L. 1919, chs. 46, 163. Rural post roads; legalizing assessment. § 1. share to be borne in the first instance by such county or other political subdivision. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller on the requisition or draft of the state commissioner of highways. 6. Construction of Rural Post Roads L. 1919, ch. 163.-An act making an appropriation for the state's share of the cost of the construction and improvement of rural post roads within the state, as provided under the provisions of an act of congress, entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes," to be expended in accordance with article six-a of the highway law. (In effect Apr. 9, 1919.) Section 1. The sum of five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ($575,000) is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller. Such sum or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be available for the payment of fifty per centum of the cost of construction of roads within the state as provided by an act of congress, entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes," approved July eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and by article six-a of the highway law; and for the payment of preliminary engineering charges by the state in the making of surveys and the preparation of necessary plans, specifications and estimates on such roads. The amount available in this state from the appropriation of the federal government for such construction for the fiscal year of the federal government is five hundred and one thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-four cents. 7. Legalizing Assessment for Repair of Highways. L. 1919, ch. 46.-An act to legalize and confirm the tax levied for the repair of highways upon the assessment-rolls of the several towns for the year nineteen hundred and eighteen. (In effect Mch. 13, 1919.) Section 1. The taxes levied in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen for the repair of town highways upon the real and personal property of the several towns are hereby legalized and confirmed so as to be of the same force and effect as though the boards of supervisors had in said year levied the minimum amount required to be levied and collected under the provisions of subdivision one, section ninety, chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, consti tuting chapter twenty-five of the consolidated laws." HISTORIANS. Appointment in municipalities; Education L., §§ 1198, 1199.) §§ 1, 2. Commission created. L. 1919, ch. 437. HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. (L. 1917, ch. 238, vol. 3, p. 3706.) § 1. Hospital development commission created.-A commission is hereby created consisting of the state engineer, the chairman of the state hospital commission, the state architect, the chairman of the senate finance committee, the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee, two members to be appointed by the governor and one member of the legislature who shall also be a minority member of one of the financial committees of the legislature to be named by the minority leaders of the senate and assembly. The appointment of the last named member of the commission shall be evidenced by certificate duly executed by said minority leaders of the legislature and filed in the office of the secretary of state. The president pro tempore of the senate may appoint as an additional member of the commission any person who has served upon the commission and who at the time of his original appointment had been a member of the legislature for a continuous period of more than fifteen years. (Amended by L. 1919, ch. 437, in effect May 5, 1919.) § 2, subd. 10. Make recommendations for a reclassification of the institutions of the state except the prisons and the hospitals for the insane with a view to the segregation of the feeble-minded. (Subd. added by L. 1918, ch. 150.) 11. Select a site for a new hospital for the insane adjacent to the metropolitan district as defined in the report of the hospital development commission transmitted to the legislature, February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Such site shall be so situated as to preclude any danger of contamination to the water supply of any municipality from the sewage of said institution when erected. (Subd. added by L. 1918, ch. 150.) L. 1918, ch. 150, § 2, appropriates $10,000 for commission. HUDSON. Supreme Court library established; Education L., § 1184-a. L. 1919, ch. 86. Harvesting and storage of ice. §§ 1-3. ICE. L. 1918, ch. 4.-An act to provide for the harvesting and storage of ice on the Hudson river, to regulate the manufacture and sale of artificial ice and to provide for the appointment of an ice comptroller, and making an appropriation therefor. (Amended by L. 1918, ch. 81, and repealed by L. 1919, ch. 86, post.) L. 1919, ch. 86.-An act to repeal chapter four of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for the harvesting and storage of ice on the Hudson river, to regulate the manufacture and sale of artificial ice and to provide for the appointment of an ice comptroller, and making an appropriation therefor." Section 1. Chapter four of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for the harvesting and storage of ice on the Hudson river, to regulate the manufacture and sale of artificial ice and to provide for the appointment of an ice comptroller, and making an appropriation therefor," as amended by chapter eighty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall not affect or impair any obligation of the state created, pursuant to the act repealed, prior to the time this act takes effect; nor shall the repeal of such act relieve the ice comptroller, constituted by the act repealed, from making the report provided for in section two thereof. § 3. The unexpended balance, if any, of the appropriation made for carrying into effect the provisions of the act hereby repealed shall, notwithstanding such repeal, be available for the payment of liabilities incurred on or before the time this act takes effect; but for any other purpose the appropriation shall cease to be of force or effect. INCOME TAX LAW. Section cited.-Mulkins v. Snow (1919), 106 Misc. 556, 175 N. Y. Supp. 41. § 25. Medical aid and attendance. The board of supervisors of the county of Onondaga shall annually employ a competent physician to attend upon and administer to the necessities of sick and indigent Indians residing on the Onondaga reservation, and to furnish them in addition to professional services, such necessary medicine, food and attendance as he may deem proper. The bills of such physician, when properly verified by him and approved by the county superintendent of the poor, shall be audited by the county auditor of such county, and, upon his order, paid by the county treasurer, out of any moneys in his hands provided for that purpose. There shall annually be paid out of the treasury of the state to the treasurer of such county the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to be kept by him as a fund for the payment of such bills. If in any year such sum shall not be appropriated by the legislature, or shall be inadequate, the board of supervisors of such county may appropriate such sum of money as they may think necessary out of any moneys which may come into the treasury of such county, arising from that portion of the moneys collected as fines for selling liquor to the Indians and for trespass upon Indian lands, which would otherwise be paid to the chiefs of the Onondaga Indians but all such moneys shall be directly appropriated by the board of supervisors, upon the recommendation of the supervisor of the town of Onondaga and the agent of the Onondaga Indians, to be applied and disbursed in the same manner by such physician. (Amended by L. 1914, ch. 395 and L. 1920, ch. 142, in effect Apr. 1, 1920.) § 46. Peacemakers' courts. The "title" referred to in this section conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon the peacemakers' court contemplates the limited right of occupancy which the individual Indian acquires under section 55. Mulkins v. Snow (1919), 106 Misc. 556, 175 N. Y. Supp. 41. § 55. Allotment of lands. Section cited.-Mulkins v. Snow (1919), 106 Misc. 556, 175 N. Y. Supp. 41. § 114. Medical aid and attendance. Section cited.-People ex rel. Kingston v. McKenna (1919), 188 App. Div. 368, 177 N. Y. Supp. 138. L. 1919, ch. 590. Commission created. § 1. INDIANS. L. 1919, ch. 590.-An act to create a commission to confer with committees of congress, in relation to Indian affairs, and making an appropriation for the expenses of the commission. Section 1. A commission is hereby created for the purposes herein specified, to consist of the attorney-general, the temporary president of the senate and two members of the senate to be appointed by him, the speaker of the assembly and four members of the assembly to be appointed by him, and four persons to be appointed by the governor in such manner that one shall be a representative of the state board of charities, one a representative of the state department of education, one a representative of the state department of health, and one a representative of the New York state Indians. The members of such commission shall receive no compensation for their services under this act, but the commission and its members shall be allowed necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties; and the commission may employ necessary assistants, as part of its expenses. The commission shall choose from its members a chairman. Vacancies in the commission, occurring from any cause, shall be filled by the officer authorized to make an original appointment of the member whose position becomes vacant. Such commission shall confer with the two committees on Indian affairs of the United States congress whenever congress shall be called in session by the president of the United States, and shall consider with such committees the relations and status of the Indians living on the reservations of New York state as they may be affected by the state of New York and the United States government. The commission shall make a report of its proceedings to the legislature, at its next session and also at such other times as may be required by the governor or by the president of the senate and speaker of the assembly. L. 1909, ch. 255 (Referred to by title vol. 3, p. 3759) amended by L. 1920, ch. 596. INDUSTRIAL AID BUREAUS. Establishment by municipal corporations, see Municipal Corporations; L. 1919, ch. 404. |