Chap. 4. AN ACT to incorporate the Harriman Research Laboratory. Became a law January 30, 1913, 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: tors. name. Section 1. William G. Lyle, M. D., Lewis R. Morris, M. D., CorporaMary W. Harriman, Wirt Howe, Robert L. Gerry, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of Corporate The Harriman Research Laboratory for the purpose of conducting, assisting and encouraging scientific investigation, experimen- Purpose. tation, and research in the sciences and arts of hygiene, medicine and surgery, physics, chemistry, bacteriology and allied subjects, in the nature and causes of disease and the methods of its prevention and treatment and making knowledge relating to these various subjects available to the public. It shall be within the purposes of said corporation to use any means to those ends which from time to time shall seem to it expedient, including research, publication, education. to property of member § 2. The corporation hereby formed shall have the power to Powers as take and hold by bequest, devise, gift, purchase, lease or otherwise, and income either absolutely, or in trust, for any of its purposes any property, real or personal, without limitation as to amount or value, except such limitation, if any, as the legislature shall hereafter impose; to convey such property and to invest and re-invest any principal and deal with and expend the income of the corporation in such manner as in the judgment of the trustees shall best promote its objects. It shall have the powers and be subject to Application all the restrictions which now appertain by law to membership ship corcorporations so far as the same are applicable thereto, and are laws. not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. By the way of amplification and not by the way of limitation of its powers, it Further shall further have power to build, purchase, improve, enlarge, powers. equip and maintain laboratories and other buildings in the city of New York and elsewhere necessary or appropriate for its work, to own and operate land and buildings for the breeding, raising and keeping of plants and animals to be used for the purposes; to furnish treatment for diseases of man and of animals, and to poration specific tion. By-laws. provide and maintain all necessary equipment therefor; to conduct and assist such scientific experiments or investigations upon plants or animals as may be necessary or proper for carrying on its work of research; to appoint committees of experts to direct special lines of research, to aid, co-operate with other associations or corporations engaged in similar work within the United States of America, or elsewhere; to aid and co-operate with investigators, in its own laboratories or elsewhere; to collect statistics and information, and to publish and distribute documents, reports and periodicals; to carry on such educational work along the lines of its corporate purposes as it may deem wise; to provide for such and furnish public instruction in hygiene, sanitation and the laws of health, to conduct lectures and hold meetings; to acquire and maintain a library, and in general to do and perform all things necessary or convenient for the promotion of the obOrganiza- jects of the corporation or any of them. The persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, shall hold a meeting and organize the corporation and adopt by-laws, not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of this state, which shall prescribe the qualifications of members, the number of members who shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at Directors. meetings, the number of directors by whom the affairs of the corporation shall be managed, the qualifications, powers, and manner of selection of the directors and officers of the corporation and any other provisions for the management and disposition of the property and regulation of the affairs of the corporation which may be deemed expedient. The corporation shall have power by by-laws or contract to create a board of trustees, to which it may delegate such of the powers, duties and obligations of the members or directors of such corporation as it may deem wise, including the power to choose directors and to have the care, custody and management of its property, subject to such provisions and limitations as may be therein prescribed; and the number of such trustees may be fixed and altered and their appointment may be made in such manner, at such times, and by such persons, boards or corporations, whether members of this corporation or not as may be therein provided. Members. Board of trustees; powers, duties, number, Pecuniary profit compensa 3. No officer, member, trustee, director, or employee of said prohibited; corporation shall be entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from the operation thereof, except reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of its corporate purposes. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. tions. Chap. 5. AN ACT making an appropriation for the investigation, care, maintenance and improvement of the state reservation at Saratoga Springs. Became a law February 6, 1913, 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 sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the investigation, care, maintenance and improvement of the state reservation at Saratoga Springs by the commissioners of said reservation to be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller upon vouchers approved by the said commissioners. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 6. AN ACT making appropriations for certain immediate expenses of the legislature, and providing for deficiencies in former appropriations therefor. Became a law February 7, 1913, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The several sums hereinafter named, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter provided: FROM THE GENERAL FUND. LEGISLATIVE. For deficiency for expenses of legislative committees, including Miscella compensation of witnesses; for indexing the bills, journals and neous expenses. Bill draft ing de partment documents of the senate and assembly; for indexing the executive journals of the senate and for preparation of supplementary indices to senate and assembly bills, journals and documents, to be paid upon the certificate of the temporary president of the senate or the speaker of the assembly, respectively; for postage and transportation of letters, reports, documents and other matter sent by express or freight, including boxes and coverings for the same, for printing and furnishing the legislative manual and clerk's manual; for law and reference books and publications for the senate and assembly libraries, committees and legislature; for legislative indices to senate and assembly bills, journals and documents; for extra clerical services and engrossing; for furniture, alteration and repairs to legislative rooms, and for other contingent expenses of the legislature, to be paid upon the certificate of the clerk of the senate or assembly, respectively, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary. For deficiency for the advances by the comptroller to the clerks of the senate and assembly for the clergymen officiating as chaplains, to be paid at the rate of five dollars for each day of attendance; for printing, stationery, supplies, file boards and record books; for preparation, proof reading and comparison of journals and financial reports; clerical and stenographic services; for engrossing resolutions; for books and blanks; for care of bills, documents and library; for law books and binding of books and records; for steel cases, furniture and appurtenances; for expenses for receiving reports and printed documents, storing, addressing and forwarding the same; for extra clerical service; and for other contingent expenses, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the compensation of additional assistants in the legislative bill drafting department and for additional necessary incidental office expenses during the legislative session, for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the department, to be paid upon the certificate of the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 7. AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to agents. Became a law February 10, 1913, 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: 33, § 142, L. 1911, ch. amended by chaps. 1, Section 1. Section one hundred and forty-two of chapter L. 1909, ch. thirty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled as added by "An act in relation to insurance corporations, constituting chap- 748, and ter twenty-eight of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter L. 1912, seven hundred and forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred 172, reand eleven, and amended by chapters one and one hundred and seventy-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby repealed. pealed. added. § 2. Such chapter is hereby amended by inserting therein a New § 142 new section to be section one hundred and forty-two thereof to read as follows: 142. Agent's certificate of authority. The term "agent" in this section shall include an acknowledged agent or any person, partnership, association or corporation who shall in any manner aid in transacting the insurance business of any underwriter, incorporated or unincorporated, by negotiating for or placing risks or delivering policies or collecting premiums, but shall not include the officers and salaried employees of any such underwriter, who do not receive commissions. Every underwriter, incorporated or unincorporated, engaged in the transaction of any business of insurance within this state, upon the employment or termination of the employment of any person, partnership, association or corporation to act as its agent within this state, shall certify such fact together with the name and address of such agent to the superintendent of insurance; and shall also annually during the month of January, in such form as the superintendent of insurance shall prescribe, file with him a list of the names and addresses of all its agents authorized to act as such within the state. No person, partnership, association or corporation shall as agent act for any such underwriter in this state, unless such underwriter shall have fully complied with the provisions of this chapter nor unless such agent shall have procured an agent's certificate of authority from the superintendent of insurance. The superintendent of insur |