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EMERGENCY MESSAGES

Messages certifying to the necessity of the immediate passage of specified Assembly and Senate bills, in compliance of section 15 of article 3 of the Constitution, were sent to the Legislature of 1920 from time to time by Governor Smith. The measures to which the messages applied were as follows:

January 19. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 82, Printed No. 82, entitled "An act to legalize, ratify and confirm and make effectual and valid the acts and proceedings of the state engineer and surveyor, the superintendent of public works, the canal board and the city of Oswego, the water service commission and its president, the common council and the mayor of the city of Oswego, in relation to the conveyance by the state to the city of Oswego of its interest in certain lands near the west end of barge canal dam number six in the Oswego river, the state's interest, if any, in the use of one-half of the surplus waters impounded by said dam and the right to attach to said dam and maintain forebay or race walls and to flow such waters as said city now is or may hereafter become entitled to use over the intervening state lands and structures, and in consideration of such conveyance by the state, the release of the state by the city of Oswego from certain claims and demands growing out of the taking or occupation by the state lands of the city of Oswego and its predecessors in title, and out of the construction and maintenance and operation of the improved Oswego canal and in relation to an undertaking by the city of Oswego to reimburse the state for any damages hereafter occasioned." Approved as chapter 2.

February 2. Senate Bill, Int. No. 263, Printed No. 267, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the suppression and control of influenza and other diseases of the respiratory tract." Approved as chapter 5.

February 10. Senate Bill, Int. No. 333, Printed No. 340, entitled "An act making appropriation to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the current fiscal year to the State Industrial Commission." Approved as chapter 7.

February 16. Senate Bill, Int. No. 465, Printed No. 476, entitled "An act to provide for the acquisition by the state of certain real property in the city of New York and making an appropriation therefor." Approved as chapter 9.

March 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1237, Printed No. 1422, entitled "An act to authorize the Superintendent of Prisons to acquire in behalf of the state certain farm lands in Cayuga County for the employment of prisoners and to authorize the expenditure of money and making the appropriation therefor." Approved as chapter 85.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 776, Printed No. 824, entitled "An act to amend the code of civil procedure in relation to summary proceedings to recover the possession of real property." Approved as chapter 134.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 777, Printed No. 825, entitled "An act to amend the code of civil procedure, in relation to summary proceedings to recover possession of real property.' Approved as chapter 132.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1132, Printed No. 1552, entitled "An act in relation to defenses in actions based upon unjust, unreasonable and oppressive agreements for rent of premises occupied for dwelling purposes in cities of the first class or in cities in a county adjoining a city of the first class," as amended. Approved as chapter 136.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1135, Printed No. 1547, entitled "An act to amend the code of civil procedure, in relation to summary proceedings to recover the possession of real property in cities of the first class and in cities in a county adjoining a city of the first class," as amended. Approved as chapter 139.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1133, Printed No. 1287, entitled "An act to repeal section two hundred and thirty of the real property law, relating to liability of tenant holding over after receiving notice to quit." Approved as chapter 138.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 16, Printed No. 1548, entitled "An act to amend the code of civil procedure in relation to summary proceedings to recover the possession of real property." Approved as chapter 133.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 19, Printed No. 1550, entitled "An act to amend the real property law in relation to certain agreements for the occupation of real estate." Approved as chapter 130.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1314, Printed No. 1567, entitled "An act to amend the code of civil procedure, in relation to action to recover real property." Approved as chapter 135.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1134, Printed No. 1546, entitled "An act in relation to summary proceedings to recover the possession of real property in cities of first class or in cities in a county adjoining a city of the first class during the existing emergency,' as amended. Approved as chapter 137.

March 31. Senate Bll, Int. No. 25, Printed No. 1551, entitled "An act to amend the New York City municipal court code, in relation to proceedings for eviction of tenants." Approved as chapter 210.

March 31. Senate Bill, Int. No. 18, Printed No. 1549, entitled "An act to amend the penal law in relation to wilful violation of the terms of the law." Approved as chapter 131.

April 12. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1581, Printed No. 2001, entitled "An act making appropriations for certain items of the supplies, repairs and personal services in the offices of the superintendent of public buildings, and trustees of public buildings." Approved as chapter 211.

April 19. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1700, Printed No. 2194, entitled "An act to amend the education law in relation to calling and holding taxpayers' elections to vote upon the question of issuing bonds for public school purposes in the city of Poughkeepsie, and to the issuing of such bonds by the city of Poughkeepsie." Approved as chapter 498.

April 20. Senate Bill, Int. No. 201, Assembly Reprint No. 2188, entitled "An act to amend the workmen's compensation law in relation to occupational diseases," as amended. Approved as chapter 538.

April 20. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1616, Printed No. 2036, entitled "An act to amend the tax law in relation to taxable transfers," as amended. Approved as chapter 765.

April 20. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1714, Printed No. 2228, entitled "An act to amend the insanity law in relation to the wages which may be paid State Hospital employees for services in order that proper and suitable employees can be secured for State Hospitals for the insane." Approved as chapter 315.

April 22. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1727, Printed No. 2254, entitled "An act to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1920, entitled 'An act making an appropriation for the state's share of the cost of construction and improvement of rural post roads, etc,' in relation to the provisions affecting the elimination or alteration of certain grade crossings." Foiled of passage.

April 22. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1676, Printed No. 2144, entitled "An act to amend the educational law in respect to compulsory education," as amended. Failed of passage.

April 22. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 727, Printed No. 785, entitled "An act to amend the workmen's compensation law in relation to the payment of administration expenses of the state insurance fund directly out of its premium income," as amended. Approved as chapter 530.

April 23. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 735, Printed No. 2044, Senate Reprint 2245, entitled "An act to amend the workmen's compensation law in relation to fees in connection with claims for compensation," as amended. Approved as chapter 529.

April 23. Senate Bill, Int. No. 35, Printed No. 898, entitled "An act to amend the public health law, in relation to the practice of nursing," as amended. Approved as chapter 742.

April 23. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1725, Printed No. 2248, entitled "An act to amend the county law in relation to coroners in Westchester county." Approved as chapter 450.

April 23. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1313, Printed No. 1733, entitled "An act to amend the workmen's compensation law generally," as amended. Approved as chapter 532.

April 23. Senate Bill, Int. No. 41, Printed No. 1761, Assembly Reprint No. 2268, entitled “An act to amend the educational law in relation to state scholarships for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and making an appropriation therefor." Approved as chapter 893.

April 23. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 107, Printed No. 2235, entitled "An act making provision for issuing bonds to the amount of not to exceed fifty million dollars for the payment of the bonus to persons who served in the military or naval service of the United States at any time between the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and providing for a submission of the same to the people to be voted upon at the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty," as amended. Approved as chapter 872. April 23. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1686, Printed No. 2207, entitled "An act to amend the education law relative to salaries of teachers and employees and providing state aid for the payment therefor." Approved as chapter 680.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1730, Printed No. 2258, entitled "An act making an appropriation for certain expenses incurred by the public service commission of the first district in defense of the constitutionality of certain statutes." Approved as chapter 449.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1629, Printed No. 2064, entitled "An act to amend the educational law in relation to industrial teachers' scholarships, and making an appropriation therefor," as amended. Approved as chapter 853.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1732, Printed No. 2268, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the payment of contingent expenses of the state department of excise." Approved as chapter

913.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1731, Printed No. 2265, entitled "An act to amend the greater New York charter, in relation to issuing certificates of indebtedness of certain school expenses." Approved as chapter 792.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1676, Printed No. 2256, entitled "An act to amend the education law, in respect to compulsory education." Failed of passage.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 356, Printed No. 1435, Assembly Reprint No. 2264, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the state institute for the study of malignant diseases, for the purchase, care and use of radium." Approved as chapter 903.

April 24. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 1177, Printed No. 2221, entitled "An act to amend the election law in relation to voting by absentee voters." Approved as chapter 875.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1319, Printed No. 1829, entitled "An act to amend the tax law, in relation to distribution of the income tax," as amended. Approved as chapter 694.

April 24. Senate Bill, Int. No. 1399, Printed No. 1901, entitled "An act to amend the railroad law, in relation to coal jimmies and caboose cars," as amended. Approved as chapter 430.

April 24. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 45, Printed No. 2277, entitled "An act to amend the public service commissions law, in relation to the general powers of commissions to suspension of rates of telegraph and telephone corporations." Failed of passage.

Aprial 24. Assembly Bill, Int. No. 703, Printed No. 757, entitled "An act to amend the membership corporations law, in relation to