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Chap. 530.

AN ACT to amend part third, chapter seven, title four, article three, section fifty-six, of the Revised Statutes relative to Jurors.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. Section fifty-six of title four, chapter seven, of the third part of the revised statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

When it shall appear to the supreme court, or to any county court, or to the superior court of the city of NewYork, or to the superior court of Buffalo, in which any cause shall be pending, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had without a struck jury, or that the importance or intricacy of the cause requires such a jury, such court shall order a special jury to be struck for the trial of such

cause.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 531.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to facilitate the forming of Agricultural and Horticultural societies," passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. Section six of the act entitled "An act to facilitate the forming of Agricultural and Horticultural Societies," passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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There shall be but one county society in any one county County soin this State, nor shall there be more than one society in any town therein; but two, three or four towns may join and organize a society for the same, but the organization of such society by an association of towns shall not be held to prohibit the organization of any town society or either one of such town societies. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 532.

AN ACT for the relief of John Vandemark.

Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the auditor, out of any money belonging to the canal fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars, provided the canal board are satisfied the claim is equitable and just, it being for money paid by John Vandemark, as inspector of public works, for cement furnished by R. Dunlop and son, to construct the new upper side cut locks at West Troy; which said sum the said Vandemark had by an oversight neglected to report to the proper department, but which sum he had paid to said R. Dunlop and son, as exhibited by affidavits on file in the office of the canal department.

§2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 533.

AN ACT authorising the trustees of the village of
Fort Plain to raise money by tax.

Passed April 15, 1857, three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New-York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Fort Plain shall have power to raise by tax upon the taxable inhabitants of said village and the property therein liable to taxation, the sum of five hundred dollars, annually, during each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight and eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, in addition to the sum now authorised to be raised by virtue of section twenty-five of chapter one hundred and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An act revising, amending and consolidating the several acts in relation to the village of Fort Plain," passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, which additional sum shall be assessed, raised, levied and collected, in the same manner as the sums now authorised to be raised by said section twenty-five, of the act aforesaid, are authorised to be raised, levied and collected, and the said additional sum of five hundred dollars annually, for each of the years aforesaid, shall be added to the annual tax warrant in said village, for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight and eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and that the said sums so raised and collected under this act shall be applied to the payment of the indebtedness of said village.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Chap. 534.

AN ACT providing for the removal of obstructions from Perch river in the county of Jefferson.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. Every person owning or occupying land in the county of Jefferson, through the boundaries of which runs a stream of water commonly called "Perch river," shall remove all timber, floatwood or other materials which now are or hereafter may be deposited, or which now are lodged or shall hereafter lodge within the bounds of the lands so owned or occupied by such person, and which obstruct the free passage of the water in saip

stream.

§2. If any person in possession of any lands within the bounds of which such obstructions now exist or shall hereafter be formed shall neglect or refuse, during the months of September and October in any year, to remove or cause to be removed such obstructions within ten days after receiving notice in writing from any other owner or occupant of land adjoining said river, requiring the removal of such obstructions, the party giving such notice is hereby authorised to remove said obstructions or cause the same to be removed, and shall be entitled to recover from the party failing to comply with the requisition of such notice as aforesaid a fair and just compensation for his services in removing or causing to be removed such obstructions; and the party giving such notice is hereby authorised to sue for and recover such compensation before any justice of the peace having cognizance thereof, with costs of suit.

§ 3. In cases in which said stream is or shall be the division line between the owners or occupants of adjacent lands, each of the owners or occupants of such adjacent lands shall remove or cause to be removed so much of

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such obstructions as shall exist within the boundaries of the lands of which such person or persons is the owner or occupant.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 535.

AN ACT to incorporate the Lake Erie and Lake
Michigan Transit Ship Canal Company.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. Peter Emslie, William H. Scott, William C. Foster, Milton Ingersoll and Theodore D. Barton, of the city of Buffalo and state of New-York, and their associates, and all other persons who are or hereafter may be holders of the stock hereinafter mentioned, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the "Lake Erie and Lake Michigan Transit Ship Canal Company," for the purpose of constructing a ship canal of suitable capacity to connect the navigable waters of lake Erie with the navigable waters of lake Michigan, at the most desirable points, to be ascertained by said company by actual survey or otherwise, when they shall have procured the proper authority for so doing; all the necessary power is hereby granted to said corporation, and all contracts shall be made under the signature of the president and secretary of said company, with the corporate seal affixed.

§ 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be sixteen million dollars, and is to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. The corporation may commence operations when two millions dollars shall have been subscribed, and the sum of twenty per cent on the amount of each share subscribed for, paid in, with liberty of increasing the said capital stock to twenty-five million dollars, and the said company shall commence operations and expend in said work the sum of two millions of dollars in five years from the passage of this act, or the act shall be void.

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