for each mile actually traveled in going to and returning from the place of meeting once in each week during any meeting or session of the board of county canvassers or the board of supervisors on the most usual route, and besides the fees allowed by law for copying or extending their assessment-roll which mileage and fees for copying or extending their assessment-rolls shall be payable from the treasury of said county on the last day of the annual session of said board in each year. And no supervisor of said county of Erie shall receive any other or greater sum for his fees or services except when employed and actually rendering service on any committee of said board by its direction, when said board is not in session, he may charge for and receive at the rate of ten dollars for each day's service thus actually performed, and when sent without the county of Erie, he may receive his actual necessary expenses while in such service, and except also each supervisor from any town in the county of Erie, shall have mileage at the rate of four cents per mile, for every mile actually traveled in going to and returning from committee meetings within the county of Erie and except, also, for services rendered in towns which are by law a town charge; provided, however, that no supervisor shall receive in the aggregate to exceed five hundred dollars for services for attending on committees in any year and no supervisor from any town shall receive to exceed fifty dollars for mileage for attendance on committees within the county of Erie in any year. No supervisor shall serve upon or be a member of any special or Service on standing committee of the board of supervisors, after his term of after term office shall have expired, and immediately upon such expiration prohibited. the place of such supervisor upon any such committee shall #become vacant. committee ent acts. § 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby Inconsist repealed, so far as they may relate to the county of Erie. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 259 AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, entitled "An act to make the office of sheriff of Fulton county a salaried office, and regulating the management of said office," relating to the office of sheriff of Fulton county. Became a law April 1, 1925. 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: repealed. Section 1. Chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the laws of L. 1904, nineteen hundred and four, entitled "An act to make the office of ch.154 sheriff of Fulton county a salaried office, and regulating the management of said office," is hereby repealed. Supervisors may sheriff. § 2. The board of supervisors of the county of Fulton shall have fix salary power, notwithstanding the limitations contained in subdivision five of present of section twelve of the county law, to fix the annual salary of the present incumbent of the office of sheriff, beginning January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and for the remainder of his term. Corpo rators. Corporate § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 260 AN ACT to incorporate the Gallician Carpathian Russian Independent Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Timothy Chomkowitz, Frank Dokla, George Shirak, Prokop Sendega, Paul Deboylo, Peter Olenin, Demetri Bilyk, Thomas Drebricz, Onofry Kissel, Ignatz Diadzauck, John Kowaleck and Demetri Dokla, their associates and successors are hereby created a body corporate and politic under the laws of the state of New York. § 2. The name of the corporation shall be Gallician Carpathian Russian Independent Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity of America, and by that name it shall have perpetual succession with power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity in sue and be the state of New York and in the United States. Duration. Power to sued. Corporate purposes. § 3. The purposes of the corporation shall be: a. To provide and maintain a church or churches of the Greek Orthodox faith, or the Greek Orthodox Catholic religion, or the Orthodox religion of the Eastern confession, which are independent of the apostolic succession or hierarchial claims or denominations, or for two or more of such purposes, whose members are Carpathians who have been affiliated with the Russian Orthodox religion, have immigrated to the United States, have become naturalized and have renounced their allegiance to any foreign prince or potentate, and who at the present time in church service, speak the Russian language. Such persons and their descendants and none others shall have the right to membership and to vote at its meetings. b. To provide for and take over such organization, spiritual and corporate. c. To maintain in connection therewith orphanages for destitute children, old folks homes for aged males or females or both, and to provide for inmates thereof sustenance, board, shelter, living, and spiritual enlightenment. d. To provide and maintain the means therefor in connection therewith either separate for male and female or together, primary and religious education for children; Sunday schools and schools and lectures for adults, gymnasiums, parochial houses and community centers; and to provide and maintain a place of higher education for girls or boys, or both, in connection with religious instruction, and when done in the state of New York, shall be under the control and supervision of the state board of regents of the university of the state of New York. e. To provide a school for the education of priests, ministers, teachers and other official participants of the faith; to maintain and support students and graduates, and by an adequate system and conference provide for them churches and pulpits, as a regulatory and disciplinary order of religious promotion with a means of pensioning them after the age of seventy, or before in case of general debility, and to provide for them rules, by-laws, homes, livings, sustenance, clothes and anything that may be necessary for their welfare, enlightenment, education, study, advancement and comfort. f. To do anything as herein expressed and anything that may be necessary for these objects and purposes, in accordance with the law of the state of New York, and where conducted without the state, under and by virtue of such laws of other states, territories, tributaries, and colonies of the United States and any foreign country, within the purview and under the officers and bylaws of the corporation. to prop § 4. The corporation hereby formed shall have power to take Powers as by bequest, devise, gift or operation of any law, ordinance, court, erty." judiciary, ministerial or executive of any government, either absolutely or in trust, to the extent of twenty-five million dollars, and to hold, purchase or lease any property, real or personal, whether situated in the state of New York or elsewhere, for any of its purposes; to convey such property and to invest and reinvest any principal and income thereof, and deal with and expend the income and principal of the corporation in such manner as in the judgment of the trustees will best promote its objects. Such corporation shall have all the powers which by the general corpora- Corporate tion law are conferred upon corporations, and in addition thereto powers. shall have all the powers and be subject to all the restrictions which now or may hereafter pertain by law to membership and religious corporations created by special law, so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The persons named in the first section of this Organizaact, or a majority of them, shall hold a meeting and organize stitution, the corporation and adopt a constitution and by-laws not incon- by-laws. sistent with the constitution and laws of this state. The persons First named in the first section of this act shall constitute the first board of trustees. The constitution and by-laws shall prescribe Members; the manner of selection of members, the number of members which quorum, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the ete. meetings of the corporation, the number of trustees by whom the business affairs of the corporation shall be managed, the qualifications, powers and manner of selection of the trustees and officers of the corporation, the manner of amending the constitu tion, con trustees. number, Seal. Offices. Other powers. Powers as to gifts, devises, etc. No stock or dividends. Not for pecuniary profit. Tenure of office of corporators. Office in state of tion and by-laws of the corporation, and any other provisions for the management and disposition of the property and regulation of the affairs of the corporation which may be deemed expedient. The corporation may adopt and use a seal and to* alter and destroy the same at pleasure; may have offices and conduct its business affairs within the state of New York and elsewhere; and in general do such acts and things, including the establishment of regulations for the election of associates and successors, the establishment and regulation of qualifications for the selection of members, and their classification including corporations and voluntary associations as well as natural persons, as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act and to promote the purposes of such corporation. § 5. Such corporation shall have power to solicit, acquire and receive funds or property given, devised or bequeathed to it for the purposes of a permanent endowment, and shall have the power, subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the donors thereof, to invest any such funds in any securities which may be lawfully held by trustees or by savings banks under the laws of the state of New York, and it may expend the income of any such funds for any of the purposes herein before provided. It may also change the manner and form of such investments from time to time as may be expedient in the judgment of the governing body. Such corporation may solicit and acquire by gift such funds as may be in its judgment necessary for the proper payment of the expenses of its operation and maintenance. Such corporation shall have no power to issue certificates of stock or to pay or declare dividends. § 6. The corporation hereby formed is not established and shall not be maintained or conducted for pecuniary profit, or for the pecuniary profit of its members, but shall be and remain a charitable and religious corporation, and no officer, member or employee of the corporation shall receive or be lawfully entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof except reasonable compensation for services actually rendered the corporation in effecting one or more of its purposes. § 7. The persons hereinabove named shall be the governing body of such corporation, and shall hold office until their successors are elected in the manner provided by the by-laws. § 8. The office of the corporation hereby created shall at all New York. times be within the state of New York, and the books and records of said corporation shall be kept in such office. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. *So in original. CHAPTER 261 AN ACT to repeal section two hundred and eighty-six-a of the highway law, relating to transparently illuminated rear plates. Became a law April 1, 1925, 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: ch. 30, § 286a Section 1. Section two hundred and eighty-six-a of chapter thirty L. 1909, of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the consolidated repealed. laws," as added by chapter five hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen and last amended by chapter five hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty one, is hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 262 AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and forty-nine-a of the highway law, relating to the purchase of land in certain counties. Became a law April 1, 1925, 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: ch. 30, Section 1. Section one hundred and forty-nine-a of chapter L. 1909, thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act § 149a relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the con- repealed. solidated laws," as added by chapter twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby repealed. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 263 AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Lyons, in relation to the police justice. Became a law April 1, 1925, 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: $130 Section 1. Section one hundred and thirty of chapter seven L. 1907, ch. 750, hundred and fifty of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the various amended. acts relating to the village of Lyons, in the county of Wayne, and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts affecting such village,' is hereby amended to read as follows: |