1. There shall be no election of school commissioners in May, nineteen hundred and seven. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in the year nineteen hundred and six, there shall be elected on the same ballot as other city officers, by a plurality vote of electors of the city of Ogdensburg, nine school commissioners, three for terms beginning on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and seven and expiring on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eight, three for terms beginning on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and seven and expiring on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and ten, and three for terms beginning on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and seven and expiring on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twelve. Three such school commissioners shall be elected biennially thereafter, each for a term of six years from the first day of January next following their election, and until the qualification of their successors. The terms of office of all the school commissioners of said city in office on the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and seven, shall expire on that day. The school commissioners elected under the provisions hereof shall continue to constitute the board of education of said city, with all the powers and duties of, and governed by the same provisions of law relating to, their predecessors whose retirement is effected by this act, except as herein otherwise provided. 2. If a vacancy occurs in the office of school commissioner otherwise than by expiration of term prior to the time for filing nominations for a city office the board of education may appoint a person to fill such vacancy for a term expiring on the thirtyfirst day of December of the year in which the next biennial city election thereafter is held, and at such election, such vacancy if the term of office continues beyond the thirty-first day of December succeeding shall be filled for the unexpired term. If a vacancy occurs in the office of school commissioner otherwise than by expiration of term subsequent to the time of filing nominations for a city office and prior to the next biennial city election, the board of education may appoint a person to fill such vacancy for a term expiring on the thirty-first day of December succeeding the second biennial city election thereafter, unless the term of office sooner expires, and at such election, such vacancy, if the term of office continues beyond the thirty-first day of December succeeding, shall be filled for the unexpired term. A vacancy in the office of school commissioner occurring before June first, nineteen hundred and seven, shall be filled by the board of education for a term expiring on May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven. § 3. Said board of education may call a primary of voters of said city of Ogdensburg, irrespective of party, to meet for the purpose of making nominations for school commissioners of said city. Said primary shall be held not more than forty days nor less than thirty days before any biennial city election, and a certificate of such nominations designating them as citizens' nominations for school commissioners shall be filed with the county clerk of Saint Lawrence county at least twenty-five days and not more than thirty-five days before the election for which such nominations shall be made, and such nominations shall be treated as a party nomination under the election law, and all the provisions of said election law, applicable to party nominations, not inconsistent herewith, shall be applicable thereto. At the primary held in the year nineteen hundred and six, the duration of the terms of office for which the several candidates are nominated shall be indicated by the voters at such primary, according to the classification mentioned in section one hereof, and shall be specified in said certificate. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 496. AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An act to make the office of register of the county of Kings a salaried office and regulating the management of said office," as amended by chapter six hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, relating to additional assistants, clerks, employees, or subordinates in said office and fixing salaries of assistants, clerks, employees, or subordinates in said office. Became a law, May 19, 1906, 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 two of chapter seven hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An act to make the office of register of the county of Kings a salaried office and regulating the management of said office" as amended by chapter six hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. On and after the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and two, the salaries to be paid the assistants, clerks, employees, or subordinates employed in said register's office shall be at a rate per annum as follows: The deputy register, five thousand dollars; the assistant deputy register, twenty-five hundred dollars; one expert of records, three thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, fifteen hundred dollars; one mailing clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; chief clerk of records, eighteen hundred dollars; one entry clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; one tickler clerk, twenty-five hundred dollars; one first assistant tickler clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; two second assistant tickler clerks, twelve hundred dollars each; one chattel mortgage clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; one assistant chattel mortgage clerk, twelve hundred dollars; one satisfaction clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; chief block index clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief current index clerk, eighteen hundred dollars; chief clerk of copyists, eighteen hundred dollars; seven assistant index clerks, fifteen hundred dollars each; three abstract clerks, fifteen hundred dollars each; ten clerks, twelve hundred dollars each; four comparers, fifteen hundred dollars each; three assistant comparers, twelve hundred dollars each; five custodians, one thousand dollars each; one secretary, fifteen hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, twelve hundred dollars: one delivery clerk, twelve hundred dollars; one keeper of coatroom, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three messengers, eight hundred dolars* each; thirty-five copyists, twelve hundred dollars each. The register shall from time to time in his discretion employ temporary copyists in addition to the permanent force herein provided for. The temporary copyists shall, however, be employed only at times when there has been in the register's office such an accumulation of deeds, mortgages and other papers that the register is unable to have them actually copied until more than one month later than the time when they have been left at his office for recording, and at no time shall their employment continue longer than is necessary for bringing the copying up to within one month of the date of recording. The temporary copyists shall be paid at the rate of five cents per folio. Each record searcher or title company shall receive as his or its full compensation for every search So in original. made by him or it, one-third of the fees now allowed by law to the register of said county for such service. The register may appoint a counsel at a salary not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars. § 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 497. AN ACT to amend the code of criminal procedure, relative to jurisdiction of courts of special sessions. Became a law, May 19, 1906, 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 fifty-six of the code of criminal procedure is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision to be subdivision thirty-nine and to read as follows: 39. All violations of the law regulating the junk business and requiring persons engaging in such business to procure a license. § 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and six. Chap. 498. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An act to provide for the enrollment of members of political parties in towns," in relation to Herkimer, Hamilton and Fulton counties. Became a law, May 19, 1906, 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 one of chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An act to provide for the enrollment of members of political parties in towns," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. This act shall not apply to any of the counties embraced within Greater New York, nor to cities of the second or third class, nor to any village which shall be or become subject to the provisions of chapter four hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of the general laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled 'An act in relation to the enrollment for political parties, primary elections, conventions and political committees,' relative to the enrollment for and holding of primary elections." In any county of the state, other than those embraced within Greater New York, it shall become applicable, and govern and control the enrollment of the members of any political party in the several towns of the county, except as above specified, from the first day of September, succeeding the adoption by a majority vote of the general committee of the party, which shall include the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members thereof elected from the towns of said county, and filing in the office of the clerk of the county, of a resolution in writing, declaring that the members of such party shall thereafter be enrolled as herein provided; but shall not affect any primary election held prior to the first day of January next thereafter, and in any such county the general committee of any party to which this act may be so applicable, may similarly adopt and file a resolution rescinding such declaration, and thereafter the application of this act in any such county shall cease. This act shall not apply to the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Genesee, Greene, Livingston, Madison, Montgomery, Nassau, Oneida, Onondaga, Orange, Orleans, Oswego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester and Yates. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |