amount which shall be expended each year upon the town highways, whenever it is thought desirable to make more extensive improvements than the town board and town superintendent have decided upon. This section permits a town meeting to control the amount to be expended where it seems that the town board has been too conservative in its estimates.

ARTICLE VI.

State and County Highways.

Section 120. Highways to be constructed or improved by the state. 121. Apportionment of mileage of State highways to be constructed or improved.

122. Construction or improvement of county highways.

123. Preliminary resolution of board of supervisors.

124. Examination of county highway; approval or disapproval by

commission.

125. Maps, plans, specifications and estimates.

125-a. Construction or improvement of State or county highway. 126. Submission of maps, plans and specifications to district or county superintendent.

127. Action of commission in respect to maps, plans, specifications and estimates.

128. Final resolution of board of supervisors.

129. Order of construction of county highways.

130. Contracts for construction or improvement of highways.

131. Award of contracts to board of supervisors or town board.

132. Responsibility of State superintendent of highways for the performance of contracts for construction or improvement of State and county highways; suspension of work under contract, completion by State superintendent of highways.

133. Acceptance of state highway when completed.

134. Acceptance of county highway.

135. Entry upon adjacent lands for drainage purposes.

136. Damages for entry.

137. State and county highways in villages.

137-a State and county highways in certain cities of the second and third class.

138. Connecting highways in villages.

138-a. State and county highways of additional width and increased cost at expense of town.

139. Resolution to provide for raising money.

140. Modifying method of payment.

141. Division of cost of county highways; payments by county

treasurer.

141-a. Alternative method of apportioning the expenses of county

highways.

142. County or town may borrow money.

142-a Street surface railways.

Section 143. Apportionment and payment of expenses of constructing county highway through or into cities of the second and third classes.

144. Payment of cost of state highway.

145. Abolition of railroad grade crossings.

145-a. Repair of highways at railroad crossings.

146. Railroads and other works and structures in and upon highways.

147. Where cost is assessable against abutting owners.

148. Acquisition of lands for right of way and other purposes.

149. Purchase of lands.

149-a. Purchase of land in certain counties.

150. Petition to acquire lands.

151. Commissioners to be appointed.

152. Duties of commissioners.

153. County treasurer to pay awards.

154. Costs; commissioners' fees.

155. Land may be sold or leased; disposition of proceeds.

156. Application of provisions of labor law.

157. Highways and bridges on Indian reservations.

158. Appointment of reservation superintendent.

159. Custody of moneys, et cetera.

160. Maintenance of detours during construction.

§ 120. Highways to be constructed or improved by the state. The highways which have been heretofore constructed or improved under the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the acts amendatory thereof, which are included in the routes hereinafter described, together with such other highways as are constructed or improved by the commission in accordance with the routes set forth and described in this section, shall be state highways and shall be constructed or improved at the sole expense of the state as provided in this article. Such routes are hereby set forth and described as follows:

Route 1. Commencing at a point on the dividing line between Westchester county and New York, and running thence northerly through Mount Vernon to the dividing line between the town of Eastchester and the city of Mount Vernon, thence northerly along Post road to White Plains, thence southeasterly along Westchester avenue to Purchase street, thence northerly by Purchase street, by Rye lake and King street to state road, thence northerly by same to Armonk, thence easterly and northeasterly through the town of North Castle to Bedford village, thence northerly to Katonah, thence along the east side of the Croton river by Golden's bridge and Purdy's station to a point on the dividing line between Putnam and Westchester counties at or near Croton Falls, running thence northerly through the eastern portion of Putnam county by the way of Brewster, to a point

on the dividing line between Dutchess and Putnam counties at or near Patterson, running thence northerly by the way of Pawling, Wingdale, Dover Plains, Amenia, to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between Columbia and Dutchess counties, running thence northerly in Columbia county by way of Copake to Chatham, thence northwesterly to a point at or near Valatie, running thence northerly to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between Rensselaer and Columbia counties, running thence northerly and northwesterly through the southwestern portion of Rensselaer county to a point to be determined by the commission on the Hudson river opposite or nearly opposite the city of Albany.

AN ACT in relation to the abandonment of a portion of state route number one, in the county of Dutchess, and the construction of a substitute highway in place thereof by the state commission on new prisons under the direction of the state commissioner of highways.

Section 1. The state commission on new prisons is hereby authorized to construct, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the state commissioner of highways and in accordance with plans, specifications and estimates prepared by him, a substitute highway to take the place of such portion of state route number one, state highway number five thousand three hundred and twenty-six, as abuts on the present prison site at Wingdale, Dutchess county, or otherwise, in the opinion of such commission, interferes with the proper development of such property for the purpose of maintaining a prison thereon. Such substitute highway may be located on such prison site or partly on such site and partly without the bounds thereof.

§ 2. The state commission on new prisons for the purpose of constructing such substitute highway may acquire by purchase such additional lands outside of the bounds of such prison property as may be necessary for the construction of such substitute highway, or, in the opinion of the state commissioner of highways, may be necessary to make suitable connections with the remaining portions of state highway number five thousand three hundred and twenty-six. Such commission may also purchase from the county of Dutchess at the price paid by such county to the original owner, any land now included within the bounds. of such prison property, heretofore acquired for the construction

of a portion of state route number five thousand three hundred and twenty-six.

3. The state commission on new prisons shall employ or cause to be employed, so far as practicable, for the construction of such highway convicts confined in a state prison. The agent or warden of a prison may make such rules as he may deem necessary for the proper care, custody and control of such convicts when so employed, subject to the approval of the superintendent of state prisons.

§ 4. The state commission on new prisons may purchase equipment, implements and materials needed for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

5. The expense of constructing such substitute highway, including surveys, plans, specifications and estimate of cost, inspection and supervision, land, equipment, implements, materials and the amount authorized by this act to be paid to the county of Dutchess for the land heretofore acquired by such county within the bounds of the prison property, shall be deemed a portion of the cost of construction of a state prison on the Wingdale site, and money appropriated by the state for the construction of such prison shall be available for the purposes of this act. Of the funds available for the construction of such prison a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars is hereby made immediately available on the requisition of the state commissioner of highways for necessary expenses in making a preliminary survey, preparation of plans, specifications and estimate of cost and for the inspection and supervision of the work provided for by this act.

§ 6. When such substitute highway is complete the state commissioner of highways may accept the same for maintenance in accordance with sections one hundred and thirty-three and one hundred and seventy-a of the highway law, and thereupon the portion of state highway number five thousand three hundred and twenty-six which lies within the bounds of the Wingdale prison property shall be deemed abandoned as a public highway, and the substitute highway constructed pursuant to this act shall be deemed a part of state route number one, state highway number five thousand three hundred and twenty-six.

L. 1918, ch. 391.

Route 2. Commencing at Jerome avenue on the dividing line between Westchester county and New York city and running

thence northerly along Jerome avenue and Central Park avenue to Hartsdale, thence along the Sprain road and Landers road to Fair Grounds, thence northerly to cross road between Greenburgh, and Mount Pleasant, thence westerly along the same to the Saw Mill River road and the Tarrytown Lake road to Bedford road, thence along the Sleepy Hollow road northerly and westerly to the Albany post road, thence northerly along Albany post road through Briar Cliff, Ossining and Croton Landing, thence along Old Yorktown road to Cornell Dam, thence along westerly side of Groton lake to Dixie Hill, thence northerly along Croton avenue to Crompound road, thence westerly along Crompound road through Peekskill to Albany post road, thence northerly from Peekskill, to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between the towns of Phillipsburg, Putnam county, and Cortlandt, Westchester county, running thence northerly through the western portion of Putnam county to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between Dutchess and Putnam counties, running thence northerly by the way of the city of Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck, to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between Columbia and Dutchess counties, running thence northerly, through Blue Store and Johnstown to Bell's Pond, and thence northerly along the Ancram turnpike and North avenue, to the city of Hudson, running thence northeasterly from the city of Hudson to a point at or near Valatie, connecting with route number one, as above described.

Amended by L. 1910, ch. 648.

Route 3. Commencing at a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between the towns of Orangetown, Rockland county, and the state of New Jersey, running thence northerly through the eastern portion of Rockland county by the way of points at or near Nyack and Haverstraw, over the Sparkill and Stony Point viaducts to be constructed and maintained by the commissioners of the Palisades interstate park on piers and abutments and with a roadway, approaches and sidewalks to be constructed and maintained by the commission, to a point to be determined by the commission, on the dividing line between Orange and Rockland counties, running thence northerly through the eastern portion of Orange county to the city of Newburgh,