Chap. 63. AN ACT to authorize the Buffalo Gas Light Company to sell certain lands. Passed March 25, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : §1. The Buffalo Gas Light Company is hereby authorized to sell and convey a lot of land in the city of Buffalo, now owned by said company, situated on Hospital and Fourth streets, being two hundred and thirty feet on the east side of Hospital street, and one hundred and fifty-seven feet on the north side of Fourth street; also such portion of the lot owned and occupied by said company on the northwest corner of Genesee and Fourth streets, and fronting on Fourth street, as is not required for the purposes of the company. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 64. AN ACT to amend the charter of St. Luke's Hospital in the city of New-York. Passed March 28, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. St. Luke's Hospital, incorporated under the provision of the act entitled "An act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, is hereby authorised to increase the number of its managers from thirteen to thirty-one, and seven of said managers shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. Mode of erecting Mores. Chap. 65. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Burton. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Se#ate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The name of the town of Burton, in the county of Cattaraugus, is hereby changed to Allegany, by which name it shall hereafter be known and called. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 66. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of NewYork, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed April 4, 1849, and to amend an act entitled "An act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New-York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed March 7, 1849. Passed March 28, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. The act entitled "An act to amend an act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New-York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed April 4, 1849, is hereby repealed. § 2. Section four of "An act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New-York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed March 7, 1849, is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: "Every such store, or store-house, being more than thirty feet in width, shall be erected and built in such manner that all the floors thereof, throughout their whole extent, shall be supported by and rest upon one or more additional partition wall or walls, built of brick or stone, not less than eight inches thick, or upon girders sustained by proper and sufficient posts or pillars of iron, brick or stone, and so that through the whole extent of said floors, and each of them, the walls of such store or store-house, (except the front and rear walls,) and such intermediate support or supports of brick, stone or iron, shall not be distant from each other more than thirty feet, and all such partition walls which exceed thirty-five feet in height from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest part thereof, shall not be less than twelve inches thick: Provided, however, that in case said floors, or any of them, shall throughout their whole extent be supported upon iron beams or girders of proper size and strength, resting upon the lateral walls of such store or store-house, and distant from each other not more than fifteen feet, then such store or store-house may be so built and erected as that in the story or stories beneath each floor so supported, the lateral walls may be distant from each other, or from any partition wall of brick or stone, or any intermediate support of brick, stone or iron, as hereinbefore required, a distance of more than thirty, but not more than forty feet. §3. Section twenty-four of the said last mentioned act is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: The owner or owners of any dwelling-house, store, store- Penalties. house or other building, or of any frame building with or without a brick front, or of any wooden building, or of any ash-house, ash-hole or wooden shed, whether he or they be the owner or owners of the land in fee, or be the lessee or lessees thereof, or has or have a qualified or contingent interest therein by virtue of some agreement or contract in writing, or in any other manner, who shall violate any provision of this act, and every builder, carpenter, mason, roofer or other person who may be employed or assist therein, shall for every such violation respectively forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, and such owner or owners shall forfeit and pay in addition thereto, the sum of fifty dollars for every twenty-four hours such violation shall remain after notice to remove the same shall have been given; such notice may be signed by any of the trustees or the fire wardens of the fire department of the city of New-York. Such notice may be given by leaving the same at the residence or place of business of such owner or owners, or builder or carpenter, or by serving the same personally, or by serving the same in the manner provided for in the twenty-ninth section of this act, and such additional penalty shall be computed and recovered up to the time of the trial of any suit for the recovery thereof; and in case such violation shall continue after the trial of such suit, such continuing additional penalty computing from the time of such trial, may be recovered in any other suit or suits to be brought by the fire department of the city of New-York for that purpose. Tide. Object. be held. § 4. Section ten and fourteen of the said last mentioned act are hereby revived. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 67. AN ACT to incorporate the Thistle Benevolent Association of the city of New-York. Passed March 28, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. Whereas, in the judgment of this legislature, the charitable objects of this association cannot be attained under any general law, by reason of the alienage of certain of its members; therefore, George Carnegie, John Wright, Thomas Chalmers, Alexander Cameron, James Robinson, James Peacock, Charles Davidson, William Wright and William Richardson, and such other persons as now are, or may hereafter, become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Thistle Benevolent Association of the city of New-York," for the purpose of raising by subscriptions, donations, bequests or devise, from members thereof and others, and by annual festivals, a fund to be distributed to the deserving poor, without distinction of sect or country, under the supervision of said corporation. Property to § 2. The corporation hereby created, may acquire, take and receive both personal and real estate, either by purchase, gift, grant, bequest or devise, and may rent, lease, transfer and alien the same; but the whole annual income of such real and personal estate held by such corporation at any time shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. By-laws." § 3. The said corporation shall have power to make, from time to time, such by-laws, rules and regulations as they shall judge proper for the election of officers, for prescribing their respective functions, and the mode of discharging the same, for the admission of new members into the said association, for the government of the members and officers thereof, for the regulating the annual rate of contributions towards the funds thereof, for appointing the times and places of meeting, for managing the affairs of said association, and for suspending and expelling such officers and members as shall neglect or refuse to comply with the said by-laws and regulations. and their §4. The officers of said association shall consist of a Officer president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary and twenty-election one managers, who shall be annually chosen by a majority of votes on the second Thursday of May in every year, and if the election be not held on that day, then it shall be lawful to hold the same on any other business day, on due notice being given to the members of said association of the intention to hold such election, and there being at the time and place designated five managers present; and and in case a vacancy shall take place between the annual meetings, then it shall be lawful for such vacancy to be filled by the managers of said association, and the person or persons so chosen shall continue in office until the next annual election, or until others are chosen in their places by the members of said association, and in case it shall be deemed necessary, the said corporation shall have power to increase the number of its board of managers. 5. The said corporation shall possess the general pow- Powera ers, and be subject to the provisions prescribed in the third title, of the eighteenth chapter, of the first part of the Revised Statutes. § 6. This act shall be subject to amendment or modification by the legislature. Chap. 68. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to authorize the business of banking," passed May 26, 1841. Passed March 29, 1851. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Section nine, of chapter three hundred and nineteen, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-one, being an act to amend the act entitled "An act to authorize the business of banking," passed May 26, 1841, is amended so as to read as follows: delivered 9. Such association or individual banker after having Securities complied with the provisions of the preceding section, and when to b after having given notice in the state paper for two years, up by the and also for the same length of time in at least one news-ler. paper printed in the county where the said association or Comptrol |