remain unpaid, in the manner and on the terms and consideration above stated. The corporation counsel, in default of bidders, at any such tax sale, may purchase the land or lands so sold by the city treasurer, in the name and for the benefit of the city of Schenectady, 8 221. Redemption. The owners of such real estate and all persons interested therein may, at any time within one year from said sale, redeem the said real estate, by paying to said treasurer the sum bid for the same, with ten per centum interest thereon, from the time of sale, or may redeem any part thereof, which shall be assessed separately, by paying a like proportional part of the charges thereon. In case of redemption as herein provided, the city treasurer shall pay, on demand, to the person entitled thereto the money received upon such redemption, or if the city was at the time thereof the owner of the certificate of sale, the money so received shall be paid into the city treasury. § 222. Payment of bids; resale in case of failure. The purchaser or purchasers at such sale shall pay the amount of their respective bids to the city treasurer within forty-eight hours after the sale, and in case they or either of them neglect or refuse to pay their bids, the treasurer may, in his discretion, resell such real estate at an adjourned sale, or execute his certificate to such persons as will take the same and pay the sum bid therefor, or may maintain an action against the purchaser or purchasers for the sum bid, and interest thereon at ten per centum. § 223. Delivery of certificate to purchaser. After payment shall have been made as prescribed in the preceding section, the city treasurer shall deliver to the purchaser or purchasers of any such real estate, a certificate in writing, duly signed by him, describing the real estate purchased, the sum paid, and the time for which the purchaser will be entitled to a deed of such premises, and that such deed shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate for the term of years mentioned therein, subject to the right of re demption, as herein mentioned, and to the lien of any assessments for local improvements, and to all claims for taxes, or other liens and incumbrances, and the treasurer shall retain duplicates of all certificates of the sale of real estate so issued by him. 8 224. Rights of certain persons to notice. No owner whose deed, or in case he holds such property by descent or devise, the deed of whose predecessor shall have been duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Schenectady, before the sale thereof for any tax, and no mortgagee, lessee or assignee whose mortgage, lease or assignment shall have been so recorded, shall be divested of his rights in such property by reason of such sale, unless six months' notice, in writing, of such sale shall have been given by the purchaser, or those claiming under him, to such owner, mortgagee, lessee or assignee, personally, if a resident of the city of Schenectady, or if not such resident, then by mailing the same in a properly enclosed postpaid wrapper, directed to him at his last known place of residence, or if his place of residence be not known, then the notice herein provided for shall be directed to him at the place named in such deed, mortgage, lease or assignment as his residence. $ 225. Conveyance to purchaser.— If such real estate sold for taxes, or any portion thereof, be not redeemed within the term of one year, as herein before provided, the corporation counsel shall prepare for the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a conveyance of the real estate so sold, under the corporate seal of said city, and signed by the mayor. Such deed shall vest in the grantee an absolute title for the term of years mentioned in said certificate, subject to the liens and incumbrances aforesaid. Such deed shall be prima facie evidence in any court in this state of the facts therein recited, and of the right of the grantee and his assigns to hold, own and possess the real estate therein described for and during the term of years therein mentioned. Said corporation counsel shall be entitled to two dollars for preparing such conveyance of the land described therein; and ten cents for each piece more than one, and such conveyance shall include all the lands purchased at said sale by the grantee. 8226. Equalization. In equalizing the value of real estate in the county of Schenectady the board of supervisors shall make no discrimination between the several wards of the city of Schenectady, but shall consider the city as a town for the purpose of equalization. ARTICLE VIII. SAVING CLAUSE, ET CETERA. Section 227. Saving clause. 228. Construction of provisions. 229. Laws repealed. 230. When act takes effect. 8 227. Saving clause. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to repeal any statute of the state or ordinance of the city, or rule or regulation of the board of health, or the rules and regulations adopted by the water commissioners of the city, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and the same shall remain in full force and effect, when not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, to be construed and operated in harmony with the provisions of this act. The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any officer or department of the city under any statute of the state, or any city ordinance which is in force at the time of the taking effect of this act, shall, if such office or department be abolished by this act, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom is imposed corresponding or like functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this act. Where any contract has been entered into by the city, prior to the time of taking effect of this act, or any bond or undertaking has been given to or in favor of the city, which contains provisions that the same may be enforced by some officer, board or department therein named, but by the provisions of this act such office, board or department is abolished, such contracts, bonds and undertak ings shall not in any manner be impaired but shall continue in full force and the powers conferred and the duties imposed with reference to the same upon the officer, board or department which has been abolished, shall thereafter be exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom is conferred or imposed like powers, functions or duties under the provisions of this act. § 228. Construction of provisions.-- The provisions of this act, so far as they are substantially the same, or cover the same sub ject-matter, as those of any law repealed hereby, shall be con strued as a continuance of such repealed law, modified or amended according to the language employed herein and not as new enact ments. References in a law not repealed to the provisions of any law incorporated into this act or repealed shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated. The meaning and effect of the terms and language used herein shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the statutory construction law. Nothing in this act shall be construed to amend or repeal any provision of the penal or criminal code. § 229. Laws repealed. The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed: All acts or parts of acts, general or special, in so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this act. But such repeal shall not revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws purporting to specifically amend any of the laws hereby specifically repealed. $230. When act takes effect. This act shall take effect on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight, except the provision for the election of ward officers and assessors in the month of November, nineteen hundred and seven, and the provision for the division of the city into election districts and the appointment of election officers therefor, which said provisions shall take effect immediately. AN ACT providing for the preparation of plans for an adequate scheme of development of the state fair grounds and buildings at Syracuse, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law, July 26, 1907, 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 fair commission of the state of New York is hereby authorized and directed to make an examination of the state fair grounds and buildings at Syracuse, and to prepare plans for an adequate scheme of development thereof. The said commission is hereby authorized to employ a person or persons who shall have expert knowledge of that subject and shall fix the compensation to be paid for the services rendered. § 2. The state fair commission is hereby authorized to open the preparation of the plans of said state fair grounds and buildings referred to in section one hereof to public competition and by such. methods as said commission may deem advisable make such public advertisement thereof as will be most likely to secure numerous * Passed at extraordinary session. skilled competitors. The said commission shall make such rules and regulations governing such competition as in its judgment are necessary. § 3. The state fair commission shall constitute a board to which all plans prepared under such competition shall be submitted. No plans shall bear the name or any distinguishing mark of the competitor who prepared it, but shall be accompanied with a sealed envelope containing the name and postoffice address of the competitor. Plans and sealed envelopes so received shall be numbered in duplicate and in the numerical order in which they are received. The said commission shall examine the plans submitted to it and shall select therefrom its first, second and third choice, and so designate by number. When such selection is made, the envelope number corresponding to the number of the plans shall be opened, and the commission shall notify the designer that he has been awarded first, second or third place, as the case may be. The plans so selected shall be the property of the state. § 4. The said commission shall on or before January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, transmit to the legislature all plans so prepared, together with such recommendations in the premises as the said commission shall see fit to make in relation thereto. § 5. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purposes specified in this act. The money shall be paid by the treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller upon the certificate of the state fair commission. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 758.* AN ACT making an appropriation for a submarine cable between Staten Island and Hoffman Island and between Hoffman Island and Swinburne Island. Became a law, July 26, 1907, 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 seven thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from any money in * Passed at extraordinary session, |