and parallel with Madison avenue twenty feet, running thence westerly and parallel with Fifty-fourth street and part of the way through the center of another party wall eighty feet to the said easterly side of Madison avenue, and thence running northerly along said Madison avenue twenty feet to the place of beginning. rights not § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall impair or affect any Certain right, title, interest, or estate in or to the lands herein described, impaired. of any heir at law, devisee, grantee, mortgagee or creditor of any person having an interest in said real property, immediately prior to the escheat thereof, or of any person having a lien or encumbrance thereon, through, under or by any person having an interest therein immediately prior to such escheat. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 34. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the several acts relating to the village of Mechanicville, and to repeal certain acts," relative to elections, the submission of tax propositions, and the qualifications of voters. Became a law, March 6, 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 seventeen of title two of chapter one hun dred and six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the several acts relating to the village of Mechanicville, and to repeal cer tain acts," is hereby amended to read as follows: tions of § 17. To entitle a person to vote upon any proposition to raise qualificaa tax or appropriate money he shall at the time be an elector of electors. said village, and shall be assessed on the last assessment-roll of said village for real or personal property. A woman who pos sesses the qualifications to vote for village officers except the qualifications of sex, who is the owner of property in such vil Notice of meeting. Special meetings, how con ducted. lage, assessed upon the last preceding assessment-roll thereof, shall be entitled to vote upon a proposition to raise a tax or appropriate money. § 2. Section three of title three of such chapter is hereby amended to read as follows: § 3. Before any tax shall be voted for at any such meeting, a notice shall be published by order of the trustees, and signed by the president or clerk, for at least ten days before such meeting, by posting up such notice in at least five public places in each ward in said village, stating that the meeting will be called upon to vote for a tax, also the amount to be raised, the time of and place where such meeting will be held, and the time of opening and closing the polls. All votes upon tax propositions submitted at any such meeting shall be by ballot, and the provisions of the election law, relating to ballots and ballot boxes for the submission of propositions, at an election shall apply to the submission of such propositions so far as the same may be made applicable thereto. Special meetings called to vote for the raising of money for any village purpose shall be held in one election district and shall be conducted, except as otherwise provided herein, in the same manner as an annual election. The result of such meeting shall be canvassed by the inspectors ap pointed as provided in this section, and such inspectors shall openly declare such result, and shall make and subscribe a certifi cate of such canvass, which shall show the whole number of votes cast, and the number cast for and against each proposition submitted at such meeting. Such certificate shall be filed by one of such inspectors designated for that purpose in the office of the village clerk. The polls at such meetings shall open at six o'clock forenoon, and close at five o'clock in the afternoon of that day. The trustees of said village shall appoint two inspectors of election, who shall be resident electors of said village, and qualified to vote upon propositions to be submitted at such meetings. Such inspectors may appoint a resident elector of said village, qualified to vote upon such propositions as clerk of the poll. In the absence of said inspectors, or either of them, the electors may appoint such inspector or inspectors, as provided in section seven of title two of this act, and such inspec tors may appoint a clerk of the poll. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 35. AN ACT to amend the stock corporation law relative to order of court upon application by a municipal corporation for order to issue new in place of lost certificate of stock. Became a law, March 7, 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 fifty-one of chapter five hundred and sixty. four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to stock corporations, constituting chapter thirtyeight of the general laws," as amended by chapter six hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 51. Order of court upon such application.-Upon the return of the order, with proof of due service thereof, the court shall, in a summary manner, and in such mode as it may deem advisable, inquire into the truth of the facts stated in the petition, and hear the proofs and allegations of the parties in regard thereto, and if satisfied that the petitioner is the lawful owner of the num ber of shares, or any part thereof, described in the petition, and that the certificate therefor has been lost or destroyed, and cannot after due diligence be found, and that no sufficient cause has been shown why a new certificate should not be issued, it shall make an order requiring the corporation, within such time as shall be therein designated, to issue and deliver to the petitioner a new certificate for the number of shares specified in the order, upon depositing such security, or filing a bond in such form and with such sureties as to the court shall appear sufficient to indemnify any person other than the petitioner who shall thereafter be found to be the lawful owner of the certificate lost or destroyed; but such provision requiring security to be deposited or bond filed is to be construed as excluding an application made by a domestic municipal corporation or by a public officer in behalf of such corporation; and the court may direct the publication of such notice, either before or after making such order as it shall deem proper. Any person claiming any rights under the certificates alleged to have been lost or destroyed shall have recourse to such indemnity, but in any application under the provisions of this act in which a domestic municipal corporation or a public officer in behalf of such corporation, shall be by the foregoing provisions of this section, excused from depositing security or filing a bond, such municipal corporation shall be liable for all damages that may be sustained by any person, in the same case and to the same extent as sureties to a bond or undertaking would have been, if such a bond or undertaking had been filed; and the corporation issuing such certificate, shall be discharged from all liability to such person upon compliance with such order; and obedience to the order may be enforced by attachment against the officer or officers of the corporation on proof of his or their refusal to comply with it. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 36. AN ACT to amend the forest, fish and game law, in relation to the meshes of nets used in Lake Erie. Became a law, March 7, 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 sixty-three of chapter twenty of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act for the protection of the forests, fish and game of the state, constituting chapter thirtyone of the general laws," as amended by chapter five hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 63. Fish taken by angling, meshes of nets.-Except as permitted by this act, fish shall not be taken by any device except angling in any of the rivers, lakes and inland waters of this state. When permitted the meshes of nets used shall not be less than one and one-eighth inch bar, except in Lake Erie, where they shall not be less than one and three-eighths inch bar. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 37. AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Canton, county of Saint Lawrence, to divide such town into election districts. Became a law, March 9, 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: election inspectors Section 1. The town board of the town of Canton, county of Number of Saint Lawrence, shall, on or before July first, nineteen hundred districts. and five, increase the number of election districts in said town from six to seven, and so alter and prescribe the boundaries of such election districts as to most conveniently accommodate the electors residing therein. The inspectors of election and other Terms of election officers in the election districts in such town, the bound- of election. aries of which are unchanged by said town board, appointed pursuant to the election law, shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms. In those election districts whose boundaries are altered by said town board as provided in this act, the inspectors of election and other election officers already appointed as provided by the election law shall perform the duties of their respective offices in the election district of which they are qualified electors, and the vacancies occurring in any of such offices because of the increase in the number of election districts in such town, or the alteration of the boundaries of those already existing shall be filled by appointment by the town board of said town at the time of such re-districting from among the qualified voters in the district or districts where such vacancies occur, eligible to such office under the provisions of section eleven of the election law, and the terms of office of the election officers so appointed shall expire at the same time that the terms of office of the inspectors of election of those districts in said town not affected by such re-districting will expire. The provisions of section eight of the election law, relating to the creation, division and alteration of election districts apply to such town, except so far as they are inconsistent herewith. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |