NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AME OTHER PROPOSITIONS OR QUESTIONS.

§ 6. Every amendment to the constitution proposed b lature, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be subm people for approval at the next general election, afte the legislature in accordance with the constitution; an any such proposed amendment to the constitution or ot) tion, or question provided by law to be submitted to a p shall be submitted to the people for their approval, th of state shall include in his notice to the county clerk an board of The City of New York, of the general election such amendment, proposition or question, and if mor such amendment, proposition or question is to be vot such election, such amendment, proposition or questi tively, shall be separately and consecutively numbere amendment, proposition or question is to be submitted election, the secretary of state shall, at least twenty days election, make and transmit to each county clerk and board of The City of New York a like notice. Each c shall, forthwith upon the receipt of such notice, file and his office, and shall cause a copy of such notice to be once a week until the election therein specified, in the designated to publish election notices.

§ 3. Section eight of said act is hereby amended so as follows:

CREATION, DIVISION AND ALTERATION OF ELECTION DIST

§ 8. Every town, or ward of a city, not subdivided in districts shall be an election district. The town boar town containing more than four hundred electors, and t council of every city except New York, in which there ward containing more than four hundred electors, shall fore the first day of July in each year, whenever necessar divide such town or ward respectively into election dist of which shall be compact in form, wholly within the tow and shall contain respectively as near as may be, fou electors, but no such ward or town shall be again di election districts until, at some general election, the votes cast in one or more districts thereof shall exceed six and in such a case the redivision shall apply only to th ward in which such district is situated. If any part of a be within a town, the town board shall divide into electio

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only that part of the town which is outside of the city. No election district including any part of a city shall include any part of a town outside of a city. A town or a ward of a city containing less than four hundred electors may, at least thirty days before the election or appointment (where appointment is directed to be made by law) of inspectors of election of such town or ward, be divided into election districts by the board or other body charged with such duty when, in the judgment of such board or body, the convenience of the electors shall be promoted thereby. The creation, division or alteration of an election district outside of a city shall take effect immediately after the next town meeting, and at such next town meeting inspectors of election shall be elected for each election district as constituted by such creation, division or alteration. If the creation, division or alteration of an election district is rendered necessary by the creation or alteration of a town, or ward of a city, it shall take effect immediately, but a new town or ward shall not be created, and no new town or ward shall be subdivided into election districts between the first day of August of any year, and the day of the gen eral election next thereafter. If inspectors are not elected or appointed for such district outside of a city before September the first next thereafter, the town board of the town shall appoint four inspectors of election for such district. If a town shall include a city, or a portion of a city, only such election districts as are wholly outside of the city shall be deemed election districts of the town, except for the purpose of town meetings. The police board of The City of New York shall divide such city into election districts on or before the first day of July in any year whenever necessary so to do as hereinafter provided. The election districts existing pursuant to the provisions of law in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven in the counties of New York and Kings shall continue with their present boundaries until at some general election for the office of governor the number of registered electors therein shall exceed six hundred, provided, however, that any election district containing less than seventy-five electors in such counties, made necessary by the crossing of congressional lines with other political divisions, may be consolidated with contiguous election districts in any year when no representative in congress is to be voted for in such districts. On or before the first day of July in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight the police board of The City of

counties o. New York and Kings into election districts be compact in form and shall contain as near as may dred electors as shown by the registration of electors for election held therein in the year eighteen hundred and Such election districts so established in The City of New not again be changed until at some general election f of governor the number of registered electors therein six hundred, except where changes are made necessary in the boundaries of congressional, senate or assembly ward lines, provided, however, that when the number o electors in any election district shall for two consecuti less than two hundred and fifty, such district may be with contiguous election districts in the discretion of board. In that portion of The City of New York within of New York each election district shall be compact in fo within an assembly district and numbered in consec therein respectively. In that portion of The City of Ne side of the county of New York each election district sh pact in form, entirely within a ward and numbered in order therein respectively. Except as heretofore provid tion district shall contain portions of two counties, or t sional, senate or assembly districts or two wards. Eac each part of a town included in The City of New York tuted by the Greater New York charter, shall be r deemed to be a ward within the meaning of this section.

§ 4. Section ten of said act is hereby amended so as follows:

DESIGNATION OF PLACES FOR REGISTRY AND VOTING, PUBLICATI AND PROVISION OF FURNITURE THEREFOR.

§ 10. On the first Tuesday of September in each year board of each town, and the common council of each c New York, and the police board of The City of New York ignate the place in each election district in the city o which the meeting for the registration of electors and t shall be held during the year. Each room so designated a reasonable size, sufficient to admit and comfortably date at least ten electors at a time outside of the guard building, or part of a building, shall be so designated in within thirty days before such designation, intoxicatin ale or beer, shall have been sold in any part thereof.

shell be designated elsewhere in a city if within thirty d

such designation, intoxicating liquors, ale or beer, shall have been sold in such room, or in a room adjoining thereto, with a door or passage-way between the two rooms. No intoxicating liquors, ale or beer shall be sold in such building in a city or such room or adjoining room elsewhere after such designation and before the general election next thereafter, or be allowed in any room in which an election is held during the day of the election or the canvass of the votes. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. If any place so designated shall thereafter and before the close of the election be destroyed, or for any reason become unfit for use, or can not for any reason be used for such purpose, the officers charged with the designation of a place for such election shall forthwith designate some other suitable place for holding such election. Not more than one polling place shall be in the same room, and not more than two polling places shall be in the same building. The officers authorized to designate such places in any town or city, shall provide for each polling place at such election, the necessary ballot and other boxes, guard rails, voting booths and supplies therein, and the other furniture of such polling place, necessary for the lawful conduct of each election thereat, shall preserve the same when not in use, and shall deliver all such ballot and other boxes for each polling place, with the keys thereof, to the inspec tors of election of each election district at least one-half hour before the opening of the polls at each election. The officers authorized to designate the registration and polling places in any city, except The City of New York, shall cause to be published in two news. papers within such city a list of such places so designated, and the boundaries of each election district in which such registration and polling place is located. Such publication shall be made in the newspapers so selected upon each day of registration and the day of election, and on the day prior to each such days. One of such newspapers so selected shall be one which advocates the principles of the political party polling the highest number of votes in the state at the last preceding election for governor, and the other newspaper so designated shall be one which advocates the principles of the political party polling the next highest number of votes for governor at said election. The police board of The City of New York shall cause to be published in two newspapers in each county wholly or partly within such city a list of the regis tration and polling places so designated in each borough in such

respective counties and the boundaries of each elect therein in which such registration and polling place is cept that in the borough of Brooklyn, such publication sh in the newspapers designated to publish corporation noti Such publication shall be made in such newspapers upo of registration and the day of election and on the day p of such days. Such publications shall be made in the published in such counties which shall respectively ad principles of the political parties which at the last pred tion for governor respectively cast the largest and n number of votes in the state for such office. The said p shall also cause to be published in the City Record or the first day of registration in each year a complete lis registration and polling places so designated and the of the election districts in which such places are locate in numerical order under the designation of the resp oughs in which they are located. In selecting the in which such publications are to be made the said board in view the object of giving the widest publicity thereto § 5. Section twelve of said act is hereby amended so as

follows:

APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTION OFFICERS

§ 12. On or before the first day of October in each police board of The City of New York and the mayor of city, shall select and appoint the election officers for ea district in their respective cities; and shall severally have to fill all vacancies which may arise before the opening o on election day. To insure the bipartisan character of s or body of election officers required by the election law, ical party entitled to representation in such board or have the right, not later than the first day of August in to prepare and file with the board or officer empowered the appointments as herein provided, a list of persons, m such party, duly qualified to serve as election officers, tog a supplemental list of persons, members of such party, d fied to serve as election officers, from which the said mayo may select and appoint persons to fill vacancies occurr representation of such party in such board or body o officers. In The City of New York such list shall be auth and filed by the chairman of the executive committee of t