§§ 11-13. Relief for blind. L. 1922, ch. 185. relief, accompanied by a petition meeting the requirements of section nine of this act, the commission shall promptly investigate and determine whether or not the person in whose behalf the application is made is capable of earning an adequate livelihood or can be taught or trained to earn an adequate livelihood, and shall obtain all necessary facts to enable the super, visors to determine the amount of relief, if any, to which such person is entitled. § 11. Report of finding and recommendations to supervisors.-The commission shall promptly forward to the board of supervisors of the county where resides the person in whose behalf the application is made the application for relief, the petition accompanying the same, and the findings of the commission with respect to the earning capacity of such person, together with any recommendations that the commission may be prepared to make, concerning the need, education or training of such person in any of the industrial occupations for the blind that are open to the person in question, and any other facts in the possession of the commission having a bearing upon the eligibility of the applicant for relief under this act. § 12. Granting of allowances by board of supervisors.-The following provisions shall govern the granting of allowances pursuant to this act: 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of a county annually to appropriate such sum as, in their discretion and judgment, may be needed to carry out the provisions of this act, including expenses for administration of relief, and to include in the tax levy for such county the sum or sums appropriated for that purpose. 2. The board of supervisors of a county shall grant an allowance on such terms and conditions as they may deem advisable, to any person wholly blind or partially blind within the definitions of this act, who .esides in their county, and is otherwise eligible, and who is found by the board to be without means of support and incapable of self-support, as these terms are defined in this act. 3. An allowance made by a board of supervisors shall not be made for a longer continuous period than one year without renewal, but the allowance may be continued from time to time at the same or different amounts for similar or less periods, either successively or intermittently, and may be revoked, when the board of supervisors are satisfied that the applicant is no longer eligible to such relief. A complete record in writing, however, shall be kept of the grounds upon which revocation is made, and such records shall be open to the public. 13. Record by commission and boards of supervisors.-A full and complete record shall be kept for the commission and by the board of supervisors of a county of each and every application received for relief under this act, and of the disposition made of same. L. 1921, ch. 145. Issuance and sale of bonds. § 1. § 14. Penalty.-A person who shall knowingly or wilfully procure or attempt to procure, directly or indirectly, any allowance for relief under this act, for or on account of a person not entitled thereto, or who shall knowingly or wilfully pay or permit to be paid any allowance to a person not entitled thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. § 15. New York City excluded from operation of act.-This act excepting the provisions of section eight shall not apply to any of the counties. which are wholly embraced within the limits of the City of New York. (Former § 15 repealed and new § 15 added by L. 1923, ch. 129, in effect March 30, 1923.) BLUE SKY LAWS. See General Business L., §§ 352-359-a. Untrue or misleading advertisements regarding securities; Penal L., § 421. BOATS. Landing regulations; Village L., § 90, subd. 19. Ordinances regulating; Town L., § 142-a. BONDS. See State Finance L., § 14. School district; Education L., § 480, subd. 1, 879, subd. 5. Fraudulent practices; General Business L., §§ 352-359-b. BONDS OF STATE. See Constitution, art. 7, §§ 2, 4, 5, 11, 12. L. 1921, ch. 545.-An act in relation to the issuance and sale of bonds for barge canal terminal, highway improvement and state park purposes, for the contracting of debts authorized by chapters seven hundred and forty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen and six hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen. (In effect May 4, 1921.) Section 1. Irrespective of the terms of the authorizations contained in chapter seven hundred and forty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve, chapter five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen and chapter six hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the contracting of debts by the state for the several purposes therein set forth, all or any portion of either of the several debts so authorized which may be hereafter contracted shall be contracted only by the issuance and sale of bonds of the state which shall be payable in fifty equal annual installments, the first of which shall be payable one year from the date of issue and the last of which shall be payable fifty years from the date of issue. The provisions of such acts not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall apply to the issuance VOL. XXIII--7 Boundary between United States and Canada. L. 1920, ch. 806. and sale of such bonds; provided, however, that this act shall not affect any statute heretofore enacted increasing the rate of interest from the rate prescribed in any such act. L. 1913, ch. 787.-An act in relation to the rate of interest upon certain bonds of the state. § 1. Bonds of the state, after this section as hereby amended takes effect, issued and sold pursuant to chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve for constructing and improving state and county highways, as amended by chapter six hundred and twentysix of the laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen, chapter seven hundred and forty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven for furnishing proper terminals and facilities for barge canal traffic, including the acquisition and interchange of property therefor, or chapter five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, for state park purposes, shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed five per centum per annum, notwithstanding the provisions of any such act or acts fixing or authorizing a different rate. (Amended by L. 1915, ch. 2, and L. 1921, ch. 358, in effect April 30, 1921.) BONUS. See Soldiers' Bonus. BOULEVARDS. Powers of certain towns; Town L., § 512-a. BOUNDARY COMMISSION. L. 1920, ch. 806.-An act to create a commission to represent the state of New York at hearings before the international joint commission on boundary waters, created under and by virtue of article nine of the convention concluded on January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and making an appropriation therefor. §2. Such commission is hereby authorized and shall have power to represent the state of New York at hearings before the international joint commission on boundary waters created under and by virtue of article nine of the convention concluded on January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, which commission by section nine of the rivers and harbors act of the congress of the United States, approved on March second, nineteen hundred and nineteen, "is requested to investigate what further improvement of the Saint Lawrence river between Montreal and Lake Ontario is necessary to make the same navigable for ocean-going vessels, together with the estimated cost thereof and to report to the government of the Dominion of Canada and to the congress of the United States with its recommendations for co-operation by the United States with the Dominion of Canada in the improvement of said river," and which international joint commission on boundary waters L. 1920, ch. 806. Boundary between United States and Canada. was also authorized by the government of the United States and the government of the Dominion of Canada to investigate and to report upon "what traffic, both incoming and outgoing, in kind and quantity, is likely to be carried upon the proposed route both at its inception and in the future, consideration to be given not only to present conditions, but to probable changes therein resulting from the development of industrial activities due to availability of large quantities of hydraulic power" according to four different general schemes or methods of improvement as follows: (a) By means of locks and navigation dams in the river. (b) By means of locks and side canals. (c) By a combination of the two preceding methods. (d) By means of locks and power dams. And the commissioner1 hereby created is also hereby authorized and empowered to collate such facts and present such arguments to said international joint commission as to the commission hereby created may seem proper in relation to the said proposed Saint Lawrence ship canal project and also to represent the state of New York in conference with the representatives of the governments of other states of the United States. and with the congress of the United States, their commissions and committees, having under consideration said proposed Saint Lawrence ship canal project and matters incidental thereto hereinbefore stated. Said commission shall have power to hold sessions within and without the state of New York and to attend the hearings of said international joint commission and to meet and to confer with the commissions, committees or other representatives of other states of the United States and to appear before the committees of the congress of the United States in opposition to said proposed Saint Lawrence ship canal project and to take and prosecute such action or proceeding in the name of the people of the state of New York in the courts of the state of New York, or of the United States as the commission created by said chapter eight hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty may consider and determine to be necessary to safeguard and protect the rights and interests of the people of the state of New York in all such waters and in the lands under and adjacent to the waters of the Saint Lawrence river as are under the sovereign control of the state of New York southerly of the international boundary. All necessary expenses incurred by the members of said commission in the performance of their duties or for the other purposes authorized by said. chapter eight hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty, or by this act, shall be paid from the appropriation made by said chapter eight hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty, or by this act. At the conclusion of its labors said commission shall make a report of its proceedings to the legislature. The commission may employ counsel. (Amended by L. 1921, ch. 339 and L. 1922, ch. 617, in effect April 13, 1922.) § 3. Appropriates $15,000. 1 So in original. Should be commission. Lighting; Highway L., §§ 265, 345. Condemnation; Id. § 22. Construction or repair; Id., § 15, subd. 5, § 256, § 494, subd. 4. Over railroads; Railroad L., § 93. L. 1922, ch. 358.-An act to incorporate the Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company, and to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Hudson River near the village of Peekskill, together with approaches thereto and to define the rights of the state respecting such bridge. (In effect March 30, 1922.) § 1. James W. Alker, Great Neck, Long Island: E. Roland Harriman, New York City, New York; William E. Knox, New Rochelle, New York; George W. Perkins, junior, New York City, New York; Cornelius A. Pugsley, Peekskill, New York; Carlton M. Smith, Buffalo, New York; Howard H. Sherwin, Yonkers, New York; Frederick Tench, White Plains, New York; Harry B. Vincent, White Plains, New York; George O. Wagner, New York City, New York; Daniel De Wolf Wever, New York City, New York, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of "Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company," for the object and purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a bridge authorized by this act to be constructed. Except as otherwise provided in this act, such company shall have the power and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed by the general corporation law and the stock corporation law, as far as such laws are or may be applicable thereto. The corporate existence of such company shall be for thirty-five years from the time this act takes effect. It may issue twelve thousand five hundred shares of capital stock, all or any of which may be without nominal or par value, and may borrow money upon its bonds or obligations secured by any or all its property. The said corporation is hereby required to make provision for a sinking fund to retire the bonds or obligations to be issued by it as hereby provided, as they mature; the plan for the establishment of said fund to be approved by the public service commission of the state of New York and the fund to be deposited in such bank or banks, trust company or trust companies within the state of New York, and under such rules, regulations and conditions as the said commission may require. The persons named in this section shall constitute the first board of directors of such corporation, but the number of directors may be increased or diminished, within the limits prescribed by law. Within ninety days after this act takes effect, such persons shall meet, fill vacancies, if any, in the board of directors, fix and determine the number of shares of the capital stock, and make, sign and acknowledge certificates, in duplicate, which shall refer to this act and which shall be in the general form of a certificate of incorporation under section two of the business corporations law. One of such duplicates |