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1778 89 (1778)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0364 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS or THE STATE OF NEW YORK PASSED IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE SAID STATE, BEGINNING THE FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER, 1778, AND CONTINUED BY ADJOURNMENTS. CHAP. 1. AN ACT to enable the mayor aldermen and commonalty of the city of Albany to order the raising of a sum not exceeding four hundred pounds for the purposes therein mentioned. PASSED the 17th of October, 1778. WHEREAS the establishing of a regular well constituted night watch Preimble, within the city of Albany has been found necessary for the safety of its inhabitants and others. Be it therefore enacted by the People of the Sate of New York, rep- Mayor, resented in Senate and Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the authorio, of . the same That the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city oflevy Albany shall have full power and authority, at such time as they shall think convenient, to order a tax not exceeding four hundred pounds upon all the estates, real and personal, of all the freeholders inhabitants and residents living in that part of the said city which lies within half a mile of Hudson's river and to the north of a west line drawn from the old fort, for the payment of so many watchmen, not exceeding forty, as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the said city in common council convened shall think necessary for guarding the said city; which tax shall be rated and aisessed by the assessors of the said city; they having regard to the estate and ability of the said several persons, to be taxed. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid The t the as- Duty of sessors, as soon as they shall have compleated the assessments, shall to80sre return a list of the same to the mayor aldermen and commonalty of the Us0t antt