of the corporation, the number of trustees by whom the business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed, the qualifications, powers, and the manner of selection of the trustees and officers of the corporation, the manner of amending the constitution and by-laws of the corporation, and any other provisions for the management and disposition of the property and regulation of the affairs of the corporation which may be deemed expedient. § 3. No officer, member or employee of this corporation shall No pecuntreceive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof except ary proût. reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of its purposes. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 134 AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and twenty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of the New York State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, and councils and granges subordinate thereto," in relation to filing certificates of incorporation of subordinate granges and the powers and duties of such granges. Became a law March 16, 1925, 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: ch. 525, Section 1. Section seven of chapter five hundred and twenty-five L. 1874, of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An 7 act to provide for the incorporation of the New York State Grange amended. of the Patrons of Husbandry, and councils and granges subordinate thereto," as amended by chapter two hundred and seventy-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows: ration of nate granges. § 7. Any number of persons, not less than thirteen, who are Incorpomembers of the order of the Patrons of Husbandry or are eligible subordi to membership under the provisions of the constitutions, by-laws, te rules and usages of the said order of Patrons of Husbandry may organize a subordinate grange in accordance with said constitutions, by-laws, rules and usages; and, on receiving a charter duly issued by the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry and duly countersigned by the master and secretary of the New York State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry may file articles of incorporation with the town clerk of the town and the county clerk of the county where such grange is located which articles of incorporation shall set forth the name and the number of the grange, the names of its officers and executive committee and shall signify a desire to obtain the benefits of this act and such articles of incorporation shall be duly signed and acknowledged by the members 1 Words " and the county clerk of the county," new. County or district granges. Powers. Government. L. 1909, subd. 8 thereof or a majority of them. And, on filing such articles of incorporation, every such subordinate grange shall become a legal corporation, subordinate to the said New York State Grange, and shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties of corporations under the general laws of this state, and under the constitution, by-laws, and rules of said New York State Grange. And may take, hold, sell, mortgage and convey property, real and personal, and shall have and use a seal, and may alter and renew the same at pleasure and, after each election, the secretary shall file a certificate with the clerk of the county where the grange is located, stating the names and addresses of the officers elected thereat. Any number of subordinate granges may unite in the formation of a county or district grange which shall be known as the Pomona Grange under the constitution, by-laws and rules of the said order and, after receiving a charter from the State Grange, the members, or a majority of the members of such county or district grange, or councils, may make and execute articles of incorporation, in the manner provided for subordinate granges, and file them in the office of the clerk of the county or counties embraced within their jurisdiction and shall thereupon be and become a corporation with authority to sue and be sued, and shall have and use a seal, and may alter or renew the same at pleasure. Such granges so incorporated shall have and exercise all powers not in conflict with the provisions of this act or any other of the laws of the state of New York, or the constitution, by-laws, rules or usages of the said New York State Grange, and which shall be necessary for the purpose of facilitating the transaction of business, buying, selling and shipping, or such other purposes as may seem for the good of the order. They shall be gov erned and the membership regulated by such laws as the council or grange may, from time to time make, not in conflict with the constitution of the national and state granges. They may elect a business agent to act in concert with the executive committee, and the Pomona Granges shall be intermediate organizations between the state and subordinate granges. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 135 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to stenographer of the county court of Jefferson county. Became a law March 16, 1925, 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. Subdivision eight of section three hundred and nineteen of chapter thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the administration of justice, constituting chapter thirty of the consolidated laws," as last amended by chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: stenog Rensselaer county 8. The stenographer of the county court of Rensselaer county Salaries of shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of supervisors of raphers of said county on the recommendation of the county judge, together and Jef with his necessary expenses for stationery, to be paid by the ferson treasurer of said county of Rensselaer in equal monthly install- courts. ments, in the same manner that the salaries of other officials of said county are audited, allowed and paid. The stenographer of the county court of Jefferson county shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of supervisors of said county on the recommendation of the county judge, together with the necessary expenses for stationery, to be paid by the treasurer of said county of Jefferson in equal monthly installments on the certificate of the county judge of Jefferson county that the services have been actually performed or the expenses necessarily incurred. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 136 AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to the conspicuous service cross. Became a law March 16, 1925, 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: added to Section 1. Chapter forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred 247 and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the militia, constituting L. 1909, chapter thirty-six of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by ch. 41. adding a new section to be section two hundred and forty-seven3 to read as follows: § 247. Conspicuous service cross. The governor is hereby authorized to present in the name of the legislature of the state of New York, a military cross, to be known as the conspicuous service cross, bearing a suitable inscription and ribbon, all of which shall be of suitable design, to any citizen of the state of New York who, while serving in the United States army, navy, marine corps, or in the army female nurse corps, since the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has, or shall have received a citation published in order issued from a headquarters of a brigade or higher military unit, or equivalent naval unit. The governor is further authorized to present the conspicuous service cross to New York 1 Previously amended by L. 1909, ch. 561; L. 1910, ch. 625. 2 Words "to be fixed by the board of supervisors of said county on the recommendation of the county judge," substituted for words "of eighteen hundred dollars per annum." 3 See § 247, as added by L. 1920, ch. 627; amended by L. 1921, ch. 588; and repealed by L. 1924, ch. 114. Corporate existence revived; declared valid cor poration. Acts of directors legalized. Corporate existence troops, or to citizens of this state who while serving with the allied armies received citations as provided in this section. Not more than one military cross shall be issued to any one person; nor shall any medal be awarded or presented, under the provisions of this section, to any person whose entire service subsequent to the time. of the receipt of such citation shall not have been honorable. For each succeeding citation as provided herein, such person shall be entitled to wear, as the adjutant general of the state may direct, a metal device not more than three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, attached to the ribbon of such military cross. In the event of the death of any person during or subsequent to the receipt of such citation the military cross shall be presented to such representative of the deceased as may be designated. The adjutant general of the state shall make such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the proper presentation and distribution of such decorations. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 137 AN ACT to revive and extend the corporate existence of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, and to legalize the acts of the directors, as trustees. Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, lo enact as follows: Section 1. The corporate existence of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, is hereby revived, and the said Ward's Natural Science Establishment is hereby declared to be a valid corporation with the same force and effect as the same existed on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and prior to the expiration of the period for which such corporation was created; with all the powers, privileges, franchises, and subject to the same duties, obligations and restrictions in respect to such powers under the laws of this state in force on or before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, which were conferred and imposed in respect to such corporation and with the same force and effect as if the said corporate existence and organization had been extended according to law prior to the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and before the expiration of the period of time for which such corporation was created; and the acts of the directors of such corporation, acting as trustees, between the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the time this act takes effect are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed. § 2. The corporate existence of the said Ward's Natural revived and Science Establishment is hereby revived and extended as of the extended first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to be per d e e petual; isted with petual, subject to the power of the legislature, by law, to hereafter to be per- to be filed The said corporation shall, within thirty days after this act Certificate takes effect, file in the office of the secretary of state a certificate, with secunder the signature of an officer thereof, setting forth: 1. The name of the corporation. 2. The date on which the original certificate of incorporation was filed in the office of the secretary of state. 3. That its existence is revived and extended to be perpetual, pursuant to this act, and citing the same by chapter number and year of passage. Such certificate shall be acknowledged by the officer executing the same, in the manner required of a deed to be recorded within the state. retary of state. actions. § 3. Nothing in this act shall affect any action or proceeding Pending pending at the time this act takes effect. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 138 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to agents' certificate of authority. Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, ch. 33, Section 1. Section ninety-one of chapter thirty-three of the laws L. 1909, of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to 91 insurance corporations, constituting chapter twenty-eight of the amended. consolidated laws," as amended by chapter three hundred and one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine and by chapter two hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twentythree, is hereby amended to read as follows:1 § 91. Business to be accepted from licensed agents only; agents' certificate of authority. 1. No life insurance corporation doing business within this state, or agent thereof, shall pay any commission or other compensation to any person for services in obtain ing new insurance, unless such person shall have first procured from the superintendent of insurance a certificate of authority to act as an agent of such company as hereinafter provided. No 1 Division into subdivisions new. |