NEW YORK. 



consignor ; another forbids the appointment of 

 a receiver unless he is a resident of this State ; 

 still another grants a charter to the Commercial 

 Travelers' Home Association of America. Cor- 

 porations are allowed to mortgage their property 

 by consent of two thirds of the stockholders, and 

 they mnst make reports to the Secretary of State 

 by Feb. 1 in each year. No stock corporation 

 shall combine with any corporation or person to 

 secure a monopoly in the necessaries of life. 



Honorably discharged soldiers or sailors of the 

 late civil war who may hereafter be appointed 

 shall not be removed from places of trust under 

 city or county governments except for cause. 

 The law heretofore applied only to soldiers al- 

 ready holding places. The trustees of the Grant 

 Monument Association, in New York city, were 

 given additional powers, but an appropriation of 

 $500,000 for the monument itself did not pass. 

 A new law allows the several cities and towns of 

 the State which have not already refunded to 

 drafted men the money expended" in furnishing 

 substitutes in the civil war to refund if they 

 choose. A charter was given to the Sons of Vet- 

 erans, U. S. Army, Division of New York. The 

 Governor vetoed a repeal of the law exempting 

 from taxation all real estate bought with pen- 

 sion money. 



The National Guard was allowed $427,000, 

 and the military code was amended so as to 

 allow the addition of signal and telegraph corps. 

 Pensions were provided for members of the 

 National Guard who have been disabled in the 

 service. An effort was made, without success, 

 to adopt the tactics of the U. S. Army for the 

 National Guard. The Naval Militia, or reserve, 

 was given $25,000, but all of the former acts 

 relating to it were repealed, and a new law was 

 passed which governs the Naval Militia after the 

 manner in which the National Guard is now 

 governed by the military code. 



A law was passed codifying the laws regard- 

 ing the practice of dentistry, and providing that 

 examinations of students to practice the same 

 shall be controlled by the State Dental Society. 

 The medical schools tried, without success, to 

 have the same privileges as to the securing of 

 corpses that are now allowed to medical colleges. 

 An unsuccessful effort was made to establish a 

 State board to control the business of undertak- 

 ing ; and another to prohibit the public exhi- 

 bition of hypnotic experiments or treatment by 

 any one except duly licensed physicians. 



Several important labor bills became laws. One 

 of them regulates the employment of women and 

 children in manufacturing and mercantile estab- 

 lishments, by requiring that there shall be posted 

 in such establishments a notice of the number of 

 hours of labor required from employees therein 

 and the hours of beginning and ending of such 

 labor, and no one shall be required to work 

 longer hours or to begin earlier or work later 

 than the notice stipulates. The hours of labor 

 shall not be changed after the beginning of any 

 week unless by permission of factory inspectors. 

 No child under sixteen yeavs of age shall be em- 

 ployed where its life, limb, or health is endan- 

 gered. No child under fifteen shall be employed 

 to run an elevator, and no person under eighteen 

 years shall be employed for an elevator run- 

 ning more than 200 feet a minute. No person 



shall be employed in any tenement house or 

 building in rear of tenement house in making 

 clothing, feathers, cigars, etc., unless with the 

 consent of the factory inspector, which permit 

 may be revoked at any time. Not less than 250 

 cubic feet of air shall be allowed for each person 

 in a workroom in the daytime, and 400 cubic 

 feet at night. Another law, requiring special 

 peace officers to be residents of the county in 

 which they are to protect property, was passed 

 to meet the complaints against the Pinkerton 

 detectives. A third law prevents the manufac- 

 ture and sale of clothing made in unhealthful 

 places. This does away with what is known as 

 the ' sweating system." A fourth law extends 

 the mechanics' lien law to municipal corpora- 

 tions. A fifth law limits the hours of service on 

 steam railroads, by providing : First, that no en- 

 gineer, fireman, conductor, or trainman who has 

 rendered twenty-four hours' continuous service 

 shall thereafter under ordinary circumstances 

 continue service, or resume service, without first 

 having had at least eight hours' rest ; second, 

 that the working day of every engineer, fireman, 

 conductor, and trainman shall not exceed ten 

 hours of service rendered within twelve consecu- 

 tive hours ; and third, that if any such engineer, 

 fireman, conductor, or trainman shall render 

 more than ten hours' service, he shall receive 

 comparative compensation for the excess in ad- 

 dition to his daily compensation. 



About $4,000,000 was appropriated for the 

 ordinary expenses of the canals and claims upon 

 the same for damages. The usual appropriation 

 of about $500,000, to lengthen additional locks 

 on the Erie Canal, was vetoed ; but certain of 

 the locks on the Oswego Canal will be length- 

 ened, and a new law appropriates money to re- 

 store the water power on the Black river. The 

 bills providing for grain elevators to be erected 

 by the State at New York and Buffalo met with 

 their usual fate. The appropriation for dredging 

 the upper Hudson was only $41,000, there being 

 a disposition to secure aid for this work from the 

 Federal Government. New York and Brooklyn 

 are to be connected by several new bridges. A 

 charter was granted to the Manhattan and Long 

 Island Bridge Company for the purpose of con- 

 structing, maintaining, and operating bridges 

 over the East river and Harlem river between 

 the city of New York and Long Island. An 

 amendment was made to the charter of the New 

 York and Long Island Bridge Company, whose 

 bridge will connect with the Grand Central De- 

 pot. A charter was granted to the East River 

 Bridge Company, and in connection with it the 

 Rapid Transit act was amended so that connec- 

 tion may be made with the elevated railroad sys- 

 tem. The Long Island and New York Terminal 

 Railroad Company was authorized to construct, 

 maintain, and operate a bridge over the East 

 river between the cities of New York and Long 

 Island City. The drawbridge over the Harlem 

 river at Third Avenue was ordered to be raised, 

 and a new bridge was provided to span the Har- 

 lem Ship Canal. Three bridge bills failed, as fol- 

 low : Providing for a commission of bridges 

 over the waters of the East river ; incorporating 

 the New York and Nassau Island Bridge Com- 

 pany for the purpose of constructing, maintain- 

 ing, and operating bridges over the East river 



