1 have been affected with blindness: If so, I have been examined
2 by and have submitted evidence in respect to such members of my
3 family to a physician or expert in heredity, and his report shows
4 that it is improbable that such blindness was transmissible by
5 heredity." The clerk may examine witnesses or experts under
6 oath to satisfy himself of the truth of the statement.
7 If one of the applicants shall refuse or fail to make such state-
8 ment, or if the clerk is not satisfied of the truth of the statements,
9 he shall refuse to grant the license unless the applicant file a bond
10 to the state treasurer, in an amount to be fixed by the clerk. The
11 bond shall be on the condition that if any child is born of the
12 marriage and becomes a public charge on account of inherited
13 blindness, then the cost of the support of the child up to the full
14 amount of the bond shall be paid to the state of New York to be
15 applied to the support of the child. The amount of such bond
16 shall not exceed fourteen thousand dollars.
17 The determination of the clerk may be reviewed on certiorari
18 by the county court of the county in which the clerk has his office,
19 or if there be no such county clerk in any county, then by the
20 supreme court sitting in and for the district in which such
21 county is situated. Review may be had at the instance of either
22 applicant for license or any blood relative to the second degree of
23 either applicant.
24 No such certiorari shall be granted unless notice of the applica-
25 tion therefor[sic] is made within thirty days of the action of the clerk
26 in refusing to grant the license without bond.
27 At the hearing, the judge or justice may appoint two physicians