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and Battery L, Second New York Light Artillery, 

 fought at the siege of Vicksburg, for the purpose 

 of erecting suitable monuments, and appropriating 

 $1,000. 



Making an additional appropriation of $5,000 

 for the equestrian statue of Major-Gen. Henry W. 

 Slocum, to be erected on the Gettysburg battlefield. 



Appropriating $11,000 to erect a bronze group 

 of statuary, representing Reconciliation, on Look- 

 out mountain. 



Appropriating $1,000,000 for improvements at 

 the State hospitals for the insane. 



Repealing the section of the penal code which 

 permitted a woman convicted of felony to be sent 

 to a reformatory for women when the sentence 

 was less than one year, and further amending the 

 code by providing that a woman between fifteen 

 and thirty years of age may be sent to a reforma- 

 tory. 



Making it a misdemeanor for any unauthorized 

 person to wear badges of the Military Order of 

 Foreign Wars of the United States or the badge 

 of Spanish War veterans. 



Providing $50 fine for a first offense and $150 

 fine for subsequent violations for watering milk 

 furnished to butter and cheese factories conducted 

 on the co-operative plan. 



Making it a misdemeanor to stamp collars and 

 cuffs as linen unless they are made of that material. 



Making it a misdemeanor to manufacture gun- 

 powder or any other explosive in a dwelling house. 



Making it a misdemeanor to sell or give a toy 

 pistol in which blank cartridges are used to any 

 person under sixteen years of age. 



Making it unlawful to possess the plumage or 

 skins of wild and song birds for commercial pur- 

 poses. 



Providing that deer shall not be taken at any 

 other time than between daylight and sunset on 

 Long Island, on the first two Wednesdays and the 

 first two Fridays of November. 



Providing that on our northern water bound- 

 aries, including the Great Lakes and the St. Law- 

 rence River, no nonresident shall take any kind 

 of fish or game within our boundary line unless 

 residents of this State may lawfully take the same 

 kind of fish or game in the waters within the 

 boundaries of the place where such nonresident 

 lives. 



Providing that any person who shall omit, neg- 

 lect, or refuse to obey a subpoena issued by the 

 State Superintendent of Elections or his chief dep- 

 uty is guilty of a misdemeanor, and one who makes 

 a false statement is guilty of perjury. 



Providing that the enrollment of voters at pri- 

 maries shall be secret, and that the enrollment 

 blanks shall be distributed in envelopes. 



Providing that any person who solicits from a 

 candidate for an elective office money or other 

 property as a consideration for a newspaper or 

 other publication supporting any candidate for an 

 elective office is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Providing that the election of committeemen to 

 fill vacancies in nominations shall take place at 

 the primaries and not at a party convention. 



Compelling the publication of lists of tax exemp- 

 tions in the cities by the local assessors. The 

 assessors' statements must show separately such 

 piece or parcel of real estate exempted, the name 

 of the owner, its value, and the reasons for the 

 exemption. 



Amending the tax law so as to provide that every 

 foreign banker doing business in the State shall 

 pay an annual tax to the Treasurer of 5 per cent. 

 on the amount of interest earned on money loaned. 



Fixing the salary of the members of the State 

 Board of Tax Commissioners at $5,000 each, au- 



thorizing a secretary at $3,500 and six special 

 agents. 



Amending the taxable transfer act relative to 

 the refunding of moneys which the courts have 

 held to have been erroneously assessed by the 

 State. 



Appropriating $49,350 for the expenses of the 

 State Tax Commission in performing duties con- 

 nected with the franchise tax law. 



Providing that when taxes levied on a cemetery 

 lot remain unpaid for five years, the amount, with 

 interest, shall be a lien on the unused portion of 

 the lot. 



Incorporating the New York State Medical As- 

 sociation. 



Providing that stockholders owning two thirds 

 in amount of a corporation's capital stock may 

 vote to extend its existence. 



Permitting the granting of liquor tax certificates 

 to the Pullman Palace Car Company and other 

 foreign corporations. 



On April 3 the Legislature met in joint session 

 to elect a Regent of the University to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. Sylvester 

 Malone, and chose the Rev. Thomas A. Kendricks 

 by a vote of 83 against 53 cast for Bishop Thomas 

 M. A. Burke. 



Taxation. A committee appointed by the Leg- 

 islature to investigate the tax question, with a 

 view of adopting a plan by which the taxes could 

 be more equitably distributed, resulted in the 

 following recommendations: 1. A State tax of 5 

 mills upon indebtedness secured by mortgage upon 

 corporate and individual real property. 2. That if 

 the proposed mortgage tax for State purposes is 

 adopted, mortgages ought to be exempted alto- 

 gether from local taxation, and that the tax should 

 cover all mortgages on real estate within this 

 State, whether made by corporations or by persons, 

 or whether owned by residents or nonresidents, 

 and without exemptions, except in the single case 

 of mortgages made to the Commissioners of United 

 States Deposit Fund. No owner of a mortgage debt 

 ought to be allowed to deduct his indebtednes> 

 because the rate is low compared with the rate 

 which the owner of real estate must pay, and 

 which the owner of other personalty is liable to 

 pay. 3. A tax of 1 per cent, upon the stock of 

 national and State banks and trust companies, 

 the value of the share to be ascertained by adding 

 together the capital stock, surplus, and undivided 

 profits of such institutions, and deducting there 

 from the assessed value of their real estate, whirl 

 is to continue to be assessed locally. 4. The 1 

 per-cent. tax upon the institutions named will 

 realize $3,000,000, and, taken together with tit- 

 mortgage tax, will furnish to the State, togothe" 

 with its present revenue, about $23.000.000. which 

 sum is adequate for the support of the State (iov- 

 prnment. The shareholders in State and national 

 banks and trust companies should not be, taxed 

 for local purposes, nor should any deduction from 

 the value thereof be allowed because of the debts 

 of the individual owner. 



Banks. The superintendent's report for the 

 year ending Sept. 30. 1900. shows that the total 

 resources of the institutions, as given by their re- 

 ports, are as follow: Banks of deposit and dis- 

 count, Sept. 4. 1900, $351,080.252; savings banks, 

 July 1, 1900, $1.037.869,1(50: trust companies, Juljr 

 1, 1900, $79(5.483.887; safe deposit companies, July 

 1, 1900, $5.297.905; foreign mortgage companies, 

 Jan. 1, 1900. $5,236.422: building and loan asso- 

 ciations, Jan. 1, 1900. $66,034.789; total, $2,262,- 

 002.415. This is an increase of $115.018,554 over 

 last year. The number of savings banks was di- 

 minished by one during the year. 



