LAWS OF NEW YORK

FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF 1821

CHAP. CVI.

AN ACT to divide the Town of Ulysses, in the County of Tompkins.

Passed March 16, 1821.

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this act, all that part of the town of Ulysses, in the county of Tompkins, lying within the boundaries following, that is to say, beginning at the northwest corner of lot number one, in said town, thence south to the northwest corner of lot number thirty-four, thence east to the northeast corner of lot number thirty-nine, thence south to the northwest corner of lot number forty, thence east to Cayuga lake, thence along said lake northerly to the southeast corner of the town of Covert, thence west, to the place beginning, shall be and is hereby erected into a separate town, by the name of Ulysses, and that the first town meeting be held at the house of John Mattison, in the village of Jacksonville, in said town.

II. And be it further enacted, That so much of the remaining part of the town of Ulysses, lying within the following boundaries, that is to say, beginning at the northwest corner of lot number thirty-four, thence south to the north line of Tioga county, thence east on said line to the southeast corner of lot number seventy-seven, thence north to the northeast corner of lot number thirty-nine, thence west, to the place of beginning, shall be, and is hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Enfield, and that the first town meeting be held at the house of John Applegate; and all the remaining part of the town of Ulysses shall be and remain a separate town by the name of Ithica, and that the first town meeting be held at the court-house, in the village of Ithaca.

III. And be it further enacted, That the supervisors and overseers of the poor of the towns of Ulysses, Enfield and Ithaca, shall meet together on the second Tuesday of May next, at the house of Edmund Hopkins, in the town of Ulysses, and apportion the money and poor belonging to the said town of Ulysses previous to the division, agreeable to the last tax list, and that each of the said towns thereafter shall maintain and support their own poor; and that it also be the duty of the commissioners of common schools in the said town hereby divided, to meet with the said supervisors, on said second Tuesday of May next, and make an equitable apportionment of the monies arising either from the rents or sale of the gospel and school lot belonging to the said town hereby divided.