to the manner in which the liabilities of said banks or banking associations have been settled; and if it shall be found that any liability has been settled by any one of said banks or by said association within one year previous to the date of this act, by payment of less than the full amount of said liability, then such bank or banks, or association, shall not be entitled to the benefit of any provision of this act. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 184. AN ACT to authorize the Canal Commissioners to construct a road bridge over the enlarged canal, near Griffith street, in the city of Rochester. Passed April 14th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The canal commissioners are hereby autho rised and required to construct or cause to be constructed, and maintained at the expense of the state, over the enlarged Erie canal, near Griffin street, in the city of Rochester, a common single track wood bridge; to be paid from any moneys appropriated for the enlargement of the Erie canal. § 2. This shall take effect immediately. Chap. 185. AN ACT to authorize the Canal Commissioners to contract with Edward H. Edwards for the repairs of a portion of the Black River Canal and feeders. Passed April 14th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion annexed ers to sec. 2 canal. SECTION 1. All that portion of the Black River canal and certain porslack water navigation in said river, from the entrance of by canal said canal into the Black river, to its northerly termination commissioninto the Black river below Lyon's Falls, including all the Black river piers, locks and other structures thereto belonging; and *als the north branch and Woodhull reservoirs, with all the dams, chutes, docking, bridges, and all other structures and appurtenances thereunto belonging, together with the pond above the dam, at the head of the Black River feeder, with all the docks, waste gates, piers, and all other structures connected therewith, may be attached and annexed by the canal commissioners to superintendent's section number two, Black River canal; and the canal commissioners are hereby authorized to contract with Edward H. Edwards, the present contractor, for repairing said section number two, to keep the said annexed portion of said section in repair during the remaining term said contract has to run, according to the terms and condition of said repair contract. But the said commissioners shall not pay to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars a year, in addition to the sum already provided in the present contract for keeping the portion of the said annexed canal in repair, and attending the locks, waste weirs and feeders, and at that rate for a longer or shorter period. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. * So in the original. 39 Chap. 186. AN ACT to authorize the Supervisors of the county of Oswego to raise money and make Appropriations for the use of the Oswego Orphan Asylum. Passed April 14th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The supervisors of the county of Oswego shall hereafter have authority to raise money by tax and appropriate the same to the use of the Oswego orphan asylum; but no money shall be ordered to be raised for the purposes herein specified, except at the annual meeting of the board of supervisors and by a majority of all the supervisors elected in the county, and not to exceed one thousand dollars in any one year. Chap. 187. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the Benefit of Married Women in Insuring the Lives of their Husbands. Passed April 14th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any married woman, by herself, and in her name, or in the name of any third person, with his assent as her trustee, to cause to be insured, for her sole use, the life of her husband for any definite period, or for the term of his natural life; and in case of her surviving her husband, the sum or net amount of the insurance becoming due and payable by the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her, to and for her own use, free from the claims of the representatives of the husband, or of any of his creditors; but such exemption shall not apply where the amount of premium annually paid out of the funds or property of the husband shall exceed three hundred dollars. § 2. In case of the death of the wife before the decease of her husband, the amount of the insurance may be made payable after death to her children for their use, and to their guardian, if under age. Chap. 188. AN ACT in relation to the Monroe County Passed April 14th, 1858, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the workhouse of the county of Name. Monroe, as designated in the act chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, of the laws of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, is hereby changed to "The Monroe County Penitentiary," by which name it shall hereafter be known and designated, and all acts and parts of acts passed by the legislature of this state, and all acts of the board of supervisors of Monroe county, or of any other county in this state, or of the inspectors or superintendent or other officers thereof, and all sentences or other acts of any of the courts of this state, referring or applicable to the said workhouse of the county of Monroe, shall apply to "The Monroe County Penitentiary," and to the prisoners, officers, and inspectors thereof, so far as the name shall be applicable. §2. Whenever any person shall be convicted, in the counSo in the original, victed, &c. ty of Monroe, of any offence punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, or by such imprisonment and a fine, or shall be sentenced by any court of competent authority in said county, for any offence, to pay a fine and to be committed until such fine is paid, such person shall be committed to the Monroe county penitentiary, instead of the county jail, and may be so sentenced by the court before whom such person shall be tried, and shall be received into said penitentiary, and be there kept and employed at labor in the same manner as other convicts in said penitentiary, and shall be in like manner subject to the rules and discipline of said penitentiary. Persons con- § 3. In all cases arising in the county of Monroe, where any person shall be convicted before any court or magistrate of said county, or of the city of Rochester, of the offence of drunkenness, vagrancy, or disorderly conduct, or shall be required to give security to keep the peace, or for good behavior, if such security shall not be given to the satisfaction of such court or magistrate, such person may be committed or sentenced as the case may require, by such court or officer, to imprisonment at labor, in the Monroe county penitentiary, for a term not exceeding three months, in the discretion of such court or magistrate. All persons so sentenced or ordered to be committed, shall be received into said penitentiary, and be employed at labor therein, and be subject to the rules and discipline thereof, until discharged according to law. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. |