Laws of the State of New York
passed at the Fifty-fifth Session of the Legislature
Begun and held at the City of Albany
The Third Day of January 1832
Printed by Croswell, Printer to the State
for Wm. & A. Gould & Co. Albany
and
Gould, Banks & Co. Law Booksellers, New York
1832
Page 227
Chapter 146
Book located at the Vedder Memorial Library.
Transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf
An Act authorizing the Supervisors of the County of Greene
to sell and convey the Poor-House Lot and Establishment in said County, and for
other purposes.
Passed April 16, 1832
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:
The
supervisors of the county of Greene shall have power to sell and dispose of
the lot of land, buildings and improvements now used and improved as a
county poor-house, at any time when they shall think it for the interest of
the said county.
The
conveyance for the said premises in the event of a sale, may be executed by
such person as the said supervisors shall by a resolution to be entered in
their minutes designate; and such conveyance executed by such person in the
usual form of release, shall vest the title of the said supervisors and of
said supervisors and of said county to the said premises in the grantee in
fee.
The
sum for which the said premises shall be sold , shall be paid into the hands
of the county treasurer, and remain subject to such appropriation or
distribution as the said supervisors shall deem most advantageous to the
several towns in the said county.
The
concurrence of a majority of all the supervisors of the said county shall be
required in the adoption of any measure in pursuance of this act.
The
board of supervisors of the said county of Greene may at any annual or
special meeting thereof, after the sale of the present poor-house, determine
to erect another county poor-house, for the reception of the poor of their
county; and upon filing such determination with the clerk of the county,
they may direct the superintendents of the poor of such county to purchase
one or more tracts of land not exceeding two hundred acres, and to erect
thereon one or more suitable buildings for the purpose aforesaid. To defray
the expenses of such purchase and buildings, the said board may raise by tax
on the real and personal estate of the inhabitants of the same county, a sumnot exceeding seven thousand dollars, by such instalments and at such
times as they may judge expedient. The said tax shall be raised, assessed
and collected in the same manner as the other county charges, and shall be
paid by the county treasurer to the superintendents of the poor of the
county, to be applied in defraying the expenses aforesaid.