State commission of prisons. § 1. The state commission of prisons shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, the senate, and in making such appointments, the governor shall designate one of such members as president of the commission. Except as provided in this section, a member of such commission first appointed shall hold office for a term to expire on the thirtyfirst day of December, nineteen hundred and four, and a successor to such member thereafter appointed shall hold office for a term of four years, beginning on the first day of January of the year in which he is appointed. If at the time of his appointment any member of such commission holds any other state office, his term as a member of such commission shall expire on the expiration of his term as such other state officer, and his successor shall hold office for the balance of the term during which such state officer would have held, except for the foregoing limitation. Official seal. Said commission shall have power to make and use an official seal and alter the same at pleasure. Within twenty days after the amendment of this section takes effect, the governor shall appoint a state commission of prisons as herein provided, and upon the appointment and qualification of the members of such commission, the terms of the members of the commission of prisons then in office shall expire. First appointment. Secretary. Employes and assistauts. § 2. Sections four and eight of chapter ten hundred and twentysix of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a state commission of prisons, and defining its duties and powers," as amended by chapter four hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six are hereby amended to read as follows: § 4. Such commission shall annually elect a secretary, who shall keep a record record of all its proceedings, and perform such duties as may be required of him by the commission and by law, and he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum; and the said commission may also appoint as employes and assistants of said commis. sion, and of the commissioners, in the performance of their official duties, a clerk, at an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, a stenographer and a general office assistant, at an annual salary of one thousand dollars each, and remove each and appoint a successor at any time; and the said commission is Rules, etc. authorized to make rules and regulations for its meetings and the transaction of its business and also as to the manner in which reports to it shall be made, and all matters shall be presented before it. and ex § 8. The president of such commission shall receive an Salaries annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars. The other penses. members of such commission shall serve without compensation. All of such members shall receive their expenses, actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties as members of such commission, which shall be paid quarterly by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller. The salary and expenses of the secretary and the other stated employes of the commission shall be paid monthly in like manner. actions, affected. § 3. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding civil or Pending criminal, pending at the time of the taking effect thereof, but ete, not such action or proceeding may be prosecuted or defended in the same manner and with the same effect as if no change had been made in the organization or membership of the state commission of prisons; nor shall any provision of this act affect in any way the orders and recommendations made by, or other matters before, such commission when this act takes effect. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 13. AN ACT to re-appropriate money for repairing armory at Os- Became a law, February 14, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and priation Section 1. The balance remaining in the treasury unexpended Reapproof the sum of seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars for repairs. and eighty-five cents, appropriated by chapter five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, pro viding for repairing armory at Oswego, which said balance is Reappro priation Chap. 14. AN ACT to re-appropriate money for the erection of a state Became a law, February 14, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The balance remaining in the treasury unexpended for armory of the sum of fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by chapter five hundred and three, of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetynine, providing for the erection of a state armory in the village of Medina, Orleans county, and for the acquisition of a site therefor, which said balance is the sum of thirty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose subject to the provisions of said chapter five hundred and three, of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and the comptroller is directed from time to time to pay the same, for the aforesaid purpose, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the written requisition of the armory commission. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 15. AN ACT to amend section three of chapter two hundred and Became a law, February 14, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and amended. of land for burial Section 1. Section three, of chapter two hundred and twenty- Charter six, of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "An act for the incorporation of a cemetery association in the village of Lockport," as amended by chapter four, of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 3. The said corporation may, from time to time, acquire, take Acquisitior and hold a tract or tracts of land, not exceeding in the aggregate purposes. two hundred acres; which land, when acquired by said corporation, shall be used exclusively as a cemetery,-a place for the burial of the dead; and, for this purpose, it shall, from time to time, in such parcels as the trustees may deem expedient and necessary, be surveyed and subdivided into lots or plats of convenient size, and a map or maps of such survey or surveys shall be filed in the clerk's office of Niagara county. When the said map or maps shall have been filed, the said trus- Sale of tees may sell and convey such plats or lots, on such terms and fots. at such prices as they shall agree on; which conveyances shall be made under the seal of said corporation, and signed by the presi dent or secretary of the corporation, as may be ordered by the trustees; but all moneys obtained for such sales shall be applied by said trustees to the payment of the purchase money of the land acquired by said corporation, and to improving and embellishing said land as a cemetery, and defraying the necessary expenses of the corporation; except that said trustees may, in ad- Water dition to the lands so acquired or to be acquired as aforesaid, acquire, take and hold such other lands or easements in lands, as may be necessary in and about the procuring of a supply of water for and in said cemetery, and may, for that purpose, erect, plats or supply. build and construct any and all buildings, reservoirs, pipes, ditches, conduits, pumps, engines, windmills or other machinery, fixtures or apparatus, as may be necessary in and about the procuring, delivering, furnishing and distributing a proper supply of water for, to, in and upon the lands acquired or to be Condemna acquired by said corporation. If the by-laws of said corporation do not exclude any person from the privilege, on equal terms with other persons, of purchasing a lot, or of burial in its cemetery, such corporation may, from time to time, in case it is not able to agree with the owners thereof, for the purchase of the lands or easements it is hereby authorized to acquire, take and acquire the same by condemnation. tion pro ceedings. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 16. AN ACT providing for the payment of the balance due news- Became a law, February 14, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The sum of forty-eight thousand five hundred dol lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, for the payment of the balance due newspapers in the various counties in this state for the publication of the general laws of the state for the year nineteen hundred, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for deficiency in appropriation for the publication of the session laws and the official canvass and official notices provided by law, which are subject to con tract. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |