Act amended. Violations of act. Chap. 318. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An act to license and regulate the business of private detectives and detective agencies." Became a law April 17, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section five of chapter four hundred and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and for the enforcement of this act the comptroller of the state of New York, is hereby authorized to Agents of expend annually, out of the moneys received as license fees not to exceed three thousand dollars, in the employment of an agent or agents and of other proper measures, to aid in the detection or prosecution of all violations of this act. comptrol ler. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 319. AN ACT to amend the fisheries, game and forest law, relative to use of dogs in hunting deer. Became a law April 17, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section forty-four of chapter four hundred and eightyeight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the title to which was amended by chapter three hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five to read "An act relating to game, fish and wild animals, and to the forest preserve and Adirondack park, constituting chapter thirty-one of the general laws, and to be known as the fisheries, game and forest law," as amended by chapter three hundred and ninety of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended to read as follows: § 44. Hounding.-Deer shall not be hunted, pursued or killed with any dog or bitch in this state for the term of five years from the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Dogs of the breed commonly used for hunting deer or that have been trained to or will pursue deer, shall not be permitted by the owner or person harboring the same to run at large, or to be taken or permitted to be taken into forest inhabited by deer, for or during the said term of five years. The provisions of this section as to the close season shall not apply to Long Island. If any such dog or bitch shall be found hunting, pursuing or killing any deer or running at large in the forests of this state where deer inhabit, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of this section by the person or persons owning, using, having or harboring such dog or bitch. Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation thereof. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 320. AN ACT to amend section three hundred and forty-one of the code of civil procedure, relating to jurisdiction of county courts. Became a law April 17, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact us follows: amended. Section 1. Section three hundred and forty-one of the code of Code civil procedure is hereby amended so as to read as follows: corporation, etc., deemed etc. § 341. For the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of a Domestic county court, in either of the cases specified in the last section, when a domestic corporation or joint-stock association, whose residents, principal place of business is established, by or pursuant to a statute, or by its articles of association, or is actually located. within the county, or in case of a railroad corporation where any portion of the road operated by it is within the county, it is deemed a resident of the county; and personal service of a summons, made within the county, as prescribed in this act, or personal service of a mandate, whereby a special proceeding is com Act, when to take effect. menced, made within the county, as prescribed in this act for personal service of a summons, is sufficient service thereof upon a domestic corporation wherever it is located. § 2. This act shall take effect September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Act amended. Settlement of col lector's accounts. Satisfac tion of undertaking. Chap. 321. AN ACT to amend section eighty-eight of chapter nine hundred and eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six known as the tax law relating to collectors bonds. Became a law April 17, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eighty-eight of chapter nine hundred and eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 88. Upon the settlement of the account of taxes directed to be collected by a collector in any town or city, except in the city of New York, the county treasurer, shall, if requested, and if the collector shall have fully paid over or duly accounted for all the taxes which he was by law to collect, give to such collector or any of his sureties, a written certificate of such settlement, duly acknowledged, and upon the filing thereof in the office of the clerk where the undertaking is recorded, the clerk shall enter satisfaction of such undertaking which shall thereby be discharged; except that in counties containing cities of the first class such satisfaction when so entered shall only discharge the lien of said bond or undertaking upon the real estate of the collector and his sureties, but the liability of the collector and his sureties upon such bond or undertaking for a failure upon the part of such collector to pay over moneys collected by him shall be in no wise impaired. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 322. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to liens, constituting chapter forty-nine of the general laws," being chapter four hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in relation to liens. Became a law April 17, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. An act entitled "An act in relation to liens, constituting chapter forty-nine of the general laws," being chapter four hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 50. Lien for labor performed in quarrying, mining, dressing and cutting stone.-A person employed in a quarry, mine, yard or dock at excavating, quarrying, mining, dressing or cutting sandstone, granite, cement stone, limestone, bluestone or marble, may have a lien on such sandstone, cement stone, granite, limestone, bluestone or marble, for the amount due for the labor expended thereon, upon filing a notice of lien in the office where a chattel mortgage upon such sandstone, cement stone, granite, limestone, bluestone or marble is required to be filed, as provided in this chapter. Such notice must be filed within thirty days after the completion of such labor and must state the amount due therefor, the name and residence of the lienor, and the name of the person for whom the labor was performed, the quantity and description of the sandstone, cement stone, granite, bluestone, limestone or marble against which the claim is made. Such notice of lien shall be endorsed, filed and entered by the proper officer, in the same manner as chattel mortgages, and the same fees shall be charged therefor. A copy of the notice so filed shall be served upon the owner of such sandstone, cement stone, granite, limestone, bluestone or marble or upon the person in charge of the quarry, mine, yards or docks wherein such services were performed within five days after the filing thereof. $51. Duration and effect of lien.-Such lien shall terminate unless an action is brought to enforce the same within three months after the date of filing such notice, as provided in the code of civil procedure for the enforcement of a lien upon a chattel. If the labor upon such sandstone, cement stone, granite, bluestone, limestone or marble is performed for a contractor under a contract with the owner of such quarry, mine, yard or dock, the owner shall not be liable to pay by reason of all the liens filed against such quarry, mine, yard or dock, a greater sum than the amount unpaid upon such contract at the time of filing such notices, or in case there is no contract, than the aggregate amount unpaid of the value of labor and services performed, pursuant to the preceding section. The lien created by this article shall not attach to any material which shall have become a part of any building or structure, or ceased to be the property of the person for whom such labor was performed. § 52. Discharge of lien. Such lien may be discharged by a payment of the amount due thereon, by a failure to bring an action to enforce the same within the time prescribed in the preceding section, by the written consent of the lienor, duly acknowledged and filed with the proper officer to the effect that such lien may be discharged, and by the owner of such sandstone, cement stone, granite, bluestone, limestone or marble filing with such officer an undertaking in an amount equal to twice the sum specified in the notice of lien, executed by one or more sureties who shall justify in such amount and approved by the officer with whom the notice of lien is filed, conditioned for the payment of the sum due such lienor, by reason of such lien, and the cost and expenses of enforcing the same. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Protection of water supply. Chap. 323. 'AN ACT for the sanitary protection of the public water supply of the cities, towns and villages in the county of Saint Lawrence. Became a law April 17, 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. No person, persons, corporation, association or copartnership, or any member or officer thereof, shall throw or deposit any dead animal, carrion or offal or other putrid or offensive matter into the Grass, Raquette, Saint Regis or Deer rivers or into any lake, pond, spring, stream, ditch or |