Chap. 603.

AN ACT to incorporate the Fishkill Female Seminary and Collegiate Institute.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

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SECTION 1. Francis M. Kip, Samuel H. Mead, Charles Corpora Cook, James W. Oppie, Lewis H. White, Joseph I. Jackson, John C. Van Wyck, John H. Rosa, Theodore V. W. Anthony, Samuel A. Hayt, Jacob Sebring, Matthew V. B. Brinckerhoff, James E. Van Steenbergh, and such other persons as may have made, or may still make a subscription of not less than ten dollars to the association, are hereby created and constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Fishkill Female Seminary and Collegiate Institute," to be located in the village of Fishkill, in the county of Dutchess, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and conducting a seminary of learning, for the education of youth of both sexes, or of either; and the persons above named shall be the first trustees of the said corporation.

§ 2. The estate, property and concerns of the said cor- Estate, &c. poration, shall be managed by the board of trustees above named until the first election, and thereafter by the trustees to be elected according to the provisions of this act, and a majority of said trustees, so elected, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business.

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§ 3. On the first Tuesday in February, in the year Annual eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, there shall be an election of nine trustees, and thereafter the same number annually. The election shall be by ballot, and by a majority of votes; and any person who may have contributed to the association or corporation, as expressed in the first section of this act, shall be entitled to one vote for each subscription of five dollars.

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§ 4. The capital stock of the said corporation shall not Capital exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of five dollars each; and those per

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Powers and privileges.

sons who have already subscribed to the support of the said seminary or institute, shall be considered stockholders in said corporation, to the amount of their respective subscriptions; such shares shall be deemed personal property, and be transferred in such manner as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the said corporation.

§ 5. If it should happen, at any time, that an election of trustees should not be made on the day when, pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day within the year to hold an election for trustees, in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of said corporation; and said trustees so chosen shall hold their office until others are chosen in their places.

§ 6. The said seminary or institute shall not participate in the distribution of the literature fund, until the regents of the university shall be satisfied that a compliance with the requisitions would authorise them to incorporate the

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§ 7. The corporation hereby created shall possess the power, and be subject to the provisions of the fifteenth and eighteenth chapters of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable, and have not been repealed.

§ 8. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 604.

AN ACT giving the consent of the state of NewYork, to the purchase by the United States of certain property in the counties of Queens and Richmond, and to cede to the United States jurisdiction thereof.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. The consent of the state of New-York is Consent to purchase hereby given, to the purchase by the United States of all, land." and each and every tract of land on the island of Long Island, in the county of Queens, in a direction opposite Fort Schuyler, East river, that may be acquired by the United States, and that shall be necessary (under the appropriation by congress of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for the commencement of a fort opposite Fort Schuyler, New-York,) for the purpose of building and maintaining thereon, forts, magazines, dockyards, wharves, and other necessary structures, with their appendages, and over all the contiguous shores, flats and waters within four hundred feet from low water mark; and in case the owners of the said land shall not consent to sell the same on such terms as the United States may deem equitable, the consent of the legislature is hereby given to the United States, taking the same for the purpose aforesaid, upon just and full compensation being provided for the owners thereof, in the manner prescribed in the fourth article and second title of the ninth chapter and third part of the Revised Statutes, and all right, title and claim which this state may have, to, or in the premises aforesaid, is hereby granted to the United States, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned.

2. The consent of the state of New-York, is also hereby given to the purchase, by the United States, of all, each and every portion of that tract of land on Staten Island, in the county of Richmond, New-York, now owned

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by William H. Aspinwall, who is to convey the same to the United States; said land lying mainly between the land of the United States and New-York avenue, for the purpose of building and maintaining thereon, forts, magazines, arsenals, and other necessary structures, with their appendages.

3. The jurisdiction of the state of New-York in and over the said property referred to and set forth in the first and second sections hereof, shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned.

§ 4. The said consent is given, and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the state of NewYork, shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said property, so far as that all civil, criminal and other process, which may issue under the laws or authority of the state of New-York, may be executed thereon, in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given, or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States.

§ 5. The jurisdiction hereby ceded, shall not vest in any respect to any portion of said property until the United States shall have acquired the title thereto, by purchase or otherwise.

§ 6. The said property when acquired by the United States, shall be and continue forever thereafter, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments, and other charges, which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state; but the jurisdiction hereby ceded, and the exemption from taxation hereby granted, shall continue in respect to said property, and to each portion thereof, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States, and be used for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer.

§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately,

Chap. 605.

AN ACT authorising the Hudson River Cement company to take and hold certain real estate.

Passed April 15, 1857.

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

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SECTION 1. It shall and may be lawful for "The Hud- May hold son River Cement company," a corporation formed and lauds. doing business under the laws of the State of New-Jersey, at Jersey city, in said state, and the said corporation are hereby authorized and empowered to have conveyed to them, and to hold, in and by their corporate name aforesaid, all those certain lands and real estate situate in the county of Ulster, in the state of New-York, being the same now held by deed, to Isaac Halsey and Zenas S. Crane, and to William S. B. Clark and Abraham M. Vanwagenen, as trustees for the benefit of said company, and to sell, assign, lease, mortgage, deed, grant and convey and dispose of the same or any part or parcel of said lands and real estate, at any time hereafter.

2. Such corporation shall be liable to pay such taxes Taxes, &c. and assessments upon said real estate as the same would be liable to if held by citizens of this state.

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§ 3. Any deed or conveyance of real estate, with or Deeds and without covenants, or lease or mortgage of the same, or ances contract for the same, may be made and executed by the president of said corporation, and attested by their secretary, under the seal of the corporation, and when so made and executed shall be valid and effectual to bind the said corporation, as their act and deed.