CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Section ries thereof. Board of supervisors of the city of New York to divide the county into Senate districts.-Certificate, etc., to be filled. 4. Enumeration to be taken in 1855, and every ten years.-Senate districts, how altered. 5. Members of Assembly, number of, and how apportioned and chosen.-Boards of supervisors in certain counties and board of aldermen in New York city to divide the same into Assembly districts.-Description of Assembly districts to be filed.Contents of Assembly districts. -Legislature to reapportion members of Assembly.-Each county entitled to one member.-Hamilton county.-Counties and towns may be divided and new ones erected. 6. Pay of members. 7. No member to receive an appointment. 8. Persons disqualified from being members. 9. Time of election fixed. 10. Powers of each house. 11. Journals to be kept. 12. No member to be questioned, etc. 13. Bills may originate in either house. 14. Enacting clause of bills. 15. Assent of a majority of all the members required, etc. 16. Restriction as to private and local bills. 17. Existing law not to be made a part of an act except by inserting it therein. 18. Private and local bills, in what cases they may not be passed. -General laws to be passed.Street railroads, condition upon Section which they may be authorized. 19. The Legislature not to audit or allow any private claim. 20. Bill imposing a tax, manner of passing. 21. Same subject. 22. Board of supervisors. 23. Local legislative powers conferred on boards of supervis ors. 24. No extra compensation to be granted to a public officer, servant, agent or contractor. 25. Sections seventeen and eighteen not to apply to certain bills. ARTICLE IV. 1. Executive power, how vested. 2. Requisite qualifications of Gov ernor. 3. Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. 4. Duties and power of Governor.His compensation. 5. Pardoning power vested in the Governor. 6. Powers of Governor to devolve upon Lieutenant-Governor. 7. Requisite qualifications of Lieutenant-Governor.-To be President of the Senate and to act as Governor in certain cases. 8. Compensation of LieutenantGovernor. 9. Bills to be presented to the Governor for signature.-If returned by him with objections, how disposed of.-Bills to be returned within ten days.After adjournment, bills must be approved in thirty days, else cannot become law.-Governor may object to items of appropriation in any bill. ARTICLE V. 1. State officers, how elected and terms of office. 2. State Engineer and Surveyor, how chosen and term of office. 3. Superintendent of Public Works, powers and duties: |