appropri § 2. The amount shown to be appropriated for expenditure in Amounts the several counties of the state make up the total appropriation ated make to be divided among the counties for maintenance and repair up total to purposes, and the itemized schedules attached hereto are for the among purpose of indicating the manner in which the amount to be expended in each county was arrived at. be divided counties. to be county §3. The amounts hereby appropriated for use in the several Amounts counties of the state shall be deposited with the county treasurers deposited of such counties as provided by the highway law. Each county of with the state shall be responsible to the state for all funds or moneys treasurers. deposited with the treasurer thereof under this act and an action Counties to recover any loss to or of such funds or money may be brought against the county by the comptroller of the state of New York in a court of competent jurisdiction. The state comptroller shall determine the rate of interest on these funds or moneys while in the hands of the county treasurer. responsible appropria money for § 4. In addition to the amounts herein appropriated to be ex- Additional pended within the several counties of the state, there is also hereby for appropriated the sum of ten million six hundred twenty thousand use when dollars ($10,620,000), being in lieu of the ten per centum which county may be retained from appropriations made for maintenance and expended. repair of improved highways as provided by section one hundred and seventy-one of the highway law, which amount shall remain in the state division of finance, and so much thereof as shall be necessary may be expended for use in any county when the money herein appropriated for such county has been expended or obligated. This sum or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be payable from the state treasury upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller drawn upon the requisition of the state division of highways, issued when it becomes necessary to expend for the maintenance and reconstruction of improved state and county highways in any county a greater sum than that herein appropriated for use in said county or when it becomes necessary, to supplement the state's share of reconstruction, with federal aid, of any improved state or county highway, or when it becomes necessary to supplement the state's share of moneys available for reconstruction or maintenance, for bridge construction, reconstruction or maintenance, either by contract or directly by the department, in accordance with sections twenty-two and two hundred and fifty-a of the highway law, and section one hundred and L. 1915, district of twenty-one-a of the canal law, as amended or to be amended, or for the construction, repair of and removal of snow from roads on Indian reservations or other special construction and repair work and the maintenance, repair and reconstruction of structures placed under the supervision of the department by law, and to pay the state's share of the alteration of grade crossing structures under the provisions of the railroad law. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 90 AN ACT to amend the municipal court code, in relation to certain boundary lines of such court Became a law March 8, 1927, 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. Subdivision four of subdivision c of section five of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act in relation to the municipal court of the city of New York, and repealing certain statutes affecting such court, its justices and officers," as added by chapter four hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen and amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: Fourth 4. The fourth district embraces the territory bounded by and Brooklyn. within the following: Beginning at the intersection of Stuyvesant avenue and Broadway, thence along Broadway to Willoughby avenue, to Bushwick avenue, to Suydam street, to Central avenue, to Starr street, to Kings and Queens line, along said line to Stanhope street, to Hamburg avenue, to DeKalb avenue, to Bushwick avenue, to DeKalb avenue, to Broadway, to Jamaica avenue, to Alabama avenue, to Atlantic avenue, to Eastern parkway, to Howard avenue, to East New York avenue, to Montgomery street, to Franklin avenue, to Atlantic avenue, to Schenectady avenue, to Fulton street, to Stuyvesant avenue, to the place of beginning, in which district there shall be one justice. § 5. subd. 7 § 2. Subdivision seven of subdivision c of section five of such subd. C code, as amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: amended. Seventh district of Brooklyn. 7. The seventh district embraces the territory bounded by and within the following: Beginning at the intersection of Broadway and Jamaica avenue, to Alabama avenue, to Atlantic avenue, to Eastern parkway, to Howard avenue, to East Ninety-eighth street, to Linden avenue, to East Ninety-first street, to Church avenue, to Ralph avenue, to Clarendon road, to East Fifty-eighth 1 Words "to Hopkinson avenue, to McDonough street, to Broadway," omitted. street, to Farragut road, to East Twenty-ninth street, to Foster avenue, to East Seventeenth street, to Avenue R, to Nostrand avenue, to Avenue U, to Gerritsen avenue, to Avenue U, to Gerritsen basin or Mill pond, to the waters of Sheepshead bay, through said waters to the line dividing the borough of Brooklyn from the borough of Queens in Rockaway inlet, from the intersection of Rockaway inlet and the borough line, along said line to Stanhope street, to Hamburg avenue, to DeKalb avenue, to Bushwick avenue, to DeKalb avenue, to Broadway,1 to the point of beginning, in which district there shall be two justices. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 91 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the acquisition of homestead property by condemnation in union free school districts Became a law March 9, 1927, 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: (revision of ch. 140), Section 1. Subdivision five of section four hundred and sixty- L. 1909, four of chapter twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and ch. 21 nine, entitled "An act relating to education, constituting chapter 1. 1910, sixteen of the consolidated laws, as amended by chapter one § 464, hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, such subd. 5 subdivision having been added by chapter one hundred and ninetyfive of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty, and as last amended by chapter three hundred and twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six,' is hereby amended to read as follows: amended. property 5. The second and third subdivisions of this section shall not Acquisition be construed as prohibiting the acquisition by condemnation of of real the whole of a city or village lot together with the erections and for school improvements thereon, nor shall subdivision one of this section purposes. be construed as prohibiting the acquisition by condemnation of property in a city, union free school district2 or central rural school district. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words "to Hopkinson avenue, to McDonough street, to Broadway," omitted. 1 Previously amended by L. 1924, ch. 3. Words "for which a superintendent of schools has been appointed as provided by this chapter," omitted. CHAPTER 92 AN ACT to legalize the incorporation as a village of territory corresponding to the boundaries of a fire district, notwithstanding a defect in the establishment of such fire district Became a law March 9, 1927, 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. Any village that shall have been incorporated for the period of at least one year prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, pursuant to the village law, shall be and be deemed to be a legally incorporated village notwithstanding any defect or irregularity that may have occurred or existed in relation to the establishment of a fire district and of which territory corresponding with the boundaries thereof was subsequently incorporated into and as a village. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 93 AN ACT to confirm certain conveyances of real property made by the city of New York and the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, of lands acquired for aqueduct purposes Became a law March 9, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote on emergency message. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Every instrument heretofore executed under the common seal of the city of New York, or of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, purporting to convey lands acquired by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, for the purpose of protecting the water supply of the city of New York from pollution pursuant to the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, is hereby declared to be and to have been as valid and effectual as if the same had been expressly authorized by an act of the legislature of this state, provided that the land therein described was sold at a regular public auction sale of real property of the said corporation made under the direction of the commissioners of the sinking fund of said city, in the manner provided by law, of which sale due and legal notice was given. It is hereby declared that the sole purpose and intent of this act is to remove any doubt that might exist whether the said city had power to convey the said lands which had been acquired for a public purpose but are no longer required therefor. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 94 AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An act relating to the preparation of assessment-rolls for the townships and tax districts therein in the county of Nassau, and the collection of taxes in such towns and tax districts, and to repeal certain local acts and parts of acts relating to assessments and taxation in such county," in relation to the election, terms of office and compensation of receivers of taxes Became a law March 9, 1927, 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: §§ 41, 41 Section 1. Sections forty-one and forty-four of chapter five L. 1918, hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and six- ch. 541, teen, entitled "An act relating to the preparation of assessment- amended. rolls for the townships and tax districts therein in the county of Nassau, and the collection of taxes in such towns and tax districts, and to repeal certain local acts and parts of acts relating to assessments and taxation to such county," are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: § 41.1 Receiver of taxes. There shall be elected in each town in the county of Nassau, at the biennial town meeting in such town, held in the month of November, nineteen hundred and twentyseven, a receiver of taxes who shall hold office for a term of four years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twentyeight, and thereafter, at each biennial town meeting preceding the expiration of the term of office of such receiver of taxes, a successor to such officer shall be elected for a full term of four years. The provisions of this section as amended shall supersede the provisions of any other law, general or special, inconsistent therewith. § 44. Compensation of receivers of taxes of each town. The receiver of taxes of each town, in the county of Nassau, for his compensation in carrying out the provisions of this act and for performing the duties required of him under the tax law, shall receive an annual salary," to be fixed by the town board; which salary shall be in full compensation and in lieu of all fees of any kind or character and such compensation shall be a town charge. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Section 41 materially amended. Words not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars," omitted, |