dred dollars shall first be paid to the board of police, who are authorized to demand and receive the same for the benefit of the police pension fund. Tenth. Any and all unexpended balances of appropriations or amounts made, estimated, levied, raised or appropriated for the payment of salaries or compensation of members of the police force remaining unexpended or unapplied after allowing all claims payable therefrom. And the board of police may and it is hereby authorized to pay over to the police pension fund, such unexpended balances, or any part thereof, at any time after the expiration of the year for which the same were made and appropriated, and after allowing sufficient to satisfy all claims payable therefrom as aforesaid. § 2. Section eighteen of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: may be re sixty roll of fund. life. service in army, etc. § 307. Any member of the police force who has, or shall have, per- Members formed duty therein for a period of twenty years or upwards, upon his of force own application in writing, or upon a certificate of the board of sur- tired at geons, showing that such member is permanently disabled, physically years of or mentally, so as to be unfit for duty, or who shall have reached the age by majority age of sixty years, shall, by resolution, adopted by a majority vote of vote and the full board, be relieved and dismissed from said force and service placed on and placed on the roll of the police pension fund, and awarded and pension granted, to be paid from said pension fund, an annual pension during his life-time of a sum of not less than one-half the full salary or compensation of such member so retired; provided, however, that no pension granted under the provisions of this section shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, except that the said board of police shall award and grant pensions to the superintendent of twenty-five hundred dollars and to each inspector seventeen hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Pensions granted under this section shall be for the To be for natural life of the pensioner, and shall not be revoked, repealed or diminished. In case any member shall have voluntarily left the police In case of force and entered into the United States service and served in the war of the rebellion, in the army or navy, and received an honorable discharge, and afterward shall have been reinstated or reappointed in the police force, the time of his service in the army or navy shall be considered as continuous service in the police force. Pensions may, in the When discretion of the said board of police, be continued and paid to the granted widows and children, or if no widow, to the child or children whilst and chilunder the age of eighteen years, of any member or members of the police force to whom pensions shall have been granted, under the provisions of this section, or under subdivisions three and four of section three hundred and six of this act; provided, however, that such pen- Proviso. sions to such widows or children, as the case may be, shall in no instance exceed six hundred dollars per annum, and the same may, in the discretion of said board, be from time to time and at any time diminished, modified or revoked. In determining the terms of service Term of of any member of the police force, service in the late municipal and service, metropolitan police force, and subsequently in the police force of the puted. city of New York, shall be counted and held to be service in the police force of the city of New York for all the purposes of this chapter. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. to widows dren. how com Common may open High street. Chap. 365. AN ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Troy to open and continue High street, and to provide for the payment of the expense of such improvement. PASSED May 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Troy is hereby aucouncil thorized to cause High street in said city to be opened from its present terminus to the line dividing the city of Troy from the town of North Greenbush, and to take the proceedings for that purpose authorized by the charter of said city in the matter of the opening and widening of streets therein. The expense of making said improvement shall be assessed by the board of local assessors of said city, and shall be paid by the city of Troy. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Corporat ors. Chap. 366. AN ACT to incorporate the Board of Underwriters of New York. PASSED May 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The members of the "Board of Underwriters of New York," whereof John D. Jones is the president, and John P. Paulison is the vice-president, and Charles Dennis is the secretary, and such other members as shall hereafter be duly associated with them, are Name and hereby created a body corporate under the name of "The Board of purposes. Underwriters of New York," for the mutual benefit of the marine in Corpo rate pow ers. By-laws. surance organizations doing business in New York, who are or shall be members thereof, or represented therein, and for the transaction of such business as relates to them in common, and for such other purposes pertinent to the conduct and affairs of marine underwriters, as are or may be defined or prescribed by its constitution or by-laws. § 2. The said corporation shall have succession and be capable of suing and being sued, and may have and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and (subject to the provisions of law, relative to bequests and devises by last will and testament) may acquire and hold real and personal estate for the conduct of its affairs or purposes of its incorporation; provided, that its real estate shall not exceed the clear rental value of twenty-five thousand dollars per year. And it shall also be subject to the liabilities and possess the powers prescribed by the third title of the eighteenth chapter the first part of the Revised Statutes. § 3. Until and except as altered or amended, the now existing bylaws of the board or association hereby incorporated shall be the by-laws of the corporation hereby created. And the said corporation shall have power from time to time and in such mode as is or may be prescribed therefor, to alter or amend its by-laws and to adopt a new constitution and by-laws and alter or amend the same, and to enforce the rules and regulations thereof concerning the admission, government and representation of members and the suspension or cessation of membership, and the collection of fees, dues and contributions, and the number, selection and duties of its officers, committees and subordinates and in general the management and conduct of its affairs. And the powers which under the laws of the state of New York are officers. now possessed by the board or association hereby incorporated shall belong to the corporation hereby created, and the present officers and committees of the first-mentioned board shall be and continue as the officers and committees of the said corporation for the same terms and with the like succession as is or may be prescribed by the constitution or by-laws. sue poli § 4. Nothing herein contained is to be construed as an authority to Not to isthe said corporation to issue policies or receive premiums of insurance. cies of in§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 367. AN ACT to confer additional powers upon the clerk of the surrogate's court of Kings county in relation to the probate of wills in certain cases. PASSED May 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: surance. conferred in case of SECTION 1. The clerk of the surrogate's court of Kings county, ap- Additionpointed pursuant to section twenty-five hundred and nine of the Code al powers of Civil Procedure of the state of New York, may, in addition to the on clerk powers therein enumerated, also exercise, concurrently with the surro- probate of gate of said county, the following powers of the surrogate: Upon the wills. return of a citation issued from said surrogate's court upon a petition for the probate of a will, where no objection to the same is filed; or, where all the persons entitled to be cited, sign and verify the petition, or personally, or by attorney, appear on the probate thereof, cause the witnesses to the will to be examined before him, and such examinations must be reduced to writing, and for such purpose he is hereby authorized to administer and certify oaths and affirmations in such cases in the same manner and with the same effect as if administered and certified by the surrogate. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Corporat ors. Chap. 368. AN ACT to incorporate the National Board of Marine Underwriters. PASSED May 28, 1885. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The members of "The National Board of Marine Underwriters," whereof Thomas C. Hand is the president, and W. Irving Comes is the vice-president, and J. Wheeler Hardley is the secretary, and such other members as shall hereafter be duly associated with Name and them, are hereby created a body corporate under the name of "The purposes. National Board of Marine Underwriters," for mutual benefit of the Corpo rate pow ers. organizations represented in its membership, and with the special aim to secure beneficial interchange of views and actions upon and consideration of matters pertaining to the general conduct of marine insurance, and in such manner and for such purposes as are or may be defined or prescribed by its constitution and by-laws. § 2. The said corporation shall have succession, and be capable of suing and being sued, and may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and (subject to the provisions of law relative to bequests and devises by last will and testament) may acquire and hold real and personal estate for the conduct of its affairs or purposes of its incorporation, provided that its real estate shall not exceed the clear rental value of twenty-five thousand dollars per year. And it shall also be subject to the liabilities and possess the powers prescribed by the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. By-laws. §3. Until and except as altered or amended, the now existing constitution and by-laws of the board or association hereby incorporated shall be the constitution and by-laws of the corporation hereby created. And the said corporation shall have power from time to time, and in such mode as is or may be prescribed therefor, to alter or amend its constitution or by-laws, and to enforce the rules and regulations thereof concerning the admission, government and representation of members, and the suspension or cessation of membership, and the collection of fees, dues and contributions, and the making of adjustments or awards, and the number, selection and duties of its officers, committees and subordinates, and in general for the management and conduct of its affairs. And the present officers and committees of the board or association hereby incorporated are to be and continue as the officers and committees of the said corporation for the same term, and with the like succession as is or may be prescribed by the constitution and by-laws. § 4. Nothing herein contained is to be construed as an authority to cies of in- the said corporation to issue policies or receive premiums of insurance. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately, and may at any time by the legislature be altered, modified or repealed. Officers. Not to is- surance. Chap. 369. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and sixty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and operating railroads in foreign countries." PASSED May 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That section five of chapter four hundred and sixty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and operating railroads in foreign countries," passed June sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, be and the same is hereby amended by adding to such section the following clause, viz.: by pur roads and "6. To acquire by purchase or otherwise, any railroad or railroads, Right to or line or lines of telegraph constructed, or in process of construction in acquire any foreign country or countries, and any grants, concessions, fran- chase railchises, rights, privileges and immunities relating thereto, and also to telegraph mortgage or to sell and convey to any person or persons, or any cor- lines. poration or corporations created by this or any other state, or any foreign government, the whole or any part of the railroad or railroads, line or lines of telegraph, steamboats, sailing vessels, grants, concessions, franchises, rights, privileges, immunities and other property of any sort or description held or owned, or to be acquired by it; provided, however, that the powers of sale in this clause granted shall only be exercised by a majority of the entire board of directors of said corporation, with the concurrence, in writing, of the holders of two-thirds in amount of the capital stock thereof." § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 370. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," and to establish the New York fire department relief fund. PASSED May 28, 1885; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five hundred and eighteen of chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," is hereby amended to read as follows: |