Real Property Law § 70. Section three hundred and sixty-two of chapter fifty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to real property, constituting chapter fifty of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 362. Order for publication of notice to persons interested.— Upon the presentation of such petition, duly verified in the manner prescribed for the verification of pleadings by the code of civil procedure, the said court shall make an order for the publication of a notice requiring all persons claiming any interest in the real property described in such petition to appear before the court at a special term thereof, to be held at a time and place to be therein specified, not less than three months nor more than six months thereafter, and show cause, if any they have, why they should not be forever barred from maintaining any action or proceeding for the recovery of the real property, which shall be substantially described as set forth in said petition, and which notice shall also contain a reference to the time and place of record of the sheriff's or referee's deed referred to in this article. Said publication shall be made once a week for three months successively prior to the return day named in said notice in two newspapers designated in the order as most likely to give notice any claimant of the property. to State Boards and Commissions Law § 71. Section forty-one of chapter fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to state boards and commissions, constituting chapter fifty-four of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 41. Term of office and expenses of commissioners. [Said commissioners shall hold office for a term not exceeding four years.] No member of said board shall receive any compensation for his services as commissioner, but each commissioner shall be entitled to receive his actual disbursements for his expenses in performing the duties of his office. In case of a vacancy on said board, such vacancy shall be filled by the governor. State Charities Law 72. Section one hundred and thirty of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to state charities, constituting chapter fifty-five of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 130. Establishment of the New York state hospital for the care of crippled and deformed children. -The state hospital, known as the New York state hospital for the care of crippled and deformed children, established at [Tarrytown] West Haverstraw, is hereby continued for the care and treatment of any indigent children who may have resided in the state of New York for a period of not less than one year, who are crippled or deformed or are suffering from disease from which they are likely to become crippled or deformed. No patient suffering from an incurable disease shall be admitted to said hospital. Said hospital shall provide for and permit the freedom of religious worship of said inmates to the extent and in the manner required in other institutions, by section twenty of the prison law. 73. Section two hundred and fourteen of said State Charities Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 214. Effect of article.- Nothing in this article contained shall affect any of the provisions of the state finance law [and] or article four of this chapter and the laws amendatory thereof. 874. Section two hundred and fifty-five of said State Charities Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 255. Commitments from other counties.-Any magistrate in any other county in which a certified copy of such first certificate of the state board of charities is authorized to be filed may, if a certified copy of such first certificate or of any subsequent certificate of the state board of charities to the same effect shall be filed in such county during the period of one year after the date of any such certificate, commit any woman between sixteen and thirty years of age convicted by such magistrate or by a court of special sessions held by such magistrate of prostitution or of frequenting any house of ill-fame, or of disorderly conduct or of being a disorderly person for the first offense; and any woman actually or apparently under twenty-one years of age; and any woman convicted by the court of special sessions held by such magistrate of a misdemeanor, to the Anchorage to be there detained subject to the rules and regulations of the state board of charities. $75. Section three hundred and twenty-six of said State Charities Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 326. Admission to home.- Every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who served in the army or navy of the United States, for a period not less than ninety days, during the war of the rebellion, and who shall have been a resident of this state for one year next preceding the application for admission, and the wife, widow and mother of any such honorably discharged soldier or sailor, and army nurses who served in said army or navy and whose residence was at the time of the commencement of such service or whose residence shall have been for one year next preceding his or her application for admission to said home, within the state of New York, [or] and who shall need the aid or benefit of said home in consequence of physical disability or other cause within the scope of the regulations of the board, shall be entitled to admission to said home, after the approval of the application by the board of managers and subject to the conditions, limitations and penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by said board. Provided, however, said soldier or sailor shall be a married man and shall be accompanied or attended by his wife. during the time he may be an inmate of said home, but no wife or widow of a soldier or sailor shall be admitted as an inmate of said home unless due and sufficient proof is presented of her marriage to such soldier or sailor at least fifteen years prior to the date of such application. State Law § 76. Section fifty-five of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the sovereignty, boundaries, survey, great seal and arms of the state, congressional districts, senate districts, and apportionment of the members of assembly of this state, and the enumeration of the inhabitants of the state, constituting chapter fifty-seven of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 55. Delivery and filing of deeds and [leases] releases. One of the deeds or [leases] releases so executed in duplicate shall be delivered to the duly authorized agent of the United States, and the other deed or release shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state of the state of New York; and said deed or release shall become valid and effectual only upon such filing and recording in said office. Tax Law 877. Section eighty-one of chapter sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to taxation, constituting chapter sixty of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 81. Fees of collector.- On all taxes paid within thirty days from the date of notice that he has received the roll, the collector shall be entitled to receive, if the aggregate amount shall not exceed two thousand dollars, two per centum, and otherwise one per centum, in addition thereto. On all taxes collected after the expiration of such period of thirty days, the collector shall be entitled to receive five per centum in addition thereto. The collector shall be entitled to receive from the county [treasury] treasurer two per centum as fees for all taxes returned to the county treasury as unpaid. Town Law § 78. Section sixty-four of chapter sixty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to towns, constituting chapter sixty-two of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 64. Canvass of votes. At the close of the polls at any town meeting, the canvassers shall proceed to canvass the votes publicly at the place where the meeting was held. Before the ballots are opened they shall be counted and compared with the poll-list, and the like proceedings shall be had as to ballots folded together, and difference in number, as are prescribed in the election law. The void and protested ballots, and the voted ballots other than void and protested, shall be preserved and disposed of by the inspectors in the manner provided by sections three hundred and seventy-three and three hundred and seventy-four of the election law. The result of the canvass shall be read by the [clerks] clerk to the persons there assembled, which shall be notice of the election to all voters upon the poll-list. The clerk shall also enter the result at length in the minutes of the proceedings of the meeting kept by him, and shall, within ten days thereafter, transmit to any person elected to a town office, whose name is not on the poll-list as a voter, a notice of his election. § 79. Section five hundred and thirty of said Town Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 530. Time of meeting; certificates of nomination. The next town meeting or election at which town officers shall be elected in any county of the state having a population of over one hundred and fifty thousand and less than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants, according to the state enumeration next preceding April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, and biennially thereafter at the same places as general elections in such towns are held. No person shall be entitled to vote at any such town meeting and election unless he is registered and entitled to vote at the general election held at the same time that such town meeting is held. All elective town officers shall be elected at such general election in the same manner and on the same ballot as other officers who may be elected thereat. Certificates of nomination of candidates for town office in any such towns shall be in duplicate, one of which shall be filed with the town clerk of the town, and the other with the clerk of the county wherein such town is located, and if nominated by a political party, at least twenty-five days and not more than thirty-five days before such town meeting and election is held, or, if independent nominations, at least [fifteen] twenty days and not more than thirty-five days prior thereto. The ballots prepared by the county clerk shall include the names of all candidates nominated for town offices in any such towns. The county clerk shall apportion to and charge the several towns in any of such counties with their respective proportionate shares of the expense of the preparation and distribution of such ballots. § 80. Section five hundred and thirty-three of said Town Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 533. Officers to be elected. There shall be elected at the town meeting and election to be held in each town in any such county on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, and biennially thereafter[,]; one supervisor, one town clerk, three assessors, one or three commissioners of highways, one collector, one or two overseers of the poor, [and] not more than five constables, and two inspectors of election for each election district, all of whom shall hold office for a term of two years beginning on the first day of January next succeeding. There shall also be elected at such town meeting and election and biennially thereafter, two justices of the peace for terms of four years, beginning on the succeeding first day of January. [The collectors elected at such town meetings and elections shall enter on the discharge of their duties after their predecessors shall have completed the duties of their offices, in respect to the collection of taxes and the return thereof as now prescribed by law.] Except that the collector elected at any such town meeting in nineteen hundred and eleven and biennially thereafter shall take office immediately upon his election and qualification as prescribed by law. But the collector in any such town for the current term shall complete the duties of his office in respect to the collection of taxes, and the payment and return thereof, upon any warrant received by him during his term of office, notwithstanding the election of his successor. 881. Section five hundred and thirty-four of said Town Law is hereby amended to read as follows: § 534. Accounting by [supervisor] town officers.[The supervisor in each one of the towns in any such county shall, on the last Tuesday in December of each year, account with the justices of the peace and town clerk of the town for the disbursement of all moneys received by him. The town board in each of such towns shall meet on the last Tuesday of December of each year for the purpose of receiving the accounts of town officers. The provisions of section one hundred and thirty-two, relating to |