comptroller to the supervisor of such town for general town pur poses. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 270. AN ACT in relation to the payment of certain taxes to the town of Santa Clara, Franklin county, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law April 11, 1914, 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. The sum of three thousand two hundred and ninetyeight dollars and sixty-seven cents ($3,298.67) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated for the payment to the town of Santa Clara, Franklin county, of the amount of taxes assessed or which should have been assessed, pursuant to section twenty-two of the tax law, for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine to nineteen hundred and eleven, both inclusive, upon the real property in such town purchased by the state of New York and conveyed to Cornell university for the purposes of a college of forestry, pursuant to chapter one hundred and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the title to which real property has been finally declared and determined by the courts of the state to be in the state of New York by reason of the failure of Cornell university to use the same for the purposes intended by such act.1 Such sum shall be payable by the treasurer on the warrant and audit of the comptroller to the supervisor of such town for general town purposes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 See People v. Brooklyn Cooperage Co., 147 App. Div. 267, aff'd 205 N. Y. 531. Chap. 271. AN ACT to provide ways and means for the annual contribution to the highway improvement sinking fund. Became a law April 11, 1914, 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: tion to fund L. 1906, Section 1. The sum of sixty-two thousand six hundred twenty- Appropriafour dollars and fifty-three cents ($62,624.53), being a sum equal to the proceeds of a state tax of fifty-five ten thousandths of a mill created by on each dollar of real and personal property of the state subject ch. 469. to taxation, is hereby appropriated from the general fund as the annual contribution for the fiscal year beginning October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the highway improvement sinking fund, created under article seven, section twelve, of the constitution, and pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and six. Appropria tion to L. 1906, amended § 2. The sum of one million nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars ($1,980,000), is hereby appropriated from the gen- und eral fund as the annual contribution for the fiscal year beginning created by October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the highway ch. 469, as improvement sinking fund, created under article seven, section by L. 1907, twelve, of the constitution, and pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, as amended by chapter seven hundred and eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven. ch. 718. tion to created by ch. 469 (as ch. 718), § 3. The sum of one million and forty thousand dollars Appropria($1,040,000), is hereby appropriated from the general fund as fund the annual contribution for the fiscal year beginning October L. 1906. first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the highway improvement amended sinking fund, created under article seven, section twelve, of the by 1907, constitution, and pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hun- and 11613, dred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, as amended by chapter seven hundred and eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven and chapter seven hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen. ch. 787. 4. The sum of two hundred eighty-four thousand, six hun- Appropriadred fifty-six dollars and ninety-seven cents ($284,656.97), is to to hereby appropriated from any funds in the treasury as an annual created by fund L. 1912, and L. 1913, ch. 787. ch. 298, contribution for the fiscal year beginning October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the highway improvement sinking fund, created under article seven, section four, of the constitution, and pursuant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and ninetyeight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve and chapter seven hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen. Appropriation to fund created by L. 1910, ch. 363. § 5. The sum of one hundred forty-two thousand three hundred twenty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents ($142,328.48), being a sum equal to the proceeds of a state tax of one hundred and twenty-five ten thousandths of a mill on each dollar of real and personal property of the state subject to taxation, is hereby appropriated from any funds in the treasury as an annual contribution for the fiscal year beginning October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the Palisades Interstate Park sinking fund, created under article seven, section four, of the constitution, and pursuant to the provisions of chapter three hundred and sixty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Commission created. Chairman. Chap. 272. 'AN ACT to create a commission to investigate provision for the mentally deficient and making an appropriation for its expenses. Became a law April 11, 1914, 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. A commission is hereby created, consisting of five persons to be appointed by the governor. The governor shall designate one of the members appointed by him as chairman of Vacancies. the commission. Vacancies in the membership of such commission, from any cause, shall be filled in the same manner and by Duty of the same appointive power as the original appointment. It shall be the duty of such commission to investigate the subject of the public provision for the care, custody, treatment and training of the mentally deficient, including epileptics. commission. com pensation; § 2. The members of the commission shall serve without com- No pensation, but shall be allowed their necessary expenses and the expenses. expenses of the commission. The commission shall have power to Secretary. appoint a secretary. The commission shall submit a full and Report. final report, including such recommendations for legislation by bill or otherwise, as in its judgment may seem proper, to the legislature on or before the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifteen. commission nesses, purchase etc. mittees. § 3. For the purposes of such investigation, such commission Powers of is hereby authorized to issue subpoenas for and to compel the as to witattendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers and testimony, other evidence, to administer oaths and to examine witnesses and of supplies, papers respecting all matters pertaining to the subjects referred to in the first section of this act, to purchase books and supplies and employ all necessary clerical and other assistance within the amount appropriated therefor by this act. If the commission shall Subcomappoint from its members subcommittees to make inquiry into one or more of the subjects referred to in the first section, such subcommittees shall have the same powers with respect to compelling the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, administering oaths and examining witnesses and papers, as are herein conferred upon the commission. The commission may ex- Investigaamine and investigate methods and institutions and the results of hearings. similar investigations in other states and visit and conduct hearings for that purpose therein. tions; priation. 4. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much Approthereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this act, to be paid out by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller on the certificate of the chairman of such commission. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation of land Map and Chap. 273. AN ACT to provide for the acquisition by the state of certain real property in the town of Cortland, Westchester county, for military and naval purposes, and making a reappropriation therefor. Became a law April 11, 1914, 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. The armory commission of the third brigade disauthorized. trict is hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon, acquire and take possession of any lands, structures and waters for the purpose of rifle practice and other military or naval purposes deemed necessary by the armory commission in the town of Cortland, Westchester county, the appropriation of which, in its judgment, shall be necessary for any of said purposes. Upon the request of such armory commission an accurate map and description of such lands so to be appropriated shall be made by the state engineer and surveyor, and certified by him to be correct, and such armory commission or a majority thereof shall endorse on such map and description a certificate stating that the lands described therein have been appropriated by the state for the purposes aforesaid or any of them, and such map and description description. shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state and a duplicate Notice of thereof in the office of the register of Westchester county. Such description of lands appropriated. Certificate of appro priation. Filing of map and Aling; service. Entry by state, when armory commission shall thereupon serve upon the owner of any real property so appropriated a notice of the filing and date of the filing of such map and description in the secretary of state's office, together with a copy of such map and description, which notice shall also specifically describe that portion of the property belonging to such owner which has been so appropriated. If such armory commission shall not be able to serve such notice upon the owner personally within this state after making efforts so to do which in its judgment are under the circumstances reasonable and proper, it may serve the same by filing with the clerk of Westchester county. From the time of the service of such notice, the entry upon and the appropriation by the state of the property described for the purposes above mentioned or any of them shall be deemed complete, and thereupon such property shall be deemed to be and shall become the property of the state. |