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SUPPLEMENT
VOL. CIV
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 11, 1919
No. 15 (2691)
ANNOUNCEMENT
In common with scores of other
publications issued in New York City,
the Real Estate Record and Builders
Guide has been unable, because of a
strike in the printing trades, to go to
its customers at its regular times
during October-
Wide publicity has been given in
the daily newspapers to the printers'
strike and we believe that all of the
readers and advertisers of the Rec¬
ord and Guide are thoroughly fa¬
miliar with the issues involved. We
believe that an industry so vital to
the welfare of the great metropolis
cannot long remain idle, and it is
the hope of the publishers of the
Record and Guide that this publica¬
tion, complete in all its details, can
be placed in the hands of all of its
customers without much further de¬
lay. When publication is resumed
the delayed issues of the Record and
Guide wiU be sent out in consecutive
order, so that the files for the calen¬
dar year may be made complete.
For more than fifty years the pa¬
trons of the Record and Guide have
been keeping on file the accurate rec¬
ords which have appeared from week
to week in this publication. In order
that there may be no break in these
files, all of these records are being
collated with exactly the same care
and completeness as would be the
case had there been no interruption
in the regular issue of this publica¬
tion. Just as soon as possible after
the resumption of the printing indus¬
try these records, already compiled,
will be forwarded to our patrons in
the form to which they, are accus¬
tomed, ready for filing as heretofore.
In order to comply with the laws
of the State of New York, the Record
and Guide is issuing in supplement
form the Concurrent Resolutions
which are required by law to be pub¬
lished twice during the month of Oc¬
tober. The issuing of this supple¬
ment, however, will have no bearing
on the publication of the regular
issues of the Record and Guide,
which will follow later.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
ONE
Explanation—Matter in italics is new; mat¬
ter in brackets [ ] is old matter to be omitted.
STATE OF NEW YORK.
Office of the Secretary of State
Albany, July 1, 1919.
Pursuant to the provisions of section one oi
article fourteen of the Constitution of the State
of New York, and section two hundred ninety-
five of the Election Law, notice is hereby given
that the following proposed amendment to sec¬
tion seven of article one of the Constitution
of the State of New York will be submitted
to the people for the purpose of voting thereon,
at the next general election to be held on the
fourth day of November, nineteen hundred
nineteen.
FRANCIS M. HUGO,
Secretary of State,
AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE
Concurrent Resolution of the Senate anh
Assembly Proposing an Amendment to
Section Seven of Article One of the
Constitution in Relation to the Drainage
OF Swamp or Agricultural Lands and the
Taking of Property Therefor.
Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur).
That section seven of article one of the con¬
stitution be amended to read as follows:
§ 7. When private property shall be taken
for any public use, the compensation to be made
therefor, when such compensation is not made
by the state, shali 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
law; but in every case the necessity of the
road and the amount of all damage to be sus¬
tained by the opening thereof shall be first
determined by a jury of freeholders, and such
amount, together with the expenses of the pro¬
ceeding, shall be paid by the person to be bene¬
fited. [General] The ^tse of property for the
drainage of swamp or agricitUnral lands is
declared to be a ptiblic use, and general laws
may be passed permitting the owners or occu¬
pants of swamp or agricultural lands to con¬
struct and maintain for the drainage thereof,
necessary drains, ditches and dykes upon the
lands of others, under proper restrictions on
uiaking [and with] just compensation, and such
compensation together with the cost of such
drainage 7nay be assessed, wholly or partly
against any propci-ty benefited thereby; but no
special laws shall be enacted for such pur¬
poses.
The legislature may authorize cities to taka
more land and property than is needed for
actual construction in the laying out, 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 suflicient to
form suitable building sites abutting on such
park, public place, highway or street. After so
much of the land and property has been appro¬
priated for such park, public place, highway
or street as is needed therefor, the remainder
may be sold or leased.
§ 2, Resolved (if the Senate concur), That
the foregoing amendment be submitted to the
people for approval at the general election to
be held in the year nineteen hundred and nine-