Supervisor & Overseers of the Poor v. Supervisor & Overseers of the Poor
New York Supreme Court
Pursuant to an act passed June 19th, 1812, entitled an act to divide the towns of Greenwich and Berlin, in the county of Rensselaer, into three towns, these two towns were divided into three towns, by the names of Greenbush, Berlin and Sandlake: and the second seetidn required “ That as soon as may be after the first Tuesday of April next, the Overseers of the Poor and the Supervisors of the said towns shall, after due notice given by any one Supervisor, meet at the dwelling…
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Pursuant to an act passed June 19th, 1812, entitled an act to divide the towns of Greenwich and Berlin, in the county of Rensselaer, into three towns, these two towns were divided into three towns, by the names of Greenbush, Berlin and Sandlake: and the second seetidn required “ That as soon as may be after the first Tuesday of April next, the Overseers of the Poor and the Supervisors of the said towns shall, after due notice given by any one Supervisor, meet at the dwelling house now occupied by Thomas Thompson, an d apportion the money and poor belonging to the said towns of Greenbush and…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
Saunders and his wife had been occasionally supported as paupers by Berlin ; and both at the time when the act dividir,g the town and erecting Sandlake passed, and on the 13th of May, 1813, the time of meeting to apportion the expense of maintaining the poor between the new towns they continued, in fact, poor and unable to maintain themselves, though they had not been actually chargeable for *492about a year. The relief which they had received was par tial, and it was- supposed by Berlin that they were not to be considered paupers, and consequently not the subject of apportionment under the…
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