THE INCOME OF THE UNITED STATES DEPOSITE FUND.

For teachers' institutes, two thousand dollars.

§ 2. Whenever the amount or sum applicable to any obRestriction, ject for which an appropriation is made by this act is specified by law, no greater amount shall be drawn from the treasury under this act, than the amount so expressed, though a larger sum be hereby appropriated; but nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to limit or restrain the appropriations for contingent objects, or for those not provided for by any law.

May borrow $8,000.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 18.

AN ACT to authorize the Westfield and Clymer Plank
Road Company to borrow money.

Passed February 22, 1850.

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

§ 1. The Westfield and Clymer Plank Road Company is hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding eight thousand dollars, on the credit of said company,

for the purpose of completing the plank road from the village of Westfield to the Pennsylvania line, south of the village of Clymer.

§ 2. The treasurer of said plank road company is hereby authorised to give his official bond or bonds, for an amount in the aggregate not exceeding the sum of eight thousand dollars, bearing an interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, and payable at such time as the board of directors may determine, by a resolution of said board, to be entered in their minutes.

Bond to be

given.

§ 3. The debt that may be contracted under this act shall Debts to be be a lien upon said plank road, till the same shall be paid in lien on road full.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 19.

AN ACT making an appropriation for Sing Sing Prison.
Passed Febuary 22, 1850, "three-fifths being present."

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

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§ 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appro- 810,000 for priated for current expenses, maintenance, and support of penses Sing Sing Prison.

§2. The above appropriation shall be paid by the trea- How paid, surer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the agent of the Sing Sing Prison.

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 20.

AN ACT authorizing the comptroller to receive the returns of certain unpaid taxes in the county of Wyoming.

Passed February 22, 1850.

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

§ 1. The comptroller is authorized to receive the returns

made to him of the unpaid taxes on non-resident lands in the county of Wyoming, by the treasurer of said county, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, which have been rejected by him because they were not transmitted to him within the time prescribed by law; and that the same may be entered on the books of his office, with the like effect as if they had been returned prior to the first day of April last. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 21.

AN ACT to extend the act passed April 7, 1827, entitled "An act to continue in force the act passed 24th February, 1809, authorizing Jonas C. Baldwin to erect a dam across the Seneca river."

Passed February 23, 1850, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Extended 30 Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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Proviso.

§ 1. The act entitled "An act to continue in force the act passed 24th February, 1809, authorizing Jonas C. Baldwin to erect a dam across the Seneca river," together with the rights and privileges therein contained and granted, be, and the same are hereby continued unto the said Stephen W. Baldwin and Harvey Baldwin, and to their heirs and assigns, for the term of thirty days from and after the twenty-fourth day of February, 1850; subject, however, to all the provisions and conditions in said act contained. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

May borrow $65,000.

Chap. 22.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the existing debts and liabilities of the city of Brooklyn.

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Passed February 23, 1850, "three-fifths being present.' The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The mayor and common council of the city of Brooklyn are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of paying the existing and outstanding debts and liabilities

At six per

of the city, to procure a loan of money on the credit of the
city, in such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the
whole the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars, and at a rate cent.
of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, and which
shall be redeemable in a term not exceeding ten years from
the time of making such loan; and for the purpose of se-
curing the same, the said mayor and common council may
make and execute to the person or persons from whom they
may make such loan, or to whom the said corporation may
be indebted, a bond or bonds in their corporate capacity,
under the seal of said city, which may be assigned and dis-
posed of in the same manner as individual bonds or obliga-
tions.

tax, each

§ 2. One tenth of the said principal sum shall be raised One-tenth to annually in the said city by tax, until the whole amount of be raised by the loans contracted, and the bonds issued in pursuance of year. and under this act, together with the interest on the same, shall be fully paid and redeemed; and the said sum shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as the sums now authorized to be raised for the various public purposes of the said city, on the determination of the supervisors and common council thereof; the said sum of money so to be raised annually, shall be, and remain inviolably appropriated and applied to the redemption of the loan or loans obtained, or to bonds issued under this act by said city. § 3. The fund thus created shall be called "the sinking fund to discharge existing liabilities," and shall be superintended ers of Sinkand managed by the mayor, treasurer, and comptroller of the ing Fund. said city, who shall be commissioners thereof, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A separate and distinct account of the loans effected, payments made, and money received, shall be kept by the said commissioners, who shall make a report on the first Monday of January in each year, to the common council of the said city, of the whole condition and situation of said fund in every respect.

§ 4. All laws and provisions of law relating to the present sinking fund of said city, and the commissioners thereof, shall, and are hereby declared to apply to the fund authorised to be created, or which may be created by this act, and to the commissioners thereof.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Commission

May borrow

$15,000.

At six per cent.

Pledge.

Interest to be paid an. nually.

Chap. 23.

AN ACT to authorise the mayor and common council of the city of Brooklyn to create a loan for the purpose of completing the city hall, paying for the fences and ornamenting the grounds.

Passed February 23, 1850, "three-fifths being present."

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

§ 1. The mayor and common council of the city of Brooklyn are hereby authorised to create a loan in addition to the loans already authorised by law, not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing the city hall in said city, paying for the fences, ornamenting the grounds belonging thereto, and all other necessary expenses for the full completion and protection of the same; and for that purpose they are hereby authorised to issue bonds in the name of the corporation, for such sums as they may deem necessary and proper. The said bonds shall bear an interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable half yearly from the date of said bonds; the principal mentioned in said bonds shall be made payable in twenty-five years from the date thereof.

§ 2. The faith, property and effects of the said corporation are hereby pledged for the faithful payment of the said bonds and the redemption of said loan.

§3. A sufficient sum of money shall be raised annually by the board of supervisors of the county of Kings, to pay the interest on the said loan; and on all loans made by said city, where no specific provision for the collection and payment of interest is made by the laws authorising a loan, the amount necessary to be raised for such purpose shall be fixed by the joint board of supervisors and common council of said city, and certified by them to the board of supervisors of the county of Kings; and the said amount shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other city taxes are levied, assessed and collected.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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