amend the charter of the city of Jamestown," is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section to be section fifty-six-a, to read as follows: § 56-a. Fixing pay and expense of policemen and firemen injured while on duty. The common council shall have the authority, on approval of the mayor, to pay the whole or any part of the expenses, including physicians', surgeons', nurses' fees and hospital expenses, of any member of the police force and fire department, including officers of such force, during the period of disability caused by injury while on duty or while performing any service or doing any act while off duty that he might have been called upon to perform while on duty, and may pay, during disability caused by such injury, the whole or any part of the salary which such policeman, police officer or fireman would have earned except for the disability caused by such injury. § 2. This act shali take effect immediately. Annexation of part of Yonkers Chap. 664. AN ACT to annex to the city of New York territory lying within the city of Yonkers. Became a law May 26, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the Accepted by the Cities. State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All that territory, consisting of two parcels, comprised within the limits of the city of Yonkers and bounded and New York described as follows: city. to Description. Parcel 1. Beginning at a point in the center line of Webster avenue, formed by the intersection of such center line with the present northern boundary line of the city of New York, running thence easterly along the present northern boundary line of the city of New York six hundred eighteen and forty-seven onehundredths feet to the center line of Bronx river; thence northerly along said center line of Bronx river forty-seven and ninetythree one-hundredths feet to the northerly line of East Two Hundred and Thirty-eighth street; thence westerly along the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of East Two Hundred and Thirty-eighth street six hundred four and sixteen one-hundredths feet; and thence southwesterly sixty-five and six-tenths feet to the point of beginning; containing thirty-two thousand ninety-five and sixty-three one-hundredths square feet within such bounds; and Parcel 2. Beginning at a point in the center line of East Two Hundred and Fortieth street, formed by the intersection of such center line with the present northern boundary line of the city of New York, running thence easterly along said center line of East Two Hundred and Fortieth street sixty-two and twentythree one-hundredths feet; thence easterly on a line parallel to the northern line of McLean avenue and distant sixty feet therefrom, one hundred fifty-nine and forty-six one-hundredths feet to the present northern boundary line of the city of New York; and thence westerly along said present northern boundary line of the city of New York two hundred ten and fifty-six one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning; containing twenty-eight hundred sixty-eight and fifty-six one-hundredths square feet within such bounds, is hereby set off from the city of Yonkers and the county of Westchester, and annexed to, merged in and made part of the city of New York and the county of Bronx, and shall hereafter constitute a part of the city of New York and county of Bronx, and of the twenty-fourth ward of said city, subject to the same laws, ordinances, regulations, obligations and liabilities, and entitled to the same rights, privileges, franchises and immunities in every respect, and to the same extent as if such territory had been included within said city at the time of the grant and adoption of the first charter and organization thereof, and had so remained up to the passage of this act, and, as if such territory had been included within the said twenty-fourth ward by the provisions of chapter six hundred and thirteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the annexation of the towns of Morrisania, West Farms and Kingsbridge, in the county of Westchester, to the city and county of New York," and the several acts amendatory thereof, and had so remained up to the passage of this act. tax sales 1917 and § 2. The collector of taxes of the city of Yonkers shall con- Taxes and tinue in the execution of his duties in respect to the property for year hereby annexed to the city of New York, until he shall have col-prior year lected the taxes heretofore or hereafter authorized or assessed for fected. the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or for any year prior not af Property, ights, etc., transfer. obligations, effect on.. thereto, and until such collector shall have made his returns thereof, and paid over all moneys collected, as provided by law. Sales of land in the territory hereby annexed, for unpaid taxes, including taxes heretofore or hereafter authorized or assessed for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or for any year prior thereto, shall be made as heretofore, the same as if this act had not been passed; and all assessments made prior to the passage of this act for any local or public improvements shall be levied and collected as against said lands hereby annexed to the city of New York, as heretofore, the same as if this act had not been passed. § 3. All the public property of the city of Yonkers lying within the territory hereby annexed to the city of New York shall be vested in and is hereby declared to be the property of the city of New York, and the city of New York shall succeed to all the rights, claims, causes of action, rights to uncollected taxes, liens, uses, trusts, duties, privileges and immunities of the city of Yonkers, so far as they relate to the territory hereby annexed to the city of New York, except as herein otherwise provided. Such Debts and proportion of the debts and obligations of the city of Yonkers and the county of Westchester existing when this act shall take effect as should proportionately and equitably be paid by the inhabitants and property of the territory by this act annexed, and such other remuneration as should equitably be paid by the city of New York, for the property and rights acquired by it by this act, shall be paid by the city of New York to the said city of Yonkers and to said county of Westchester, respectively, and the city of Yonkers and the board of supervisors of Westchester county, for the county of Westchester, together with the city of New York, shall have power to determine the amount to be paid to said city of Yonkers and county of Westchester, respectively, in such manner as said city of New York shall be able to agree upon with said city of Yonkers and said county of Westchester, respectively. In case of the failure of the city of Yonkers to agree, within six months after the passage of this act, with the city of New York as to the proportion to be paid to said city of Yonkers, and in case the board of supervisors of the county of Westchester fail to agree, within six months after the passage of this act, with the city of New York, as to the proportion to be paid to said county of Westchester, the supreme court of the third judicial district shall have power to determine, in each case where such a disagreement occurs, upon the amount of such proportion, if any, and to enforce the same, in a suit in equity to be brought in the name of the city of Yonkers, not less than six months nor more than one year after the passage § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 665. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to incorporate the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in the city of New York," in relation to real and other property. Became a law May 26, 1917, 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: to L. 1895, amended by 1910, ch. 240. Section 1. Chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of 7a added eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An act to incorporate ch. 435, as the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in the city of New York," as amended by chapter two hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred. and ten, is hereby further amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows: Zoological additional 7-a. The board of estimate and apportionment in the city Bronx of New York may in its discretion set apart and appropriate park: upon such conditions as it may deem expedient for the extension lands and and development of the work and objects of the said New York tons auZoological Society, the whole or any part of that portion of Bronx park in the city of New York, lying to the south of Pelham avenue appropria thorized. and Pelham parkway, for the use of the said New York Zoological Society, the said lands so to be appropriated to be described particularly in the order of the board of estimate and apportionment hereby authorized. The said board of estimate and apportionment may also in its discretion at the time of setting apart and appropriating said lands or any part thereof to the New York Zoological Society, and annually thereafter, in addition to any sum or sums which it may have appropriated for the support and maintenance of the New York Zoological Park, appropriate to the use of said society, such sum or sums in its discretion for the care and maintenance of the additional lands that may be allotted to the said society under the authority hereby conferred, as it may deem best. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1906, ch. § 1, 125, subds. 1, 2, ch. 604, amended. Chap. 666. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the laws of rineteen hundred and six, entitled "An act in relation to illuminating gas in the city of New York and regulating the quality and pressure thereof and the price to consumers other than said city and providing a penalty for violation,” in relation to the price of and the agency for supplying gas to consumers in certain territory now in the borough of Brooklyn and formerly in the borough of Queens. Became a law May 26, 1917, 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. Subdivisions one and two of section one of chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and as amended six, entitled "An act in relation to illuminating gas in the city of by 1916, New York and regulating the quality and pressure thereof and the price to consumers other than said city and providing a penalty for violation," as amended by chapter six hundred and four of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: Price of gas. 1. In the borough of Manhattan, in the first ward of the borough of Queens, in the borough of Brooklyn, including also the |