§ 2. If the facts proved before said board shall establish a just Award of and equitable claim against the state for damages caused as aforesaid, the said board shall determine the amount of said damages, and award such sum therefor as may be just and equitable. damages. from award. § 3. Either party may take an appeal to the appellate division Appeal of the supreme court of the third department from any award made under authority of this act, provided such appeal be taken by service of a notice of appeal within thirty days of the service of a copy of the award. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 252. AN ACT to amend the town law, relative to the compensation of Became a law April 15, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. Section one hundred and seventy-eight of chapter five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to towns, constituting chapter twenty of the general laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 178. Compensation of town officers.-Town officers shall be entitled to compensation at the following rates for each day actually and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the town in the duties of their respective offices, when no fee is allowed by law for the service, as follows: 1. The supervisor, except when attending the board of supervisors, town clerks, assessors, commissioners of highways, justices of the peace and overseers of the poor, each, two dollars per day. 2. If a different rate is not otherwise established as herein provided, each inspector of election, ballot clerk and poll clerk is entitled to two dollars per day; but the board of supervisors may establish in their county a higher rate, not exceeding six dollars per day. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 255. AN ACT to amend sections forty-one and forty-one-a of title five of chapter six hundred and seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, as amended, entitled the penal code of the state of New York, relating to primaries and conventions. Became a law April 15, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Sections forty-one and forty-one-a of title five of chapter six hundred and seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one are hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 41. Misdemeanor at political caucuses, primaries and conventions. Any person who: 1. Votes or attempts to vote at a political caucus, primary or convention without being entitled to do so; or 2. By bribery, menace or other corrupt means, directly or indi rectly, attempts to influence the vote of any person entitled to vote at such caucus, primary or convention, or obstructs such person in voting, or prevents him from voting thereat; or 3. Fraudulently or wrongfully does any act tending to affect the result of an election at such caucus, primary or convention; or, 4. Being an officer, teller or canvasser thereof, willfully omits, refuses or neglects to do any act required by the election law, or refuses to permit any person to do any act authorized thereby, or makes or attempts to make any false canvass of the ballots cast at such caucus, primary or convention, or statement of the result of a canvass of the ballots cast thereat; or 5. Induces or attempts to induce any officer, teller or canvasser of such caucus, primary or convention to do any act in violation of his duty; or, 6. Directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person, pays, or offers to pay, money or other valuable thing to any person to induce any voter or voters to vote or refrain from voting at such caucus, primary or convention for any particular person or persons; or 7. Directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person, receives money or other valuable thing, before, at or after such caucus, primary or convention, for voting or refraining from voting for or against any person at such caucus, primary or conven tion, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year. § 41a. Any person who causes his name to be placed upon any list or register of voters in more than one election district for the same election or upon a list or register of voters knowing that he will not be a qualified voter in the district at the election for which such list or register is made, or who causes his name to be placed upon the rolls of a party organization of one party while his name is by his consent or procurement upon the rolls of a party organization of another party, or aids or abets any such act, is punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars and imprisonment for not more than five years. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 256. AN ACT to prohibit the sale or gift of tobacco to minors in reforma- Became a law April 15, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Section 1. A person or officer who sells or gives any cigar, cigarette, snuff or tobacco in any of its forms to any minor undergoing confinement or sentence in any reformatory, penitentiary or house. of refuge in this state is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 259. AN ACT to authorize the state to acquire title to certain lands of the Became a law April 15, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and of lands acquired at Section 1. The county treasurer of the county of Ulster shall, Statement within thirty days after the passage of this act, transmit to the board of fisheries, game and forest, a full and complete statement, Vol. I 16 tax sa e. Investigation by board of fisheries, etc. Determination of board. Conveyance to state. Comp troller to credit county. duly certified by him, of all lands acquired by the county of Ulster at tax sales therein and now held by said county, which are situate in the towns of Hardenbergh, Denning and Shandaken, setting out fully a description of such lands, a statement of the year or years in which the taxes for which they were sold were levied, and the amount of such tax, together with the year when sold, the whole amount due thereon for taxes when the said county took title, and such other information as may be in his possession with regard to such lands and the title under which they are held by the said county, including a statement of the necessary expenses attendant upon and subsequent to the sales at which such lands were bid in. § 2. The board of fisheries, game and forest is hereby authorized to examine said list of lands and to cause an investigation to be made as to the title thereto and to ascertain the amount properly chargeable against each parcel by said county on account of the tax levied thereon and subsequent expenses incurred in connection therewith, including expenses of the sale and subsequent thereto, which sums, with interest, shall be the amount for which said county shall be entitled to credit as hereinafter provided, and the said board may expend a sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of such inquiry and investigation. § 3. The board of fisheries, game and forest shall determine what parcels of said lands it is desirable the state shall acquire and hold as a part of its lands within the forest preserve, and certify such determination to the comptroller, accompanied by a statement of the amount which said county shall be allowed therefor, ascertained as provided in the last section. § 4. The chairman of the board of supervisors of the county of Ulster, upon receiving a duplicate copy of such certificate to be so made by the board of fisheries, game and forest, is authorized to execute and deliver a conveyance to the state of New York of such lands as may be included in and described in such certificate. § 5. The comptroller, on receiving such certificate from the board of fisheries, game and forest, and such conveyance from the chairman of the board of supervisors of the county of Ulster, shall credit upon the books of his office to the county of Ulster, the sum certified in and by said board of fisheries, game and forest, as proper to be allowed to said county for such lands, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum from the date of the conveyance of each parcel, respectively, to said county, which sum shall be credited to said county against any taxes which may be due on the fifteenth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight from said county. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 261. AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and eighty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act relating to salt springs, constituting chapter thirteen of the general laws." Became a law April 15, 1897, 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. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the salt springs law. § 2. Definitions.-The term, Onondaga reservation, when used in this chapter, shall include all the lands situate in the county of Onondaga, containing salt springs or used for the manufacture of salt, or owned by the people of the state and adjacent thereto, or connected therewith, or set apart for such purposes by the commissioners of the land office. The term, manufacturer, when used in this chapter, shall include every corporation, company or individual having the direction, charge or control of the manufactory whether as owner, proprietor or lessee thereof. § 3. Duty on salt.-A duty of one cent per bushel of fifty-six pounds, shall be collected and paid to the treasurer upon all salt manufactured from brine furnished by the state from the salt springs upon the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation in the county of Onondaga. § 4. Onondaga manufacturing districts.- The Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation shall be divided into such manufacturing districts as the superintendent may prescribe; and he may establish therein such public offices for the transaction of the business connected with the manufacture of salt as he may deem convenient. Such offices shall be kept open every day except Sundays and holidays from sunrise to sunset and during such hours any person may examine the books of entry kept by the superintendent. § 5. Superintendent of Onondaga salt springs.-The present superintendent of Onondaga salt springs shall continue in office |