scription to such officer or employe to pay or contribute any money or other valuable thing for any such purpose or object; or

3 Being such an officer or employe and having charge or control of any building, office or room occupied for any purpose of the state or of a political subdivision thereof, consents that any person enter the same for the purpose of making, collecting, receiving or giving notice of any political assessment; or

4. Enters or remains in any such office, building or room, or sends or directs any letter or other writing thereto, for the purpose of giving notice of demanding or collecting, or being therein, gives notice of, demands, collects or receives, any political assessment;

5. Prepares or makes out, or takes any part in preparing or making out, any political assessment, subscription or contribution, with the intent that the same shall be sent or presented to or collected of any such officer or employe; or

6. Sends or presents any political assessment, subscription, or contribution to, or requests its payment of, any such officer or employe, ls guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 41w. Corrupt use of position or authority.-Any person who, 1. While holding a public office, or being nominated or seeking a nomination or appointment therefor, corruptly uses or promises to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence possessed or anticipated, in the way of conferring upon any person, or in order to secure, or aid any person in securing, any office or public employment, or any nomination, confirmation, promotion or increase of salary, upon consideration that the vote or political influence or action of the person so to be benefited or of any other person, shall be given or used in behalf of any candidate, officer or party or upon any other corrupt condition or consideration; or

2. Being a public officer or employe of the state or a political subdivision having, or claiming to have, any authority or influence affecting the nomination, public employment, confirmation, promotion, removal, or increase or decrease of salary of any public officer or employe, or promises or threatens to use, any such authority or influence, directly or indirectly to affect the vote or political action of any such public officer or employe, or on account of the vote or political action of such officer or employe; or

3. Makes, tenders or offers to procure, or cause any nomination or appointment for any public office or place, or accepts or requests any such nomination or appointment, upon the payment or contribution of any valuable consideration, or upon an understanding or promise thereof, or

4. Makes any gift, promise or contribution to any person, upon the condition or consideration of receiving an appointment or election to a public office or a position of public employment, or for receiving or retaining any such office or position, or promotion, privilege, increase of salary or compensation therein, or exemption from removal or discharge therefrom, is punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars or both.

§ 41x. Failure to file candidate's statement of expenses.Every candidate who is voted for at any public election held within this state shall, within ten days after such election, file as hereinafter provided an itemized statement showing in detail all the moneys contributed or expended by him, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person, in aid of his election. Such statement

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shall give the names of the various persons who received such moneys, the spe cific nature of each item, and the purpose for which it was expended or contributed. There shall be attached to such statement an affidavit subscribed and sworn to by such candidate, setting forth in substance that the statement thus made is in all respects true, and that the same is a full and detailed statement of all moneys so contributed or expended by him, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person, in aid of his election. Candidates for offices to be filled by the electors of the entire state, or any division or district thereof greater than a county, shall file their statements in the office of secretary of state. The candidates for town, village and city offices, excepting in the city of New York shall file their statements in the office of the town, village or city clerk, respect ively, and in cities wherein there is no city clerk, with the clerk of the common council of the city wherein the election occurs. Candidates for all other offices, including all officers in the city and county of New York, shall file their statements in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the election occurs. Any candidate for office who refuses or neglects to file a statement as prescribed in this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall also forfeit his office. S41x. Procuring fraudulent certificates in order to vote.-Any person who knowingly and willfully procures from any court, judge, clerk or other officer, a certificate of naturalization, which has been allowed, issued, signed or sealed in violation of the laws of the United States or of this state, with intent to enable himself or any other person to vote at any election when he or such person is not entitled by the laws of the United States to become a citizen or to exercise the elective franchise, is guilty of a felony.

Added by chap. 692 of 1893. In effect October 1, 1893.

41y. Presenting fraudulent certificates to registry boards to procure registration. A person who knowingly and willfully presents to any board of officers, for the purpose of hauing himself or any other person placed upon any list ar registay of voters, or to any board of officers for the purpose of enabling himself or any other person to vote at any election, any certificate of naturalizafion which has been allowed or issued by or procured from any judicial officer, clerk of a court, or other ministerial officer of a court, by any false statement, oath or representation, or in violation of the laws of the United States or of this State, with intent to enable any person to vote at any electiyn, when such person is not entitled to the laws of the United States to become a citizen, or of this state, to exercise the elective franchise, is guilty of a felony.

Added by chap. 692 of 1893. In effect October 1, 1893.

$41z. Any person who solicits from a candidate for an elective office money or other property, or who seeks to induce such candidate who has been placed in nomination to purchase any ticket, card or other evidence of admission to any ball, picnic, fair or entertainment of any kind, is guilty of a misdemeanor; but this section shall not apply to a request for a contribution of money by an authorized representative of the political party, organization or association to which such candidate belongs. Added by ch. 155, of 1895. To take effect September 1, 1895.

Congressional Apportionment Law.

CHAP. 295.

AN ACT dividing the state into congressional districts. APPROVED by the Governor April 13, 1892. Passed, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. For the election of representatives in congress of the United States this state shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-four districts, namely:

FIRST DISTRICT.-The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first district.

SECOND DISTRICT.-The first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh and twen tieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the second district.

THIRD DISTRICT.-The fourth, third, tenth, twenty-second, ninth and twenty. third wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the town of Flatbush, shall compose the third district.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-The twelfth, eighth, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty. sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend and Flatlands, shall compose the fourth district.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-The eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the fifth district.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-The thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the sixth district.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-The county of Richmond, together with the first and fifth assembly districts of the county of New York, shall compose the seventh district. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-The second, third and seventh assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the eighth district.

NINTH DISTRICT.-The fourth, sixth and eighth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the ninth district.

TENTH DISTRICT.-The ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the tenth district.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-The tenth, twelfth and fourteenth assembly districts of the county of New York shall compose the eleventh district.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.—The eleventh, sixteenth and eighteenth assembly districts of the county New York shall compose the twelfth district.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-The seventeenth and twentieth assembly district of the county of New York, and that portion of the twenty-first assembly district below the center of Fifty-ninth street in the city of New York, shall compose the thirteenth district.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-The nineteenth assembly district of the county of New York, that portion of the twenty-first assembly district between the center of Fifty-ninth street and the center of Seventy-ninth street, and that portion of the twenty-second assembly district below the center of Seventy-ninth street in the city of New York shall compose the fourteenth district.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-That portion of the twenty-first assembly district between the center of Seventy-ninth street and the center of Eighty-sixth street; that portion of the twenty-second district above the center of Seventy-ninth street of the city of New York, and the twenty-third assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the fifteenth district.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT-The twenty-fourth assembly district of the county of New York and the county of Westchester, shall compose the sixteenth district.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Rockland, Orange and Sullivan shall compose the seventeenth district.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. The counties of Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster shall compose the eighteenth district.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Columbia and Rensselaer shall compose the nineteenth district.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-The county of Albany shall compose the twentieth district.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-The counties of Greene, Schoharie, Otsego, Montgomery and Schenectady, shall compose the twenty-first district. TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-The counties of Fulton and Hamilton, Saratoga and Saint Lawrence shall compose the twenty-second district. TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.—The counties of Clinton Franklin, Essex, Warren and Washington, shall compose the twenty-third district. TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis, shall compose the twenty-fourth district

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Oneida and Herkimer, shall compose the twenty-fifth district.

TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Delaware, Chenango, Broome, Tioga and Tompkins, shall compose the twenty-sixth district. TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Onondaga and Madison, shall compose the twenty-seventh district.

TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Wayne, Cayuga, Cortland, Ontario and Yates, shall compose the twenty-eighth district. TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT. The counties of Chemung, Seneca, Schuyler and Steuben, shall compose the twenty-ninth district.

Words used, deined.

THIRTIETH DISTRICT.-The counties of Niagara, Livingston, Wyoming, Genesee and Orleans shall compose the thirtieth district.

THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT.—The county of Monroe shall compose the thirty-first district.

THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards of the city of Buffalo, as now constituted, shall compose the thirty-second district.

THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-The fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Buffalo, as now constituted, and the fourth and fifth assembly districts of the county of Erie, which said fourth assembly district includes the said twenty-fifth ward of the city of Buffalo, shall compose the thirty-third district.

THIRTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.-The counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany, shall compose the thirty-fourth district.

§ 2. The words "assembly district," when used in this act, refer to assembly districts as at present constituted. Whenever the word "ward 66 or wards" is used in this act it shall be understood to refer to the ward or wards as constituted at the time of the passage of this act.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE.

ARTICLE II.

§ 1. Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people; provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the Legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.*

§ 2. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or with,

* See section 34, subd. 2 of Election Law.

holding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that purpose shall receive his vote, shall swear or affirm, before such officers that he has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election, and has not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election. The Legislature shail enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.

Amended by Convention of 1894, and ratified Nov, 6, 1894.

§3. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms-house or other asylum, or institution wholly or partly supported at public expense or by charity nor while confined in any public prison.

New matter in Italics.

Amended by Convention of 1894, and ratified Nov. 6, 1894.

Soldiers' Home at Bath is an "asylum." Silvey v. Lindsay, 107 N. Y. 55.

4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding State enumeration of inhabitants, voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters.

New matter in Italics.

Amended by Convention of 1894, and ratified Nov. 6, 1894.

§ 5. All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or