Code amended. Committee of prop Chap. 51. AN ACT to amend section twenty-three hundred and forty-one of article four of title six of chapter seventeen of the code of civil procedure, relating to the inventories and accounts of committees. BECAME a law February 23, 1894, 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 twenty-three hundred and forty-one of article four of title six of chapter seventeen of the code of civil procedure, relating to the inventories and accounts of committees, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2341. The provisions of article two of title seven of chap erty, filing ter eighteen of this act, requiring the general guardian of an account by, infant's property, appointed by a surrogate's court, to file in the of inven tory and month of January in each year an inventory, account and affidavit and prescribing the form of the papers so to be filed, apply to a committee of the property appointed, as prescribed in this title. For the purpose of making that application the committee is deemed a general guardian of the property; the person with respect to whom he is appointed, is deemed a ward and the papers must be filed in the office of the clerk of the court by which the committee was appointed, or if he was appointed by the supreme court, in the clerk's office where the order appointing him is entered. In every case where a committee has used or employed the services of an incompetent person, with respect to whom he has been appointed a committee, or where moneys have been earned by or received on behalf of such incompetent person, the committee must account for any moneys so earned or derived from such services, the same as for other property or assets of the incompetent person. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 52. AN ACT to authorize the town of Niagara to sell and convey the cemetery grounds in said town, known as the Potters' Field, and to remove remains therefrom. BECAME a law February 23, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: cemetery authorized. Section 1. The town of Niagara, in the county of Niagara, is sale of hereby authorized and empowered to sell, grant and convey the grounds real property in said town conveyed to it by Jonas Young and wife, by deed dated April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftynine, recorded in Niagara county clerk's office in liber eighty-two of deeds, at page six hundred and two, heretofore used for the purposes of a public cemetery and burying ground, and commonly called and known as "the potter's field," in said town. remains. § 2. Said town is hereby authorized and empowered to remove the remains of human beings buried in said cemetery to any Removal of other cemetery, or cemeteries, in said town of Niagara, the expense of which removal and of such conveyance shall be a town charge, and audited and allowed in like manner as other town charges and expenses are audited and allowed. from taxation. § 3. Immediately upon the execution and delivery by said Exemption town of a deed of conveyance of said real property, the same shall no longer be exempt from taxation. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 53. AN ACT to amend the legislative law. BECAME a law February 23, 1894, 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: Sections forty and forty-four of the legislative law are hereby amended to take effect immediately and to read as follows: $40. Certificate of presiding officer.-Upon the passage of a bill or concurrent resolution by either house, the presiding officer thereof shall append to such bill or resolution, a certificate of the date of its passage by the votes of a majority of all the members elected to such house or in the presence of three-fifths of . such members, if such be the case, or by the votes of two-thirds of all the members elected to such house, as the case may be. No bills shall be deemed to have so passed unless certified by the presiding officer, which certificate to such effect shall be conclusive evidence thereof. § 44. Statement in session laws as to passage of law. In the publication of every law, the secretary of state shall omit the certificates appended thereto, but shall cause to be inserted immediately under the title of the law, a statement to the effect that it became a law upon the properly specified date, with or without the approval of the Governor, or notwithstanding his objections, as the case may be, and adding the words "passed! by a two-thirds vote," "passed, three-fifths being present," or "passed, a majority being present," in accordance with the cer tificates appended to the original bill. Such statement shall be presumptive evidence that the original law was certified by the presiding officer of each house accordingly. Act amended. Institutions to keep Chap. 54. AN ACT to amend section three of chapter four hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the state relating to the custody and care of indigent and pauper children by orphan asylums and other charitable institutions." BECAME a law February 24, 1894, 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 third section of chapter four hundred and thirtyeight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the state relating to the custody and care of indigent and pauper children by orphan asylums and other charitable institutions," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 3. All institutions, public or private, incorporated or not children, incorporated, for the reception of minors, whether as orphan or record of as pauper, indigent, destitute, vagrant, disorderly or delinquent persons, are hereby required to provide and keep a record, in which shall be entered the date of reception, and the names and places of birth and residence, as nearly as the same can reasonably be ascertained, of all children admitted in such institutions, and how and by whom and for what cause such children shall be placed therein, and the names, residence, birthplace and religious denomination of the parents of such children so admitted, as Learly as the same can be reasonably ascertained; and whenever any such child shall leave such institution, the proper entry shall be made in such record, showing in what manner such child shall have been disposed of, and if apprenticed to or adopted by any person or family, or otherwise placed out at service or on trial, the name and place of residence of the person or head of the family to or with whom such child shall have been so appren ticed, adopted or otherwise placed out. The supreme court may, Court may apon application by a parent, relative or legal guardian of such extracts child, after due notice to the institution and hearing had thereon, by order direct the officers of such institution to furnish suck parent, relative or legal guardian with such extracts from such record relating to such child as such court may deem proper. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent visitation Visitations by relatives and friends in accordance with the established rules and of such institutions. § 2. This aut shall take effect immediately. order furnished. by relative friends. Chap. 55. AN ACT in relation to Greene avenue and Quincy street in the city of Brooklyn. FECAME a law February 24, 1894, 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: railways avenue Section 1. None of the provisions of existing laws, nor any Consent for proceedings thereunder, shall authorize the construction, mainte- upon nance, extension or operation of any surface, elevated or steam railway upon either Greene avenue or upon Quincy street, in the city of Brooklyn, or any portion of the same between Frank lin avenue and Broadway in said city, without first obtaining the consent in writing of a majority of the owners of property in numbers and value thereof, bounded on the said Greene avenue or upon Quincy street between said Franklin avenue and Broadway, said consent to be duly acknowledged as are deeds entitled to be of record. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Certain lands de clared a public place. Proceed ings for taking lands Chap. 56. AN ACT laying out a public park in the twelfth ward of the city of New York, and authorizing the taking of lands for the same. BECAME a law February 26, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All those pieces or parcels of land situate, lying or being in the twelfth ward of the city of New York, to wit, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the southerly side of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, where Bradhurst avenue intersects the same, running thence northerly on the west side of Bradhurst avenue to a point where Bradhurst avenue intersects the southerly side of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street; running thence westerly on the south side of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street to a point where Edgecomb avenue intersects with One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street; thence southerly along the westerly side of Edgecomb avenue to a point where the said Edgecomb avenue intersects the northerly side of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street; thence easterly on the south side of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street to the point or place of beginning, or so much thereof as the commissioners to be appointed under the provisions of this act shall deem advisable to be acquired, are hereby declared to be a public place and public parkway, for pub tic use and public purposes. § 2. The mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, by and through the department of public parks, are hereby authorized and directed to take the said pieces of land for public use as and for a public park and parkway, and are hereby author ized and directed to make application at the next general term of |