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NEW YORK. 



March 1, 1899, unless he is a resident of the dis- 

 trict for which he is elected or appointed or has 

 heretofore served as a justice in such court. 



Authorizing Supreme Court and county court 

 judges to extend upon application of a lienor a 

 mechanic's lien for a period of six months. 



Providing that town clerks shall be among the 

 persons designated to grant burial permits. 



Amending' the village law relative to imprison- 

 ment for nonpayment of penalties. 



Amending the public-health law relative to the 

 protection of potable water supplies. 



Prohibiting the pollution of the waters of the 

 Grass. Racquet te. St. Regis, and Deer rivers, St. 

 Lawrence fount y. 



To prevent the adulteration of feeding stuffs, 

 and providing for the official analysis and labeling 

 of them. 



Amending the State agricultural law by pro- 

 viding that boiled or process butter shall be 

 branded witfc the words " renovated butter." 



Providing for the branding of such as " process 

 butter." 



Providing that the canvass of the votes of sol- 

 diers and sailors absent at war shall be made on 

 the seventh Tuesday after election. 



Giving to Grand' Army posts the control of 

 public funds to be distributed to indigent veterans 

 and their families. 



Authorizing the city of Buffalo to pay the 

 salaries of its employees while they are absent 

 as soldiers during the war. 



Authorizing State departments and institutions 

 to pay salaries of employees while they are in 

 the volunteer service of the United States. 



Allowing veterans to sell at auction without 

 a license. 



Providing that beets raised and sold pursuant 

 to the provisions of the State sugar-beet culture 

 law shall be weighed by agreement of the buyer 

 and seller at the station of shipment, the ex- 

 penses to be paid by the buyer. 



Authorizing town boards to make appropria- 

 tions not to exceed $500 in any one year for the 

 erection of soldiers' and sailors' monuments. 



Authorizing the Governor to appoint a com- 

 mission of nine persons to have charge of the 

 New York State exhibit at the Pan-American 

 Exposition to be held in Buffalo in 1901. 



Appropriating $20,000 for continuation of work 

 on the topographical map of the State. 



Authorizing the acquisition of Watkins Glen 

 by a commission appointed by the Governor. 



Appropriating $75,000 for the participation of 

 the State in the Dewey reception. 



Providing for the branding of all packages of 

 fertilizers with weight, chemical composition, etc. 



Repealing the law that required that all win- 

 dows in tenement houses should be equipped with 

 guards to prevent persons from falling out. 



Providing for the licensing of all buildings or 

 tenements used for manufacturing, and for the 

 tagging of sweat-shop-made goods from other 

 States. 



Amending the banking law relative to co-opera- 

 tive building and loan associations, so that they 

 may sell installment shares as a basis for making 

 loans or advances on which the maximum num- 

 ber of payments may be definitely fixed. 



Providing that any person who shall sell tickets 

 for the benefit of any humane, benevolent, or 

 charitable organization without obtaining the 

 consent of its officers, or for any nonexistent 

 organization of that character, shall be guilty of 

 a misdemeanor; and making it a misdemeanor 

 to interfere with any life-saving apparatus to the 

 extent of damaging it. 



Amending the stock-corporation law to provide 

 that a domestic railroad corporation may increase 

 or reduce its capital stock in the manner herein 

 provided, notwithstanding any provision con- 

 tained herein or in any general or special law 

 fixing or limiting the capital stock that may be 

 issued by it. 



Amending the forest-preserve and land-purchase 

 act to permit part payments to landowners re- 

 leasing lands to the State under certain condi- 

 tions to be imposed by the forest-preserve board. 



Authorizing the United States Government to 

 purchase in any city of this State one or more 

 pieces of land, not exceeding two acres in extent, 

 for the erection of a Government building. 



Extending for five years from Dec. 31, 1899, 

 the time allowed for the completion of all rail- 

 ways that have acquired one third of their right 

 of way. 



Authorizing the State Engineer and Surveyor 

 to make a survey of Seneca lake and its outlet. 



Repealing the bill of 1898 providing for the 

 payment of bounties for the seizure of illegal 

 fish nets. 



Amending the fisheries, game, and forest law 

 relative to the possession of quail killed on Long 

 Island. 



Providing that the section of the game law 

 prohibiting the killing of meadow larks shall 

 apply to Long Island, as it hereafter has to other 

 parts of the State. 



Authorizing the use of floating devices for 

 shooting web-footed wild fowl in Gardiner's Bay, 

 Long Island. 



Amending the game law, providing that hares 

 and rabbits shall not be hunted or possessed, 

 except in that portion of Long Island embraced 

 within the territorj^ of Greater New York, ex- 

 cept from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31. 



Providing that in the counties of Alleghany, 

 Livingston, Wyoming, Erie, Sullivan, Oneida, 

 Orange, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Hamil- 

 ton, Albany, Greene, Ulster, and Columbia hares 

 and rabbits shall not be hunted or possessed ex- 

 cept from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15 following, and pro- 

 hibiting the use of ferrets in those counties. 



Authorizing the distribution of $98,000, col- 

 lected from racing associations, among the or- 

 ganizations specified in the State agricultural law. 



Providing for the better protection for bees 

 from the disease known as foul brood. 



Providing that fish shall not be caught for 

 five years in the streams in Franklin and Clin- 

 ton Counties that flow into the Chateaugay lakes. 



Prohibiting fishing for pickerel, pike, perch, 

 and bullheads through the ice of Loon lake, Steu- 

 ben County. 



Prohibiting the killing of partridge, woodcock, 

 and quail in Rensselaer County until Sept. 1, 

 1903. 



Prohibiting the transportation of more than 12 

 pounds of trout caught within the State to any 

 point without the State. 



Prohibiting until 1903 the. catching of fish in 

 East brook, West brook, Indian brook, and 

 Finkle brook, Warren County. 



Amending the fish and game law to provide as 

 follows: "No salt-water striped bass less than 

 8 inches in length shall be intentionally taken 

 from any of the waters of this State nor pos- 

 sessed; nor shall any person fish for or take any 

 striped bass from the Hudson river with a net 

 of any kind between the thirty-first day of March 

 and the first day of July." 



Amending the game law to allow the owner of 

 any inclosed farm lands to kill hares and rab- 

 bits thereon at any time. 



