§ 55a added. shall receive, keep and disburse all moneys belonging to the city and to every board thereof. It shall be his duty to collect all moneys due the city, including taxes, assessments and water rates, with due diligence and any neglect in so doing shall be cause for his removal from office. He shall pay no moneys from the treasury of the city excepting upon warrants signed as herein. provided, specifying from what fund and for what purpose the amount named therein is payable; he shall file all such warrants and keep an accurate account of all receipts and payments in such manner as the city council shall direct. The city council shall at its first meeting in each year designate some incorporated bank or banks located in the city of Watertown for the deposit of all moneys belonging to such city and shall notify the treasurer of such designation; a bank once designated shall continue to be the place of deposit until another shall be designated. Every bank designated as a depository of city funds pursuant to this section shall execute a bond to the city with such sureties and for such an amount as the city council may determine. The city treasurer shall deposit to the credit of the city of Watertown once in each day all moneys in his hands, excepting one hundred dollars or less, in such bank or banks as the city council shall have designated, as above provided. All interest allowed by such bank or banks upon any money so deposited shall belong to the city and be credited to the city by said bank or banks. § 3. Title four of said act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section fifty-five-a to read as follows: 855-a. The city auditor. The office of city auditor is hereby established. The city auditor shall present to the city council at its first meeting in each month and also to the city manager and other city officials or boards having charge of funds in the hands of the city treasurer, a statement of the aggregate receipts and disbursements on account of each fund and appropriation of the city during the preceding month and the balance on hand belonging to each fund and appropriation of the city. Не shall exhibit to the city council at its last meeting in each year a full account of all receipts and payments after the date of his last annual report and also the state of the city treasury. He shall audit and countersign all payrolls and shall not draw warrants on the treasurer for payment of the same until such payrolls are approved by the city manager. He shall sign all warrants drawn upon the city treasurer by the city council and shall keep an accurate account of such warrants in a book to be provided for that purpose, which shall be open to the inspection of any elector of the city at all reasonable hours, and he shall report to the city council at its first regular meeting in each month the aggregate amount of the orders drawn by him on each fund during the preceding month, and in each of said reports shall specify what amount to the credit of all funds and appropriations must be reserved to pay salaries and other fixed expenditures. He shall not overdraw any fund, but when any fund is exhausted shall notify the board whose funds may be exhausted; each of the funds created by virtue of the provisions of this act shall be kept inviolate and devoted to the purposes for which it is created, and no moneys shall be drawn from any fund to supply deficiency in any other fund. 118, as amended by 4. Section one hundred and eighteen of said act, as amended by chapter six hundred and one of the laws of nineteen hundred L. 1918, and eighteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: ch. 601, amended. light and fund. § 118. If at the close of the fiscal year the moneys received Water, from water rates, electric light and power and other sources for power bond the water, light and power fund shall exceed the appropriation for such fund, the surplus shall be set apart by the said board for the payment of the bonds or other obligations on account of the works and shall be deposited by the treasurer of the city to the credit of the "water, light and power bond fund," unless such surplus upon the recommendation of the board approved by the city council shall be set apart for contemplated work. The board shall have power to direct the city, treasurer to advertise Purchase for and purchase with such surplus fund at the lowest offer, the water bonds of the city of Watertown or other bonds issued on account of the works and cancel the same if the same can be obtained on terms satisfactory to them. of bonds. subd. 6, as 5. Subdivision six of section one hundred and fifty-eight-c2 158c. of said act, as amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight amended by of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby amended ch. 538, to read as follows: L. 1915, amended. pension vestment. 6. Said board is hereby authorized to invest said fund in bonds Firemen's and mortgages on improved real property worth twice the fund: inamount loaned, or in bonds of the United States or of this state or the city of Watertown, or of any city, county, town or village of this state issued pursuant to the authority of the laws of the 2 As added by L. 1905, ch. 485. 158f, subd. 6, as added by L. 1915, ch. 538, amended. Police pension fund; investment. § 158f, subd. 7 repealed. state, or in certificates of deposit of any national bank or trust company of the city of Watertown. § 6. Subdivision six of section one hundred and fifty-eight-f of said act as amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby amen led to read as follows: 6. Said board is hereby authorized to invest said fund in bonds and mortgages on improved real property worth twice the amount loaned, or in bonds of the United States or of this state or the city of Watertown, or of any city, county, town or village of this state issued pursuant to the authority of the laws of this state, or in certificates of deposit of any national bank or trust company of the city of Watertown. All interest, income or dividends which shall be paid, or agreed to be paid, on account of any such loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of said fund. Nothing herein contained shall, however, be construed as authorizing the treasurer to loan or deposit said fund, or any part thereof unless so authorized by the board. § 7. Subdivision seven of section one hundred and fifty-eight-f of said act is hereby repealed. § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropri ation of Chap. 661. AN ACT making an appropriation for highway improvement purposes. Became a law May 10, 1920, 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 two hundred and fifty-five thousand unexpended nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents share of ($255,937.84), being the unexpended balance of Lewis county's balance of Lewis county. share of the funds derived from the second referendum or bond issue for state road construction in accordance with chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby appropriated, payable out of moneys realized 3 Should read: "added." pended for construc improve from bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of such chapter. The moneys so appropriated shall be expended for the To be exconstruction and improvement of public highways, including certain highways being constructed by appropriations from the general tion and treasury after such appropriations have been expended, in accord- ment. ance with the provisions of section six-a of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, as added by chapter six hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen. The sum of one hundred and twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents ($127,968.92), being one-half of the moneys hereby appropriated, are hereby made available for improvement in Lewis county of the county highway between Barnes Corners and Copenhagen, part one, the county highway between Potters's Corners and the Oneida county line and the county highway between Harrisville and Natural Bridge; and the remaining half of the moneys hereby appropriated may be expended by the state commissioner of highways for the construction, reconstruction or widening of highways, described in such section six-a, in any county or counties, including Lewis county. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 662. AN ACT making an appropriation for general extension work in agriculture and home economics among the Indians residing on reservations in the state of New York. Became a law May 10, 1920, 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 ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for general extension work in agriculture and home economics among the Indians residing on state reservations, for salaries and expenses in connection with such extension, for scholarships, living expenses and books for Indians in "short courses" at the state college of agriculture, for expenses incidental to visits by Indians to the state college of agriculture during "Farmers' Week" and similar occasions, and for contributions to a rotary loan fund, hereby authorized to be established, for seed, stock and implements for the use of Indians on their reservations. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be expended, and such rotary loan fund may be established and contributions made thereto, and such loan fund administered, by the state college of agriculture under the authority and direction of Cornell University, as the administrative agent of the state, and shall be payable by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller to the order of Cornell University. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Acquisition Chap. 663. AN ACT to authorize the state commissioner of education to acquire certain real property in the village of Hogansburg, Franklin county, for an Indian school in connection with the Saint Regis Indian Reservation, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law May 10, 1920, 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 state commissioner of education is hereby authorized. authorized to acquire by purchase in behalf of the people of the state all that piece or parcel of land in the village of Hogansburg, Franklin county, heretofore purchased by John O. Bero from William Kingston and commonly known as the Boucker residence, situated between State street and Saint Regis street in such village. The conveyance of such premises shall be approved by the attorney-general. Approval of conveyance. Property to be re Indian 2. Upon the acquisition of such property the commissioner modeled as of education shall cause the same to be remodeled and equipped as an Indian school to be maintained in connection with the Saint Regis Indian reservation, and subject to all the provisions of law in relation to Indian schools. school. Appropriation. § 3. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be needed is hereby appropriated for the purpose of acquiring, remodeling and equipping such property, in accord |