§ 3201 added to L. 1909, ch. 30. such superintendents of the poor shall pay to the city treasurer of such city any unexpended moneys then in their hands of the former town of Oswegatchie which were raised by tax levy entirely within the limits of the city of Ogdensburg. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 30 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to highways in the county of Niagara, state of New York Became a law February 11, 1927, 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. Chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section, to be section three hundred and twenty-1, to read as follows: § 320-1. County aid for connecting a highway to a paved highway in the city of Niagara Falls in the county of Niagara. The board of supervisors of the county of Niagara, may, with the consent of the city council of the city of Niagara Falls, located in said county, provide for the construction or improvement of a highway, constituting an extension of county road number six, so as to connect the military road, so-called, county road number thirtynine with the Sugar street highway, county road number twentynine extended; said new construction to begin at the easterly boundary line of the city of Niagara Falls where same is intersected by the Porter road and to continue westerly along said Porter road to the east line of Sugar street, so-called, in the city of Niagara Falls. The cost of said construction of said highway and improvement shall be borne as follows: Seventy per centum thereof by the county of Niagara and thirty per centum thereof by the said city of Niagara Falls. The portion to be borne by the city shall be a city charge and the residue thereof shall be a county charge; the amount to be borne by the county shall be provided by tax, to be levied upon the taxable property of the county and collected in the same manner as other county charges and shall be paid into the county treasury and such tax shall not be reported as a basis for state aid as provided by section three hundred twenty-b of this chapter. The board of supervisors may, in its discretion, appropriate and make immediately available from county funds the portion of moneys to be borne by the county. If it shall determine that sufficient moneys are not available, it may direct the county treasurer to borrow the same in anticipation of taxes or it may authorize the issue and sale of bonds therefor, to be issued and sold in the same manner as other county bonds. Such construction shall not be commenced until the portion to be borne by the city, as determined by the board of supervisors, has been deposited in the county treasurer's office of such county. The construction or improvement of such highway, as herein provided, shall be done under the supervision and direction of the county superintendent of highways, or of a committee known as the highways officials of the county, to consist of the county superintendent, three members of the board of supervisors to be appointed by the chairman and the supervisors, representing the wards through which such road is being improved. Payments therefor shall be made from time to time by the county treasurer upon the certificate of the county superintendent, approved by the chairman of the board of supervisors. The street or highway constructed or improved as herein provided shall be twenty feet in width, unless a greater width is desired by the city. The additional expense caused by the increased width, if any, shall be borne by the city. Any such street or highway, when completed, shall hereafter be repaired and maintained by the city, wherein such street or highway is located in the same manner as other city streets or highways. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 31 AN ACT creating a temporary commission to confer with the governor and legislature of the state of Vermont for the purpose of adopting a plan for the erecting and constructing of a bridge between the states of Vermont and New York over Lake Champlain and for the purpose of preparing a treaty or compact agreement between the two states for such construction and the financing thereof, and making an appropriation for such commission 1 Became a law February 16, 1927, 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: commission: ap duties. Section 1. Within ten days after this act takes effect the Temporary governor shall appoint a temporary commission of three members and shall in his appointment designate one of them as chairman of pointment, such commission, to be known as the New York Lake Champlain Bridge Commission, to confer with the governor and the legislature of the state of Vermont, or the duly designated representative thereof, during the present session of the legislatures of Vermont and New York, and to prepare a treaty or agreement between the states of Vermont and New York providing for the construction of a vehicular and foot bridge between the two respective states over Lake Champlain and the financing thereof at the joint expense of the two states. § 2. Such treaty or agreement shall follow as closely as prac- Treaty or ticable the recommendations contained in the report of the joint 1 See L. 1927, ch. 321, post. Laws of Vermont, 1927, no. 139. agreement. No compensation; expenses. this legislation committee on the Lake Champlain vehicular bridge, dated January twenty-six, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. § 3. The commissioners appointed in pursuance of this act shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary traveling and other expenses. Report to § 4. Such commission is directed to report to this legislature a legislature. proposed plan and treaty agreement between the two states with a draft of the necessary legislation to approve such plan and treaty and enable them to enter into such treaty agreement with the state of Vermont, Such report shall be made in sufficient time to enable the passage of such legislation by this legislature. § 5. The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be needed is hereby appropriated out of any missioners. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of paying the expenses of the commissioners appointed pursuant to this act to be paid out of the state treasury on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved by the chairman of the commission. Appropria- L. 1909, ch. 42, §§ 3. 4, 62, 81, 88. 92 amended. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 32 AN ACT to amend the navigation law to conform to the state departments law, in relation to the inspection of steamboats and tidewater creeks and estuaries and the supervision of wreck-masters Became a law February 17, 1927, 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. Sections three, four, sixty-two, eighty-one, eightyeight and ninety-two of chapter forty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to navigation, constituting chapter thirty-seven of the consolidated laws," are hereby amended to read as follows: § 3. Duties of superintendent of public works. The superintendent of public works shall administer the provisions of this article and exercise supervision, direction and control over the officers or employees assigned to the performance of the powers and duties which relate to the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this article. § 4. Inspectors. The superintendent of public works shall, from time to time, appoint two officers or employees in the department of public works to act as inspectors of steam vessels, one of whom shall have a practical knowledge of the management of steam vessels by an experience of at least five years as a licensed master and pilot of steam vessels, and the other of whom is experienced in the construction and use of boilers, engines and their appurtenances, and who shall be otherwise properly qualified to perform the duties prescribed by this article. 1 Section materially amended. § 62. Superintendent of public works2 to inspect and report. In case of any controversy arising between such town or village officer and the said municipal corporation diverting such fresh water as to the depth or width of said tidewater creek or estuary, the superintendent of public works shall, within ten days after notice to him, cause said tidewater creek or estuary to be inspected and a report as to its condition to be filed in the office of the department of public works, and the depth at low-water mark as certified to by him shall be deemed correct, and the expense of such inspection shall be paid by said municipal corporation, which corporation shall have fifteen days from and after the filing of such report in which to put such tidewater creek or estuary into the proper navigable condition herein provided for. 5 § 81. Powers and duties of sheriff and coroners. The sheriff and coroners of every county in which any wrecked property shall be found, when no owner or other person entitled to the possession of such property shall appear, shall severally take all necessary measures for saving and securing such property; take possession thereof, in whose hands soever the same may be, in the name of the people of the state; cause the value thereof to be appraised by disinterested persons, and keep the same in some safe place to answer the claims of the persons entitled thereto. 7 § 88. Detention of wreck. All sheriffs and coroners, and all persons employed by them, and all other persons aiding and assisting in the recovery and preservation of wrecked property, shall be entitled to a reasonable allowance as salvage for their services, and to all expenses incurred by them in the performance of such services, out of the property saved, and the officer having the custody of such property shall detain the same until such salvage and expenses shall be paid, and the salvage claimed in any case shall not exceed one-half of the value of the property or proceeds, and every agreement, order or adjustment allowing a greater salvage shall be void. § 92. Publication of notice of wrecked property. Every sheriff or coroner, into whose possession any wrecked property shall come, shall immediately thereafter publish a notice directed to all parties interested, for at least four weeks in succession, in one or more of the newspapers published in the county where the property shall have been saved. Every such notice shall contain a minute description of such wrecked property, and every bale, bag, box, cask, piece or parcel thereof, and of the marks, brands, letters and figures on each, and shall state where such wrecked property then 2 Words "Superintendent of public, works," substituted for words State engineer." 3 Words " superintendent of public works" substituted for words "state engineer and surveyor." Word "the" substituted for word "his." new. Words "of the department of public works Section to here formerly read: "§ 81. Powers and duties of sheriff, coroners and wreck-masters. The sheriff, coroners and wreck-masters." Sentence to here formerly read: "All sheriffs, coroners and wreckmasters." Sentence to here formerly read: "Every sheriff, coroner or wreck-master." §§ 87, 93 repealed. L. 1899, ch. 441, $13 amended. Grand Jury list. is, and its actual condition, and the name, if known, of the vessel from which it was taken or cast on shore, and of the master and supercargo of such vessel, and the place where such vessel then is, and its actual condition. The expense of publishing every notice required to be published relating to wrecks shall be charged on the property or proceeds to which it relates. § 2. Sections eighty-seven and ninety-three of such chapter are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 33 AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and forty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to create a commissioner of jurors in the several counties of this state," in relation to the number of grand jurors in Nassau county Became a law February 17, 1927, 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 thirteen of chapter four hundred and fortyone of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to create a commissioner of jurors in the several counties of this state," as amended by chapter two hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1 § 13. In a county which has a commissioner of jurors, such commissioner and the board appointing him shall prepare in the month of December of each year from the trial jury list filed as herein provided a list of the names of three hundred persons, except in Nassau county and in such county the names of six hundred persons, to serve as grand jurors in said county during the next ensuing year, and until a new list shall be returned. The list shall contain the christian names and surnames at length of persons named therein, their respective places of residence, and their several occupations. It shall be certified by said board and filed in the office of the county clerk within ten days thereafter. The names of the persons so selected as grand jurors shall be removed by the county clerk from the list of trial jurors during the ensuing year when drawn and until a new list of grand jurors is returned, and the persons so selected as grand jurors shall be exempt from service as trial jurors during the period in which their names remain upon the list of grand jurors. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words " except in Nassau county and in such county the names of six hundred persons," new. |