Title not impaired to sell period of five years from the passage of this act, any and all real estate it may heretofore have acquired, and which it has not sold and conveyed, and to sell and convey the same at any time during the same period; and by omission the title of said company to such real estate shall not be deemed or held to be forfeited, divested, impaired or in any way affected by the fact that such real estate, or any part thereof, was acquired more than five years before the passage of this act, or by the omission of said company to sell the same within five years after the same was acquired. within five years. Proviso. Corpora tors. § 3. This act shall not affect any suit or proceeding that may be now pending respecting any of said lots and real estate. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 572. AN ACT to authorize the Port Jervis Waterworks Company to issue bonds. Passed May 4, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Port Jervis Water-works Company is hereby authorized to issue bonds equal in amount to the capital stock of said company, whenever the amount of capital stock subscribed and paid in shall equal thirty thousand dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 573. AN ACT to incorporate the Great Neck Dock Passed May 4, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. William P. Miller, James Udall, Edward Morgan, Roland G. Mitchell, John A. King, Joseph L. name. tion. Hewlett and Elias Ponvert, Jr., their associates, and all other persons who may hereafter be holders of the stock hereinafter mentioned, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the "Great Neck Corporate Dock Company," for the purpose of owning, leasing, Objects of holding, erecting, constructing and maintaining docks, torporabulkheads, piers and basins, and passenger and freight houses at Great Neck, in the county of Queens, for the landing, convenience and accommodation of steamboats and other vessels, and of passengers and freight. The Powers corporation hereby created shall exist for fifty years and term with power to sue and be sued, to make and use a com- ence. mon seal and alter the same at pleasure. §2. The corporation hereby created in and by their corporate name shall have power, in and about the prosecution of their aforesaid business, to hold and acquire any real or leasehold estate and personal property, and the same from time to time to sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of. Corporahold real tion may al estate. and person Rates of storage, &c. dockage, lien upon property.. 3. The said corporation is hereby authorized to receive and collect the usual reasonable customary rates of dockage, wharfage and storage for the use of their docks, wharves and freight houses, together with all charges and expenses incurred for labor or otherwise, in the receipt, delivery or custody of property received by or stored with them, all of which charges and expenses, To be a as above specified, shall be a lien on said property; and property. in case the same shall be in arrear and unpaid or the goods be unclaimed for one year, the said goods, or so Sale theremuch thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy the amount unclaimed due thereon, may be sold at public auction, four weeks' goods. public notice of the time and place of such sale being given, in at least one of the newspapers printed in the county where the operations of this corporation may be carried on. for, and of 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist capital of four thousand dollars, divided into four hundred stock. shares of ten dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property and be transferable as such in the manner the by-laws of said corporation may prescribe; and Increase the same may be hereafter increased in case a majority thereof. of the trustees for the time being so determine to an When, cor poration may com mence bu siness. Board of trustees. amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. The said corporation may commence business and shall be deemed fully organized when the sum of four thousand dollars, the whole amount of said capital stock, shall have been subscribed for and paid in, in cash. § 5. The affairs, concerns and business of the corporation hereby created shall be managed and conducted by and under the direction of five trustees, who shall reFirst elec- spectively be stockholders, and who shall in the first tion. Annual election. By-laws. instance be elected to serve for one year, at a general meeting of the stockholders of this corporation, which the persons named in the first section of this act are authorized to call as soon as the sum of four thousand dollars shall be subscribed, as provided in the preceding section; and thereafter the said trustees shall be elected annually, at such time and in the manner as the by-laws of the corporation may prescribe. § 6. The persons chosen as hereinbefore specified shall have power to make all such by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, as they may deem necessary for the conduct and management of the business and affairs of the corporation, the holding of elections, the transfer of stock and of subscription thereto; which by-laws from time to time may be amended, added to or altered by the trustees for the time being. A majority of said trustees shall constitute Powers of a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall have power to appoint and remove at pleasure, all officers, clerks or servants necessary or requisite to carry on the business of said corporation, and to fill all vacancies in their own number occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise. Business quorum. trustees. Liability of stockholders. § 7. All stockholders of said corporation shall be severally, personally liable to the creditors of said corporation, for the debts and liabilities of said corporation to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively; but no stockholder shall be personally liable for the payment of any debt contracted by such corporation, which is not to be paid within one year from the time the debt was contracted, nor unless an action for the collection of such debt, shall be brought against the said corporation within one year after the same shall become due, nor until an execution upon the judgment recovered in such action against the corporation shall have been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 574. AN ACT to authorize the imprisonment of convicts in the Penitentiaries of Syracuse and Albany. Passed May 4, 1869; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Sentence of female convicts, to SECTION 1. All females hereafter convicted in the fifth and sixth Judicial districts of this State, of crimes punishable by imprisonment in the State prison, shall be penitentiasent to the penitentiary at Syracuse. Syracuse ry. perintend week, for §2. The superintendent or inspectors of the peniten- Duty of sutiary at Syracuse are hereby required to receive and ent of penikeep the female convicts from the fifth and sixth judi- tentiary. cial districts, mentioned in this act, until they shall be discharged according to law; and the said superintend- Charge per ent and inspectors shall be allowed to charge for the maintemaintenance of such female convicts as may hereafter ance. be sentenced to imprisonment in said penitentiary, under or by virtue of this act, or of any act authorizing or directing the sentence of females under conviction of felony to said penitentiary, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per week each, to be a charge against the State. certain penitentia §3. Whenever any person shall be convicted of any Sentence of offense punishable with imprisonment in the State prison convicts, to for a term of five years or less, in any county of the Albany State having a contract for the board, care and disci- ry. pline of prisoners with the Albany County Penitentiary, or in any county situated in the third and fourth Judicial Districts of this State, the Court before which such conviction shall be had may, in its discretion, sentence the person so convicted to imprisonment in said peni to be made No charge tentiary; but no charge whatever for the board or mainfor mainte- tenance of any person so sentenced shall be made against the county in which such person shall be so sentenced, or against the State of New York. nance. State to furnish clothing, &c., to convicts on § 4. The provisions of the statutes now regulating amount of money and clothing to be given to convicts upon their discharge from State prison, shall apply to discharge. such convicts as may hereafter be sentenced to said Syracuse and Albany Penitentiaries under the provisions of this act. The expenses thereof shall be a charge against the State. Annual return to er. What to set forth. § 5. The superintendent or inspectors of the penitenComptrol- tiaries named in this act, shall make a return under oath on the thirtieth day of September of each year to the Comptroller, in which they shall fully set forth the name of each convict committed to said penitentiaries under or by virtue of this act, in what court convicted and before what presiding justice, with the offense for which convicted, and also the date of conviction, length of sentence and the amount due from the State for the maintenance of such female convicts, as may hereafter be sentenced to the penitentiary at Syracuse, under the provisions of this act, and for allowance made to discharged Comptrol- convicts under this act. Upon auditing such return, the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of said superintendent or inspectors for said How paya- amount, which sum or sums shall be paid from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. er to audit return. ble. Allowance for good conduct. Sheriffs' fees, for § 6. The provisions of chapter three hundred and twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, together with the provisions of the acts to which said chapter are amendatory, are hereby made applicable to convicts hereafter to be sentenced for felonies or misdemeanors to the penitentiaries at Syracuse and Albany, to the end that the same commutation, allowance for good conduct shall be made to said convicts as are granted under said acts to convicts now confined in State prisons. § 7. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of any county conveying in which any person shall be convicted and sentenced as convicts to in the first and third sections is provided, to convey such ry. person to the penitentiary, for which such sheriff shall penitentia |