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Concurrent Resolutions state, twenty-five per centum by one or more municipal corporations, and fifty per centum by the railroad company, or companies, except that if a grade crossing elimination be on a state highway, fifty per centum of such expense shall be borne by the state and fifty per centum by the railroad company or companies. The legislature, by law, shall prescribe, or shall provide the manner for determining, whether the twenty-five per centum of expense herein required to be borne by one or more municipal corporations shall be borne wholly by one municipal corporation or apportioned between two or more, and, if so apportioned, the portion to be borne by each. Laws shall be enacted to provide for repayment Repay. to the state of moneys advanced in aid of railroad companies and ment municipal corporations, at such times, in such manner and with of moneys

advanced interest at such rate, that the state shall be able to pay when due the portion of the state debt equal to the proceeds which shall roads and have been so advanced, and interest thereon. The provisions of palities. this article, not inconsistent with this section, relating to the

Applicaissuance of bonds for a debt or debts of the state and the maturity tion of and payment thereof, shall apply to a state debt or debts created sions of pursuant to this section ; except that the law authorizing the con- art. 7. tracting of such debt or debts shall take effect without submission to the people pursuant to section four of this article.

§ 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing Referred amendment be referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next to legisgeneral election of senators, and in conformity with section one choson of article fourteen of the constitution be published for three months previous to the time of such election. STATE OF New York

STATE OF NEW YORK IN SENATE, Mar 26 1925 The foregoing resolution duly The foregoing resolution duly passed a majority of all the Senators passed a majority of all the members elected voting in favor thereof.

Assembly voting in By order of the Senate

favor thereof.

By order of the Assembly
President.

JA MCGINNIES

Speaker.

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next election or senators.

IN ASSEMBLY Mar 27 1925

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S. LOWMAN

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION of the Senate and Assembly pro- Proposed

posing an amendment to article seven of the constitution, in amend, relation to the creation annually for ten years of a debt or art. 7. debts of the state to provide moneys for the acquisition of real property and the construction of buildings, structures or improvements.

Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article seven of the constitution be amended by adding at the end thereof a new added. section, to be section fifteen, to read as follows:

§ 15. In addition to any other debt, authorized by or pursuant Creation to this article, the legislature, in each of the ten calendar years following the adoption of this section, may authorize by law the ized. creation of a debt or debts, not exceeding in the agregate in any such year the sum of ten million dollars, to provide moneys for the acquisition by the state of real property and for the construc

Concurrent Resolutions
tion of buildings, works and improvements for the state, or for
any one or more of such objects. The provisions of this article,
not inconsistent with this section, relating to the issuance of bonds
for a debt or debts of the state and the maturity and payment
thereof, shall apply to a state debt or debts created pursuant to
this section ; except that the law authorizing the contracting of
such debt or debts shall take effect without submission to the
people pursuant to section four of this article.

§ 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amend-
ment be submitted to the people for approval at the general elec-
tion to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five, in
accordance with the provisions of the election law.
STATE OF NEW YORK

STATE OF NEW YORK
IX ASSEMBLY, Mar 27 1925

IN SENATE Mar 27 1925
This bill was duly passed, a majority This bill was duly passed, a majority
of all the members elected to the As. of all the Senators elected voting in
sembly voting in favor thereof, three- favor thereof, three-fifths being present.
fifths being present.

By order of the Senate
By order of the Assembly.

S. LOWMAN
JA MCGINNIES

President.
Speaker,

Proposed amendment to art. 12.

$ 8 added.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION of the Senate and Assembly pro

posing an amendment to article twelve of the constitution, in
relation to territory proposed to be annexed to a city.

Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article twelve
of the constitution be amended by adding thereto a new section
to follow section seven, to be section eight, to read as follows:

§ 8. Annexation of territory to cities. No territory shall be annexed to any city until the people of the territory proposed to be annexed shall have consented to such annexation by a majority vote on a referendum called for that purpose.

§ 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amend

ment be referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general chosen at election of senators, and, in conformity with section one of article election of fourteen of the constitution, be published for three months previous

Referred to legislature

DEED

CEDING TO THE UNITED STATES JURISDICTION OF

LAND IN FRANKLIN COUNTY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That

WHEREAS, By section 52 of article 4 of chapter 59 of the consolidated laws' of the State of New York, it is provided that,

“Whenever the United States, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any head of an executive department of the government of the United States, shall cause to be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state of the state of New York, certified copies of the record or transfer to the United States of any tracts or parcels of land within this state, which have been acquired by the United States for any of the purposes aforesaid," (i. e. the purpose of erecting thereon lighthouses, beacons, lighthouse keepers' dwellings, hospitals, sanatoriums, works for improving navigation, post-offices, custom houses, fortifications, or buildings and structures for the storage, manufacture or production of supplies, ordnance, apparatus or equipment of any kind whatsoever for the use of the army or navy, and any other needful buildings and structures,) "together with maps or plats and descriptions of such lands by metes and bounds, and a certificate of the attorney-general of the United States that the United States is in possession of said lands and premises for either of the works or purposes aforesaid, under a clear and complete title, the governor of this state is authorized, if he deems it proper, to execute in duplicate, in the name of the state and under its great seal, a deed or release of the state ceding to the United States the jurisdiction of said tracts or parcels of land as hereinafter provided;"

AND WHEREAS, The United States of America has caused to be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, by Charles E. Walsh, of 95 Central Avenue, Albany, New York, an agent duly authorized under the hand of the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau and the seal of the Veterans Bureau, a certified copy of deed, dated February 25, 1924, between Albert S. Hosley and Lavina M. Hosley, his wife, both of Tupper Lake, New York, parties of the first part, and the United States of America, party of the second part, conveying the following tract, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Altamont, county of Franklin and State of New York, being all in Township Number Twenty-two, town of Altamont, Macomb's Purchase, Great Tract Number One, and bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING at a point on the easterly limit of a Town road running northerly from the Wawbeek road, which road follows the westerly line of lot 102 of Township Number Twenty-two in said

Town, said point being north six degrees fifty-four minutes east, Magnetic Meridian July, 1922, eight hundred feet from the point of intersection of said roads; and running thence easterly at right angles to said road one hundred seventy-five feet; thence angling to the left and bearing north six degrees fifty-four minutes east twelve hundred feet; thence angling to the left ninety degrees one hundred seventy-five feet to the easterly right of way line of the aforesaid town road; thence angling to the left and running southerly in the easterly limit of the right of way of said town road twelve hundred feet to the place of beginning, containing five acres of land, be the same more or less, and containing all the land within said bounds.

TOGETHER with the appurtenances; and all the estate and rights of the said parties of the first part in and to said premises.

AND WHEREAS, The said United States has also caused to be filed and recorded in said office of the Secretary of State, by said agent, maps and description of said lands by metes and bounds, and a certificate of the Attorney-General of the United States that the United States is in possession of said lands and premises for the works and purposes mentioned in section 52 of article 4, chapter 59 of the consolidated laws of the State of New York, under a clear and complete title.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ALFRED E. SMITH, Governor of the State of New York, by the authority vested in me by said Act, do hereby, in the name and on behalf of the State of New York, cede, grant and release to the United States of America the jurisdiction of the State of New York on and over said parcel of land above described, the United States to hold, possess and exercise such jurisdiction subject to the condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States on and over the property and premises so conveyed, so far as that all civil and criminal process which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such jurisdiction had not been ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States and subject also to the other terms and conditions of said Act of the Legislature of the State of New York.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, ALFRED E. SMITH,

Governor of the State of New York, have sub

scribed my name and have caused to be affixed the [GREAT SEAL] Great Seal of the State of New York to this deed,

in duplicate, this fourteenth day of May, one
thousand nine hundred twenty-four.

ALFRED E. SMITH.
By the Governor, Attest:

JAMES A. HAMILTON

Secretary of State.

I, JAMES A. HAMILTON, Secretary of State of the State of New York, do hereby certify that the duplicate of this deed has been filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York.

Dated May 14, 1924.

JAMES A. HAMILTON

SS.

Examined and compared with the original.
JOHN J. MACKRELL

Deputy Secretary of State.

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Secretary of State.