70. Board of trustees; how constituted; powers and duties. The Schuyler mansion and grounds connected therewith, acquired by the state pursuant to the provisions of chapter thirty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be managed by a board of ten trustees, of whom at least three shall be women, to be known as the board of trustees of the Schuyler mansion, who shall be appointed by the governor for terms of five years each, but the trustees first appointed shall be divided into classes so that the term of two shall expire annually thereafter on the first day of April. A meeting of the board shall be held annually on the first Tuesday of April, at which meeting a president, secretary and treasurer shall be appointed from such trustees, except that the first annual meeting may be held as soon as practicable after this article takes effect, upon the call of a majority of the trustees. Other meetings may be held at such times and called in such manner as the board may prescribe. The board shall have the management, supervision and custody of said premises and of all property of the state therein or thereon and shall preserve the same, as nearly as may be, in their original style. It may collect and acquire for the state, and preserve within and upon the premises, such furniture, relics, mementoes and records as it deems appropriate. The board may take money or property by gift or bequest for any purpose consistent with its said powers and duties and shall direct the expenditure of all moneys realized thereby or appropriated for any of the foregoing purposes but shall incur no debt or liability in excess of funds in its hands or available for the payment thereof. It may adopt and enforce suitable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, relating to its powers, duties and affairs and to the admission to and use of said building and grounds by the public, but visitors shall be admitted to said premises and allowed to view the same and the property therein during reasonable hours, without charge. The trustees and officers of the board shall serve without compensation. 71. The keeper and his compensation; other expenditures. The board shall appoint a keeper of said buildings, grounds and property, who shall reside on the premises and receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars and perform such services as the board may direct. One thousand dollars shall be paid annually to the president of the board of trustees in equal semi-annual payments on the first day of April and October by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, to be expended under the di rection of the board for repairs to the property and care of the building and grounds; but moneys appropriated, if any, in excess of that amount, either for the same or other purposes relating to such premises or property, shall be paid out only upon vouchers itemized as provided in section twelve of the state finance law and approved by the president of the board. No keeper, trustee or officer of the board shall have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract for material or labor furnished pursuant to the provisions of this article. 872. Account; annual report. The board shall keep an accurate account of all of its expenditures and shall annually render to the comptroller, on or before the first day of December, a report and statement thereof, verified by the president of the board, accompanied with itemized vouchers of all sums expended for repairs to the property and care of the building and grounds from moneys theretofore advanced to the president of the board under the provisions of section seventy-one. priation prove mainte § 2. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much Approthereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the for imgeneral fund to the board of trustees of Schuyler mansion, created ment and and to be organized under the provisions of article six of the nance. public buildings law as added by this act, to become available as soon as said board is organized, for the improvement and maintenance of and repairs to the Schuyler mansion property, and care of its grounds, for the purchase and collection of furniture, relics, mementoes and records to be placed therein and thereon, and for salary of the keeper thereof; the moneys hereby appropriated to be paid out by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller upon vouchers approved by the chairman of 'said board, except that the stated sums provided in section seventy-one of the public buildings law to be advanced to the chairman of the board shall be paid to him as therein provided, the installment for April to be paid as soon after this act takes effect as the board is organized. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 441. AN ACT making an appropriation for the equipment of kitchen and dining-room building at the Central Islip State Hospital for the Insane. B.came a law June 26, 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 amount hereinafter named, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes specified, to be expended under the direction of the state commission in lunacy. For the Central Islip State Hospital for the Insane for the furniture and equipment necessary for the recently constructed kitchen and dining-room building to be used in connection with the cottages for six hundred insane patients, eleven thousand dollars ($11,000). § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Agreements valid upon Chap. 442. AN ACT to authorize and empower the city of Buffalo to carry out and perform the terms and conditions of certain contracts, executed or to be executed, relating to the public highways known respectively as the sea-wall strip and the Hamburg turnpike and the public grounds and streets adjacent thereto, and to make valid and binding upon the parties thereto the several covenants and agreements therein contained, upon the approval of said contracts by the common council and mayor of said city. Became a law June 26, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the Accepted by the City. State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Upon the approval by the common council and mayor of the city of Buffalo of two certain contracts or agree of of common ments known respectively as the sea-wall agreement and the Ham- approval burg turnpike agreement, dated the twenty-fourth day of De- council. cember, nineteen hundred and ten, signed by the mayor, commissioner of public works and corporation counsel of said city on behalf of the city and by the authorized officers of the other parties to said agreements, on behalf of said parties, thereafter and on or about the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and eleven, submitted to the common council pursuant to the requirements of chapter three hundred and ten of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, and printed in the minutes of the proceedings of the board of aldermen of said city of said date, or upon the approval any modifications of said agreements by said common council and mayor and by the other parties thereto whose interests are affected thereby each of said agreements as so printed or modified shall become a force according to the provisions thereof, and the city of Buffalo, its officers, agents and employees shall have full power and authority to carry out and perform all the terms and conditions thereof and of each of said agreements on its part to be kept and performed; and all the covenants and agreements thereof and of each of them shall be valid and binding upon each and all the parties thereto. Provided, however, that no modification of either of said agreements cost limas heretofore submitted to the common council and printed in the minutes of the proceedings of the board of aldermen as aforesaid, shall be made or authorized which shall increase the total cost to the city of the work or improvements provided for in said agreements so submitted and printed. ited. incon acts. § 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith or con- Effect trary hereto shall have no application to the provisions of either sistent of said agreements or to the work to be done pursuant thereto or to the method or manner of defraying the cost of said work. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. of Proceedings leading to bond Issue legalized. Bonds vali dated, Chap. 443. AN ACT to legalize and validate certain bonds of the town of Massena, Saint Lawrence county, for providing moneys for building a highway bridge in said town at Massena Center, and to legalize, ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings of the electors, town board, officers and agents of said town, in relation to the issuance and sale thereof, and to regulate the delivery of said bonds and the preservation and application of the proceeds thereof, and provide for their payment. Became a law June 26, 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. All the acts and proceedings of the town board of the town of Massena, Saint Lawrence county, New York, its officers and agents, in receiving the petition of the taxpayers of said town for the special town meeting, and the acts and proceedings of the town clerk of said town, in the posting and publication of the notice for such special town meeting, held on the eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred and ten, for the purpose of determining upon a proposition of borrowing money for constructing a new bridge over the Grasse river at Massena Center and connecting the public highways of said town; the holding of said special town meeting and the adoption of such a proposition by the qualified voters thereof; the acts and proceedings of the said town board petitioning the board of supervisors for authority to issue said bonds; the proceedings of the board of supervisors authorizing such town to issue its bonds for that purpose, and all acts of said town board and of the electors, officers and agents of said town. from the inception of said proceedings, first hereinabove specified, leading up to and including the sale and award on the tenth day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven, of the bonds of said town in the amount of forty thousand dollars for the building of such bridge, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, notwithatanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any lawful requirement in such acts and proceedings. § 2. All and each of said bonds so sold and awarded as aforesaid, consisting of forty coupon bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, dated as of December first, nineteen hun |