such repeal shall not be so construed as to destroy, impair or take away any right or remedy by said section hereby repealed, and all proceedings or actions commenced under such section of said act may be carried out and continued as though this act had not been passed, except as herein otherwise provided. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. City authorized money Chap. 220. AN ACT to authorize the city of Watertown, to borrow one hundred thousand dollars to pay an equal amount of bonds heretofore issued by the water commissioners of said city, which are known as water bonds, as the same shall become due. Accepted by the city. Became a law April 4, 1904, 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 common council of the city of Watertown is to borrow hereby authorized and empowered to borrow a sum of money not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, in the name and upon tofore the credit of the city of Watertown, and in the manner here to retire bonds here issued for water purposes. inafter mentioned, which money shall be applied in paying the following bonds heretofore issued by the water commissioners of the city of Watertown as the same from time to time become due, to wit: class thirty-seven, five bonds of one thousand dollars each due in nineteen hundred and four; class thirty-eight, five bonds of one thousand dollars each due in nineteen hundred and five; class forty, five bonds of one thousand dollars each due in nineteen hundred and five; class thirty-nine, sixty bonds of one thousand dollars each due in nineteen hundred and six; class forty-five, one bond of five thousand dollars due in nineteen hundred and six; class forty-six, one bond of five thousand dollars due in nineteen hundred and seven; class forty-eight, one bond of five thousand dollars due in nineteen hundred and eight; class forty-nine, five bonds of one thousand dollars each due in nineteen hundred and nine; and class fifty, one bond of five thousand dollars due in nineteen hundred and ten, or in exchange or pur to issue bonds. chase of said before issued bonds. The said sum of money may be Conon borrowed from time to time as may become necessary for such authorized purpose; and, to secure the said loan, the said common council is authorized and empowered to issue therefor either coupon or registered bonds of the city of Watertown, running for a period not to exceed thirty years, and bearing a rate of interest not to exceed four per cent per annum payable semiannually. Said bonds when issued shall be sealed with the corporate seal of said city, and shall be signed by the mayor and city treasurer, and countersigned by the city clerk, and shall be of such denomi nations and payable at such place, as the common council may direct, and shall be sold at not less than par. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 221. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and seventy of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, with relation to commitments to the state industrial school. Became a law April 4, 1904, 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. Section three of chapter five hundred and thirtynine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as amended by chapter four hundred and seventy of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby further amended to read as follows: ment of delin § 3. It shall be lawful for the board of managers of the state Commit industrial school to receive into said school all male children who Juvenile have heretofore been, or who may hereafter be, sentenced to the quents, western house of refuge for juvenile delinquents, or to the house of refuge for juvenile delinquents in western New York or to the state industrial school, and to retain the same, subject to the rules and regulations of said institution, and said board of managers shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to receive and detain all such persons committed to their custody, and such right and duty shall not be affected, prejudiced or im paired by reason of, or in consequence of, any technical defect Warrant of or clerical error in the warrant of commitment. The several commit ment not invall dated by technical error. courts having criminal jurisdiction and who shall hold criminal courts in all the counties of this state, except the counties of New York and Kings, are hereby authorized to sentence male juvenile delinquents convicted in any of such courts to such state industrial school. § 2. This act shall take effect June first, nineteen hundred and four. Descrip tion. Chap. 222. 'AN ACT to release to Jeanie W. Norton, all right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York, in and to certain real estate in the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and in the state of New York. Became a law April 4, 1904, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All the estate, right, title and interest of the people of the state of New York, acquired by escheat, forfeiture or otherwise, of, in and to all that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and state of New York, being a part of farm lot number sixteen, in the eleventh township and eighth range of the Holland land company's survey of lots numbers sixteen and seventeen in said township, made by Peter Emslie and Henry Lovejoy, surveyors, filed in the clerk's office of Erie county, and recorded therein in liber one hundred and forty-nine of deeds at page three hundred and eighty-six, is distinguished as subdivision lot number twenty-nine in block number two situate on the south side of Broadway, formerly Batavia street, and commences twenty-eight and thirteen onehundredths feet west of Watson street, contains twenty-eight and thirteen one-hundredths feet front and twenty-seven feet rear by one hundred twenty-two feet in depth, whereof Elizabeth Rosar died seized and possessed, are hereby released unto and vested in Jeanie W. Norton, of the city of Buffalo, New York, her heirs and assigns forever. rights not § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall release, discharge or Certain impair any right, claim or interest of any grantee, or devisee, or of impaired. any creditor of the said Elizabeth Rosar, by judgment, mortgage, or otherwise, or to warrant or insure by the state the title to said property in said Jeanie W. Norton. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 223. AN ACT to incorporate Saint Mary's endowment association of Became a law April 4, 1904, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Incorporation.-The Right Reverend Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg, New York, the Reverend Rector of Saint Mary's cathedral in said city and nine other persons to be appointed by said bishop, and their successors are hereby created a body corporate to be known as Saint Mary's *endownment association of Ogdensburg, New York. § 2. Object.-The object of such corporation shall be to apply the annual net revenue accruing from its holdings of real and personal property, for the following purposes and in the following order of precedence: 1. To support and maintain continuously in the city of Ogdensburg, New York, in connection with what is commonly known as the cathedral parish, an institution providing first and principally a course of studies equivalent to that now followed in Saint Mary's academy in said city, as shown by the records of said academy and those of the university of the state of New York. 2. To provide from such revenue as may remain after paying the expenses of the academic department indicated above, whenever and so long as the necessary funds are not otherwise provided, educational facilities whereby all the children of said cathedral parish, of primary and grammar school grades may So in the original. receive such instruction as the board of directors, by this act created, may designate and approve. 3. To print, publish, loan, and disseminate leaflets, pamphlets, papers, reports, periodicals and books for the spread of education and the diffusion of christian truth. 4. To receive, invest, manage and distribute such other funds or property as may from time to time be entrusted to it for the purpose of aiding or endowing specified cemeteries, churches, societies, schools, hospitals and other corporations or persons, or other property or institutions within the limits of the present Roman Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg, New York. 5. To contribute to the establishment and support of such courses in higher, technical or other studies as the Roman Catholic bishop of Ogdensburg and his council may approve. § 3. Succession and powers.-The said corporation shall have perpetual succession and shall be empowered to acquire real and personal property by purchase, grant, gift, devise or bequest; to collect, hold, invest, reinvest, rent, sell, transfer and convey said real and personal property in the same manner and with like effect as any business corporation in the transaction of its business; and for the enforcement of any legal or equitable right, said corporation may invoke the aid of, and proceed in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved, in the same manner as any business corporation; and it shall apply the net annual interest or income of such real and personal estate for the purposes specified in this act, the principal or capital always remaining intact, excepting such funds as may come to said corporation under terms prescribed by the party donating the same and requiring a different disposition thereof. § 4. Directors. The management of the affairs and property of such corporation shall be invested in a board of eleven directors, nine of whom shall be appointed by the Right Reverend Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg, New York, or in case of his protracted absence, disability or removal through death or otherwise, by the duly appointed administrator of said diocese, and the said Right Reverend Bishop and the Reverend Rector of Saint Mary's cathedral and their successors, ex officio shall be the other two members of the said board of eleven directors. The directors first appointed shall be divided into three groups of three each and said groups respectively, shall hold |