APPENDIX. Laws to be Repealed by the Public Buildings Law. [EXPLANATION.-Page reference is to eighth edition Revised Statutes. Section reference immediately following is to the text of the revision which will take the place of the law repealed.] (PART I, CHAPTER 9, TITLE 7, PAGE 655.) Omitted. SECTION 1. The buildings in the city of Albany, now known as the "capitol," and "state hall," shall respectively continue to be known. and denominated by those names. [Section 2 was repealed by L. 1830, ch, 249.] Id. page 655, omitted. § 3. The custody and care of the state hall shall be vested in the comptroller, secretary of state, and surveyor-general; and the comptroller shall have power, from time to time, to cause such repairs as may be necessary to its preservation, to be made to the said building, and to draw his warrant on the treasury for the expenses thereof, not exceeding one hundred dollars in any one year. Id. page 655, omitted. § 4. The custody and care of the several arsenals and magazines belonging to this state, and of the lands and buildings connected therewith, shall be vested in the commissary-general. Id. page 655, omitted. § 5. The state prison at Mount-Pleasant, and the state prison at Auburn, and the lands and buildings connected therewith, shall severally be under the care of the officers charged therewith. § 6. The marine hospital at Staten-Island, and the lands and buildings connected therewith, shall be under the care of the commissioners of health of the city of New York. Id. page 656, omitted. § 7. The state pier at the port of Sagg-Harbor, shall be under the care of the receiver of the profits thereof. Id. page 656, omitted. 88. Every person hereafter appointed to the office of such receiver, shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, execute a bond to the people of this state, in the sum of two thousand dollars, and with one or more sureties, to be approved of by the comptroller, conditioned for the faithful performance, by such receiver, of the duties of his office; which bond shall be filed in the office of the comptroller. Id. page 656, omitted. § 9. It shall be the duty of such receiver to collect, from time to time, such portion of the profits arising from the state pier, and the long-wharf united with it, as the people of this state may be entitled to, under the appraisement and valuation made in pursuance of the act entitled "An act relative to the state wharf at the port of SaggHarbor," passed April 10th, 1824. He shall account with the comptroller, at the end of each year, for all moneys received by him during such year, and after deducting ten per cent thereon, as a full compensation for his services, shall pay the balance into the treasury. (LAWS 1834, CHAPTER 66, PAGE 656.) Omitted. Trustees of the state hall.-SECTION 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, the speaker of the assembly, the secretary of state, the attorneygeneral, the surveyor-general and the comptroller, shall be trustees of the state hall, and shall possess all the powers conferred by the acts, chapters two hundred and eighty-three and three hundred and twentythree, of the laws of 1833. Id. page 656, omitted. To purchase land in Albany.—§ 2. The said trustees are authorized to purchase land in the city of Albany, in the vicinity of the capitol, of such extent as in their opinion will be required for convenient public buildings for the use of the state, and to cause to be erected thereon, a new state hall, upon such plan and of such dimensions as the public interests may require. Id. page 656, omitted. Duty of the state prison agent.—§ 3. The agent of the state prison at Mount-Pleasant shall cause to be prepared and delivered at the prison, on the order of the trustees, the stone and all such other articles necessary for the building as can be manufactured at the said prison, and shall charge the same at a reasonable price. Id. page 656, omitted. Trustees to sell the present state hall.— § 4. The said trustees shall sell the present state hall and the lands belonging thereto, as soon as the same can be done on terms advantageous to the public, and may contract to deliver possession of the same at such time, as in their judgment, the new offices will be completed. (LAWS 1840, CHAPTER 295, PAGE 656.) Omitted. Apartments for state officers.- SECTION 1. Whenever the new state hall shall, in the opinion of the trustees thereof, be so far completed that the same may be occupied, it shall be the duty of the trustees to assign apartments therein for the use of the chancellor, judges of the supreme court, and register of the court of chancery, the secretary of state, the comptroller, the treasurer, the attorney-general, the surveyor-general, the adjutant-general, the clerk of the supreme court, the canal board and the canal commissioners; and thereupon the said officers shall remove their several offices to the apartments so assigned them, together with the books, papers and furniture belonging to them, except such papers or printed books and pamphlets as they may deem expedient to leave in the present state hall. [Section 2 is omitted as temporary.] Id. page 657, omitted. Provisions respecting the old state hall.- § 3. The commissioners of the land-office are authorized to receive from the mayor and common council of the city of Albany, any additional conveyance for the lot in the said city, on which the old state hall is situated, which they may deem necessary to authorize the occupation of the same for such public purposes as the said commissioners may deem beneficial to the interest of the state, or as may be directed by law, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between them and the said corporation, and to cause such instruments to be executed as may be necessary to fulfil such agreement. [Section 4 superseded by L. 1883, ch. 349.] (LAWS 1841, CHAPTER 218, PAGE 657.) Canal department.- SECTION 1. All business relating to the canals of this state, and improvements connected therewith required to be per formed by the commissioners of the canal fund, the canal board and the comptroller, shall be transacted in rooms appropriated for that purpose in the state hall, to be denominated the canal department. (LAWS 1845, CHAPTER 98, PAGE 657.) Section 3 of Revision, Flag-staff to be erected.- SECTION 1. The trustees of the capitol are hereby authorized and directed to cause a flag-staff to be erected on the capitol, for the purpose of displaying thereon the American flag, during the daily sessions of the legislature, and on public occasions, and to provide a suitable flag for this purpose. The necessary expense thereby incurred shall be paid out of the treasury on the warrant of the comptroller. (LAWS 1848, CHAPTER 260, PAGE 657.) For repairs and furniture for new state hall, etc.-§ 5. The trustees of the new state hall shall have power from time to time to cause all such repairs and improvements to be made to the new state hall and the furniture therein, as shall be necessary to preserve it from decay, and keep the same in a safe and proper condition for public use; to cause the furniture in any of the apartments to be replaced if they shall deem it necessary; to cause the said apartments to be cleansed as often as they shall deem expedient; to direct the sidewalks and streets adjacent to be kept free from snow and ice, and to be swept and taken care of according to the ordinances of the common council of the city of Albany; the expense thereof shall be paid out of the treasury on the warrant of the comptroller. (LAWS 1848, CHAPTER 284, PAGE 658.) Apartments to be assigned to state officers.- SECTION 1. The trustees of the state hall shall assign apartments in the new state hall, for the use of the secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, auditor of the canal department, attorney-general, state engineer and surveyor, canal commissioners, canal appraisers and clerk of the court of appeals. (LAWS 1883, CHAPTER 146, PAGE 658.) Section 6 of Revision. Commissioner to be appointed; salary.- SECTION 1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall, within twenty days after the passage of this act, appoint an officer to be known as the commissioner of the new capitol, who shall hold office until the end of the term of the governor by whom he was nominated, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless said new capitol building is sooner completed, and on such completion said office shall cease; said commissioner shall receive a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum; he may be suspended or removed from office by the governor whenever in his judgment the public interests so require. In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of commissioner, while the senate is not in session, the governor may fill such vacancy by appointment, but such appointee shall hold his office no longer than the thirty-first day of January next succeeding his appointment. Id. page 658, section 6 of Revision. Official oath and bond.-§ 2. Said commissioner, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and shall also furnish a bond with sufficient sureties to the people of the state of New York in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office; said bond shall be approved by the comptroller and filed in his office. Id. page 658, sections 7 and 8 of Revision. Powers and duties of commissioner; not to incur liabilities beyond appropriation - § 3. Said commissioner shall have charge of the work of constructing, building and finishing the new capitol, removing the old capitol and state library building, and completing the arrangements of the approaches and capitol grounds, and for such purposes may employ labor, purchase the necessary material, and make contracts in connection therewith; but said commissioner shall have no power to contract any debt, obligation or liability on behalf of the state beyond the appropriations made for the completion of the new capitol at the time such debt, obligation or liability is created; all contracts which may be made shall be awarded to the lowest bona fide responsible bidder, after being advertised in the state paper four weeks preceding the letting of said contracts; said commissioner shall not have any interest in any contract in connection with the construction of said building, removing said buildings, completing the approaches or capitol grounds, or in the furnishing of any material or labor therefor; but said commissioner shall have no power to purchase any land without authority hereafter expressly granted by law. Id. pages 658-9, section 10 of Revision. Accounts. § 4. The said commissioner shall keep just and true accounts of all expenses and obligations incurred during each month, which shall be made up and rendered to the comptroller monthly, |