the necessary materials therefor, as provided in this act; such' bonds to bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum Interest. per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the comptroller of the city of Buffalo, or at the Gallatin National Bank in the city of New York, as the purchaser may elect, the principal to Maturity. be payable at the end of twenty years from the date of such bonds. Such bonds shall be issued from time to time as may be Issues. ordered by the common council, by the mayor and comptroller, under the city seal, and shall be sold or awarded, as provided in Sale. section four hundred and ninety-two of the charter, being chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyone and the acts amendatory thereof. The common council shall Payment of make provision for the payment of the interest on and the principal cipal. of said bonds, as the same shall become due, in the general fund estimates of said city. interest and prin acquired from tax ation. § 7. All property, real, personal or mixed, of every description, Property name, kind or nature, acquired by the city pursuant to the pro- exempt visions of this act, or otherwise, for the purposes specified in said act, and wheresoever situated, within the state of New York, shall, after the acquisition thereof by the city, be exempt from taxation for any and all purposes. ch. 240, 1911, ch. 76 Saving § 8. Chapter two hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen L 1903, hundred and three and chapter seventy-six of the laws of nineteen and L. hundred and eleven are hereby repealed; provided, however, that repealed. all things, acts, resolutions and proceedings heretofore done, had cause. or taken by the common council, mayor, comptroller or other board or officer of the city of Buffalo, pursuant to the real or supposed authority granted by said chapter two hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and three or by chapter seventy-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, are hereby ratified and confirmed; and provided further that the aggregate amount of all bonds heretofore sold or directed by the common council of said city to be sold under the real or supposed authority of said acts shall be deducted from the aggregate amount of bonds authorized by this act to be issued or sold; it being the intent of this act to cure a defect in said chapter two hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and three and chapter seventy-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, the title to which is not sufficient to include the power granted in section six of said first mentioned act as amended by said chapter seventy-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven. Powers granted to in conformity with conservation law. § 9. The powers granted by this act shall be exercised in conbe exercised formity with the provisions of chapter six hundred and fortyseven of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An act relating to conservation of land, forests, waters, parks, hydraulic power, fish and game, constituting chapter sixty-five of the consolidated laws," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto; and nothing herein contained shall be deemed. to abrogate or abridge any provision of said chapter six hundred and forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, ch. 36, 1, as Chap. 382. AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to powers of the commissioner of labor and his assistants. Became a law April 15, 1912, 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 forty-three of chapter $43, subd. thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled amended by "An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," as amended by chapter five hundred and fourteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows: L. 1910, ch. 514, amended. Certain powers of commissioner of labor assistants. 1. The commissioner of labor, his deputies and their assistants and each special agent, confidential agents,1 factory inspector, mine and inspector, tunnel inspector,2 chief investigator, special investigators, mercantile inspector, or deputy mercantile inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the provisions of this chapter and may also serve process in criminal actions arising thereunder. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words "confidential agents," substituted for word "deputy." 2 Words "mine inspector, tunnel inspector," new. 3 Remainder of sentence new. Chap. 383. AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to violations of provisions of labor law concerning the bureau of industries and immigration. Became a law April 15, 1912, 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 ch. 88, Section 1. Section twelve hundred and seventy-five of chapter Subd. 7a eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled L. 1909, "An act providing for the punishment of crime, constituting § 1275. chapter forty of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by adding after subdivision seven, a new subdivision to be subdivision seven-a thereof, to read as follows: 7-a. The provisions of article ten-a of the labor law relating to the bureau of industries and immigration; § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 384. AN ACT to amend the decedents' estate law, laws of nineteen hundred and nine, chapter eighteen, being chapter thirteen of the consolidated laws, in relation to devises or bequests not to lapse. Became a law April 15, 1912, 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 29. Chapter eighteen, laws of nineteen hundred and L. 1909, nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 29. Devise or bequest to child or descendant, or to a brother or sister of the testator 1 not to lapse. Whenever any estate, real or personal, shall be devised or bequeathed to a child or other descendant of the testator, or to a brother or sister of the testator,1 *So in original. 1 Words or to a brother or sister of the testator," new. ch. 18, 29 amended. and such legatee or devisee shall die during the lifetime of the testator, leaving a child or other descendant who shall survive such testator, such devise or legacy shall not lapse, but the property so devised or bequeathed shall vest in the surviving child or other descendant of the legatee or devisee, as if such legatee or devisee had survived the testator and had died intestate.2 § 67 added to L. 1900, ch. 160. Chap. 385. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Cortland," in relation to the establishment of uniform building lines in and upon the streets of said city. Became a law April 15, 1912, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Chapter one hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Cortland,' is hereby amended by adding thereto, at the end of title four thereof, a new section, to be section sixty-seven, to read as follows: § 67. Building line; power of common council to enact ordi- . nances regulating. The common council of the city of Cortland shall have power to enact any and all reasonable ordinances defining and fixing building lines on any and all streets and highways of the city, and may fix and prescribe therein reasonable lines and limits, upon or along any of said streets, between any of which lines and the street no house or building shall be constructed, extended or placed, and may enforce any and all such ordinances by suitable penalties, to be prescribed by ordinance, or by declaring such violation to be a misdemeanor. All such ordinances shall be reasonable, and shall adopt the building line most prevalent and most generally conformed to on the street with reference to which it is enacted, at the time of its enactment, and shall relate only to 2" Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall have become a law." Legislative Law (L. 1909, ch. 37), § 43. future construction, extensions or placing of buildings. Such ordinances shall be so made as to inure, so far as practicable, to the mutual benefit and good of the various property owners on the streets affected. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 386. AN ACT to legalize the acts and proceedings of the trustees and officers of the village of Scotia, Schenectady county, in relation to issuing notes of said village and borrowing money thereon, and providing for the form, issuance, sale and redemption of funding bonds to pay and redeem said notes. Became a law April 15, 1912, 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: relative to notes, Section 1. All proceedings taken by the board of trustees of Proceedings the village of Scotia, in the county of Schenectady and state of issue of New York, in relation to borrowing the sum of sixteen thousand legalized. dollars on the credit of such village and issuing notes and renewals thereof as evidence of such indebtedness, between the first day of October, nineteen hundred and seven, and the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twelve, and expending the money so borrowed toward paying interest on water, sewer and other bonds of said village heretofore duly issued, and in defraying certain other village expenses, and all other proceedings had or taken by the said board of trustees, or any officer or officers thereof, duly authorized by said board, in any way relating thereto, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed and made of the same force and legal effect as though all provisions of law applicable to the borrowing of money on the obligations of the village for such purposes had been strictly and fully complied with. issue to redeem thorized. § 2. The board of trustees of said village are hereby authorized Bond and empowered to advertise, sell and issue bonds of said village notes, auin an amount not exceeding the sum of sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, in the manner provided for by law, and the proceeds thereof shall be used for the purpose of paying, taking up |