Overseers of the Poor of Fort Ann v. Overseers of the Poor of Kingsbury
New York Supreme Court
TWO justices of peace, of Kingsbury, made an order for the removal of Richard Sweet, a pauper, from that town to Fort Ann, as the place of his legal settlement. There was an appeal from this order to the general sessions of the peace of Washing ton county, which was tried in May, 1816, and the order of the justices confirmed.
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TWO justices of peace, of Kingsbury, made an order for the removal of Richard Sweet, a pauper, from that town to Fort Ann, as the place of his legal settlement. There was an appeal from this order to the general sessions of the peace of Washing ton county, which was tried in May, 1816, and the order of the justices confirmed. At the trial, before the sessions, the appellants produced an order of two justices of Kingsbury, dated the 13th of May, 1815, reciting, that on the complaint of the overseers of the poor, and due proof, that Robert Sweet, late of the town of Kingsbury, yeoman, had run…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The question is, whether Richard Sweet, a pauper, had his last legal settlement in the town of Fort Ann ? The test given by the statute, consists in bona fide renting and occupying a tenement, of the yearly value of 30 dollars, for two years, and actually paying such rent; or in holdings and ex*369ecuting an office for one year; or in having been charged with, and paid public taxes of the town for two years ; or in having been bound an apprentice or servant, and serving two years in such town accordingly. (1 N. R. L. 279.)
It appears that Szoeet, before the year i 800, lived on9 and…
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