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closure proceeding may be made if the tax shall not have been paid. Mortgages made by corporations in trust to secure payment of bonds or other obligations issued or to be issued, if the total amount of indebtedness which under any contingency may accrue has not been advanced, or become secured thereby before the mortgage is recorded, shall be taxed on that part of the principal indebtedness already advanced, and entry to that effect made on the mortgage.

The tax on such other parts of the principal indebtedness as shall accrue or be advanced shall be paid when such sums are advanced or paid, and the payment thereof entered on the mortgage. If a mortgage secured by property in this and another state is filed, a statement verified by the mortgagor, in duplicate, stating the value of the property in the state and that without shall be presented with the mortgage. One statement shall be filed with the recording officer, the other transmitted to the State Controller. Before the determination of the State Tax Commissioners, the tax payable on this mortgage shall be computed on such proportion of the principal debt as the value of the mortgaged property in the state shall bear to the total value of the mortgaged property.

The Controller shall present the statement of the property values to the State Tax Commissioners, who, after due notice to the mortgag and the Controller, decide what proportion of the principal indebtedness shall be used as measure of taxation. They may also, at this time, decide what proportion of the tax shall be paid by the recording officer to the county treasurers of the respective counties, if this property happens to be in several counties. If the amount assessed shall be more than the amount paid on recording the mortgage, it must be paid within ten days. The State Tax Commissioners must apportion the tax on a mortgage secured by property in several counties among those counties. On the first of each month the recording officer of each county shall pay to the county treasurer all money received for such taxes, less his expenses. In New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond Counties the money shall be paid to the Chamberlain of New York City. These officials quarterly shall transmit, after deducting expenses, half the net amount to the State Treasurer. In New York the remainder is to be paid into the general fund of the city; in the other counties to be held subject to the orders of the board of supervisors. Before December 1 in each year the county clerk shall prepare a list of all mortgages taxed, with the town, city or village in which each is taxed, and shall furnish copies to the supervisors and the county treasurer. The supervisors shall determine from the value of mortgaged property the amount of tax to be credited to each city, town or village.

Recording officers and county treasurers and the City Chamberlain of New York are entitled to receive all necessary expenses, including printing and clerk hire, first to be approved by the State Tax Commissioners, and the State Commissioners shall have full supervisory power over all recording officers. A tax of 50 cents on each $100 is imposed on each mortgage of real property recorded prior to July 1, 1906, when any part of the principal indebtedness secured by the mortgage is advanced after July 1. The tax shall be paid whenever the part of the principal indebtedness is advanced. All taxes which became due on or before June 30, 1906, by Chapter 729 of the Laws of 1905, or are to become due on July 30, 1906, or any other taxes imposed by that act on any mortgage recorded prior to July 1, 1906, are imposed and shall become due and payable with the same force as if this chapter had not been enacted.

Chapter 346 authorizes the Governor to appoint five civilians, the president of the Senate to appoint five Senators and the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint five

Tax Revision
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Assemblymen, to form a commission to inquire into the workings of the taxation laws, for state and local purposes, and the expediency of revising and amending them to establish a more equal and just system of revenue raising. The commission shall report to the next legislature before January 15, 1907, the result of the investigation and the bills to carry out their recommendations. They shall have all power to subpoena witensses and examine them, and to compel the production of books and papers.

Chapter 183 directs that before liquor tax certificates for hotels shall be issued in cities and incorporated villages there shall be filed in the office of the deputy excise Liquor Law Amendments.

commissioner or county treasurer issuing such certificate a Sworn statement that such hotel complies with the requirements of the liquor tax law. In New York the superintendents of buildings of each borough, in other cities the Mayor and in villages the Presidents shall cause to be inspected all buildings deemed hotels, and report in writing within thirty days to the deputy excise commissioner or county treasurer having jurisdiction an identification of all existing hotel buildings complying with the require ments of the liquor law. Similar reports must be made on all buildings erected or altered or converted into hotels within ten days after erection or alteration.

Such reports must specify the number of bedrooms in each building above the basement exclusive of those occupied by family or servants; whether each bedroom is properly furnished and whether they are separated by partitions at least three inches thick extending from floor to ceiling; whether each bedroom has independent access from a hall, and window or windows with eight square feet of space opening on a street, open court, light shaft or open air, and floor space of 80 square feet and at least 600 cubic feet of space; whether such building has a dining room not a part of the barroom properly provided with tables and table furniture, and the number of guests it can accommodate at one time; whether it has a kitchen and ooking conveniences capable of preparing meals for ten or twenty guests at the same time. If the hotel building in any application for license does not meet these

requirements, the license shall be denied, and the police commissioner, chief police officer or village president notified. The hotel business of such place must cease, Any taxpayer who believes any hotel does not comply with these requirements may re sons, with the State Excise Commissioner, who shall have it inspected, and if it does not comply with the requirements, bring proceedIngs to revoke its license. Before any new license is issued for that place it must be made to comply, and a statement specifying compliance be sworn to by the city authorities.

Chapter 272 empowers a judge before whom proceedings for the revocation of a Liquor tax certificate are brought, if the petitioner be a taxpayer other than the CU ssioner or his deputy, to order him to present a bond of not more than $500 nor less than $100 that the proceeding will be prosecuted without delay and not be compromised or discontinued save on order of the court. The excise mmissioner may maintain action for the full penalty on breach of any condition of the bond.

Chapter 327 defines employment agency as the business of procuring or offering to procure help or employment or of giving information as to where help or employment may be procured, and of keeping an intelligence office, emEmployment ployment bureau, theatrical or shipping agency, nurses' registry or Agencies. agency for procuring engagements for vaudeville or theatrical performers, or any other office for procuring work where a fee or commission is charged, except agencies conducted exclusively for persons employed as teachers in recognized educational institutions, as occupants of technical or executive positions, and registries of incorporated associations of registered nurses and bureaus of registered medical institutions or departments maintained by persons, firms or associations for obtaining help where no fee is charged the applicant for employment. Fee means money or a promise to pay money, and includes the excess of money received by any licensed person over what he has paid for transportation, baggage or lodging for an applicant for employment; or the difference between the meney received by any person furnishing employes or performers for entertainment or performance and the amount paid by him to the employes he hires to give the entertainment or performance. Privilege means the furnishing of food, supplies, tools or shelter to contract laborers.

No agency may be maintained in a first class city without a license from the Mayor or Commissioner of Licenses, which must be posted conspicuously in the agency keeper's place of business. The license shall cost $25 annually, and must contain the person's name and a description of his house; it may not be transferred without the consent of the Mayor or Commissioner of Licenses. The licensee must le a bond for $1,000 against violation of the provisions of this statute, and the Mayer or Commissioner of Licenses shall require satisfactory proof by affidavit of the good moral character of all applicants for such license. No agency may be kept in rooms used for living rooms, or where boarders are kept, or in connection with a building where intoxicating liquors are sold.

The keeper of every agency save a theatrical agency or nurse registry or agency for procuring technical, clerical, sales or executive places for man only must keep a register in English, giving the date of every application for employment, the name and address of the applicant to whom employment is promise, the amount of the fee and, if possible, the names of former employers. Another Legister must contain names and addresses of all applicants accepted for help, date of application, kind of help requested, names of persons sent, with designation of the one employed, amount of fee received and wages agreed on. Every other licensed keeper of an agency must have accurate records, in English, of all persons to who work is promised or from whom a fee is taken, and all who apply for an employe, with the date of engagement, amount of fee and rate of wages. Fees charg lumbermen, agricultural hands, coachmen, grooms, hostlers, seamstresses, cooks, waiters, waitresses, scrubwomen, laundresses, maids, nurses, except professionals and all domestics, servants, unskilled workers and general laborers shall not be abbre 10 per Icent of the first month's wages, and for all other applicants shall not emceed the first week's wages or 5 per cent of the first year's, except where the employment is only temporary, not to exceed one month, when the fee must not exceed 10 per cent of the salary paid. If through the agency no help or employment is obtained, the keeper must repay the entire fee, allowing three days' time to determine the fact of failure.

If an employe fails to remain with an applicant for help one week, a new employe must be furnished or three-fifths of the fee returned. No keeper may send an applicant for employment to any place without a bona fide order therefor, and If no employment of the kind applied for exists at the place to which the applicant was directed the agency keeper must refund in three days any fees or transportation. A receipt must be given for all fees. No agency keeper may divide fees with contractors. their agents or other employers. No person may induce any domestic employe to leave his employment in hope of getting other through the agency. No agency keeper may send a female as a servant or inmate or as a perform to any house of ill fame or gambling house or salcon, or permit any person of bad repute. gambler or Intoxicated person to frequent the agency. He may not plac, a child in employment in violation of the school or child labor laws, nor may he tute forcible possession of any person's property. The Commissioner of Licenses shall have jurisdiction over all agencies, make inspections, hold hearings on complaint and revoke licenses on just cause.

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GOVERNORS OF NEW-YORK STATE.

The following table gives the names and politics and the terms which the Governors of New-York State have served since the first election. Those marked with an asterisk were elected for three year terms and the others for two year terms.

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*George Clinton.......D. R......1777-1795
John Jay...
..Federal....1795-1801
*George Clinton.. ..D. R.. ..1801-1804
*Morgan Lewis.. ..D. R......1804-1807
*D. D. Tompkins.....D. R.. ..1808-1817

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(John Taylor, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded D. D. Tompkins when he became Vice-President, March 4, 1817. *De Witt Clinton.....D. R... ..1817-1823 Joseph C. Yates...... D. R......1823-1826 De Witt Clinton.......D. R......1826-1828 (Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieut.-Gov.. ceeded Gov. Clinton February 11, 1828. Martin Van Buren.....D. ......1829 (Enos T. Throop, Lieut.-Gov., ceeded Gov. Van Buren March 12, 1829.) Enos T. Throop.. .D.........1831-1833 William L. Marcy. ...D. ....1833-1839 William H. Seward.... Whig.....1839-1843 William C. Bouck.... .D...... 1843-18-15 Silas Wright. John Young.

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Washington Hunt...... Whig.....1851-1853
Horatio Seymour. .D.........1853-1853
Myron H. Clark....... Whig.....1855-1857
John A. King..
R...... .1857-1859
Edwin D. Morgan......R........1859-1863
Horatio Seymour.......D........1863-1805
Reuben E. Fenton... .R........1865-1869
John T. Hoffman.......D........1869-1873
John A. Dix. ........R........1873-1876
Samuel J. Tilden.......D........1875-1877
*Lucius Robinson......D........1877-1880
*Alonzo B. Cornell.....R........1880-1883
*Grover Cleveland......D........1883-1885

(David B. Hill, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded Governor Cleveland Jan. 6, 1885. David B. Hill.........D........1885-1892 *Roswell P. Flower....D........1892-1895 Levi P. Morton........R........1895-1897 Frank S. Black........R........1897-1899 Theodore Roosevelt....R........1899-1901 1845-1847 B. B. Odell, jr.......................R....................1901-1905 Whig. 1847-1849 Frank W. Higgins......R........1905-1907 Whig.....1849-1851 Charles E. Hughes.....R........1907-1909)

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NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD.

The National Guard consists of one field hospital, two companies of signal corps, two squadrons of cavalry and two separate troops of cavalry, four batteries of light artillery, one regiment of coast artillery, one regiment of engineers and fourteen regiments, three battalions and forty-eight separate companies of infantry, constituting the 1st, 2d and 10th regiments and the 1st, 2d and 3d battalions

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