The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-04

tiea. Aad when conferred. may finally approve the
But IL should appear to the said court that tho mu.
ncips authorities OF the city In which such railroad 10
proposed to be constructed duly authorized BY Law to
construct the said road and propose TO construct the
ut their expense, and for the exclusive benefit
of such city then the said may dispense with the
proof required in this section in respect to grant to
individuals to construct such road.
Sec. 8. Nothing in this act contained shall be con
strued - declaring or determining the right title or
interest OF city corporation in any OF the streets or
thereof, confirming any right or authority
to appropriate the soil Of such streets to the
purposes of q railroad, when such use would become
public nuisance without due proceedings to compen-
the in ee there be any of such streets or
avenues the of other property injured ny
the construction Of such railroad.
Sec T. This shall apply to any grant o. railroad
heretofore made BY any common council wnere sne rs
road has not constructed and to the OF
any railroad that has been partially constructed but
oohng herein contained shall be considered in sny way
Affecting any railroad actually constructed In any city Ia
This Stale nor to any railroad constructed under any act
OF the Legislature this State specially authorizing the
same nor In any wise aec, the grant Of the mayor,
aldermen and commonalty of the city OF New York,
bearing the first day Of January one thousand eight
Horace Day, to enable them to construct a railroad
work the same through the Third avenue and other
streets in said city.
The Reissue Of Circulating Notes.
The following is the bill reported on the 25th ult by
Mr. Russell Smith to the Assembly, from the Committee
Banks and Insurance Companes-read twice, and com
mitted to the Committee of the Whole -
AN ACT TO PREVENT THE REISSUE OF THE oIRcg-
LArING NOTES OF BANKS WHOSE CHARTERS HAVE
EXPIRED.
The People of the State OF New York represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. The circulating notes issued by any ncorpo
rated bank shall be ressued paid out by ind
yidual banker bank banking association for pur
pose after the expiration of one year from
the time OF the expa ton of the charter OF such ncorpo
rated bank But this section shall not prevent such
individual banker bank banking association from pre-
enng to the of such expired incorporated bank
such circulating notes for payment.
Section 9 Every individual banker and the officers, d.
rectors and agents OF any bank or banking association
who shall offend against the provisions of this act shall
be liable TO the penalties prescribed by law for issuing
bills prowissory notes for the purpose Of putting them
into circulation, without being authorized by law
Section B. This act shall take effect on the first day OF
October next.
The Charges against Hon. Henry Fitzhugh.
from the Albany Evening Journal, April 2
Mr.. Gale on whose motion a committee appointed
TO investigate certain charges of Official delinquency
against the Hon. Henry Fitzhugh made report this
morning The committee after presenting the facts eli
cited by the testimony only fully exculpae Mr. Ftz
hugh from these charges but unanimously resolve that
nothing appeared to impair the public confidence in his
official integrity. Although Mr.. Fs friends have not
from the first doubted the result of this investigation it
is gratifying to have this public endorsement OF the
rty Of his official character The State had
faithful servant who has discharged his public
duties with more scrupulous regard to the public in
terests.
Education OF Street Children.
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children very interesting It presents the question in
all its important aspects, clearly and forcibly The duty
of the State to prevent well to punish crime do
monstraed by the cogent and conclusive arguments Of
the report and the position that this preventive pro
would be effective avertng the consequences OF
crime, by crushing the germs upon which the baneul
fruit grows, must commend itself to the good of
the economist, while it cannot fail enlist the
/ warmest sympatLes of the philanthropist.
No painful picture be presented to the mind
of the beDev oent than the dark future of the perverse
friendess and neglected ststreet child No moral ray
his desoate path His miserable home Is
the abode of hopeless wretchedness Progacy and crime
constitute his daily moral ament Profanity is the only
prayer, and pifering the only employment taught him
fortunate child acquires conception of
what constitutes legal offence and long before
he reaches his majority, he stands out before the
world hardened and abandoned offender ready
to play any desperate game t, crafty his passions
procure the of subsistence Cut of such material
this made pickpockets, burglars, hghwaymen
and assassns The sstreet child becomes the maured
obber murderer and the neglected shverng friend
less tenant Of the dark and filthy hotels of large
towns, becomes almost ns yitaby, the inmates OF
prisons, or the victim Of the executioner
And yet what has society-what has the State-i0ne
for these neglected outcasts We have institutions to
punish but not to them Houses of Refuge do
done by them, however, may learn what may be ac
complished by efficient Acknowledgements yet
tried but not unhought of-ager cies which New York
gre in her commercial wealth and and great
too, in her noble institutions Of charity and mercy
should covet the honor Of beirg the first to call into
QUESTION.
It is well that this subject which has recently at
trsced the attention of the thoughtful phla uthropsts
of our State has been brought to the attention of the
Legislature.