fully entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof, except employees thereof may receive reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of the purposes thereof. A majority of all the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. of general § 5. The said corporation shall possess the general powers and Application be subject to the general restrictions and provisions prescribed by corporation the general corporation law, except as otherwise provided by this act. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. law. Chap. 18. AN ACT to establish the office of receiver of taxes of the town of Babylon, in the county of Suffolk, defining the powers and duties of the receiver and fixing his compensation. Became a law March 16, 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: Collector of taxes elected. Section 1. The office of collector of taxes in the town of Baby- of taxes lon, in the county of Suffolk, shall cease from and after the ex- al-clished. piration of the term of the present collector of taxes, and the office of collector of taxes in said town is hereby abolished. At the biennial town meeting held next prior to the expiration Receiver of the term of the present collector of taxes there shall be elected to be a receiver of taxes, who shall hold office for the term of two years from the date of the expiration of the term of said collector. His successor in office shall be elected at each succeeding town meeting and for a like term. In case a vacancy in such office shall Vacancies. occur by death, resignation or removal from the office or from the town, such vacancy shall be filled in the manner provided by the town law.1 receiver 2. The said receiver of taxes shall, before entering upon the Bond of duties of his office, execute to the supervisor of the town of Baby- taxes. lon a bond with sufficient sureties and in such penalty, not less than thirty thousand dollars as the supervisor of the town shall direct, and the sureties shall severally justify, under oath, to be 1 L. 1909, ch. 63. See § 130. Compensa tion. Delivery of assessment roll to; warrant of collection. To retain warrants and ment-rolls. indorsed on the said bonds, in the sum which together shall constitute at least double the amount of the penalty of the said bond and shall be such sureties as the supervisor of the town may approve. And the said receiver shall receive for his services the sum of two per centum of the amount of taxes received by him in any year, to be paid in the same manner as other town officers are now by law paid in such town, and such compensation shall be in lieu of all fees and perquisites except for serving notices as hereinafter provided. § 3. The board of supervisors of Suffolk county shall deliver to the said receiver of taxes the assessment-roll of said town with taxes apportioned thereon with a warrant of collection annexed or subjoined thereto under the seal of the county, signed by the chairman and clerk of the board, commanding said receiver to collect from the several persons named in such roll the several sums mentioned in the last column thereof opposite their respective names on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, and shall require all payments specified in such warrant to be made on or before the thirty-first day of May then next ensuing in each and every year, and further commanding him to pay over within five days after the expiration of every thirty days from the date when he shall first attend for the receipt of taxes all moneys so collected appearing on said roll. § 4. It shall be the special duty of the said receiver of taxes assess to personally retain in his possession at the office of the town clerk, wherever the same may be located in the town of Babylon, but not elsewhere, the warrants and assessment-rolls which shall from time to time be delivered to him by the supervisors of SufTo receive folk county, and to receive all taxes which may be paid at the said office in the manner hereinafter provided. taxes. Notice of taxes pay 5. The said receiver of taxes shall within one week after able. receiving from the board of supervisors his warrant for the collection of taxes or assessments give notice in at least two newspapers in said town and by posting notices in at least three conspicuous places in each election district of said town stating when such taxes or assessments are payable at his office and also the percentage to be added from time to time if not so paid within one month from the date of his warrant. Taxes when receivable. § 6. It shall be the duty of said receiver of taxes and assessments to be in attendance at his office to receive such taxes or assessments and to give proper receipts therefor during the first unpaid sixty days from the time of giving the above-mentioned notice on every day, Sundays and holidays excepted, from nine o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon, and thereafter during every week on not less than two days for at least six hours each day, such days and times to be stated in the above-mentioned notice. He shall also use due diligence to serve within two weeks Notice of after the expiration of the first forty-four days a written or printed taxes. notice, by mail or otherwise, on every person whose residence or post-office address is known to him, whose tax or assessment shall then remain unpaid, specifying the amount of the taxes and the extra percentage and interest to be added, and he shall be entitled to add twenty-five cents for every such notice, together with the necessary postage on said notice, to the tax of every person paying such tax to him after the notice. Percentages added to taxes. added. 87. No percentage shall be added to any tax or assessment paid within the first thirty days from the date of attendance specified in unpaid the notice to be published and posted as required by law by the receiver of taxes; two per centum shall be added to all taxes and assessments paid during the second thirty days and five per centum shall be added to all taxes and assessments thereafter until such taxes be paid up to the date the said receiver shall make his return to the county treasurer; from and after the time when such return Interest shall be made interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum shall be added to all taxes and assessments and including the percentage to be calculated from said date of return, then unpaid; the percentage herein to apply to every dollar or fractional part thereof. The said receiver shall make his return to the county treasurer of Return all taxes or assessments remaining unpaid on the said thirty-first taxes. day of May between the thirty-first day of May and the twentieth day of June in each year. unpaid of town laws § 8. Except as herein provided the provisions of the tax law Tax and and the town law shall apply to the collection of taxes in said town to apply. of Babylon. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 19. AN ACT providing for the installing of an elevator in the state armory in Elmira for the use of the several posts of the Grand Army of the Republic occupying the third story of said armory, pursuant to chapter two hundred and eighty-three, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law March 16, 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: Section 1. The sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of installing an elevator in the state armory at Elmira, for the use of the members of the several posts of the Grand Army of the Republic who now occupy the third story of said armory, in compliance with chapter two hundred and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to be expended under the direction of the armory commission of the state for the purpose herein provided. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 3a added to L. 1866, ch. 760. Chap. 20. AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to establish and incorporate the Drew Seminary and Female College," in relation to providing for changing the number of trustees. Became a law March 16, 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: Section 1. Chapter seven hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to establish and incorporate the Drew Seminary and Female College," is hereby amended by inserting therein, after section three thereof, a new section, to be known as section three-a, to read as follows: number of trustees authorized trustees. § 3-a. The Methodist Episcopal Conference, hereinafter named, change of may, at any regular meeting or session of said conference, adopt a resolution increasing or diminishing the number of trustees of said corporation and said board of trustees shall thereafter consist of the number to be designated by said conference, but no such resolution shall change the above provisions concerning a quorum or the execution of contracts nor the purchase or sale of real estate. Whenever the number of trustees shall be increased, Additional the said conference shall proceed to elect the necessary additional number of trustees to fill said board and shall designate the date upon which their terms of office shall respectively expire, and thereafter the vacancy which occurs from the expiration of said terms shall be filled in the manner hereinafter provided with regard to the successors of the original trustees, but not more than one-half of the number of trustees shall, at any time, be clergymen. When- Reduction ever the number of trustees shall be diminished, the reduction shall of trustees. be made equally from each class hereinafter provided for, as their terms shall respectively expire. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. of number Chap. 21. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An act relating to the paving and grading of streets and highways in the city of Mount Vernon, and authorizing such city to raise money therefor by the issue of bonds." Became a law March 16, 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: 176, 1, as Section 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-six L. 1905, ch. of the laws of nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An act relat- amended by ing to the paving and grading of streets and highways in the city of Mount Vernon, and authorizing such city to raise money L. 1907, ch. 51, amend ed. |