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L. 1829, Chap. 259 – An act relative to applications to the legislature for grants of escheated lands.

Notice of application. SECTION 1. Every person hereafter applying to the legis lature for a release of lands escheated to the state, shall give the like notice of such application in the county where such lands may be situate, and in the state paper, as is required by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

L. 1829, Chap. 275 – An act requiring the publication of notices in certain cases.

Notices for constructing dams. SECTION 1. In all cases of applications to the legislature for the passage of laws authorizing the construction of dams, in or across the streams and waters of this state, which are by law public highways, like notices shall be given and published as are required to be given and published by the third title of the seventh chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, in cases of applications for acts of incorporation and in the other cases therein specified.

TITLE 4.

Powers of two houses.

Two-thirds bills.

2 Hill, 35.

TITLE IV.

Of the Enactment and Promulgation of Statutes, and of the Time from which they take Effect.

SEC. 1. Powers of the houses in regard to originating and amending bills.

2. Assent of two-thirds necessary to certain bills.

3. No bill deemed to have passed with two-thirds unless so certified.

4. Every bill passed and certified to be presented to governor.

5. Governor, if he disapprove, to return it with objections to the house where it originated.

6. If two-thirds agree to pass it notwithstanding objections, to be so certified. 7. Like proceeding in other house.

8. In such cases yeas and nays to be entered on journals.

9. If bill be not returned by governor within ten days, it became a law

10. Secretary of state to receive and deposit laws in his office.

11. To certify and endorse upon every bill the time it becomes a law

12. Unless a different time be prescribed, laws to take effect on the twentieth day after their passage.

13. Secretary of state to deliver copies of laws to state printer.

SECTION 1. Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature; and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.

[Const., art. III, § 13 ]

§ 2. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each 4 Hill, 384; branch of the legislature is requisite to every bill appropriating the public monies or property for local or private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering or renewing any body politic or corporate. [Abrogated by Const., art III, § 15.]

Ib.

33 N. Y., 284.

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assent.

§ 3. No bill shall be deemed to have been passed by the assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, unless so certified by the presiding officer of each house.

[33 N. Y, 284.]

§ 4. Every bill thus passed and certified, must, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor, if he approves, he must sign it; and he shall endorse thereon a certificate of his approbation, and deliver the same so endorsed to the secretary of state.

[1 R. L., 458, § 1. See Const., art. IV, § 9.]

objections.

§ 5. If the governor do not approve the bill, he shall return it TITLE 4. with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated, Governor's who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. [The same.]

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§ 6. If two-thirds of the members present shall agree to pass the Proccedbill, notwithstanding such objections, the presiding officer of such on. house shall endorse thereon a certificate of such passage by the number so required.

[The same.]

§ 7. The bill shall then be sent, together with the objections, to Ib. the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; if approved by two-thirds of the members present it becomes a law, and the presiding officer shall endorse thereon a certificate of its passage by the number required, and deliver the bill to the secretary of

state.

[The same.]

nays.

§ 8. In all such cases the votes of both houses shall be deter- Yeas and mined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill be entered on the journal of each house respectively.

[The same.]

returned.

§ 9. If a bill be not returned by the governor within ten days If not (Sundays excepted) after the same shall have been presented to him, it becomes a law in like manner as if he had signed it; unless the legislature, by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it does not become a law.

[The same.]

shall Duty of of state.

secretary

33 N. Y.,

§ 10. The secretary of state shall receive every bill which have passed the senate and assembly, and have been approved and signed by the governor, or which shall have become a law notwith- 275; 1 Rob, standing the objections of the governor, or which, not having been Abb. Pr.R., returned by the governor within ten days, shall have become a law; 431. and shall deposit such laws in his office.

[1 R. L., 458, § 1.]

145; 19

Ib.

§ 11. He shall certify and endorse upon every such bill, the day, 19 Abb. Pr. month and year, when the same so became a law, and such certifi- R., 431. cate shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein declared.

[4 Hill, 384; 19 Abb. Pr. R., 431.]

14 Abb. Pr.,

§ 12. Every law unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, Time when shall commence and take effect throughout the state, on and not effect. before the twentieth day after the day of its final passage, as certi- 134; 1 Rob., fied by the secretary of state.

[14 Abb., 134; 1 Rob., 145; 19 Abb. Pr., 431.]

145; 19 Abb. Pr. 431.

§ 13. The secretary of state shall forthwith deliver a certified copy Copy for of each law, other than acts of incorporation, deposited in his office, tion. publicaand of his endorsement thereon, to the state printer, to be printed [158] and published by him, in the manner prescribed in the eighth chapter 1 Rob., 145; of this act.

[The laws relating to the public printing now in force, are contained in the supplementary title 6 of this chapter.]

R., 431.

L. 1839, Chap. 263 – An act directing the secretary of state to furnish literary colleges with copies of the laws of the state of New York, and of the documents of the senate and assembly.

Duty of secretary of state. SECTION 1. The secretary of state is required hereafter to furnish annually each of the literary incorporated colleges of this state with one copy of the session laws of this state; and also with one copy of the documents of the senate, and one copy of the documents of the assembly; and the state treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller the amount of the expenses of carrying into execution the directions of this act.

L. 1842, Chap. 306 – An act in relation to the publication of the statutes of this state.

Indorsement not to be published. SECTION 1. It shall not be necessary for the secretary of state to furnish, nor for the state printer to publish, a copy of the certificate, which the secretary is required to indorse upon every bill, of the day, month, and year, when the same became a law.

How time and mode of passage of act to be indicated. § 2. In the publication of every law the secretary of state shall state when the same became a law, by inserting immediately under the title of the act the words, "Approved by the governor," and adding the month, day and year; and if the bill was certified by the presiding officers as having been passed by the assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the secretary of state, after stating when the bill became a law, shall add the words, "Passed by a two-thirds vote." Except that in the case of laws which become such without the approval of the governor, the secretary of state shall, instead of the words "Approved by the governor," use the following words: "Became a law without the approval of the governor, in accordance with the provisions of article four, section nine of the constitution." And except that in the case of laws which become such notwithstanding the objections of the governor, instead of the words "Approved by the governor," he shall use the following words: "Became a law notwithstanding the objections of the governor, two-thirds of the members of each house having, in accordance with the provisions of article four, section nine of the constitution, duly passed the same." [Thus amended by L. 1888, ch. 4.]

Evidence thereof. § 3. The addition of the words, "by a two-third vote," shall be presumptive evidence that the bill was certified by the presiding officers as having been passed by the assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each house; and the absence of such words shall be presumptive evidence that the bill was not so certified by the presiding officers.

L. 1843, Chap. 98 – An act relative to the publication of the laws. Certificate to session laws. SECTION 1. Each volume of the laws hereafter printed for the state shall contain the certificate of the secretary of state, to the effect that the said volume was printed under his direction.

Session laws when evidence. § 2. All laws passed by the legislature may be read in evidence from the volumes printed under the direction of the secretary of state, pursuant to the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to provide for the public printing," passed January 21, 1843, in the same manner and with the like effect as laws heretofore published by the state printer.

L. 1844, Chap. 176– An act to furnish copies of the statutes of this state to the several towns.

Laws destroyed by fire to be replaced. SECTION 1. Whenever it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the secretary of state that the revised statutes and session laws passed since 1830, belonging to any town, or either of the volumes of such statutes or laws have been destroyed by fire, he shall procure and furnish to the said town the said statutes and laws which may have been so destroyed, and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller.

L. 1845, Chap. 280 – An act for the publication of the session laws in two newspapers in each county of this state.

Laws of a general nature, how published. SECTION 1. All laws of a general nature, which shall hereafter be passed by the legislature of this state, shall be published in at least two newspapers in each county of this state where there is or may be hereafter two newspapers published; and in one newspaper in each county where but one newspaper is published or may be published.

Local laws. § 2. All laws of a local nature, which shall hereafter be passed by the legislature of this state, shall be published in like manner in each of the counties interested in the same.

Supervisors to designate printers. § 3. It shall be the duty of each board of supervisors in the several counties of this state, at their annual meeting, or at any special meeting called for the purpose, to appoint the printers for publishing the laws in their respective counties. The appointment shall be made in the following manner: The members of the board of supervisors representing, respectively, each of the two principal political parties into which the people of the county are divided, or a majority of the members of the board of supervisors representing, respectively, each of such political parties, shall designate, in writing, a paper fairly representing the political party to which they respectively belong, to publish the laws, and such designation shall be signed by the members making it, and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and the two papers so designated shall publish the laws. In case the members of the board of supervisors representing either of the two principal political parties into which the people of the county are divided, or a majority of such members, cannot agree upon a paper, then, in that case, they shall make report to that effect to the clerk of the board of supervisors, and such board shall, by resolution, designate a paper fairly representing such political party to publish the laws. If there shall be but one paper published in the county, then, in that case, the laws shall be published in that paper. If either of the two principal parties into which the people of the county are divided shall have no representative among the members of the board of supervisors, then it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, by resolution, to designate a paper fairly representing such political party, that is unrepresented in the board, to publish such laws, with the paper selected as hereinbefore provided. [Thus amended by L. 1887, ch. 625, superseding L. 1886, ch. 515.]

13 Abb. N. C., 421.

Duty of secretary of state. § 4. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to transmit in the order in which they are passed, to each treasurer of the several counties of this state, copies of all laws of a general nature, and such as relate to the local affairs thereof, for publication in the manner provided for in this act. It shall be the duty of each treasurer to cause the same to be published in the papers designated for publishing them.

Money to be raised by tax. § 5. It shall be the duty of each board of supervisors, in the several counties of this state, in making out the assessment roll, to assess and levy on the taxable property of the county whose representative they are, such sums as shall be sufficient to defray the expenses of publishing the laws in the newspapers designated.

Compensation for publishing laws. § 6. The publisher of each of the papers so designated as aforesaid shall be entitled to receive for publication of the laws above specified a sum not exceeding fifty cents nor less than twenty cents, for each folio, except in counties having a city of fifty thousand inhabitants. In counties having a city of over fifty thousand inhabitants, by the last preceding census, the sum to be paid for such publication shall not be less than thirty cents or more than fifty cents for each folio. The specific rate per folio to be paid in each county shall be fixed by the board of supervisors thereof within the limits above specified. [Thus amended by L. 1887, ch. 443.]

L. 1847, Chap. 253 – An act concerning the enactment and promulgation of the statutes.

Certain bills to be deemed passed by "three-fifths." SECTION 1. Whenever by the terms of the constitution it is necessary that three-fifths of all the members elected to either house shall be present to constitute a quorum upon the final passage of a bill, such bill shall not be deemed to have passed unless so certified by the presiding officer of each house; and in the publication of every law in all cases where a bill is certified by the presiding officers as having been passed in the presence of three-fifths of all the members elected to each house, the secretary of state, after stating, in accordance with chapter three hundred and six of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-two, as amended, when the bill became a law, shall add the words "passed, three-fifths being present." [Thus amended by L. 1888, ch. 4.]

Evidence of being so passed. § 2. The addition of the words "three-fifths being present" shall be presumptive evidence that the bill was certified by the presiding officers as having been passed in the presence of three-fifths of all the members elected to each house, and the absence of such words shall be presumptive evidence that the bill was not so certified by the presiding officers.

L. 1879, Chap, 212-An act to provide for the distribution of the acts passed by the legislature to town clerks' offices.

[Repealed, L. 1882, ch. 283.]

L. 1847, Chap, 458- An act in relation to the publication and distribution of the session laws of this state.

[Sections 1 and 2 are omitted as temporary.]

When and how session laws to be published in newspapers. § 3. All laws to be published in newspapers in pursuance of the act hereby amended' shall be published within four months after the final adjournment of the legislature in each year, and the whole of every law, which, in the ordinary type of the newspaper in which it shall be published, would not occupy more than two columns, shall be published in one edition of such paper; and when such law shall exceed two columns as aforesaid, the same shall be published as soon as by occupying the space of two such columns in a paper of the same kind, it may be done.

Names to be prefixed to each volume. § 4. There shall be prefixed to each volume of the session laws hereafter published, the names and residences of the governor, lieutenant-governor, senators and members of assembly, and presiding officers of both houses, in office at the time of the passage of the laws contained in such volumes. The constitution of this state shall be published with the laws of the present session.

1 L. 1845, ch. 280, ante, p. 473.

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