reason to doubt whether this petitioner would be precluded by any statute of limitations. But an investigation of that point is waived, because the government of the State has for the last thirty years constantly disregarded the statute which probably was intended only as a limitation on the authority of the Commissioners of the LandOffice. But the proof respecting the heirs of Joseph Hubbard is not so satisfactory as to justify your committee in determining who they are. It is proposed therefore to refer this question to the Commissioners of the Land-Office. As there is no more land to satisfy this claim, your committee is constrained to propose the payment of such a sum as, under all the circumstances, appears to be a fair equi valent. They have accordingly instructed their chairman to introduce a bill conformable to these views. IN ASSEMBLY, February 7, 1831. REPORT Of the committee on the erection and division of towns and counties, on the petition of inhabitants of the town of Hinsdale, Cattaraugus county. Mr. Knight, from the committee on the erection and division of towns and counties, to whom was referred the petition of inhabitants of the town of Hinsdale, in the county of Cattaraugus, REPORTED That they have examined the petition of said inhabitants, from which it appears that the course of the roads, streams, ravines and hills, render it inconvenient for the inhabitants to meet at one place for the transaction of public business. And from the accompanying map it appears that the present town of Hinsdale comprises a territory of seventy-two square miles. And that the population, by the late census of the United States, is nine hundred and nineteen. Your committee are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted, and have prepared a bill, and ask leave to introduce the same. IN ASSEMBLY, February 7, 1831. REPORT Of the select committee on the petition of inhabitants of the county of Kings, in relation to the jail liberties of said county. Mr. Downing, from the select committee to which was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of Kings county, praying for the passage of a law to enlarge the jail liberties of that county, REPORTED That it appears from the petition referred to the committee, that the jail of the county of Kings is located at a place which is but thinly populated, and consequently that the territory constituting the limits, affords but little employment to the debtors confined therein. That the greater part of those who avail themselves of the liberties of the jail, are from the other parts of the county, and find it almost impossible to find employment within the limits as now established, to obtain the means of subsistence, and they pray for an extension of the liberties so as to include the territory comprising the whole of Flatbush and Brooklyn. Your committee believe these representations to be correct, and they are of the opinion that justice and humanity require that their prayer be granted. The debtor, at the same time that he will be enabled to obtain employment and provide for his own subsistence, may, by this enlargement, be afforded an opportunity of carning and rendering to his creditor what is his due. For these reasons your committee ask leave to introduce a bill in conformity with the view of the petitioners. |