Complaints against commis sioners, etc. Compensation. Injury to works. Assent of owners of majority of mills must be then be divided and paid over to the several owners, and in the same proportion. § 14. Any person owning or interested in any real estate liable to be assessed under this act, knowing or believing that any commissioner or commissioners have done, or omitted or threatened to do, any thing contrary to his duty under this act, may make complaint, under oath, to the county judge of the county of Tioga, who shall summon the commissioners, hear the testimony, or appoint a referee to take and report the same, and compel the attendance of the commissioners and witnesses, as in case of supplemental proceedings under the Code of Procedure. If the county judge remove the commissioners from office, he may, if in his judgment proper, direct an action to be brought upon the commissioners' bond, which order shall have the same force and effect as if made by the supreme court. §15. The commissioners and appraisers appointed under this act shall be paid at the rate of three dollars for each day's work actually and necessarily spent, and the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties under this act. An itemized account of such expenses shall be spread upon the minutes of the board, and shall in no case be allowed except upon the approval of a majority of the commissioners. § 16. Any and every person who shall willfully interfere with or injure any of the works, gate or structures made or constructed under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the board of commissioners may maintain action for any damage of such works. 17. Before any proceedings shall be taken, or rights acquired, under or by virtue of the provisions of this act, the assent in writing of the owners of a majority of the mills and other establishments obtained. which employ the hydraulic power of said creek from Cayuta lake to the Pennsylvania state line, representing also a majority in amount of the aggregate valuation of such mills as appearing upon the last as'sessment-rolls of the towns, shall be obtained thereto, which assent shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Tioga. § 18. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 213. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and sixty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend chapter eight hundred and sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled 'An act to amend the charter of the city of Brooklyn,'" and the various amendments thereof. PASSED May 24, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and sixty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend chapter eight hundred and sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hun dred and seventy-three, entitled An act to amend the charter of the city of Brooklyn,"" and the various amendments thereof is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 1. Section thirteen of title two of chapter eight hundred and sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city Brooklyn," and the various amendments thereof, is hereby amended so that subdivision eleven thereof shall read as follows: to com horse to report 11. To regulate and license common carriers, carriers of passengers, License criers, hawkers, peddlers, pawn-brokers, junk-dealers, public cartmen, mon cartruckmen, hackmen, cabmen, expressmen, dealers in coal, firewood, riers, etc. hay and straw, auctioneers, keepers of intelligence offices, keepers of billiard saloons, bowling alleys and shooting galleries, exhibitions, menageries, circuses, common shows and dogs. The common council Fee for shall also fix an annual license fee, not exceeding the sum of twenty cars. dollars for each street or horse car daily operated or used in said city. Every railroad company operating or using such cars shall, on or Railroad before the first day of June in each year, certify to the city clerk the company average number of cars daily operated and used by said company, number of which certificate shall be verified by the oath of one of the managing officers of said company, and every such railroad company shall, on or before the first day of July in each year, pay to the treasurer of said city the license fee so established, for the average number of cars so operated and used by said company. Said license fees shall be taken in full satisfaction for the use of the streets or avenues, but the same shall not relieve said companies from any obligations now required by law to keep such streets and avenues or any part thereof in repair. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 214. AN ACT to prohibit the coloring of oleomargarine, butterine and adulterated cheese. PASSED May 24, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: cars. matter for garine, hibited. SECTION 1. Every person who shall use or permit any person in his em- Use of ployment to use annotto or any other substance for the purpose of color- coloring ing the article in semblance of butter, known as oleomargarine, or oleomarbutterine, or any cheese which has been adulterated by the use of lard etc., pro-or any other greasy substance, with an intent to sell the same for food, or who shall sell or expose for sale any oleomargarine, butterine or adulterated cheese which has been colored contrary to the provisions or this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two Penaltv. hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense. But nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with or abridge any right obtained, secured or guaranteed by a law of congress, or by any patent duly granted by the United States government. §2. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, eighteen. hundred and eighty-two. Use of matter in butter not made CHAP. 215. AN ACT to regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine or any form of imitation butter and lard or any form of imitation cheese, for the prevention of fraud, and the better protection of the public health. PASSED May 24, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No person, persons, firm or corporation manufacturing coloring with intent to sell any article or substance in semblance of natural prohibited butter or natural cheese not the legitimate product of the dairy, and and cheese not made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with salt or rennet, exclusively or both, and with or without coloring matter or sage, but into which from milk any animal, intestinal or offal fats, or any oils or fats of any kind or cream. whatsoever not produced from milk or cream, or into which melted butter, lard or tallow shall be introduced, shall add thereto or combine therewith any annotto or compounds of the same, or any other substance or substances whatsoever, for the purpose or with the effect of imparting thereto a color resembling that of yellow (or any shade of the same) butter or cheese; nor shall they introduce said coloring matter into any of the articles of which the same is composed. Imitation butter and etc. § 2. No person, persons, firm or corporation shall deal in, sell, excheese not pose for sale or give away any article or substance in semblance of to be sold, natural butter or natural cheese described in the first section of this act and known as oleomargarine or imitation butter and lard or imitation cheese; and no keeper of any hotel, restaurant, boarding-house or other place of public entertainment shall keep, use or serve either as food for their guests or for cooking purposes, any such imitation butter or cheese which shall contain any of the coloring matter therein prohibited, or be colored contrary to the provisions of this act. Not to be tured or § 3. No person, persons, firm or corporation shall manufacture, manufac with intent to sell, deal in, sell or expose for sale any article or subsold unless stance in semblance of natural cheese not the legitimate product of the imitation dairy, and not made exclusively of milk or cream, or both, but into cheese" which any animal, intestinal or offal fats or oils of any kind whatsociled upon ever, not produced from milk or cream, shall be introduced, unless the words are sten cheese, etc. Terms defined. Penalty. words "imitation cheese," shall be plainly stenciled, in plain Roman letters at least one-half inch in length with durable paint, upon the sides of each and every cheese and also upon the outside of top, and opposite sides of each and every box containing the same, in letters and with paint as before mentioned and described. § 4. For the purposes of this act the terms "natural butter" and "natural cheese" shall be understood to mean the products usually known by these names, and which are manufactured exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with salt and rennet, and with or without coloring matter or sage. § 5. Every person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every offense, in the discretion of the court, one-half of such fine to be paid to the complainant, the other half to § 6. This act shall take effect sixty days after it becomes a law. CHAP. 216. AN ACT in relation to the examination and admission to the bar of law students in certain cases. PASSED May 25, 1892. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: be ad SECTION 1. Any male citizen of the United States twenty-one years Who may of age, and of good moral character, who shall have graduated with mitted to the degree of bachelor of laws from any duly organized law school or practice. law department of any university or college within this state prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, or who has been prevented from passing the examination preliminary to gradation with the degree of bachelor of laws in any duly organized law school or law department of any university within this state, by reason of his necessary absence from such university while a member of the legislature, shall on passing a satisfactory examination, as hereinafter provided, be entitled to admission to the bar of this state as attorney and counselor at law, and licensed and authorized to practice as such in all the courts of the state. direct ex to § 2. On application of any such person to the supreme court at a Court to general term thereof for examination and admission to the bar, and if amination he be a graduate, on production of his diploma or certificate of grad- and admit uation, the court shall direct his examination by the standing com- practice. mittee on the examinationn of applicants for admission to the bar, or by such other committee as the court may appoint for such purpose, and shall make an order admitting to the bar of this state as attorney and counselor at law any such applicant as shall have passed a satisfactory examination. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 217. AN ACT to authorize the village of Fredonia to borrow money. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and trustees SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the village of Fredonia are Board of hereby authorized and empowered to borrow the sum of six thousand may borrow dollars on the credit of the said village, and to issue the bonds of the said village for the repayment thereof. Such bonds to be made paymal school able and redeemable on the first day of September, in the year one $6,000 to pay nor bonds. May insure against loss by storms. Time Proviso. thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, with interest thereon not exceeding six per centum payable annually. The money so borrowed to be used for the sole purpose of paying up a portion of the outstanding bonds, known as the normal school bonds. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 218. AN ACT to authorize joint stock fire insurance companies to issue policies providing against loss or damage by windstorms and tornadoes. PASSED May 27, 1882; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All joint-stock fire insurance companies heretofore organized, or which shall hereafter be organized, under the provisions of the general insurance laws of this state, are hereby authorized to issue policies providing against loss or damage by wind-storms and tornadoes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 219. AN ACT extending the time for the construction of a portion of the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad. PASSED May 27, 1882. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time within which the Genesee Valley Canal Railextended. road Company may construct that portion of its railroad between Hinsdale and Milgrove or Olean, in the county of Cattaraugus, is hereby extended three years from the sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, with like force and effect as if chapter three hundred and twenty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty had provided that said portion of said railroad should be constructed and completed within tlie time herein specified, provided, however, that the suretics upon the bond heretofore executed by said company to the people of the state of New York, or such number thereof as the commissioners of the land office shall deem sufficient, shall on or before said sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, duly execute, acknowledge and file with the secretary of state their consent in writing to the provisions of this act and shall in said writing duly covenant and agree that this act shall not affect the validity of said bond or the contract and obligation of said sureties thereon in any respect or particular, which consent and writing shall be approved as to its form and sufficiency by the attorney-general. |