Sheriffs and other officers to assist enumerators.

all counties of this state the sheriff, mayor or police commissioner of the city, or other officers having the control and direction of the police or other peace officers, shall render, and cause the police or other peace officers to render assistance and aid to the enumeration supervisor and enumerators appointed under this article when so requested to do by the secretary of state or enumerstion supervisor and upon like request shall cause police officers or other peace officers to accompany such enumerators to any house or houses, place or premises for the purpose of rendering such aid and assistance.

State Law, § 157, as amended by L. 1915, ch. 155, in effect March 31, 1915.

Certificate of secretary of state conclusive evidence.

A certificate under the hand and seal of the secretary of state as to the number of inhabitants of this state, or of any county, town, city or village, borough or district thereof; as shown by the completed and approved enumeration taken under the provisions of this article, shall be received as conclusive evidence of the fact by each and every court of this state.

State Law, § 158, as amended by L. 1915, ch. 155, in effect March 31, 1915.

JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

Division of state into Judicial districts.

The state is hereby divided into nine judicial districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth article of the constitution, which dis tricts shall be arranged as follows:

The first judicial district shall consist of the county of New York as at present constituted, including therein, as a part thereof, all the territory, which was or purported to be annexed to the county of New York from the county of Westchester by chapter nine hundred and thirty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five;

The second judicial district shall consist of the counties of Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk;

The third judicial district shall consist of the counties of Columbia, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer;

The fourth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Warren, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, Saint Lawrence, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton and Schenectady;

The fifth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis;

The sixth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler;

The seventh judicial district shall consist of the counties of Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, Steuben, Monroe and Cayuga;

The eighth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Erie, Chautau qua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming;

The ninth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland.

Judiciary Law, § 140.

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AN ACT TO PROVIDE A PROCEDURE FOR THE PROMPT REVIEW OF AN APPORTIONMENT BY THE LEGISLATURE OR OTHER BODY.

(Laws of 1911, chapter 773, in effect July 25, 1911.)

Section 1. An apportionment by the legislature shall be subject to review by the supreme court at the suit of any citizen, upon the petition of any citizen to the supreme court where any such petitioner resides and upon such service thereof upon the attorney-general, the president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the governor, as a justice of the supreme court may direct.

§ 2. An apportionment by any other body shall be subject to review by the supreme court at the suit of any citizen, upon the petition of any citizen to the supreme court where any such petitioner resides; and upon such service thereof upon the presiding officer of such other body, or upon such members thereof, and upon the attorney-general, as a justice of the supreme court may direct.

§ 3. Any such petition shall pray that the constitutionality of the apportionment be reviewed, and for such other relief as may be proper. The court may enter an order directing any officer of the state charged with the duty of issuing notices of election to issue notices of any ensuing election in accordance with its determination.

§ 4. In any proceeding heretofore begun, in the manner provided in the foregoing sections hereof, an appeal may, within ten days after the passage of this act, be taken to the appellate division of the supreme court from any determination heretofore made as to the constitutionality of any apportionment by the supreme court, and on any appeal to the appellate division in such proceeding the appellate division shall have jurisdiction to review the constitutionalty of the apportionment in issue, and to issue an order in accordance with section three hereof; and from the determination of the appellate division on such appeal an appeal may be taken to the court of appeals, and on any appeal to the court of appeals in such proceeding the court of appeals shall have jurisdiction to review the constitutionality of the apportionment in issue and to issue an order in accordance with section three hereof.

§ 5. No limitation of the time for commencing an action shall affect any proceeding herein before mentioned, or any appeal in any existing action or proceeding in which the validity of an apportionment is or may be in issue, if commenced within the period during which such apportionment is in force; and nothing in this act shall impair any existing remedy by which the validity of an apportionment may be determined.

6. This act shall take effect immediately.

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