improvement to be so excluded shall be determined, and no such debt shall be excluded except in accordance with the determination so prescribed. The legislature may in its discretion confer appropriate jurisdiction on the appellate division of the supreme court in the first judicial department for the purpose of determining the amount of any debt to be so excluded. No indebtedness of a city valid at the time of its inception shall thereafter become invalid by reason of the operation of any of the provisions of this section. Whenever the boundaries of any city are the same as those of a county, or when any city shall include within its boundaries more than one county, the power of any county wholly included within such city to become indebted shall cease, but the debt of the county, heretofore existing, shall not, for the purposes of this section, be reckoned as a part of the city debt. The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or in any such city of this state, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of the county or city debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt. § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article eight of the constitution be amended by adding a new section to follow section ten, to be section ten-a, to read as follows: § 10-a. Notwithstanding any of the limitations prescribed by the preceding section, debts may be incurred by the city of New York after January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, for the construction or equipment, or both, of new rapid transit railroads not exceeding the sum of three hundred million dollars, and such debts shall not be included in computing the debt limit of such city for the purpose of ascertaining the power of such city to become otherwise indebted. § 3. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election of senators, and in conformity with section one of article fourteen of the constitution be published for three months previous to the time of such election. Said resolution was then read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said resolution, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said resolution to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Senate bill (No. 988, Int. No. 890) entitled "An act to amend chapter five hundred and sixty-four of the Laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled 'An act to provide for county roads in certain counties adjoining cities of the first class,' in relation to jurisdiction of trustees of villages over county roads within the village, was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said bill to the Assembly and request its concurrence therein. The Assembly bill (No. 872, Rec. No. 192) entitled "An act to amend chapter one hundred and eight of the Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled 'An act authorizing The Clifton Springs Sanitarium Company to borrow money and issue its notes or bonds therefor and to secure the payment thereof by a mortgage upon its property in order to raise money to erect buildings or make other improvements upon its property, and for the general purposes for which said corporation is created,' in relation to increasing the amount which said company or its trustees on its behalf may borrow for the purposes set forth in said act, and secure the payment of as therein provided," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Senate bill (No. 1172, Int. No. 588) entitled "An act to amend the Civil Practice Act, in relation to the proof of a conveyance and its introduction in evidence," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said bill to the Assembly and request its concurrence therein. The Assembly bill (No. 637, Rec. No. 90) entitled "An act to amend the Civil Practice Act, in relation to commissions of trustees," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Assembly bill (No. 1173, Rec. No. 195) entitled "An act to amend the Conservation Law, in relation to the unlawful taking of lobsters," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Assembly bill (No. 1414, Rec. No. 191) entitled “An act to amend the Conservation Law, in relation to the taking of certain fish," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Assembly bill (No. 1063, Senate Reprint No. 1177, Rec. No. 112) entitled "An act to amend the Conservation Law, in relation to open season for taking muskrat by trapping in Essex and Washington counties," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same with amendments. The Assembly bill (No. 296, Rec. No. 208) entitled "An act to amend the Conservation Law, in relation to upland game birds," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the final passage of said bill, the same having been printed and upon the desks of the members in its final form for three calendar legislative days, and it was decided in the affirmative, a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths being present, as follows: Ordered, That the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the Senate has concurred in the passage of the same. The Assembly bill (No. 658, Rec. No. 213) entitled "An act to amend the County Law, in relation to the method of acquiring |