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Such money shall be paid by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, issued upon a requisition signed by the president and secretary of the commission, accompanied by an estimate of the expenses for the payment of which the money so drawn is to be Report to applied. Within ninety days after the close of the exhibition,

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such commission shall make a verified report to the comptroller of all disbursements made by it, and shall return to the state treasury the unexpended balance of money drawn in pursuance of this act. § 4. The commission shall make a report of its proceedings, from time to time, to the governor, and within three months from the close of the exhibition, shall make a final, detailed report to him, to be transmitted by him to the legislature.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Reappropriation for canal wall,

Chap. 8.

AN ACT to reappropriate the unexpended balance of a former

appropriation.

Became a law February 9, 1897, 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 sum of one thousand four hundred and seventyone dollars, being the unexpended balance of the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by chapter six hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four for repairing and extending the high retaining wall of the Erie canal on the west side of South St. Paul street, in the city of Rochester, New York, between the north line of Court street and the aqueduct crossing the Genesee river, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Became a law February 10, 1897, with the approval of the Governor.
Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
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Section 1. The sum of ten thousand nine hundred and fifty dol- Approlars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-ton cou ated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of confidential clerks appointed by the justices of the supreme court in the second judicial district, not including the county of Kings, in full compensation from June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to be refunded to the treasury, as provided by chapter eight hundred and ninety-two, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 15.

AN ACT providing for the sale of certain lands belonging to the
state of New York.

Became a law February 11, 1897, 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:

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Section 1. The commissioners of the land office are hereby author- Sale of ized and empowered to sell at public auction, and to convey to the thorized. highest bidder, so much of the land belonging to the people of the state of New York, in the city of Utica and county of Oneida, and distinguished on a map of part of Schuyler farm, Utica, as being lot number four, part of lot number three, part of lot number five, in block six, fronting on Knox street. Also lots number nineteen and twenty, in said block six, fronting on Chestnut street. Also lot number eight, part of lot number seven, and part of lot number

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nine, in block seven, fronting on Chestnut street.
fifteen, part of lot number sixteen, and part of lot
in said block seven, fronting on Walnut street. Also parts of lots
numbers eleven and twelve, in block two, fronting on Schuyler and
Walnut streets. Also that tract or parcel of land beginning at
the intersection of the easterly line of Hicks street with the north-
erly line of Knox street, fronting on Hicks and Knox streets, as may
be certified by the managers of the Utica state hospital as no
longer necessary for hospital purposes.

§ 2. The moneys arising from the sale of said lands shall be de posited with the state treasurer.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 17.

AN ACT to change the corporate name of the New York Casualty
Insurance Association.

Became a law February 13, 1897, 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. The corporate name of the New York Casualty Insur ance Association is hereby changed to the New York Casualty Company.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 19.

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, and the acts amendatory
thereof, relative to the distribution of the session laws.

Became a law February 18, 1897, 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. Subdivision three of section forty-six of chapter six hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, entitled "An act in relation to legislation, constituting chapter eight of the general laws," as amended by chapter two hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended to read as follows:

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3. One copy to each of the following officers: Each town clerk, Distribufor the use of the town, each district attorney, the clerk of each session board of supervisors, for the use of the board, each surrogate, except where the county judge acts as surrogate, for the use of the surrogate's court, to the county treasurer of each county, to the mayor of each city, for the use of the city, and to each village clerk. Every such officer shall deliver such copy of the session laws to his successor in office.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 21.

AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the
laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act creat-
ing a commissioner of jurors for each county of the state, having
a certain population, and regulating and prescribing his duties;
also providing in what manner jury lists shall be made up and
jurors drawn and notified in the courts of record in such counties,
and how they may be exempt or excused, and the length of
service of such jurors," and the acts amendatory thereof, in
relation to the preparation of ballots, and correction of errors in
original act.

Became a law February 18, 1897, 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:

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Section 1. Section sixteen of chapter three hundred sixty-nine Act of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five as amended by chapter ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

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§ 16. When the annual jury list has been prepared and filed Destruc as prescribed in the last section, the ballots for jurors used in ballots the previous year shall be destroyed by the commissioner of jurors, except those which are required for the ensuing year. The ballots Preparafor the ensuing year shall be prepared by the commissioner, who ballots. 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

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Deposit of 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 the jury box for service for the ensuing year the ballots containing the names of jurors who have served their legal term as jurors during the Jury box. preceding jury year. 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.

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§ 2. Section twenty-two of chapter three hundred sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

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§ 22. A person summoned as a juror, who has actually served as a trial juror in a court of record in any county embraced within this act for two complete calendar weeks, or, if his service shall not be for complete calendar weeks, then for twelve days of actual service, within that jury year, shall be discharged by the court; except that he shall not be so discharged until the close of a trial in which he may be serving when the said time expires. A person discharged as prescribed in this section, is thereafter, during the same jury year, prohibited from jury service in any county of the state. Whenever the certificate of one or more clerks of a court, made as prescribed in section twenty-seven of this act, show that a person is entitled to a discharge, as prescribed in this section, the commissioner of jurors must, upon request, certify to the fact.

Sections of § 3. Chapter three hundred sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen numbered. hundred ninety-five is hereby amended so that the first section after section thirty of said act shall be numbered section thirtyone, and the amendment to subdivision six of section thirty-one of said act, made by chapter ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-six, shall be deemed to be an amendment to the said first section after section thirty of said chapter three hundred sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which said section is to be hereafter numbered section thirty-one. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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