The Triumph of Reform: A History of the Great Political Revolution, November Sixth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-fourSouvenir Publishing Company, 1895 - 397 pages |
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... increasing corruption of the police made concealment no longer possible , and brought about the uprising of which this book is a commemoration . What makes this uprising most worthy of commemoration is the fact that it has effected what ...
... increasing corruption of the police made concealment no longer possible , and brought about the uprising of which this book is a commemoration . What makes this uprising most worthy of commemoration is the fact that it has effected what ...
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... increased public comfort at appropriate places throughout the city . " We demand the adoption of a thorough system of Street Cleaning , which shall also include a proper disposition of the refuse and garbage , so that our harbor may be ...
... increased public comfort at appropriate places throughout the city . " We demand the adoption of a thorough system of Street Cleaning , which shall also include a proper disposition of the refuse and garbage , so that our harbor may be ...
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... increased without any corresponding benefit to the community . It has endeavored to conceal this increase in ... increasing the value of taxable property from $ 1,153,795,141 in 1874 , to $ 2,003,332,037 in 1894 , it has made many tax ...
... increased without any corresponding benefit to the community . It has endeavored to conceal this increase in ... increasing the value of taxable property from $ 1,153,795,141 in 1874 , to $ 2,003,332,037 in 1894 , it has made many tax ...
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... increasing burden to the tax - payer , while it should be a source of large revenue . Mayor Gilroy admits the issue of Dock Bonds since 1884 to the amount of $ 9,500,000 , and he attempts to justify this expenditure by the fact that the ...
... increasing burden to the tax - payer , while it should be a source of large revenue . Mayor Gilroy admits the issue of Dock Bonds since 1884 to the amount of $ 9,500,000 , and he attempts to justify this expenditure by the fact that the ...
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... increased $ 767,497 . " SEVENTH . - We charge that , although since the year 1884 the tax - payers have paid off $ 82,000,000 of the City's debt , yet at the present time that debt is $ 8,500,000 greater than in 1884 . 66 EIGHTH . - We ...
... increased $ 767,497 . " SEVENTH . - We charge that , although since the year 1884 the tax - payers have paid off $ 82,000,000 of the City's debt , yet at the present time that debt is $ 8,500,000 greater than in 1884 . 66 EIGHTH . - We ...
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Page 354 - ... exist or may hereafter be enacted; he shall appoint the agents, wardens, physicians and chaplains of the prisons. The agent and warden of each prison shall appoint all other officers of such prison, except the clerk, subject to the approval of the same by the Superintendent. The Comptroller shall appoint the clerks of the prisons. The Superintendent shall have all the powers and perform all the duties not inconsistent herewith, which were formerly had and performed by the Inspectors of State...
Page 350 - ... 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...
Page 350 - Sec. 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...
Page 354 - If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill it shall be sent together with the objections to the other house by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by twothirds of the members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor.
Page 349 - We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, do establish this Constitution.
Page 203 - The ratio for apportioning Senators shall always be obtained by dividing the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, by fifty, and the Senate shall always be composed of fifty members, except that if any county having three or more Senators at the time of any apportionment...
Page 354 - The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.
Page 350 - 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 almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 356 - The existing County Courts are continued, and the Judges thereof now in office shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms. In the county of Kings there shall be...
Page 352 - ... form as practicable, each of which shall be wholly within a senate district formed under the same apportionment, equal to the number of members of assembly to which such county shall be entitled, and shall cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and of the clerk of such county, a description of such districts, specifying the number of each district and of the inhabitants thereof, excluding aliens, according to the last preceding enumeration -, and such apportionment and districts...