Resale. may authorize the resale thereof in such manner and bearing such rate of interest not more than five per centum per annum, as it may direct, at public or private sale, but for not less than par. Payment, § 3. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be a town charge, and be paid as the same become due, from the proceeds of the tax apportioned upon said water district, or should such proceeds at any time prove insufficient therefor, from any other general or contingent fund, or by a general tax upon said town. Fending actions. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. § 4. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending. Extension authorized. Chap. 8. AN ACT authorizing the extension of the term of corporate existence of the Masonic Building Association, and authorizing the trustees and stockholders of the said Masonic Building Association to execute and file and have recorded a certificate or certificates of extension of the time of the corporate existence thereof, and legalizing certain of the acts, transactions and proceedings of said Masonic Building Association, its officers, trustees and stockholders. Became a law March 3, 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 trustees and stockholders of the Masonic Buildexistenerate ing Association, a domestic corporation whose principal place of business is located at, and whose operations are carried on at Ellenville, Ulster county, the term of corporate existence of which expired on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four, pursuant to law, are hereby authorized, at any time within six months after this act shall take effect, to execute and file and have recorded any certificate, certificates or instruments required or necessary to extend the corporate existence of said Masonic Building Association, for a term not exceeding one hundred years beyond the time specified by law for its duration, to-wit, March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and four, with the same force and effect as though the same had been executed, filed and recorded prior to the time when the corporate existence of said Masonic Building Association expired. Said certificate, certificates or instruments shall be in the form re- Proced quired by the general statutes of the state for such purpose, and there shall be paid for such recording and extension all fees required under said statutes. The secretary of state and county clerk of the proper county are hereby severally directed to receive, file and record, such certificate, certificates or instruments in every respect as though the same had been filed prior to the time when the corporate existence of said Masonic Building Association expired. continued. § 2. The said corporation, after the execution and filing of the Rights certificate, certificates or instruments mentioned in section one shall continue to be possessed and seized of all the property, and to be vested with all the rights and privileges, had, possessed, owned and enjoyed by the said Masonic Building Association, on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four, or at any time prior thereto, and all property, rights and privileges had, owned, possessed and enjoyed by said Masonic Building Association at the date of the passage of this act, subject to the liabilities and restrictions provided by law. ings from 1904, legal. § 3. All the acts, transactions and proceedings of the said ProceedMasonic Building Association and of the stockholders, trustees and Mar. 28. officers thereof in carrying on, conducting and transacting the ized. business of, and making contracts in behalf of said Masonic Building Association, and the election and appointment of all officers thereof from the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four, to the date of the passage of this act, are hereby legalized and made as valid and effective as though the existence of said corporation had been duly extended from said twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four, according to law, and was in full force and effect at the time such acts, transactions, proceedings, contracts, elections and appointments aforesaid, were done, made, performed, occurred, had and entered into, provided this act shall not affect any action or pro-Pending ceeding commenced prior to the passage of the same. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. actions L. 1909, ch. 57, § 45, as Chap. 9. AN ACT to amend the state charities law in relation to estimates. Became a law March 6, 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. Section forty-five of chapter fifty-seven of the laws amended by of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to state 149,1909, ch. charities constituting chapter fifty-five of the consolidated laws," amended. as amended by chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended1 to read as follows: 2 § 45. * Monthly estimates of expenses; contingent fund. The superintendent or other managing officer of each of the state institutions reporting to the fiscal supervisor shall quarterly, upon such day as the fiscal supervisor shall direct, cause to be prepared triplicate estimates in minute detail of the expense required for the institution of which he has the supervision, for the ensuing quarter. He shall countersign and submit two of such triplicates to the fiscal supervisor and retain the other to be placed on file in the office of the institution. The fiscal supervisor may cause such estimates to be revised either as to quantity or quality of supplies and the estimated cost thereof, and shall certify that he has carefully examined the same and that the articles contained in such estimate, as approved or revised by him, are actually required for the use of the institution and shall thereupon present such estimate and certificate to the comptroller. Upon the revision and approval of such estimate the comptroller shall authorize the board of managers, trustees or other managing officers of such institution to make drafts on him as the money may be required for the purposes mentioned in such estimates, which draft shall be paid on his warrant out of the funds in the treasury of the state appropriated for the support of such institutions. In every such estimate there shall be a sum named, not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, as a contingent fund, for which no minute detailed statement need be made. No expenditures shall be made from such contingent fund, * So in original. 1 Section 45 is further amended by L. 1911, ch. 405, post. 2 Words "quarterly, upon such day as the fiscal supervisor shall direct," substituted for words on or before the fifteenth day of each month." except in case of actual emergency requiring immediate action, and which cannot be deferred without loss or danger to the institution or the inmates thereof. The treasurer of any such institution shall pay no accounts unless they are contained in the estimate provided in this section and duly approved by the fiscal supervisor: nor shall the treasurer of any institution named or referred to in this section pay accounts for supplies furnished to officers or employees unless the same be drawn from the ordinary supplies provided for the general use of the institution. No persons, other than the officers and employees of such institutions, and the families of the superintendents, medical officers, adjutants, quartermasters or stewards, necessarily residing therein, shall be allowed rooms and maintenance, except at a rate fixed by the state comptroller and the fiscal supervisor with the approval of the governor. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 10. AN ACT to provide for the submission of a proposition to the taxpayers of the village of Silver Creek to determine whether the expense, within certain limits, of maintaining a building for public purposes to be conveyed to the Silver Creek Memorial Association, herein incorporated, shall be borne by said village, and to regulate the management and control of said building. Became a law March 6, 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: rected. Section 1. At the annual village election to be held in March, submission nineteen hundred and eleven, the trustees of the village of Silver tione diCreek shall submit to the taxpayers thereof the following proposition: Shall the village of Silver Creek assume, to the extent of twelve hundred dollars annually, the expense of maintaining for public purposes a building in said village to be conveyed by the Lee heirs to the Silver Creek Memorial Association and to cost . Notice of election. about thirty-five thousand dollars? Notice of the time and place of such election, together with a copy of the proposition to be submitted thereat, shall be published in the official paper in the village of Silver Creek once in each week for at least two weeks immediately preceding the time of holding the same, and shall be posted Vote, how in at least ten public places in such village. The vote on such proposition shall be by ballot, in the form, so far as practicable, prescribed by section three hundred and thirty-two of the election law. taken. Annual appropriation § 2. If such proposition shall be adopted, the trustees of the for main- village of Silver Creek shall set aside twelve hundred dollars tenance. Silver Associa annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining and keeping in good repair the building hereinafter specified. § 3. Twelve persons, to be named in the first instance by the trustees of said village, and all other persons who shall hereafter tion incor- be associated with them, are hereby created a body corporate under Such cor porated; purposes and powers. Powers as the name of the Silver Creek Memorial Association. § 4. Such corporation shall have power to take and hold real to property. and personal estate by purchase, gift, devise, or bequest, subject to the provisions of law. Trustees. Annual meeting. § 5. The number of trustees of the corporation hereby created shall be twelve, and the successors of said original trustees shall be elected in such manner and at such times as may be prescribed by the by-laws to be adopted by said corporation, which is authorized to alter, modify and change the same from time to time as shall be prescribed therein. Such trustees shall constitute the governing board or body of said corporation and shall be called its board of directors. § 6. Such corporation shall hold in said building to be accepted by said corporation in the village of Silver Creek a stated annual meeting in such manner and subject to such regulations as its byEmployees. laws may provide. Said board of directors shall have power to |