Concurrent Resolutions. for the use of not exceeding three per centum of such lands for the construction and maintenance of reservoirs for municipal water supply, for the canals of the state and to regulate the flow of streams. Such reservoirs shall be constructed, owned and controlled by the state, but such work shall not be undertaken until after the boundaries and high flow lines thereof shall have been accurately surveyed and fixed, and after public notice, hearing and determination that such lands are required for such public use. The expense of any such improvement shall be apportioned on the public and private property and municipalities benefited to the extent of the benefits received. Any such reservoir shall always be operated by the state and the legislature shall provide for a charge upon the property and municipalities benefited for a reasonable return to the state upon the value of the rights and property of the state used and the services of the state rendered, which shall be fixed for terms of not exceeding ten years and be readjustable at the end of any term. Unsanitary conditions shall not be created or continued by any such public works. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not prevent the legislature from authorizing the cutting and removal of dead and fallen timber on lands in the forest preserve for fuel or other domestic purposes; or authorizing the cutting and use by the state of timber on such lands for the construction of roads and trails necessary for protection against fire, and for ingress and egress. A violation of any of the provisions of this section may be restrained at the suit of the people or, with the consent of the supreme court in appellate division, on notice to the attorney-general at the suit of any citizen. legislature at next § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing Referred to amendment be referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next chosen general election of senators, and, in conformity with section one, article fourteen of the constitution, be published for three months previous to the time of such election. STATE OF NEW YORK, IN ASSEMBLY, Apr. 10, 1918. By order of the Assembly, 1 Following sentence new. STATE OF NEW YORK, IN SENATE, Apr. 12, 1918. EDWARD SCHOENECK, President. election of senators. ELECTION OF REGENT. ALBANY, N. Y., February 6, 1918. At a joint session of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York, held in the Assembly Chamber in the City of Albany, Wednesday, the sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and eighteen, in pursuance of law, WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM, of the City of Syracuse. County of Onondaga, Fifth Judicial District, was declared duly elected as a REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, for a term of twelve years from the first day of April, 1918. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have placed our hands and the seals of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. [SEAL] EDWARD SCHOENECK, President of the Senate. ERNEST A. FAY, Clerk of the Senate. THADDEUS C. SWEET, Speaker of the Assembly. FRED W. HAMMOND, Clerk of the Assembly. [SEAL] Endorsed: Filed Feb. 6, 1918. FRANCIS M. HUGO, AMENDMENT TO RULES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS RELATING TO ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS. STATE OF NEW YORK, IN COURT OF APPEALS. At a Court of Appeals for the State of New York, held at Court of Appeals Hall in the City of Albany, on the twenty-ninth day of March A. D. 1918. Present, Hon. FRANK H. HISCOCK, Chief Judge, presiding. In the Matter of Amending the rules of the Court of Appeals for the admission of Attorneys and Counsellors-at-Law, by adding a new rule to be known as Rule III-a. On motion, ORDERED, that the rules of this court for the admission of attorneys and counsellors-at-law be amended by adding a rule to be inserted between rules III. and IV. to be known as Rule III-a, as follows, viz.: RULE III-a. Examinations Dispensed with. The examination is dispensed with in the case of any applicant entitled to examination under these rules who is a graduate of a law school duly registered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York which requires a three-year course for graduation and who has been prevented from entering two examinations next following his graduation by actual and necessary service in the military or naval forces of the United States. Such applicant shall produce before the State Board of Law Examiners, in addition to the proof required by these rules of applicants for examination his diploma and satisfactory evidence of adequate instruction in New York Pleading and Practice and of such military or naval service. Each applicant shall pay the examiners the fee provided by Rule VIII. The State Board of Law Examiners shall certify to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Amendment to Rules of Court of Appeals. Court in the department in which any such person resides that the examination has been dispensed with. The examination in Substantive Law and Evidence alone may be dispensed with in case the applicant has had no satisfactory instruction in New York Pleading and Practice. [SEAL] [A copy] WM. J. ARMSTRONG, Endorsed: Filed Mar. 30, 1918. FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State. ALTERATION OF TOWN LINES. STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ULSTER, OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, OF ULSTER COUNTY. SS. I, HENRY R. DE WITT, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Ulster, do hereby, pursuant to the provisions of section 35 of the County Law of the State of New York, CERTIFY, that on the 27th day of December, 1917, there was duly presented to the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County, in the State of New York, an application to change the boundary lines of the Towns of Hurley and Woodstock, in the said County; that hereunto annexed and marked Exhibit "A," is a copy of such application; that there was also presented to the said Board at the time of the presentation of the said application or petition, due proof of the posting and publication of the notice of the presentation of the same to the said Board and of the said application, as provided by law, which proofs are now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County; that on the 27th day of December, 1917, an act was duly introduced in the said Board of Supervisors to change the said boundaries pursuant to the said application; that said act was duly passed by the said Board on the 28th day of December, 1917, in accordance with law and the rules of the said Board by more than a two-thirds vote of the said Board, which has thirty-three members; 29 members having voted on the said Act in the affirmative; that hereunto annexed and marked Exhibit "B" is a true copy of the said Act; and that hereunto annexed is a map of the said towns of Hurley and Woodstock, as changed by the said Act which map is marked Exhibit "C.” [SEAL] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the official seal of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County, this 10th day of January, one thousand nine hundred eighteen. HENRY R. DE WITT, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. |