tures, how be made pursuant to estimates or pursuant to contracts; the form of Expendi state drawings and specifications of the state architect, or is to be paid for Altera- how made. contract comp § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 593. AN ACT for the promotion of agriculture and making an appropria- Became a law, May 13, 1903, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The sum of sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury belonging to the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, to the New York state fair com Appro priation. Salaries. Expenses of commission and officers. Construction. General repairs. Appropriation. mission, for the objects and purposes hereinafter set forth. For salaries of officers and regular employes from October first, nineteen hundred and three, to October first, nineteen hundred and four, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, divided as follows: for the salary of the secretary of the commission, two thousand dollars; for the salary of the treasurer of the commission, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the superintendent, two thousand dollars; for the salary of the gardener, five hundred dollars; for the salary of the secretary of the racing department, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the secretary of the horse show department, seven hundred and fifty dollars; for the expense of the commission and officers, four thousand dollars; for construction of two buildings for resting parlors and lavatories for ladies, the sum of three thousand dollars; for printing and advertising, the sum of ten thousand dollars; for care of grounds, the sum of nine thousand four hundred dollars; for construction of greenhouse, one thousand five hundred dollars; for insurance on buildings on fair grounds, two thousand dollars; for deficiency in expenses in nineteen hundred and one, two thousand five hundred dollars; for relaying and repairing water pipes and extending water mains and plant on the fair grounds and for general repairs, the sum of sixteen thousand four hundred dollars; for closets on fair grounds, one thousand dollars; to purchase horses, harnesses, wagons to replace those destroyed by fire, the sum of one thousand dollars; for rebuilding barn destroyed by fire, the sum of one thousand dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 594. AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, relating to an appropriation for the repair of certain buildings belonging to the quarantine establishment on Hoffman's island. Became a law, May 13, 1903, 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 one of chapter twenty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act making an appropriation for rebuilding the discnfectant plant, sea wall and docks, and for repairing damaged buildings belonging to the quarantine establishment on Hoffman's island," is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. The sum of seventy thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the construction and rebuilding of docks, bulkheads and sea walls connected with the quarantine establishment for the port of New York on Hoffman's island, and for repairing and rebuilding the disenfectant plant and for general repairs to buildings on Hoffman's island, including those buildings damaged by the caving in of the sea wall on such island, and for the necessary expense of salvage and inspection, the expenditure of which sum has been approved by the comptroller and attorney-general as provided in section eighty-three of the public health law, as amended by chapter two hundred and sixtyeight of the laws of nineteen hundred. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 595. AN ACT to amend the primary election law in relation to committecs. Became a law, May 13, 1903, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Subdivision one of section nine of chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, entitled "An act in relation to enrollment for political parties, primary elections, conventions, and political committees," as amended by chapter one hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended to read as follows: 9. Subdivision 1. Committees, and rules and regulations of parties. Each party shall have a general committee for each county, except that in the city of New York there may be, in lieu of, or in addition to, a general committee for each county wholly therein, a general city committee or general borough committees, or both, as the rules and regulations of the party may prescribe, and except that in each city other than said city of New York and cities of the first class, if it be desired by a majority of the members of such general committees elected from the wards of such city, there shall be for such city a city committee to consist of such members so elected from Primary election law amended. Commit such wards, who shall have power to perfect their own organization under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe for the conduct of the affairs of such part affecting such city and the wards thereof. Any party may also have committees in and for such other political subdivisions as its rules and regulations may prescribe. All members of general committees, and assembly district and ward committees, chosen in or from cities of the first class except as otherwise herein provided, shall be elected at the primary elections, on the annual primary day of each year. In the other cities and villages to which this act is applicable except as otherwise provided in this act, there shall be elected at the primary elections on such day either the members of all general committees elected from such cities or villages, or the members from such cities or villages of the conventions or committees by which members of the general committees are to be appointed, and in such cities and villages the rules of the parties may determine whether members of general committees shall be elected at primary elections or by conventions or committees the members of which shall be elected on the annual primary day as above provided, or by conventions or committees which shall have been chosen by delegates who shall have been elected on the annual primary day as above provided. The times when committees elected at primary elections shall take office shall be determined by the rules and regulations of the respective parties, except that such time shall not be later than the first day of January succeeding their election. On the day fixed by the rules and regulations, constitutions or bylaws of the party, the members of each general county committee or Rules and city committee shall meet and organize. They may proceed to make and adopt rules and regulations, but unless so adopted, the rules and regulations adopted by the last preceding county or city committee of said party in said county or city shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or amended in accordance with the provisions of this act. Members of committees shall be apportioned among the various units of representation entitled to representation therein according to the rules hereinafter prescribed for the apportionment of delegates to conventions. Members of committees in villages shall be apportioned and shall hold office as shall be provided in the rules and regulations of parties. Each county or city committee and the officers thereof shall have all the power and authority and shall perform all the duties, in respect to the nominations of officers to serve at general elections, conferred upon the general committee, the county committee, the city committee, the executive committee, or the officers thereof, given to any party in such city or county by section twelve of the election law. regula tions. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 596. AN ACT to amend the forest, fish and game law, in relation to licenses for nets in Lake Erie in Chautauqua county. Became a law, May 13, 1903, 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 seventy-five-a of chapter twenty of the laws of Game law nineteen hundred, entitled "An act for the protection of the forests, fish and game of the state, constituting chapter thirty-one of the general laws," as added by chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 75a. Nets in Lake Erie in Chautauqua county. The waters of Lake Erie in the county of Chautauqua for a space of three miles westerly of the center line of Cattaraugus creek as it enters the lake, are so far excepted from the provisions of the forest, fish and game law as to permit the taking of sturgeon more than three feet long, mullet, suckers and carp, by net, provided that a net shall not be set until a license therefor has been granted by the commission. The commission may, in its discretion, on the execution of a satisfactory bond, conditioned for the payment to the people of the state of the sum of one hundred dollars if the holder of the license shall violate any of the provisions of the forest, fish and game law while the license is in force, grant such a license unless the applicant has been convicted. of violating this section, or his bond adjudged forfeited. The license fee shall be one dollar for a net, and a single license may be for five nets. All fish not expressly permitted to be taken by this section shall be immediately returned alive and uninjured to the waters where taken. The commission may in the license, prescribe the size of mesh, and make such other reasonable regulations as are necessary for the protection of game fish. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 81 |