Chap. 595. AN ACT for the relief of the Patent and Copyright Protective association of New York. Became a law, April 27, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The time within which the whole of the capital stock of the Patent and Copyright Protective association of New York shall be paid is hereby extended until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and three. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 596. AN ACT regulating tolls to be charged by turnpike, plank road or toll road companies exercising corporate franchises wholly or partly within the county of Onondaga for automobile trucks or carriages drawn or propelled over their carriage roads. Became a law, April 27, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Any turnpike, plank road or toll road company duly incorporated, existing and acting under, by virtue of and pursuant to the laws of the state of New York, and exercising its corporate rights and franchises wholly or partly within the county of Onondaga may, in addition to the tolls by law permitted to be demanded and received, demand and receive toll at its toll gates, as maintained, for any automobile truck or carriage drawn or propelled over or upon its carriage road and having a single seat capable of seating one or two persons, not exceeding one cent per mile, and for any other automobile truck or carriage so drawn or propelled not exceeding two cents per mile. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Act amended. Compensa tion in lieu of allow ances. Chap. 597. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being an act entitled "An act in relation to the compensation of justices of the supreme court designated to the appellate division of the second department, from any district other than the second judicial district." Became a law, April 27, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section one of chapter three hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being an act in relation to the compensation of justices of the supreme court designated to the appellate division of the second judicial department from any district other than the second judicial district, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. A justice of the supreme court designated to the appellate division of the second department from any district, except the second judicial district shall, in lieu of the allowances now made by the state or by the county of Kings, be paid by the counties composing such department, such sum as shall be certified by the presiding justice of that department to be a reasonable compensation for his increased expenses and disbursements in the performance of his duties under such designation, not exceeding such a sum as shall, together with the salary and expenses amounting to seven thousand two hundred dollars, allowed to him by law, make the amount received by him in any one year equal to the amount received as compensation by a justice of the supreme court residing in the county of Kings. Such sums shall forthwith for the current year and annually thereafter on or before the fifteenth day of January, be certified by such presiding justice to the comptroller of the state, who shall cause the same to be paid to such non-resident justices in equal quarterly inApportion stalments. The comptroller shall annually apportion such agpayment by gregate sum among the counties of the second judicial department, in proportion to the taxable property of such counties respectively, according to the last assessment-roll thereof. The amount so apportioned to each county shall be a county charge, Certificate to comptroller. ment and counties. Certificate satio after by comptroller. compensa and the county treasurer upon receipt thereof shall pay over the certificates. by comp Chap. 598. AN ACT to amend the town and elections laws relative to propositions for raising money for town purposes. Became a law, April 27, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section thirty-one of chapter five hundred and sixtynine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to towns, constituting chapter twenty of the general laws," as renumbered by chapter four hundred and eightyone of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: 31. Votes to expend over five hundred dollars. All votes in town meetings upon any proposition to raise or appropriate money or incur any town liability exceeding five hundred dollars shall be by ballot; if five hundred dollars or less may be viva voce, unless ballot is required by the law authorizing the expenditure. An elector of a town shall not be entitled to vote by ballot upon any proposition for the raising or appropriation of money, or the incurring of any town liability, unless he or his wife is the owner of property in the town, assessed upon the last preceding assessment roll thereof. § 2. Section one hundred and ninety of the town law, as amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the laws of nineteen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 190. Town house. The electors of any town in which there shall not be a town house, at any biennial town meeting, or at a special town meeting lawfully called by the town clerk, may vote by ballot any sum of money for the purchase of a site and the building of a town house, or for the purpose of contributing to the erection of a building for the joint use of the town and of an incorporated village within its limits. An elector shall not be entitled to vote upon a proposition submitted for the purposes of this section, unless he or his wife is the owner of property in the town assessed upon the last preceding assessment roll thereof. A special town meeting shall not be called under this section within one year from the meeting at which a proposition for the purposes specified herein has been submitted. If such sum is not raised by tax in one instalment the town board of such town may borrow the sum necessary to purchase such site and build such house by the issue of bonds to be signed by the supervisor and attested by the town clerk. Such bonds shall become due within twenty years from date of issue, and unless the whole amount of the indebtedness represented thereby is to be paid within five years from their date, they shall be so issued as to provide for the payment of the indebtedness in equal annual instalments, the first of which shall be payable not more than five years from their date. They shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum and shall be sold at not less than their par value. They shall be sold on sealed proposals or at public auction upon notice published in a paper printed in the town, if any, also in such other papers as may be designated by the town board and posted in at least five public places in the town, at least ten days before the sale, to the person who will take them at the lowest rate of interest. Such bonds shall be consecutively numbered from one to the highest number issued, and the town clerk shall keep a record of the number of each bond, its date, amount, rate of interest when and where payable, and the purchaser thereof or person to whom they are issued. The board of supervisors of the county may cause the sum so voted or the amount of any bonds issued for such purpose to be collected with the other expenses of the town. § 3. Section eighty-two of chapter nine hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act in relation to the elections, constituting chapter six of the general laws," as amended by chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred is hereby amended to read as follows: § 82. Form of ballot for questions submitted.-Whenever the adoption of a constitutional amendment or any other proposition or question is to be submitted to the vote of the electors of the state, or of any district thereof, a separate ballot shall be provided by the same officers who are charged by law with the duty of providing the official ballots for candidates for public office. |