Establishing the City Court of Buffalo, Defining its Powers and Jurisdiction, and Providing for its Officers STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER Albany, May 29, 1909 MEMORANDUM filed with Assembly bill No. 1870, entitled "An act to establish the city court of Buffalo, defining its powers and jurisdiction and providing for its officers." APPROVED. This bill provides for the establishment of the city court of Buffalo, to take the place of the municipal court, the police court and the courts of the justices of the peace in the city. The new court is to be constituted on January 1, 1910. Under section 116 of the act the existing courts above mentioned are to be abolished "from and after midnight of the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and nine," and under section 118 no civil or criminal action or other proceeding “which shall be pending before any of such courts or the judges thereof at midnight on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and nine, shall abate or be anywise affected by the passage of this act." Such proceedings are to be continued before the new court. These clear provisions must be regarded as modifying the effect of the repealing clause at the end of the bill and leave no sound basis for the contention that it was the intention of the Legislature to deprive the existing courts of jurisdiction before the end of the year. The bill is therefore approved. CHARLES E. HUGHES (Signed) VI EMERGENCY MESSAGES Messages certifying to the necessity of the immediate passage of specified Senate and Assembly bills, in compliance with section 15 of Article III of the Constitution, were sent to the Legislature of 1909 from time to time by Governor Hughes. The measures to which the messages applied were as follows: April 13.- Senate bill, Introductory No. 528, Printed No. 1233, entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled 'An act to provide for a supply of water in the village of Amsterdam, and to exempt said village from the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five,' as amended by section eighty-five of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled 'An act to incorporate the city of Amsterdam.' 999 April 22.— Senate bill, Introductory No. 1074, Printed No. 1437, entitled "An act to amend chapter four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled 'An act to provide for rapid transit railways in cities of over one million inhabitants,' generally." April 23.- Senate bill, Introductory No. 117, Printed No. 1496, entitled "An act to amend the Highway law, by repealing article eleven thereof and inserting a new article eleven, in relation to motor vehicles." April 28.- Senate bill, Introductory No. 720, Printed No. 1562, entitled "An act to amend the Election law, in relation to providing a more complete means of identification of electors." April 28.- Senate bill No. 1563, entitled "An act to grant to the city of New York certain lands under water in Jamaica bay and vicinity." April 28.— Senate bill, Introductory No. 1112, Printed No. 1558, entitled “An act authorizing the use of the state hospital |