Improvc. Inents at Chap. 345 AN ACT to provide for the construction of improvements and facilities at the New York State Reformatory. BECAME a law April 21, 1896, 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 board of managers of the New York State Refor reformatory matory at Elmira, upon plans and specifications and contracts are hereby authorized: Appropria tion. 1. To make such alterations and repairs to buildings already constructed as shall provide suitable bathing facilities for the inmates and suitable apartments for shoe-shop, tailor-shop, laundry and photographing. 2. To make alterations and repairs on the roofs and cornices to better preserve the building from damage. 3. To make proper enlargement and change of the main business entrance to the reformatory. 4. To excavate, floor and roof additional yard space to be used for storage of an additional supply of coal. 5. To construct a concrete or asphalt flooring for the present earth surface of the drill hall. 6. To enlarge the water reservoir or by other means increase the water supply for the reformatory. 7. To enlarge, change and construct cooking-rooms, diningrooms and store-rooms. § 2. For the purpose of providing means for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated payable on the warrant of the comptroller to the order of said board of managers, out of any money heretofore appropriated for the maintenance of said reformatory and its inmates, remaining unexpended, and from prisoners' earnings. And said moneys, or so much thereof, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, as is necessary, is hereby reappropriated for the purposes in this act Fepends. specified; but no part of such money shall be expended by the said ture re- board of managers for the erection of any building for the accom stricted. modation of a greater number of inmates than the said reformatory can now accommodate. §3. This act shal take effect immediately. Chap. 346 AN ACT to reappropriate money for the erection of a state armory in the village of Tonawanda, county of Eric, as pro vided for by chapter three hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. BECAME a law April 21, 1896, 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: Reappro Section 1. The balance remaining in the treasury unexpended on of the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars, appropriated by chapter three hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, providing for acquiring a site for and erecting a state armory in the village of Tonawanda, county of Erie, which said balance is the sum of ten thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and two cents, is hereby appropriated for the same purpose; and the comptroller is directed, from time to time, of same. to pay the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the aforesaid purpose, out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated, on the written requisition of the commission appointed by and under chapter three hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Parment 7 Improvements authorized. tion for of work. Chap. 348. AN ACT to authorize the deepening and widening of the canal leading from Shinnecock bay to Great South bay in the town of Southampton, in the county of Suffolk, and making an appropriation therefor. BECAME a law April 21, 1896 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 superintendent of public works is hereby authorized to dredge and widen the canal and channels leading from Shinnecock bay to Great South bay, in the town of Southampton, in the county of Suffolk. Such work shall be done in accordance with plans, specifications and estimates furnished by the state engineer and surveyor, or approved by him. Appropria- § 2. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may completion be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the completion of the work herein authorized, to be paid by the treasurer upon warrant of the comptroller to the order of the superintendent of public works. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropria tion. Chap. 351. AN ACT making a further appropriation to erect a monument to the memory of General Nicholas Herkimer, on the family burial lot upon which his remains are buried. BECAME a law April 21, 1896, 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 twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required in addition to the sum of three thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, is hereby appropriated out of the moneys in the treasury of the state, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a suit Payment sioners. able monument in memory of General Nicholas Herkimer, upon the lot where his remains are buried in the county of Herkimer; and the comptroller of the state is hereby authorized and required to commis to pay and advance to the commissioners who have been appointed in pursuance of the provisions of chapter six hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, whenever required by them, the said additional sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as the said commissioners shall require. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 356. AN ACT to amend the railroad law relating to foreclosure and sale of property under decree of United States courts, or any court of competent jurisdiction. BECAME a law April 21, 1896, 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 seventy-six of chapter five hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the consolidation act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, known as the railroad law, constituting chapter thirty-nine of the general laws, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 76. Foreclosure of mortgages made by (consolidated) railroads partly in the State. Whenever a railroad corporation of this or of any other state or states whose line of road lies partly in this state and partly in another state or states, shall have executed a mortgage upon its entire line of railroad, and a sale of the entire line of road under such mortgage shall have been or may hereafter be ordered, adjudge and decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state or states, or by a court of the United States sitting within the state or states in which the greater part of such line of railroad may be situated, upon the confirmation of such judgment or decree, and of the sale made thereunder, by the supreme court of this state or by the circuit court of the United States in the judicial district in which some part of such line of road is situated, such sale shall operate to pass title to the purchaser, of that part of the line of railroad lying in this state, together with its appurtenances and franchises, with the same force and effect as if the judgment or decree under which such sale is had, had been made by a court of competent jurisdiction of this state. Such judgment or decree and sale may be so ordered, adjudged, decreed or confirmed in any action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter brought in the supreme court, or in a court of the United States sitting in this state, for the foreclosure of such mortgage, or in aid of an action for that purpose in such other state or states, if it shall appear that such confirmation is for the interest of the public and of the parties, due and lawful provision being made for and in respect of any liens upon that part of the line of road or other property sold situate in this state, and for such costs, expenses, and charges which may appear to be just and lawful. If a receiver of the entire line of such railroad shall have been, or may hereafter be appointed by such court of competent jurisdiction of the state in which the greater part of the line of railroad is situated, or by a court of the United States sitting in such other state, such receiver may perform, within this state, the duties of his office not inconsistent with the laws of this state, and may sue and be sued in the courts of this state. § 2. Section seventy-seven of the railroad law is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 77. Powers of corporations organized to acquire and operate railroads partly in the state- A railroad corporation created under the laws of the state or states in which the greater part of the line of its railroad may be situated, or a railroad corporation created under the railroad law, or under article one of the stock corporation law in this state, for the purpose of taking title to, and operating, the line of road as so sold, under a judgment or decree of a court of this state, or of a court of the United States sitting in this state, for the foreclosure of a mort gage, with its franchises and appurtenances, may hold, possess and operate not only those parts of the railroad lying in other states, but also that part of the line of such railroad lying in this state, and shall be subject to the duties and liabilities to which such corporation was, by the laws of this state, subject, and to such further or other duties and liabilities as are now or may hereafter be imposed by law upon railroad corporations of this state, and the provisions of the stock corporation law con |