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The attorney-general, to whom was referred the petition of Richard Udal and others, inhabitants of the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, together with the remonstrance of the freeholders and commonalty of the town of Huntington, reported as follows, to wit:
That the prayer of the petitioners is for the grant of three islands in the great bay, commonly called South Bay, lying between the... Continue Reading
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YOUR letter of yesterday's date is before me. The proposed loan of $350,000 by the state to the general government, can only be made by first borrowing the amount on the credit of the state. But as the state tax for 1815 will be realized in the early part of the next year, I think this sum can be borrowed for the object contemplated, without any prejudice or embarrassment to the state.
Whilst... Continue Reading
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The attorney-general, to whom was referred the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Islip, and the remonstrance of the trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of the town of Huntington, in the county of Suffolk, referred to him at the last session of the Legislature, reported as follows, to wit:
That the property to which the said petition and remonstrance relate, are three islands in... Continue Reading
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The attorney-general, to whom was committed the engrossed bill, from the honorable the Assembly, entitled "an act for the relief of Isaac Cross," and the petition of Lucretia Heyser, presented to the Senate, reported as follows, to wit:
That the property in question, between the parties, has escheated by the death of Magdalen Cross without heirs; that the escheat was under circumstances which... Continue Reading
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The attorney-general and surveyor-general, on the petition of Richard Goodwell, and also the memorial of Matthew McNair and others, reported as follows, to wit:
That the object of the petition and the memorial is, to authorise a sale to the petitioner of lots No. 42 and 6, in East Oswego.
The memorialists, consisting of a considerable number of the most respectable citizens in the vicinity of the... Continue Reading
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The attorney-general, to whom was referred the petition of Johannes L. Lawyer and others, reported as follows:
That the allegations on which the petitioners ground their prayer for relief are—
1st. That on the 2d of April, 1725, a patent was granted to Johannes Lawyer and others, for about one thousand six hundred acres of land, situate in the now town of Minden, in the county of Montgomery.
2d.... Continue Reading
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The attorney-general, to whom was referred the petition of the trustees of the Hamilton and Lebanon manufacturing society, reported—
That the prayer of the petitioners is, that the Legislature shall by law divest Horton Corwin and Lambert Wickwin, of their title to about twenty acres of land, in the town of Lebanon, in the county of Chenango, which are overflowed in consequence of a dam erected... Continue Reading
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The Attorney General, to whom was refered the petition of Zadock Rider and others, possessors of Lot No. 28, Free mason's patent, reported—
That by the evidence submitted to him by the petitioners, the following facts have been satisfactorily established, viz,
1st. That the premises in question were originally granted to Allen M'Dougle, who probably was a nominal patentee for the benefit of John ... Continue Reading
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