Amount of 'appropriation. Chap. 19. AN ACT to provide for the payment of the balance due news- Became a law, February 23, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The sum of ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, for the payment of the balance due newspapers for the publication of concurrent resolutions of the legislature of nineteen hundred and four, proposing amendments to the constitution of this state, and for deficiency in appropriation for the publication of other official notices required to be published as provided by law, which are subject to contract. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 20. AN ACT to amend the county law, relative to the compensation Became a law, February 23, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section twenty-three of chapter six hundred and eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act in relation to counties, constituting chapter eighteen of the general laws," as amended by chapter seven hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-three and chapter four hundred and eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and chapter five hundred and twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 23. Compensation of supervisors.-For the services of supervisors, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Kings, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchester and Richmond, each supervisor shall receive from the county compensation at the rate of four dollars per day for each calendar day's actual attendance at the sessions of their respective boards, and mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, for once going and returning from his residence to the place where the sessions of the board shall be held, by the most usual route, for each regular and special session. In the counties of Niagara and Richmond each supervisor shall receive an annual salary, in the county of Niagara of three hundred, and in the county of Richmond of one thousand dollars, in lieu of any per diem compensation. Each supervisor, except in the counties of Albany, Broome, Columbia, Erie, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Westchester and Richmond, may also receive compensation from the county at the rate of four dollars per day while actually engaged in any investigation or other duty, which may be lawfully committed to him by the board; except for services rendered when the board is in session, and, if such investigation or duty require his attendance at a place away from his residence, and five miles or more distant from the place where the board shall hold its sessions, his actual expenses incurred therein. No other compensation or allowance shall be made to any supervisor for his services, except such as shall be by law a town charge, except that in the county of Niagara each supervisor, while actually engaged in any investigation, or in the performance of any other duty, which shall have been legally delegated to him by the board of supervisors, except when the board is in session, shall be entitled to receive in addition to the compensation herein before provided, his actual expenses incurred therein, if such investigation or duty require his attendance at a place away from his residence, and five miles or more distant from the place where the board shall hold its sessions. The board of supervisors of any county may also allow to each member of the board for his services in making a copy of the assessment-roll, three cents for each written line for the first one hundred lines, two cents per line for the second hundred written lines, and one cent per line for all written lines in excess of two hundred, and one cent for each line of the taxroll actually extended by him. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 21. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An act in rela tion to the village of Fredonia," in relation to the collector. Became a law, February 23, 1905, 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. Sections two and three of article two of chapter four hundred and eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyfour entitled "An act in relation to the village of Fredonia," are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: § 2. Elective officers.-The said president and trustees shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of electors for the choice of officers of said village. § 3. Appointive officers.-The clerk, street commissioner, treasurer, village constable, collector, poundmaster and fire wardens of said village shall be appointed by the trustees thereof, by ballot, and shall hold their respective offices until the annual election of trustees next after their appointment, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed from office by the trustees as hereinafter provided. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 22. AN ACT to amend the law creating the town of Green Island by providing for the distribution of the surplus funds of the town of Green Island. Became a law, February 27, 1905, 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. Chapter eight hundred and eleven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to divide the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, and to erect the town of Green Island out of the part set off from the said town of Watervliet" is hereby amended by adding the following: fund, use § 9. The town board of the town of Green Island shall by reso- Separate lution of the town board, on or before the first day of March of of. each and every year, set aside as a separate fund, such portion of the surplus funds in the hands of the supervisor of the town of Green Island, as they may deem advisable; such funds so set aside shall be subject to such use of the village of Green Island, as shall be directed by the taxpayers of the village of Green Island at the annual taxpayers' meeting of the village of Green Island, held on the first Wednesday of March of each year. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 23. AN ACT to amend section four of chapter eight of the general Became a law, February 27, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section four of chapter six hundred eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-two known as the legislative law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 4. Contempts of either house. Each house may punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the same session of the legislature, as for a contempt, for the following offences only: 1. Arresting a member or officer of either house in violation of his privilege from arrest; 2. Disorderly conduct of its members, officers or others in the immediate view and presence of the house, tending to interrupt its proceedings. 3. The publication of a false and malicious report of its proceedings or of the conduct of a member in his legislative capacity; 4. Giving or offering a bribe to a member, or attempting by menace or other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, to influence a member in giving or withholding his vote, or in not attending meetings of the house of which he is a member; Special revenue bonds authorized. condemn buildings. 5. Neglect to attend or be examined as a witness before the house, or a committee thereof or upon reasonable notice to produce any material books, papers or documents when duly required to give testimony or to produce such books, papers or documents in a legislative proceeding, inquiry or investigation. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 24. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter relative to special revenue bonds. Accepted by the city. Became a law, February 27, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section one hundred eighty-eight of the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 188. The comptroller is authorized to issue special revenue bonds to provide the means necessary to make payments for the following purposes: Expense of 1. The expense necessarily incurred in condemning unsafe ing unsafe buildings as provided by section five hundred and eleven of chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Audits Judgments against the city. 2. Amounts audited by the board of estimate and apportionment pursuant to section two hundred and thirty-one of this act. 3. Such amounts as may be necessary to pay judgments recovered against the corporation; provided, however, that when such judgments shall have been recovered for county charges or liabilities of any of the counties included within the territorial limits of the city of New York, separate accounts shall be kept thereof. The corporation counsel shall, in all such cases, advise the comptroller as to the amount of such county liability and the county incurring the same, and it shall, thereupon, be the duty of the comptroller in making the certificate to the board of aldermen, required by section nine hundred and two of this act in respect to county charges, to include in the amounts chargeable |