relating to the financial condition of said city, the structure and the administration of the municipal government thereof, and of the government of the counties geographically included within said city. The investigation of the committee may include every other matter and thing not specifically mentioned in this resolution relevant to the general question of ascertaining and improving the financial conditions of said city and the structure and the administration of the government thereof, and of the counties geographically included therein, as though the same had been expressly specified herein.

Further Resolved, That such committee be hereby authorized to sit in the city of New York, or elsewhere within the State, and conduct the investigation herein described during the session of the Legislature and during the recess or after the adjournment with the same power and authority it would have were the Legislature in session to choose a chairman from among its own members, to employ a secretary, counsel, accountants and such other assistants as may be needed, to take testimony, subpoena witnesses and compel the production of books, documents and papers, to have the assistance and cooperation of the officers and employees of the city of New York and of the counties included geographically within said city and access to and examination of all records, books, papers and documents of said city and counties and of any and all departments, bureaus, offices, boards or commissions thereof, and otherwise to have all the powers of a legislative committee. The committee may at any time and from time to time by resolution of a majority of its members, be subdivided into sub-committees of such number as it may by majority determine, which sub-committees may sit at the same time and place or at different times and places in the State of New York during the session of the Legislature, during its recess or after the adjournment, each such sub-committee to appoint its own chairman and to act by majority vote of its own members and to administer oaths and to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses and the reduction of books, papers and documents and to do all other acts and things that may be done by the committee as a whole or that may be delegated to it by the full committee.

Further Resolved. Whenever in its judgment the public interest demands, the committee may determine that a person shall not be excused from attending and testifying before said committee or before any sub-committee thereof, or from producing books, papers or documents before the committee or such sub-committees in obedience to its subpoena on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him mav tend to incriminate him or to subject him to a penalty or forfeiture;

but no person so attending and testifying or producing such books, papers or documents, who has duly claimed excuse or privilege which would be sufficient except for this provision of this resolution and which said excuse or privilege has been expressly denied by the committee, shall be subjected to prosecution or to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of the transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may as aforesaid testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said committee or subcommittee in obedience to its subpoena.

Further Resolved, That said committee shall report with all convenient speed, but not later than February 1, 1922, the results of its investigations to the Legislature; and that such committee shall also report, from time to time, such results of its investigations as relate to or bear upon the finances and the structure of the government of the city of New York, and the counties geographically included therein, to any commission now or hereafter created by law for the study and general revision of the Greater New York charter, and the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or other acts relating to the government of said city;

Further Resolved, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from and out of the contigent fund of the Legislature for the necessary expenses of said committee and to be paid on vouchers approved and audited according to law.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said resolution, as amended, and it was determined in the affirmative, as follows:

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said resolution to the Assem

bly and request their concurrence therein.

Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on finance, to which was referred the concurrent resolution introduced by Mr.

relative to appointment of legislative committee to recodify the Agricultural Law, reported the same amended by reducing appropriation from fifteen thousand to ten thousand dollars.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said resolution, as amended, and it was determined in the affirmative, as follows:

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said resolution to the Assembly and request their concurrence therein.

Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on finance, to which was referred the concurrent resolution introduced by Mr. Cotillo relative to examining and studying the laws and conditions relative to transmission of moneys to foreign countries, reported the same amended by reducing the appropriation from ten thousand dollars to five thousand dollars.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said resolution, as amended, and it was determined in the affirmative, as follows:

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said resolution to the Assem

bly and request their concurrence therein.

Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on finance, to which was referred the resolution introduced by Mr. Knight relative to extending the time of the labor committee, reported the same amended by reducing the appropriation from ten thousand dollars to seven thousand five hundred dollars.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said resolution, as amended, and it was determined in the affirmative, as follows:

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said resolution to the Assembly and request their concurrence therein.

Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on finance, to which was referred the concurrent resolution introduced by Mr. Cotillo, relative to appointment for committee to arrange for celebration of Dante Day, reported the same amended to read as follows:

Whereas, On the 14th day of September, 1921, the sixth centenary of the death of the great poet Dante will be celebrated at Ravenna, Italy.

Whereas, For the past several years the Italian people have enthusiastically made preparation to lend to the event a splendor commensurate with the influence of Dante on modern thought and present day civilization.

Whereas, The foremost scholars of the world have joined with the Italian people in an effort to make such event a fitting tribute to the mighty genius to whom the day is to be consecrated.

Whereas, It is meet and proper that the State of New York should have a part in honoring Dante and showing by official sanction American appreciation of the genius which has linked the classical past of Europe with the civilized thought of the present.

Be it Resolved (if the Assembly concur). That a committee be appointed to consist of three Senators, to be appointed by the

Temorary President of the Senate, and four members of the Assembly, to be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, to devise plans and make arrangements for the observance of such centenary and to represent generally the State of New York in preparing a worthy observance of the event.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said resolution, as amended, and it was determined in the affirmative.

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said resolution to the Assembly and request their concurrence therein.

Mr. Walton moved that the committee on codes be discharged from the consideration of Assembly bill (No. 1331, Rec. No. 365) entitled "An act to amend the Inferior Criminal Courts Act of the City of New York, relative to the terms of clerks thereof." The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Walton, and by unanimous consent, the rules were suspended, and said bill ordered to a third reading. Said Assembly bill 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.

Mr. Walton moved that the committee on the judiciary be discharged from the consideration of Assembly bill (No. 667,