board of claims are continued as such officers and employees of the court of claims until the appointment and qualification of their successors. $268. Sessions; duty of sheriff. The court shall hold at least eight sessions each year, and unless otherwise ordered by the court shall be held as follows: On the fourth Monday of January at the city of Albany; on the third Monday of February at the city of Syracuse; on the fourth Monday of March at the city of Utica; on the fourth Monday of April at the city of Albany; on the fourth Monday of May at the city of Rochester; on the third Monday of June at the city of Buffalo; on the fourth Monday of September at the city of Albany; on the fourth Monday of November at the city of Albany, and it may also hold adjourned or special sessions at such other times and places in the state as it may determine. It may also hold a session and take testimony where the claimant resides or where the claim. is alleged to have arisen, or in the vicinity, and may view any premises affected by the proceedings, and in case of any appropriation of land by the state, the value of which shall exceed five hundred dollars, it shall be the duty of the court to view the premises affected by the appropriation. The sheriff of any county, except Albany, shall furnish for the use of the court suitable rooms in the court house of his county for any session ordered to be held thereat and shall if required attend said session. His fees for attendance shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the court at the same rate as for attending a term of the supreme court in that county. A session of the court may be conducted and testimony and proof taken and arguments heard thereat, by one or more judges to be designated by the presiding judge; but no determination or judgment of the court shall be rendered except upon the concurrence of at least two of the judges of the court after an examination of the record of the testimony, proceedings and proofs. Not more than three judges shall sit in any case. Adjourned or special sessions of the board of claims heretofore designated to be hereafter held, shall be held as sessions of the court of claims unless such court shall cancel such designations. § 279. Salaries and expenses of judges. Each judge of the court of claims shall receive an annual compensation of eight thousand dollars, payable monthly, and all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements incurred or made by 282 added. them in the discharge of their official duties elsewhere than in Albany, payable monthly, by the state treasurer on the audit and warrant of the comptroller. § 280. Salaries of officers of court of claims. Each officer of the court of claims shall receive an annual salary, payable monthly, and other compensation as follows: 1. The clerk, three thousand dollars. 2. The stenographer, who shall also be deputy clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars and five cents a folio for copies of minutes and testimony furnished at the request of the claimant. 3. The attendant, including his services as messenger, twelve hundred dollars. 4. The clerk, stenographer and attendant shall be paid their actual expenses while in the discharge of their respective duties, elsewhere than in the city of Albany, to be audited by the court and paid from the contingent fund. No charge shall be made against the state by the clerk or the stenographer for copies of minutes, testimony or papers, furnished to the attorney-general or to the court or filed in the office of the clerk. § 2. Article one of title three of chapter three of the code of civil procedure is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, to be section two hundred and eighty-two, to read as follows: § 282. Additional judges. The number of judges to constitute the court of claims may be increased to not more than five as provided by this section. If the attorney-general shall at any time certify to the governor in writing that the accumulation of business in the court of claims requires for the disposal thereof an additional judge or judges, specifying the number, not more than two, the governor may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, such additional judge or judges, each of whom shall be an attorney and counselor-at-law, admitted to practice in the courts of this state of at least ten years' experience in practice. The terms of any such additional judge shall expire January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen. If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term in the office of any such additional judge, his successor shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for the unexpired term of his predecessor in office. If at any time prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, it appears to the satisfaction of the *So in original. governor that the necessity for having any such additional judge Chap. 2. AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act in relation to the rate of interest upon certain bonds of the state." Became a law Feb. 4, 1915, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 787, § 1 Section 1. Section one of chapter seven hundred and eighty-L. 1913, ch. seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An amended. act in relation to the rate of interest upon certain bonds of the state," is hereby amended to read as follows: certain and canal 1. Bonds of the state, after this section as hereby amended Interest on takes effect, issued and sold pursuant to chapter four hun-highway dred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and bonds. six, as amended by chapter seven hundred and eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, for the improvement of highways, chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve for constructing and improving state and county highways, chapter sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, for improving the Erie canal, the Oswego canal and the Champlain canal and the procurement of the lands required in connection therewith, chapter one hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of 1 Words "after this section as hereby amended takes effect" substituted for word "hereafter." nineteen hundred and ten for improving the Cayuga and Seneca canals and the procurement of the lands required in connection therewith, or chapter seven hundred and forty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven for furnishing proper terminals and facilities for barge canal traffic, including the acquisition and interchange of property therefor, shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed2 four and one-half per centum per annum, notwithstanding the provisions of any such act or acts fixing or authorizing a different rate. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, ch. 21, § 41, as amended by Chap. 3. AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the election of regents. Became a law February 9, 1915, 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. Section forty-one of chapter twenty-one of the laws generally of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to educaL. 1910, ch. tion, constituting chapter sixteen of the consolidated laws," as amended by chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows: 140, aniended. $ 41. Regents. The university shall be governed and all its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents whose members shall at all times be three more than the then existing judicial districts of the state. The regents now in office and those hereafter elected shall hold, in the order of their election, for such times that the term of one regent will expire in each year on the first day of April, and his successor shall be chosen in the second week of the preceding February, on or before the fourteenth day of such month. A regent shall be elected by the legislature, on joint ballot of the two houses thereof. la All vacancies in such office, 1a either for full or unexpired terms, 2 Words "not to exceed " new. 1 Following sentence substituted for sentence "Such election shall be in the manner provided by law for the election of senators in congress." shall be so filled that there shall always be in the membership of Chap. 4. AN ACT to repeal article ten-a of the insurance law, relating to the state fire marshal, and acts affecting the application of such article, to terminate the powers, duties and office of the state fire marshal and provide for the care of the records of his office. Became a law February 15, 1915, 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. 33, art. added by 451, and L. 1912, ch. 1913, chaps. 214, 303, 431-434, Section 1. Article ten-a of chapter thirty-three of the laws of L. 1909, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to insur- 10a, as ance corporations, constituting chapter twenty-eight of the con- L. 1911, ch. solidated laws," as added by chapter four hundred and fifty-one amended by of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven and amended by chap- 453, and L. ter four hundred and fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred 192, 204, and twelve and chapters one hundred and ninety-two, two hundred 393, 405, and four, two hundred and fourteen, three hundred and three, 520, 523. three hundred and ninety-three, four hundred and five, four hundred and thirty-one, four hundred and thirty-two, four hundred and thirty-three, four hundred and thirty-four, five hundred and twenty and five hundred and twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, and comprising sections three hundred and fifty to three hundred and seventy-five, inclusive, and sections three hundred and seventy-seven to three hundred and seventy repealed. |