who were actual residents of the state at the time of their enlistment or induction into the military service of the United States. An apportionment of the moneys on the basis of the periods of service of the respective beneficiaries shall be provided for by general laws. The aggregate of the debts authorized by this section shall not exceed forty-five million dollars. The provisions of this article, not inconsistent with this section, relating to the issuance of bonds for a debt or debts of the state and the maturity and payment thereof, shall apply to a debt or debts created pursuant to this section; except that the law authorizing the contracting of such debt or debts shall take effect without submission to the people pursuant to section four of this article.

AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE EIGHT OF THE CONSTITUTION, IN RELATION TO LIMITATION OF INDEBTEDNESS OF CITIES AND COUNTIES. § 10-a. The debt limitation of a city or county, or the limitation on the amount which the city or county is authorized to raise annually for city or county purposes, as prescribed by section ten of this article, shall not be affected by reason of a change in the system of taxation or in the definition of real estate or real property, whereby real estate then subject to taxation in such city or county shall be exempted from taxation or be taxed otherwise than on its assessment-rolls; but the valuation of such real estate as it last appeared on such assessmentrolis shall continue to be a part of the base on which the debt limitation, or on which the limitation on the amount which the city or county is authorized to raise annually for city or county purposes, shall be calculated. The legislature in its discretion may confer appropriate jurisdiction on the appellate divisions in the several judicial departments for the purpose of determining the real estate in any city or village, which is so exempted or otherwise taxed, and the value thereof.

AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE TWELVE OF THE CONSTITUTION, RELATING TO CITIES AND VILLAGES, SO AS TO REGULATE LEGISLATION CONCERNING THEM AND GUARANTEE TO THEM THE RIGHT OF MUNICIPAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.

§ 1. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations; and the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety

of persons employed by the state or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the state, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for the state, or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof.

§ 2. The legislature shall not pass any law relating to the property, affairs or government of cities, which shall be special or local either in its terms or in its effect, but shall act in relation to the property, affairs or government of any city only by general laws which shall in terms and in effect apply alike to all cities except on message from the governor declaring that an emergency exists and the concurrent action of two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature. § 3. Every city shall have power to adopt and amend local laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state, relating to the powers, duties, qualifications, number, mode of selection and removal, terms of office and compensation of all officers and employees of the city, the transaction of its business, the incurring of its obligations, the presentation, ascertainment and discharge of claims against it, the acquisition, care, management and use of its streets and property, the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for it, and the government and regulation of the conduct of its inhabitants and the protection of their property, safety and health. The legislature shall. at its next session after this section shall become part of the constitution, provide by general law for carrying into effect the provisions of this section.

§ 4. The provisions of this article shall not be deemed to restrict the power of the legislature to enact laws relating to matters other than the property, affairs or government of cities.

§ 5. The legislature may by general laws confer on cities such further powers of local legislation and administration as it may, from time to time, deem expedient.

§ 6. All elections of city officers, including supervisors and judicial officers of inferior local courts, elected in any city or part of a city, and of county officers elected in the counties of New York and Kings, and in all counties whose boundaries are the same as those of a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered year, and the term of every such officer shall expire at the end of an odd-numbered year. The terms of office of all such officers elected before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, whose successors have not then been elected, which under existing laws would expire

with an even-numbered year, or in an odd-numbered year and before the end thereof, are extended to and including the last day of December next following the time when such terms would otherwise expire; the terms of office of all such officers, which under existing laws would expire in an even-numbered year, and before the end thereof, are abridged so as to expire at the end of the preceding year. This section shall not apply to elections of any judicial officer, except judges and justices of inferior local courts.

§ 7. The provisions of this article shall not affect any existing provision of law; but all existing charters and other laws shall continue in force until repealed, amended, modified or superseded in accordance with the provisions of this article. shall apply to or affect the maintenance, support, or administration of Nothing in this article contained the public school systems in the several cities of the state, as required or provided by article nine of the constitution.

The proposition is:

MAKING PROVISION FOR ISSUING BONDS TO THE AMOUNT OF NOT TO
EXCEED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS FOR
BUILDINGS FOR INSTITUTIONS FOR THE CARE, SUPPORT, INSTRUCTION
THE CONSTRUCTION OF
AND TRAINING OF THE WARDS OF THE STATE.

Section 1. There shall be issued in the manner and at the times hereinafter recited bonds of the state in an amount not to exceed fifty million dollars, which bonds shall be sold by the state and the proceeds thereof paid into the state treasury and expended for the construction of buildings for the following institutions for the care, support, instruction or training of the wards of the state; state hospitals for the insane; state charitable institutions, meaning thereby institutions of a charitable, eleemosynary, curative, correctional or reformative character supported in whole or in part by the state, but not including state prisons. Such bonds when issued shall be exempt from taxation.

2. The comptroller is hereby directed to cause to be prepared the bonds of this state to an aggregate amount not to exceed fifty million dollars, such bonds to bear interest at the rate of not to exceed five per centum per annum, which interest shall be payable semiannually in the city of New York. Such bonds, or the portion thereof at any time issued, shall be made payable in twenty-five equal annual instalments, the first of which shall be payable one year from the date of issue, and the last of which shall be payable twenty-five years from the date of issue; provided, however, that no such debt shall be contracted until the legislature shall have enacted general laws determining the probable life of the work for which the debt is to be contracted,

covering each kind of building which may be constructed hereunder; and provided further that no such bonds shall be issued or sold to provide moneys for the construction of any building the probable life of which shall be less than twenty-five years, as determined by such general laws; and provided further that in any one fiscal year contracts, in the aggregate, for construction under this act shall not be authorized or made, nor proceeds of such bonds expended, in excess of one-fourth of the total amount for which bonds are authorized by this act. The comptroller is hereby charged with the duty of selling such bonds at not less than par to the highest bidder after advertising for a period of twenty consecutive days, Sundays excepted, in at least two daily newspapers printed in the city of New York and one in the city of Albany. Advertisements shall contain a provision to the effect that the comptroller, in his discretion, may reject any or all bids made in pursuance of such advertisement, and in the event of such rejection the comptroller is authorized to readvertise for bids in the form and manner above described as many times as, in his judgment, may be necessary to effect a satisfactory sale.

§ 3. All buildings constructed under this act shall be so constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the governor and the state architect. After appropriation or appropriations therefor by the legislature, the building or buildings thereby provided for any such hospital or institution shall be constructed by the authorities and in the manner, and the moneys therefor paid out in the manner provided by the laws then in force, not inconsistent herewith, governing the construction by the state of other buildings of such hospital or institution. Within the meaning of this act, the term buildings shall include buildings to replace existing buildings, additional buildings for any such hospital or institution, and additions to existing buildings; and the construction of a building to replace an existing building shall include the work of demolition or removal of the existing building. All buildings constructed under this act shall be and remain the property of the state. If the legislature shall provide, by moneys appropriated from the general fund for the acquisition by the state of additional lands on which to construct a building or buildings for any such hospital or institution under this act, no part of the proceeds of bonds sold and issued hereunder shall be available for constructing a building or buildings on any such lands if acquired by purchase until the attorney-general, by certificate filed with the state comptroller, shall have approved the title to such lands and the conveyance or conveyances thereof to the state.