The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Statutes, Procedures and Precedents Applicable to the Ordinary Business of the Legislature of the State of New York1884 |
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Page 72 - Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments, and in contracting debt by such municipal corporation.
Page 73 - or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, and all officers whose offices may hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed, as the Legislature may direct.
Page 23 - Sec. 5. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen. ARTICLE III. Section 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly. Sec. 2. The Senate shall consist of thirty-two members, and the
Page 70 - construed to include all associations and jointstock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued in all courts in like
Page 121 - Rule 12. If any member, in speaking, transgress the rules of the house, the speaker, or any member, may call to order, in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, and shall not rise unless to explain or proceed in order.
Page 68 - Sec. 11. In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the State may contract debts to repel Invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in war ; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was
Page 72 - *Sec. 11. 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
Page 16 - Sec. 2. The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used, shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be. prescribed bylaw
Page 37 - If any member in speaking or otherwise transgresses the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order ; in which case, the member so called to order, shall immediately sit down and shall not
Page 56 - to which he belongs. It is also the privilege of a member of the Legislature that he is not to be questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in either House of the Legislature. No officer of either House, whilst in actual attendance