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managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.

(For preceding section of this resolution, see proposed amendment to Art. III, § 2, p. 46.)

1906. A. No. 1407 (Int. 1133).

A. J. 943.

§ 6. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand [one thousand five hundred dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, [once] one in each session, on the most usual route. Senators, when the senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the court for the trial of impeachments, and such members of the assembly, not exceeding nine [in number] members, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.

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§ 6. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary [of one thousand five hundred dollars.] as follows: For senator, $5,000, and for assemblyman, $2,500. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of [one dollar] $1 for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each session, on the most usual route. Senators, when the Senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the court for the trial of impeachments, and such members of the Assembly, not exceeding nine [in number] members, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of [ten dollars] $10 a day.

1908. S. No. 657 (Int. 565).

S. J. 299.

§ 6. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary [of one thousand five hundred dollars.] as follows: Each member of the senate the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars and each member of the assembly the sum of

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three thousand dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each session, on the most usual route. Senators, when the senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the court for the trial of impeachments, and such members of the assembly, not exceeding nine in number, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.

1910. S. No. 679 (Int..188).

S. J. 61, 366, 417, 638.

1912. A. No. 907 (Int. 833). A. J. 368.

2. Mileage of senators and assemblymen

86. Each member of the Legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, [once] twelve times in each session, on the most usual route. Senators, when the Senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the Court for the Trial of Impeachments, and such Members of the Assembly, not exceeding nine in number, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.

1895. A. No. 2780 (Int. 1741). To S.

A. J. 3873.

S. J. 2011.

3. Biennial sessions of legislature

appropriations apportionment

salaries and terms of legislators

(For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for biennial sessions of the legislature, changing the salaries and terms of the legislators and regulating the making of appropriations and apportionment of legislators, see p. 311.)

4. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor - short ballot

(For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor, and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.)

§ 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifica

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tions of its own members; shall choose its own officers; and the Senate shall choose a temporary president to preside in case of the absence or impeachment of the Lieutenant-Governor, or when he shall refuse to act as president, or shall act as Governor.

AMENDMENT PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Rules regulating the introduction of bills

§ 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members; [shall] choose its own officers; and the Senate shall choose a temporary president to preside in case of the absence or impeachment of the Lieutenant-Governor, or when he shall refuse to act as president, or shall act as Governor. The legislature may make such rules as are necessary to regulate and limit the introduction of bills during each session.

1910. A. No. 1704 (Int. 1317). To S.

A. J. 1182, 3263, 3273, 3330, 3398, 3531, 3674.

S. J. 1920.

§ 14. The enacting clause of all bills shall be " The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows," and no law shall be enacted except by bill.

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Initiative and referendum

(For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the initiative and the referendum, see p. 271.)

2. Initiative, referendum and recall

(For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the initiative, the referendum and the recall, see p. 293.)

§ 15. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the Governor, or the acting Governor, shall have certified to the necessity of its immediate passage, under his hand and the seal of the State; nor shall any bill be passed or become a law, except by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature; and upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment thereof shall be allowed, and the question upon its final passage shall be taken immediately thereafter, and the yeas and nays entered on the journal.

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AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Requiring opinion of court of appeals on pending bills

§ 15. (Proposal to add the following:) Each house of the legislature shall have authority to require the opinions of the judges of the court of appeals upon important bills pending in the legislature, before their third reading, as to their constitu tionality excepting, however, private or local bills.

1913. A. No. 180 (Int. 177).

A. J. 64, 1054, 1116, 1158, 1270, 1564, 1947, 2010.

2. Initiative and referendum

(For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the initiative and the referendum, see p. 271.)

§ 18. The Legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases:

Changing the names of persons.

Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county seats.

Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases.
Incorporating villages.

Providing for election of members of boards of supervisors. Selecting, drawing, summoning or impaneling grand or petit jurors.

Regulating the rate of interest on money.

The opening and conducting of elections or designating places of voting.

Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks.

Granting to any private corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.

Providing for building bridges, and chartering companies for such purposes, except on the Hudson river below Waterford, and on the East river, or over the waters forming a part of the boundaries of the State.

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The Legislature shall pass general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in its judgment may be provided for by general laws. But no law shall authorize the construction or operation of a street railroad except upon the condition that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on, and the consent also of the local authorities having the control of, that portion of a street or highway upon which it is proposed to construct or operate such railroad be first obtained, or in case the consent of such property owners cannot be obtained, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, in the department in which it is proposed to be constructed, may, upon application, appoint three commissioners who shall determine, after a hearing of all parties interested, whether such railroad ought to be constructed or operated, and their determination, confirmed by the court, may be taken in lieu of the consent of the property owners.

AMENDMENT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE AND ADOPTED

§ 18. The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases:

Changing the names of persons.

Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county seats.

Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases.
Incorporating villages.

Providing for election of members of boards of supervisors. Selecting, drawing, summoning or empaneling grand or petit jurors.

Regulating the rate of interest on money.

The opening and conducting of elections or designating places of voting.

Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentage or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks.

Granting to any private corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.

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