CHAPTER IX OF THE GENERAL LAWS. [CHAP. 683 OF 1892.] THE EXECUTIVE LAW. ARTICLE 1. Governor (§§ 1-7). II. Secretary of state (§§ 20–27). V. Attorney-general (§§ 50-57). VI. State engineer (S$ 60-66). VII. Provisions applicable to two or more executive officers (§§ 70 74). VIII. Miscellaneous officers (§§ 80-91). ARTICLE I. GOVERNOR. SECTION 1. Short title and definitions. 2. Acting governor. 3. Secretary and counsel to the governor. 5. Executive record. 6. Petitions on behalf of state. 7. Repealed. SECTION I. Short title and definitions. This chapter shall be known as the executive law. The office of the governor shall be known as the executive chamber, and his residence, as the executive mansion. § 2. Acting governor. - Every provision of law relating to the governor shall extend to the lieutenant-governor, and to the president of the senate, respectively, while acting as governor in pursuance of law. -- 83. Secretary and counsel to the governor. A secretary to the governor shall be appointed by the governor, and shall be paid an annual salary of four thousand dollars. The governor may also appoint and at pleasure remove a counsel to the governor, who shall be paid an annual salary of not exceeding five thousand dollars. It shall be the duty of such counsel to advise the governor in regard to the constitutionality, consistency, and legal effect of bills presented to the governor for his approval. (As amended by chap. 11 of 1899, and chap. 664 of 1900.) § 4. Annual expenditures of governor.-There shall be annually appropriated to be expended by the governor, 1. Not exceeding ten thousand five hundred dollars for the employment of such clerks, counsel, stenographers, messengers and doorkeepers in the executive chamber as may be necessary; 2. Not exceeding two thousand dollars for rewards which may be offered by him and necessary expenses in the apprehension of criminals and fugitives from justice. 3. Not exceeding one thousand dollars for compensation, expenses and fees of witnesses and sheriffs upon applications for executive clemency. 4. Not exceeding four thousand dollars for other incidental expenses of the executive chamber and the administration of his office. 5. Not exceeding two thousand dollars for repairs, furniture and incidental expenses of the executive mansion. § 5. Executive records.-The governor shall cause to be kept in the executive chamber, I. Journals of the daily transactions of his office: 2. Registers, containing classified statements of such transactions: 3. Separate registers containing classified statements of all applications for pardon, commutation or other executive clemency, and of his action thereon: 4. An account of his official expenses and disbursements, including the incidental expenses of his department, and of all rewards offered by him for the apprehension of criminals, and also the expense incurred by him in sending the reports and copies of the laws of this state to other states. 5. Files of all official records upon which applications for executive clemency are founded; of statements made by judges to him; of sentences to death and of the testimony in capital cases; and of such other papers relating to the transactions of his office as are deemed by him of sufficient value for preservation. § 6. Petitions on behalf of state. The governor of the state may sign any petition required by law for any change or improvement to be made to a street, avenue or public place on behalf of the state, the people of the state or any other officer, commission, department or trustee for the state where the title of any property fronting upon any street, avenue or public place in a city, is vested in or held by the people of the state, or is vested in or held by any officer, commission or department of or on behalf of the state. § 7. Repealed by chap. 248 of 1893 § 3. § 20. Salary and expenses.-The secretary of state shall be paid an annual salary of five thousand dollars. There shall be annually appropriated to be expended by the secretary of state: 1. Not exceeding twenty thousand three hundred dollars for the employment of clerks and messengers in his office: 2. Not exceeding two thousand dollars for furniture, books, binding, blanks, printing and the other necessary incidental expenses of his office. § 21. Deputy. The secretary of state shall appoint a deputy, who shall be paid an annual salary of four thousand dollars and who may perform all the duties of the secretary of state, except as commissioner of the canal fund and state canvasser. 8 22. Custody of records.-The secretary of state shall have the custody of all laws and concurrent resolutions of the legisla ture, all documents issued under the great seal, all books, records, deeds, parchments, maps, and papers deposited or kept in his office, and shall properly arrange and preserve them. § 23. Distribution of acts of congress.-The secretary of state shall distribute the acts of congress received at his office in the same manner as the laws of this state. 24. Supplying statutes to new counties and towns.The secretary of state shall, at the expense of the state, transmit to the clerk of every new county and town, the latest legislative revision of the general laws of the state, and, if practicable, a complete set of the volumes of the session laws, passed since the session of 1830. Whenever the revision of the general laws of the state, or any of the volumes of the session laws passed since 1830, belonging to any town, shall be destroyed by fire, the secre tary of state shall, if practicable, replace them at the expense of the state. § 25. Legislative manual.--The secretary of state, at the expense of the state, shall annually prepare and publish the legis lative manual, and a map of the state, exhibiting the route of all railroads and canals that are completed or in course of construction. The manual shall contain the constitutions of the United States and of the state of New York, diagrams of the senate and assembly chambers, and such other information of the nature heretofore published therein, as he may consider useful, and shall be printed and bound in substantially the same style as heretofore. Within two weeks after the commencement of each regular session of the legislature, and earlier, if practicable, he shall deliver a copy of the manual and map to each member and officer of the legislature, and to each state officer entitled to the session laws, with the name of each officer or member lettered on the copy of the manual sent to him. § 26. Fees.-The secretary of state shall collect the following fees: 1. For entering a caveat, twelve and a half cents; 2. Searching the records in his office for any one year and for every other year in which such search is made, six cents; 3. For a copy of any paper or record not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by him, ten cents per folio; 4. For a certified or exemplified copy of any law, record or paper, fifteen cents per folio; 5. For a certificate under the great seal of the state, one dollar; 6. For recording a certificate, notice or other paper required to be recorded, except as otherwise provided by this section, fifteen cents per folio; 7. For a certificate of the official character of a commissioner of deeds residing in another state or a foreign country, twentyfive cents, and for every other certificate under the seal of his office, one dollar; 8. For a certificate as to the official character of such a commissioner, twenty-five cents; 9. For every patent for lands under water, five dollars, and for every other patent the sum of one dollar for each separate lot embraced in such patent; 10. For each license granted to a peddler, the sum of two dollars; |