Chap. 86. AN ACT to expedite the work of improving the Oswego canal, by providing for the suspension of navigation on the same during the season of nineteen hundred and fourteen. Became a law March 25, 1914, 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. The superintendent of public works is hereby authorized to close to navigation such portion or portions of the Oswego canal during the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, as in his judgment may result in expediting the progress of the improvement work on said canal; provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the closing of said canal during any other year than that herein named. 82. All conflicting acts or parts of acts are hereby repealed, to an extent that they may not conflict herewith. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 87. AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to indorsement of general ballot. Became a law March 25, 1914, 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: ch. 22, 1, as added ch. 821, Section 1. That part of subdivision one preceding the face of L. 1909, ballot form of section three hundred and thirty-one of chapter 331, subd twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled by L. 1913, "An act in relation to the elections, constituting chapter seventeen amended. of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter eight hundred and twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 331. Classification of ballots; form of ballots for candidates. 1. General provisions. There shall be five kinds of ballots, called respectively ballots for presidential electors, ballots for general officers, ballots upon constitutional amendments and questions submitted, ballots upon town propositions, and ballots upon town ap propriations, which shall be used for the purposes which their names severally indicate and not otherwise. Ballots for general officers shall contain the names of all candidates except presidential electors. All ballots shall be printed in black ink, on book paper of good quality free from ground wood, five hundred sheets of which twenty-five by thirty-eight inches in size shall weigh sixty pounds and shall test for that size and weight at least twenty points on a Morrison tester. They shall be rectangular in shape, not less than eight inches in width and twelve inches in length, and shall have a margin extending beyond any printing thereon. All ballots of the same kind for the same polling place shall be of precisely the same size, quality and shade of paper, and of precisely the same kind and arrangement of type and tint of ink. A different, but in each case uniform, kind of type shall be used for printing the names of candidates, the titles of offices, political designations, and the reading form of constitutional amendments and other questions and propositions submitted. The names of candidates shall be printed in capital letters in black-faced type not less than one-eighth nor more than three-sixteenths of an inch in height. Each ballot shall be printed on the same sheet with a stub and shall be separated therefrom by a horizontal line of perforations extending across the entire width of the ballot. On the face of the stub shall be printed the instructions to voters hereinafter provided. On the back of the stub, immediately above the center of the indorsement on the back of the ballot hereinafter referred to, shall be printed "No. ... "the blank to be filled with the consecutive number of the ballot, beginning with "No. 1,” and increasing in regular numerical order. On the back of the ballot, below the line of perforations, just to the right of the center, and outside when the ballot is folded, shall be printed the following indorsement, the blanks being properly filled and the numbers running from one upward, consecutively: Official Ballot (for Presidential Electors). (Facsimile of the signature of officer causing the ballot to be printed). 1 Words "(ward or town)" new. Each ballot shall be printed in sections, on which the candidates' names, emblems and political designations, or the constitutional amendment, or other question submitted, with the voting leavy The face of the ballot shall be substantiany form: § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. the paces five hori Dallot inted ¡e, in may which es or .cular in all cular ernor inde inged paces shall more con n the The n the . In xteen name te in pre n, his ger in wing of whic of the i vided. the stub extendi shall be Each in heigh not less candida and oth designa for prin A diffe precisel of prec All b and sha not less points ( pounds dential electors paper c [Face of ballot] 1. To vote for a candidate on this ballot make a single cross X mark in one of the 4. Mark only with a pencil having black lead. 4. Any other mark, erasure or tear on this ballot renders it void. 5. If you tear, or deface, or wrongly mark this ballot, return it and obtain another. 1. GOVERNOR (Vote for one). こし printed). 1 Words "(ward or town)" new. causing the ballot Liberal Each ballot shall be printed in sections, on which the candidates' names, emblems and political designations, or the constitutional amendment, or other question submitted, with the voting other r n the n I in hu heavy 3 PAUL PRY 2. The face of the ballot shall be supstancie form: § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. me in re his r in 'ing |
