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Duties; appropriation (L. 1902, ch. 421), §§ 2, 3.

souri, beginning on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and four, and ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and four, and for the purposes of this act such commissioners shall be known as the Louisiana purchase exposition commission. Such commission shall encourage and promote a full and complete exhibit of the commercial, educational, industrial, artistic and other interests of the state and its citizens at such exposition, and shall provide, furnish and maintain, during the exposition, a building or room for a state exhibit and for the official headquarters of the state, and for the comfort and convenience of its citizens and its exhibitors. Such commission shall have power and authority, in their discretion, to sell or otherwise dispose of any building, furniture, fixtures or other property which shall have been acquired by it pursuant to the provisions of this section. (Amended by L. 1903, ch. 546, in effect May 11, 1903.)

§ 2. Members allowed expenses; secretary and employes.The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to the actual necessary expenses incurred while in discharge of duties imposed upon them by the commission. Such commission may provide a secretary whose compensation, to be fixed by it, shall be at the rate of not to exceed four thousand dollars a year for all services to be performed in carrying out the provisions of this act, and may also provide such other clerical assistance and office facilities as it deems necessary, but no salaries or expenses shall be incurred for a longer period than ninety days after the close of the exposition. (Amended by L. 1903, ch. 546, in effect May 11, 1903.)

§ 3. Appropriation. The sum of two hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by chapter four hundred and twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and two which is hereby reappropriated for the above specified purposes, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purposes of this act. Such money shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comp troller issued upon a requisition signed by the president and secretary of the commission, accompanied by an estimate of the expenses for the payment of which the money so drawn is to be applied. Within ninety days after the close of the exposition, such commis

State and county societies (L. 1885, ch. 379), § 1.

sion shall make a verified report to the comptroller of the disbursements made by it, and shall return to the state treasury the unexpended balance of money drawn in pursuance of this act. No indebtedness nor obligation shall be incurred under this act in excess of the appropriation herein made. No member of such commission, nor such officer, shall be personally liable for any debt or obligation created or incurred by him as such commissioner, or such officer, or by such commission, or any such officer. (Amended by L. 1903, ch. 546, in effect May 11, 1903.)

L. 1904, ch. 640, appropriates $40,000 additional.

§ 4. Reports. The commission shall, as requested by the governor, from time to time, render to him reports of its proceedings.

MEDICAL SOCIETIES.

State and county medical societies.

L. 1813, ch. 94, §§ 5, 7 (C. & G. Gen. Laws, p. 2277), repealed by L. 1904, ch. 544, in effect May 3, 1904.

L. 1813, ch. 94, § 14 (C. & G. General Laws, p. 2278), amended by L. 1904, ch. 544, in effect May 3, 1904, as follows:

§ 14. Constitutions and by-laws. It shall be lawful for the medical society of the state of New York and the respective county medical societies to adopt constitutions and by-laws relative to the admission and expulsion of members and the regulation of their affairs; provided that the constitutions and by-laws of county medical societies shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with the constitution and by-laws of the medical society of the state of New York, except that each county medical society shall have full and unrestricted power of disposition and control over its real and personal property. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 544, in effect May 3,

1904.)

L. 1885, ch. 379, § 1 (C. & G. Gen. Laws, p. 2283), amended by L. 1904, ch. 549, in effect May 3, 1904, as follows:

§ 1. Membership in state society.— The medical society of the state of New York shall have full power to elect such members as may be provided for by the constitution and by-laws of said medical society, said medical society being hereby empowered to fix and determine the qualifications and conditions of membership therein,

Consolidation of societies, L. 1904, ch. 1.

and to regulate and control its own membership. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 549, in effect May 3, 1904.)

L. 1904, ch. 1. An act to authorize the consolidation of the medical society of the state of New York and the New York state medical association. [In effect January 21, 1904.]

Section 1. The medical society of the state of New York, incorporated by or pursuant to chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and six, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state," and continued by chapter ninety-four of the revised laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen, passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state," and the New York state medical association, incorporated under chapter four hundred and fifty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred, may enter into an agreement for the consolidation of such corporations, setting forth the terms and conditions of the consolidation and the mode of carrying the same into effect. Each corporation, party to the agreement, may petition the supreme court for an order consolidating the corporations, setting forth in such petition the agreement for consolidation and a statement of all its property and liabilities and the amount and sources of its annual income. Before the presentation of the petition to the court, the agreement must be approved by a majority of the vote lawfully cast at an annual meeting of each corporation, separately, or at a meeting of each corporation separately and specially called pursuant to its by-laws for that purpose, and a certificate of such approval, verified by the president and secretary of the meeting, shall be annexed to the petition. On presentation of the petition, the certificate of approval and the consolidation agreement, and on such notice to interested parties as the court may prescribe, and after hearing such interested parties as desire to be heard, the court may make an order for the consolidation of the corporations on such terms and conditions as it may prescribe. When the order is made and duly entered, the corporations, parties to the agreement, shall be one corporation under the name medical society of the state of New York, which shall not be deemed to be a new corporation, but to be a continuation of the medical society of the state of New York, incorporated in

Membership Corporations Law (L. 1895, ch. 559), § 4.

eighteen hundred and six. A certified copy of said order shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. All the property belonging to the corporations so consolidated shall vest in the said medical society of the state of New York, which shall have all the powers, rights and privileges possessed by either corporation at or immediately prior to the consolidation, and which shall be subject to all of the liabilities of each corporation.

MEDICINES.

Careless distribution, a misdemeanor. Penal Code, § 405-b, added by L. 1903, ch. 494.

MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS.

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(1) The Membership Corporations Law. (L. 1895, ch. 559.)

$ 4. Extension of corporate purposes by supplemental certificates. A membership corporation, created under or by a general or special law for purposes for which a corporation may be created under any article of this chapter may, from time to time extend its corporate purposes so as to include any other purpose for which a corporation may be created under such article by filing in the offices in which its original certificates of incorporation, if any, are filed, or otherwise in the offices in which original certificates of incorporation for such purposes are required to be filed, a copy of a resolution in favor of such extension, certified by the president and secretary of the corporation to have been duly adopted by the concurring vote of a majority of the members of the corporation present at an annual meeting, or a special meeting duly called for that purpose; and a certificate signed and acknowledged by a majority of the directors of the corporation, in pursuance of such resolution, with the approval, endorsed thereupon or annexed thereto, of a justice of the supreme court, and if the care of orphan, pauper or destitute children be included among such corporate purposes, with the additional approval endorsed thereupon or annexed thereto, of the state board of charities. (Amended by L 1902, ch. 341, in effect April 3, 1902.)

Membership Corporations Law L. 1895, ch. 559), §§ 7, 11.

§ 7. Consolidation. Any two or more membership corporations incorporated under or by general or special laws, for kindred purposes, being purposes for which a corporation may be formed under any article of this chapter, may enter into an agreement for the consolidation of such corporations setting forth the terms and conditions of consolidation, the name of the proposed corporation, the number of its directors, the time of the annual election and the names of the persons to be directors until the first annual meeting. Each corporation may petition the supreme court for an order consolidating the corporation, setting forth in such petition the agreement for consolidation, a statement of all its property and liabilities and the amount and sources of its annual income. Before the presentation of the petition to the court, the agreement and petition must be approved by threefourths of the votes lawfully cast at a meeting of each corporation, separately and specially called for that purpose, which approval, duly verified by the chairman and clerk of such meeting, shall be annexed to the petition. On presentation of the petition, the certificate of approval and the agreement for consolidation, and on such notice to interested parties as the court may prescribe, and after hearing such interested parties as desire to be heard, the court may make an order for the consolidation of the corporations on such terms and conditions as it may prescribe. When such order is made and duly entered, such corporations shall become one corporation by the name designated in the order, and be subject only to such duties and obligations as a membership corporation formed under this chapter for the same purposes; and all the property belonging to the corporations so consolidating, shall be vested in and transferred to the new corporation, which shall be subject to all the liabilities of the former corporations, to the same extent as if they had been contracted or incurred by it. But a corporation for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals shall not consolidate with any other corporation. (Amended by L. 1902, ch. 439, in effect April 9, 1902.)

§ 11. Powers, duties and liabilities of directors. (C. & G. Gen. Laws, p. 2297.)

Effect of amendment of 1899; pleadings.— Ch. 292 of L. 1899, which amended the above section, was not intended to except the directors of a corporation formed to promote the principles of a political party from all liability, but only to limit it in the manner pointed out in the proviso