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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NEW YORK.) 



the city ship-canal, and Peck Slip, and lodging 

 with the Common Council the power to determine 

 the extent of such improvement. 



Making an appropriation for the New York 

 Zoological Society for the support of the New 

 York Aquarium. 



Reappropriating $550,000 for the Sixty-fifth 

 Regiment Armory at Buffalo. 



Incorporating the Buffalo Zoological Garden. 



Incorporating the city of Plattsburg. 



Appropriating $21,650 for enlarging the Forty- 

 seventh Regiment Armory. 



Authorizing the selection of Ausable Chasm as 

 a part of the Adirondack State Park. 



Providing for the appointment of a commission 

 of three to examine wild and forest lands in Suf- 

 folk County, with a view of locating thereon a 

 public park. 



Appropriating $500 for a survey of a proposed 

 canal between Hempstead Bar and Jamaica Bay, 

 Long Island. 



Consolidating the Chautauqua Assembly, Chau- 

 tauqua University, and the Chautauqua School 

 of Theology under the title of the Chautauqua 

 Institution. 



Amending the university law relative to the 

 establishment of public and free libraries. 



Providing that medical students admitted to 

 preliminary State medical examination must be 

 nineteen years of age. 



Providing for a new apportioment of the State 

 school moneys, so that each city shall receive 

 $800; each village of a population of 5,000 em- 

 ploying a superintendent of schools, $800; and 

 each union school district with a population of 

 5,000 employing a superintendent of schools, $800. 



Placing the Knights of Columbus among the 

 organizations recognized by the insurance laws. 



Appropriating $16,000 for a State monument 

 on the Vicksburg battle-field. 



Appropriating $50,000 for the promotion of 

 sugar-beet culture. 



Providing for the appointment of 12 additional 

 fish and game protectors. 



Prohibiting the taking of shell-fish in the waters 

 of the State by persons who have not been actual 

 residents for at least six months. 



Extending the close season for black and gray 

 squirrels in Rensselaer County fifteen days, from 

 Aug. 31 to Sept. 15. 



Providing that the laws prohibiting the posses- 

 sion of game during certain seasons in this State 

 shall apply to game taken outside of this State. 



Permitting the use of other than brass baggage- 

 checks by railroad corporations. 



Providing that garbage crematories shall be 

 operated with fuel that will dispose of the nox- 

 ious gases arising from the consumption of 

 garbage. 



Making it a violation of law to throw rubbish 

 on highways. 



Prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine. 



Providing for the management of the 14 State 

 charitable institutions by the appointment of a 

 fiscal supervisor, who shall receive $6,000 per an- 

 num, and who shall be the purchasing and fiscal 

 agent for all the charitable institutions. 



Authorizing the State Superintendent of Pris- 

 ons to expend $3,000 a year in the maintenance 

 of the bureau for the identification of criminals. 



Imposing a penalty of not more than ten years' 

 imprisonment or more than $5,000 fine, or both, 

 on persons who advocate anarchistic doctrines 

 by speech, writing, or otherwise; also making 

 it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not 

 more than $2,000 or imprisonment of not more 

 than two years, or both, upon editors or publish- 



ers who permit the publication of books, news- 

 papers, or serials advocating anarchy, and upon 

 owners, agents, or occupants who harbor avowed 

 anarchists. 



Allowing deputy sheriffs to act as constables, 

 in enforcing the side-path laws. 



Providing that no decree of divorce shall be- 

 come final until three months after the date of 

 the filing of the original judgment. 



Providing that it shall be a misdemeanor to 

 advertise, offering to appear or act as an attor- 

 ney in divorce cases. 



Providing that a married woman shall have a 

 cause of action in her own right for labor or 

 services performed by her. 



Providing that trust funds may be invested 

 in the securities in which savings-banks are now 

 authorized to invest, and in mortgages to the 

 extent of not more than 50 per cent, of the value 

 of the property. 



Extending the scope of insurance policies upon 

 the lives of minors. 



Repealing the amendment to the agricultural 

 law which barred county fairs from State aid if 

 held during the time of the State Fair. 



Appropriating $250,000 for extraordinary re- 

 pairs to the canals. 



Amending the Code of Civil Procedure relative 

 to the lien of a judgment against real property. 



Making uniform the public-health law relating 

 to local boards of health. 



Amending the agricultural law in relation to 

 the prevention of disease in fruit-trees. 



Amending the benevolent orders' law relative 

 to joint corporations and their powers. 



Providing that a society for the prevention of 

 cruelty may operate in a county adjacent to that 

 in which it was organized. 



Regulating the speed of automobiles by provi- 

 ding that they shall not be run on country high- 

 ways at a rate of speed greater than 20 miles an 

 hour, or in villages or cities faster than 8 miles 

 an hour, and making the first offense punishable 

 by a fine not exceeding $50, and each subsequent 

 offense punishable by imprisonment or a fine, or 

 both. 



Defining the rights of minority stockholders in 

 case of consolidation of corporations. 



Providing for the appointment of a commis- 

 sioner of jurors in Kings County by the two 

 county judges, who are Republican, and th 

 Democratic surrogate of Kings County. Th 

 commissioner is to serve five years at a salary o 

 $6,000. 



Providing that the State Racing Commissioi 

 shall pass upon the certificates of incorporatioi 

 of all racing associations which intend to con 

 duct running races. 



The Governor authorized the appointment o 

 a commission to inquire into the delays and ex 

 penses in the administration of justices in ih 

 counties of New York and Kings in the Fir- 

 and Second Judicial Districts, and to su{ 

 legislation thereon, the commission to consist < 

 seven persons and to make a final report to tin 

 Governor for transmission to the Legislature "ii 

 or before Dec. 31, 1902, and submit such bill or 

 bills as it may deem necessary to carry its 

 ommendations into effect. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held in Saratoga Springs on Sept. _': 

 which was called to order by State Chairman 

 George W. Dunn, who nominated Leium-l K- 

 Quigg as temporary chairman, while for perma- 

 nent chairman Timothy E. Ellsworth was elm-m 

 later. The platform said concerning roads and 

 canals: The canals provide a channel for com* 



