Present supervisor not affected. act to incorporate the city of Lackawanna," is hereby amended to read as follows:1 § 44. Election of supervisor; powers and duties. At and after the time this act takes effect, the city of Lackawanna, shall be regarded as a town in the county of Erie, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the oflice of supervisor, and as so regarded shall be entitled to one supervisor. Such supervisor shall be a member of the board of supervisors of Erie county and shall have the same powers and duties therein and with respect thereto as though elected in a town in said county, and shall receive the same compensation therefor. The common council of the city of Lackawanna shall canvass the votes cast for the supervisor of the city of Lackawanna, at any general election in the manner provided in section seventeen of this act. The city clerk shall make a certificate in duplicate under his hand and the seal of the city, of the canvass of the votes cast for supervisor, and of the result of such canvass, and shall deliver one of said duplicate certificates to the candidate declared to be elected and file the other with the clerk of the board of supervisors of Erie county. The present supervisor representing the town of West Seneca and the city of Lackawanna jointly shall fill out his term of office and exercise his powers and duties as such supervisor, as though this act had not been passed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, but shall not affect the present supervisor whose term of office expires December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eleven. L. 1909, ch. 33, § 170. Chap. 525. AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the title guaranty corporations. Became a law June 29, 1911, 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 hundred and seventy of chapter thirty as amended three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act by L. 1909, ch. 302, amended. in relation to insurance corporations, constituting chapter twenty 1 Section materially amended. eight of the consolidated laws," as amended by chapter three hundred and two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: 170. Incorporation. Five or more persons may form a corporation for one of the following purposes: 1. To examine titles to real property and chattels real, to procure and furnish information in relation thereto, make and guarantee the correctness of searches for all instruments, liens or charges affecting the same, guarantee or insure the payment of bonds and mortgages, invest in, purchase and sell, with such guarantee or with guarantee only against loss by reason of defective title or incumbrances, such bonds and mortgages as are lawful investments for insurance companies under this act,1 and guarantee and insure the owners of real property and chattels real and others interested therein against the loss by reason of defective titles thereto and other incumbrances thereon, which shall be known as a title *guarantee corporation; or 1-a. To guarantee the validity and legality of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any state or by any city, county, town, village, school district, municipality or other civil division of any state, or by any private or public corporation; to act as registrar or transfer agent, but not fiscal of any such corporation, and to transfer and countersign its certificates of stocks, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. Such corporation shall be known as a securities guaranty corporation and shall be governed by and subject to the provisions of law applicable to a title guaranty corporation organized under this article; or 2. To guarantee and indemnify merchants, traders and those engaged in business and giving credit from loss and damage by reason of giving and extending credit to their customers, and those dealing with them, which shall be known as a credit guaranty corporation; by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating: 1. The name of the proposed corporation. 2. The kind of corporation to be formed and its purposes. 3. The amount and description of the capital stock. 4. The location of its office. 5. The duration of the corporation, not exceeding fifty years. No credit guaranty corporation shall be formed for the trans action of business in this state, with a smaller capital than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No title guaranty corporation shall be formed with a smaller capital than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or with a larger capital than ten million dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Such certificate shall be filed in the office of the superintendent of insurance, who shall thereupon issue a license to the persons making such certificate, empowering them as commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of the corporation at such times and places as they may determine. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1907, ch. 412, § 7 amended. Judges of court of general sessions. Chap. 526. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An act providing for the court of general sessions of the city and county of New York, its judges and officers." Became a law June 29, 1911, 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 seven of chapter four hundred and twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An act providing for the court of general sessions of the city and county of New York, its judges and officers," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 7. There shall be seven judges of the court of general sessions of the city and county of New York, each of whom shall be designated “judge of the court of general sessions," and shall have the same powers, duties and jurisdiction in all respects as the present judges of the court of general sessions. The present judges of the court of general sessions are hereby continued in office until the expiration of the terms for which they have been elected. There shall be elected at the general election in November, nineteen hundred and seven, three judges of the court of general sessions. If a vacancy occurs in the office of judge of the court of general sessions by the death or resignation of such a judge, it shall be filled at the general election held next after the happening thereof, or if by the expiration of the term of such a judge, at the general election next preceding the date of the expiration of the said term. Each person chosen judge of the court of general sessions shall enter upon the duties of his said office on the first day of January next succeeding his election and shall hold office for a term of fourteen years. Each judge of the court of general sessions shall receive a yearly salary of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars' for his services as such judge, which shall be paid in equal monthly installments. No other compensation shall be allowed to any such judge. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 527. AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to the acquisition by the United States of lands for naval purposes. Became a law June 29, 1911, 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: 59, § 50, as L. 1910, amended. Section 1. Section fifty of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of L. 1909, ch. nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the amended by sovereignty, boundaries, survey, great seal and arms of the state, ch. 109. congressional districts, senate districts, and apportionment of the members of assembly of this state, and enumeration of the inhabitants of the state," as amended by chapter one hundred and nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended to read as follows: § 50. Consent of state to purchase of land and record of conveyances. The consent of the state of New York is hereby given to the purchase by the government of the United States, and under the authority of the same, of any tract, piece or parcel of land from any individual or individuals, bodies politic or corporate within the boundaries of this state, for the purpose of parade or maneuver grounds, navy yards and naval stations, or for the purpose of erecting thereon lighthouses, beacons, light 1 Formerly $15,000. 3 2 Should read " fifty-nine." The state law is ch. 57 of the consolidated laws. 3 Words "navy yards and naval stations," new. L. 1909, ch. 24, § 73, as house keepers' dwellings, works for improving navigation, postoffices, custom-houses, fortifications, and all deeds, conveyances or other papers relating to the title thereof shall be recorded in the office of the register or county clerk of the county where the said lands are situated. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 528. AN ACT directing the adjutant-general of the state of New York to deliver to the R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans' Association of Alexandria, Virginia, the confederate battle flag of the Seventeenth Virginia infantry. Became a law June 29, 1911, 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 adjutant-general of the state of New York is hereby directed to deliver to the R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans' Association of Alexandria, Virginia, the confederate battle flag of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, Maryland, September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by Company F, Second New York Infantry Volunteers, the return of which has been requested by the R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans' Association. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 529. AN ACT to amend the forest, fish and game law, in relation to fires to clear land in the towns of Queensbury, Warren county, and Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence county. Became a law June 29, 1911, 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-three of chapter twenty-four of the amended by laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to L. 1909. ch. |