Certificates shall also be issued by the state to such university from time to time, as the proceeds of the sales of the lands and land scrip are paid into the treasury, for the payment annually of five per centum upon such proceeds from the date of their receipt upon the same conditions as the original certificate. The comptroller in his annual estimate of the appropriations required for the expenses of the government shall include the amount required to pay the interest on these certificates. ARTICLE V. MISCELLANEOUS FUNDS. SECTION 100. The military record fund. 101. The mariners' fund. 102. Payments on account of chancery fund. § 100. The military record fund.-All moneys contributed and paid over to the treasurer of the state by towns, cities and individuals for the erection of a hall of military record belong to the military record fund. Such fund shall be invested in the same manner as other state funds and a separate account thereof shall be kept by the state treasurer. The interest arising from the investment of such fund shall be used in the maintenance of such quarters in the state capitol as shall be set apart for the safe keeping of military records, books and property, and for the display of colors, standards, battle flags and relics, which is known as the hall of military record. § 101. The mariners' fund.—The loan of ten thousand dol lars made by the comptroller to the trustees of the American Seamen's Friend Society in the city of New York, pursuant to chapter one hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty and continued by chapter thirty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-five, shall constitute the mariners' fund. Such loan shall be secured by mortgage satisfactory to the comptroller and may be retained by such trustees, without payment of interest, as long as they shall faithfully use and apply the same to promote the benevolent objects of the sailors' home, erected for the boarding and accommodation of seamen in such city. The trustees of such institution may mortgage the sailors' home for a term not less than seven years to secure the debts due from, or money loaned to, them for the lawful purpose of Laws Repealed; When to Take Effect. S$ 102-111 such institution, to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars. Such mortgage shall be a lien on such home prior to the lien held by the state to secure the loan mentioned in this section, provided all other liens and incumbrances on such home be discharged and canceled of record. No sale of such sailors' home upon the foreclosure of any mortgage prior to the lien of the state shall be had without, at least, six weeks' previous notice of such sale served personally upon the comptroller. § 102. Payments on account of chancery fund.-All moneys, securities and real estate formerly under the control and in possession of the court of chancery, and transferred to the comptroller by the clerk of the court of appeals, pursuant to chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is credited to the general fund and is a part thereof. The comptroller is authorized to convert into cash the securities, real estate and other property belonging to the fund so transferred, and may execute good and sufficient deeds for the conveyance of such real property. A person claiming any portion of such property, shall apply to a court of competent jurisdiction after due notice to the comptroller of the time and place of making such application, for an order directing the payment of such portion to him. Upon such order and the warrant of the comptroller the treasurer shall pay such portion to him. ARTICLE VI. LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. SECTION 110. Laws repealed. 111. When to take effect. 110. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed that portion specified in the last column is repealed. 8 III. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Statutes.... Part I, ch. VIII, title 3, arti CHAPTER XI OF THE GENERAL LAWS. [CHAP. 317 OF 1894.] THE PUBLIC LANDS LAW. ARTICLE I. Commissioners of land office (§§ 1–20). V. Grants of lands under water (§§ 70-71). VII. State reservation at Niagara (§§ 90-99). ARTICLE I. COMMISSIONERS OF LAND OFFICE. SECTION 1. Short title and limitations. 2. Organization and procedure. 3. Powers and duties; leases. 4. Letters patent; form and contents; to be recorded in the office of the secretary of state. 5. Refunding purchase money on failure of title. 6. Partition of lands held by the state in joint tenancy or tenancy in common. 7. Trespasses upon state lands. 8. Penalties for trespasses. 9. Power to investigate before grant. 10. Power to confirm defective grant. 11. Certain patents and grants ratified. 12. Grants to heirs or devisees. 13. Time of performing conditions of grant. 14. Prohibitions as to grants in Lake George. 15. Reservation of Esopus island. 16. Trespasses upon lands other than the forest preserve. 17. Payment of costs of actions directed by commissioners. 19. Expenses chargeable to special funds. 20. Assessments for local improvements on state lands. SECTION 1. Short title and limitations.-This chapter shall be known as the public lands law. This chapter shall not limit or modify the provisions of the railroad law relating to the grant or acquisition, for railroad purposes, of any lands belonging to the people of the state. |