Payment over of moneys. Vacancy in on ce. Acting police justice. § 6. Such police justice shall pay over to the supervisor of such town for the use and benefit thereof, on or before the fifth day of each month, all moneys he shall have received or collected by virtue of his office during the preceding month, and shall also deliver to the supervisor a statement of such moneys, indicating the source of each item, and verified to the effect that such payment includes all the moneys received or collected by him as aforesaid. § 7. If a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, in the office of such police justice, the same shall be filled for a full term at the then next succeeding election of town offi cers. Until such vacancy shall be so filled, the town board, by a certificate signed by a majority of the members thereof and filed in the office of the town clerk, shall appoint a resident elector of such town to fill such vacancy. Such appointment shall take effect immediately and continue in force until the first day of January next after the next succeeding election of town officers. in such town. § 8. Within ten days after the commencement of the term of a police justice elected or appointed by virtue of this act, the supervisor of such town shall, by a certificate filed in the office. of the town clerk, designate one of the justices of the peace of such town as acting police justice who shall serve as police jus tice during the sickness, absence from such town, or inability to serve of the police justice. If the term of such justice of the peace shall expire before the expiration of the term of the police justice, another justice of the peace shall be appointed in the Compensa- same manner. An acting police justice shall receive compensation for his services at the rate allowed the police justice, for the time he shall serve as acting police justice; and the sum so pay. able shall be deducted from the salary of the police justice for the time he shall serve, by the board of town auditors at the time of auditing the salary account of such police justice. tion. Removal for cause. § 9. The police justice of such town may be removed, after due notice, and an opportunity to be heard in his defense, by the county court of Monroe county, for cause to be assigned in the order of removal, which court shall always be open for the pur poses of this section. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately Chap. 35. AN ACT to discontinue the first and second school commissioner districts of Queens county, as it existed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and to consolidate the said two school commissioner districts into one district, to be known as the school commissioner district of Nassau county. Became a law February 28, 1899, 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: commis tricts discontinued Section 1. The first school commissioner district of the county of School Queens, as it existed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and sioner dis ninety-nine, consisting of the town of North Hempstead, and the second school commissioner district of the said county, as it existed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, consisting of the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay, are hereby discontinued and annulled. tion. § 2. The towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Consolida Bay, constituting the county of Nassau, as erected by chapter five hundred and eighty-eight, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, are hereby erected into and constituted the school commissioner district of the county of Nassau. commis § 3. A school commissioner in and for the school commissioner School district of the county of Nassau, as constituted by this act, shall sioner. be elected at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, whose term of office shall commence on the first day of January, nineteen hundred, as provided in section fifty-nine, title five, chapter five hundred and fifty-six, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, known as the consolidated school law, and the acts amendatory thereof. takes et § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, excepting as to sec. Act when tions one and two, which shall take effect upon the first day of fect January, nineteen hundred. Board of general Chap. 36. AN ACT in relation to the Pan American Exposition, to be held upon the Niagara frontier, within the state of New York, and to provide for an exhibit by the state, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law March 1, 1899, 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. The governor shall, by and with the advice and conmanagers. sent of the senate, appoint a board of nine members, including a fair representation of the two chief political parties, and one of whom shall be designated by him as the president of the board, who shall constitute the board of general managers of the exhibit of the state of New York at the Pan American Exposition to be held on the Niagara frontier within the state of New York in the year nineteen hundred and one, to illustrate the progress of the new world during the nineteenth century. The members of such board shall be removable at the pleasure of the governor, who shall have power to fill vacancies as provided by the public officers law. General powers. and equip ments. § 2. Such board of managers shall encourage, secure and promote a full and complete exhibit of the commercial, agricultural, industrial, military, naval, artistic and other interests of the state and its citizens at such exposition, and shall provide, furnish and Building maintain during the exposition a suitable building for the official headquarters of the state, for the comfort and convenience of its citizens and its exhibitors, and for such other purposes as the board may deem necessary, provided a site approved by such board of managers shall have been furnished without expense to the state by the Pan American Exposition Company. Such building with its equipments shall be and remain the property of the state until disposed of by the legislature. Officers and salaries. § 3. The board, upon its organization, shall appoint a chief executive officer who shall receive an annual salary not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, and a secretary who shall receive a salary not exceeding two thousand dollars a year. Such salaries shall be fixed by the board, and shall not be paid for a longer period than until three months after the close of such exposition. The other members of such board shall serve without compensation, but all of the members of the board shall receive. their actual and necessary expenses while in the actual discharge of their duties. The chief executive officer and secretary shall be subject to the directions of the board of general managers, and shall perform such duties as it shall prescribe. tion of § 4. The members of such board shall, upon the call of the Organizagovernor, meet at the capitol in the city of Albany and organize board. as a board. The board may make rules and regulations for its government, and prescribe the powers and duties of the chief executive officer and secretary. of debt. § 5. No debt or obligation shall be incurred except by order or Incurring authority of such board, nor in excess at any time of the amount available of the appropriation hereby made. governor. § 6. The board of general managers shall make a report of its Report to proceedings from time to time, to the governor, and at any time when requested by him, and within three months after the close of the exposition shall make a final detailed report of its proceedings and expenditures to be transmitted by him to the legislature. Such report shall contain an account of all expenditures made, showing the items, the amounts thereof, to whom paid or with whom contracted and for what purpose, and shall be certified by the president of the board of general managers to be correct. tures lim Appropria tion. § 7. The total expenditures to be incurred under the provisions Expendi of this act shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand ited, dollars, and for the purpose of paying such expenditures the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller upon verified vouchers approved by the president and secretary of the board of managers after due audit by the comptroller; one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of such amount shall be available when a verified certificate of the secretary and treasurer of the Pan American Exposition Company is filed in the office of the comptroller, that eight hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock of such company has been paid in in cash, and the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars thereof shall thereafter be available on the first day of May nineteen hundred. § 8. The expense to be incurred by such board of managers for the erection of the building provided for in section two of this act including the furnishing, heating, lighting, plumbing and complete When available. Expense and construction of building equipment thereof, and the inspection and fees of architects therefor, shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and no greater amount of the appropriation made hereby shall be available therefor. The construction of such building shall not be commenced until the first sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of said appropriation shall have become available nor until plans and specifications have been adopted by the board and a contract with sufficient sureties has been made for the completion and complete equipment thereof, for a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. § 9. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 37. AN ACT to repeal chapter one hur red and thirty-five of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the better administration of justice in the town of Saratoga in the county of Saratoga." Became a law March 2, 1899, 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. Chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the better administration of justice in the town of Saratoga in the county of Saratoga," is hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Chap. 38. AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment of confidential clerks to certain justices of the supreme court in the sixth and seventh judicial districts. Became a law March 2, 1899, 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. The sum of thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is |