Jurisdiction con ferred on eanal appraisers. Chap. 330. AN ACT to authorize the Canal Appraisers to appraise damages to the owners of property on the Skaneateles outlet. Passed April 25, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of Canal Appraisers, is hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine all claims for damages sustained since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by any person, persons, corporation, or company, owning or occupying any water power on the Skaneateles outlet, in the county of Onondaga, by reason of the obstructing or withholding of the waters of the said Skaneateles outlet, by the State or its officers, and in case the facts proved, shall be such as would establish a legal liability, in a civil action against an individual or corporation, to award such Applicants damages to such claimants as shall be just. But no perstatements son or corporation, making a claim under this act, shall be entitled to the benefit thereof, unless such claimant shall, within six months after the passage of this act, deliver to or file in the office of said Canal Appraisers a verified statement of such claim, showing the nature and amount thereof. Any party may appeal from the award or awards of the Canal Appraisers to the Canal Board, as in other cases. to file in six months. Appeals. Treasurer to pay awards. § 2. The Treasurer is hereby directed to pay on the warrant of the Auditor of the Canal Department, any and all awards which may be made by said board pursuant to the provisions of this act, to the person, persons, corporation or corporations, respectively, to whom such award or awards may be made. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 331. AN ACT providing for additional compensation to deputies, clerks and assistants in the various departments of the State government. Passed April 25, 1868; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: year 1868. SECTION 1. The Treasurer shall pay, upon the warrant Additional of the Comptroller, from the General Fund, additional compensacompensation for the calendar year, commencing Janu- paid for the ary first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to the deputies, assistants, clerks and messengers permanently employed in the office of the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Attorney-General, Department of Public Instruction, State Engineer and Surveyor, Insurance Department, Bureau of Military Record, to the Librarians and their Assistants, and Janitors in the State Library, the Private Secretary of the Governor, and Clerks and Messengers of the Executive Departments, to the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Regents of the University, to the Curator of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and to the Superintendents of the Capital and State Hall, and the State Geological Hall, at the following rates of advance on the salaries received by them, or a proportionate amount for a less term of service: On all salaries of Per centfifteen hundred dollars and under, an increase of thirty- age. five per cent; on all salaries over fifteen hundred and less than two thousand dollars, an increase of twentyfive per cent; on all salaries of two thousand dollars, tion. an increase of fifteen per cent. The sum of thirty thou- Appropriasand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the general fund to pay the advances provided for by this section. omenarepaid in tion to be § 2. The increased compensation hereinbefore given Increased to the deputy and clerks in the railroad department, in the office of the Engineer and Surveyor, and to the deputy and clerks in the insurance department, shall be and Railrepaid by the several railroad and insurance companies, partments. Insurance road De Additional compensa nal Department, &c. pursuant to chapter five hundred and twenty-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and chapter three hundred and sixty-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. § 3. The Treasurer shall pay from the Canal Fund, tion in Ca- upon the warrant of the Auditor of the Canal Department, additional compensation to the deputy and each of the clerks of the Canal Department, and to each of the clerks of the Canal Commissioners and Canal Appraisers, and to the clerk of the contracting board, for the calendar year commencing January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at the following rates of advance on salaries received by them: On all salaries of fifteen hundred dollars and under, an increase of thirty-five per cent; on all salaries over fifteen hundred and less than two thousand dollars, an increase of twenty-five per cent, or a proportionate amount for a less term of service. Appropria- The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the canal fund, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the advance provided for in this section. tion. Additional compensa ployees of Military Depart ments. § 4. The Treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the ton to em- Comptroller, out of any fund appropriated for military purposes, for the calendar year, commencing January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, additional compensation to the assistants, clerks, messengers and janitors permanently employed in the office of the AdjutantGeneral, Inspector-General, Quartermaster-General, Paymaster-General, Surgeon-General and Commissary-General, at the rates of advance on the salaries received by them (or a proportionate amount for a less term of service), as provided for the assistants, clerks and messengers named in the first section of this act. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 332. AN ACT to incorporate "The Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge Company," for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a suspension bridge, appurtenances and approaches to the same, over the Hudson river, at a point or points between Verplanck's Point and Buttermilk Falls, on said river. Passed April 27, 1868. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tors. SECTION 1. Edward W. Serrell, Nehemiah P. Stanton, CorporaRobert Cochran, Solomon Dingee, Erastus Corning, Addison G. Jones, Isaac Bell, Dewitt C. Littlejohn, Benjamin Baily, Nehemiah D. Sperry, Pendleton G. DeGraw, John P. Jenkins, Austin W. Shepard, William T. B. Milliken, Henry G. Lewis, H. P. Frost, W. C. Emery, Adam C. Ellis, R. E. Locke, C. Volney King, Waldo E. Haskins, John E. Wilson, David Milliken, George W. Shelton, Thomas J. Kip, William H. Thorp, J. R. Herrick, P. Shanahan, William D. Ludlow, James H. Jenkins, George Kent, Isaac Henderson, Charles Atwater and Frederick S. Littlejohn, and their associates, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Hudson Highland Sus- Corporate pension Bridge Company," for the purpose of construct names. ing and maintaining a permanent bridge, appurtenances Corporaand avenues of approach thereto, for the passage and constru transportation of passengers, railroad trains, teams, vehicles, cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and other mer Hudson chandise and property, to and from the east and west banks of the Hudson river, at some point or points between Verplank's Point and Buttermilk Falls on said river; and as such corporation, are invested with all the General powers and privileges, and are subject to all the liabili- powers ties, conferred and imposed by title three, chapter eigh- ties. teen, of part one of the Revised Statutes; provided, however, that the said bridge, its appurtenances and avenues of approach, shall be completed and opened for tion to bridge across river. and liabili When bridge shall be completed. Corpora tion may purchase and hold real estate, etc. tion may borrow money, morigage property and issue bonds. use, on or before the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. § 2. The said corporation shall have power to purchase, acquire, hold and use as much real estate as may be necessary for the site of said bridge, and of all piers, abutments, walls, toll-houses, workshops, guys, main anchor pits, anchor pits for guys, and other structures and places for the storage of merchandise and property, and for the opening and maintaining of proper and necessary avenues of approach to said bridge, not to extend over two miles from each end or terminus of said Corpora bridge. To borrow, from time to time, such sums of money as may be necessary, and to issue and dispose of its bonds for any amount so borrowed, and to mortgage its corporate property and franchises to secure the payment of any debt contracted by said corporation, for the purposes aforesaid; and the directors of the corporation hereby created, may confer on any holder of any bond Bonds may issued for money borrowed as aforesaid, the right to convert the principal due and owing thereon, into stock of said corporation, at any time not exceeding ten years from the date of the bond, under such regulations as the directors may see fit to adopt. And in case of the destruction of said bridge, to reconstruct the same, and in like manner to borrow additional moneys for that purpose; but nothing in this act contained shall authorize said corporation to borrow and owe for money borrowed, at any one time, an amount exceeding the capital. be convert ed into stock. Capital stock. When stock may be increased. Stock to be deemed personal property. Railroad corporation may subscribe to stock. § 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be two millions, five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. The directors of said corporation may, at any time, with the consent in writing of stockholders holding a majority of the stock, increase such capital. The shares shall be deemed personal property, and may be transferred in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of the corporation. Any railroad corporation in this State, or elsewhere, may subscribe to, and become the owner of, with the like rights as an individual, of any part of the capital stock of the corporation hereby created; not exceeding in amount, however, ten per cent. of said capital stock by any one railroad corporation so subscribing; and rails may be |