Officers to receive no compensa appoint and remove employees and fix their compensation. None of the directors or officers of said corporation shall receive com- tion. pensation for services, and said corporation shall have no capital No capital stock and declare no dividends. 8 7. This act shall take effect immediately. stock or dividends. Chap. 11. AN ACT authorizing the common council and mayor of the city of Buffalo to convey by quitclaim deeds to abutting owners a strip of land lying between the present lines of Woodlawn avenue and private property adjacent thereto. Became a law March 7, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ance au Section 1. The common council of the city of Buffalo is hereby conveyauthorized to execute and deliver to each owner of land adjacent to thorized. Woodlawn avenue in said city such part of a strip of land which was formerly a part of Barr street, now discontinued, as lies between his or her land and the present line of Woodlawn avenue. Upon the adoption of a resolution by the common council authorizing or directing the same, the mayor may execute and deliver to each such abutting owner a quitclaim deed conveying to him or her all of the city's interest in the lands so intervening between such abutting owner's land and the line of Woodlawn avenue. heretofore 2. All deeds heretofore executed and delivered by the city of Deeds Buffalo to any of the abutting owners mentioned in section one of delivered, this act of any portion of said strip of land lying between their lands and Woodlawn avenue are hereby ratified and confirmed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. ratified. § 271a added to L. 1909, ch. 62. $275 amended. Chap. 12. AN ACT to amend chapter sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to taxation, constituting chapter sixty of the consolidated laws," by inserting therein after section two hundred and seventy-one a new section to be known as section two hundred and seventy-one-a, and amending section two hundred and seventy-five thereof. Became a law March 9, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. three-fifths being present. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Chapter sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine is hereby amended by inserting a new section therein after section two hundred and seventy-one to be known as section two hundred and seventy-one-a, as follows: § 271-a. Sale of stamps. No person, firm, company, association or corporation other than a corporation organized under the banking law of this state or under the national bank act of the United States, or a duly authorized agent of the comptroller, shall sell or expose for sale any stamp issued pursuant to this article, without first obtaining from the comptroller his written consent, except that in connection with a sale of or agreement to sell stock a broker or agent of the principal making such sale or agreement to sell may supply and affix the stamp or stamps required by this article. No person shall sell any stamp for a sum less than the face value thereof without the written consent of the comptroller. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. § 2. Section two hundred and seventy-five of chapter sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine is hereby amended to read as follows: 8 275. Illegal use of stamps; penalty. Any person who shall willfully remove or alter or knowingly permit to be removed or altered the canceling or defacing marks of any stamp provided for by this article with intent to use such stamp, or who shall knowingly or willfully buy, prepare for use, use, have in his possession or suffer to be used any washed, restored or counterfeit stamp, and any person who shall intentionally remove or cause to be removed or knowingly permit to be removed any stamp, affixed pursuant to the requirements of this article, except as hereinafter provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. If any such stamp shall be affixed to any memorandum of sale with the intention of paying a tax, but delivery pursuant to such sale shall not be made in conformity with the memorandum thereof, then such stamp may be removed from such memorandum and subsequently used on some other memorandum of sale, provided that when so used there shall be attached to the memorandum, to which said stamp shall be so affixed, a written statement signed by the vendor or the agent making such sale, setting forth in detail the facts justifying such re-use. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 13. AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of the city of Gloversville, leading up to and including its issuance and sale of bonds of said city in the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars for completing the erection of a high school building therein, and validate the bonds already issued and sold therefor, and to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of such. bonds. Became a law March 9, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: to Section 1. All the acts and proceedings of the city of Glovers- Proceedings ville had and done by its board of education, officers, agents and adoption qualified voters, leading up to and including the special election tion, legalheld therein on the tenth day of September, nineteen hundred and ized. seven, relative to the submission and adoption of a proposition for completing the erection therein at the expense of the city of a 1 Section to here materially amended. Remainder of section new. Bond issue of Mar. 23, ized. high school building at the maximum cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement, in such acts and proceedings. § 2. All the acts and proceedings of said city of Gloversville 1908, legal- had and done by its board of education, officers and agents, subsequent to the adoption of the aforesaid proposition, leading up to and including the issuance and sale on or about the twentythird day of March, nineteen hundred and eight, of the bonds of said city, in the aggregate amount of fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of obtaining a portion of the sum authorized to be so expended and required to complete the erection of the said high school building, and consisting of fifty bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, numbered twenty-six to seventy-five, inclusive, dated as of March second, nineteen hundred and eight, three of which bonds numbered twenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight were made to mature and be payable September second, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and five bonds bearing the next highest numbers, consecutively, to mature and be payable on September second in each successive year until and including the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and two bonds numbered seventy-four and seventy-five to mature and be payable on September second, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, are each and all hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement, in any of such acts and proceedings, and said bonds are hereby declared to be valid and binding obligations of said city. Bonds validated. Bond issue 1909, legalized. § 3. All the acts and proceedings of said city, had and done by of Jan. 6, its board of education, officers and agents, subsequent to the adoption of the aforesaid proposition, leading up to and including the issuance and sale on or about the fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, of the bonds of said city, in the aggregate amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of obtaining the remaining sum authorized to be so expended and required to complete the erection of the said high school building, and consisting of twenty-five bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, numbered seventy-six to one hundred, inclusive, dated as of January fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, three of which bonds numbered seventy-six, seventy-seven and seventy-eight were made to mature and be payable September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and five bonds bearing the next highest numbers, consecutively, to mature and be payable on September first in each successive year until and including the year nineteen hundred and thirty, and two bonds numbered ninety-nine and one hundred to mature and be payable on September first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, are each and all hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement, in any of such acts and proceedings, and said bonds are hereby declared to be valid and binding Bonds obligations of said city. validated payment. 4. The board of education of said city shall cause to be Tax for raised annually by tax, in the manner provided by law, such sums as may be necessary to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due, until such interest and principal is fully paid. 5. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding pending Pending at the time this act shall take effect. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. actions. Chap. 14. AN ACT to amend the executive law in relation to the expenses incurred by the attorney-general in attending at any term of the supreme court or appearing before the grand jury thereof. Became a law March 14, 1911, 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. 23, $ amended. Section 1. Subdivision two of section sixty-two, chapter L. 1909. twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled 62, sub, 2 "An act in relation to executive officers, constituting chapter eighteen of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: 2. Whenever required by the governor, attend in person, or by one of his deputies, any term of the supreme court or appear before the grand jury thereof for the purpose of managing and conducting in such court or before such jury such criminal actions or proceedings as shall be specified in such requirement; in which case the attorney-general or his deputy so attending shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties in respect of such actions or proceedings, which the district attorney would otherwise |