Members, Officers and Employes of the Legislature. S$ 21-23 8 21 Limitation of legislative expenses.-Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, order to be printed more than four thousand copies of any paper or document, or the purchase of any books, the aggregate cost to which shall exceed one hundred dollars; or appoint any committee of its own members or others at the public expense, except in case of contested elections; or incur any expense whatever except as provided by this chapter. § 22. Custody of legislative papers and documents.-The clerk of each house shall take charge of and keep on file all documents of such house, and those presented to it; and shall cause all papers in his charge to be so classified and arranged, that they can be easily found. No paper shall be withdrawn from the files of either house, whether the same be in charge of the regents of the university or the clerk of such house, except that such clerk or a deputy appointed by him shall have access to the papers of such house in charge of the regents for the purpose of taking copies. Any person may obtain a certified copy of any paper or document on such files by applying to the clerk in charge thereof, and paying to such clerk the same fees as are charged by law by the secretary of state for engrossing and certifying exemplifications of records deposited in his office. Either house may, by resolution, order title deeds or original documents accompanying any petition to be delivered to the person entitled thereto. § 22.* Appropriation bills, how referred.-All bills that involve any appropriation from the treasury of the state, when introduced in the senate, shall be referred to the committee on finance, and when introduced in the assembly, shall be referred to the committee on ways and means. (Added by chap. 856 of 1895, § 4.) 23. Duties of commissioners of statutory revision. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of statutory revision, on request of either house of the legislature or of any committee, member or officer thereof to draft or revise bills, to render opinions as to the constitutionality, consistency or other legal effect of proposed legislation and to report by bill such measures as they deem expedient. (Added by chap. 24 of 1893, § 2.) * So in the original. § 40-42 Article II. ARTICLE II. THE ENACTMENT AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. SECTION 40. Certificate of presiding officer. 41. Evidence of when bill becomes a law. 42. Deposit of laws and concurrent resolutions with secretary of state. 43. Time of taking effect of laws. 44. Statements in session laws as to passage of law. 45. Contents of published volumes of session laws. 46. Officers and institutions entitled to receive session laws. 47. Officers and institutions entitled to receive bound volumes of journals, bills and documents. 48. Slips of session laws and concurrent resolutions to be forwarded to newspapers. 49. Slips of session laws to be forwarded to clerks. 40. Certificate of presiding officer.-Upon the passage of a bill or concurrent resolution by either house, the presiding officer thereof shall append to such bill or resolution, a certificate of the date of its passage by the votes of a majority of all the members. elected to such house or in the presence of three-fifths of such members, if such be the case, or by the votes of two-thirds of all the members elected to such house, as the case may be. No bills shall be deemed to have so passed unless certified by the presiding officer, which certificate to such effect shall be conclusive evidence thereof. (As amended by chap. 53 of 1894, § 1.) § 41. Evidence of when bill becomes a law.—If a bill becomes a law by the approval of the governor, the certificate of the governor shall be the evidence of the time when the bill becomes a law. If a bill becomes a law by the failure of the governor to sign it or to return it to the house where it originated without his approval within the time required by the constitution, the certificate of the secretary of state of the time when it was filed in his office shall be evidence of the time when it became a law. 42. Deposit of laws and concurrent resolutions with secretary of state.-Every concurrent resolution upon its passage, and every bill upon its becoming a law, with the certificate of the presiding officer of each house appended thereto, shall be deposited with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall forthwith upon such deposit indorse upon each bill his certificate of the day, month and year it was filed in his office, and his certificate to such effect shall be presumptive evidence thereof. The The Enactment and Publication of Laws. §§ 43-46 secretary of state shall cause the original laws and concurrent resolutions passed at each session to be bound together in a volume of convenient size to be kept in his office. He shall compare with the original a volume of the printed laws, and having noted therein at the end of each law or resolution any error in the printed volume, shall deposit such printed volume with the original volume in his office. Each such volume shall be lettered on its back with its title and the session at which the laws were passed. 843. Time of taking effect of laws.-Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law. § 44. Statement in session laws as to passage of law.-In the publication of every law, the secretary of state shall omit the certificates appended thereto, but shall cause to be inserted immediately under the title of the law, a statement to the effect that it became a law upon the properly specified date, with or without the approval of the Governor, or notwithstanding his objections, as the case may be, and adding the words "passed by a two-thirds vote," "passed, three-fifths being present," or "passed, a majority being present," in accordance with the certificates appended to the original bill. Such statement shall be presumptive evidence that the original law was certified by the presiding officer of each house accordingly. (As amended by chap. 53 of 1894.) 8 45. Contents of published volumes of session laws.-The secretary of state shall annually cause indexes to the laws to be prepared as soon as possible after the adjournment of the legis lature and shall cause a statement of the names and residences of the governor, lieutenant-governor, senators and members of assembly, and presiding officers of both houses in office during each session, the laws and concurrent resolutions passed thereat, the indexes thereof, and such other matters as åre required to be published in the volumes of the session laws, to be printed and bound. Each volume printed for the state shall contain the certificate of the secretary of state that it was printed under his direction. 46. Officers and institutions entitled to receive session laws. As soon as the session laws of each session are printed and bound the secretary of state shall distribute the bound printed volumes: A 1902 c. 293 1. To the clerk of the senate, for the use of the senate, sixteen copies; and to the clerk of the assembly, for the use of the assembly, eighteen copies. 2 To the governor, for the use of the executive chamber, the lieutenant-governor, members of the legislature, clerks of the two houses, judges of the court of appeals, the justices of the supreme court, county judges, judges of the superior city courts, and the commissioners of claims, each one copy; and to each state officer, and to each board or commission of state officers, having an office in the capitol, for their respective offices, each one copy. 3. One copy to each of the following officers: Each town clerk, for the use of the town, each district attorney, the clerk of each board of supervisors, for the use of the board, each surrogate, except where the county judge acts as surrogate, for the use of the surrogate's court, to the county treasurer of each county, to the mayor of each city, for the use of the city, and to each village clerk. Every such officer shall deliver such copy of the session laws to his successor in office. 4. To each incorporated college or university of the state, one copy. 5. To the athenæums of the cities of Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Albany, and to the Historical Society of the city of New York, each one copy. 6. To the secretary of state of the United States, four copies. 7. To the governors of the several states, as many copies as are directed to be sent by the governor of this state. (As amended by chap. 218 of 1894, § 1 and chap. 19 of 1897, § 1.) § 47. Officers and institutions entitled to receive bound vol. umes of journals of * bills and documents.-As soon as the journals, bills and documents are bound, the secretary of state shall distribute them as follows: I. For the senate, thirty-eight copies of the journals and documents; 2. For the assembly, one hundred and fifty copies of the journals and documents; 3. For the senate library, three copies of the journals and documents, and two copies of the bills; 4. For the assembly library, five copies of the journals and documents, and three copies of the bills; * So in the original. The Enactment and Publication of Laws. S$ 48-49 5. For counties, public officers and incorporated colleges and universities in this state, one hundred and twenty-three copies of the journals and documents; 6. For the literary and scientific exchanges, to be made by the regents of the university, including one copy of each for each state and territory, one hundred and seven copies of the journals and documents; 7. For the state library, two copies of the journals, documents and bills; 8. To the executive chamber, one copy of the bills; 9. To the office of the secretary of state, one copy of the bills. 48. Slips of the session laws and concurrent resolutions to be forwarded to newspapers.--The secretary of state shall send to each newspaper designated by the member of the board of supervisors, representing respectively, each of the two principal political parties into which the people of the county, are divided, or if there is but one newspaper published in a county, to such newspaper in the order in which they are passed, and as soon as the slips are printed, copies of all laws of a general nature, of such local laws as relate to the affairs of the county in which such newspaper is published, and of such concurrent resolutions, as are required to be published. Concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution shall be published in such newspapers once in each week for thirteen consecutive weeks, under the direction of the secretary of state, at the expense of the state. $ 49. Slips of session laws to be forwarded to clerks.-The county clerk of each county shall, on or before the first day of January of each year, notify the secretary of state of the total number of towns, villages and cities within such county. The secretary of state, as soon as practicable after the receipt of the slips of the session laws from the printer shall send to the county clerk of each county a sufficient number of each printed slip of each law and concurrent resolution of the legislature affecting such county or any municipality therein, to supply such county and each such municipality affected by any such law or concurrent resolution, with one copy thereof. The county clerk of each county, as soon as practicable after the receipt thereof, shall send one of each such slips affecting any town, village or city therein to the clerk thereof, and shall retain one of each such slips on file in his office. Such distribution by the county clerk shall be by |