and the medical inspector to have free access to any portion thereof, and shall give such information and afford such facilities for inspection or inquiry, as the member of the commission, or the medical inspector, making such visit and inspection, may require. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 498. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act in relation to villages, constituting chapter twenty-one of the general laws," in relation to poll tax and the enforcement of the collection thereof. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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 one hundred and three of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, entitled "An act in relation to villages, constituting chapter twenty-one of the general laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 103. Poll tax.-Unless a village decides not to impose a poll tax, all men, between the ages of twenty-one and seventy years, residing in the village, are liable to an annual poll tax of one dollar, except exempt firemen, active members of the fire department of the village, honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, who lost an arm or leg in the service of the United States during the late war, or who are unable to perform manual labor by reason of injuries received or disabilities incurred in such service, clergymen and priests of every denomination, paupers, idiots and lunatics. No personal property is exempt from levy and sale in the collection of a poll tax or the penalty for the non-payment thereof, either upon a village tax warrant or upon an execution issued upon a judgment for the recovery of such poll tax or penalty. The board of trustees of a village may adopt ordinances not inconsistent with law for the enforcing of the collection of such poll tax by action, or may provide by ordinance for the imposition of a penalty in case of a failure to pay such poll tax. A proposition may be adopted at an annual election to the effect that no poll tax be thereafter imposed in the village. Such proposition may be revoked at an annual election, and if revoked, the poll tax shall be imposed as if the proposition for exemption had not been adopted. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 499. AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law in relation to the solemnization of marriages. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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. Subdivision one of section eleven of article two of chapter two hundred and seventy-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act in relation to the domestic relations, constituting chapter forty-eight of the general laws," as amended by chapter five hundred and twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. A clergyman or minister of any religion, or the leader, or the two assistant leaders, of the society for ethical culture in the city of New York. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 500. AN ACT to amend section eighty-eight of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act in relation to villages, constituting chapter twenty-one of the general laws," relative to garbage and ashes. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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 eighty-eight of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is Secretary hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a subdivision to be known as subdivision twenty-five and to read as follows: 25. Disposition of garbage and ashes.-May provide for the removal from the buildings in said village and for the disposition of swill, garbage and ashes of said buildings, or for the removal and disposition of the swill and garbage alone, or the ashes alone, either directly through the employees of said village or by contracting with other persons, provided, however, that authority shall be first obtained therefor by a proposition adopted at a village election, which proposition shall state the maximum amount to be expended for such purpose or purposes in any one year. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 501. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled, "An act for the government of cities of the second class." Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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 two of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. Within thirty days after every state enumeration, the secretary of state shall file with the clerk of every city a certificate with city showing the population of such city; and if it appears therefrom of state to fille certificate of population clerk. that such city has since the prior state enumeration become a city of the second class, then all the provisions of this act shall apply to such city on and after the first day of January thereafter, but the provisions of this act shall not apply to any city that becomes a city of the second class under the enumeration to be had in the year nineteen hundred and five, until on and after the first day of January nineteen hundred and eight, except that the officers provided in such act for such city as becomes a city of the second class after such enumeration, shall be elected at the city election to be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November nineteen hundred and seven. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 502. AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to shade trees and the appointment of a tree warden. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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. Article two of chapter five hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to towns, constituting chapter twenty of the general laws," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new section to be section forty-five thereof, and to read as follows: 45. Tree warden; protection of shade trees; appropriation.Twenty-five or more persons residing in any town and assessed upon the last preceding assessment-roll thereof may file with the town clerk a petition for the appointment of a tree warden in such town. Within thirty days after the filing of such petition, the town board may appoint a tree warden to serve for one year from the date of such appointment. He shall receive a reasonable compensation for his services to be fixed by the town board. He shall have the full care and control of all public shade trees in the town, and shall prosecute complaints for malicious injury to, or unlawful acts concerning, public shade trees. He shall have charge of the expenditure of any public money appropriated or granted for setting out shade trees in the town. A town board of a town in which a tree warden is appointed may, by resolution, appropriate annually not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be known as the shade tree fund, and which shall be used and expended by the tree warden for the setting out and preservation of shade trees along the highways in such town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Section repealed. Annual report, Chap. 503. AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and fifteen of the lien law, relating to the exemption of certain articles from the provisions of the lien law requiring the filing of contracts of conditional sale. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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 one hundred and fifteen of chapter four hundred and eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, entitled "An act in relation to liens, constituting chapter forty-nine of the general laws," as amended by chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, and chapters two hundred and fifty-nine and six hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and four is hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect any action or proceeding pending at the time this act takes effect. § 2. This act shall take effect September first nineteen hundred and five. Chap. 504. AN ACT to amend the state finance law, relative to the comptroller's annual report. Became a law, May 17, 1905, 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. Subdivision six of section four of chapter four hundred and thirteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, entitled "An act relating to state finance, constituting chapter ten of the general laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: 6. Make a report to the legislature at its annual session, concontents of taining a complete statement of the funds of the state, its resources and public expenditures during the preceding fiscal year, a statement of each object of expenditure, the funds, if any, from which it is to be defrayed and a statement of all claims against |