POLITICAL CALENDAR FOR 1923.

PRIMARY PETITIONS.

To designate candidates, petitions must contain 3 per cent of the enrolled voters of party in political subdivision, but need not exceed the number mentioned below, namely:

1,500 signatures for any office voted for by all the voters of the city of New York. § 136.

1,000 signatures for any office to be filled by all the voters of any other city of the first class or of any county or borough containing more than 250,000 inhabitants. § 136.

500 signatures for any office in a county or borough containing more than 25,000 and not more than 250,000 inhabitants, or city of second class of any municipal court district in the city of New York, or any congressional or senatorial district. $136.

250 signatures for any office to be filled by all the voters of any other county or any city of the third class or of any assembly district, or of any aldermanic district in the city of New York. § 136.

July 3.

Aug. 24.

Aug. 28.

Aug. 30.

First day for signing petition. § 136.

Aug. 14 to Aug. 21... Dates for filing designating petitions. § 140. Last day to decline designation. 140. Last day to fill vacancy after declination. § 140. Certification by Secretary of State, to custodian of primary records, of designations filed in his office. § 71.

Hours for voting in New York city, 3 P. M. to 9 P. M. § 191. Hours for voting outside New York city, 12 noon to 9 P. M. § 191. Custodian of primary records, immediately after primary, should certify to Secretary of State names and addresses of elected delegates and alternates to conventions. § 270.

Sept. 23.

Last day for custodian of primary records to certify other results of election required to be sent to Secretary of State. § 270.

CONVENTIONS.

First day for holding State and Judicial. § 140.
Last day for filing nominations. § 140.

Last day for filing declinations. § 140.

Last day for filing new nominations. § 140.

INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS.

To nominate independently signatures must be obtained to the number of:

12,000 for State-wide offices, with at least 50 for each county (Fulton and Hamilton considered as one). § 137.

5

3,000

1,500

per cent of total vote for Governor in any political subdivision, except that

may nominate a candidate in any political subdivision larger than a borough or county. § 137.

may nominate a candidate for a borough or county office.
§ 137.

Oct. 2 to Oct. 9... Dates for filing independent nominations. § 140.
Oct. 12.
Last day to decline independent nominations.
§ 140.

Oct. 15.

Last day to fill vacancy of independent nominations. § 140.

CITIES AND VILLAGES OF 5,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS (EXCEPT NEW

OUTSIDE OF CITIES AND VILLAGES OF 5,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS.

Non-Personal Registration.

7 A. M. to 10 P. M. § 153.

Oct. 13.

Oct. 20

1 P. M. to 10 P. M. § 153.

Nov. 6.

General election.

Polls open 6 A. M. and close 6 P. M.

$191.

STATEMENTS UNDER CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT.

Nov. 26.

Last day to file all statements of expense. § 323.

PROPOSED

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

At the general election in New York State in 1923, five proposed amendments to the State Constitution and one proposition will be submitted to the voters.

The proposed amendments are:

AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE-A OF ARTICLE TWO OF THE CONSTITUTION, IN RELATION TO ABSENT VOTERS.

§ 1-a. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers' and sailors' home, or because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere within the United States, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.

AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION SEVEN OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF
CONSTITUTION, IN RELATION TO THE FOREST PRESERVE.

THE

§ 7. The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the state from constructing a state highway from Saranac lake in Franklin county to Long lake in Hamilton county and thence to Old Forge in Herkimer county by way of Blue Mountain lake and Racquette lake.

The legislature may by general laws provide for the use 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 property of the state used and the expenses of the state incurred in the operation of said reservoirs, which shall be fixed for terms of not exceeding ten years and be readjustable at the end of any term. The legislature may also provide by general laws for the use of such lands for the development of water power for the public benefit, and for the construction, maintenance and operation thereof of ponds, structures, conduits and appurtenances necessary for that purpose, 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. Such power shall not be used for manufacturing or business purposes on state lands within the forest preserve. Such development may be by the state, or by a lessee of the state, under a lease for a term not exceeding fifty years to be secured pursuant to law on such terms as will best protect the public interest, and transmission lines may also be constructed, maintained and operated on such lands by the state, or by such a lessee of the state, on like terms. Such works shall not be constructed or operated except under state supervision and regulation. Such lands may be used when authorized by law for the relocation of existing highways destroyed or made non-usable by the construction of such storage reservoirs or such water power development. No more than three percentum of the forest preserve shall be used for all the purposes provided for by law under this section. Unsanitary conditions shall not be created or continued by any such public works. 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.

AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE CONSTITUTION, EMPOWERING THE LEGISLATURE TO AUTHORIZE BY LAW THE CREATION OF A DEBT OR DEBTS TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF BONUSES TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES OF THE WORLD WAR.

13. The legislature may authorize by law the creation of a debt or debts of the state to provide for the payment of bonuses to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the World war