N.Y. Executive Law § 97: Completing unfinished papers

§ 97. Completing unfinished papers. The secretary of state shall have

power to complete and sign and certify in his own name, adding to his

signature the date of so doing, all records of incorporation papers and

other papers left incomplete or unsigned by any of his predecessors,

with the same force and effect as though said records had been duly

signed by such predecessors.