incorporate the city of Mechanicville," as amended by section forty-six of chapter five hundred and seven of the laws of nineteen. hundred and twenty, is hereby superseded and enacted as a local law, amended to read as follows:

§ 46. Expenditures, limitation of. The municipal council shall not make or pass any order, resolution or motion appropriating money beyond the annual appropriations in the budget for current department expenditures, in excess of two thousand dollars. ($2,000) or make or authorize the making of any contract involving a liability on the part of the city in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000), over and above the amount appropriated by the council by its annual appropriation ordinance, except (2) for public lighting; (b) for paving, repaving or the alteration or repair of streets; (c) by the vote of the taxable inhabitants appearing upon the last assessment roll upon a question submitted for that purpose; (d) for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency and is made or passed by a four-fifths vote. At any taxpayer's election all taxpayers twenty-one years old or over shall be entitled to vote regardless of sex.

§ 2. All laws and parts of laws in anywise conflicting herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 3. This law shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 6*

A local law in relation to the pay of civil service employees. Became a law August 23, 1926, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanicville as follows:

Section 1. It shall be lawful, in the discretion of the city council, to pay the salary of any civil service employee of the city of Mechanicville for such term or period as any such employee may be rendered incapable of performing service for the city by reason of sickness or other disability.

§ 2. This act shall be retroactive, and all such payment of salary as has been heretofore made by the city of Mechanicville to any employee thereof for the terms of such incapacity shall be legalized and approved.

§ 3. All laws and parts of laws, ordinances and parts of ordinances, resolutions and parts of resolutions in anywise conflicting herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 4. This law shall take effect immediately.

* Numbered 8 by the city of Mechanicville.

LOCAL LAW No. 7*

A local law in relation to the issuance of certificates of indebtedness.

Became a law September 13, 1926, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanieville as follows:

Section 1. The city council of the city of Mechanicville shall have power and authority to issue certificates of indebtedness on the part of such city and to borrow money thereon for use by such city in the prosecution of any such contract as may be undertaken on the part of such city, and for which no adequate provisions are made in its annual appropriation ordinance, and for or on account of which the bonds of the city may not have been issued.

§ 2. The amount of such indebtedness, the rate of interest thereon, and the date beyond which the indebtedness is not to con tinue shall be stated in each certificate so issued on the part of such city, and the same shall be payable thereon by the city or at its option at any time prior thereto.

§ 3. Such certificates of indebtedness so issued on the part of the city shall be the valid, legal and binding obligations of the city, and shall be and constitute a lien on all of the taxable property within its corporate limits, and it shall be required to satisfy the same by the imposition of a tax therefor, or by the issuance of bonds in substitution for such indebtedness.

§ 4. No certificate of indebtedness issued in compliance herewith shall run for a term in excess of one year nor shall it bear interest in excess of six per cent.

§ 5. All laws and parts of laws in anywise conflicting herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 8+

A local law in relation to the appropriation and expenditure of money for the improvement, extension, enlargement and repair of the municipal water plant and system.

Became a law November 20, 1926, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanicville as follows: Section 1. That from the moneys of said city as heretofore set apart as a water account or heretofore appropriated to the water sinking fund of said city, it shall be lawful to withdraw such sum or sums of money as may be decided upon by the city council to

*Numbered 9 by the city of Mechanicville.

Numbered 10 by the city of Mechanicville.

defray the expenses of repairing, improving, extending and enlarging the water plant and system and to expend same in the repair, improvement, extension or enlargement thereof.

§ 2. That in so providing funds for such extension, enlargement, improvement or repair, the total of such sinking fund shall not be suffered or permitted to be reduced below the maximum of all contractual requirements for the maintenance thereof imposed upon said city or assumed by the village of Mechanicville, of which it is its successor, and it shall not be lawful for it to withdraw or expend any sum so required to be kept and maintained otherwise than in the payment and retirement of such bonds and obligations as a condition to the issue and assumption of which such sinking fund provisions were made.

§ 3. That for the purpose of making such extension, enlargement, improvement or repair, the expenditures of said city may, during the current year and thereafter as often as necessary, be increased over and above the annual appropriation ordinance of that year to an extent equal in amount to that which may be lawfully withdrawn from the water account and sinking fund, and used in the improvement of said system as herewith provided, and the council of such city may, by ordinance, as the occasion requires, appropriate therefrom, and for such purpose such further sums as may be so available, in which case all contracts involving the expenditure thereof, and of such increased amount so available from said fund shall be legal and binding upon the city, any of the provisions of section eighty-four of chapter one hundred and seventy of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 4. All laws and parts of laws, and ordinances and parts of ordinances, in anywise conflicting herewith are hereby repealed. § 5. This law shall take effect immediately.

CITY OF MIDDLETOWN

LOCAL LAW No. 1*

A local law providing for the appointment of police officers.

Became a law August 3, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Middletown.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Middletown as follows:

Section 1. The common council shall appoint such number of proper persons to be police officers for the city as it may deem necessary and proper (not to exceed one police officer for each one thousand of the inhabitants of said city as shown by the last preceding state census), but no person shall be appointed to membership in the police force, or shall continue to hold membership therein, who is not a citizen of the United States, or who has ever been convicted of a crime (involving moral turpitude), or who cannot understandingly read and write the English language, or who shall not have resided in the city during one year next preceding the appointment. The common council shall select from the police officers so appointed by it one who shall be the chief of the police department of said city and said common council shall also select from the police officers so appointed by it two who shall be the lieutenants of the police department of said city. The said police officers shall possess the exclusive power of serving all criminal and other process issued by the recorder, or acting recorder or mayor, except in such civil actions or proceedings as may be commenced before the recorder, pursuant to this act, in which they shall have concurrent power with the civil constables of said city; and they shall perform all acts in relation to criminal offenses which police officers or constables are authorized to perform. It shall be the duty of said police officers to attend at the recorder's office at all reasonable hours of the day; to obey at all times, all process of the recorder and all directions of the mayor or common council, duly issued or given for the preservation of the public peace and order, and to make arrests whenever they shall be called upon or sent by the mayor, recorder or common council, to keep the public peace, or arrest any person charged with any offense. In any case of the continued absence, detention or inability to act of all of said officers, the mayor, recorder or acting recorder may designate any person by appointment, in writing, or by directing the process to be served by such person, to serve any process issued by either of such officers. Every person so appointed shall possess all the powers of a police officer under this act, in relation to the particular process of service for which he is ap* Numbered 2 by the city of Middletown.

pointed, or which he is directed to serve, if designated by separate appointment.

§ 2. Section one hundred and twenty-seven of the city charter, being chapter five hundred and seventy-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and two and the acts amendatory thereof, is hereby superseded.

§3. This local law shall take effect immediately.