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COMMISSION HAS A REMEDY RECOMMENDATION IS MADE FOR AMENDMENT , OF NEW YORK RACING LAWS. In Annual Report to Legislature, Members of the State Raring Commission Make Suggestions for Increased Power to Control. »y, N. v.. March 28i— atepartfctg that ■ meet Ins of I be Inlted Hunts Association, for tour days, and tin- Meadow Brook Steeplechase Association, fur two i ys, were the oaly licenses spirited for ..in in- the year under the present racing laws, tin si.it. It;i ,-i : .ir Commission renewed it- appeal roc a change in the laws in its saanal report ti 1« -• 1 with ii..- legislature. Tin- report, which i~ signed bj James V. Wadswortk, Jews Baaford aad B. K. Knapp, .1- commissioners, says in regard ti tin rcpesl of tin in -Hi drastic bin s: w. iir tend thai the provisions -if Section 11 of Chapter 570 of the laws of 1805, or some similar provisions, be enacted by the Legislature. This provides that directors and officera shall nut be jiersaaallj liable is respect t" gambling aaless know n. uh peratit t .i by them. "Wf rerom ml rnrthvr that Section Ls7 of the Membership Corporations law in- aateaded so as to permit thiii emnmlssioa. to revoke the license held hj any sach raciug association, mi it* own motion. lii our opinion tin- enactment of sach leglslatiou would regulate ami control thoroughbred racing in men a manner as t prevent tin- evils heretofore .. iiipfaUned of."
