Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 114, Issues 74-82

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Page 11 - ... each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact form as practicable, and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all times consist of contiguous territory, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district except to make two or more senate districts wholly in such county.
Page 1 - Legislature each case of reprieve, commutation" or pardon granted; stating the name of the convict, the crime of which he was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the date of the commutation, pardon or reprieve.
Page 415 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall 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.
Page 564 - In witness whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written.
Page 2 - to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insolvency, the form of notarial certificates, and other subjects : to ascertain the best means to effect an assimilation and uniformity in the laws of the States, and especially to consider whether it would be wise and practicable for the State of New York to invite the other States of the Union to send representatives to a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several States, and to devise and recommend...
Page 5 - An enumeration of the inhabitants of the State shall be taken, under the direction of the Legislature, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter...
Page 8 - Emigration, in any Court having cognizance thereof, and when recovered, shall be applied to the purposes specified in this act. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners before or after suit brought, to compound for any of the said penalties or...
Page 5 - Legislature, at the first session after the return of every enumeration, that each Senate district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and persons of color not taxed; and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration...
Page 14 - Whenever it shall appear that any portion of the enumeration and census provided for in this act has been negligently or improperly taken, and is by reason thereof incomplete or erroneous, the Director of the Census may cause such incomplete and unsatisfactory enumeration and census to be amended or made anew under such methods as may, in his discretion, be practicable.
Page 5 - ... as nearly as may be according to the number of their respective inhabitants, but each province shall have at least one member.

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