base, eighty cents; automobiles, over one hundred inch wheel base, one dollar; automobile trucks, under one hundred inch wheel base, eighty cents; automobile trucks, over one hundred inch wheel base, load two tons or less, one dollar and fifty cents; automobile trucks, over one hundred inch wheel base, load two to five tons, one dollar and seventy-five cents; automobile trucks, over one hundred inch wheel base, load over five tons, fifty cents for each additional ton, no truck over ten tons; moving vans, light, two dollars; moving vans, loaded, three dollars. Horse drawn vehicles (including driver): One horse wagon, not over sixteen feet long, fifty cents; one horse wagon, sixteen to twenty feet long, sixty cents; two horse wagon, not over sixteen feet long, load two tons or less, sixty cents; two horse wagon, sixteen to twenty feet long, or load over two tons, seventy-five cents. Live stock on deck: horses, oxen, cows and yearlings, twenty cents; calves, hogs, sheep and lambs, ten cents. Passengers in vehicles: adults, fifteen cents; children, five to twelve years of age, ten cents. Miscellaneous: bicycle and rider, twenty cents; saddle horse and rider, thirty cents; trailer on automobile or wagon, one dollar each; additional horses attached to vehicles, each, twenty cents; each additional foot over twenty feet in length When tolls of vehicles, ten cents, provided, however, that where the revenues to the state from such tolls, over and above the expenses of maintenance and operation, shall equal the entire investment of the state for original construction, as shall be evidenced by certificate of the state comptroller filed in his office and a duplicate in the office of such commissioner of highways, the collection of such tolls shall cease and the bridge shall be maintained as a free bridge for the Disposition public, by such commissioner. Moneys from tolls received by such commissioner shall be paid into the state treasury as provided in section thirty-seven of the state finance law. to cease. of tolls collected. and acts Work done § 2. This act shall not affect or impair any work done, acts perperformed formed or proceedings taken, heretofore, by the state commissioner affected. of highways, or by the superintendent of public works as his suc not L. 1909, ch. 30, § 122, subds. 4, 10, 54, 58 amended. cessor under the provisions of chapter eight hundred and sixtyseven of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, or by the latter's subordinates by his direction, in carrying out the provisions of the sections amended by this act. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 80 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to county highways in the counties of Cattaraugus, Columbia, Warren and Wyoming. Became a law March 26, 1924, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Subdivisions four, ten, fifty-four and fifty-eight of section one hundred and twenty-two of chapter thirty of the laws 2 Words "and acquisition of real property and easements," omitted. of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the consolidated laws," as amended by chapter eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one,' are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: 4. Cattaraugus county. Arcade-Farmersville, part two; LeonWesley, part one; Salamanca-Ellicottville, part two; Cattaraugus-Dayton; Portville-Carroll; Randolph-Pope; Great ValleyCadiz; Clear Creek-Conewango Valley; North FranklinvilleFarmersville-West Fairview; Salamanca-East Randolph; Portville-Obi, part one; Leon-Markham-Dayton; Sandusky-Fairview; Bradford-Carrollton, parts two and three; Allegany state park connection. 10. Columbia county. Chatham-Chatham Center station, parts one and three; Stuyvesant-Sunnyside; Green River-Great Barrington, part one; New Lebanon-Stephentown, part one; Stuyvesant-Castleton, part one; Copake Iron Works-Bash Bish Falls. 54. Warren county. North Creek-North River; Hague-Ticonderoga, part one; Glens Falls-Oneida; Chestertown hamlet connection; Bolton Landing-Sabbathday-Point Hague." 58. Wyoming county. Varysburg-Warsaw, part one; Warsaw village connection; Warsaw-Perry Center; Pike-Castile; Wyoming village-Wyoming station; Arcade-Pike; Java CenterWaldo Corners-Smith Corners; Pavilion-Griegsville, part two; Hume-Pike, part two; Pike-Gainesville; Arcade-Farmersville, part one; Letchworth park connection.5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 81 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to drawing jurors in Madison county. Became a law March 26, 1924, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 524 Section 1. Section five hundred and twenty-four of chapter L. 1909, thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An ch. 35, act in relation to the administration of justice, constituting chap- amended. ter thirty of the consolidated laws,' as amended by chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 524. Names of jurors residing in place where term held must be kept in third box; other boxes. The county clerk must keep, in addition to the two boxes specified in the last three sections, a 1 Previously amended by L. 1912, ch. 83. 2 Words "; Allegany state park connection" new. Words "; Copake Iron Works-Bash Bish Falls," new. 4 Words "; Bolton Landing-Sabbathday-Point Hague" new. 5 Words "; Letchworth park connection new. L. 1909, subd. 1 Appointment of clerks to justices in first judicial district. third box, in which he must deposit duplicate ballots, containing the names, with the proper additions, of all persons selected and returned as trial jurors, who reside in the city or town where a trial term of a court of record is appointed to be held, pursuant to law; and in the county of Niagara, he must keep an additional box for the city of Niagara Falls in which he must deposit duplicate ballots containing the names, with the proper additions, of all persons selected and returned as trial jurors who reside in that city; 'and in the county of Madison he must also deposit, in said third box, duplicate ballots containing the names, with the proper additions, of persons selected and returned as trial jurors, who reside in the city of Oneida, and in such county jurors may be drawn, as provided in the next section, from the box containing the names of persons selected and returned as jurors from both the city of Oneida and the town of Lenox. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 82 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the appointment of clerks to the justices of the supreme court in the first judicial district. Became a law March 26, 1924, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Subdivision one of section one hundred and sixty of article eight of chapter thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the administration of justice, constituting chapter thirty of the consolidated laws," as last amended by chapter one hundred and seventeen of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the first judicial district, other than those provided for in section one hundred and three of this chapter, shall appoint and at pleasure remove a clerk to such justice. Should a justice die or cease to hold office, the clerk thus appointed by him shall continue in office until an appointment shall be made under this subdivision by the justice elected or appointed to fill such vacancy. The said justices, or a majority of them, shall until the appointment or election of such succeeding justice, regulate the assignment and fix the duties of such clerk thus continued in office. The said justices or a majority of them shall appoint a general clerk and any necessary assistants who shall perform such duties in relation to the purchase of furniture, equipment and supplies for the use of the court and assist the justices generally in relation to the administrative business of the court, as they may direct. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Remainder of section new. Previously amended by L. 1911, ch. 404. Following paragraph new. CHAPTER 83 AN ACT to incorporate "The Pierpont Morgan Library” Became a law March 26, 1924, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. John Pierpont Morgan, Jane Norton Morgan, Junius CorpoSpencer Morgan, Jr., Henry Sturgis Morgan, Lewis Cass Ledyard rators. and James Gore King and such other persons as they may associate with themselves, and their successors, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic under the name and Corporate title of "The Pierpont Morgan Library." name. property certain § 2. The said corporation shall have the power and capacity to Power to accept and receive all property, real and personal, which shall be accept conveyed or transferred to it by the acting trustees, or their suc- under cessors, under a deed of trust bearing date the fifteenth day of deed of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, executed by John trust. Pierpont Morgan and Jane Norton Morgan, his wife, and recorded in the office of the register of the county of New York on the eighteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, in liber thirty-three hundred and ninety-one of conveyances, at page four hundred and seventy-four et sequentia, by virtue of the powers conferred upon said trustees thereby; and shall accept, receive and maintain all said property subject to the terms and conditions expressed in said deed of trust. The said corporation General shall have power to acquire by grant, gift, purchase, devise or to property. bequest, and to hold and dispose of all property, real or personal and of whatsoever nature, for the uses and purposes of said corporation, without limitation as to amount or value. and § 3. The purposes and objects of said corporation are, under Purposes said deed of trust and hereunder, to take over, maintain, perpetu- objects. ate and enlarge, in the state of New York and in and upon the premises to be conveyed to it by said trustees and upon such premises as may thereafter be acquired by it in addition thereto or in lieu thereof, a public library, for reference only, without any circulating or withdrawal privileges, for the use and benefit, free of expense to them, of all persons whomsoever, subject only to suitable rules and regulations; to preserve, protect and give permanence to the collections to be transferred to it by said trustees and thereafter acquired by it, to render them available, under suitable regulations and restrictions having regard to their nature and value, to scholars and persons engaged in the work of research and to those interested in literature, art and kindred subjects, to disseminate and contribute to the advancement of useful information and knowledge, to encourage and develop study and research and generally to conduct an institution of educational value to the public and fulfill the objects and purposes set forth and expressed in said deed of trust. § 4. All the powers of said corporation shall be vested in, and Trustees. as Constitution and by-laws. Rules. its affairs shall be managed and conducted by, a board of trustees. Said corporation shall have power to adopt, and from time to time to alter and modify, a constitution and by-laws for the conduct of its affairs, fixing the number of its trustees and the times and manner of their election and the filling of vacancies in said board and providing for the election or appointment of committees of said board and officers, agents and employees of the corporation and defining their duties and powers, and for the management, use, safe-keeping and disposition of its property and the investment, application and expenditure of its funds in accordance with the provisions of said deed of trust. It shall also have full power to make and create such rules, regulations and restrictions governing the public use and enjoyment of its property as the nature and value of such property shall require. No member of said board of trustees shall receive or be lawfully entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from the operation of said corporation, and no other officer, agent or employee thereof shall receive or be lawfully entitled to receive any pecuniary benefit or Compensa profit from said operation, except that officers, agents and ememployees. ployees, not members of said board of trustees, may receive reasonable compensation for their services. Until an election shall board of be held, pursuant to the constitution and by-laws, the persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute the board of trustees of said corporation. Trustees and officers not to receive pecuniary profit. tion of First trustees. Application of general law. § 5. In addition to the powers conferred upon said trustees in corporation and by said deed of trust and the powers conferred upon said corporation by this act, the said corporation shall possess the general powers and, except as otherwise provided by this act, shall To be be subject to the general restrictions and provisions, prescribed educational by the general corporation law, and shall be and be classed as an corporation. educational corporation. classed as Identity to be pre stated § 6. "The Pierpont Morgan Library" shall not be absorbed by served for or merged or consolidated with any other institution nor shall any steps be taken whereby it may in any degree lose its identity, prior to the expiration of one hundred years from the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen. time. Liberal construction. Subd. 5 added to § 190. 7. The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed with a view to effect its objects and promote its purpose. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 84 AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court act, in relation to the annual accounts of guardians. Became a law March 26, 1924, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section one hundred and ninety of the surrogate's court act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision, to be subdivision five, to read as follows: |