shall determine that said maps should be modified, so as to include territory to be taken or flowed, not included in the maps already filed, then they shall cause modified maps, specifications, estimates and statements to be prepared and filed as herein before provided, for said preliminary maps, plans, specifications, estimates and statements, and shall give notice of their completion and filing and of a hearing thereupon, in the manner hereinbefore prescribed for a hearing upon said preliminary maps, plans, specifications, estimates and statements. If said commission shall finally determine that the proposed improvement be made, it shall thereupon make a final order directing the same to be made, and shall cause to be prepared final maps and detailed plans, specifications and estimates of the total cost thereof. The commission shall cause the said final order, maps, plans, specifications and estimates or duplicates thereof, certified by them, to be filed in the office of the county clerk of each county in which lands affected or benefited thereby are located. No such improvement shall be undertaken under this article pursuant to any such final order, or any other proceedings had thereon except as hereinbefore provided, until after the said final order shall have been approved by a subsequent act of the legislature, which act shall authorize and direct such improvement to be made. If so approved, the said final order shall become effectual and not otherwise. The commission shall have power to make such minor changes in the said final map, plans and order as the nature of the work may require, provided that such changes shall not add to exceed ten per centum to the cost of executing the plans embraced in such final order as approved by such act of the legislature; and provided, further, that if any such minor changes shall add more than ten per centum to the cost of any such improvement, a final order for which has been approved by an act of the legislature, the commission shall publish such fact and shall give a hearing thereon as in the first instance with special reference to such increased cost of improvement, and shall await thereafter a further and final approval by subsequent act of the legislature.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

2 Remainder of section new.

Bond

issue for construction of

bridge authorized.

Special election

and proceedings relative

to bond issue legalized.

Bonds

legalized.

Pending

actions.

Chap. 421.

AN ACT to legalize a special town meeting of the town of Webb, Herkimer county, New York, and to authorize a bond issue of the said town.

Became a law June 23,

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 town of Webb, county of Herkimer, is authorized to issue its bonds to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, or such portion thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing a bridge across the Moose river in said town of Webb at the southerly end of road four hundred and sixty-two, where the same connects with state highway route twenty-five, as said route is defined in section one hundred and twenty of the highway law.

§ 2. The special election of the electors of said town of Webb held March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, authorizing the issue of bonds of said town for the purpose of constructing said bridge to the amount of twenty thousand dollars is hereby in all respects ratified, confirmed and legalized, and all acts and proceedings of the board of supervisors of said county of Herkimer and any officers of said county or any officer of said town of Webb with reference to said bond issue are hereby in all respects ratified, confirmed and legalized, and such bonds or such portion thereof as may be necessary to build said bridge may be issued and sold, and the same shall be a legal and binding obligation on the town of Webb.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately; but nothing herein shall affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court.

Chap. 422.

AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and seventy-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the several acts relative to the public schools of the city of Auburn," generally.

Became a law June 23, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

Accepted by the City.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

by L. 1879

Section 1. Section five of chapter five hundred and seventy- L. 1875, seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled ch 5, as "An act to revise and consolidate the several acts relative to the amended public schools of the city of Auburn," as amended by chapter three hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:1

ch. 318, amended.

districts

spectors of

§ 5. The first and tenth wards, as now designated, shall consti- Election tute the first election district; the fifth and sixth wards shall con- and institute the second election district, the fourth and seventh wards election. shall constitute the third election district, the third and eighth wards shall constitute the fourth election district and the second and ninth wards shall constitute the fifth election district for the purposes of this act; and the inspectors of election, selected and appointed pursuant to the provisions of the election law to serve at general elections in said city, for the wards wherein the elections under this act shall be designated to be held, shall be the inspectors of these elections; and the provisions of law applicable to election districts, and to inspectors of elections therein, except as to previous registry of voters, shall apply to said districts and to said inspectors.

§ 2. Sections eight and eighteen of such chapter are hereby, 18 amended to read, respectively, as follows:

amended.

of school

§ 8. The polls of the election in the several election districts Conduct at the said school election, shall be opened at six2 o'clock on the election. morning of the day of election, and shall be kept open, without intermission or adjournment, until five o'clock in the afternoon,

1 Section materially amended.

2 Formerly "eight."

Meetings

of board of educa

tion.

$28, as amended

ch. 318,

when they shall be finally closed; and the inspectors shall, without adjourning, canvass the votes received by them, and certify, in writing, to the same, and deliver one copy of said certificate to the city clerk, and another copy to the secretary of the board of education, within twenty-four hours after closing the polls; and said inspectors shall cause one copy of the list of persons so voting or offering to vote at said election, duly certified to, to be delivered to the secretary of the board of education, and the other copy, also duly certified to, to the city clerk of said city.

§ 18. Regular meetings of said board of education, for the transaction of business, shall be held on the first Tuesday of each month, and said board shall make such rules and regulations for its own government as it shall from time to time find necessary. Special meetings of said board may be held on the order of the president, or upon the request of any two members of said board, after due notice to all the members, by the secretary, of the time, place and purpose of such special meetings, and no business shall be transacted thereat except such as shall be specified in the notice thereof. At any meeting held without due notice, at which every member of said board shall be present and consent, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted if the meeting had been a duly called special meeting. In the absence of the president the board may appoint some other member to preside and perform the duties of president.

§ 3. Section twenty-eight of such chapter, as amended by chapby L. 1879, ter three hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:

and

L. 1909, ch. 591, amended.

Annual estimate

of board of education.

§ 28. It shall be the duty of said board of education, annually, on or before the fifteenth day of May, to fix, determine, certify, and report to the common council and to the board of estimate and control of said city, the amount of money which, in addition to the amount of money annually apportioned to the public schools of said city out of the funds belonging to the state, shall be necessary to defray the expenses of all the public schools under the charge of said board for the ensuing year, for building, fuel, furniture, school apparatus, repairs, insurance, teachers' wages, and contingent expenses of the schools, and to pay the compensation of the secretary and superintendent aforesaid, and the contingent 3 Following sentence new.

tion of

expenses of said board. A statement of the amount so fixed, determined and certified shall be filed in the office of the city clerk by said board. The amount so certified, exclusive of the amount Limitarequired for building purposes, shall in no case exceed a amount. sum equal to thirty-seven dollars per capita, based on the average yearly membership of persons in attendance as day pupils in the public schools for any one of the five school years next preceding. And the amount to be raised for building purposes shall in no case exceed eight thousand dollars in any one year, unless by the unanimous consent of every member of said board. To the statement filed as hereinbefore provided, there shall be appended a certificate setting forth the average membership of day pupils in each of said public schools for each month of the school year upon which the aforesaid average yearly membership is based.

taking

84. This act, so far as it relates to the division of said city of Time of Auburn into school election districts and the holding of school effect. elections therein, shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and twelve. As to the rest and all other parts and portions of this act, it shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 423.

AN ACT to amend the forest, fish and game law, in relation to distribution of copies of such law to persons procuring hunting license.

Became a law June 23, 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:

ch. 24,

amended

ch. 533,

Section 1. Section eight of chapter twenty-four of the laws of L. 1909, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to the pro- s. as tection of the forests, fish and game of the state, constituting by L. 1909, chapter nineteen of the consolidated laws," as amended by chap- amended. ter five hundred and thirty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:1

4 Remainder of sentence formerly read: "six times the amount which shall have been apportioned out of the funds belonging to the state as aforesaid for the year next preceding."

Following sentence new.

1 Section materially amended.