New York Convention Manual: Prepared in Pursuance of Chapters 194 and 458, of the Laws of 1867, Under the Direction of Francis C. Barlow, Secretary of State, Thomas Hillhouse, Comptroller, and John H. Martindale, Attorney-General, Part 2

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Page 291 - The objects of the association shall be — 1. The amelioration of the condition of prisoners, whether detained for trial, or finally convicted, or as witnesses. 2. The improvement of prison discipline, and the government of prisons, whether for cities, counties or States. 3. The support and encouragement of reformed convicts after their discharge, by affording them the means of obtaining an honest livelihood, and sustaining them in their efforts at reform.
Page xvii - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the...
Page 1 - He shall communicate by message to the Legislature, at every session, the condition of the State, and recommend such matters to them as he shall judge expedient.
Page xx - The following classes of resolutions shall lie over one day for consideration, after which they may be called up, as of course, under their appropriate order of business.
Page xvii - State officers. § 2. The first election of the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney-General and State Engineer and Surveyor, pursuant to this article, shall be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive, and their terms of office shall begin on the first day of January following, and shall be for three years. At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 246 - ... objections to the alteration. The trustees of any district to be affected by such order may request the supervisor and town clerk of the town or towns, within which such district or districts shall wholly or partly lie, to be associated with the commissioner. At the time and place mentioned in the notice the commissioner or commissioners, with the supervisors and...
Page xv - When the house shall be ready to go into committee of the whole, he shall name a chairman to preside therein.
Page 208 - White persons of foreign birth, who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.
Page xviii - Orders, and shall be recorded by their titles or subjects in a calendar to be kept for that purpose by the Secretary, in the order in which they shall be referred respectively.
Page xxi - Convention, and keep a record of the time of the reception of each document, and the number of copies received, and cause a copy of each to be placed on the desk of each member immediately after their reception by him.

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