covered in the actual commission of crimes and breaches of the peace, and all vagrants or disorderly persons, without process; to execute all process issued by the police justice or justices of the peace; to report to the president all suspicious persons, houses of ill-fame, gaming or gambling houses and all places where idlers, tipplers, gamblers or other disorderly or suspicious persons may frequent or congregate, or any violation of this act; and to perform the duties of watchmen in said village whenever directed so to do by the trustees, the president or chief of police, and obey all rules and regulations which they may prescribe and establish for their government and discipline; and to perform such other duties from time to time as the trustees or president of the village may prescribe or direct. And the trustees may establish and maintain in said village a lockup, station or watchhouse, for this purpose, to be under the superintendence of the chief of police, and they may lease or purchase any building or premises which they may deem necessary or appropriate for that purpose. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 390. AN ACT to repeal sections one and two of article one, title two, of the consolidated school law, relating to the state school tax and the apportionment and payment of school moneys. Became a law April 26, 1904, 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. Sections one and two of article one, title two, of the consolidated school law, being chapter five hundred and fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the general acts relating to pub lic instruction," are hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 391. AN ACT to amend the agricultural law, prohibiting the sale of adulterated evaporated apples. Became a law April 26, 1904, 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. Two new sections are hereby added to the agricultural law to be known as article thirteen and to read as follows: Article 13, § 185. No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale as and for evaporated apples any evaporated apples intended to be used for food, or for consumption by any person, other than standard evaporated apples. evaporated defined. § 186. Evaporated apples containing not more than twenty-seven Standard per centum of water or fluids as determined by drying for four apples hours at the temperature of boiling water shall be considered standard evaporated apples for the purposes of this act. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 392. AN ACT to amend the public health law, relative to vital statistics. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section twenty-two of chapter six hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act in relation to the public health, constituting chapter twenty-five of the general laws," as amended by chapter six hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and chapter three hundred and eighty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, is hereby amended to read as follows: Local boards of health shall forward vital § 22. Every such local board shall supervise and make complete the registration of all births, marriages and deaths occurstatistics ring within the municipality, and the cause of death and the to state board. Fees for making finding of coroners' juries, in accordance with the methods and forms prescribed by the state department of health, and, after registration, promptly forward the certificates of such births, marriages and deaths to the state bureau of vital sta tistics. Every physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child, and no physician or midwife being in attendance, the parent or custodian of a child born, and every groom, officiat ing clergyman or magistrate at every marriage shall cause a certificate of such birth or marriage to be returned within thirty days thereafter to the local board of health or person designated by it to receive the same, which shall be attested, if a birth, by the physician or midwife, if any in attendance, no physician or midwife being in attendance, by the parent or custodian of a child born, and, if a marriage, by the officiating clergyman or magistrate. The person making such certificate shall be entitled rertificates. to the sum of twenty-five cents therefor, which shall be a charge upon, and paid by the municipality where such birth, marriage or death occurred. The cost of such registration, not exceeding twenty-five cents for the complete registered record of a birth, marriage or death, shall be a charge upon the municipality. The charge for a copy thereof shall be fixed by the board, not exceeding the same sum for a complete copy of a single registered record and the additional sum of twenty-five cents if certified to. Such copies shall be furnished upon request of any person, and when certified to be correct by the president or secretary of the board or local registering officer designated by it shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein Duties of stated. The physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child, shall, at the time of filing such certificate of birth, unless it contains the given name of such child, cause to be furnished to the parents or custodian of such child a name card, which shall be filled in by such parent or custodian with the given name of such child when named, and immediately filed in the same office where certificates of birth are filed. Blank name cards shall be furnished by local boards of health in the form prescribed by the state department of health, the expense of which shall be a charge upon the municipality. Rules and regu physician or mid wife on Aling certificates of birth. lations shall be adopted by local boards of health providing for the enforcement of this section. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 393. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act to provide for the erection of an armory in the city of Buffalo for the use of the sixty-fifth regiment, national guard, and making an appropriation therefor providing for the purchase of a site for such armory and the taking of real estate therefor," in relation to the issue of bonds, et cetera. Became a law April 26, 1904, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act to provide for the erection of an armory in the city of Buffalo for the use of the sixty-fifth regiment, national guard, and making an appropriation therefor providing for the purchase of a site for such armory and the taking of real estate therefor," is hereby amended to read as follows: bonds for price of § 2. The board of supervisors of Erie county whenever notified Issue of by its chairman, or whenever written notice shall be served upon purchase its chairman by the armory commission that such land has been site, etc. contracted for or purchased, or the title has been acquired as above directed, or whenever it is certified to said board of supervisors by the armory commission or the commanding officer of the sixty-fifth regiment, national guard, that said board is required pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or of the military code, to make expenditures in, upon and about said armory and land for the purposes specified in this chapter and in the military code is hereby authorized, from time to time as may be required, to cause to be executed by its chairman and the treasurer of said county in behalf of and in the name of the county of Erie, interest bearing bonds in the amount or aggre Interest on bonds, rate and payment of; payment of bonds. Sale of bonds. Proceeds from sale of bonds, disposition of. gating the amount required to pay the purchase price or cost of said land, together with such sums as are necessary for the cost of acquiring said title, and for grading, sodding, seeding and planting, filling, excavating, draining, paving, fencing, gates, retaining walls and approaches, making sewer and water connections and laying sidewalks, tile and concrete in, upon and about said armory and land; for providing the necessary camp stools, chairs, furniture, fixtures and furnishings, kitchen accessories and appliances, lockers, gun racks, desks, cases and shelving, elevators, bath, water and wash closets and necessary construction, fixtures and fittings therefor, and the necessary apparatus, fixtures and means for lighting, ventilating, heat regulation and additional heating. The aforesaid bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed four per centum per annum, payable semiannually, both principal and interest to be made payable at the office of the county treasurer of Erie county at the city of Buffalo, New York; one-third of said bonds shall be made payable in five years, one-third thereof in ten years, and one-third thereof in fifteen years from the date of their issue, or at such other periods as said board of supervisors may decide is for the best interests of said county, and the amount thereof and the semiannual interest as it shall respectively become due thereon shall be raised in the several tax budgets of said county for the years when said bonds and semiannual interest shall become due, and shall be applied to the payment of such bonds. Said bonds shall be sold. by the treasurer of the county of Erie to the highest bidder at a price not less than the par value thereof, after ten days notice, specifying the time and place where bids will be received there for, such notice to be published for five days in the official paper of the county of Erie and in such other manner as the board of supervisors shall direct. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be retained by said county treasurer and shall by him be paid out for the purchase price or cost of said land, the cost of acquiring said title and for grading, sodding, seeding and planting, filling, excavating, draining, paving, fencing, gates, retaining walls and approaches, making sewer and water connections and laying sidewalks, tile and concrete in, upon and about said armory and land, and for providing elevators, bath, water and wash closets and necessary construction, fixtures and fittings therefor, and the necessary apparatus, fixtures and means for |