hundred and eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven. The money hereby appropriated shall be expended in the manner provided by article six of the highway law for the construction and improvement of the unimproved portions of state route number five, being that part which extends between Pine Hill and Oneonta, as such route is defined by section one hundred and twenty of the highway law, thereby completing a continuous improved road from the city of Kingston to the city of Oneonta. No county in which roads are improved under this chapter shall participate in the future annual appropriation of funds for the improvement of state roads until such time as the counties not participating in the funds provided by this chapter shall have received such amount of improvement as will equalize the mileage. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 427. AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to the registration of voters. Became a law June 23, 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: 1909. ch. 64, a, as by added Section 1. Section fifty-one-a of chapter sixty-four of the laws L. of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to villages, constituting chapter sixty-four of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter four hundred and twenty-three of the laws of nineteen amended hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 51-a. Registration of voters. A village may adopt, at an annual or special election in the manner provided in this chapter for the submission of propositions, a proposition for the registration of voters at elections in such village as provided by this section, and thereafter the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-one1 of the election law that no registration shall be required for village elections shall not apply to such village. If such proposition be adopted the inspectors of election of each election district of such village shall meet on the tenth day preceding each election 1 As amended by L. 1910, ch. 424. ch. 423, in such village at the place in such election district where the election is to be held, and at such hours as the board of trustees or such members thereof as are in office, shall by resolution adopted at least twenty days before every registration day designate, which shall include at least four consecutive hours between sunrise and eight o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of preparing a register for such election, which shall, so far as practicable, be in the same form as the register of voters in such election district for the last preceding general election. The town clerk of the town shall, upon application, deliver to such inspectors the register of the last preceding general election in any election district in which such election district is wholly or partly situated. Such inspectors shall, for the annual village election, prepare a register for their election district by copying from the town register the names of all persons qualified to vote at such election in such district which appear upon the register of voters for the last preceding general election in such election district, except the names of such voters as are proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors to have ceased to be voters in such district since their names were placed upon such register, and shall add to such register the names of all persons known or proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the election for which such registration is made. Such inspectors shall in like manner prepare a register for each special election in such village, except that the register for the annual election in such village shall be used by them as the basis therefor. All the provisions of the election law in relation to the registration of voters shall, so far as practicable, apply to the registration provided for by this section. The village clerk shall furnish the necessary blank books and blanks at the expense of such village. Elections in such village shall be con- . ducted in the manner provided by this chapter and the election law, except that no person shall be entitled to vote thereat whose name does not appear upon the register of the election district in which he claims to be entitled to vote. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 2 Words" and at such hours in the evening," substituted for words "from four o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock in the evening." Chap. 428. AN ACT to make legal, ratify and confirm the organization, acts and proceedings of union free school district number two of the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, its board of education, officers and agents, in the matter of the issuance and sale of the bonds of said district, dated September first, nineteen hundred and ten, issued partly for the construction of a new schoolhouse in said district and partly for the purchase of a site therefor, to validate said bonds and provide for the raising of funds for their payment by taxation in said district. Became a law June 23, 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: zation trict, Section 1. The organization of the union free school district organl known as union free school district number two of the town of of disBrookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, formed by the consolidation legalized. of school districts number two, number three, and number four of the said town and county, is hereby made legal, ratified and confirmed. ings rela Issue of school legalized. legalized. § 2. All of the acts and proceedings of the legal voters of the Proceedsaid union free school district number two in the town of Brook- tive to haven, county of Suffolk, its board of education, officers and bonds for agents, in the matter of the issuance and sale of the bonds of the house, said district in the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars, for the construction of a new schoolhouse in the said district, and in the sum of four thousand dollars for the purchase of a site for the said new schoolhouse, all of said bonds bearing date of September Bonds first, nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby made legal, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement, in such acts and proceedings. § 3. All and each of the said bonds sold and awarded at public Bonds sale on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and ten, after due public advertisement, to the highest bidder at the par value thereof, for a premium and with accrued interest, all of the said bonds being dated September first, nineteen hundred and ten, each for five hundred dollars, numbered from one to sixtyfour, both inclusive, bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable annually, and maturing and payable as fol validated. Tax for payment. Pending actions. lows: Ten bonds on September first, nineteen hundred and fifteen; and thereafter, annually, three bonds on September first in each succeeding year, until all the said bonds are paid; are hereby in all respects made legal obligations of the said union free school district number two, and are hereby validated and confirmed notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement. 4. The board of education of the said union free school district number two, of the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, is hereby further authorized, empowered and directed, to raise annually by taxation upon the taxable property of the said union free school district number two, such sum or sums as shall be necessary to pay the interest and principal of the said bonds, as the same may become due, and until the said bonds, with interest, be fully paid. 5. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court of this state. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 429. AN ACT to exempt the real estate of charitable infant asylum corporations in the state of New York from certain assessments for public improvements. Became a law June 23, 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 real estate owned by any infant asylum corporation located in the state of New York, actually dedicated and used by such corporation exclusively as a place for the free maintenance, care and recreation of children of the age of six years. and under, shall be exempt from all assessments for public im provements which are now levied and assessed against such real estate. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 430. AN ACT to amend the personal property law, in relation to providing for trusts for care of cemetery and private burial lots outside of cemeteries. Became a law June 23, 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: L. 1909, ch. 45, added by Section 1. Section thirteen-a of chapter forty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to personal $ 13a, as property, constituting chapter forty-one of the consolidated laws," L. 1909, as amended' by chapter two hundred and eighteen of the laws of amended nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: 13-a. Trusts for care of cemetery lots, et cetera. Gifts, grants and bequests of personal property, in trust for the purpose of perpetual care and maintenance, improvement or embellishment of private burial lots, in or outside of cemeteries, and the walks, fences, monuments, structures and tombs thereon are permitted and shall be deemed to be for charitable and benevolent uses; and shall not be deemed to be invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries in the instrument erecting the same, nor shall they be deemed invalid as violating any existing laws against perpetuities or suspension of the power of alienation of title to property. But nothing herein contained shall affect any existing authority of courts to pass upon the reasonableness of the amount of such gift, grant or bequest. Any cemetery association may act as trustee of and execute any such trust with respect to lots, walks, fences, monuments, structures and tombs both within its own cemetery limits and outside. of any cemetery under its control, but within the county where such cemetery is located, whether such power be otherwise included in its corporate powers or not. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. ch. 218, |