In effect July 1, 1911. amended by chapter two hundred and ten of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:1 $72. Packages containing vinegar to be branded. Every manufacturer or producer of vinegar shall plainly brand each cask, barrel, or other container of such vinegar with his name and place of business, the kind of vinegar contained therein and the substance or substances from which it was made. And no person shall mark or brand as or for cider vinegar any package containing that which is not cider vinegar. Every person who sells any vinegar, except it be delivered to the purchaser in the unbroken package in which such seller received it, shall plainly and conspicuously mark or brand the receptacle or container in which such vinegar is delivered to the purchaser, whether such receptacle or container be furnished by the seller or purchaser, with a label showing the kind of vinegar so delivered and the substance or substances from which it was made. Nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the sale of cider vinegar stock, provided it be sold as and for such and in compliance with the provisions of this article as to marking or branding. The term "cider vinegar stock" when used herein, shall be construed to mean acetified apple juice of less acidity than that required for vinegar which contains not less than two per centum of apple solids and sufficient alcohol to develop the acidity required in vinegar. § 2. This act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and eleven. Chap. 229. Retired judge of court of appeals may act as referee in certain tases. AN ACT to provide for services by retired judges of the court of appeals and fixing compensation therefor. Became a law June 2, 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. Every judge of the court of appeals whose term of office shall expire by reason of his having attained the constitutional age limit,2 or who shall have attained the age of seventy years in the year when his term of office expires, may signify to 1 Section materially amended. 2 See art. 6, § 12. the governor in writing his willingness to perform the duties imposed upon a retired judge of the court of appeals by this act; and upon taking the constitutional oath of office to discharge the duties. hereby imposed such retired judge of the court of appeals shall act as referee, without any compensation whatsoever to be paid by the parties, in any and all actions and special proceedings of a civil nature which may be referred to him by consent, wherein the people of the state of New York may be a party or in which the attorney-general is authorized by law to appear or which the attorney-general is authorized to prosecute or defend in his official capacity; for which services, so rendered or to be rendered, each such retired judge of the court of appeals shall receive an annual salary of six thousand dollars, in equal quarterly installments, to be paid by the comptroller. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Salary. Chap. 230. AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to the compensation of certain town officers in the counties of Rockland and Orange. Became a law June 2, 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: added to 63. Section 1. Article thirty-one of chapter sixty-three of the laws § 586 of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to towns, L. 1909, ch constituting chapter sixty-two of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, to be section five hundred and eighty-six, to read as follows: 586. Compensation of certain town officers. Each member of the town board and of the board of health in each of the towns in the counties of Orange and Rockland shall receive three dollars for each day's attendance at the meetings of such boards, and in addition thereto mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile going and returning from his place of residence to the place where such meeting is held. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. * See constitution, art. 13, § 1; public officers law (L. 1909, ch. 51), § 10. L. 1899, ch. 517, § 6 amended. Issue of certificates of in debtedness ment bonds pending collection of assess ments. Chap. 231. AN ACT to amend section six of chapter five hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to authorize the paving or macadamizing of streets, avenues, highways and public places in the village of Port Chester, Westchester county, and to provide for the payment of the expense of the same," in relation to the rate of interest of certificates of indebtedness or assessment bonds therein authorized to be issued. Became a law June 2, 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 six of chapter five hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to authorize the paving or macadamizing of streets, avenues, highways and public places in the village of Port Chester, Westchester county, and to provide for the payment of the expense of the same," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 6. The said trustees are further authorized and empowered pending the collection of the assessments, or when a contract shall or as ess be made under this act for paving or macadamizing, to issue certificates of indebtedness or assessment bonds of said village for such periods not exceeding five years, and to be of such denomination, bear such rate of interest not exceeding five per centum' per annum as the trustees shall determine, for the purpose of providing the means necessary to pay that part or proportion of the assessments for paving or macadamizing any street, avenue, highway or public place, which shall be fixed and determined by the trustees to be borne by the abutting or adjoining property or property benefited, or by assessment upon the abutting or adjoining property benefited by said work or improvement, made or performed, or that shall hereafter be made or performed, in all cases in which said expense is to be paid in part by an assessment upon said property. The proceeds of said certificates or bonds shall be used only for paying the part of the expense to be paid or borne by the abutting property or property benefited. Certificates of indebtedness or assessment bonds issued under this act, may also be issued Application of proceeds. Issue to meet deficiencies. 1 Formerly 4%. payment. from time to time, to provide such amounts as may be necessary to meet the deficiencies caused by delay in payment or collection of arrears of assessments for paving or macadamizing, but the amount to be so issued shall not exceed the amount of said arrears. Such certificates of indebtedness or assessment bonds shall not be sale. sold for less than their par value, and the trustees shall have, and Tax for they are hereby vested with power and authority to provide by taxation for the payment of the principal and interest of the certificates or bonds issued or that may be issued under this section, and the said certificates or bonds shall be as valid and binding Bonds obligations of the village as the bonds that have or may be issued ligations. for any other purpose, or for defraying the part, proportion or ratio of the expense that shall be determined by the said trustees, to be paid or borne by the village at large under this act, and Legal Inshall be valid legal investments for savings banks.2 Said certifi- for savings cates or bonds shall be signed by the president and treasurer and How exattested by the clerk under the corporate seal. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. valid ob vestment banks. ecuted. Chap. 232. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," in relation to the expenses of attendance upon conventions and conferences. Became a law June 2, 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: 105, § 486 Section 1. Section four hundred and eighty-six of chapter one L. 1991, ch hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, amended. entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: meanor to § 486. When the city shall borrow or raise money for any par- Misdeticular purpose, it shall be applied only to that purpose, and every misapmember of the common council,' who shall vote to appropriate it moneys. 2 See banking law (L. 1909, ch. 10), § 146. 1 Formerly "alderman." propriate to a different purpose, and every officer, who shall knowingly assist in a misappropriation of such money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be disqualified from Moneys of holding any office in the city. Upon the recommendation of the be used for head of any department, the common council may authorize the expenditure of moneys out of an appropriate fund, for the purp convention. of paying the necessary traveling or other expenses of such head fund may expenses of of officer at of a department, or any subordinate officer or employee designated by him, necessarily incurred in connection with attendance upon any convention or conference upon any subject, such that, in the judgment of the common council, the interests of the city will be advanced by the attendance of such officer or employee.3 Chap. 233. AN ACT authorizing the board of trustees of public buildings to contract for furniture, equipment and decoration for the state education building. Became a law June 2, 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 trustees of public buildings are hereby author ized to enter into contracts for an amount not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) in addition to the sum of six hundred and twenty-five thousand dol lars ($625,000) authorized by chapter five hundred thirteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, for furniture, equipment and decoration for the state education building at Albany, to include bookstacks, bookcases, lighting fixtures, decorating, sculp ture, and for such other expenses incidental thereto as may be necessary. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 2 Remainder of section new. "Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed there'n, shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall have become a law (L. 1909, ch. 37), § 43. law."-Legislative |