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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 104, no. 15: October 11, 1919: Supplement

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n 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-