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PAGE TEN THE BREWSTER STANDARD FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930
EXPLANATION—Matter in italics is new; mat­
ter in brackets [ J it old law to be omitted.
STATE OF NEW YORK
DBI-AKTMCKT OP STATS
ALBANY, fuly 2, 1930.
"PURSUANT to the provisions of section one of
•*• article fourteen of the Constitution «< the
State of New York, and section sixty-cicht of
the Election Law, notice ii hereby given that
the following proposed amendments numbers one
to twelve inclusive to the Constitution of the
State of New York is referred to the legislature
to be chosen at die next general election of Sen­
ators in this State to be held on the fourth day.
of November, nineteen hundred thirty.
EinVARI* 1. FLYNN,
Secretary of Slat*.
AMENDMENT M Mill k ONE
CONCUR RENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PaorostNu AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION SIX or
ARTICII: ONB or TUB CoNMlltjiio*) IN RELA­
TION TO GRAND JUBV AND HILL or RIC.IITS
Section 1 Resolved, That srticle one of the
Constitution be hereby amended by adding there­
to at the end thereof a new section to be section
twenty, to reed as follows:
1 6. No person shall lie held to snswer for
capital or otherwise infsmous crime] felony
(except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of
militia when in actual service, and the land and
naval forces in time of war, or which this state
may keep with the consent of congress in time
of pesce, and in cases of petit larceny, under the
regulation of the legislature), unless on present­
ment or indictment of a grand jury, or on infor­
mation preferred by th* district attorney without
the intervention of a grand inry, in the event
the forty accused waives prosecution by indict-
man! in Ik* manner to be prescribed by latv.
[and in] In any trial in any court whatever the
party arc-used shall be allowed to appear and
defend in person and with counsel as in civil
actions. No person shsll be subject to be twice
E at in leopsrdy for the same offence; nor shall
• be compelled in any criminal case to be a
witness against himself; nor be deprived of life,
liberty or property without due process of law;
nor shsll private property be taken for public
nae without fust compensation.
AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMBNPMBNT TO ARTICLE ONE or
THE CONSTITUTION, IN RELATION TO THE
POWEB or TUB LBOISLAIUBB TO REGULATE AND
RBSTBICT ADVEBTISING ON PUBLIC WAYS, IN
PUBLIC PLACBS AND WITHIN PUBLIC VIEW
Section 1. Resolved, That article one of the
constitution be hereby amended by adding there­
to at the end thereof a new sertion, to be section
twenty, to read as follows:
I 20. Advertising on public ways, in public
flacri and on frivate froferty wilhim public
view may be regulated and restricted bv law.
•AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
pBorosiNG Asn • irsn •••!« TO SECTION TWO or
ARTICLE FIVE AND SECTIONS ELEVEN, FOUBTKBN
AND FlPTEBN OP ABTICI.B ElCHT OP THE CON­
STITUTION, IN RELATION TO CHANGING THE
NAMES or THE STJCTB DBPABTUENT or CHARI­
TIES AND THE STATE BOARD or CHARITIES TO
CoNroRM TO THEIR NEW DESIGNATIONS AS
PI:I Mini) IN TUB STATE CHARITIES LAW, AND
ELIMINATING RBPCRRNCE TO THE STATU COM­
MISSION IN. LUNACY, NOW ABOLISHED
Section 1. Resolved, That section two of ar­
ticle five of the constitution be amended to read
as follows:
| 2. There shall be the following civil depart-
saents in the stste government: First, executive:
second, audit and < mitt of; third, taxation and
finance; fourth, law; fifth, state; sixth, public
works; seventh, architecture; eighth, conservation;
ninth, agriculture and markets; tenth, labor;
eleventh, education: twelfth, health; thirteenth,
mental nygiene; fourteenth, [charities] social
welfare; fifteenth, correction; sixteenth, public
service; seventeenth, banking; eighteenth, insur­
ance; nineteenth, civil service; twentieth, military
and naval affairs.
| 2. Resolved, That sections eleven, fourteen
and fifteen of article eight of the constitution
be amended to read as follows:
|1L The legislature ahall provide for a state
board of [charities] social welfara, which ahall
visit and inspect all institutions, whether state,
county, municipal, incorporated or not incor­
porated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary,
correctional or reformatory character, excepting
state institutions for the education and support
of the blind and the deaf and dumb, and ex­
cepting also such institutions as sre hereby made
subject to the visitation and inspection of either
of the authorities hereinsfter mentioned, but in­
cluding all reformatories for juveniles. The
head of the department of mental hygiene shsll
visit and inspect all institutions, either public or
private, used for the care and treatment of the
insane, epileptics, idiots, feebleminded or mentsl
defective. There shall be a state commission
of correction, of which the head of the depart­
ment of correction shsll lie the chairman, which
shsll visit and inspect ail institutions used for
(he detention of sane adults charged with or
convicted of crime, or detained as witnesses or
debtors.
( 14. Nothing in this constitution contained
ahall prevent the legislature from making such
C rovision for the education and support of the
lind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delin-
Cjuents, as to it msy seem proper; or prevent any
county, city, town or_village from providing for
the care, support, maintenance and secular educa­
tion, of inmates of orphan asylums, homes for
dependent children or corrections! institutions,
whether under public or private control. Pay­
ments by counties, cities, towns and villages to
charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and refor­
matory institutions, wholly or psrtly under pri­
vate control, for care, support and maintenance,
may be authorised, but shall not be required by
the legislature. No such payments shall be made
for any inmate el such institutions who is not
received and retained therein pursuant to rules es­
tablished by the state hoard of [charities] social
waif are. Such rules shall be subject to the con­
trol of the lcgislsture by general laws.
I 15. Commissioners of the state board of
charities [sod commissioners of the stste com­
mission in lunacy], now holding office, shall be
continued in office as members of the state board
of social welfara lor the term, for Efbicfa they
were sppointed. respectively, unless the legists-
tore shsll otherwise provide. _ The legislsture
msy confer upon the [commission and upon the
board mentioned ia the foregoing sections] state
board of social welfkie any additional powers
that are not inconsistent with other provisions
of the constitution.
AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR
CONCWRREKT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AMCNUMENTS TO SECTION Foua or
AancLB Two AND SECTIONS FOUB AND FIVE OF
ARTICLE THREE or THE CONSTITUTION, IN RE­
LATION TO USING THE FCDF.BAL CENSUS AS THE
POPULATION BASIS, WHEN PRACTICABLE, IN THE
APPORTIONMENT or MEMBERS or ASSEMBLY,
AND READJUSTMENT OR ALTERATION or SENATE
AND ASSIIMPIY DISTRICTS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
Section 1. Resolved. That section four of ar­
ticle two of the constitution be amended to read
as follows:
I 4. Lsws shall be made for ascertaining, by
proper probfs, the ritisens who shsll betntitlcrt
to the right of suffrage hereby established, and
for tl.e registration of voters; which registration
shall be completed at least ten days before each
election. Such rrgistrstiou shall not be required
for town and village elections except by express
provision of law. In cities and villages having
five thousand inhabitants or moie. [sccording
to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabi­
tants.] voters shsll be registered upon personal
application unky; but voters not residing in such
cities or villages shall not be requited to apply
in person for registration at the Cist meeting
of the officers having charge of the registry of
voters. Tke number of suth ink obit ants skall be
determined according to tke latest census or
enumeration, federal or stale, shoving tke pofu-
lalioa of tke city or village. emcePI llot tie fed­
eral census skall be co/ttrolling unless suck state
enumeration if any, skall hate been taken mud
returned two or more years after ike return of
Ike freceding iedceal teams.
| 2- Resolved, That sections four and five
of article three of die lonvtitutiou be amended
to read as follows:
| 4. [An enumeration of the inhabitants of
the state shall be taken under the direction of
the secretary of state, during the mouths of
Msy and Tune, in the year one thousand nine
hundred and five, and in the same months evtrr
tenth year thereafter; and the said districts shsll
be so alkercd by the legialatuie at the first regu­
lar session alter the return of every enumeration ]
Except as keiein otherwise provided, tke federal
census taken in tke year mueteam hundred thirty
and each federal census taken deeennseJly there-
titer shall be tonlrollung as to tke member at
inhabitants in ike slate or any farl thereof for
ike purposes ol the apportionment of members
of assembly and readjustment or alteeaJioa el
senate and assembly disteicls swat oecurrmg. in
so far as suih census and the tabulation thereof
purport to /'>/ the lu'eimoliom necessary there-
'or. The legislature, by law. ihall provide foe
the mehsng end lobulation by stale authorities
of ma enumeration of the inhabitants ol the en
lure stele to be used *or >u,tb Purposes, instead e'
a federal teusus si tke taking of m federal tarn
AMI •• •»'. tenth year from the tear nineteen
hundred thirty be omitted or if the federal sen
sue faits to show the number ef aliens oe India*
not taxed. If a federal census, iki-ugk givies
the requisite iu< or motion as to tke slate at targ'
fails to gne tke information as to any csvil or
territorial divisions ukiik is required 10 It
iuoun for suik for poses, tke legislature, by lax
.hall frovtde for suih an enumeration of tht
inhabitants of suih Paris at the slate only as may
be net esters, ukuk shall supersede ss fart the
federal census and he used sa connection there
ttith for uuck Purptu.es. The legislature, by I ait
may provide in its diserelioa for mm returneretior
• T»(. idtLt.c«l coucuiient icsolutions »*«*>'.
the I^gtslnluir in 1930.
bf stale authorities of the inhabitants of the
state, lo be used for sat h purposes, is place of
m federal census, when the return of a decennial
federal census is delayed so thnt it %s not avail­
able at the beginning of the regular session of
the legislature in the second year after the year
nineteen hundred thirty or after any tenth year
therefrom, or if an apportionment or members ot
assembly and readjustment or alteration of sen-
at'- districts is mot made ol or before such a
session. At the regular sciuon in the year nine­
teen hundred thirty-two, and at ihe first regu­
lar session offer the year nineteen hundred forty
and after eark tenth year there from the senate
districts shall be readjusted or altered, but if,
in any decade, counting fx,om and including that
which begins with the yrnr^ nineteen hundred
thtrty-one, such a readjustment or alteration is
not made at the lime above preseribed, it shall
be made mt a subsequent session occurring mot
later than Ihe sixth year of suth decade, mean­
ing mot later than nineteen hundred Ihirly-six,
nineteen hundred foity-six, nineteen hundred fifty-
tit, mud so on; ptovtdrd, however, that if such
districts shall have been rendiusted or altered
by law in either of Ihe years nineteen hundred
thirty or nineteen hundred ifurty-onr, ikey shall
remain unaltered until the first rejmlar session
after tke year nineteen hundred forty. Such dis-
tritts shall be so readjusted etr altered that each
senste district shall contain as neatly as may
be an equal number of inhabitants, excluding
aliens, and be in as compsct form as prscticsblc,
snd shall remain unaltered until the [return of
another enumeration] first year of the next dec­
ade mt above defined, and shall at all times!,]
ronsist of contiguous territory, and no county
shall be divided in the formation of a senste
district except to make two or more senate dis­
tricts wholly in such county. No town, and no
block in a city inclosed by itreets or public
ways, shall be divided in tke formation of senate
districts; nor shall any district contain a greater
excess in population over an adjoining district
in the ssme county, than the population of a town
or block therein adjoining such district. Coun­
ties, tow'ns or blocks, which, from their locstion,
msy be included in either of two districts, shall
lie so plsced as to make said districts most nearly
equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens.
No county shall have foul- or more senators
unless it shall have a full ratio for each senstor.
No county shsll have more than one-third of all
the senators; and no two counties or the terri­
tory thereof as now organized, which are ad­
joining counties; or which are separated only by
public waters, shall have more than one-half of
all the senators
The rstio for apportioning senators shall al­
ways be obtained by dividing Hie number ef
inhabitants, excluding aliens, by fifty, and the
senate shall always be composed of fifty members,
except thst if sny county having three or more
senators st the time of sny apportionment shsll
be entitled on such ratio to an additional senator
or senators, such sdditionsl senstor or senators
shsll be given to such county in addition to the
fifty senstors, snd the whole number of senators
shall be increased to that extent.
The senate districts, including ike f resent ones,
ms existing immediately before Ike enactment of
a law readjusting or altering ike senate districts,
skall continue to be Ike senate districts' ot tke
stale mntil tke expirations of tke terms of the
senators then in of ice, except for ihe purpose
of mm election of senators for full terms begin­
ning at such expirations, and for the formation
of assembly districts.
I 5. The members of the sssr,mbly shall be
chosen by single districts and shall be appor­
tioned by the legislature at [the first] each
regular session [after the return of every enum­
eration] at which ihe senate districts ere read­
justed or altered, and by the same law, among
the several counties of the state as nearly as
may be according to the number of their respec­
tive inhabitants, excluding aliens, every county
heretofore established and separately organ­
ised, except the county of Hamilton, shsll
always be entitled to one member of assembly,
and no county shall hereafter be erected unless
its populstion shall entitle it to a Member. The
county of Hsmilton shsll elect with the county
of Fulton, until the populstion of the county of
Hsmilton shsll, according to the ratio, entitle
it to a member. But the legislature may abolish
the ssid county of Hamilton and annex the ter­
ritory thereof to some other county or counties.
'Hie quotient obtained by dividing the whole
number of inhabitants of the state, excluding
aliens, by the number of members of assembly,
shall.be the ratio for apportionment, which shall
be made as follows: One member of assembly
shall be apportioned to every county, including
Fulton and Hamilton as one county, containing
less than the ratio and one-half over. Two
members shall be apportioned to every other
county. The remaining members of assembly
shall be apportioned to the counties having murk
than two ratios according to tin number of in­
habitants, excluding aliens. Members apportioned
on remainders shall be apportioned to the coun­
ties having the highest remainders in the order
thereof respectively. No county shall hsvc more
members of assembly tbsn a rounfy having a
greater number of inhabitants, excluding aliens.
[Until after the acxt enumeration, members
of the assembly shall be apportioned to the sev­
eral counties as follows: Albany county, four
members; Allegany county, one member; Broome
county, two members; Cattaraugus county, two
members; Cayuga county, two members; Chautau-
qua county, two members; Chemung county, one
member; Chensngo county, one member; Clinton
county, one member; Columbis county, one mem­
ber; Cortland county, one member; Delaware
county, one member; Dutchess county, two mem­
bers; Erie county, tight members; Essex county,
one member; Franklin county, one member; Ful­
ton snd Hamilton counties, one member; Genesee
county, one member; Greene county, one member;
Herkimer county, one member; Jefferson county,
two members; Kings county, twenty-one members;
Lewis county, one member; Livingston county,
one member; Madiaon county, one member; Mon­
roe county, four membcis; Montgomery county,
one member; New York county, thirty-five mem­
bers; Niagara county, two members; Oneids
county, three members; Onondsga county, four
members; Ontsrio county, one memberi Orange
rjiunty, two members; Orleans county, one mem­
ber; Oswego county, two members; Otsego county,
one member; Putnam county, oue member; Queens
county, three tumfbers; Rensselaer county, three
members: Richmond enmity, one member; Rock­
land county oue member; Saint Lawicnce county,
two members; Sarstoga county, one member;
Schenectady county, oue member; Schoharie
county, one member; Schuyler county, one mem­
ber; Seneca county, one member; Steuben county,
two nfembsrs; Suffolk county, two members; Sul­
livan county, one member; Tioga county, one
member; Tompkins county, one member; Ulster
county, two members; VYsrrcn county, one mem­
ber; Washington county; one member; Wayne
county, one member; Westchester county, three
member/; Wyoming county, one member, and
Yates county, one member.]
The assembly diilruts, including the present
ones, ms existing immediately before the enact­
ment of m law making an apportionment of mem­
bers of assembly among the counties, shall con-
limue to be Ihe assembly disteicls of the slate
unlit ihe expiration of ihe terms of members
then in of it/, except for the Purpose of am elec­
tion of members of assembly for lull terms be­
ginning at suth exfnations.
In sny county entitled to nioic than oue mem­
ber, the bosrd of supervisors, and in any city
embracing an cntke county and having no board
of supervisors, the conuuun council, or if Uicrc
be noue, the body exeiiisiug the puweis of s
i oiiuuon council. Shall assemble [on the second
1'uesday of June, one thouaaud eight hundred
aud aiucty-five, and] st such times ss the legis­
lature making au apportionment shall prescribe,
and divide such counties into assembly districts
ss nesrly equal in number of iubsbitauLS. exclud­
ing aliens, as may R, of convenient and contigu­
ous territory in as compsct form as practicable,
each of which shall be wholly within a senate
district formed under the same apportionment,
equal to the number of members of assembly
to which such county shall be entitled, snd shall
cause to be filed in the office of lire secretary
of stale and of the clerk of such county, s
description of such districts, apocifyina the num­
ber of each district snd of the inhabitants there­
of, excluding alisus, sccording to the [lsst
picccdinc] tensus or enumeiation used as the
population basis for ihe I or motion e4 suth dii­
lruts; and- such apportionment aud districts
shall remain unaltcicd until I another euumera-
tion shall be made, as herein piovidod; but ssid
division of the city of Brooklyn and the county
of Kings to be made qn the seioud Tuesday of
June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
five, shall be made by the common council of the
said city and the board of supervisors of said
• ouiity assembled in ioiut session] after the mexl
reapportionment of membert of assembly. In
counties having more than oue senate distiirt.
| the same number of assembly districts shall be
I put ia each senate district, unless the ssscmbly
districts cannot be evenly divided among Uit
senate districts of any county, ia which case
one moie assembly district shall be nut io the
senate district in audi county ksving the largest,
or oue less assembly district shsll be put in tht
senate district ia such county hat mg the sniaUc*i
number ol inhabitants, excluding aliens, as the
lase may icquiie. Ko town, and no block in t
sity inclosed by sticcts or public ways, shall be
divided io the formation of assembly districts, nor
shall any districts touuin a gieatrr excess in
population over an adjoiuing district in the
MUM senate district, than the population ef a
IOM «-r block theicin adiaiuiug suth assembly
Towns or blocks which, fiom ihcir lc-
catios may be included in either of two dial
shall be so placed a* to make said districts
moat nearly equal in number ol inhabitants, ex­
cluding aliens! J but in the division vf cities un-
c'.dr tire fiist apportionment, icgaid shall be had
10 the iikiubia >•• inhabitant*, excluding aliens, of
the election districts auoidtng to the aiati
enumeration s-i one thousand eight hundred anil
ninety-two. so far as msy be, instead of blocksj
Nothing in this section shsll picveut the division
.•t any time, d counties and towns, sad the eicc
Hun ol new towns by die legislature
An aifc.iii i.II,mi by the legislature, or otln •
body, shall be subject to review by the supreme
court, at the suit of any citizen, under such
reasonable regulstions as the legislature may
prescribe; and any court before which' a cause
msy be pending involving an apportionment, shall
five precedence thereto over all other causes
and proceedings, and if said court be not in ses-
siob it shsll convene promptly for the disposi­
tion of the ssme.
AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SUCTION SEVEN or
ARTICLE THREE OP THE CONSTITUTION, IN
RELATION TO ENABLING MBSIIIBRS or THE LEG-
ISLATVBE TO ACCEPT ClVII. APPOINTMENTS AND
PROVIDING FOR THE VACATION or THEIR SEATS
UPON ACCEPTANCE THEREOF
Section I. Resolved, mat section seven of
article three of the constitution be amended to
read as follows:
I 7. [No] A member of the legislature
[shall] may receive any civil appointment with-
ia this state, [or the senate of the United
States,] from the governor, the governor and
senate, or from the legislaTore, or trom any city
government, during the time for which he shall
have been elected and upon his acceptance there­
of, his semi shall be deemed vacated [all such
sppointments and all votes given for any such
member for any such office or appointment shall
be vfidl.
AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PEOPOSINO AN AMENUSIPNI TO SECTION TWENTY-
SEVEN OP ABTICLB THREE OF THE CONSTITU­
TION, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT FOB
TAXATION OF PROPERTY, WHBTHEB REAL OE
PERSONAL, WITHIN THE COUNTY OF WEST­
CHESTER
Section 1. Resolved, That section twenty-
seven of article three ot the constitution be
amended to read as follows:
I 27. The legislature shall, by genetal laws,
confer upon the boards of supervisors, or other
governing elective bodies, of the several coun­
ties of the state such further powers of locsl
legislation and administration as the legislature
may, from time to time, deem expedient. In
counties which now have, or hereafter have,
county auditora or other fiscal officers, authorised
to audit bills, accounts, charges, claims or de­
mands against the county, the legislature msy
confer such powers upon sach auditors, or fiscal
officers, as the legislature may, from time to time,
deem expedient. /• Ihe county of H'astchester
Ihe legislature may by separate enactment or ms
pari o/ m forms of government lo be mdopted
pursuant lo section twenty-six ol this article,
confer mfon oficers of Ihe county lo be elected
by the electors of ihe county or appointed by the
board of supervisors or other county author-
Hies ms ihs legislature shall direct, such powers
and duties in relation lo ihe assessment for tax­
ation of froferty, whether real or personal, with­
in Ihe county as Ihe legislature may from time
to time, deem exfedwet, any provision of taction
'•wo of article ten of this constitution lo ihe
contrary notwithstanding. Assessments so author­
ised may, i« Ihe case's and lo Ihe extent directed
by Ihe legislature, be substituted in flaca ot as­
sessments heretofore made by local oficers or
other authorities on any assessment rolls or other
lists mf taxable froferty for the purpose of taxa­
tion or msstssmenl or for any other purpose, is
any tax dmlrtcl or other area or unit for luxa­
tion or assessment within ike coun(y.
This section shall mot be deemed to confer
om the tegillalure any potter to authorize county
oficers of Westchester county lo determine that
froferty, teal or fctsonal, within such county,
it taxable, which froferty is exempt from tax­
ation under any general or special low.
AMENDMENT NL'MilER SEVEN
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, or
ARTICLE SIX or THE CONSTITUTION, IN RELA­
TION TO THE EBBCTION FROM T-IIR SECOND
JUDICIAL DISTEICT OP ANOTIIBB JUDICIAL DIE-
TBICT AND THE NustsuR or JUSTICES OF THE
SUPREME CO*UBT IN SUCH DISTRICTS
Section 1. Resolved, That section one of ar­
ticle six ot the constitution be amended to read
as follows:
I 1. The, supreme court is continued with
general jurisdiction in law and equity, subject
to such appellate jurisdiction of the court of
sppesls as now is or hereafter may be prescribed
by law not inconsistent with this article. The
existing judicisl districts of the stste are con­
tinued until changed as hereinsfter provided.
The supreme court shall consist of the iusticos
now in office, and their successors, together with
such additional justices as may be authorized
by law. The aucccssors of said iusticcs shsll
be chosen by the electors of their respective judi-
cial districts. The legislature may alter the
judicial districts once alter every federal census
or state enumeration, each district being bounded
by county lines, and thereupon re-apportion the
justices to be thcrcaftor elected in the districts
so altered.
The legislature may from time to time increase
the number of iusticcs in any judicial district,
except the number of justices in any district shall
not be increased to exceed one justice for cadi
sixty thousand, or fraction over thirty-five tbon-
ssnd, of tin- population thereof as shown by tin
last federsl census or state enumeration. The
legislature may artct out of Ike second judicial
district as mow constituted, another judicial dis­
trict and apportion tht justices in of ice betwttm
tke districts, mud provide for tke elation of
additional justices in ike mew district mot ex­
ceeding tke limit herein provided. Any justice
of the supreme court, except as otherwise pro­
vided in this article, may perform the duties of
his office or hold court in any county.
AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION SEVEN or
AETICLE SEVEN or TIIB CONSTITUTION, IN RE­
LATION TO THE USE OF THE FOREST PRESERVE
FOE HIGHWAY PURPOSES
Section 1. Resolved, That section seven of
article seven ef the constitution be amended
to read as follows:
i 7. '1 he lauds of the state, now owned or
hereafter acquired, constituting tire forest pre­
serve as now fixed by law, shsll be forever
kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be
leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any
corporation, public or private, nor shall the
timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Nothing contained in this section shall prevent
the slate from constructing a stste highway
from Baranac taka in Franklin county to Long
lake in Hamilton county and thence lo Old Forge
in Herkimer county by way of Blue Mountain
lake and Raquctte lake, and nothing shsll pre­
vent the state from constructing a stste high­
way in Essex county from Wilmington to the
top of Whitcface mountain. After January first,
nineteen hundred and thirly-luo, any other tec-
lion or amendment lo this or any other ttction
of Ikis constitution nolwilkstanding, notking skall
frevcut Ihe reconstruction or widening ol stale
and county highways already built within the
forest freserve or ihe construction within the
foresl freserve of tlate mud county highways
aloag routes of existing roads and highways or
new substituted routes as authorised by ihe legis­
lature. The legislature msy by getters! laws
provide for the use of not exceeding three per
ceutum of such lands for the construction snd
maintenance of reservoirs for niuuicipsl water
supply, for the canals of the slate and to regu­
late the flow of atreams. Such reseivoirs shall
l>e constructed, owned and controlled by the atatc,
but such work shall not be undertaken until after
tHl boundaries aud high flow lines Uierfof ahall
have been accurately surveyed and fixed, and
after public notice, hearing and determination
that audi lauds arc requited for suih public
use. The expense of any such improvements ahall
bt apportioned on tl.e public and private property
and municipalities benefited to the extent of the
benefits received. Any such reservoir shall al­
ways be operated by the state and the legisla­
ture shsll pioiide for a charge upou the prop­
erty and municipalities benefited for a reasonable
return to the state upon the value of the lights
•H.d property of the slate used and the services
of the stale tendered, which ahall be fixed for
terms of not execoding tcu years and be rcad-
iustablo at the cud of any term. Unsanitary
conditions shsll not be crested or continued by
any audi public works. A violation of any ol
the provisions of this section msy be restrained
at the suit of the people or. with the consent ol
tire supreme court in appellate division, on notice
tu the attorney-general at the auit of any citixeu.
AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION SEVEN or
AKTICIJI SEVEN OP TUB CONSTITUTION, IN Ri
LATION TO TUB USE OF THE FOREST PRESERVE
FOR Rl.t I.EATtON PUEPOSES
Section 1. Resolved. Thst section w»c;i of
ajticlc seven of the constitution be amended to
lead aa follows:
i 7. The Lands ef the state, now owned cu
hereafter acquired, constituting the forest pic-
scrvc ss now fixed by law. shall be foicvn
kept as wild loiest lands. They shall not U
leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any
oipoiation, public or private, nor shall the tin-
,cr tl.nt.wi be sold, removed or dckltoytc
Nothing contained in this section shall pievcnt
he stste fiom soiutlracting a stste liigkway fiom
Satanac lake in Franklin county to Long la'<
m Hamilton county and ihcmx to Old Foig
II iKiliu.M county by way •{. Blue Mountan
lake and ka< quelle* lake, and imtaiiig shall pre
vent the stale from constructing a slste hightt.
in Essex county from Wilmington to she lou •
VVkittiaie mountain.
The Irgislatere may by general laws provii
lor tl.e use of not exceeding tluee per centum
of such lands for the euusiruetiun ana maintt
uiicr ef reseivoirs fur municipal **ttr suppb •
or the tanals of the stale and u> ngulate dit
low of atieams. Sudi icservoirs ahull be ton-
ilructcd. owned aud couuolled by tire skate, but
such work shall nut be undertaken until afiu
the boundaries and high flow lines il.rn.nf slia"'
• Se in original. [Woid misspelled J
have been accurately «nrvey*d «TK! fl«ee!, and
after public notice, hearing and determination
that such lands are required for such public use.
The expense of any such improvements shsll be
apportioned on the public and private property
and municipalities benefited to the extent of the
benefits received. Any such reservoir shsll al­
ways be operated by the state snd the lcgislsture
shall provide for a charge npon the property
and municipalities benefited for a reasonable re­
turn to the stste upon the value of the rights
and property of the state used and the services
•f the state rendered, which shall be fixed for
terms of not exceeding ten years ami be read-
justsble at the end of any term.
Sothing contained in this section shall be
construed to frevent the enactment by the legis­
lature of seParat* Imuxt, emh applying to a single
froject, froviding, ot the exfrnse of ihe state,
for the construction within the forest freserve of
such recreational facilities as art not inconsis­
tent with the general wild forest character of the
forest freserve, and the making of necessary
clearings ot timber therefor. Such facilities shall
be maintained for tht benefit of all the feotle,
without discrimination, and by m public author­
ity mnd not by m lesser, or contrmclor, and with
the fnblic moneys of the state, m county or m
town, or ot two or more of ihrm; but Ihe taller
restriction skall not prevent tht collection ol
reasonable ckarges lor ikt facilities afora'ed, to
b* applied solely to operating expenses, main­
tenance and repairs. Hoy" shall anything con­
tained re this teclion be construed to Prevent any
measures necessary lo proleel the foresl preserve
against fire, nor to Prohibit Ike making and
maintenance of folks, trails, camp-sites mnd
camping facilities designed lo render Iht forest
J reserve more accessible mnd useful to tht pub­
ic, including the necessary clearings of timber
therefor, mor lo prevent the widening, straight­
ening or improvement of existing public roads
in In* forest freserve.
Unsanitary conditions shall not be created or
continued by any such public works.
A violation of any of the provisions of this
section may be restrained at the suit of the
people or, with the consent of the supreme
court In appellate division, on notice to the
attorney-general at the suit of any citizen.
AMENDMENT NUMBER TEN
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PEOPOSINO AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION EIGHT OF
ABTTCLE SEVEN OF TUB CONSTITUTION, IN RB-
LA'SION TO CEDING, LEASINO OE SELLING TO THE
UNITED STATES OP AMEBICA OP POBTIONS OF
TUB EXISTINO EBIB AND OSWBGO CANALS
Section 1. Resolved, That section eight of
article seven of the constitution be amended
to read as follows:
I 8. The legislature shall not sell, lease^or
otherwise dispose of the Erie canal, the Oswego
canal, the Champlsin cansl, the Cayuga and
Seneca canal, or the Black River canal; but they
shall remain the property of the state ami under
its management forever. The prohibition of
lease, ssle or other disposition herein contsined,
shall not apply to the canal known as the Main
and Hsmburg street canal, situated in the city
of Buffalo, and which extends essterly from the
westerly line of Msin street to the westerly line
ef Hsmburg street, nor to that portion of tbt
existing Erie canal between Rome and Mohawk;
nor shsll such prohibition apply to that portion
of the existing Erie canal in the county of
Herkimer between the easterly portiou of the
village of Mohawk and the county boundary line
between the counties of Herkimer and Oneida;
mor shall tnch prohibition apply to the ceding,
leasing or selling lo Ike United States of Amur*
tea of mny portion of ihe existing Erie canal or
of the existing Oswego canal which may be re­
quired by ihe United Slates of America for tit
use and purpose in Ihe construction of m national
waterway route Its connect Ihe Great Lakes with
the Atlantic ocean and the legislature may pro­
vide by law for such ceding, teasing or sal* mfom
sncJs terms mnd condition! mt st shall prescribe.
All funds that may be derived from any lease,
sale or other disposition of any canal shall be
applied to the nnpniyetiient, superintendence or
repair of the remaining portion of the canals.
AMENDMENT NUMBER ELEVEN
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PBOPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ABTICLB SEVEN or
THE CONSTITUTION, IN RELATION TO THE FOREST
PRESERVE, TO PBOVIDK FOB THE ACQUISITION
AND REFORESTATION OF LAND, THE MANAGE­
MENT OF FORESTS TIIUREON, AND THE ESTAB­
LISHMENT OF FORBST TREE NURSERIBS TIIBRE-
FOB
Section 1. Resolved, That article seven of
the constitution be emended by adding at the end
thereof a new aection, to be section sixteen, to
rcsd as follows:
t 16. The legislsture in each of the eleven
calendar years immediately following the adop­
tion of this amendment shall appropxiate out of
any funds .in the treasury not otherwise appro­
priated moneys for the acquisition by the state
of land, outside the Adirondack and Catskill
parks, aa now fixed by law, best suited for rcfor-
cststion, for the reforesting of the ssme and
the protection and management of forests fhercon;
for the acquisition of land for forest tree
nurseries, and for the establishment and mainte­
nance of audi nurseries, such appropriations to
begin in the first year with the sum of one
million dollars t J I.uuu.tibU) and increasing an­
nually by the sum of two hundred thousand dol­
lars (f2UU,WU0) to and including the sixth yeat
and in each of the five years immediately fol­
lowing, a sum equal to that appropriated for tl.e
Sixth year. All such appropriations to be avail­
able until expended. A law enacted pursuant to
this aection shall take eifect without submission
to the people.
The lands of the state, now owned or hereaftet
acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now
fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forcM
lauds. They shall not be leased, sold or ex­
changed, or be taken by any corporation, public
or private, nor shall site timber thereon be sold,
removed or destroyed. Nothing contained in this
aection nor in the prohibitions of section seven of
this article shsll prevent Iwe stste from cutting,
selling or removing the trees, timber, fotrst prod-
i ucls and other materials ou any lauds to leaflet
acquired -with the moneys herein authorized within
the forest preserve counties but outside of the
Adirondack and Catskill parks as now fixed oi
hcrcsfter extended by law.
AMENDMENT NUMBER TWELVE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION TEN O*
AETICLE EIGHT OF TUB CONSTITUTION, IN RE-
CATION TO TUB EXEMPTION AND INCUEBINO OF
INDEBTEDNESS BV THE CITY OF NEW YOBK
Section 1. Resolved. That section ten of si­
licic eight of the constitution be amended to read
as follows:
i 10. Counties, cities and towns not to give
or loan money or credit; limitation of indebted­
ness. No conniy, city, town or village shall
hcrcsfter give auv money or property, or loan
its money or credit to or in aid of any individ­
ual, association or corporation, or become cli-
tcctly or indirectly the owner of stock m, or
bonds of, any association or corporation; nor
ahall any audi county, city, town or village be
allowed to incur any indebtedness except for
couuty, city, town or village purposes. This sec­
tion shsll not prevent such county, oily, town or
village from making such ptovisiou for the aid
or suppoit of its poor as may be authorized by
law. No county or city sleall be allowed to be­
come indebted for any purpose or in any man­
ner to an amouut which, including existing in­
debtedness, shall exceed te'n per centum of die
assessed valuation of the ical estate of such
coauiy or city subject to taxatiuu, as it ap­
pealed by the assessment rolls of ssid county
or city on the last assessment for stale or county
taxes prior to the iucurriug of sudi indebted­
ness; and all indebtedness in excess ol such lim­
itation, except such as now may exist, shall be
absolutely void, except as hcieiu otherwise pro­
vided. No county or city whose picscut in­
debtedness exceeds ten per centum of die
d vslustien of its real estate subject to
The picture, which is laid in a
Spanish university setting, incorporates
a number of festive scenes which af­
forded an opportunity for the Intro­
duction of the traditional Spanish tan­
go In colorful costumes. Information is
that Novarro, who has long been
known as an expert tangolst, conceived
a special number for the production.
Give Right Foods
Best Ice Box Space
Pood correctly placed in the refrig­
erator keeps longer and in better con­
dition than that which is put in care­
lessly and this helps to safeguard both
the health and the finances of the
family, according to the New York
state college of home economics.
The coldest place In a rerflgerator Is
directly below the Ice chamber. The
reason for this is that cold air being
heavier than warm, falls when it has
been chilled by the ice and as the
warmer air rises simultaneously a con­
tinuous current is set up. Therefore, in
the "side icer" type of refrigerator the
coldest place is on the bottom, directly
under the ice compartment and the ing ice.
least cold is the top shelf. In the "over i it is essential to leave space between
head icer" type, the middle of the top i and at the sides of foods and contain-
shelf will be found to be coldest, while | ers for circulation of air. Failure to do
It is announced by internal revenue
officials at New York that udyard Kip­
ling owes the United States $2,104.50 in
unpaid Income taxes. Come on, Rud-
yard, take up the white man's burden.
More than 31,000,000 visitors enjoyed
the recreational opportunities of the na­
tional forests In 25 states, Alaska
Porto Rico in 1929. Three-fourths o
these visitors were transient tourists,
and 7 out of exery 8 traveled In auto­
mobiles.
the bottom and sides are warmest as a
result of the current of war mair forc­
ed up by the chilled air.
Milk is the most perishable food
kept in the refrigerator because it Is
an ideal medium for bacterial growth
at ordinary temperatures. Low tem­
peratures slow down bacterial Increase
without affecting the composition of
the milk and it should therefore be
placed in the coldest part of the re­
frigerator. Meat broths are also favor­
able to bacterial growth, and these
should be placed in sterilized covered
containers close to the milk. Butter
is also placed here because low tem­
perature holds back rancidity, and the
fresh, cold air contains no odors or
flavors, which are readily absorbed by
butter. It should be kept in a tight con­
tainer.
In a "side icer" refrigerator the next
coldest place is on the other side of
the bottom. Meats, fish, custards and
left overs with cream sauce or delicate
vegetables should be placed here. The
next shelf above should be occupied by
fruits, vegetables and eggs. Eggs do not
require as low a temperature as is gen­
erally supposed and will keep satisfac­
torily here. Fruits and vegetables with
a strong odor, such as melons, oranges,
cabbages and apples should be kept at
the top of the refrigerator, where the
odor will be carried off by the melt-
this defeats the whole purpose of the
construction of the refrigerator.
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Funeral
Directors
Telephones
Olinville 3162 Brewster 28
Office and Chapel
708 East 218th St, Bronx, N. Y. C.
taxation, shall be allotted to become indebted in
any further amount until such indebtedness shall
be reduced withiu such limit. This section ahall
uot be construed lo pi event Uic issuing of cer>
liucatcs of indebtedness or revenue buuds issued
ia anticipation of the coUartiaa ol taxes for
amounts actually coHtaiucd, or to be contained
is the taxes for the year when such ccrliluatcs
or icvonuc bunds are issued and payable out oi
such tsxes; nor to picveut the city of New Vork
from issuing bonds to be redeemed out of the
tax levy tor the year next succeeding the year
oi their issue, provided that the amouut of audi
bonds which may be issued iu any oue year in
excess oi the limitations herein t untamed ahall
not exceed one-truth oi oue per ccututu oi the
assessed valuatiuu ol the ical estate of said
eaty subject to taxation. Nor shall this section
be consliucd lo pievcnt the issue ol buuds to
provide for die supply of water; but the tciin ol
the bonds issued to provide the supply of water.
to execs* of the limitation oi indebtedness fixed
herein, shall not exceed twenty years, and a
sinking fund shall be created os the issuing of
said bonds lor their redemption, by raising an­
nually a sum which will piuducc an amount equal
to the sum oi t'-e pittiupal and interest of said
bonds at vheir inatuni). Atl ccrtifioalcs of in­
debtedness or i rvenue buuds issued in antici­
pation oi the collection of taxes, which ate n»i
iclued within five years alter then date oi issue,
aud bonds issued to ptovidc for the supply of
Mater, and any debt hcrcaiici iucunod by any
portion or part oi a city ii iheie shall be any
such debt, shall be included in ascertaining the
power mi m» cjiy to IKCOIM other wise indebted;
txcept dial debts incuned by die