L. 1909, ch. 22, ference between the nineteen dollars and the maximum allowance for each pupil enrolled in the public schools during the preceding year, 10 shall not exceed one dollar and seventy cents upon every one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of taxable property in said city. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 5. AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to nominations in cities holding their election at a time other than the general election. Became a law February 12, 1914, 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 forty-five of chapter twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the elections, constituting chapter seventeen of the consolidated laws," amended by as added by chapter eight hundred and ninety-one of the laws of § 45, as added by L. 1911, ch. 891, and L. 1913, ch. 820, amended. nineteen hundred and eleven and amended by chapter eight hundred and twenty of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 8 45. Direct nomination of candidates for public office. Party nominations for all offices to be filled at a general election, except town, village and school district offices and electors of the president and vice-president of the United States, shall be made at the fall primary next preceding such general election by the enrolled voters of the party as in this chapter provided. Nominations of party candidates for town, village and school district offices shall be made in the manner prescribed by, the rules and regulations of the county committee of the county wherein such town, village or school district is located. 'Nominations of party candidates for city offices to be filled at an election held at a different time from the general election shall be made directly at unofficial primaries by enrolled party voters. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent a party from 10 Words" and excluding the sum necessary . . during the preceding year," new. 1 Following sentence new. holding party conventions, to be constituted in such manner, and to have such powers in relation to formulating party platforms and policies and the transaction of business relating to party affairs, as the rules and regulations of the party may provide, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. Delegates to any such convention and members of party committees, other than members of state and county committees, shall not be chosen at official primaries or otherwise at public expense. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 6. AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to powers of notaries public in New York county and in Bronx county, ratifying their acts and continuing their powers. Became a law February 12, 1914, 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: ch. 23, 3, as added ch. 248, Section 1. Subdivision three of section one hundred and five L 1909, of chapter twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine. 105, subd. entitled "An act in relation to executive officers, constituting chap- by L. 1913, ter eighteen of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter two amended. hundred and forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:1 3. All notaries public, appointed for the county of New York prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall have power, and shall be deemed to have had the power, to administer oaths and affirmations, to take affidavits and acknowledgments and proofs of deeds and other written instruments to be read in evidence or to be recorded in this state, in all cases in which commissioners of deeds had such powers within the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx of the city of New York on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, up to the date when this amendment shall take effect, and their official acts subsequent to the passage of the act creating Bronx county are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed. Hereafter every such notary public residing in the said county of New York shall 1 Subdivision materially amended. Commission established. Organization. Duties. continue to have the powers above enumerated and may exercise Chap. 7. AN ACT to create a commission to endeavor to secure appropriate federal legislation to remedy existing conditions in the state as to the alien insane. Became a law February 19, 1914, 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. A commission is hereby established to be known as the commission on federal legislation for the alien insane. Such commission shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the governor within ten days after this act takes effect. § 2. Within ten days after the members of the commission shall have been appointed they shall meet and organize by the election from their number of a chairman and a secretary. § 3. Such commission shall urge upon the president and congress of the United States the immediate enactment into law of the recommendations set forth in the concurrent resolution on the alien insane recently adopted by the legislature pursuant to the special message of the governor, of February second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, on the alien insane, together with such other and further amendments to the federal laws as to such commission shall seem necessary or advisable, and shall endeavor to secure the co-operation of other states affected by or interested in the matters and things pertaining to the alien insane to the end that all necessary amendments to the federal laws relating thereto may be secured forthwith. tion. 4. The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), Appropriaor so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated for the actual and necessary expenses of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this act, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller on the order of the chairman of such commission. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 8. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to the number of deputies in the department of finance. Became a law February 20, 1914, 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: 1897, ch. 378, re-enacted Section 1. Section one hundred and fifty of the Greater New L York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty- § 150, as six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and as amended by by L. 1901. chapter six hundred and seven of the laws of nineteen hundred amended by and eleven,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: ch. 466, an L. 1911, ch. 607, amended. comp § 150. The comptroller shall appoint and for cause to be Deputy stated in the city record at pleasure remove three deputy trollers comptrollers and an assistant deputy comptroller. The said deputy comptrollers shall, in addition to their other powers, possess any or every power and perform any or every duty be longing to the office of comptroller, whenever the said comptroller shall, by due written authority and during a period of time not extending beyond three months, nor beyond his term of office, and to be specified in such authority, designate and authorize the said deputy comptrollers, or either of them, to possess such powers and perform such duties, and such designation and authority shall be duly filed in and remain of record in the department of finance and in the mayor's office. The said deputy comptrollers shall possess the like authority in case of the dis 1 Section 150 was also amended by L. 1903, ch. 258. 2 Formerly "two." of deputy or clerk to sign name of comptroller. ability of the comptroller upon the like designation of the mayor which shall be filed and remain of record as aforesaid; but such authority derived from a designation from the comptroller or the mayor may at any time be terminated in the same manner as Designation it was created. The comptroller may designate and authorize the assistant deputy comptroller, and, when he deems it necessary, any clerk, to sign in his own name and in the place of the comptroller, warrants drawn upon the city chamberlain. A warrant so signed by the assistant deputy comptroller, or by such clerk, duly designated, shall be of the same force and effect as if signed by the comptroller. Such designation or designations of the assistant deputy comptroller and such clerk shall be in writing signed by the comptroller and in duplicate and shall be duly filed and remain of record in the department of finance and in the mayor's office. The period for which each of said designations shall continue in force shall be specified therein and shall not be longer than three months nor extend beyond the term of office of the comptroller and may be terminated by the comptroller at any time by the filing in the department of finance and in the mayor's office of a notice of such termination signed by the comptroller. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1913, Chap. 9. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for a commission on the codification of the practice and procedure in the municipal court of the city of New York and to simplify, revise and amend the pleadings, practice and procedure therein, and to provide rules for the conduct of the court, justices, clerks and attaches thereof and the marshals attached to the said court," in relation to extending the commission's time to report to the legislature. Became a law February 24, 1914, 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: Section 1. Section one of chapter four hundred and seventych. 471, 1 one of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An amended. |