§ 40 added.

ance thereof shall, if appointed within six months after being rendered supernumerary to an office of the same or a lower rank or grade, be recommissioned without examination with the same date of rank held by him at the time he was so rendered supernumer ary.

§ 2. Said chapter is further amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section forty, and to read as follows:

§ 40. Aides. An officer of appropriate grade of any corps, department or arm of the service may be detailed by the governor as an aide to the major-general or to the commanding officer of a brigade. Such a detail shall create a vacancy in the corps, department or command in which the officer is commissioned and this vacancy may be filled in the manner provided by law. An officer so detailed shall be an additional officer in his grade in the corps, department or arm of the service from which he is detailed and he may upon the recommendation of the general officer to whose staff he is detailed be withdrawn at any time from active service and placed upon the supernumerary list by the governor.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Bonds legalized

Chap. 286.

AN ACT to legalize the bonds of school district number seven of the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester county, in the amount of six thousand dollars, sold for the purpose of obtaining additional funds to complete the construction of a schoolhouse in said district, and to provide for the payment of the same.

Became a law June 7, 1911, 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. All, and each, of the bonds of school district number seven of the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester county, authorized at a meeting of the qualified voters of said district held pursuant to notice by a vote of thirty-six ayes to one nay, for the purpose of procuring additional funds for the completion of a

1 Words "Upon his own request an officer may be rendered supernumerary for the purpose of accepting a detail as an aide," omitted.

new schoolhouse in said district, and sold on the fourteenth day
of January, nineteen hundred and eleven, at not less than par,
pursuant to notice given requesting the presentation of sealed pro-
posals for the purchase thereof, consisting of twelve bonds of the
denomination of five hundred dollars each, numbered one to
twelve inclusive, dated February first, nineteen hundred and
eleven, and two of said bonds payable in order as numbered on
the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and
two on the first day of February annually thereafter until all of
said bonds are paid, bearing interest at the rate of five per centum
per annum, payable annually, are hereby legalized and declared
to be valid obligations of, and a charge upon, said school district,
notwithstanding any defect or irregularity, or the omission of any
lawful requirement, in the acts and proceedings had and taken
by the qualified voters, board of trustees, officers and agents of
said school district, in the matter of the issuance and sale of said
bonds; and the trustees of said district are authorized to deliver Delivery
said bonds to the purchaser thereof, whose bid has been accepted.
on said sale, or to his assignee or nominee upon the receipt of the
amount of the purchase price offered therefor at not less than par.
§ 2. The proper officers of said school district, in the manner Tax for
provided by law, shall cause such amounts to be raised annually,
by tax, as shall be necessary to pay the interest and principal of
said bonds as the same shall become due.

authorized.

payment.

actions.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately but shall not affect Pending any action or proceeding pending in any court at the time it takes efect.

Chap. 287.

AN ACT to provide for the repair of the state dam in Black river at Carthage, Jefferson county, and making an appropriation therefor.

Became a law June 7, 1911, 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 sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of

any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing the state dam in Black river at Carthage, Jefferson county; the work thereon to be done under the supervision and direction of the superintendent of public works and in accordance with the plans and specifications to be prepared by the state engineer and surveyor. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be paid out by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, upon vouchers audited and approved by the superintendent of public works.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 288.

AN ACT in relation to the court of general sessions of the county of New York.

Became a law June 7, 1911, 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. Each of the judges authorized to hold a court of general sessions of the county of New York may appoint a clerk to such judge, each of said clerks to receive a salary to be fixed by the judges of said court, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars

per annum.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Corporate

existence extended.

Chap. 289.

AN ACT to extend the corporate existence of the Enterprise Land Company; and to validate its conveyance of real estate and the election of its trustees.

Became a law June 7, 1911, 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. For the purpose of selling and conveying by good and sufficient deed any real property of which it may at any time

have been seized in fee, the corporate existence of the Enterprise Land Company, a domestic corporation having its principal office in the city of Buffalo, is hereby extended for a period of twenty years from and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the term of its existence fixed by its certificate of incorporation, with the same force and effect as though that were the period of time fixed by its said certificate for the said corporation to continue.

legalized.

§ 2. Any and all deeds and conveyances heretofore or here Deeds after made by or in the name of said Enterprise Land Company of any real property belonging to it, executed under its corporate seal and attested by the acting de-facto proper officers authorized so to do, or pursuant to the authority of its acting de-facto directors or trustees acting as such, are hereby legalized and confirmed and made effectual and valid as fully and for all purposes as if the corporate existence of said corporation had not expired and all Certain acting trustees or directors of said Enterprise Land Company and declared all officers elected since the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby declared regular and valid.

officers

regular.

actions.

§ 3. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any legal action Pending or proceeding pending at the time this act takes effect.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 290.

AN ACT to amend the code of civil procedure, in relation to current docket books.

Became a law June 7, 1911, 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 twelve hundred and forty-five of the code of 1245 civil procedure is hereby amended to read as follows:

1245. Certain clerks to keep docket books. Each county clerk, and the clerk of the city court of the city of New York, must keep one or more books, ruled in columns, convenient for making the entries prescribed in the next section; in which he must docket, in its regular order, and according to its priority, each judgment which he is required by this article to docket. The ex

amended.

$ 1245a

added.

pense of procuring new books' when necessary is a county charge.
"The judgment dockets kept by the county clerk of New York
county must hereafter have separate volumes for each letter
of the alphabet, and each judgment docket book shall have
its letter, and the year or years plainly marked on its back and
cover and on every page. A judgment docket shall contain the
names of those judgment debtors whose last name begins with the
letter marked on the back of the volume. Each volume kept by
the county clerk of said county shall also have a marginal page
index showing each letter of the alphabet in order. A page
of
the judgment docket shall contain the names of those judgment
debtors whose first name begins with the letter or whose first
initial is the letter marked on the marginal index for that page;
except that there shall be at the back of each volume blank pages
not indexed which shall contain the names of those judgment
debtors whose first names are unknown or fictitious. And there
must be a separate volume which shall contain the names of those
judgment debtors that are corporations, a joint stock company, a
copartnership or a person or persons doing business under a
firm name or style, in which shall be entered the full names
thereof indexed according to the first names or the first names fol-
lowing prefixes or initials where there are such. And there must
be prepared and kept separate volumes for judgment dockets, let-
tered, indexed and marked as hereinbefore provided in which
there shall be entered in the same manner, in their regular order
and according to their priority and as soon as it may be practi-
cable to have it done, the names of judgment debtors against
whom judgments have been docketed within ten years of the
time of the making of the entry in such volumes.

§ 2. After section twelve hundred and forty-five of the code of civil procedure, there shall be inserted a new section, to be numbered twelve hundred and forty-five-a, and to be as follows:

$1245-a. Current docket books. The county clerk of New York county must keep one or more books to be known as current docket books. Each half page of space in each book shall be consecutively numbered and shall be devoted to one action. On this half page the clerk shall enter the title of the action, with the names of the plaintiffs and defendants in full, and in chronological order a brief description of each paper as it is filed, together

1 Formerly read: "procuring a new book."

2 Remainder of section new.