ment of claims under the Bowman and Tucker acts and French spoliation and other claims.

11This is the amount submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the annual estimates for the fiscal year 1900, the exact amount appropriated not being ascertainable until two years after the close of the fiscal year.

12In addition to this amount, contracts are authorized to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, as follows: By the District of Columbia act, $259,500; by the Naval act, $52,334,374; by the Sundry Civil act, $4,717,500; by miscellaneous acts, $1,129,000; in all, $58,440,374.

13In addition to this amount, contracts are authorized to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, as follows: By the District of Columbia act, $563,000; by the Naval act, $44,454,500; by the River and Harbor act, $23,866,324 13; by the Sundry Civil act, $6,088,450; by miscellaneous acts, $2,075,000; in all, $77,047,274 13.

14No river and harbor bill passed for 1899, but the sum of $14,031,613 56 is appropriated in the Sundry Civil act to carry out contracts authorized by law, and $235,836 additional for river and harbor improvements for 1899; in all, $14,267,449 56. The General Deficiency act also appropriates $360,000 additional for river and harbor improvements, making in all for river and harbor improvements in Sundry Civil act for 1899 and in General Deficiency act, $14,627,449 56.

15This amount includes $14,031,613 56 to carry out contracts authorized by law for river and harbor improvements for 1899, and $235,836 additional for river and harbor improvements for 1899; in all, $14,267,449 56.

16This amount includes $329,661,795 77 on account of expenses of war with Spain, and $8,070,872 46 on account of payment of pensions fiscal year 1898.

17This is the amount submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the annual estimates for the fiscal year 1899, the exact amount appropriated not being ascertainable until two years after the close of the fiscal year.

18Includes $361,859,927 26 on account of expenses of war with Spain. In addition to this total amount contracts are authorized to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, as follows: By the District of Columbia act, $230,000; by the Naval act, $23,366,156; by the Sundry Civil act, $352,500; by the Urgent Deficiency act, $225,000; in all, $24,173,656.

TRADE-MARK LAWS.

The

The following classes may obtain registration: (a) Any person, firm or corporation domiciled in the United States or located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention or law, affords similar privileges to citizens of the United States, and who is entitled to the exclusive use of any trade-mark and uses the same in commerce with foreign nations or with Indian tribes. (b) Any citizen or resident of this country wishing the protection of his trade-mark in any foreign country the laws of which require registration in the United States as a condition precedent. An application for the registration of a trade-mark will consist of a statement or specification, a declaration or oath, and drawing, which must follow rules laid down. These should be preceded by a brief letter of advic requesting registration and signed by the applicant. statement should announce the full name, citizenship, domicile, residence, and place of business of the applicant (or, if the applicant be a corporation, under the laws of what State or nation incorporated), with a full and clear specification of the trademark, particularly discriminating between its essential and non-essential features. It should also state from what time the trade-mark has been used by the applicant, the class of merchandise, and the particular goods comprised in such class to which the trade-mark is appropriated, and the manner in which the trade-mark has been applied to the goods. The declaration should be in the form of an oath by the person, or by a member of the firm, or by an officer of the corporation, making the application, to the effect that the party has at the time of filing his application a right to the use of the trade-mark described in the statement; that no other person, firm, or corporation has a right to such use, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive; that such trade-mark is used in lawful commerce with foreign nations or Indian tribes, one or more of which should be particularly named; and that it is truly represented in the fac-simile presented for registry. The oath may be taken within the United States before a notary public, justice of the peace, or the judge or clerk of any court of record. In any foreign country it may be taken before the secretary of a legation or consular officer of the United States, or before any person duly qualified by the laws of the country to administer oaths, whose official character shall be certified by a representative of the United States having an official seal. A fee of $25 is required on filing application, except in cases named in the following: Owners of trade-marks for which protection has been sought by registering ther in the Patent Office under the act of July 8, 1870 (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States), may register the same for the same goods, without fee, on compliance with the foregoing requirements. With each application of this character a specific reference to the date and number of the former certificate is required. Applicants whose cases were filed under the act of 1870, either prior to or since the decision of the Supreme Court declaring it unconstitutional. which are now pending before the office, are advised to prepare applications in conformity with the law and foregoing rules. On the receipt of such an application, referring to the date of the one formerly filed, all fees thereon will be duly applied. Those who have paid only $10 as a first fee are advised that the law does not provide for a division of the legal fee of $25, and that the remainder of the entire fee is required before the application can be entertained.

LEGISLATURE OF NEW-YORK.

The following is a summary of the most important laws enacted by the New-York Legislature in 1900:

The rapid increase in the deleterious use of "preservatives" in milk induced the Legislature to amend the Agricultural law by making it a misdemeanor to sell such

Preservatives

in Milk.

chemicals. The law as amended now reads: "No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale any butter or other dairy products containing a preservative, but this shall not be construed to prohibit the use of salt in butter or cheese, or spirituous liquors in club or other fancy cheese or sugar in condensed milk. No person or persons, firm, association or corporation shall induce or attempt to induce any person or persons to violate any of the provisions of the Agricultural law. Any person, firm, association or corporation selling, offering or advertising for sale any substance, preparation or matter for use in violation of the provisions of the Agricultural law shall be guilty of a violation of this act."

Section 23 of Chapter 338 of the Laws of 1893 had the following paragraph added to it: "Whenever manufacturers of butter or cheese purchase milk upon the basis of the amount of fat contained therein and use for ascertainTests for Ascertain- ing the amount of such fat what is known as the Babcock ing the Amount of test, the bottles used in such test shall before use be exFats in Milk. amined by the director of the Geneva Experimental Station. If such bottles are found to be properly constructed and graded so as to accurately show the amount of fat contained in milk, each of them shall be legibly and indelibly marked 'S. B.' No bottle shall be so marked except as herein provided nor shall be used in any such test by such manufacturers, unless so examined and marked. The acid used in making such test by such manufacturers shall be examined from time to time by competent chemists employed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and if found not to be of sufficient strength the use of such acid shall be prohibited. The Commissioner of Agriculture or persons employed by him for that purpose may at any time assist in mailing tests of milk received at a butter or cheese factory for the purpose of determining the efficiency of tests usually made at such factory. All persons using other than standard bottles or acid which is not of the required strength to accurately determine the amount of fats in milk shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by section 37 of this article, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

Section 37 of Chapter 338 of the Laws of 1893 was amended to read: "A person who brings or causes to be brought to a butter or cheese factory owned or operated

Penalties for
Diluting Milk.

by a co-operative association milk diluted with water or any unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated or unwholesome milk, or milk from which any of the cream has been taken, except pure skim milk to skim cheese factories, shall forfeit to the people of the State for the first offence the sum of $50 and for each subsequent offence the sum of $150; upon recovery of the penalty so prescribed, onehalf thereof shall be paid into the State Treasury, one-fourth shall be paid into the county treasury, and the remaining one-fourth shall be paid to the treasurer of the co-operative association owning or operating such butter or cheese factory, to be divided among the members thereof in the same manner as the other receipts of such association."

By Chapter 346 of the was created, to consist of State Fair Commission.

a

Chapter 344 of the Laws of 1900 appropriates $50,000 to promote sugar beet culture. Laws of 1900 a State Fair Commission of eleven members the Lieutenant-Governor and Commissioner of Agriculture ex officio, a member of the New-York State Grange, member of the New-York State Association of County Agricultural Societies, one a member of the Union Association of Agricultural Societies, and the others to be selected at will by the Governor. It is made the duty of the State Fair Commission to hold a State Fair and authority is given it to make, alter, suspend or repeal needed rules relating to such fair, including the times and duration thereof, the terms and conditions of entries and admissions, exhibits, sale of privileges, and payment of premiums. At the close of each fair the Commission is to pay to the State Treasurer any balance remaining in its hands received in connection with the State Fair.

Chapter 737 of the Laws of 1900 amends Section 57 of the Laws of 1899 so that the Attorney-General, independently of the Governor, can assign counsel to prosecute crimes against the elective franchise in New-York City. Extending Authority The section as amended reads as follows: "The Attorneyof Attorney-General. General shall assign one or more of his deputies to act as counsel for the State Superintendent of Elections and to take charge of prosecutions arising in any county included within the metropolitan elections district as described in Chapter 676 of the Laws of 1898 under said chapter and Title 5 of the Penal Code. Such deputy shall represent the people of this State in all such prosecutions before all magistrates and in all courts and before any Grand Jury having cognizance thereof; and shall act as special counsel and adviser to said State Superintendent of Elections in the performance of his duties. The deputies so assigned shall be appointed pursuant to Section 51 of this act. They may be specially

appointed thereunder for the purpose of such assignment and for the performance of the duties herein described."

Chapter 739 of the Laws of 1900 amends Section 68 of Chapter 565 of the Laws of 1890 so that it reads: "All steam railroads hereafter constructed across the tracks of

Railroad Grade

Crossings.

any other railroad and any street surface railroad hereafter constructed across a steam railroad shall be above, below, or at grade of such existing railroad as the Board of Railroad Commissioners shall determine, and such Board shall in such determination fix the proportion of expense of such crossing to be paid by each railroad."

Under Chapter 517 of the Laws of 1900 Section 65 of Chapter 565 of the Laws of 1890 has the following paragraph added to it in relation to railway grade crossings:

Claims for Grade
Crossing Damages.

Corporate Names.

"No claim for damages to property on account of the change or abolishment of any crossing under the provisions of this act shall be allowed unless notice of such claim is filed with the Board of Railroad Commisioners within six months after completion of the work necessary for such change or abolishment." Section 6 of the General Corporation Law is amended by Chapter 704 of the Laws of 1900 so as to read: "No certificate of incorporation of a proposed corporation having the same name as an existing domestic corporation, or a name so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive, shall be filed or recorded in any office for the purpose of effecting its incorporation. A corporation formed by the reincorporation, reorganization or consolidation of other corporations or upon the sale of the property or franchises of a corporation, may have the same name as the corporation or one of the corporations to whose franchises it has succeeded. No corporation shall be hereafter organized under the laws of this State with the word trust, bank, banking, insurance, assurance, indemnity, guarantee, guaranty, savings, investment, loan or benefit as part of its name, except a corporation formed under the banking law or the insurance law." Section 32 of the General Corporation law is amended so as to have included in it the following paragraph, under Chapter 177 of the Laws of 1900: "If all the stock of a corporation other than a corporation formed under or Extension of Cor- subject to the banking law, or an insurance corporation, porate Existence. or a turnpike, plank road or bridge corporation shall be lawfully owned by another stock corporation entitled by law to take a surrender and merger thereof, the corporate existence of such corporation whose stock is se owned may be extended at any time for the term of the corporate existence of the possessor corporation, by filing in the office or offices in which the original certificate or certificates of incorporation of the first mentioned corporation were filed a certificate of such extension executed by its president and secretary and by such corporation owning all the shares of its capital stock."

Chapter 80 of the Laws of 1900 amends the Liquor Tax law of 1896, making the following provision: "No corporation or association incorporated or organized under the laws of another State or country; provided, however, Liquor Licenses for that if such corporation or association be acting as a comRailway Companies. mon carrier or be operating dining, buffet, parlor or sleeping cars in this State, it may be granted a liquor tax cer

tificate under subdivision 4 of Section 11 of this act."

Chapter 498 of the Laws of 1900 appropriates $2,400 to extend the Bertillon method for the identification of criminals by authorizing the Superintendent of Prisons "to file, index and classify Bertillon descriptive cards received from other sources."

The Legislature of 1900 repealed a section of the Penal Code which virtually permitted prize fighting in the State. An amendment was made to Section 458 of the

Horton Sparring
Act Repealed.

Penal Code by Chapter 270 of the Laws of 1900, so that it will read: "Prize fighting and sparring exhibitions, aiding therein, et cetera. A person who, within this State, engages in, instigates, aids, encourages or does any act to further a contention, or fight, without weapons, between two or more persons, or a fight commonly called a ring or prize fight, either within or without the State, or who engages in a public or private sparring exhibition, with or without gloves, within the State, at which an admission fee is charged or received, either directly or indirectly, or who sends or publishes a challenge or acceptance of a challenge for such a contention, exhibition or fight, or carries or delivers such a challenge or acceptance, or trains or assists any person in training or preparing for such a contention, exhibition or fight, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

Chapter 588 of the Laws of 1900 amends Section 642 of the Penal Code, to punish especially those persons who make public the papers, for instance, found on the body

Punishment for
Opening and
Publishing Private
Papers.

of one who has committed suicide. The section, as amended, reads as follows: "Section 642 of the Penal Code, as amended by Chapter 287 of the Laws of 1895, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 642. A person who, willfully, and without authority, either 1. Opens or reads, or causes to be opened or read, a sealed letter, telegram, or private paper; or, 2. Publishes the whole or any portion of such a letter, or telegram, or private paper, knowing it to have been opened or read without authority; or, 3. Takes a letter, telegram or private paper, belonging to another, or a copy thereof, and publishes the whole or any portion thereof; or, 4. Publishes the whole or any portion of such letter, telegram or private paper, knowing it to have been taken or copied without authority; or, 5. Publishes or causes to be published, or connives at the pub

lication of any letter, telegram, or private paper or of any portion of any letter, telegram, or private paper found on, or among the effects of, any person who has been dangerously wounded, or who has committed suicide, or who has died suddenly, or who has been found dead, unless such letter, telegram, or private paper shall have been produced pursuant to law before a coroner at an inquest and the publication of such letter, telegram, or private paper, or of such portion of such letter, telegram, or private paper shall have been declared by that coroner in writing to be necessary to aid in the discovery of a crime, or of the identity of the wounded or deceased person, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

Chapter 658 of the Laws of 1900 authorizes the State Controller to appoint five persons in the county of New-York, two persons in Kings County and one person in Erie County to appraise inheritance taxes.

Town Meetings on

General

Election Day.

Chapter 381, Laws of 1900, harmonizes the general ballot act with the town meeting act, by providing that the ballots of the town meetings may be deposited at the polls on the general Election Day. It says: "In towns in which town meetings are held on election day, additional ballot boxes shall be provided, one to be marked 'box for town ballots,' in which shall be deposited ballots cast for candidates for town offices, and one to be marked 'box for town propositions,' in which shall be deposited ballots cast on town propositions and questions. Ballots for the submission of town propositions and questions to be submitted at town meetings held on election day shall be printed in the manner provided by this section, but shall be indorsed 'town proposition submitted.' The number of official ballots of each kind to be provided for each polling place for a town meeting, held at any time or a village or city election held at a different time from a general election, shall be one and one-half times as near as may be the number of persons who will be entitled to vote thereat, as nearly as can be estimated by the officer charged with the duty of providing such ballots. If the town meeting is held on general election day ballots and sample ballots for town officers and propositions shall be provided by the town clerk in like manner and in the same form as at a town meeting held at any other time and such town clerk shall also furnish inspectors' and ballot clerks' return sheets for making returns of the election of town officers and on town propositions or questions."

Increase Pay for
Election Officers.

Under Chapter 711 of the Laws of 1900 each inspector of election in the cities of New-York and Buffalo is to receive $7 50 a day, instead of $5, on registration days and election day; and $5 a day for the count and return of votes. The poll clerks have their salaries increased to the same compensation as that of the inspectors. The ballot clerks have their compensation increased from $5 to $8 a day. Chapter 648, Laws of 1900, amends Section 8 of Chapter 379 of the Laws of 1897 so that it reads: "A town or a ward of a city containing less than four hundred electors may, at least thirty days before the election or Division of Election appointment of inspectors of election of such town or Districts. ward, be divided into election districts by the board other body charged with such duty when, in the judgment of such board or body, the convenience of the electors shall be promoted thereby." Chapter 202 of the Laws of 1900 amends the Primary Reform act by declaring: "In case nominations for city or ward offices are made in primary election districts

Primary Election

Law.

or

under a rule adopted as prescribed in this section, certificates showing the result of the votes for the several candidates for nomination in the several districts shall be made by the boards of inspectors thereof and filed in the office of the custodian of primary records who shall determine from such certificates the persons nominated for such offices."

Chapter 533 of the

Seats for Women in Restaurants.

Laws of 1900 provides that the employers of waitresses in a hotel or restaurant "shall provide and maintain suitable seats for the use of such female employes, and permit the use thereof by such employes to such an extent as may be reasonable for the preservation of their health."

or

Chapter 675 of the Laws of 1900 provides that "whenever a municipal Civil Service Commissioner has been removed by the unanimous vote of the three State Commissioners, with the written approval of the Governor, whenever any municipal Commissioner shall resign or be removed by the Mayor pending an investigation by the State Commission of the administration of the civil service

Civil Service Commissioners.

of the city in which such person is a municipal commissioner, or whenever any municipal commissioner shall resign or be removed by the Mayor pending a hearing by the State Commission of charges preferred against such municipal commissioner, the State Commission and not the Mayer of such city shall have power to appoint persons to fill such vacancies, and such persons so appointed by the State Commission shall hold office as municipal Civil Service Commissioners of such city until the expiration of the term of the Mayor then in office and until their successors are appointed and qualify.

Chapter 70 of the Laws of 1900 says: "Any person who solicits from a candidate

Soliciting Money from a Candidate

for Office.

for an elective office money or other property as a consideration for a newspaper or other publication supporting any candidate for an elective office, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

Chapter 416 of the Laws of 1900 establishes a State hospital in the Adirondacks for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis.

Chapter 406 of the Laws of 1900 appropriates $250,000 to continue the purchases of land in the Adirondack and Catskill regions for the purpose of a park.

Chapter 391 of the Laws of 1900 appropriated $14,000 to purchase twenty-five acres of land at the foot of Lake George marking the site of the battle of Lake George. Chapter 411 of the Laws of 1900 appropriates $200,000 for the use of the State Engineer in the work of ascertaining the cost of improving the canals of the State by

Improvements of the State's Canals.

enlarging them in various respects. The law says: "The surveys, plans and estimates for the construction and improvement of the Erie Canal shall be for such dimensions as will give the said canal sufficient size to carry and lock through boats 150 feet in length, 25 feet in width and of 10 feet draught, with a cargo capacity of approximately one thousand tons each. The prism of the Erie Canal shall have a depth of not less than twelve feet of water throughout and a bottom width of not less than seventy-five feet with such side slopes or vertical walls of masonry or rock as may be necessary to give a cross sectional area of the canal prism of at least 1,125 square feet, except in the vicinity of locks, aqueducts, like structures and through cities where modifications are deemed advisable and necessary. There shall be a depth of not less than eleven feet of water in the locks and over all structures. The locks shall be not less than 310 feet long in the clear, and 28 feet wide, with 11 feet depth of water on sills, with a capacity to pass at one lockage two boats of the dimensions provided in this section, and all the improved locks shall be provided with machinery necessary for drawing boats in and out of such locks expeditiously. Wherever pneumatic locks or other modern mechanical lifts shall be substituted for the system heretofore in use, the new system of lifts approved and adopted shall be selected or designated by the State Engineer and Surveyor with the approval of the Canal Board."

Palisades

Interstate Park.

Chapter 170 of the Laws of 1900 authorized the Governor to appoint a Board of Commissioners of the Palisade Interstate Park. The law says: "The Board of Commissioners shall have power to and shall, as soon as may be after its organization, proceed to select and locate such lands lying between the top of the steep edge of the Palisades and the exterior of the bulkhead line established by law upon the Hudson River, together with such separate parcels of unimproved lands lying on the front of the top of the Palisades from the New-Jersey State line on the south to Piermont Creek, near Piermont, in Rockland County, on the north, as may in their opinion be proper and necessary to be reserved for the purpose of establishing a State park and thereby preserving the scenic beauty of the Palisades." Laws of 1900 authorized Governor Roosevelt to appoint a careful examination into the tenement houses in cities of the first class; their condition as to the construction, healthfulness, safety, rentals and the effect of tenement house life on the health, education, savings and morals of those who live in tenement houses, and all other phases of the socalled tenement house question in these cities that can affect the public welfare." Chapter 453 of the Laws of 1900 says that in the city of New-York "no pharmacist or drug clerk employed in any pharmacy or drug store shall be required or permitted

Chapter 279 of the commission "to make a

Tenement House

Commission.

Hours of Drug

Clerks.

to work more than seventy hours per week. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the working six hours overtime during any week, for the purpose of making a shorter succeeding week, provided, however, that the aggregate number of hours in any such two weeks shall not exceed 136 hours. The working hours per day shall be consecutive, allowing one hour for each meal. The hours shall be so arranged that an employe shall be entitled to and shall receive at least one full day off in two consecutive weeks. No proprietor of any drug store shall require or permit any clerk to sleep in any room or apartment in or connected with such store which does not comply with the sanitary regulations of the local Board of Health."

Chapter 615 of the Laws of 1900 says that in the city of New-York "there shall be published in "The City Record' within the month of January and within the

Lists of City
Officials.

month of July in each year a list of all the officials and employes employed in any of the departments, bureaus or offices of the city government, and of the counties therein contained, who have been or have become such officials or employes during the preceding six months. Said lists shall contain the name, residence by street numbers, nature of position or service, date of entrance into the service or employment, date of cessation of such service or employment, if such has occurred during said period, salary or wages, and a distinct statement of the increase or decrease thereof during said period of each of said officials or employes."

Chapter 283 of the Laws of 1900 amends the charter of New-York so as to declare that it shall not be lawful for the Commissioner of Water Supply to enter into

Water Supply of
New-York City.

any contract whatever with any person or corporation engaged in the business of supplying or selling water for public or private use and consumption, unless, preliminary to the execution of the contract, the assent of the Board of Public Improvements and the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment together with the separate written consent and approval of both the Mayor and the Controller of the city of New-York of the proposed contract in all its details, shall be given by resolution to the execution of such contract as submitted, and it shall not