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shall not apply to any exhibition held on the grounds of a town or county fair association if the association derives a pecuniary profit from such exhibition or entertainment by the lease of its grounds for such purpose or otherwise.

Chapter 142 provides that of all moneys appropriated in the regular appropriation bill during any one year by the legislature for distribution among the agricultural societies by the Commissioner of Agriculture, the said Aid to County Fairs. Commissioner may distribute to the agricultural societies entitled to partake thereof an amount to euch one yearly from the moneys due said society not to exceed 50 per centum of the amount of premiums paid by the said society at its annual fair held during said year.

Chapter 1 appropriated $10,000 for the prevention and suppression of infectious and contagious diseases among domestic animals.

Chapter 606 provides for diminishing the boundaries of a village under certain circumstances.

Chapter 489 authorizes an increase of the number of members of the board of education of a union free school district,

Chapter 463 says that no change shall be made in the number of trustees of a school district unless notice is given by the board of education at the time the annual school meeting is called that a vote will be taken upon the question at such meeting. Chapter 338 provides that a non-resident who owns real property in a town may file with the town clerk a notice stating his (the non-resident's) name and residence, and thus secure notice of the taxes due on his property.

Chapter 233 provides that the boards of education in union free school districts may borrow money in anticipation of taxes for the purposes of paying school expenses. Chapter 228 provides that all moneys collected for the repair and construction of highways and all money received from the State for the same purpose, except in the counties of Nassau and Oneida, shall be paid to the supervisor of the town, who shall be its custodian.

Chapter 214 provides that persons bringing neat cattle into this State for dairy or breeding purposes shall report the fact immediately to the Commissioner of Agriculture, giving their point of destination.

Chapter 170 provides that the expense of the publication of the notice of sale of unredeemed lands upon which taxes have not been paid in a county not included in the Forest Reserve, if thereafter redeemed, shall be a charge on the land liable to be sold and shall be added to the tax and interest.

Chapter 136 provides for the payment of the cost of cutting weeds growing along the sides of a highway by the owner of the adjacent land.

Chapter 131 authorizes a village board to expend a certain sum in improving a village water system.

Chapter 122 authorizes a town board in a town in which ballot machines are used to alter the boundaries of election districts.

Chapter 57 authorizes the election of two commissioners of highways.

Chapter 20 provides that "no person snall knowingly or wilfully keep any peach tree affected with the disease known as little peach."

Chapter 625 provides that no ordinance adopted by the authorities of any elty shall require the owner of any automobile to propel it Limiting Speed of at a slower rate of speed than eight miles an hour within Automobiles. the closely built up portions of such city, nor at a slower rate of speed than fifteen miles an hour where the houses in such city upon any highway are more than one hundred feet apart. Chapter 459 provides that every child between eight and fourteen years of age shall regularly attend upon instruction at a school in which at least six common school branches of reading. spelling, writing, arithmetic, Educational Laws. English grammar and geography are taught, or upon equivalent instruction by a competent teacher elsewhere than at a school. The law also says that every such child between eight and fourteen years of age shall so attend upon instruction as many days annually, during the period between the first days of October and the following June, as the public school of the district or city in which such child resides shall be in session during the same period.

Chapter 265 provides that school trustees may make contracts for the teaching of children in any other school district.

of Food.

Chapter 524 declares that "no person or persons. firm, association or corporation shall within this State manufacture, produce, sell, offer or expose for sale any article of food which is adulterated or misbranded within the Adulteration meaning of this act." The act also says: "The term food as used herein shall include all articles used for food, confectionery or condiments by man, whether simple, mixed or compound. In the case of confectionery, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated if it contain terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral substances or poisonous colors or flavors or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health. In the case of food an article shall be deemed to be adulterated if any substance or substances has or have been mixed or packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, so that such product, when offered for sale, shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser."

Protection of
Wild Fowl.

Chapter 256 provides that ducks, geese, brant and swan shall not be taken from January 1 to September 15, both inclusive, or possessed from March 1 to September 15, both inclusive.

Several amendments to Amendments to the Constitution.

the constitution were approved of by the legislature. One amends Section 4 of Article VII by declaring that direct taxes must be imposed to pay the principal of any debt incurred by the State within a period of fifty years instead of within a period of eighteen years, as at present required, and that bonds to run for a period of fifty years may be issued under these circumstances.

Another amends Section 12 of Article VII by authorizing the incurring of debt to the amount of $50,000,000 for the improvement of highways.

Another amends Section 1 of Article XII by declaring that "the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed by the State, or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the State, or by any contractor or sub-contractor performing work, labor or services for the State or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof." This amendment will be submitted to the people at the general election held in 1905.

Another amendment amends Section 1 of Article VI by authorizing the legislature to increase the number of justices in any judicial district. This amendment will be submitted to the people at the general election held in 1905.

Another amendment amends Section 10 of Article VIII, which limits the power of a city to incur debt by providing that debts incurred by the city of New-York after January 1, 1904, to provide for a supply of water, shall not be included in the list cf securities considered in estimating the debt of a city.

Another amendment adds to Article VII a new section, to be known as Section 11, which provides in substance that if the indirect revenues of the State are sufficient for the maintenance of its government and the payment of its debts no direct State tax need be imposed in any year.

STATE APPROPRIATIONS.

The annual Appropriation act, Chapter 598, Laws of 1903, as it received the ap proval of Governor Odell, appropriated, including refunds (which amounted to $623,515 44) and reappropriations (which amounted to $66,346 32), the sum of $17,423,311 15. The appropriations were made for the following objects:

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*Canal fund-Controller, $11,995; State Engineer, $3,000; Public Works, $925,044. †Trust fund-Department of Public Instruction, $252,000; Regents, $97,500; National Guard, $2,000.

Free school fund-Department of Public Instruction, $4,503,300.

There was also reappropriated $66,346 32. The appropriations therefore were as follows:

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The appropriation from the "trust fund" mentioned above does not involve any taxation, but simply appropriates money previously raised by taxation. "Reappropriations" also do not involve any taxation.

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NEW-YORK STATE TAXES.

The following table gives the total amount of State taxes against the several counties, together with the valuations of real and personal property reported by the State Board of Equalization on September 1, 1902 and 1903:

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