to issue not date tax. §2. The omission to issue said warrants in said month Omission of January shall not prejudice any tax or assessment in to invalisaid city, or the lien of the same, or the proceedings to be taken to enforce the payment thereof, or the sale of the land on which the same is charged. §3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 52. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, also to amend the several acts passed November 16, 1847, and April 11th, 1849, amendatory of the said act. Passed March 17, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: constituted. § 1. The mayor of the city of New-York, the president Board of of the chamber of commerce of the city of New-York, the trustees president of the Marine society of the port of New-York, together with the board of counsellors of the Mariners' Family Industrial society, of the city and county of NewYork, and their successors are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the purposes named in the acts entitled "An act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, and in the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, passed November 16, 1847, and in the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the act entitled an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, passed November 16, 1847, passed December 14, 1847, also in the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, passed April 11, 1849. to be paid board. § 2. The trustees of the seamen's fund and retreat of $16,166 31 the city of New-York, shall pay over to the trustees above over to said named, on demand, the sum of sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-one cents, paid to them by the comptroller of the state of New-York, agreeably to the act passed December 14, 1847, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, passed November 16, 1847, and April Said mo 11, 1849, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, together with the interest thereon, which shall have accrued and which is unexpended. §3. The board of trustees named in the first section of ney how to this act, shall from the funds so received from the trusbe expended. tees of the seamen's fund and retreat, apply so much thereof as may be necessary to the immediate erection of a suitable building and suitable furniture for the same, either on the grounds named in the act of November 16, 1847, entitled "An act to amend an act to provide for sick and disabled seamen," passed April 22, 1831, or any other suitable grounds as shall be deemed most expedient by the said board of trustees hereby created, for an asylum for the purposes named in said act last aforesaid, and the surplus, if any, shall be applied by the said trustees created by this act, for the relief of the persons whose relief is contemplated in the aforesaid act. Repeal. how to be § 4. All laws and parts of laws now in force, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 53. AN ACT authorizing the Canu! Commissioners to repair the public highway across the foot of Seneca lake, and to protect the banks of the Cayuga and Seneca canal against injury from the waters of said lake. Passed March 20, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Highway §1. The canal commissioners are hereby authorized, repaired. provided in their opinion it may be necessary, to further repair the public highway, running between the Seneca lake, and the Cayuga and Seneca canal, from Hastings & Field's docks, in the village of Geneva, to the outlet of said lake, in such manner as they may deem to be the best and most effectual mode to protect the state works. The said commissioners, if in their opinion it may be necessary, are authorized to procure a quantity of large and suitable stone, and place the same on the outside of the rip rap and embankment lately constructed under the act passed April 10th, 1850, chapter 292, so as to prevent the said embankment from further injury, or inundation from the waters of the said lake. § 2. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appro-propriated. priated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and the commissioners are hereby further required to proceed with the said works immediately; and the treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, out of the money hereby appropriated, such sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 54. AN ACT to release to the owners of farm lots 256 and 257, in the Onondaga salt springs reservation, all the interests of the state therein. Passed March 20, 1851, "by a two-third vote." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: released. §1. The commissioners of the land office are hereby Land to be authorized to release to the owners of farm lots two hundred and fifty-six and two hundred and fifty-seven in the Onondaga salt springs reservation, all the rights and interests of the people of this state in said lots, which were derived from and held under an instrument in writing, dated July first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, executed by Reuben L. Hess, Dean Richmond, Lyman Clary and John Wilkinson and their respective wives, to the said people and which is recorded in the clerk's office of the county of Onondaga, in book No. 80 of deeds, page 139, the object for which said instrument was executed having entirely failed. discharged. §2. The owners of the said farm lots shall, after such Covenants release from the commissioners of the land office, hold the said lots discharged from all the covenants and conditions contained in the instrument in writing referred to in the first section of this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Two toll gates may Chap. 55. AN ACT to authorize the Union Plank Road Company of the town of Kingston, to establish gates and regulate the tolls upon their road. Passed March 20, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The Union Plank Road Company of the town of be erected. Kingston, are hereby authorized, as soon as their road, extending from the Esopus creek to the Rondout creek at the villages of Wilbur and Rondout, shall be completed, to erect a toll gate upon that branch of their road extending from the village of Kingston to the village of Rondout, and also another one on that branch of their road leading from the village of Kingston to Wilbur ; such gates to be located at such point on said branches as the directors may designate. Rates of toll. Two police justices. §2. The said company may, at each of such gates, collect toll at the rates prescribed by the act providing for the incorporation of plank roads and turnpike roads, from all persons except those going to or returning from divine worship, at the place where they usually attend and in the town in which they reside or the adjoining town; a town or general election, or a funeral. Chap. 56. AN ACT to authorize the election of two police justices in the town of Kingston. Passed March 20, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. There shall hereafter be two police justices in the town of Kingston, one of whom shall reside in the village of Kingston, and one in the village of Rondout, and who shall hold their office for the term of three years, and have the same powers and jurisdiction in criminal cases and proceedings, that justices of the peace now by law have, or which may hereafter be conferred on justices of the peace by law, and shall be subject to the same duties and liabilities as the justices of the peace of the several towns of this state. elected. §2. Such police justices shall be elected by the electors How of the town of Kingston, at the annual town meeting in said town, in the same manner as justices of the peace and other town officers are elected, except that there shall be a separate ballot for such police justices, which shall be endorsed "police justice," and on such ballots their residence shall be designated, and such ballots shall be deposited by the officers presiding at such town meeting in a separate box, to be by them provided for such purpose, and a separate poll list shall be kept of persons voting for such police justices. tion. §3. The first election of such police justices, shall be Frst elee. had at the next annual town meeting in said town, and the persons then duly elected, shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of May thereafter, on which day their term of office shall commence; and in case a vacancy of such office, the same shall be supplied in the same manner as vacancies in the office of justices of the peace are supplied. Vacancies. business. §4. Each of the said police justices shall provide him- Place of self with a suitable and convenient room, in the village of his residence, at which he shall attend at all reasonable times and hours, for the transaction of all business, and the hearing of complaints of a criminal nature, that may be brought before him; and his removal from said village shall be deemed and held to create a vacancy in said. office. 5. Such police justices shall have, in said town, con- Jurisdiocurrent and exclusive jurisdiction, except in cases of their tion. absences from said town, or inability from sickness, or other cause to act, to hear all criminal complaints, and to conduct all criminal business in said town, that may by law, be done by a justice of the peace. the peace. § 6. No justice of the peace of the said town of King- Justices of ston, shall be bound to render any service, or be entitled to receive any fees in criminal cases, except during a vaeaney in both of the offices of police justices, and except that a complainant shall, by his own oath, or that of some other person, prove to a justice of the peace that both of the said police justices are absent from the town, or sick, or otherwise unable to attend to such application; and the offence charged be of felony, then the justice to whom such application shall be made, shall issue a warrant to |