No. 47 IN SENATE APRIL 12, 1916. Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Claims of the State of New York ALBANY, N. Y., April 12, 1916 HON. EDWARD SCHOENECK, President of the Senate: DEAR SIR.I have the honor to transmit herewith to you for the Legislature of the State of New York the fifth annual report of the Board of Claims of the State of New York, covering the period from January 1, 1915, to May 27, 1915. Very respectfully yours, FREDERICK D. COLSON, Acting Clerk of the Board of Claims from REPORT To the Legislature of the State of New York: In accordance with the requirements of section 271 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Board of Claims submits its Fifth Annual Report. The Board of Claims, established by chapter 856 of the Laws of 1911, was abolished by chapter 1 of the Laws of 1915. Section 1 of this Act amended section 263 of the Code of Civil Procedure to read, in part, as follows: "The office of commissioner of claims is hereby abolished, but the commissioners now in office shall continue to have the powers and duties of commissioners of claims until the appointment and qualification of judges of the court of claims, except that after this section as amended takes effect and until the appointment and qualification of judges of the court of claims they shall not hear, try or determine any claim, or entertain a motion or make an order affecting the substantial rights of a party. During the period of three months after the first appointment and qualification of judges hereunder, such commissioners shall have power to determine and dispose of questions, claims and matters which shall have been finally submitted to and heard by such board on or before January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, in the same manner and with the same effect as if such board had not been abolished." Subject to the limitations imposed by the above provision of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Board of Claims disposed of the following claims during the period from January 1, 1915, to May 27, 1915, inclusive: |