Issue of bonds au thorized. Payment of bonds. town of Granger and the acts, proceedings and resolution of the board of supervisors of the county of Allegany, in respect thereto, had been taken or made in conformity with the provisions of section sixty-nine of the county law, and of all other laws pertaining to the issue and sale of bonds by towns. The town of Granger is hereby authorized to issue its bonds in the manner specified under the conditions prescribed and in the manner and form directed. by the resolution of the said board of supervisors of Allegany county, and such bonds when so issued shall be valid and binding upon the said town. 2. The board of supervisors of Allegany county shall cause to be raised upon the taxable property of the town of Granger such sums as may be necessary to pay the principal and interest of such bonds as they become due and payable. § 3. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect any action or proceeding pending in any court at the time this act takes effect. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Organization of district confrmed. Chap. 30. 'AN ACT to legalize and confirm the organization and existence of union free school district number one of the town of Herkimer, and to legalize and confirm the proceedings of the board of education and legal voters of such union free school district, relative to the levy of a tax and the issuance and sale of certain bonds of said district. Became a law, March 1, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assemby, do enact as follows: Section 1. The organization and existence of a union free school district known as union free school district number one, of the town of Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer, and all proceedings heretofore at any time had by the board of education and by legal voters of said district as such union free school district, or otherwise, are hereby, in all respects legalized and confirmed. of special school legalized. § 2. All proceedings had by the legal voters of such school dis- Proceedings trict at the special meeting held April thirtieth, nineteen hundred meeting and four, and all the proceedings and acts of the board of education thereof in calling and holding such meeting, and subsequent thereto, for the purpose of voting a tax and with respect to the issuance and sale of bonds in the sum of twenty thousand dollars to retire bonds amounting to fifteen thousand dollars issued to pay for the erection of the original south side school building, said bonds maturing on May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, and to pay five thousand dollars for the installation of a heating and ventilating system and of the plumbing in the addition to the said south side school building, be and are hereby in all respects authorized, ratified and confirmed. The tax so voted Tax levied shall be deemed and held levied in installments of one thousand dollars each to be collected annually from the year nineteen hundred and five to the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four, both inclusive, and the said tax so voted and levied and the bonds, payable one thousand dollars a year from July first, nineteen hundred and five to and including July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, are hereby validated, legalized and confirmed as issued under the consolidated school law, and the said board of education is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver the said bonds to the purchasers thereof in accordance with the said proceedings and with this act. § 3. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect any action or proceeding pending in any court when this act takes effect. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 3 by install ments. Preparation of jury lists and ballots. Chap. 31. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act creating a commissioner of jurors for each county of the state having a certain population, and prescribing his duties; also providing in what manner jury lists shall be made up and notified in the courts of record in such counties, and how they may be exempted or excused and the length of service of such jurors," relative to exemptions of jurors from serving during two succeeding years after service. Became a law, March 2, 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. Section sixteen of chapter three hundred and sixtynine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act creating a commissioner of jurors for each county of the state having a certain population," and prescribing his duties; also providing in what manner jury lists shall be made up and notified in the courts of record in such counties, and how they may be exempted or excused and the length of service of such jurors," as amended by chapter ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and by chapter twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby further amended to read as follows: 16. When the annual jury list has been prepared and filed as prescribed in the last section, the ballots for jurors used in the previous year shall be destroyed by the commissioner of jurors, except those which are required for the ensuing year. The ballots for the ensuing year shall be prepared by the commissioner, who may use for that purpose such of the ballots prepared for the previous year as shall be in condition to be used again. The ballots shall be uniform slips of paper, and the name of each person on the jury list who is qualified and liable for jury duty, with his residence, shall be written separately on one of said ballots. The ballots so prepared shall be deposited by the commissioner of jurors in the jury box kept by the commissioner of jurors for that purpose, and he shall place his seal upon the box. The commissioner of jurors shall not deposit in construo tion of the jury box for service for the ensuing year the ballots contain- Jury box, ing the names of jurors who have served their legal term as jurors during the two preceding jury years. The box shall be constructed with an aperture large enough only to conveniently admit the hand of the person by whom the ballots are to be drawn, and the aperture shall be provided with a cover so arranged as to be securely sealed when closed. The jury box shall be cylindrical in form, and shall be provided with some apparatus by which the ballots can be thoroughly mixed without exposing them, and its form and construction shall be approved by the said judges, and may from time to time be changed with their approval. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 32. AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, relative to authorizing the trustees of the soldiers' and sailors' home at Bath, to organ ize and maintain a band and to pay for the same out of the maintenance funds of the home. Became a law, March 2, 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. Section forty-one of chapter two hundred and twentyseven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act relating to public buildings, constituting chapter fourteen of the general laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 41. Powers of trustees.-The board of trustees shall have possession of all property belonging to or constituting such home and may complete the buildings therein already commenced or hereafter to be erected, and keep them in readiness for occupation with any funds appropriated therefor or that may come into their hands for such purpose, and may pay any existing indebtedness of such corporation which shall be or might become a lien upon such property or any part thereof. The board may make contracts in its name, subject to the approval of the comptroller, for work and materials for the completion of the buildings on such property, the furnishing thereof and of supplies for use and consumption therein, but shall spend no money and incur no indebtedness for such purpose beyond the appropriation previously made therefor by the legislature. It may adopt rules and regulations, subject to like approval, specifying the duties of the officers of the home, the government of its inmates, fixing the terms and conditions of admission thereto and the cause and manner of expulsion therefrom. The board may require and take in its name any security by way of bond or otherwise from any person appointed or elected by it, for the faithful performance of his duties, and for truly accounting for all moneys or property received by him, for or on account of the board of trustees or in the performance of such duties. And the said board shall have power to organize and maintain a band, the same to be paid for out of the maintenance funds of the home, not exceeding six thousand dollars per annum. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Description. Chap. 33. AN ACT to release to Courtney C. Douglas, the right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York acquired by escheat in and to certain real estate in the city of New York. Became a law, March 6, 1905, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All the right, title and interest of the people of the state acquired by escheat in and to the real estate situate in the city of New York, owned by Ida P. Douglas, deceased, at the time of her decease, is hereby released unto Courtney C. Douglas, of Houghton, Michigan. Said real estate is described. as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the city of New York bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Madison avenue distant eighty feet five inches from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Fifty-fourth street with the said easterly side of Madison avenue, running thence easterly and parallel with Fifty-fourth street and a part of the way through the center of a party wall eighty feet, thence southerly |