UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NEW YORK.) 



Reducing from two to one the number of direct- 

 ors of a corporation of this State, who must re- 

 side in New York State. 



Prohibiting the sale of consecrated property of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church or a rectory or 

 parsonage without the consent of the bishop and 

 the standing committee of the diocese. 



Providing that an acknowledgment for use in 

 proceedings in this State may be made in the 

 Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland or dominions 

 of the British Empire before a notary public. 



Providing that a foreign corporation can not 

 maintain an action in this State unless author- 

 ized to do business here. 



Providing that an insurance company shall not 

 issue new policies if its capital stock is impaired 

 to the extent of 50 per cent, after charging such 

 corporation with a reserve liability, or, in case it 

 has no capital stock, if its assets are less than 

 its liabilities, upon the basis of charging it with 

 the reserve liability. 



Amending the law relative to the descent of real 

 property left to the intestate by a deceased hus- 

 band or wife. 



Providing that a hotel or inn-keeper may sell at 

 public auction, after one year, unclaimed baggage. 



Exempting licensed engineers of steam-boilers 

 from jury duty. 



Providing for a fine of $10 to be laid by high- 

 way commissioners upon any person who de- 

 posits or throws loose stones in the gutter or the 

 grass adjoining a highway from which they may 

 have been removed. 



Increasing the maximum number of directors of 

 a banking corporation from 24 to 30. 



Making it a misdemeanor for an employee of a 

 telephone or telegraph company to aid a criminal 

 in violating the laws of the State by refusing to 

 give evidence when required. 



Providing that after Jan. 1, 1902, no common- 

 law marriage shall be recognized in this State, 

 except the parties thereto have signed a contract 

 in the presence of witnesses and filed the same 

 with the clerk of the town, village, or city in which 

 the contract was made. 



Providing that five of the commissioners of the 

 Palisades Interstate Park Commission may be 

 residents of New Jersey. 



Appropriating $400,000 for the purchase of the 

 Palisades. 



Authorizing the Governor to appoint a com- 

 mittee of seven to represent the State at the 

 South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Ex- 

 position, to be held in Charleston, S. C., and 

 appropriating $15,000. 



Annexing the village of Bath to the city of 

 Rensselaer. 



Authorizing towns of 5,000 inhabitants to ap- 

 propriate $50 yearly for the observance of Me- 

 morial Day. 



Authorizing village trustees to make a contract 

 with the fire department of an adjoining unincor- 

 porated village for fire protection for a period of 

 ten years. 



Authorizing villages to compromise claims for 

 damages to property resulting from changes of 

 grade of streets and bridges. 



Authorizing villages of the fourth class to ac- 

 quire private streets for parkways. 



Reappropriating $318.845 for the improvement 

 of the State canals. 



Appropriating $325,000 for extraordinary re- 

 pairs to the canals. 



Authorizing town boards to establish sewer 

 systems. 



Amending the law relative to the San Jose" scale 

 by providing that transportation companies must 



notify the State Commissioner of Agriculture of 

 the receipt of all nursery stock. 



Prohibiting the killing of quail until 1903 in the 

 counties of Cayuga, Wyoming, Chautauqua, Erie, 

 Richmond, Genesee, and Montgomery. 



Including April and July as months in which 

 striped bass shall not be taken with a net from 

 the waters of Hudson river. 



Extending until 1906 the law preventing hound- 

 ing deer in this State. 



Providing that ducks, geese, brant, and swan 

 shall not be taken from April 30 to Aug. 31. 



Appropriating $100,000 for the promotion of 

 sugar-beet culture. 



Authorizing Buffalo to issue $150,000 in bonds 

 for defraying the expenses of police protection for 

 the Pan-American Exposition. 



Authorizing the Pan-American Exposition Com- 

 pany to issue second-mortgage bonds to the value 

 of $500,000. 



Appropriating $2,500 for a monument at An- 

 tietam to the memory of the soldiers of the Twen- 

 ty-fourth New York Infantry. 



Appropriating $5,000 for a monument in honor 

 of the memory of the members of the Seventy- 

 first Regiment killed in the Spanish-American 

 War. 



Providing that cider vinegar made by a farmer 

 from the product of his farm shall not be deemed 

 adulterated if it contains 2 per cent, solids, and 

 sufficient alcohol to develop the required amount 

 of acetic acid. 



Affording veterans in State, county, and muni- 

 cipal employ leave of absence, with pay, on Me- 

 morial Day. 



Prohibiting the employment of women and chil- 

 dren at polishing and buffing. 



Prohibiting the opening of butcher shops on 

 Sunday. 



Making funeral expenses a preferred lien on the 

 estate of the deceased, and payable before all 

 other debts. 



Providing that voting-machines shall be con- 

 structed so as to permit voting for independent 

 electoral candidates. 



The Senate and Assembly met in joint session 

 on Feb. 13, and elected Charles R. Skinner to be 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction and Robert 

 C. Pruyn to the Board of Regents. Mr. Pruyn 

 was chosen to the vacancy caused by the death 

 of Hamilton Harris. 



Political. The usual election was held on 

 Nov. 5, on which occasion 9 judges of the Supreme 

 Court were chosen, 4 in the First District, 1 

 each in the Third, Fourth, and Seventh, and 2 in 

 the Sixth District. The candidates were as fol- 

 low: First District Morgan J. O'Brien (Demo- 

 crat), James A. Blanchard (Republican), John P. 

 Clarke (Republican"), and Samuel Greenbaum" (In- 

 dependent Democrat), all of whom were fusion 

 candidates. Morgan J. O'Brien, Robert A. Van 

 Wyck, Charles H. Knox, and Charles W. Dayton 

 were th ; regular Democratic nominees. Third 

 District Aaron V. S. Cochrane ( Republican ) v 

 Levi F. Longley (Democrat), and Patrick Burke 

 (Socialist Labor). Fourth District Edgar A. 

 Spencer (Republican), Robert P. Anibal (Demo- 

 crat), William Green (Prohibition), John H. 

 Bullard (Social Democrat), and John E. Wal- 

 lace (Socialist Labor). Sixth District Charles 

 E. Parker and Gerrit A. Forbes (Republican). 

 Seventh District William H. Adams (Republi- 

 can), Henry Beisiegel (Socialist Labor). The suc- 

 cessful candidates were Morgan J. O'Brien, James 

 A. Blanchard, John P. Clarke, and Samuel Green- 

 baum in the First District; Aaron V. S. Cochrane 

 in the Third District; Edgar A. Spencer in the 



