SECTION I. The mayor of every city in this state according to the last state or national census containing a population of 25,000 or over, excepting the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and in the cities of New York and Brooklyn the boards of commissioners of police of said cities respectively, shall, within three months after the passage of this act, designate one or more station-houses within their respective cities for the detention and confinement of all women under arrest in said cities.... Through the efforts of Mrs. Helen L. Bullock, of Elmira, the following narcotic law was secured in 1889: LAWS OF NEW YORK--CHAPTER 170. An act to amend Section 291 of the Penal Code, relating to Children; became a law, with the approval of the Governor, April 22, 1889. _The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows_: SECTION I. Section 291 of the Penal Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: A person who sells, pays for, or furnishes any cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any of its forms to any child, actually or apparently under the age of sixteen years, _is guilty of a misdemeanor_. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. In 1890 it was amended, attaching a penalty for its violation, as follows: AN ACT to amend Section 291 of the Penal Code, relating to Children; approved by the Governor, May 24, 1890. SECTION I. Section 291 of the Penal Code is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subdivision: 7. No child, actually or apparently under sixteen years of age, shall smoke or in any way use any cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any form whatsoever, in any public street, place, or resort. A violation of this subdivision shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars and not less than two dollars for each offense. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety. In 1891 an effort was made to introduce the English system of barmaids into the saloons of New York City. This no sooner became known to the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union than an effort was made to secure a law prohibiting the movement. This was effected by the passage of the following act, April 25, 1892: AN ACT forbidding the hiring of Barmaids. _The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows_: SECTION I. No female shall be hired as barmaid, or to compound or dispense intoxicating beverages in any place where the same are sold or offered for sale. SEC. 2. A person who hires, or causes to be hired, any female as barmaid, or to compound or dispense intoxicating beverages in any place where the same are sold or offered for sale, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.