Chap. 667. AN ACT to amend chapter five of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to establish the Mount MoGregor Memorial Association." BECAME a law May 14, 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: amended. Section 1. Section four of chapter five of the laws of eighteen Act hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to establish the Mount McGregor Memorial association," is hereby amended to read as follows: etc., of real restricted. appropri § 4. This corporation is prohibited from alienating said real Disposal, estate and from disposing of or removing any of the contents of estate said cottage specified in section three of this act, except as herein provided. The sum of one thousand dollars shall be paid annually Annual by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller to ation the Mount McGregor Memorial association, for the care and main. tenance of said premises in their present condition, without change in any respect further than is necessary to thus preserve the same. And said corporation may sue or be sued, and have corporate seal, officers. and may have a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall be corporators, and whose duties shall be such as usually pertain to these offices respectively in similar corporations. & 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 668. AN ACT to amend chapter sixteen of the general laws, entitled "An act in relation to militia, constituting chapter sixteen of the general laws," as amended by chapter nine hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in relation to the signal corps. BECAME a law May 14, 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 eighteen of article two of chapter five hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetythree, constituting chapter sixteen of the general laws, as amended by chapter nine hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 18. Signal corps.-The commander-in-chief may, in his discretion organize signal corps. A signal corps shall consist of one captain, one assistant surgeon of the grade of first lieutenant, and one first lieutenant, and not to exceed forty-six non-commissioned officers and privates. And the commander-in-chief may appoint a chief signal officer of the grade of major, who may be assigned to the command of all the signal corps of the state, and to each signal corps one assistant surgeon of the grade of first lieutenant. The number of non-commissioned officers of each corps shall not exceed one first sergeant, one quartermastersergeant four sergeants and eight corporals. Chap. 672. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture of flour and meal food products." BECAME a law May 14, 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: amended. Section 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and eighteen Act of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture of flour and meal food products," is hereby amended to read as follows:, hours in etc. § 1. No employe shall be required, permitted or suffered to Working work in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery or confectionery estab- bakeries, lishment more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day, unless for the purpose of making a shorter workday on the last day of the week, nor more hours in any one week than will make an average of ten hours per day for the whole number of days in which such person shall so work during such week. § 2. Section two of such act is hereby amended to read as follows: plumbing ventilation. § 2. All buildings or rooms occupied as biscuit, bread, pie or Drainage, cake bakeries shall be drained and plumbed in a manner to con- and duce to the proper and healthful sanitary condition thereof, and constructed with air shafts, windows or ventilating pipes sufficient to insure ventilation, as the factory inspector or any of his deputies shall direct. No cellar or basement not now used for a Use of bakery shall hereafter be occupied and used as a bakery, unless basements. the proprietor shall have previously complied with the sanitary provisions of this act. § 3. Section three of such act is hereby amended to read as follows: cellars and ments as § 3. Every room used for the manufacture of flour or meal Require. food products shall be at least eight feet in height and shall have, to rooms, if deemed necessary by the factory inspector, an impermeable floor constructed of cement or of tiles laid in cement, with an additional flooring, or of wood properly saturated with linseed oil. The side walls of such rooms shall be plastered or wainscoted, and if required by the factory inspector or a deputy factory inspector, the side walls and ceiling shall be whitewashed at least once in three months, and the woodwork of such walls shall be painted when required by such inspector or deputy. Furniture The furniture and utensils in such rooms shall be so arranged that the furniture and floor may at all times be kept in a proper and healthful sanitary and clean condition. No domestic aniin rooms. mal, except cats, shall be allowed to remain in a room used as a biscuit, bread, pie or cake bakery, or any room in such bakery where flour or meal food products are stored. and uten sils. Animals not allowed § 4. Section six of such act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sleeping § 6. The sleeping places for the persons employed in a bakery places for employees. shall be kept separate from the room or rooms where flour or meal food products are manufactured or stored, and the factory inspector or a deputy factory inspector may inspect such sleeping places if they are on the same floor as the bakery, and order them cleaned or changed in compliance with sanitary principles. § 5. Section eight of such act is hereby amended to read as follows: Appoint ment of deputy factory of bakeries. § 8. For the purpose of enforcing this act and of chapter four hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eightyispectors. six and acts amendatory thereof, the factory inspector may appoint six deputies, each of whom shall receive an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, together with his necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in discharging the duties of his office, payable monthly by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, upon proper vouchers approved by the factory Inspection inspector. Under the direction of the factory inspector such deputies shall inspect all bakeries and see that the provisions of this act and of chapter four hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the acts amendatory thereof, are Powers and observed therein. Such deputies shall have all the powers and inspectors. duties of the deputy inspectors, and shall be amenable to the supervision and control of the factory inspector the same as the deputy factory inspectors appointed under chapter four hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six and the Issue of acts amendatory thereof. The factory inspector, or a deputy factory inspector authorized by him shall issue a certificate to a duties of certificates. person conducting a bakery where such bakery is conducted in compliance with all the provisions of this act. § 6. Section nine of such act is hereby amended to read as follows: comply § 9. The owner, agent or lessee of any property affected by the owner to provisions of section two, three or five of this act shall, within with noti sixty days after the service of a notice requiring any alterations to be made in or upon such premises, comply therewith, and such notice shall be in writing and may be served upon such Notice, how owner, agent or lessee, either personally or by mail, and a notice mailed to the last-known address of such owner, agent or lessee shall be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this act. § 7. This act shall take effect July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Chap. 678. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and sixty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to transportaion corporations excepting railroads, constituting chapter forty of the general laws," as amended by chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, in relation to town contracts with water corporations. BECAME a law May 15, 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 eighty-one of chapter five hundred and sixty. six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, constituting chapter forty of the general laws, as amended by chapter two hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended to read as follows: . § 81. Must supply water; contracts with municipalities.— Every such corporation shall supply the authorities or any of the inhabitants of any city, town or village through which the conduits or mains of such corporation may pass, or wherein such corporations may have organized, with pure and wholesome water at reasonable rates and cost, and the board of trustees of any incorporated village and the water commissioners or other board served. |