Any building, room or premises procured or leased in accordance with law for the use of the said city court in The City of New York shall be deemed a part of the city hall of The City of New York for the purpose of holding terms of the city court therein. The premises leased as herein provided shall be ready for the occupancy of said court on or before the first day of September, 1897, and on said date said court shall vacate the rooms now occupied by it in the city hall.

§ 2. After the city court shall have vacated the rooms now occupied by it in the city hall, as herein before provided, the commissioner of public works, when thereto directed by the board of estimate and apportionment, and upon plans approved by it, shall remodel the space in said city hall, heretofore occupied by said court, so as to provide a suitable chamber or meeting room and other apartments for the use of the council of the municipal assembly and its officers that may be provided for by any act of the legislature of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Said commissioner of public works shall in the same manner provide a suitable meeting room and offices in the said city hall for any board of public improvements of said city, that may be provided for by any act of the legislature of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. He shall also procure the furniture and other fittings suitable to such rooms when thus altered. § 3. The expense necessary to carry these provisions into effect shall be paid by the city and county of New York, and the controller of said city shall issue revenue bonds of said city for the purpose of providing for such expenses; the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest of said bonds shall be included in the final estimate of the amount necessary to be raised by taxation for the purposes of the government of said city for the ensuing year.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 735.

AN ACT to provide for the election of supervisors in the several wards of the borough of Queens in The City of New York to be members of the board of supervisors of the county of Queens.

Not accepted by the city.

Became a law May 24, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. At the election to be held in The City of New York in the year 1897, and every two years thereafter, a supervisor shall be elected by the electors of each ward of the borough of Queens, and such supervisor shall be a member of the board of supervisors of the county of Queens.

The term of office of such supervisor shall begin on the day on which town elections are required, by law, to be held in the several towns of the county of Queens in the year next succeeding his election and shall continue for two years. No person shall be eligible to the office of supervisor unless he shall be, at the time of his election, a qualified elector in

the ward in which he shall be elected, and upon his removal from the ward he shall cease to be supervisor of such ward and the office shall be vacant.

§ 2. Whenever the office of supervisor shall be vacant, for any cause whatever, the local board of the borough of Queens shall appoint a qualified elector of the ward in which the vacancy exists to fill out the unexpired portion of the term.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

Proposed constitutional amendment as to boards of supervisors. AMEND SECTION 26, ARTICLE 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS: "Boards of supervisors. - § 26. There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly included in a city, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law. In a city which includes an entire county, or two or more entire counties, the powers and duties of a board of supervisors may be devolved upon the municipal assembly, common council, board of aldermen or other legislative body of the city."

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Proposed constitutional amendment as to limitation of indebtedness. AMEND SECTION 10, ARTICLE 8, of the CONSTITUTION, TO READ AS FOLLOWS: '§ 10. Counties, cities and towns not to give or loan money or credit; limitation of indebtedness. No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes. This section shall not prevent such county, city, town or village from making such provision for the aid or support of its poor as may be authorized by law. No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment-rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness; and all indebtedness in excess of such limitation, except such as may now exist, shall be absolutely void, except as herein otherwise provided. No county or city whose present indebtedness exceeds ten per centum of the assessed valuation of its real estate subject to taxation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any further amount until such indebtedness shall be reduced within such limit. This section shall not be construed to prevent the issuing of certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued

in anticipation of the collection of taxes for amounts actually contained, or to be contained in the taxes for the year when such certificates or revenue bonds are issued and payable out of such taxes. Nor shall this section be construed to prevent the issue of bonds to provide for the supply of water; but the term of the bonds issued to provide the supply of water shall not exceed twenty years, and a sinking fund shall be created on the issuing of the said bonds for their redemption, by raising annually a sum which will produce an amount equal to the sum of the principal and interest of said bonds at their maturity. All certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes, which are not retired within five years after their date of issue, and bonds issued to provide for the supply of water, and any debt hereafter incurred by any portion or part of a city, if there shall be any such debt, shall be included in ascertaining the power of the city to become otherwise indebted. Whenever the boundaries of a city are the same as those of a county, or when any city shall include within its boundaries more than one county, the power of any county wholly included within such city to become indebted shall cease, but the debt of the county heretofore existing shall not, for the purposes of this section, be reckoned as a part of the city debt. The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this state, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt."

APPENDIX II.

PROVISIONS OF THE NEW YORK CONSTITUTION RELATING TO

CITIES.

(With references to judicial decisions thereon.)

Senatorial districts and parts of senatorial districts included within the consolidated city.

I. District number one (1) shall consist of the counties of Suffolk and Richmond.

District number two (2) shall consist of the county of Queens. District number three (3) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn.

District number four (4) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the seventh, thirteenth, nineteenth and twenty-first wards of the city of Brooklyn.

District number five (5) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the eighth, tenth, twelfth and thirtieth wards. of the city of Brooklyn, and the ward of the city of Brooklyn which was formerly the town of Gravesend.

District number six (6) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the ninth, eleventh, twentieth and twentysecond wards of the city of Brooklyn.

District number seven (7) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards of the city of Brooklyn.

District number eight (8) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-ninth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the town of Flatlands.

District number nine (9) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings comprising the eighteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn.

District number ten (10) shall consist of that part of the county of New York within and bounded by a line beginning at Canal street and the Hudson river, and running thence along Canal

street, Hudson street, Dominick street, Varick street, Broome street, Sullivan street, Spring street, Broadway, Canal street, the Bowery, Division street, Grand street and Jackson street, to the East river, and thence around the southern end of Manhattan island to the place of beginning, and also Governor's, Bedloe's and Ellis islands.

District number eleven (11) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of district number ten, and within and bounded by a line beginning at the junction of Broadway and Canal street, and running thence along Broadway, Fourth street, the Bowery and Third avenue, St. Mark's place, Avenue A, Seventh street Avenue B, Clinton street, Rivington street, Norfolk street, Division street, Bowery and Canal street, to the place of beginning.

District number twelve (12) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of districts numbers ten and eleven, and within and bounded by a line beginning at Jackson street and the East river, and running thence through Jackson street, Grand street, Division street, Norfolk street, Rivington street, Clinton street, Avenue B, Seventh street, Avenue A, St. Mark's place, Third avenue, East Fourteenth street, to the East river, and along the East river to the place of beginning.

District number thirteen (13) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of district number ten, and within and bounded by a line beginning at the Hudson river at the foot of Canal street, and running thence along Canal street, Hudson street, Dominick street, Varick street, Broome street, Sullivan street, Spring street, Broadway, Fourth street, the Bowery and Third avenue, Fourteenth street, Sixth avenue, West Fifteenth street, Seventh avenue, West Nineteenth street, Eighth avenue, West Twentieth street, and the Hudson river, to the place of beginning.

District number fourteen (14) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of districts numbers twelve and thirteen, and within and bounded by a line beginning at East Fourteenth street and the East river, and running thence along East Fourteenth street, Irving Place, East Nineteenth street, Third avenue, East Twenty-third street, Lexington avenue, East Fifty-third street, Third avenue, East Fifty-second street, and the East river, to the place of beginning.

District number fifteen (15) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of district number thirteen, and