Rights not affected. dated June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, and recorded in Broome county book of deeds number eighty-five, page sixty-six, is hereby released to Flora Post, of the town of Binghamton, Broome county, New York, and to her heirs and assigns for ever. § 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or affect the right in said real estate of any heir-at-law, devisee, grantee or creditor by mortgage, judgment or otherwise. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 46. AN ACT to amend section three hundred and sixty of the code of civil procedure, relating to appointments of interpreters for the surrogate's and county court of Kings county. BECAME a law February 29, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section three hundred and sixty of the code of civil procedure is hereby amended to read as follows: § 360. Interpreters for county court and surrogate's court in King's county.-The surrogate and the county judges of Kings county must each from time to time appoint, and may at pleasure remove, an interpreter to be attached respectively to the surrogate's court and the county court of said county. Each interpreter shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the county treasurer of said county in monthly installments. Each interpreter so appointed shall, before entering upon his duties, file in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, the constitutional oath of office, in which there shall also be incorporated, language to the effect that he will fully and correctly interpret and translate each question propounded through him to a witness, and each answer thereto in said courts. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 48 AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the appointment and duties of deputy county clerks. BECAME a law February 29, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Sections one hundred and sixty-two and one hundred and sixty-three of the county law are hereby amended to read respectively as follows: § 162. Deputy clerk.-Every county clerk shall, within ten days after entering upon the duties of his office, make, under his hand and seal, and record in his office, a written appointment of some suitable person to be deputy clerk of his county. In counties containing a population of more than one hundred thousand by the last preceding federal census or state enumeration, the county clerk may, in like manner, appoint not to exceed two additional deputies. Every such deputy shall hold office during the pleasure of the clerk. When any such deputy is temporarily absent, disqualified or disabled, the clerk shall appoint some one of his assistants to act as a deputy in his place for a period not exceeding thirty days and without any additional compensation. Before any such deputy enters on his duties as such, he shall take the constitutional oath of office. If there shall be no county clerk, or deputy county clerk, or assistant authorized to act as deputy, the county judge may designate in writing, to be recorded in the county clerk's office, a suitable person to act as county clerk with all the powers, duties and privileges of the office, and subject to the liabilities thereof, until a county clerk shall have been elected, or appointed, and qualified. $163. Duties of deputy.-Any such deputy may perform such duties of the clerk as may be assigned to him by an order of the clerk to be entered in his office and shall also perform all the duties of the clerk when the clerk shall be absent from his office, or shall be incapable of performing the duties thereof, or when the office shall become vacant, until it shall be filled, except that of deciding upon the sufficiency of sureties, which duty shall devolve upon the county judge. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. H I Appropriation for asylum. Chap. 49. AN ACT to reappropriate money for the New York state custodial asylum for feeble-minded women. BECAME a law February 29, 1896, 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. The sum of two thousand dollars, being the unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by chapter seven hundred and twenty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three for the New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, to be expended under the direc tion of the local board of managers for a new dormitory, is hereby reappropriated for the purpose specified, payable upon vouchers to be approved by the comptroller. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation. Chap. 50. AN ACT to provide for the payment of the salary of the superintendent, and compensating the clerks and other persons employed in the Onondaga salt springs, and the necessary expense of operating said springs, and making an appropriation therefor. BECAME a law February 29, 1896, 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. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying the salary of the superintendent, and compensating the clerks and other persons employed in the Onondaga salt springs, and the necessary expenses of operating the same, pursuant to the provisions of chapter six hundred and eighty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyPayment two. The treasurer of the state shall, on the warrant of the comptroller, pay to the persons, and for the objects indicated in this act, not to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, payable upon bills to be audited by the comptroller. The persons de by treas urer. manding payment shall present to him a detailed statement in § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 53. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and sixty of the laws of BECAME a law February 29, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and amended. Section 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and sixty of the Act laws of eighteen hundred and ninety (as amended by chapter twenty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two) entitled "An act to authorize gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property to trustees and their successors in per petuity as a corporation, in trust for the purposes of creating and naintaining public parks," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: trust for libraries § 1. It shall be lawful to grant and devise real estate, and to Gifts in § 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as ration of § 2. Whenever any such grant, gift, devise or bequest shall Incorpohave been made, such trustees shall thereupon become and be a trustees. body politic and corporate with the name which shall have been specified by the donor in making the donation, and with the num ber of trustees, within the foregoing limits, named by the donor; and such corporation shall have full power to take and hold all property which shall have been and also which shall thereafter be granted, given, devised or bequeathed to it as aforesaid for said uses and purposes, and shall possess the powers and be subject to the provisions and restrictions contained in title three of Corporate chapter eighteen of part one of the revised statutes. If no name shall have been specified by the donor as aforesaid, the name of the corporation shall be such as the said trustees shall adopt, certify and file in the county clerk's office of the county in which the interested village or town is located. name. of trustees. § 3. Section three of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Eligibility § 3. Residents of the interested village or town only shall be eligible as trustees. In case of the death of a trustee or of his resignation, removal from the village or town, removal from office, or inability to discharge the duties of his office, his place Vacancies, shall be deemed to be vacant, and may be filled by the remaining trustees; and, in default of their so making an appointment within three months, the appointment to fill the vacancy shall be made by the supreme court, on the petition of any inhabitant of the interested village or town, and after due notice to the other trustees and to the president of the village or supervisor of the Removals town. Said trustees shall be subject to removal by said court for malfeasance or misfeasance in office, upon such notice and after trial in such manner as said court shall direct. for cause. visitation court. Annual certificate § 4. Section six of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Subject to § 6. All corporations existing under this act, together with of supreme their books and vouchers, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the justices of the supreme court, or of any person or persons who shall be appointed by the supreme court for that purpose; and it shall be the duty of the trustees or a majority of and inven- them, in the month of December in each year, to make and file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the interested village or town is situate, a certificate under their hands, stating the names of the trustees and officers of such corporation, with an inventory of the property, effects and liabilities thereof, with an affidavit of the truth of such inventory and certificate. Said trustees shall be entitled to such compensation as said court tory. Pay of trustees. |