enacted L. 1915, ch, 604, amended. by rapid transit railways in cities of over one million inhabitants," as repealed and re-enacted by chapter six hundred and four of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 855. Appeal to the appellate division. Said city, or any party or person affected by the said proceeding and aggrieved by the final decree of the court therein, may appeal to the appellate division of the said court. An appeal from the final decree of the court must be taken within thirty days after notice of the filing of the said final decree. Except as herein otherwise provided,1 such appeal shall be taken and heard in the manner provided by the code of civil procedure and the rules and practice of the said court in relation to appeals from orders in special proceedings, and such appeal shall be heard and determined by such appellate division upon the merits both as to matters of law and fact. The determination of the appellate division shall be in the form of an order. But the taking of an appeal by any person or persons shall not operate to stay the proceedings under this act, except as to the particular parcel of property with which the appeal is concerned; and the final decree of the court shall be deemed to be final and conclusive upon all parties and persons affected thereby who have not appealed. Such appeal shall be heard upon the evidence taken by the court, or such part or portion thereof as the court may certify or the parties to said appeal may agree upon as sufficient to present the merits of the questions in respect to which such appeal shall be had. An appeal taken but not prosecuted within six months after the filing of the notice of appeal, unless the time within which to prosecute the same shall have been extended by the court, shall be deemed to have been abandoned, and no agreement between the parties extending the time within which the said appeal may be prosecuted shall vary the provisions hereof. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words "An appeal from the final decree of the court must be taken within thirty days after notice of the filing of the said final decree. Except as herein otherwise provided," new. Chap. 613. AN ACT authorizing the commissioners of the sinking fund of New York city to convey certain real estate, situate in union free school district number fifteen of the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau, and occupied by said school district as a school site, to the board of education of said union free school district number fifteen. Became a law May 22, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ance au Section 1. The commissioners of the sinking fund of New York Conveycity are hereby authorized, in their discretion, upon such terms as thorized. they may deem proper, to convey to the trustees of union free school district number fifteen, of the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau and state of New York, otherwise known and desig nated as the board of education of said school district, and to give good and sufficient title thereto, all that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Lawrence, in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau, formerly Queens, and state of New York, / bounded and described as follows: tion. Commencing at a point on the northerly side of Central avenue, Descripdistant six hundred twelve and eight-tenths (612.8) feet southwesterly from the northwest corner of Central avenue and Rockaway turnpike, and from said point, running south sixty-one (61) degrees west three hundred (300) feet along Central avenue; thence running north twenty-nine (29) degrees west three hundred forty-nine and eight-tenths (349.8) feet along land sold to John Wood; thence running north sixty-six (66) degrees thirty-one (31) minutes, east three hundred one and forty-one onehundredths (301.41) feet along what is known as the cemetery to land of Prince, formerly of James H. Jennings, and thence along said last mentioned land, south twenty-nine (29) degrees east three hundred twenty and nine-tenths (320.9) feet to Central avenue, at the point or place of beginning between said several distances and dimensions more or less, containing two and three thousand and ninety-five ten-thousandths acres by survey of Thomas V. Smith, August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, being the same premises conveyed by James H. Jennings to union free L. 1897, ch. 378, school district number fifteen, of the town of Hempstead, by Chap. 614. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to compensation of master and journeyman plumber members of the examining board of plumbers. Became a law May 22, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section fifteen hundred and seventy-two of the 1572, as Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred added by L. 1913, ch. 755, amended. and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, as added by chapter seven hundred and fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: COMPOSITION OF BOARD; COMPENSATION.1 § 1572. There shall be in the city of New York an examining board of plumbers to consist of two employing or master plumbers, 1 Section heading new. one journeyman plumber, and two city officials having supervision over plumbing, draining or sewerage. The master and journeyman members of the board shall be appointed by the mayor and the two city officials shall be designated by the mayor. Such appointments and designations shall be at the pleasure of the mayor making them. The master and journeyman plumbers serving as members of the board shall be paid such sum per day for each day's attendance as may be fixed by the board of aldermen upon the recommendation of the board of estimate and apportionment not to exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per month. The officials of the city designated by the mayor to serve on the board shall act without compensation. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 615. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to additional expenses of removing snow and ice from streets. Became a law May 22, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ch. 378, Section 1. Section five hundred and forty-six of the Greater L. 1897, New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and $ 546, as sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby by L. 1901, amended to read as follows:* LIMITATION OF AMOUNT OF EXPENSE FOR STREET CLEANING; § 546. In no case, except as in this section provided, shall the amount expended by the commissioner of street cleaning or the presidents of the boroughs of Queens and Richmond, exceed the amount appropriated for the said department or boroughs by the 2 Words "such sum per day for each day's attendance as may be fixed by the board of aldermen upon the recommendation of the board of estimate and apportionment," substituted for words "five dollars per day for each day's attendance." * Formerly" twenty-five.” • Section materially amended. re-enacted ch. 466, amended. board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen, Cancelation of assessments on property of Chap. 616. AN ACT authorizing the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to cancel and annul all taxes, water rents and assessments which are now a lien upon the property of the Convent of Jesus-Mary Incorporated, a religious corporation, in the borough of the Bronx, city of New York. Became a law May 22, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York, upon the written certificate of the comptroller of Convent of the city of New York approving the same, may in their discretion authorized. and upon such terms as they may deem proper, by a unanimous Jesus-Mary, vote, cancel and annul all taxes, assessments and water rents which are now a lien against the real estate, owned by the Convent of Jesus-Mary Incorporated, a religious corporation, known as section thirteen, block thirty-four hundred and three, lots seventysix and eighty-eight on the land map of the city of New York. The comptroller of the city of New York shall mark the city's |