Section 5 a mended. Section 6 amended. Section 8 amended. the fine prescribed by this section shall be a lien until paid, upon such horse and cart. § 3. Section five of said act is amended so as to read as follows: § 5. It shall be the duty of every owner, master, mate, or other person having the charge or management of any vessel from which, or into which, ballast, coal, cinders, stones, bricks, tiles, dung, or any loose matter or thing, shall be conveyed, to fasten canvas, mats or cloths, between the pier or bulkhead and vessel, and between vessels lying along side each other, to or from which such ballast or other loose material shall be conveyed, so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the waters of the port; and if to be landed, to place such material at least two feet from the edge of the pier or bulkhead, under the penalty of ten dollars for the violation of any of the provisions of this section, and for each offence, to be paid to the commissioners; and such penalty shall be a lien, until paid, on the vessel from which such ballast, coals, cinders, stone, brick, tiles, dung, or other matter or thing, shall be so conveyed or landed. § 4. Section six of said act is amended so as to read as follows: § 6. It shall not be lawful to throw iron, lead, or any metal, or any package of merchandise weighing over fifty pounds, from a vessel on to a pier in the port of New York, without adequate protection to the planking of such pier, under the penalty of five dollars for each offence, to be paid to the commissioners, and to be a lien on the vessel until paid; nor shall it be lawful for any person or persons to draw, or cause to be drawn, or trail or drag over any pier in the port of New York, any anchor or blocks of stone, otherwise than upon carts, rollers, wheel carriages or sleds, under the penalty of five dollars for every offence, one-half of which shall be for the use of the person or persons lawfully entitled to the occupation of such pier. 5. Section eight of said act is amended so as to read as follows: § 8. Whenever any pier or bulkhead in the port of New York shall be encumbered, or its free use interfered with by merchandise, lumber, or any other obstruction, whether of loose material, or built upon or affixed to the pier or bulkhead, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to notify the person or persons placing or keeping such merchandise or obstruction on such pier or bulkhead, to remove such mer chandise or obstruction within twenty-four hours after such notice; and in case of failure to comply with such notice, and to remove such merchandise or obstruction, the person or persons só notified shall be liable to pay to the commissioners the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which such merchandise or obstruction shall remain on such pier or bulkhead; and the commissioners shall have power, in their discretion, to remove any merchandise so encumbering any pier or bulkhead, and to store the same in a warehouse or other proper receptacle; and a sum equal to the amount of the expenses of removal, together with the charges for storage, shall be paid by the owner of such merchandise to the commissioners, and shall be a lien on such merchandise until paid. § 6. Section eleven of said act is amended so as to read as follows: sioners, du § 11. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners to Commis require the lessees or occupants of the public piers and ties of. 'bulkheads in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, to keep the said piers and bulkheads clean and in good repair; and they shall specify in such notice the particulars of the repairs required by them to be made; and if when so notified to clean and repair any public pier or bulkhead, the lessee or occupant shall refuse so to do in accordance with the notice and specification of the commissioners, he shall be liable to pay to the said commissioners a fine of five dollars for each and every day during which he shall neglect or refuse to clean or repair such pier or bulkhead. § 7. Section seventeen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 17. All fines and penalties incurred and recovered under Fines and this act, which are recoverable by or in the name of the penalties. commissioners under this act, shall be paid, except as otherwise provided in this act, into the treasury of this state, and the treasurer shall keep account of the same, and he shall pay to the said commissioners annually the expenses incurred, and hereafter to be incurred, by the said commissioners under the act, to be certified to him by the president and secretary of said board, not exceeding five thousand dollars per annum, and the further sum of five thousand dollars, to be divided between them as follows: to the president of the board the sum of two thousand dollars, and to each of the other commissioners the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Fines and § 8. Section eighteen of said act is amended so as to read as follows: § 18. All the fines and penalties incurred under this act penalties of shall be recoverable by and in the name of the said commissioners. In all cases where the fines and penalties prescribed by this act are made liens upon property, they shall be enforced by attachments issued by the court where the proceedings for the recovery of such fines and penalties shall be pending, to the officers to whom executions of such courts are issued, and shall be enforced and discharged in like manner as attachments against property of non-resident debtors; and the said commissioners shall have power, in their discretion, to remit any fines or penalties incurred under this act. For the purposes of this act, all piers and bulkheads shall be deemed and taken as extending into the adjoining streets in the rear thereof, a distance of six feet. 9. This act shall not be deemed applicable to private wharves, piers and bulkheads occupied by the respective. owners thereof for special purposes. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately. May hold Chap. 227. AN ACT relating to "The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and to amend the charter thereof. Passed April 15th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The missionary society of the Methodist real estate, Episcopal church, incorporated by an act of the legislature of the state of New York, passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, shall be capable of acquiring, purchasing, holding and conveying such real estate as the purposes of said corporation shall require; but the annual income of the real estate held by them at any one time, in the state of New York, in trust or otherwise, shall not exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars. § 2. The second section of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church," passed April ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: man:gers. §2. The objects of the said corporation are to diffuse objects. more generally the blessings of education, civilization and Christianity throughout the United States and the territories thereof, and also in foreign countries, and to support and promote missionary schools and missions in the United States and the territories thereof, and in foreign countries. § 3. The third section of the said act, and also that amending the same, passed June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. The management and disposition of the affairs and Board of property of the said corporation shall be vested in a board of managers, to be annually elected at a meeting of the society to be called for that purpose and held in the city of New York, at such time and on such notice as the board of managers for the time being shall previously prescribe. Such board shall also have power to direct by what officer the conveyances of real estate, by said corporation, shall be executed; also to fill any vacancy that may happen in the board, until the ensuing annual election. Said board of managers shall consist of not less than thirty-two lay meinbers, and of so many clerical members, not exceeding that number, as shall be determined upon at such annual meeting, and each of which clerical members shall be a minister in good and regular standing in the Methodist Episcopal church. Thirteen members of the board, at any meeting thereof shall be a sufficient number for the transaction of Quorum. business; and at any meeting of the society, twenty-five members of the society shall be a sufficient quorum. ed. § 4. The act entitled "An act for the relief of the Mis- Act amendsionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church," passed April sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: and hold sonal pro 1. The Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal To receive church, incorporated on the ninth day of April, eighteen real and perhundred and thirty-nine, shall be capable of taking, holding perty given or receiving any real or personal estate, by virtue of any poration or devise or bequest contained in any last will and testament Society. to said cer of any person whomsoever; subject to the limitation of the first section as to the aggregate amount of such real estate provided no person leaving a wife or child or parent shall devise or bequeath to such corporation more than one-fourth of his or her estate after the payment of his or her debts and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of such one-fourth, and no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator, and the said corporation shall be also competent to act as a trustee in respect to any devise or bequest pertaining to the objects of said corporation; and such devises and bequests of real or personal property may be made to said corporation, in trust, for any of the purposes comprehended in the general objects authorized by its charter as amended; and such trusts may continue for such time as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which they may be created. Body corporate Chap. 228. AN ACT to incorporate "The Saint Mary's Passed April 15th, 1858. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Erastus Fairbanks, John F. Seymour, John W. Brooks, Benjamin Tibbetts, and their associates, and all other persons who may become holders of the stock hereinafter mentioned, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of "The Saint Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company," for the purpose of holding, exploring, improving, managing, selling and conveying, such lands as the Saint Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company may convey, or agree to convey, to it, or to hold for its use and benefit, with power to hold, manage, sell and con vey, such mineral rights, shares and interests in said real |