The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Baumes, from the committee on codes, reported said bill amended as directed, and the same was ordered reprinted and placed on the order of third reading.

The Senate bill (No. 531, Int. No. 508) entitled "An act to amend the Tax Law, in relation to fees to collector of returned taxes in Lewis county," having been announced for third reading, Mr. Keck moved that said bill be recommitted to the committee on taxation and retrenchment.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative.

The Senate resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and proceeded to the consideration of general orders, being the bills entitled as follows:

(1) Senate (No. 1658, Int. No. 1091), entitled "An act to amend the Tax Law, in relation to review of determination of Tax Commission as to the franchise tax on business corporations by certiorari, and regulations as to the writ."

(2) Senate (No. 1706, Int. No. 670), entitled "An act to amend the Conservation Law, in relation to marking and visiting traps.' (3) Senate (No. 1705, Int. No. 1075), entitled "An act to amend the Education Law, in relation to the consolidation of boards of trustees of public colleges which are parts of the public school system in any city of a million inhabitants or more, into one board of higher education, and the establishment of collegiate centers." (4) Senate (No. 1703, Int. No. 1307), entitled "An act to amend the Town Law, in relation to the appointment of an attorney.' (5) Senate (No. 171, Int. No. 171), entitled "An act to amend the Village Law, in relation to public inspection and parade of the fire department."

(6) Senate (No. 1704, Int. No. 875), entitled "An act to amend the Railroad Law, in relation to the ownership and operation of motor vehicles upon highways."

(7) Senate (No. 1711, Int. No. 1103), entitled "An act to amend the Civil Practice Act, with relation to costs in actions brought in certain courts of the city of New York."

(8) Senate (No. 1728, Int. No. 1316), entitled "An act to amend section two hundred and seven of the Highway Law, in relation to the maintenance of a highway laid out upon the line between a city, town or village, or wholly in one city, town or village but adjacent to another city, town or village."

(9) Senate (No. 1727, Int. No. 1345), entitled "An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to penalties for, and injunction against, solicitation of membership in certain fraternal benefit societies."

(10) Senate (No. 1726, Int. No. 1353) entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for supplying the village of Sing Sing with water, and authorizing

the issue of bonds therefor, and to create a board of water commissioners for said village,' as amended, in relation to the construction of extensions and additions and the assessment of the cost thereof upon the property benefited thereby.

(11) Senate (No. 1730, Int. No. 837), entitled "An act to amend the Highway Law, in relation to the definition of the term 'motor vehicle.'"'

(12) Senate (No. 1729, Int. No. 840) entitled "An act to amend the Highway Law, in relation to requiring indemnity bonds or insurance policies from owners of motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire."

(13) Senate (No. 1710, Int. No. 1240), entitled "An act to authorize the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church society of Gowanda, in the county of Cattaraugus, to remove the remains. of deceased persons buried in the old cemetery on Hill street in the village of Gowanda and to reinter the same in the Gowanda Pine Hill cemetery at Gowanda."

(14) Senate (No. 1731, Int. No. 687), entitled "An act establishing the office of register of deeds in and for the county of Queens, and providing for the election of a register of deeds.

(15) Senate (No. 1720, Int. No. 102), entitled "An act to amend the Workmen's Compensation Law, in relation to failure to secure compensation."

(16) Senate (No. 1609, Int. No. 139), entitled "An act to amend the Workmen's Compensation Law, in relation to enforcement of payment in default."

(17) Senate (No. 398, Int. No. 391), entitled "An act to amend the Insanity Law, in relation to licensing private institutions for the treatment of narcotic drug addiction."

(18) Senate (No. 655, Int. No. 616), entitled "An act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, in relation to disorderly persons. (19) Senate (No. 781, Int. No. 718), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, try and determine the claim of Harry Kross against the State of New York for damages to his property and automobile alleged to have been sustained by him on the twenty-seventh day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, by reason of the negligence of the State and to make an award and render judgment therefor."

(20) Senate (No. 954, Int. No. 856), entitled "An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to pensions for officers and employees of domestic life insurance corporations."

(21) Senate (No. 999, Int. No. 901), entitled "An act making an appropriation for the construction, reconstruction and widening of main highway routes in the counties of Nassau and Erie, to relieve the congestion caused by traffic from and to the cities of New York and Buffalo.

(22) Senate (No. 1147, Int. No. 1017), entitled "An act to amend the Railroad Law, in relation to procuring consent of local authorities."

(23) Senate (No. 1159, Int. No. 1040), entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a State debt and making an appropria

tion for the construction of buildings at the Division of Laboratories and Research of the Department of Health of the State of New York."

(24) Senate (No. 1220, Int. No. 1073), entitled "An act to amend the Public Lands Law, in relation to the disposition of moneys received on the sale of unappropriated State lands."

(25) Senate (No. 1451, Int. No. 1104), entitled "An act with relation to the transfer of all civil actions and proceedings pending on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, in the county courts of the counties of Kings, Bronx, Queens and Richmond to the city court of the city of New York."

(26) Senate (No. 1264, Int. No. 1114), entitled "An act to extend the boundaries of the village of Port Chester, in the county of Westchester."

(27) Senate (No. 1283, Int. No. 1121), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, audit and determine the claims of Edward F. N. Uthe against the State for damage to an automobile, the property of the claimant, taken and used by State troopers and damaged and destroyed on the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, while pursuing persons suspected of robbery, and to render judgment therefor.' (28) Senate (No. 1339, Int. No. 1158), entitled "An act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, in relation to jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

(29) Senate (No. 1340, Int. No. 1159), entitled "An act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, in relation to jurisdiction of the county court."

(30) Senate (No. 1370, Int. No. 1189), entitled "An act relating to the financing of a certain bridge to be constructed between New York and New Jersey by the Port of New York Authority across the Hudson river, and undertaking to make available a certain sum therefor and appropriating one million dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary."

(31) Senate (No. 1382, Int. No. 1201), entitled "An act to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to retirement from the staff of the College of the City of New York on a retirement allowance less than that provided for full service retirement."

(32) Senate (No. 1413, Int. No. 1232), entitled "An act to amend the Inferior Criminal Courts Act of the City of New York, in relation to the clerks and clerks' assistants of the city magistrates' courts."

(33) Senate (No. 1463, Int. No. 1247), entitled "An act to amend the Workmen's Compensation Law, in relation to the fines imposed for failure to secure compensation."

(34) Senate (No. 1468, Int. No. 1252), entitled "An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to the powers of casualty insurance corporations."

(35) Senate (No. 1478, Int. No. 1262), entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and three of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled 'An act to establish a local court of civil and criminal jurisdiction in the city of Utica,' generally."

(36) Senate (No. 1484, Int. No. 1268), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, audit and determine the claim of the Brooklyn and Buffalo Navigation Corporation against the State for injury and damage to property arising out of the collision of the tug National owned by the State with the steamer Buffalo, the property of the claimant on the fourteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and to render judgment therefor."

(37) Senate (No. 1496, Int. No. 1280), entitled "An act to amend the Court of Claims Act, in relation to the jurisdiction of the court."

(38) Senate (No. 1499, Int. No. 1283), entitled "An act to amend chapter four hundred and sixty-eight of the Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, entitled 'An act to provide for the location, creation and management of the Allegany State park in Cattaraugus county and for the purchase of lands; and making an appropriation therefor,' in relation to the Cuba Reservation, and repealing subdivision thirty-two of section fifty of the Conservation Law in relation thereto."

(39) Senate (No. 1509, Int. No. 1295), entitled "An act to amend the Public Health Law, in relation to qualifications for dental hygienists."

(40) Senate (No. 1511, Int. No. 1297), entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled 'An act providing for the improvement of the land and water front adjacent to Riverside park in the city of New York by extending and improving said. park, and regulating the use of said land and water front,' by extending the limits within which solid fill may be deposited."

(41) Senate (No. 1528, Int. No. 1312) entitled "An act to provide for extending the boundaries of the city of Syracuse by annexing a part of the town of Dewitt, to provide for the government of the annexed territory, the making of a survey, and a map of said territory, the payment of school bonded indebtedness and the apportionment of town bonded indebtedness."

(42) Senate (No. 1540, Int. No. 1318), entitled "An act to amend the Workmen's Compensation Law, in relation to investment of surplus or reserve.

(43) Senate (No. 1548, Int. No. 1326), entitled "An act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, in relation to the jurisdiction of courts of special sessions and judgment on conviction in said courts."

(44) Senate (No. 1552, Int. No. 1330), entitled "An act to amend the Tax Law, in relation to the estate tax on estates of resident decedents.'

(45) Senate (No. 1555, Int. No. 1333), entitled "An act to amend the Highway Law, in relation to offices for division engineers.'

(46) Senate (No. 1620, Int. No. 1364), entitled "An act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to the minimum of indeterminate sentences to State prisons."

(47) Senate (No. 1621, Int. No. 1365), entitled "An act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, in relation to appeals.

(48) Senate (No. 1640, Int. No. 1373), entitled "An act to amend the State Finance Law, in relation to preference to be given to materials produced from the natural resources of this State in the construction and the repair of buildings, structures and improvements.

(49) Senate (No. 1641, Int. No. 1374), entitled "An act to amend chapter nineteen of the Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled 'An act making an appropriation for the State's share of construction or reconstruction of rural post roads within the State pursuant to certain acts in Congress which provide that the United States shall aid in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes; State and county highways, and the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair of highway bridges,' in relation to the payment of the State's share of a highway bridge over Kinderhook creek on State highway number five thousand one hundred and three."

(50) Senate (No. 1643, Int. No. 1376), entitled "An act to amend the Judiciary Law, in relation to expenses of justices of the Supreme Court in the Third and Fourth Departments.

(51) Assembly (No. 596, Rec. No. 144), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, audit and determine the claim of William J. Dietz against the State for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while an inmate of Sing Sing prison while at work on a sheet iron press, alleged to have been caused through the negligence of the State, its officers and employees, and to render judgment therefor."

(52) Assembly (No. 702, Rec. No. 145), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, audit and determine the alleged claim of William F. Campion against the State, under a contract for removing cinders and other rubbish from certain public buildings, and to render judgment therefor."

(53) Assembly (No. 713, Rec. No. 153), entitled "An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, audit and determine the claim of Simon I. Nusbaum against the State for the refund of excise and volume taxes paid pursuant to the provisions of sections eight and nine-a of the Liquor Tax Laws, as added by chapter nine hundred and eleven of the Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty, and repealing part of section two of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty

(54) Assembly (No. 819, Rec. No. 166), entitled "An act to amend the Religious Corporations Law, in relation to changing the number of trustees of Congregational churches."

(55) Assembly (No. 1129, Rec. No. 171), entitled "An act authorizing the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel and annul all taxes, water rents and assessments which are liens upon the property of the Lutheran Hospital of Manhattan, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York."