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LAWS

OF THE

COLONY OF NEW YORK.*

XIV GEORGE III.

WILLIAM TRYON, ESQ., GOVERNOR, 1774.

Chapter I.

AN ACT further to continue an Act entitled, "An Act for granting to his Majesty the Several Duties and impositions on Goods Wares and Merchandizes imported into this Colony therein Mentioned."

PASSED the 8th of February 1774.

WHEREAS the several Duties and Impositions on Goods Wares and Preamble. Merchandizes imported into this Colony and granted for the support of the Government of his late Majesty King George the Second by the abovementioned Act, have by several subsequent Acts been continued to the first Day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, and the General Assembly being willing to make Provision for the further support of his Majesty's Government,

granting

tinued in

Be it therefore Enacted by his Excellency the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same That the abovementioned Act, entitled, "An Act for granting to Act of 27th his Majesty the several Duties and Impositions on Goods Wares and George 2d, Merchandizes imported into this Colony therein mentioned," passed duties, in the twenty seventh Year of his late Majesty's Reign, shall be and is etc., conhereby continued and every Clause Matter and Thing therein con- force to tained, enacted to be and remain in full force, to all Intents, Construc- 1, 1775. tions and Purposes whatsoever until the first Day of February which will be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five inclusive; and that Nicoll Havens of Shelter Island in Collector Suffolk County, be the Officer appointed to collect the Colony Duties of Colony in the said County in the abovementioned Act.

*NOTE BY SECRETARY OF STATE.- So far as can be ascertained, only two printed copies
of the volume of Laws of 1774-1775 are known to be in existence-the one copy (an
imperfect copy) in the State Library at Albany, N. Y., and the other copy in the Con-
gressional Library at Washington, D. C.

The copies referred to, are "Printed by H. Gaine, Printer to the King's Most Excellent
Majesty, in the Province of New York.'

February

duties for Suffolk county.

Proviso,

tain im

Provided always, That so much of the first Clause or Section of said as to cer- Act, as relates to European or East India Goods imported from the portations British Islands into this Colony, shall be construed, taken and deemed to be from the British Islands in America only, any Thing in the said Act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

Preamble.

Posthumous

children

to take.. estates, in certain cases.

Chapter II.

AN ACT to enable posthumous Children to take Estates as if born in their Father's Lifetime.

PASSED the 8th of February 1774.

WHEREAS it often happens that by marriage and other Settlements, Estates are limited in remainder to the Use of the Sons and Daughters the Issue of such marriage, with Remainder over without limiting an Estate to Trustees to preserve the contingent Remainders limited to such Sons and Daughters; by which means such Sous and Daughters, if they happen to be born after the Decease of their Father, are in Danger to be defeated of their Remainder, by the next in Remainder after them, and left unprovided for by such Settlements, contrary to the Intent of the Parties that made those Settlements,

any

Benacted by his Excellency the Governor the Council and the General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That, where any Estate already is, or shall hereafter by any marriage or other Settlement be limited in remainder to, or to the use of the rights of fist or other Son or Sons of the Body of any Person lawfully begotten, with Remainder or Remainders over to, or to the use of any other Person or Persons; or in Remainder to, or to the use of a Daughter or Daughters lawfully begotten with any Remainder or Remainders to any other Person or Persons, that any Son or Sons, or Daughter or Daughters of such Person or Persons lawfully begotten or to be begotten, that shall be born after the Decease of his, her, or their Father, shall and may by virtue of such Settlement, take such Estate so limited to the first and other Sons, or to the Daughter or Daughters in the same Manner as if born in the Lifetime of his, her or their Father, although there shall happen no Estate to be limited to trustees after the Decease of the Father, to preserve the contingent Remainder to such afterborn Son or Sons, Daughter or Daughters, until he she or they come in esse, or are born, to take the same, any Law or usage to the contrary in any wise nothwithstanding.

Proviso.

Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend to devest any Estate in Remainder, that by virtue of any Marriage or other Settlement is already come to the Possession of any Person or Persons, or to whom any Right is accrued though not in actual Possession by Reason or Means of any afterborn Son or Sons or Daughter or Daughters not happening to be born in the Lifetime of his, her or their Father.

Chapter III.

AN ACT to appoint Commissioners for collecting the Duty of Excise on strong Liquors retailed in this Colony from the first Day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, to the first Day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five inclusive.

PASSED the 8th of February 1774.

sioners for

strong

liquors.

BE IT ENACTED by his Excellency the Governor the Council and the CommisGeneral Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same, That collecting the several and respective Persons and Officers herein after named, excise on shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners for collecting the Duty of Excise laid by an Act entitled, "An Act to lay a Duty of Excise on Strong Liquors in this Colony, and to appropriate the Money arising therefrom," passed the eighth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three; of and from the several Retailers of Strong Liquors within the several Cities, Counties Towns, Boroughs, Manors, Precincts and Districts, and the Harbours, Bays and Rivers thereunto adjoining or belonging in this Colony, for which they shall be respectively appointed, from the first Day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, to the first Day of February which will be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five inclusive, In New That is to say,

York city and

For the City and County of New York Cornelius Clopper Esquire. county. For the City and County of Albany, Peter Lansing, and Gysbert G. Albany, Marcelis Esquires.

city and

county.

For the County of Ulster Joseph Gashery and James McClagrie Ulster Esquires.

⚫ county.

For the County of Dutchess the Supervisor, and Assessors in each Dutchess Precinct respectively for the Time being.

county.

county.

For the County of Orange as follows, for Haverstraw Precinct, Orange David Pye Esquire; for Orange Town John Perry Esquire; for Goshen Precinct William Ellison Esquire, and for Cornwall Precinct Daniel Coleman Esquire.

For Richmond County John Micheau and Christian Jacobson Richmond. Esquires.

For Kings County, Theodorus Polhemus Esquire.

Kings.

For Queens County, Benjamin Townshend and Samuel Clowes Queens. Esquires.

For Suffolk County, Colonel William Smith, and Samuel Landon Suffolk. and Malby Gelston Esquires.

For Tryon County, Jellis Fonda and John Frey Esquires.

Tryon.

For Cumberland County the Judges of the Inferior Court of Com- Cumbermon Pleas in said county.

land.

For the Manor of Cortlandt and Rykes Patent in the County of West Cortlandt Chester, Hachaliah Brown Esquire, with three or more of the Justices Manor of. of the Peace residing on the said Manor, or on the said Patent.

For the Borough Town of West Chester, the Mayor thereof for the West Time being.

Chester.

For the Manor of Philipsburgh in the County of West Chester, Wil- Philipsliam Davids, Isaac Deane, Israel Underhill and Gabriel Purdy Esquires. burgh. And for the remaining Part of West Chester County Stephen Ward, Part of and John Thomas Junior Esquires.

West
Chester Co

Preamble.

to raise

£1,800, for

payment men and

of watch

lighting lamps.

Chapter IV.

AN ACT to impower the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of New York, or the major Part of them, to order the raising a sum not exceeding eighteen hundred Pounds for the uses therein mentioned.

PASSED the 8th of February 1774.

WHEREAS the providing a sufficient number of Watchmen and lighting of Lamps within the City of New York, has not only been found convenient, but also necessary for the safety of its Inhabitants and others,

Be it therefore Enacted by his Excellency the Governor, the Council and General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same Authority That the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of New York for the Time being, or the major Part of them whereof the Mayor or Recorder to be one, shall have full Power and Authority, and are hereby fully impowered and authorized, on the Second Tuesday in the Month of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, or within twenty Days thereafter, to order the raising a Sum not exceeding eighteen hundred Pounds, by a Tax on the Estates real and personal of all and every the Freeholders, Freemen, Inhabitants Residents and Sojourners within the City of New York on the South Side of FreshWater for the payment of so many Watchmen as the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York shall think necessary for guarding the City, and for purchasing Oil, providing Lamps, and for repairing and attending the Lamps which now are or hereafter may be erected; which Sum of eighteen hundred pounds, shall be rated and assessed by the Vestrymen who shall rate and assess the Tax for levied and the Minister and Poor of the said City, the Vestrymen first taking the Oath prescribed to be taken in and by an Act entitled "An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the City of New York to choose annually two Vestrymen for each respective Ward within the said City," made and passed in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the second, and the Tax so to be laid shall be collected, levied and paid at the same Time as the Tax for the Minister and Poor of the said City To whom hath been accustomed into the Hands of the Church Wardens of the payable. said City for the Time being, who are hereby required and directed to How dis- pay the same into the Hands of the Chamberlain of the said City, to be by him paid as shall be directed by Warrant or Warrants of the said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty in Common Council convened for the Uses aforesaid.

Assessments, how made.

collected.

bursed.

Collection fees for constables

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That over and above the Sun of eighteen hundred pounds to be levied and Paid by virtue of this Act, the Sum of three Pence in the Pound as a Reward to the Constables for their Trouble, shall be assessed levied and paid to the respective Constables for collecting and paying the same, and no more, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, any Thing herein or in any other Act or Acts contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the said Mayor Recorder or Aldermen, Church-Wardens, Vestrymen or Constables of the said City who are hereby authorized impowered and required to take effectual care that this Act be executed according to

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