UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (Ni;w ^ 



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hattan island to perpetuate the memory of the 

 victories of the United States navy. 



Providing additional terminal facilities on the 

 Manhattan end of the New York and Brooklyn 

 Bridge. 



Increasing from $2,000,000 to $2,250,000 the ap- 

 propriation for a bridge over Harlem river at New 

 York city. 



Classifying the positions in the State service, 

 and regarding the salaries paid to the holders 

 thereof. 



Creating a single-headed State health depart- 

 ment in the place of the 'present board of nine 

 commissioners, with a commissioner of health to 

 be appointed by the Governor within twenty days 

 after the law is signed. The salary of the com- 

 missioner is fixed at $3,500. 



Authorizing the State commissioner of public 

 health to inquire into the enforcement of the laws 

 relative to tenement-houses in cities of the first 

 class, and when requested by the Governor to re- 

 port to him the result of his inquiry. 



Providing that the State Board of Classification 

 shall fix the prices of articles manufactured in 

 State charitable institutions and sold to the State 

 for other State institutions. 



Placing building-and-loan associations under 

 the partial supervision of the State superintendent 

 of banks. 



Amending the Greater New York charter to 

 allow the park commissioners to authorize and 

 regulate projections, and determine curb lines on 

 streets and avenues in parks and places under the 

 jurisdiction of the park commissioners. 



Amending the Greater New York charter to pro- 

 vide that the fire commissioners shall select the 

 grade of cloth required for uniforms, but shall 

 not prescribe where or from whom the uniforms 

 shall be purchased or the price to be paid therefor, 

 and prohibiting any clothing contractor from hav- 

 ing an office in any fire department building. 



Authorizing the deputy fire commissioner to 

 exercise all the powers of the fire commissioner of 

 New York city during the absence of the latter 

 official or the inability to perform his duties. 



Providing that the commissioner of jurors in 

 New York city shall select 200 persons a year 

 in each municipal court district for municipal 

 jury duty. 



Authorizing the justices of the municipal court 

 of New York city to appoint a commission, to con- 

 sist of three justices from Manhattan Borough 

 and one each from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, 

 and Richmond, to codify the laws, rules, and prac- 

 tises relating to the municipal court of that city. 



The four tenement-house bills, which the Legis- 

 lature passed on the recommendation of the 

 Roosevelt Tenement-House Commission. 



Authorizing New York city to appropriate $55,- 

 000 annually for the maintenance of the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art. 



Providing that the New York City Board of Es- 

 timate and Apportionment may set aside 70 acres 

 of land in Forest Park, in Queens Borough, for 

 the purpose of giving Brooklyn an additional stor- 

 age-reservoir. 



Giving to the State Engineer and Surveyor the 

 power to make rules and regulations for the care 

 of highways improved under the good roads act. 



Providing that the president of the State Com- 

 mission in Lunacy shall be a physician of ten 

 years' experience, who has had five years' experi- 

 ence in the treatment of mental and nervous dis- 

 eases, or two years' experience in the treatment of 

 committed insane. 



Amending the election law by providing that 

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 spective of his fonu<T polili 



Giving the State |)-| . , 

 jurisdiction over anin 

 diseases. 



Amending the election la 

 rneanor to sell liquor \\ithi 

 of a polling-place at a spfi 

 eral election. 



Amending the excise; lu\v, to provii 

 hotels shall keep a register of guc-r- 

 mitting the closing of saloons during t h 

 of an action. 



Amending the mining law providing that at th<- 

 expiration of twenty-one years from the time ,,i 

 discovery of a mine the discoverer or his hen , 

 shall pay to the State a royalty of 1 per cent, on 

 the market value of all products of such mine. 



Amending the penal code by making it a mis- 

 demeanor for any person to ride a bicycle upon a 

 sidewalk or footpath maintained for the exclu- 

 sive use of pedestrians. 



Amending the State pharmacy law to allow 

 country - stores to sell Epsom and Rochelle salts 

 without a druggist's license ; also, allowing physi- 

 cians to compound prescriptions and sell poisons 

 where there is no drug-store within three miles. 



Amending the tax law relative to the taxable 

 transfers of property by giving the State Comp- 

 troller power to open proceedings in the appraisal 

 of estates. 



Amending the tax law relative to taxable trans- 

 fers by exempting therefrom bequests to Bible 

 and tract societies. 



Reducing the State tax on the organization of 

 new corporations from | to -^ of 1 per cent. 



Changing the color of the State flag from buff 

 back to blue. 



Amending the real-property law relative to the 

 execution of conveyances of parties residing in 

 Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Cuba by 

 providing that they may be made before a judge 

 of a court of record, a mayor, or other city offi- 

 cer, a commissioner of the United States Gov- 

 ernment, or a commissioned officer of the United 

 States army or navy. 



Providing that the Secretary of State shall not 

 grant a certificate of authority to do business in 

 this State to any foreign corporation having the 

 same name as an existing domestic corporation or 

 a name so nearly resembling it as to be calcu- 

 lated to deceive. 



Authorizing the courts to modify the terms of a 

 charitable bequest, provided that it is found im- 

 practicable to carry out such terms as are fixed 

 by the person who made the bequest. 



Providing that a person convicted of felony 

 shall be sentenced under an indeterminate sen- 

 tence if he has never before been confined in a 

 State prison, and if the crime of which he is con- 

 victed is punishable by imprisonment in a State 

 prison for a period not exceeding five years. 



Providing that the legal minimum standard for 

 insurance contracts shall be the American experi- 

 ence table of mortality, with interest at 3* per 

 cent, a year. 



Providing if a juror is employed by a party to 

 an action, or is employed by a stockholder of a 

 corporation involved, or is a stockholder in a 

 corporation party to the litigation, such fact <. 

 constitute good ground for a challenge. 



Providing that a certificate of incorporation 

 a corporation need not name more than three 

 directors of such corporation. 



Providing that corporations as well 

 viduals may be members of a news-gathering as- 

 sociation. 



