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3. A description of the real property to be sold, mortgaged or leased, by metes and bounds, with reasonable certainty.

4. That the interests of the corporation or association will be promoted by the sale, mortgage or lease, of the real property specified, and a concise statement of the reasons therefor.

5. That such sale, mortgage or lease has been authorized, by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors, trustees or managers of the corporation or association, at a meeting thereof, duly called and held, and a copy of the resolution. granting such authority.

6. The market value of the remaining real property of the corporation or association, and the cash value of its personal assets, and the total amount of its debts and liabilities, and how secured, if at all.

7. The application proposed to be made of the moneys realized from such sale, mortgage or lease.

8. Where the consent of the shareholders, stockholders or members of the corporation or association, is required by law to be first obtained, a statement that such consent has been given, and a copy of the consent or a certified transcript of the record of the meeting at which it was given, shall be annexed to the petition.

9. A demand for leave to mortgage, lease or sell the real estate described. The petition shall be verified in the same manner as a verified pleading in an action in a court of record. Code Civ. Pro., § 3391, added L. 1890, c. 95.

32 Hearing of application. Upon presentation of the petition, the court may immediately proceed to hear the application, or it may, in its discretion, direct that notice of the application shall be given to any person interested therein, as a member, stockholder, officer or creditor of the corporation or association, or otherwise, in which case the application shall be heard at the time and place specified in such notice, and the court may in any case appoint a referee to take the proofs and report the same to the court, with his opinion thereon. Code Civ. Pro., § 3392, added L. 1890, c. 95.

33 Court may grant application; appearance. Upon the hearing of the application, if it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the court, that the interests of the corporation or association will be promoted thereby, an order may be granted authorizing it to sell, mortgage or lease the real property described in the petition, or any part thereof, for such sum, and upon such terms as the court may prescribe, and directing what disposition shall be made of the proceeds of such sale, mortgage or lease.

Any person, whose interests may be affected by the proceeding, may appear upon the hearing and show cause why the application should not be granted. Code Civ. Pro., § 3393, added L. 1890, c. 95.

54 N. Y. St. R. 286; 24 N. Y. Supp. 423.

34 Notice to creditors on application of insolvent corporation, etc. If the corporation or association is insolvent, or its property and assets are insufficient to fully liquidate its debts and liabilities, the application shall not be granted, unless all the creditors of the corporation have been served with a notice of the time and place at which the application will be heard. Code Civ. Pro., § 3394, added L. 1890, c. 95.

35 Service of notices. Service of notices, provided for in this title, may be made either personally or, in case of absence, by leaving the same at the place of residence of the person to be served, with some person of mature age and discretion, at least eight days before the hearing of the application, or by mailing the same, duly enveloped and addressed and postage paid, at least sixteen days before such hearing. Code Civ. Pro., § 3395, added L. 1890, c. 95.

36 Power of court to make all necessary orders. In all applications made under this title, where the mode or manner of conducting any or all of the proceedings thereon are not expressly provided for, the court before whom such

application may be pending, shall have the power to make all the necessary orders and give the proper directions to carry into effect the object and intent of this title, or of any act authorizing the sale of corporate real property, and the practice in such cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the ordinary practice in such court. Code Civ. Pro., § 3396, added L. 1890, c. 95.

37 Title, when to take effect. This title shall take effect May first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and shall not affect any proceeding previously commenced. Code Civ. Pro., § 3397, added L. 1890, c. 95.

See also Drainage Law; Eminent Domain; Highway Law, § 20a; Historical Societies, § 2; Insanity Law, § 33; Membership Corporations Law, $45; Military Code, $174, 175, 335a; Municipal Law, § 22; Public Health Law, §§ 21, 72; Public Lands Law, 85; Railroad Law, §§ 4-6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 20, 91-99, 129-137; State Law, § 376; Transportation Corporations Law, §§ 31, 32, 41-50, 61, 70a, 83-84, 102, 105a, 121–126; Villages, 109, 134.

CONDENSED MILK.

See Agricultural Law; Domestic Commerce Law, § 30.

CONDITIONS.

ANNEXED TO POWERS; see Real Property Law, § 151.
PRECEDENT; see Liquor Tax Law, § 36; Pleadings, § 56.
CONDITIONAL LIMITATIONS; see Real Property Law, § 43.
CONDITIONAL PARDONS; see Reprieves, etc., § 5.

CONDUCTOR.

ON RAILROADS; see Courts of Special Sessions, § 1, subd. 9; Fisheries, etc., Law, § 275; Liquor Tax Law, §§ 41, 42; Railroad Law, §§ 42, 42a, 43, 58, 187, 188.

CONESUS, TOWN OF.

For boundaries see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1788, c. 64, p. 62.

CONESVILLE, TOWN OF.

For boundaries see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1788, c. 64, p. 40.

CONEY ISLAND.

See Fisheries, etc., Law, § 146; Railroad Law, § 8.

CONFECTIONERY.

See Food, §§ 1-9; Public Health Law, §§ 40, 41; Sunday, § 9.

See Civil Service, § 20.

CONFEDERATE ARMY.

CONFEDERATION, ARTICLES OF.

See L. 1778, c. 3; L. 1779, c. 30, and L. 1785, c. 63.

CONFESSION.

EFFECT OF, AS EVIDENCE; see Evidence.

Of Judgment; see Judgment, etc.

See Privilege.

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS.

CONFIRMATION.

OF ACTS OF TOWN MEETINGS; see County Law, § 15.

OF OFFICIAL ACTS; see Poor Law, § 166; Town Law, § 59.

See also Judgment and Decree; Motions and Orders; Reports.

See Corporations, § 33.

CONFLICTING LAWS.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.

Note.- These corporations were formerly chartered under L. 1873, c. 633; also see 2 R. L. 1813, c. 60. See Birdseye's R. S., 1st ed., pp. 2577, 2605 et seq. visions, see Religious Corporations Law.

See Religious Corporations Law, §§ 15, 85.

CONGRESS.

For the present pro

See Congressional Districts; Constitution, $$ 6, 32; Election Law, §§ 4, 8, 160; Executive Law, § 23; Legislative Law, § 476; Public Officers Law, § 2; State Law, §§ 4, 7.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

1 Congressional districts. For the election of representatives in congress of the United States this state shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-four districts, namely:

First district. The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first district.

Second district. wards of the city district.

Third district.

The first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh and twentieth of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the second

The fourth, third, tenth, twenty-second, ninth and twentythird wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the town of Flatbush, shall compose the third district.

Fourth district.- The twelfth, eighth, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twentysixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend and Flatlands, shall compose the fourth district. Fifth district. The eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the fifth district.

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Sixth district. The thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the sixth district.

Seventh district. The county of Richmond, together with the first and fifth assembly districts of the county of New York, shall compose the seventh district. Eighth district. The second, third and seventh assembly districts of the county of New York, shall compose the eighth district.

Ninth district. The fourth, sixth and eighth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the ninth district.

Tenth district. The ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the tenth district.

Eleventh district. The tenth, twelfth and fourteenth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the eleventh district.

Twelfth district. The eleventh, sixteenth and eighteenth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the twelfth district.

Thirteenth district. The seventeenth and twentieth assembly districts of the county of New York, and that portion of the twenty-first assembly district below the center of Fifty-ninth street in the city of New York, shall compose the thirteenth district.

Fourteenth district. The nineteenth assembly district of the county of New York, that portion of the twenty-first assembly district between the center of Fiftyninth street and the center of Seventy-ninth street, and that portion of the twentysecond assembly district below the center of Seventy-ninth street in the city of New York, shall compose the fourteenth district.

Fifteenth district. That portion of the twenty-first assembly district between the center of Seventy-ninth street and the center of Eighty-sixth street; that portion of the twenty-second district above the center of Seventy-ninth street of the city of New York, and the twenty-third assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the fifteenth district.

Sixteenth district. The twenty-fourth assembly district of the county of New York and the county of Westchester, shall compose the sixteenth district.

Seventeenth district. The counties of Rockland, Orange and Sullivan shall compose the seventeenth district.

Eighteenth district. The counties of Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster shall compose the eighteenth district.

Nineteenth district. The counties of Columbia and Rensselaer shall compose the nineteenth district.

Twentieth district. The county of Albany shall compose the twentieth dis

trict.

Twenty-first district. The counties of Greene, Schoharie, Otsego, Montgomery and Schenectady, shall compose the twenty-first district.

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Twenty-second district. The counties of Fulton and Hamilton, Saratoga and Saint Lawrence shall compose the twenty-second district.

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Twenty-third district. The counties of Clinton, Franklin, Essex, Warren and Washington, shall compose the twenty-third district.

Twenty-fourth district. The counties of Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis, shall compose the twenty-fourth district.

Twenty-fifth district. The counties of Oneida and Herkimer, shall compose the twenty-fifth district.

Twenty-sixth district. The counties of Delaware, Chenango, Broome, Tioga and Tompkins, shall compose the twenty-sixth district.

Twenty-seventh district. The counties of Onondaga and Madison, shall compose the twenty-seventh district.

Twenty-eighth district. The counties of Wayne, Cayuga, Cortland, Ontario and Yates, shall compose the twenty-eighth district.

Twenty-ninth district. The counties of Chemung, Seneca, Schuyler and Steúben, shall compose the twenty-ninth district.

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Thirtieth district. The counties of Niagara, Livingston, Wyoming, Genesee and Orleans shall compose the thirtieth district.

Thirty-first district. The county of Monroe shall compose the thirty-first dis

trict.

Thirty-second district. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards of the city of Buffalo, as now constituted, shall compose the thirty-second district.

Thirty-third district. The fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, twentyfirst, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Buffalo, as now constituted, and the fourth and fifth assembly districts of the county of Erie, which said fourth assembly district includes the said twentyfifth ward of the city of Buffalo, shall compose the thirty-third district.

Thirty-fourth district. The counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany, shall compose the thirty-fourth district. L. 1892, c. 295, § 1.

2 Words used, defined. The words "assembly district," when used in this act, refer to assembly districts as at present constituted. Whenever the word ward" or "wards" is used in this act it shall be understood to refer to the ward or wards as constituted at the time of the passage of this act. Id., § 2.

3 Each district shall be entitled to elect one member. L. 1842, c. 325, § 2. All of the above act except § 2 omitted as obsolete.

See also Election Law, § 8.

For earlier laws on this subject see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1862, c. 454.

CONKLIN, TOWN OF.

For boundaries see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1788, c. 64, p. 54.

CONNECTICUT, STATE OF.

See Bills, etc., §§ 12-17; Real Property Law, § 272; State Law, § 2.

See Gas, § 1.

CONNECTION.

CONNEWANGO, Town OF.

For boundaries see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1788, c. 64, p. 67.

CONQUEST, TOWN OF.

For boundaries see Birdseye's Chronological Table of Statutes, under L. 1788, c. 64, p. 58.

See Relationship.

CONSANGUINITY.

1

CONSCIENCE.

Compelling adoption of a form of belief. An attempt by means of threats or violence, to compel any person to adopt, practice or profess a particular form of religious belief, is a misdemeanor. Pen. Code, § 272.

2 Preventing performance of religious act. A person who willfully prevents by threats or violence to another person from performing any lawful act enjoined upon or recommended to such person by the religion which he professes, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Pen. Code, § 273.

LIBERTY OF; see Constitution, § 3; Prisons, §§ 254-256; Rights, Bill of, 5, 9.
SCRUPLES OF, AS TO BEARING ARMS; see Constitution, § 133; Rights, Bill of, § 5.
AS TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; see Trials,

251.

See also Disturbance of Meetings; Religious Corporations Law; Sunday.

CONSENT.

AGE OF; see Abduction, 1; Divorce, §§ 1-3; Domestic Relations Law, § 4; Infants;
Kidnapping, § 3; Rape, § 1.

THAT DISPUTED CLAIM MAY BE HEARD BY SURROGATE; see Executors, etc., § 9.
TO INDENTURE OF ADOPTION; see Domestic Relations Law, § 72.

OF ENGINEER ON OPENING HIGHWAYS; see Highway Law, § 164m.

OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES; see Constitution, § 42; Railroad Law, § 90-94.

OF PERSONS INSURED, WHEN REQUIRED; see Insurance Law, § 55.

TO SALE OF LIQUOR TAX CERTIFICATE; see Liquor Tax Law, § 27.

OF STATE, TO ACQUIREMENT OF LANDS BY UNITED STATES; see State Law, § 37a.

OF STOCKHOLDERS; see Joint-Stock Association Law, §§ 5, 7.

OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE; see Insurance Law, § 52.

FOR CONSENTS IN JUDICIAL AND QUASI JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, see Eminent Domain, and

UNDER THE VARIOUS SUBJECTS TO WHICH SUCH PROCEEDINGS RELATE.

See Contracts.

CONSIDERATION.

CONSIGNORS AND CONSIGNEES.

See Common Carriers; Emigrants, §§ 1, 2; Factors; Public Health Law, § 108. THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL LAW.

TITLE I.

State superintendent of public instruction, his election, and general powers and duties.

TITLE II.

State and other school moneys, their apportionment and distribution; and trusts and gifts for the benefit of common schools.

Article 1. Of the state school moneys, and their apportionment by the superintendent of public instruction, and payment to county and city treasurers.

2. Of the apportionment of state school moneys, and of other school moneys by the school commissioners and their payment to the supervisors.

3. Of trusts for the benefit of common schools, and of town school funds, fines, penalties and other moneys held or given for their benefit.

TITLE III.

Supervisors, disbursement of school moneys by, and some of their special powers and duties under this act.

TITLE IV.

Town clerks, their duties under this act.

TITLE V.

School commissioners, their election, powers and duties.

TITLE VI.

School districts, formation, alteration and dissolution thereof.

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