い

DEPARTMENT REPORTS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK

CONTAINING THE

MESSAGES OF THE GOVERNOR

AND THE

DECISIONS, OPINIONS AND RULINGS

OF THE

State Officers, Departments, Boards
and Commissions

OFFICIAL EDITION
WILLIAM V. R. ERVING, Miscellaneous Reporter

VOLUME 25

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

Entered according to act of Congress in the year one thousand nine hundred

and twenty-one,

BY JOHN J. LYONS, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

In trust for the People of the said State in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

N. Y P L.
JULY 1932
327048

In relation to development of water power within the State, 295.
Recommending further amendments to the Public Service Commis-
sions Law as amended by chapter 134 of the Laws of 1921, 492.
Transmitting the joint report of the New York, New Jersey port
and harbor development commission, 487.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

FIRST DISTRICT

New York, City of, In the matter of the application of, for a
determination as to the manner in which the following streets
shall be extended across the tracks of Prospect Park and Coney
Island Railroad Company and New York Municipal Railway
Corporation, in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York,
Fourteenth avenue, West street, Cortelyou road. (Case No.
2037), 1.

Railroads municipal corporations -new streets notice
Railroad Law, § 90. Where a municipal corporation has
failed to give notice to a railroad corporation, as required by
section 90 of the Railroad Law, of its intention to lay out a new
street across said railroad company's right of way, such omis-
sion is jurisdictional and might be sufficient to defeat the Com-
mission upon an application for writ of mandamus. (P. 4.)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
SECOND DISTRICT

Black River Traction Company, In the matter of the petition (or
complaint) of, under subdivision 1, section 49, Public Service
Commissions Law, and section 181, Railroad Law, for permission
to increase passenger fares in the city of Watertown; under sec-
tion 29, Public Service Commissions Law, for permission to put
in effect new tariff on short notice; under section 53, Public Serv-
ice Commissions Law, for permission to exercise fare rights under
amendments of Watertown franchise. (Case No. 8160), 575.

Street railways operating revenue -operating expenses ·
increase of fare. Operating revenue.
For the months of
January, February and March, 1921, over the corresponding
months in 1920, the revenue from the whole system shows a