forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for improving and repairing the state armory at Catskill, New York, is hereby appropriated for the same purpose; and the comptroller is directed from time to time to pay the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the aforesaid purpose, out of the money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the written requisition of the commission appointed by and under chapter eight hundred and forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyfive. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 192. AN ACT to amend chapter eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hun- The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and amended. Section 1. Section two of chapter eighty-eight of the laws of eigh- Charter teen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to incorporate the Missionary Society of the Most Holy Redeemer in the state of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: corpora § 2. The persons named in the first section of this act shall be the Trustees of first trustees of said corporation and all vacancies by death, resigna- tion. tion, removal or otherwise of any of the said trustees and all vacancies that may hereafter occur for any cause among the trustees, shall be filled without unnecessary delay by the remaining trustees, by the election of some person who shall be a recognized member in good standing of the Redemptorist Order in the United States, which is also known as the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, stationed in the state of New York, to fill such vacancy, and at least four votes shall be necessary for the election of any trustee. The provincial for the time being of said Redemptorist Order in the United States shall be one of said trustees. The said trustees may by by-laws increase their number to ten, but there shall never be less than five trustees. The said trustees shall hold a regular meeting at least once each year to transact such business as may be necessary. § 2. Section five of said chapter eighty-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 5. The objects of said corporation shall be the religious instruc- Objects of tion of the people, especially of poor and neglected persons; taking tion. corpora care temporarily of small congregations not able to support a clergy- Consolida tion not deemed invalid. Chap. 193. AN ACT in relation to the consolidation of domestic and foreign rail、 Became a law April 7, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The consolidation heretofore effected of a domestic railroad corporation with a foreign railroad corporation, shall not be deemed invalid because such roads at the time of the consolidation did not form a connected and continuous line, if, when the consolidation was effected, an intermediate line, by purchase or by a lease, of not less than ninety-nine years became, with the consolidated roads, a continuous and connecting line of railroad, and such consolidation is hereby ratified and confirmed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Act amended. Chap. 194. AN ACT creating a commissioner of jurors for each county of the Became a law April 7, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The office of commissioner of jurors is hereby created for each county of the state, having a population of more than one hundred and fifty thousand and less than one hundred and ninety thousand, according to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabitants; but this act shall not apply to the county of Albany. sioner of appoint § 2. Within twenty days after the passage of this act, at a time Commisand place to be designated by the county judge, by a notice in writing, jurors, the justices of the supreme court residing in each county embraced ment of. within this act, and the county judge of such county, shall meet, and they, or a majority of them, shall thereupon, or within twenty days thereafter, appoint a suitable person to be commissioner of jurors for such county, who shall be a resident of the county, and if a lawyer, shall not while holding such office, directly or indirectly, engage in the practice of law. Such appointment shall be made in writing, and shall be signed by the judges making the same, or a majority of them, and filed in the office of the clerk of such county. The commissioner so appointed shall, unless removed, hold office for five years and until his successor shall be appointed and qualify. The said Removal judges, or a majority of them, may, for cause, at any time remove such commissioner by an instrument in writing to be filed in the county clerk's office of the county for which said commissioner was appointed, and which shall state the cause of such removal; and may in like Vacancy in manner, as herein before provided, appoint a successor and fill any vacancy which may occur in that office. for cause. office. office. § 3. Within ten days after his appointment such commissioner Oath of shall take the usual oath of office, before a justice of the supreme court, and said oath shall be filed by him with the clerk of the county for which he is appointed; and he shall thereupon be entitled to enter upon the discharge of his duties. salary. supplies. § 4. The commissioner of jurors in each county embraced within Annual this act shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, payable in monthly installments by the county treasurer of each of said counties, to be raised by tax by the board of supervisors thereof. The board of supervisors of each county embraced within this act shall also Rooms and provide suitable rooms and accommodations for the office of said commissioner, and shall also provide for the payment for books, stationery, printing, and all necessary expenses incurred by him in the discharge of the duties of his office, which expenses shall be first audited by a board consisting of the chairman of the board of supervisors of the county for which said commissioner is appointed, or if not in session, by the chairman of the preceding board of supervisors, and the treasurer and sheriff of said county, and shall be paid by the treasurer of said county. The said commissioner, until the board of Use of supervisors shall make provisions therefor, shall use the county clerk's clerk's office of his county to transact the necessary duties of his office, and shall be supplied by the county clerk with necessary books and supplies, which shall be a county charge. County office. make and § 5. The supervisors and assessors of each of the towns, and the officials to supervisor of each of the wards in each county embraced within this file lists of act shall within sixty days after written notice given by such com- qualified. missioner requesting the same (which notice may be served upon said Vol. I 11 persons Jury list, commissioner to prepare. Record and publication of lists. same. officers by mail), prepare, certify and file with such commissioner a list of all persons residing within such town or ward qualified under the laws of this state to serve as grand and trial jurors. At any time thereafter, whenever required by said commissioner, said supervisor and assessors, or said supervisor, shall make an additional list of persons residing in such town or ward qualified to serve as grand and trial jurors. On the failure of any such officials to make and file such list, the said commissioner shall make and file the same in his office. § 6. The said commissioner, from the lists filed as provided in section five of this act, and from such other sources of information as he may find available, shall on or before the first day of November in each year make a list of not less than four hundred and fifty names of persons residing within the county for which he is commissioner who are qualified to act as grand jurors, and who are of approved integrity, fair character, sound judgment, and well informed, apportioned among the several towns and wards of such county in propor tion to the population of the same. The said commissioner shall also from the lists filed, as provided in section five, and from such other sources of information as he may find available, on or before the first day of November in each year, make a list of not less than three thousand names of persons residing within the county for which he is commissioner, who are qualified to act as trial jurors, and who are of approved integrity, fair character, sound judgment, and well informed. § 7. The said commissioner shall on or before the tenth day of November in each year cause such list of names of grand and trial jurors to be alphabetically arranged and entered in a separate book kept by him for that purpose, and shall give, in addition to the name. and age, the residence and occupation of each person, which book shall at all reasonable times be open to public inspection; and shall cause the list of grand jurors to be published in at least two newspapers published within said county at least once a week for three Revision of successive weeks. The said commissioner, on or before the first day of December in each year may revise said list or lists, so prepared, by striking therefrom the name of any person or persons thereon who it shall appear to him are for any good and sufficient reason not qualified to act as grand or trial jurors. Such commissioner shall give notice of a hearing for the proof of exemptions by mailing a notice thereof to each person whose name appears on said revised list to appear at a time and place designated in said notice; and any person who shall not claim or prove his exemption shall be deemed to have Addition of waived the same, and may not thereafter claim it. And in case the number of names upon the lists, as originally prepared by said commissioner, as aforesaid, are reduced, it shall be his duty in the same manner as provided by section six hereof, to add such further or additional names as are required to make the full list of jurors, as pro names vided under section six of this act, and which said lists of additional names shall be subject to revision and correction, and to the addition of other names in the same manner herein before provided for the original lists, until the full lists of jurors, as above provided, are obtained. filing of § 8. On or before the fifteenth day of December in each year said Annual commissioner shall file the lists, so prepared and corrected by him, lists. with the county clerk of the county for which he is commissioner, and such corrected list shall constitute the lists of grand and trial jurors for the year beginning on the first day of January then following; jurors. the names of said grand and trial jurors are to be prepared for draw- Drawing of ing, drawn and summoned in all respects in accordance with the general statutes now in force. county § 9. The county clerk of each county embraced within this act Return of shall on or before the first day of November in each year return to the clerk," commissioner a list of names of persons, who have served as grand or trial jurors, or who have been excused by any court by reason of not being qualified, and the reason for such excuse. meanor. § 10. Any person who shall do any act whereby he or another shall Misdebe placed, or attempted to be placed, upon the jury list, or omitted therefrom, or attempted to be omitted from said list, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. tion of act. § 11. This act shall not be deemed to repeal or supercede any Construc general act of this state relating to grand jurors, or to trial jurors except so far, and so far only, as it may be inconsistent with such general act or acts. jurors former § 12. The trial and grand jurors of the counties embraced within Drawing of this act shall continue to be drawn from the list heretofore prepared from pursuant to law and in the manner now prescribed until the first Mon- lists. day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. 13. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 195. AN ACT to amend the consolidated school law, in relation to tax Became a law April 7, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section thirteen of article three, title eight of chapter school law five hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and amended. ninety-four, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the |