IN ASSEMBLY,

March 8, 1832.

REPORT

Of the select committee, on the petition of the citizens of the village of Malone, in the county of Franklin.

Mr. Spencer, from the select committee, to which was referred the petition of the citizens of the village of Malone, in the county of Franklin, praying for the passage of an act to organize a fire company in said village,

REPORTED:

That they have had said petition under consideration, and report the following facts: that the legal notices have been published according to law, that they have purchased a fire engine and intend to furnish themselves with other necessary implements for the extinguishment of fires, and that your petitioners are respectable citizens.

Your committee are of the opinion, that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted; they have therefore prepared a bill, which they have instructed their chairman to ask leave to introduce.

IN ASSEMBLY,

March 14, 1832.

COMMUNICATION

From the Comptroller, relative to the claim of John Jacob Astor.

COMPTROLLER'S FRIC.", }

The Hon. CHARLES L. LIVINGSTON,

SIR

Albany, 14 March, 1832.

Speaker of the Assembly.

May I ask you to lay before the honorable the Assembly, the communication herewith transmitted, relative to the claim of John Jacob Astor upon the State, arising under the acts, chap. 302, of 1827, and chap. 260, of 1828?

With great respect,

I am your obedient servant,

JA. No. 205.]

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SILAS WRIGHT, JR.

COMMUNICATION, &c.

NEW-YORK,

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.

The Comptroller having been called upon by the agent of John Jacob Astor, to issue to him the stock authorised to be issued by the act entitled "An act to extinguish the claim of John Jacob Astor and others, and to quiet the possession of certain lands in the counties of Putnam and Dutchess," passed April 16, 1827, respectfully asks leave to make to the Legislature the following

COMMUNICATION:

The several communications from the Governor to the Legislature, and the reports from the Attorney-General, transmitted therewith, relating to this subject, have kept that body advised of the progress of these litigations, and the last report of the Attorney-General, bearing date on the 22d day of February last, and communicated to the Legislature by the Executive message of the 25th day of the same month, has given the information that he considered the litigations finally closed, at least so far as the State could have any interest in prosecuting them, under the provisions of the law above referred to, and of the act entitled "An act to revive and amend an act entitled 'An act to extinguish the claim of John Jacob Astor and others, and to quiet the possession of certain lands in the counties of Putnam and Dutchess,' passed April 16, 1827," passed April 19, 1828. This report of the Attorney-General has also communicated to the Legislature the information that the three suits carried to the supreme court of the United States, by writs of error, have been decided against the defendants in the suits, both as to the question of title to the lands and as to the claim of the tenants to compensation for their improvements upon the lands, before they could be dispossessed.

A reference to the act of 1827 will show, that, by that act, five suits in ejectment were required to be prosecuted to judgment, in the circuit court of the southern district of New-York, and the act proceeds, "And the judgments in the said five suits, respectively,