Commissioner of Agriculture. 535 



CHAPTER 570. 



AN ACT to amend the code of criminal procedure, relating to 



violations of the agricultural law. 



Approved by the Goyoruor May 4, 1893. Passed, three-fifths beiug present. 



The People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and 

 AssemUy, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Section fifty-six of the code of criminal procedure is 

 hereby amended to read as follows: 



§ 56. Jurisdiction of courts. Subject to the power 'of removal 

 provided for in this chapter, courts of special sessions, except in 

 the city and county of New York and the city of Albany, have in 

 the first instance exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine 

 charges of misdemeanors committed within their respective coun- 

 ties, as follows: 



1. Petit larceny, charged as a first offense. 



2. Assault in the third degree. 



3. Racing, running or testing the speed of any animal within 

 one mile of the place where any court is held. 



4. Wrongfully severing any produce or article from the free- 

 hold, not amounting to grand larceny. 



5. Selling poisonous substances not labeled as required by law. 

 f). Wrongfully and maliciously removing, defacing or cutting 



down monuments or marked trees. 



7. Wrongfully destroying or removing mile-stones, mile-boards 

 or guide-boards, or altering or defacing any inscription thereon. 



8. Wrongfully destroying any public or toll-gate or turnpike 

 gate. 



9. Intoxication of a person engaged in running any locomotive 

 engine upon any railroad, or while acting as conductor of a car, or 

 train of cars, on anv such railroad, or a misdeameanor committed 

 by any person on a railroad car or train. 



10. Setting up or drawing unauthorized lotteries, or printing 

 and publishing an account of any such illegal lottery, game or 

 device, or selling lottery tickets, or procuring them to be sold, or 

 offering for sale or distributing any property depending upon any 



