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Raymond, Homer I., Appeal of, from the refusal of District No. 1, town
of Carlton, Orleans county, to provide transportation.

Where a district through dissolution and annexation has received
considerable addition to its assessed valuation and revenues
derived therefrom by taxation, it has the obligation of furnishing
suitable conveyance to the pupils of the annexed territory who
are required to travel an excessive distance to and from school.. 284
Rotterdam, Town of, Schenectady county, In the matter of the application
of the trustees of common school district No. 11, for the ratification
and confirmation of the proceedings relative to the issuance of school
district bonds of said district.

Common school district bonds — subdivision 5 of section 480 of the
Education Law applies to the limitation of the number of annual
instalments and not to the extension of payment beyond the
twenty-year period

Saranac, Town of, Clinton County, Appeal from the acts of the Board of
Education of Union Free School District No. 2, of said town.

Where a school house has been properly condemned as wholly unfit
for use and not worth repairing and the district has failed to act
the school board thereof should be sustained in renting temporary
quarters

Stockton, Chautauqua county, In the matter of the appeal from the dis-
solution of district No. 10, and annexation of its territory to district
No. 7 of said town.

Consolidation of districts approved...

Tioga, Tioga county, In the matter of the appeal of, relative to the
transportation of children residing in school district No. 8.

294

278

287

Obligation of a consolidated district in a town to provide necessary
transportation for the pupils from one of the former districts.. 274

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Civil Service Commission, In the matter of construing Rule XVI, sub-
division 1 of, relating to the reinstatement of civil employees who
have been in war work.

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war work

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Computing limitation of time for reinstatement -
Constitution of the State of New York, In the matter of construing
article VIII, section 10 of, and also the General Municipal Law, sec-
tion 77, as to the limitations of the right of a city to pledge its credit
under a bond issue for the erection of a memorial building for certain
purposes.

A city cannot pledge its credit under a bond issue for the purpose
of erecting a memorial building in which veterans will have a
permanent and absolute right to the apportionment of rooms
and accommodations

372

337

County Law, section 35, and Town Law, section 170, Construction
of, as to the division of towns and the expenses incident to such
division.

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Freeholders who have successfully applied for a division of a town
cannot be allowed legally to charge their expenses against the
towns affected by such division....

Election Law, In the matter of construing section 190 of, in connection
with the County Law, section 12, subdivision 5, as amended by
chapter 358, Laws of 1914, in relation to the salary of election com-
missioners.

The powers of boards of supervisors in establishing salaries of
commissioners of election are limited by section 190 of the Elec-
tion Law

Federal War Revenue Act of October 3, 1917, In the matter of construing
chapter 63, section 700 (40 Stat. 318, U. S. Comp. St. 6309%-a) of,
relative to ball games and dances given in State armories, for admis-
sion to which a charge is made.

Ball games and dances held in State armories under the auspices
of and for the benefit of military organizations quartered therein
are not exempt from the war tax on entertainments.

General Business Law, section 32, In the matter of licensing as peddlers
under the provisions of, of soldiers, sailors and marines who have
served in the World War and are now relieved from active duty but
subject to recall.

363

317

334

Status of men who have served in the World War and have been
relieved from active duty and placed upon a retired list, subject
to being recalled into active service at any time before the expi-
ration of their respective enrollments, are within the meaning of
the term "honorably discharged " as indicated in section 32 of
the General Business Law...........
367

General Municipal Law, In the matter of construing section 77 of, as
affected by article VIII, section 10, of the State Constitution, relative
to the limitations of the right of a city to pledge its credit under a
bond issue for the erection of a memorial building for certain
purposes.

A city cannot pledge its credit under a bond issue for the purpose
of erecting a memorial building in which veterans will have a
permanent and absolute right to the apportionment of rooms and
accommodations

Highway Law, In the matter of construing section 130, subdivision 8 of,
in relation to the duties of the Highway Commission in directing dispo-

337

sition of moneys earned under contracts for work performed under cer-
*ain specific circumstances.

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Where, under subdivision 8 of section 130 of the Highway Law, the
State has retained 10 per cent of moneys due a contractor on
earned estimates, such moneys may be applied to the completion
of the contract, or, where the same is abandoned, to the payment
of the second contractor to whom the uncompleted work is
awarded where assignments of moneys due on estimates were
made before the contract was abandoned or abrogated by the
Commissioner of Highways, such assigned moneys cannot be
applied by the State toward the completion of the contract, but
should be paid in their priority to the assignees — before any
moneys are paid over under any such assignment, however, an
order of the County Court, in proceedings supplementary to execu-
tion discharging the liens filed against moneys due, and directing
the payment of such moneys to such receiver, filed subsequent to
the assignment of moneys due, shall be formally vacated and set
aside ...
326
Military Law, In the matter of construing section 77 of, as to the status
of officers of the National Guard on discharge from the U. S. Army.

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Officers of the National Guard up to and including the rank of
colonel drafted into the army thereby cease to be members of the
National Guard- the status of National Guard officers of a rank
higher than colonel is that of officers on the reserve list........ 352
Military Law, In the matter of construing section 210 of, relating to the
pay of officers.

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An officer accepting pay without protest waives claim to higher
pay
Military Law, In the matter of construing section 223 of, as to the pay
of militiamen injured in service, and as to disability insurance.

377

Right of a member of the New York Guard, injured in the per-
formance of lawfully ordered military duty, to receive pay from
the State, although he has received disability insurance from an
insurance company
341

Oneida, City of, In the matter of construing section 52 of the charter of,
said charter being chapter 648 of the Laws of 1911, in relation to des-
ignating a certain newspaper as official representative of the Repub-
lican party.

Restrictions upon the common council of Oneida under the charter
of that city as to designation by it of official newspapers of the
said city

Penal Law, In the matter of construing section 2154 of motion pic-
tures ordinances veto by the mayor.

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In the city of Jamestown the mayor retains his charter power
to veto an ordinance permitting or prohibiting motion pictures
on Sunday

379

346

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Public Officers Law, In the matter of construing section 11 of, as to the
liability of the county for the premium paid by a deputy sheriff to a
surety company upon his appointment to such office.

A county is not liable for the expense incurred by a deputy sheriff
for procuring a surety company bond in connection with his
appointment as a deputy sheriff...

Public Officers Law, In the matter of construing sections 3 and 5 of, as
to extending the existence of a legislative committee beyond the time
fixed for a report.

A legislative committee created by joint resolution of the Senate
and Assembly may have its existence prolonged by similar joint
resolution even after the time fixed for the committee's report-
on ceasing to be a member of the Legislature, however, one
ceases to be a member of any legislative committee.

Real Property Law, In the matter of the constitutionality of a proposed
amendment to section 428 of, in relation to the Torrens system of regis-
tering titles to real estate. The proposed amendment is the taking
out from that section the limitation that judgments shall be paid only
from the assurance fund contributed by registrants of title and to make
the county liable to meet any claims after the exhaustion of the assur-
ance fund.

Salaries of State employees, In the matter of determining the right of
a person holding an office or position and drawing a salary under the
State government and drawing a salary under a city, village, town
or county government.

Limitations as to the right of a person holding both a position
under the State and also a position under a city, county, village,
town or county government

Tax Law, Article XI, section 253, In the matter of the construction of,
in regard to certain life insurance premiums being part of the principal
on which the tax under such section is computed.

When premiums paid upon an insurance policy become part of the
principal obligation secured by mortgage comes within the class
provided for in section 256 of the Tax Law.

Tax Law, In the matter of construing section 4, subdivision 9, .as to
exemption of parsonages.

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310

343

357

332

354

Church property used generally and exclusively for the home of
the pastor remains exempt so long as it is entirely devoted to
that purpose
313

Tax Law, In the matter of construing section 253 of, as to mortgage tax
on mortgages to savings and loan associations.

What constitutes the principal debt of a savings and loan associa-
tion mortgage upon which dues, fines and penalties are imposed.. 320

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COMPTROLLER

Duties performed by the Comptroller, Summary statement of, relating
to the accounts of the municipalities as exercised through the Munici-
pal Accounts Bureau, and matters relating to the Audit Bureau,
Finance Bureau and Transfer Tax Bureau...

Expenditures of the State, Increase of, caused by the undertaking of vast
public improvements in accordance with the wishes of the voters as
expressed at the polls-suggestions of the State Comptroller as to
how best to meet these increases.

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413

384

Outline of the work of administering the public finances in connection
with the several bureaus of audit, corporation tax, land tax, municipal
accounts, transfer tax and miscellaneous work of the department..... 384
Revenue, Suggestions relating to the better audit control over the collec-
tion of, by different State and local officials and matters relating to the
finance, highway, land tax, municipal accounts, and transfer tax
bureaus, together with a general balance sheet and a statement of State
debt and sinking funds as of March 31, 1919....

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Determination as to the only manner by which removals of employees
from positions in the classified service which have been duly reported
and accurately entered may be changed or corrected on the records of
the Commission

402

422

STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION

Shad refuge, Establishment of, in the Hudson river...

STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Ackerly, Richard E., In the matter of the claim of, for compensation
under the Workmen's Compensation Law, on account of the death of
Richard E. Ackerly, Jr., against Long Island Railroad Company, Em-
ployer.

423

Employee of railroad company killed while riding to place of work
on freight train - award made- stepmother not a dependent.. 533
Alberts, Anna, Widow, In the matter of the claim of, for compensation
under the Workmen's Compensation Law, on account of the death of
Antoon Alberts, against E. J. Barton Lighterage Company, Employer;
Travelers' Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier.

Alberts, Antoon, In the matter of the claim of, for compensation under
the Workmen's Compensation Law, against E. J. Barton Lighterage
Company, Employer; Travelers' Insurance Company, Insurance Car-
rier.

Tuberculosis caused by exposure.

529