NEW YORK. 



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have been entitled if they had remained in the 

 employ of the city. 



Providing that chattel mortgages shall be filed 

 in Greater New York as follow: In the borough 

 of Brooklyn, in the office of the county clerk 

 of Kings; in Queens, in the office of the county 

 clerk of Queens ; in Richmond, in the office of the 

 clerk of Richmond County; and in the borough 

 of Manhattan and the Bronx, in the office of the 

 register of the city of New York. 



Giving to New York city authority to construct 

 se\\ age-disposal plants. 



Amending the law providing for the construc- 

 tion of a bridge over the Harlem river from 145th 

 Street, borough of Manhattan, to East 149th 

 Street in the borough of the Bronx, at a cost of 

 $500,000. 



Making it a misdemeanor to violate any of the 

 provisions of the act relating to inspections of 

 si cam boilers and licensing of engineers in New 

 York city. 



Exempting the New York Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Vice from taxation. 



Removing the limit of appropriation to be made 

 by New York city for the public library in Bryant 

 Park. 



Authorizing New York city to expend $300,000 

 to improve that portion of Bronx Park set apart 

 for the New York Zoological Society when the 

 society shall have raised or expended $200,000 for 

 similar purposes. 



Authorizing the expenditure by New York city 

 of $350,000 for equipping the buildings occupied 

 by the American Museum of Natural History in 

 Central Park. 



Authorizing New York city to expend $200,000 

 on the Zoological Gardens. 



Authorizing New York city to appropriate 

 $50,000 to aid in the erection of a monument in 

 memory of the prison ship martyrs. 



Appropriating $25,000 for a monument in Brook- 

 lyn to the memory of those who died in the British 

 prison ships in New York harbor during the Amer- 

 ican Revolution. 



For the turning over of the Homoeopathic Hos- 

 pital in Brooklyn to the city of New York, and 

 compelling the city to maintain it as a public 

 hospital. 



Authorizing the acquisition of adjacent territory 

 to form a Greater Troy. 



Incorporating the city of Cortland. 



Ceding to the United States Government juris- 

 diction over certain lands under the waters of 

 Lake Erie at Buffalo. 



Amending the liquor tax law by making more 

 stringent the penalties for evasions. 



Amending the banking law in relation to the 

 appointment of a corporation as guardian of an 

 infant. 



Amending the criminal code so as to provide 

 that upon a trial for murder or manslaughter, 

 if the act complained of is not proved to be the 

 cause of death, the defendant may be convicted 

 of assault in any degree constituted by the act 

 and warranted by the evidence. 



Amending the election law by providing for ad- 

 ditional ballot boxes at town meetings. 



Amending the membership corporations law to 



; provide that the body of a widow may be buried 



i in a burial lot of which her husband died possessed 



1 and in which his heirs continue to have vight of 



burial, without consent of any person claiming 



in interest in such lot. 



Providing that the Appellate Division of the 

 Supreme Court may order the reversal of a judg- 

 ment where it is contrary to the weight of evi- 

 lence. 



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Amending the religious corporation law to pro- 

 vide that the trustees of Protestant Episcopal 

 churches shall not make application to court for 

 leave to sell or mortgage any of their real property 

 without consent of the bishop and standing com- 

 mittee of the diocese. 



Abolishing coroners' fees for inquests, but pro- 

 viding for fees for the drawing of decisions in a 

 coroner's jury case. 



Giving a surrogate the power to determine the 

 sufficiency of the bonds of guardian. 



Amending the labor law by requiring hotel and 

 restaurant proprietors to furnish seats for wait- 

 resses. 



Providing that any agricultural society, club, 

 or exposition which shall permit the use of any 

 gambling outfit on fair grounds shall forfeit the 

 moneys received from the State under the agri- 

 cultural laws. 



Prohibiting persons from transacting business in 

 this State under an assumed name unless they shall 

 file with the county clerk a certificate setting 

 forth the name to be used. 



Securing equal rights to colored children in the 

 public schools, and abolishing separate schools. 



Appropriating $50,000 to continue the promotion 

 of sugar-beet culture. 



Prohibiting the sale of impure, adulterated, col- 

 ored, or unwholesome cream. 



Relative to experiments, at the experimental sta- 

 tions, in the application of poison and spraying 

 mixtures to fruit trees while in bloom. 



Furnishing life-saving apparatus and appliances 

 along the shores or banks of streams in cities, 

 towns, and villages. 



Redistricting the State into three sections, to 

 be known as the eastern, western, and middle sec- 

 tions, providing for a new State Board of Exam- 

 iners of Pharmacy, and regulating the drug trade 

 generally. 



Appropriating $100,000 for the erection of the 

 New York State Building at the Pan-American 

 Exposition. 



Abolishing the office of State Superintendent of 

 the Adirondack Land Survey. 



Appropriating $250,000 for continuing the acqui- 

 sition of land in the Adirondack Park, and for 

 the extension of the Forest Preserve. 



Authorizing the State Engineer and Surveyor to 

 continue to co-operate with the .Director of the 

 United States Geological Survey in making a topo- 

 graphical survev and map of the State, and appro- 

 priating $20,000" therefor. 



Appropriating $50,000 for the establishment of 

 a State hospital in the Adirondacks for treatment 

 of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. 



Extending to all honorably discharged soldiers 

 and sailors of the United States the provisions of 

 law appropriating public money for burial which 

 have heretofore been applicable to civil war and 

 Mexican War veterans only. 



Appropriating $51,534 for new buildings and 

 improvements to the New York State Woman's 

 Relief Corps Home, at Oxford. 



Permitting the establishment of pleasure resorts 

 on reservoir lands and islands owned by the State, 

 with the consent of the State Land Board. 



Appropriating $3,500 for the improvement and 

 care of lands known as the " Stony Point Penin- 

 sula." 



Appropriating $15,000 for the acquisition of 

 lands by the State Comptroller to commemorate 

 the battle of Lake George. 



Authorizing the New York, Gettysburg, and 

 Chattanooga Battlefield Commission to locate the 

 positions where the Forty-sixth, Fifty-first, and 

 Seventy-ninth Regiments, New York Infantry, 



