tified by the board of police and fire commissioners and audited and paid by the board of trustees of the village of Canastota out of the police justice fund. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 145. AN ACT making an appropriation for the deportation of alien and nonresident lunatics to other countries and states, and for the office expenses of the state commission in lunacy. Became a law May 17, 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 four thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the deportation of alien and nonresident lunatics to other countries and states; the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars. ($2,500) is hereby appropriated for office expenses for the state commission in lunacy for the year ending September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1910, ch. 444 repealed. Chap. 146. AN ACT to repeal chapter four hundred and forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to establish a public school teachers' retirement fund in Greene county," and to provide for the distribution of moneys heretofore paid into said fund. Became a law May 17, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Chapter four hundred and forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to establish a public of moneys. school teachers' retirement fund in Greene county," is hereby repealed, and, except as otherwise provided by law, all moneys, if Repayment any, heretofore paid into said retirement fund and now constituting a part thereof shall be repaid by the treasurer of said fund to the various persons, corporations, boards and officers contributing the same and entitled thereto, upon vouchers duly audited by a majority of the members of the board of trustees in charge of such fund. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 147. AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to processions on Became a law May 17, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 88, § 2151 Section 1. Section twenty-one hundred and fifty-one of chapter L. 1909, ch eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled amended. "An act providing for the punishment of crime, constituting chapter forty of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 2151. Processions and parades on Sunday. All processions and parades on Sunday in any city, excepting only funeral processions for the actual burial of the dead, and processions to and from a place of worship in connection with a religious service there celebrated, are forbidden; and in such excepted cases there shall be no music, fireworks, discharge of cannon or firearms, or other disturbing noise. At a military funeral, or at the funeral of a United States soldier, sailor or marine, or of a national guardsman,' or of a deceased member of an association of veteran soldiers, sailors or marines, or of a disbanded militia regiment, or of a secret fraternal society, music may be played while escorting the bedy; also in patriotic military processions on Sunday previous to Decoration day, known as memorial Sunday, to cemeteries or 1 Sentence to here formerly read: "At a military funeral, and at the burial of a national guardsman." 2 Words "sailors or marines" new. other places where memorial services are held; but in no case1 within one block of a place of worship where service is then being celebrated. A person willfully violating any provision of this section is punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or by both. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 148. AN ACT reappropriating the unexpended balance of the appropriation heretofore made to the New York Interstate Bridge Commission and making an additional appropriation therefor. Became a law May 17, 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 nine thousand eight hundred and six and eight-hundredths dollars ($9,806.08), being the unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dol lars ($25,000) made to the New York Interstate Bridge Commission by chapter four hundred and fifty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and nine, is hereby reappropriated and made available, and in addition thereto the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), 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 contributing an equal proportionate share of the expenses of borings and general engineering and to provide for the share of the expenses of said commission, in co-operating with the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission. The amount so appropriated shall be payable by the state treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, on itemized vouchers certified to by the chairman of the New York Interstate Bridge Commission. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 3 Words "also in patriotic military 4 Words" in no case " substituted for "not." services are held," new. Chap. 149. AN ACT providing for the assessment and taxation of lands owned by the state in the county of Rockland. Became a law May 17, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All lands in the county of Rockland heretofore or hereafter acquired for a public use by the state of New York, as provided by law, shall be assessed and taxed in the towns where situated for state, county, town, village, school and highway purposes in the same manner as other real property owned by persons and individuals in such towns and villages. The assessed valuation of the lands so acquired shall not be reduced below the assessed valuation of such lands at the time they were acquired, until the bonds and other indebtedness of such towns and villages and the county of Rockland, outstanding at the time this act takes effect, shall be fully paid, nor shall the assessed valuation of such lands include the improvements, if any, erected thereon by the state. All lands which have heretofore been purchased by the state in the county of Rockland, subsequent to the assessment thereof in any year by the board of assessors of the town wherein such lands are situated, although prior to the levying of the taxes for that year upon such assessment, are hereby made subject to the lien of the taxes so levied, and all such taxes shall be paid by the state to the treasurer of the county of Rockland; and the provisions of section four hundred and forty of the education law,1 so far as the provisions of this act are not in conflict therewith, shall govern the assessment, levy and collection of school taxes on such state lands in said county. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 L. 1909, ch. 21, as generally revised and amended by L. 1910, ch. 140, L. 1909, ch. 33, § 16, Chap. 150. AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the conversion of a stock life insurance corporation into a mutual life insurance corporation. Became a law May 19, 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. Section sixteen of chapter thirty-three of the laws as amended of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to chaps. 240, insurance corporations, constituting chapter twenty-eight of the by L. 1909, 302, and L. 1910, ch. 634, amended. consolidated laws," as amended by chapter two hundred and forty and chapter three hundred and two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine and chapter six hundred and thirty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended to read as follows: § 16. Investment of capital and surplus. The cash capital of every domestic insurance corporation required to have a capital, to the extent of the minimum capital required by law, shall be invested and kept invested in the stocks or bonds of the United States or of this state, not estimated above their current market. value, or in the bonds of a county or incorporated city in this state authorized to be issued by the legislature, not estimated above their par value or their current market value, or in bonds and mortgages on improved unencumbered real property in this state worth fifty per centum more than the amount loaned thereon. The cash capital of every foreign insurance corporation to the extent of the minimum capital required of a like domestic corporation shall be invested and kept invested in the same class of securities specified for domestic insurance corporations, except that like securities of the home state or foreign country shall be recognized as legal investments for the amount of the minimum capital required. The residue of the capital and the surplus money and funds of every domestic insurance corporation over and above its capital, and the deposit that it may be required to make with the superintendent, may be invested in or loaned on the pledge of any of the securities in which deposits are required to be invested or in the public stocks or bonds of any one of the United States, or in bonds and mortgages on improved unencumbered real |