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No. UT. 
 
 
 
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 In Assembly,March 16,1821. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To remunerate the sufferers on the Niaga- 
 ra frontier, for property destrojed hj the 
 British in the late war. | 
 
 1 WHEREAS H. B. Potter, Bates Cooke, Leitflel Cooke, and othera, 
 
 2 whose property was destroyed by the British in tie late war, have peti- 
 
 3 tioned the Legislature for relief in the premises — ind Whereas many of 
 
 4 these petitioners are in great want of the means of ubsistence : 
 
 1 And whereas the Congress of the United States did pass a Law for the 
 
 2 relief of such sufferers, and did under said Law ajpoint Commissioners to 
 
 3 investigate the character and ascertain the amounlof the property so des- 
 
 4 Iroyed on the Niagara frontier ; and the said Comijssioners, with an Attor- 
 
 9 ney appointed by the authority of the United Sties, did investigate the 
 
 6 character and amount of the property so destroyd by the British in the 
 
 7 late war, on the Niagara frontier: 
 
 1 And whereas the state of New- York repose the itmout confidence in the 
 
 2 magnanimity and justice of the Congress of the LTiited States, and that the 
 
 3 United States will pay the said sufferers, at some coivenient time, the entire 
 
 4 amount of the above sum, found by the aforesaid Commissioners, and fully 
 
 5 relying that the United States will repay to the state of New- York, any sum 
 
 6 the said state may pay to the said sufferers, less than the sum foun<1 hy the 
 
 7 Eaid_Commissionei-s to have been de-itroyed as afonsaid — ^Thei-efore, 
 
 1. Be it enacUd by the People of the State of JVeiv- York, represented -n Senate 
 aufi ./lusienMyi tliat the several de' ' due to the people of this stale for mon- 
 ies loaned to the suffereid on th<. Niagara frontier by -virluto v,K Uw V&vi of 
 15th April, 1815 — and also, for money loaned to the courtty of Niagara 
 to assist in vebuilding the €0ui'i-"i7£is6 fov said county. By ^ iftue of "an act 
 passed l.")tli of April, 1816, amended 15th April, 1817— also all money due 
 to tiuE state on ^3curities taken for tht payment ol Ihi debt due from the 
 
 8 Bank of Niagara, and the Bills of said Bank now iu the treasury of the state 
 
 9 — and also, the several sums due on the sales of Lands belonging to the peo- 
 
 10 pie ol the state, at Black-Rock, Lewiston, and on Ine mile reservation along 
 
 11 (he Niagara river, estimated, in the whole, at ore hundred and seventeen 
 
 12 i(iousand three hundred and sixty dollars seven(3-eight cents ; and all the 
 
 13 interest due on said several debts, be, and the samf are hereby assigned and 
 
 14 transferred to Gideon Granger, Nathaniel W. Htweli and Robert S. Rose, 
 
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 |5 to hold to them and to the survivors of them, as Commissioners intrust, for 
 It) tlie uses and subject to tlie disposition hereinafler mentioned. 
 
 1 II. Jnd be tl further enacleJ^Thai it shall be the duty of tjie said Commissioners 
 
 2 to extend to the aforesaid individuals, debtors to the state, the term of five 
 
 3 years, for llie payment of their respective debts — provided the said debtors 
 
 4 sliali pay, on or before the first day of next, to the Attoiney-Gene- 
 
 5 lal, all costs which uny have arisen upon the prosecution of any such de- 
 
 6 niand — and provided also, the said debtors shall respectively pay "the annual 
 
 7 inteiest that shall fa 1 due on the day of in each and eve- 
 
 8 rv year hereafter. 
 
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 1 III .^4n</ 6e 1/ /i/r/Acr fnac/ct/, That the treasurer shall pay on the warrant of 
 •2 the comptrolh r, all aonics which shall hereafter be received into the treasury 
 :« from the county of JSiagara, in payment of the principal and interest of the 
 •2 loan made to said county, mentioned in the first clause of this act. 
 
 1 iV. Md be it/urthr enacted. That all the right, title and estate, of the people 
 
 2 of this state, of andin al! such lands as are under contract, and for which the 
 .3 Surveyor-Cieneral Us issued his Certificates, at Lewislon, RIack Kock and on 
 
 4 the mile rep- rvatior, be, and the same is hereby gi-anted to the before named 
 
 5 Commissioners in tnsl as aforesaid ; and the said Commissioners shall have 
 
 6 power to take and cceive the title to any lands or tenements mortgaged to 
 
 7 the people of the stte, and which mortgage is by this act assigned to them, 
 
 8 whenever in their Jiigment !• shall be necessary to secure the debts ; and it 
 
 9 shall be lawful foi' tls said Commissioners, in the name of the people of this 
 
 10 state, to sue for andiecover any monies due or to grow due to them upon 
 
 1 1 any of the securitie hereby assigned to them, or for any of the estate here- 
 
 12 by conveyed; and i shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to receive, 
 
 13 sue for and recover the possession of any of the lands hereby conveyed 
 
 14 to them, in case of he non payment of the purchase money or interest, ac- 
 
 15 cording to the prwisions of this act — And it shall be lawful for the said 
 
 16 Commissioners to sel, and in their own names to convey any lands or tene- 
 
 17 merits which under his act they may acquire ; and upon the production of 
 IP a tervificate of the aid Commissioners, that any mortgage hereby assigned 
 
 19 to t' u, has been pad off and satisfied, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of 
 
 20 the ^ounty where tie said mortgage iti recorded, to cancel the same of rc- 
 
 21 cord. All powers (onferred by this act upon the Commissione.s may be 
 
 22 executed by any tvvc of them. 
 
 1 V. Jnd be it further aacted, That it shall be lawful for the s*id Commissioners 
 
 2 to allow any person vho shall be enthled to any dividend under this act, cither 
 
 3 in his own right, or rs Ihe bone fide assignee of any other person so entitled, 
 
 4 such pait of "said dividend as the said Commissioners shall be satisfied wiJl 
 
 6 not exceed his or their due proi>ortion of the m.uue%ir/aing under U>k. act, \jy 
 appir/ng the same tov^'-is any debt due from such peuor to the raid Com- 
 
 7 missionem on <iny debt hereby assigned to thenj. 
 
 VI. Jnd be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall make an equal 
 distribution of all such monies as shall come into their hands by virtue of 
 this act, among the several and respective sufferers on the Niagara frontier, 
 . situate in the county rf Niagira, and named in a list of claims present* d be- 
 9 fore Oliver C. Comstoik, ArchibaldjS. Clark and Robert W. Stoddard, Com- 
 
 6 missioners appointed ly Richard B. Lee, under a resolution of the Congrf «s 
 
 7 of the United States, b take testimony relative to said sufferers accordmg lo 
 
 8 the amount of the danages sustained by said sufferers respectively, and 
 
 9 certified by the last naned Commissioners in their report to the said Kicn- 
 
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 10 anl B Lee to hpve been fully and satisfactorily proved before thrm-and 
 
 1 It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to make and declare such 
 
 12 dividends as they shall from time to time judge proper-a'.wavs diviS 
 
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 4 proved, to every suflerer his rateable proportion of the monies so to be di 
 
 5 vided-and it shall be lawful for tho said Commissioners to pay over the 
 
 6 dividends to the said sufferers, or to their order, or to thi legal rep e- 
 
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 8 dend declared, and to retain therefrom, in full satisfaction of their cosL« 
 
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