county jail for general work upon the highways of the town. The town superintendent annually, on or before October 31, shall make a written statement of the amount of money which should be raised by tax in the town the ensuing year for repair and improvement of highways, including sluices, culverts and bridges. Such amount shall not be less than an amount which when added to the money to be received from the state will equal $30 for each mile of highways within the town outside the limits of incorporated villages, except that no town having an assessed value of $3,750 or less a mile outside of incorporated villages shall be required to collect a tax in excess of $4 on each $1,000 of assessed valuation. The town board shall consider the estimates contained in such statement, and may by a majority vote increase or reduce the amount of any estimate. The board of supervisors shall cause the amounts contained in the statement as approoved to be assessed and collected in the same manner as other town charges. The state shall pay to the several towns an amount based on the amount of taxes raised therein for the repair and improvement of highways-in towns where the assessed valuation of real and personal property, exclusive of Allowances. incorporated villages, is less than $5,000, for each mile of highway, an amount equal to the amount of taxes; where the assessed valuation is over $5,000 and less than $7,000, an amount equal to 90 per cent of the taxes; where the assessed valuation is over $7,000 and less than $9,000, 80 per cent of the taxes; where the valuation is over $9,000 and less than $11,000, 70 per cent of the taxes; where the valuation is more than $11,000 and less than $13,000, 60 per cent of the taxes; and over $13,000 a mile, 50 per cent of the taxes; provided that no town in any year shall receive an amount exceeding an average of $25 a mile for the total mileage outside incorporated villages, except that in towns where the assessed valuation of real and personal property outside incorporated villages averages more than $25,000 for each mile of highways, the amount paid shall not exceed one-tentn of one per cent of such valuation. The act specifies thirty-seven routes of trunk highways to be constructed and improved at the sole expense of the state, from the proceeds of bonds issued for that purpose. County highways, to be constructed or improved at the expense of the state, county and town, shall be those determined by the commission to be of sufficient public importance to constitute a part of a properly developed system of improved market roads within the county. They shall be equitably apportioned by the commission among the various counties, taking into consideration the total mileage of state highways to be constructed or improved in each county. The board of supervisors of any county may pass a resolution stating that public interest demands the improvemnt of a highway or section of highway within the county and requesting that it be constructed or improved. The commission shall examine and certify its approval or disapproval of such resolution to the board of supervisors. Whenever the commission shall have determined on the construction or improvement of a state highway or a county highway or section thereof, it shall direct the division engineer to make surveys and prepare suitable preliminary maps, plans and specifications. Upon receiving a report thereon from the district or county superintendent, the commission shall finally adopt the maps, plans and specifications and estimates which are to be used. If a state highway, it shall thereupon advertise and award contracts for construction; if a county highway, shall transmit them to the board of supervisors with a certificate approving the construction or improvement of the highway or section thereof designated, and the supervisors by majority vote may approve such plans and adopt a resolution that such county highway be constructed or improved. On receipt of such resolution the commission shall proceed with the construction or improvement of such county highway. This shall be taken up and carried forward within a county in the consecutive order as determined by date of the receipt by the commission in each case of the certified copy of the final resolution. No such highway shall be constructed or receive a place on the consecutive list unless such resolution shall appropriate and make immediately available the counties' and towns' share of the cost thereof. Upon the completion of a state highway or section thereof constructed or improved under a contract let as specified in this act the division engineer, with the county or district superintendent, shall inspect it, and if completed as provided in the contract they shall report to the commission, which shall if it approve, notify the contractor of that fact, and the highway or section thereof shall be deemed to have been accepted by the state. On completion of a county highway the commission shall inform the district or county superintendent and the board of supervisors of the county that it will accept the work on behalf of the state and county within twenty days unless protest be filed. A state and county highway may be constructed through a village in the same manner as outside thereof, unless the street through which it runs has, in the opinion of the commission, been so improved or paved as to form a continuous and improved highway of sufficient permanence as not to warrant its reconstruction. The board of trustees of a village may by resolution petition the commission for the construction or improvement of a highway to connect streets or highways within the village which have been paved or improved, with county highways heretofore built. Whenever the construction or improvement of a county highway shall have been completed and final payment made therefor the commission shall prepare a statement of the cost, showing in detail each payment and its purpose. If a county highway so improved shall be situate in two or more towns, or two or more counties, the commission shall apportion such expenses to such counties or towns according to the cost of construction in each of such towns or counties. If the board of supervisors of any county shall have theretofore provided funds to pay 2 per cent of the cost of such county highway for each $1,000 of assessed valuation of real and personal property for each mile of public highway, or on behalf of any town, 1 per cent of the cost of such highway for each $1,000 assessed valuation for each mile of public highway, but not exceeding 35 per cent of the cost for the county and 15 per cent of the cost for the town or towns, as shown by such statement, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay the amount thereof on the requisiiton of the commission, and thereafter the county and town shall be deemed to be fully discharged of its obligation to the state on account of the construction or improvement of such county highway. There shall be annually appropriated for the maintenance of state and county highways an amount sufficient to provide therefor, based on the estimates prepared and submitted to the Legislature by the commission. Not less than 90 per cent of the amount so appropriated shall be apportioned by the commission each year among the counties and several towns therein in proportion to the amount of their estimates. Each town shall pay for the maintenance and repair of state and county highways each year the sum of $50 for each mile of the total mileage of state and county highways therein. The county highways to be selected by the commission for construction or improvement shall be the highways in the respective counties designated upon the map of the highways of the state prepared by the State Engineer and approved by the Legislature by Chapter 715 of the Laws of 1907. Such map shall remain in full force, except that the board of supervisors of any county is authorized to modify the designation of county highways on such map by resolution duly adopted by majority vote, provided the total mileage is not materially increased thereby. Chapter 506 amends section 16 of chapter 570 of the laws of 1895 entitled "An act for the incorporation of associations for the improvement of the breed of horses and to regulate the same; and to establish a State Anti-Racetrack Racing Commission," to read as follows: "All racing or trials Gambling. of speed between horses or other animals for any bet, stake or reward, except such as is allowed by this act, or by special laws, is a public nuisance; and every person acting or aiding therein or making or being interested in such bet, stake or reward is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary for a period of not more than one year; and in addition to the penalty prescribed therefor he forfeits to the people of this state all title or interest in any animal used with his privity in such race or trial of speed, and in any sum of money or other property betted or staked upon the result thereof." Chapter 507 amends Section 351 of the Penal Code to read as follows: "Any person who engages in poolselling or bookmaking at any time or place, or any person who keeps or occupies any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth or building, float or vessel or any part thereof, or who occupies any place or stand of any kind upon any public or private grounds within this state, with books, papers, apparatus or paraphernalia, for the purpose of recording or registering bets or wagers, or of selling pools, and any person who records or registers bets or wagers, or sells pools upon the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance, of man or beast, or upon the result of any political nomination, appointment or election. or upon the result of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent even whatsoever; or any person who receives, registers, records or forwards, or purports or pretends to receive, register, record or forward, in any manner whatsoever any money, thing or consideration of value, bet or wagered, or offered for the purpose of being bet or wagered by or for any other person, or sells pools upon any such result; or any person who, being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth or building, float or vessel or part thereof, or of any grounds within this state, knowingly permits the same to be used or occupied for any of these purposes, or therein keeps, exhibits or employs any device or apparatus for the purpose of recording or registering such bets or wagers, or the selling of such pools, or becomes the custodian or depositary for gain, hire or reward of any money, property or thing of value, staked, wagered or rledged or to be wagered or pledged upon any such result; or any person who aids, assists or abets in any manner in any of the sail acts, which are hereby forbidden, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for a period of not more than one year." Other important laws adopted at the session of 1908 include a revision and recodification of the forest, fish and game laws of the state; a Miscellaneous. military code conforming the National Guard of the state to the organization of the regular army, in compliance with the Dick law; a law defining and regulating the practice of optometry under the supervision of the Board of Regents; a semi-monthly pay law affecting corporations and joint stock associations. NEW YORK ORGANIZED MILITIA. The military forces of this state are under the command of the Governor, the commander-in-chief of all forces. General headquarters, adjutant general's office, Albany, N. Y., and State Arsenal, 35th street and Seventh avenue, New York City. All orders governing the military forces of this state are promulgated from this office by command of the Governor, and all correspondence upon military subjects is transmitted to the adjutant general's office. The organized militia of the state consists of the National Guard. The Naval Militia is not a part of the organized militia of the state, as far as such term is considered by the War Department, but is a part of the organized military forces of the State of New York. Adjutant general, State of New York, Brigadier General Nelson H. Henry. The National Guard consists of the several staff departments, one field hospital, two companies of signal corps, two squadrons and two separate troops of cavalry, one battalion of three batteries and one separate battery of field artillery, one regiment of engineers and thirteen regiments, a coast artillery corps of thirty-one companies, organized in three artillery districts; one regiment of engineers and thirteen regiments of infantry. The strength of the guard on September 30, 1908, was as follows: The National Guard is commanded under the orders of the Governor by Major General Charles F. Roe, with headquarters at the Capitol, Albany, and an office at No. 280 Broadway, New York City, to which headquarters are attached the Field Hospital, 1st and 2d companies, Signal Corps, Squadrons A and C, Troops B and D, Cavalry; the First Battalion and 6th Battery, Field Artillery; the Coast Artillery Corps and the 22d Regiment, Engineers. The Coast Artillery Corps comprises three districts, the 13th, 9th and 8th Artillery districts, and the Chief of Coast Artillery is Brigadier General David E. Austen, with headquarters at the 13th District Coast Artillery Armory, Sumner and Jefferson avenues, Brooklyn, N. Y. The infantry is organized in four brigades, as follows: First Brigade-Brigadier general, George Moore Smith; headquarters, Park ave nue and 34th street, New York City; composed of the 7th, 12th, 69th and 71st regiments. Second Brigade-Brigadier general, John G. Eddy; headquarters, No. 1322 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn; composed of the 14th, 23d and 47th regiments. Third Brigade-Brigadier general, James H. Lloyd; headquarters, No. 72 Chapel street, Albany; composed of the 1st, 2d and 10th regiments. Fourth Brigade-Brigadier general, Lauren W. Pettebone; headquarters, No. 451 Main street, Buffalo; composed of the 3d, 65th and 74th regiments. The Naval Militia is composed of two battalions and two separate divisions. The strength of the Naval Militia is 57 officers and 746 enlisted men, a total of 803. The Naval Militia is commanded under the orders of the Governor by Captain Jacob W. Miller, with headquarters on board the U. S. S. Granite State, foot of West 97th street, N. R., New York City. The vessels of the United States Navy loaned the State of New York for the use of the Naval Militia are: Wasp, 630 tons; Aileen, 192 tons; Sandoval, 100 tons; Granite State, 4,150 tons. Headquarters-First Battalion, U. S. S. Granite State, 97th street and North River, New York City; Second Battalion, U. S. S. Aileen, 52d street, Brooklyn; Second Separate Division, Rochester, U. S. S. Sandoval, Charlotte Harbor; Third Separate Division, Buffalo. GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK STATE. Politics. Years served. Whig......1849-1851 ...1853-1855 The following table gives the names and politics of the Governors of New York State and the terms which they have served since the first election. Those marked with an asterisk were elected for three-year terms and the others for two-year terms. Name. Politics. Years served. Name. *George Clinton.......D. R......1777-1795 John Young.. *John Jay.. .Federal...1795-1801 Hamilton Fish.. *George Clinton.. ..D. R......1801-1804 Washington Hunt. *Morgan Lewis.. .D. R......1804-1807 Horatio Seymour. *D. D. Tompkins.....D. R......1808-1817 Myron H. Clark. John A. King.. (John Taylor, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded D. D. Tompkins when the latter became Vice-President, March 4, 1817. Politics. Years served. *De Witt Clinton.....D. R......1817-1823 *Joseph C. Yates......D. R......1823-1826 De Witt Clinton......D. R......1826-1828 (Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded Gov. Clinton February 11, 1828. Politics. Years served. .1829 Name. Name. Martin Van Buren....D.... (Enos T. Throop, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded Gov. Van Buren March 12, 1829. .D... Whig... 1855-1857 .R.. .1857-1859 Edwin D. Morgan. ...R... 1859-1863 1863-1865 Reuben E. Fenton... .R... 1865-1869 John T. Hoffman.. .D.. 1869-1873 John A. Dix. *David B. Hill........D.........1885-1891 |