laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, or the provisions of any general or special law fixing the salary of the county clerk, or prohibiting an increase or diminution of the salary of a county clerk during his term of office, the board of supervisors of Herkimer county, in which the office of county clerk is a salaried one, may determine, during the term of office of the present incumbent in that office when this act takes effect, that he shall receive as compensation for his services an annual salary which shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 26 AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the compensation of superpervisors of Tioga county Became a law February 10, 1928, 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: added to § 23. sessions, Section 1. Section twenty-three of chapter sixteen of the laws Subd. of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to L. 1909, counties, constituting chapter eleven of the consolidated laws, ch. 16, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision, to be subdivision seven-e, to read as follows: 7-e. In the county of Tioga, each supervisor shall receive from Annual the county an annual salary of three hundred dollars and mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile for the miles actually traveled, by the most usual route, for going and returning once each week during the annual session of the board of supervisors, or when the board is sitting as a board of county canvassers, between his residence and the place where the session of the board shall be held. sessions, Also he shall receive from the county six dollars per day while Special attending any special session, regularly called, of the said board, investigaand while actually engaged in any investigation or other duty tions, etc. which lawfully may be committed to him by the board, except while the board is in regular session, and, if this special meeting or investigation or duty requires his attendance outside the town or village of his residence, his mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile actually and necessarily traveled. payment. Such salary, compensation and mileage shall be audited and Audit and paid as are other county charges, and shall be in lieu of any other compensation or mileage payable by the county, except compensation for services in extending taxes or copying assessment and tax rolls. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, amended. Maturity of bonds. CHAPTER 27 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the issuance of bonds, creating state debts authorized by law for acquisition of real property and construction, pursuant to section fifteen of article seven of the constitution Became a law February 10, 1928, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, on message of necessity, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Paragraph two of section fourteen-a of the state. finance law being chapter fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to state finance," constituting chapter fifty-six of the consolidated laws as inserted in such law by chapter one hundred and nineteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby amended to read as follows: 2. Such bonds, or the portion thereof at any time issued, shall be made payable in equal annual installments, the first of which shall be payable one year from the date of issue and the last of which shall be payable such number of years after the date of Not to ex- issue, not exceeding fifty and in no case to exceed1 the probced probable life of the work or object, or part thereof, to which the work or proceeds of the bonds are to be applied, as may be deter able life of object. mined under section fifty-one of the state finance law as added by chapter twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, as amended, and in accordance with the certificate of the superintendent of public works, state architect or other authority, as the case may be, having charge by law of the acquisition, construction, work or improvement for which the debt was authorized. Such certificate shall be filed in the office of the state comptroller and shall state the group, or, where the probable lives. of two or more separate parts of the work or object are different, the groups, specified in such section, for which the amount, or amounts, shall be provided by the issuance and sale of bonds. Such bonds, or the portion thereof at any time sold, shall be of such denominations, subject to the foregoing provisions, as the state comptroller may determine. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words "and in no case to exceed" substituted for words "in any case as shall equal." CHAPTER 28 AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of White Plains," in relation to the issuance of bonds by the common council Became a law February 10, 1928, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, on emergency message, by a two-thirds vote The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ch. 356, $ 67 Section 1. Section sixty-seven of chapter three hundred and L. 1915, fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act to incorporate the city of White Plains," as last amended by amended. chapter ninety-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and twentysix, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 67. Bonds. The common council shall have power to issue bonds for any municipal purpose except as herein limited. No bonds of the city shall be issued except pursuant to a resolution of the common council, concurred in by at least two-thirds of its members. All bonds shall be signed by the mayor, countersigned by the commissioner of finance and attested by the city clerk. All bonds and interest shall be payable at 'such place or places as the common council may determine. Provision shall be made for the redemption of the same number of bonds each year succeeding the year in which the bonds of an issue first mature, except, when necessary, the last Interest on bonds shall be payable semi-annually. Bonds shall mature within the limitations prescribed by this act and bear such rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum, as the common council determines. No bonds shall be issued for a longer term than thirty-five years. The bonds of an issue for the acquisition of real property or the construction of buildings or trunk sewers or to provide for the supply of water must begin to mature within ten years from the date of issue. No bonds of an issue for purposes other than the acquisition of real property, or the construction of buildings or sewers or to provide for the supply of water shall be issued for more than ten years, and the bonds of such issue must begin to mature within three years from the date of issue. No bonds shall be issued for current operating expenses, repairs or supplies, or for the city's share of the cost of curbs, gutters or sidewalks. Any bond or bonds or certificate or certificates of indebtedness which are obligations binding upon the territory or any part thereof hereby incorporated as the city of White Plains, at the time this act takes effect may be refunded when they become due and payable by the common council issuing new bonds in place of said bond or bonds becoming due and payable. Such new bond or bonds to be payable at such times and 1 Previously amended by L. 1922, ch. 521; L. 1925, chs. 21, 589. 2 Remainder of sentence formerly read: "the office of the commissioner of finance." Resolution authoriz bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum, as the common council shall determine. Such refunding bonds to be issued in the manner provided in this act for the issuance of bonds. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 29 AN ACT validating an election held in the city of Johnstown on the second day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, authorizing an issue of lighting bonds of the city of Johnstown in the amount of thirty thousand dollars and validating said bonds and all proceedings had in connection with the issuance thereof and authorizing the raising annually by tax of a sum sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof as the same respectively become due and payable Became a law February 10, 1928, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, on emergency message, by a two-thirds vote The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The resolution duly passed by the common council of the city of Johnstown, New York, on the twentieth day of Sepissue and tember, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and approved by the ing bond providing election, legalized. Election legalized. prescribing mayor of said city on the twenty-first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, which said resolution authorized the issuance of thirty thousand dollars of lighting bonds of said city, and provided for the holding of an election of the duly qualified voters of said city to approve the issuance of said bonds, is hereby legalized, validated and confirmed. § 2. The election held in said city on the second day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, pursuant to said resolution approved the twenty-first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, at which election a majority of the duly qualified voters of said city voted in favor of issuing said lighting bonds in the amount of thirty thousand dollars, and all proceedings had in connection with calling, holding and canvassing said election are hereby legalized, validated and confirmed. Resolution § 3. The resolution duly passed by the common council of bond form, the city of Johnstown on the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen legalized. hundred and twenty-seven, and approved by the mayor of said city Other pro legalized. on the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twentyseven, which resolution prescribed the bond form for said issue of bonds, is hereby legalized, validated and confirmed. § 4. All other proceedings of the mayor and common council of ceedings said city and other duly constituted authorities thereof in connection with the issuance and sale of said bonds are hereby Bonds de legalized, validated and confirmed, and said bonds are hereby clared declared to be valid and binding and incontestible* obligations of said city of Johnstown. valid obli gations. Tax for payment. § 5. There is hereby authorized to be raised annually by tax on all the taxable property in the city of Johnstown a sum sufficient *So in original. [Word misspelled.] to pay the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof as the same respectively become due and payable. § 6. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding pending Pending in any court. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 30 AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and seventy-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to establish the court of special sessions of the city of Syracuse, defining its powers and jurisdiction, and providing for its officers," in relation to the appointment of court stenographers. Became a law February 10, 1928, 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: actions. ch. 676, § 19 Section 1. Section nineteen of chapter six hundred and seventy- L. 1910, six of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to establish the court of special sessions of the city of Syracuse, de- amended. fining its powers and jurisdiction, and providing for its officers," as last amended by chapter one hundred and forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty, is hereby amended to read as follows:1 $ 19. Court stenographers. The justice may designate, to hold office during his pleasure, one or more competent persons from among the members of his clerical staff who shall be the official stenographers of the court. Such designation shall be in writing and shall be filed with the clerk of the county and with the city clerk. It shall be the duty of said person or persons so designated to act as the official stenographer or stenographers of the court, and to take stenographic minutes of the testimony and other proceedings in all cases tried before the court, or justice, except when the justice presiding shall direct otherwise. Said stenographer or stenographers must transcribe fully, and at length, without extra charge, the minutes in each case taken, when directed by the court or justice, and file the same with the clerk, who must cause the same to be preserved with the other papers in the case. The stenographic minutes taken by the said stenographer or stenographers must be preserved and filed in the office of the clerk of the court, and said stenographer or stenographers must furnish to any one applying therefor, a transcript of such minutes, for which a charge may be made of ten cents for each folio of one hundred words contained therein, to be paid to said stenographer or stenographers in addition to his regular salary. The said stenographer or stenographers shall do such other and further clerical and stenographic work connected with the business of the court of special sessions as directed by the justice. The stenographer or 1 Section materially amended. |