Tax for payment. Pending actions. date of the issue and shall be so issued as to provide for the payment of the indebtedness in equal annual instalments, the first of which shall be payable not more than five years from their date and to apply the proceeds thereof toward the cost of erecting said village building for village offices and fire department purposes. § 3. There shall be raised annually by tax a sum sufficient to pay the principal and interest of said bonds as the same shall be come due and payable. § 4. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, ch. 16, § 232, subd. 31 amended. Chap. 203. AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the salary of the surrogate of Oneida county. Became a law May 31, 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. Subdivision thirty-one of section two hundred and thirty-two of chapter sixteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled " An act in relation to counties, constituting chapter eleven of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: 31. Oneida..........3,000.00 5,000.001 § 2. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. In effect Jan 1, 1913. 1 Formerly $3,500, Chap. 204. AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the attorney general. Became a law May 31, 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: 23, § 60, as by L. 1910, Section 1. Section sixty of chapter twenty-three of the laws of L. 1909, ch. nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to execu- amended tive officers, constituting chapter eighteen of the consolidated ch. 691. laws," as amended by chapter six hundred and ninety-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows:1 § 60. Salary and expenses. The attorney-general shall be paid an annual salary of ten thousand dollars. anmended. amended. § 2. Section sixty-one of such chapter is hereby amended to read $ 61 as follows:1 § 61. Deputies. The attorney-general may appoint such deputies as he may deem necessary and fix their compensation. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 205. AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to the preparation and filing of maps and description of the corporate limits of certain incorporated villages. Became a law May 31, 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: 64, § 80 Section 1. *To amend section eighty of chapter sixty-four of the L. 1909, ch laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to amended. villages, constituting chapter sixty-four of the consolidated laws," is he. by amended to read as follows: So in original. 1 Section materially amended. § 80. President. The president of a village is its executive officer and the head of its police force. It is his duty to see that the provisions of this chapter, and the resolutions and ordinances of the board of trustees, are enforced, to cause all offenses created thereby to be prosecuted, to institute civil actions in the corporate name of the village for penalties recoverable by the village, to exercise supervision over the conduct of the police and other subordinate officers of the village, and to recommend to the board of trustees such measures as he may think necessary. If the president be absent or unable to perform the duties of his office, the trustees shall appoint one of their number to act as president, who, during the absence or inability of the president, is vested with all the powers and may perform all the duties of the president. If he be the president of a village incorporated prior to July eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, he shall cause to be prepared an outline map and description of the corporate limits of such village, which map shall be drawn or traced in black india ink on tracing cloth, which map and description shall be certified by him as true and correct, and transmitted to, and filed by the secretary of state as a record of his office. Within sixty days after this act becomes a law it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to notify the president of each of the villages herein designated to file with him within sixty days after such notification such map and description as herein required. The cost of preparing such outline inap and description shall be a proper charge in the maintenance of the government of the village. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 206. AN ACT to amend the code of civil procedure, in relation to challenges to jury. Became a law May 31, 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 eleven hundred and eighty of the code of civil procedure is hereby amended to read as follows: $1180 amended. 1 Remainder of section new. of jurors, determi court. § 1180. An objection to the qualifications of a juror is avail- Challenges able only upon a challenge. A challenge of a juror, or a chal- how tried. lenge to the panel or array of jurors, must be tried and determined by the court only. Either party may except to the deter- Review of mination, and it may be reviewed, upon a question of fact, or a nation of question of law, or both, as where an issue of fact presented by the pleadings is tried by the court; except that where one or more exceptions are taken to the rulings of the court, made after the jury is empaneled, an exception to the determination of a challenge must be heard at the same time; and the case must contain the matters necessary to present it, upon the facts, or the law, or both. The fact that a juror is in the employ of a party to the Grounds action; or, if a party to the action is a corporation, that he is an lenges. employee thereof or a shareholder or a stockholder therein; or in actions for damages for injuries to person or property, that he is a shareholder, stockholder, director, officer or employee, or in any manner interested, in any insurance company issuing policies for protection against liability for damages for injury to person or property, shall constitute a good ground for a challenge to the favor as to such juror. 1 for chal § 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hun- In effect dred and eleven. Sept. 1, 1911. Chap. 207. AN ACT to amend the membership corporations law, in relation to Young Men's Christian Associations. Became a law May 31, 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. Chapter forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and $ 144 added nine, entitled "An act relating to membership corporations, con- ch. 40. stituting chapter thirty-five of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by inserting therein, as part of article eight thereof, and after section one hundred and forty-three, a new section to be known as section one hundred and forty-four, to read as follows: $144. Incorporation of county committees. Any ten or more to L. 1909, 1 Words "or in actions for damages or property," new. men, resident in any county of this state, appointed by the state executive committee of Young Men's Christian Associations of the state of New York, to act as the county committee of Young Men's Christian Associations for such county, which appointment shall be evidenced by a certificate to that effect under the hand of the chairman of such state executive committee, and duly acknowledged by him, and filed in the office of the secretary of state with the certificate of incorporation hereinafter provided for, may become a corporation for the purpose of improving the spiritual, mental, social and physical condition of young men, by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the particular objects for which the corporation is to be formed; which objects shall conform to the general rules and regulations of, and shall be approved by, the state executive committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of this state, by the certificate of its chairman endorsed thereon; the name of the proposed corporation which shall be "The County Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of County, New York" (the blank space being filled by the name of the county in which the incorporators reside); the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the names and places of residence of the persons to be its officers until the first annual election; the names of six trustees, each of whom shall be a member of some protestant evangelical denomination, and not more than two of whom shall be members of any one denomination, and shall be divided into three classes to hold office for one, two and three years respectively, or until their successors are elected by a majority vote of all the members of such corporation. Such certificate shall not be filed without the approval of a justice of the supreme court endorsed thereon, or annexed thereto. On filing such certificate in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, and their successors, shall be a corporation in accordance with the provi sions of such certificate. The management and control of the property and affairs of such corporation shall be vested in its members and their suecessors in office, except that the powers and duties of the trustees thereof shall be those specified in section one hundred and fortyone of this article; and the successors of such members shall be elected annually at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the county for which such committee has been appointed, at which meeting each association may be represented by one delegate for each ten active members of such association. |