education of the city of Gloversville located at the corner of North Main and Prospect streets in the third ward of said city, which bonds are dated July fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and are to become due and payable in twenty-four equal annual installments of five thousand dollars each commencing July fifth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, with interest at the rate of four and one-half per centum per annum, payable semiannually, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed and such bones are and each of them is hereby authorized and declared to Bonds valbe valid and subsisting obligations of said city, notwithstanding any defect in form or substance, the omission of any lawful requirement or lack of statutory authority in or for such acts and proceedings or any of them. idated. payment. § 2. Such bonds shall bear such interest and be payable at such Interest. times and places as are set forth therein, and the board of education of said city and the common council thereof shall raise Tax for annually by tax on the taxable property of said city in the manner provided by law, a sum sufficient to pay the interest and principal of such bonds as they shall respectively become due and payable. actions. 3. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now Pending poding in any court. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION amend CONCURRENT RESOLUTION of the Senate and Assembly Proposed proposing an amendment to section seven of article one of the ment to constitution, generally. Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section seven of article one of the constitution be amended to read as follows: constitution, art. 1, § 7. sation for vate prop roads, Compensation for taking private property; private roads; Compendrainage of agricultural lands. § 7. When private property shall taking pri be taken for any public use, the compensation to be made therefor, erty. when such compensation is not made by the state, shall be ascertained by a jury, or by the supreme court with or without a jury, but not with a referee, or by not less than three commissioners appointed by a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law. Private roads may be opened in the manner to be prescribed by Private law; but in every case the necessity of the road and the amount opening. of all damage to be sustained by the opening thereof shall be first determined by a jury of freeholders, and such amount, together with the expenses of the proceeding, shall be paid by the person to be benefited. General laws may be passed permitting the owners Construcor occupants of agricultural lands to construct and maintain for drains and the drainage thereof, necessary drains, ditches and dykes upon lands of the lands of others, under proper restrictions and with just compensation, but no special laws shall be enacted for such purposes. The legislature may authorize cities to take more land and prop- Excess con erty than is needed for actual construction in the laying out, by cities. widening, extending or relocating parks, public places, highways or streets; provided, however, that the additional land and property so authorized to be taken shall be no more than sufficient to tion of ditches on others. demnation |