In the Matter of the Hearing in Relation to the Greater New York: Held Before the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on the Affairs of Cities. Transmitted to the Legislature February 25, 1896New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Affairs of Cities, New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Affairs of Cities. Subcommittee on Greater New York Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company, 1896 - 667 pages This includes the resolution forming the joint committee and its subcommittee, a report from the subcommittee and a transcript of testimony at the subcommittee's hearings in Brooklyn (Jan. 17, 18, 24, 25, 1896), Albany (Jan. 29, 1896), and New York (Feb. 1,1896). |
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Page 551 - Commission may appear to affect amenities of a national or public character *'; in May. 1946, a Royal Warrant further extended the Terms of Reference of the Commission as follows :— Wt Do give and grant unto you. or any three or more of you. full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission: and also to call for. have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the...
Page 578 - No county shall have four or more senators unless it shall have a full ratio for each senator. No county shall have more than one-third of all the senators; and no two counties or the territory thereof as now organized, which are adjoining counties, or which are separated only by public waters, shall have more than one-half of all the senators.
Page 551 - Presents give and grant unto you, or any three or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission...
Page 259 - Are we to have that system of New York introduced into Brooklyn ? Is the opportunity to obtain a higher education which is now given to every child, the poorest in the city, to be cut off by the adoption of the New York system? MR. LEXOW: That matter is in the hands of the Legislature. MR. MAXWELL : If we may judge of the future from the past, we can arrive at but one conclusion, and that is that the Legislature having failed in the past to reform the New York school system will fail in the future....
Page 457 - ... shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
Page 309 - The Legislature shall divide the State into four judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the county of New York; the others shall be bounded by county lines, and be compact and equal in population as nearly as may be.
Page 308 - Nothing in this section shall prevent the division, at any time, of counties and towns, and the erection of new towns by the Legislature.
Page 416 - I have been sick since the Assembly organized, so that I know very little of what is going on. I do not know how Kings county stands on Greater New York; but I want to put my district and myself on record as being heartily in favor of consolidation, and against anything that would block the wheels of progress. MR. LEXOW: Is there anybody else who desires to be heard? If not, the chair is authorized to state that while it was the judgment of the committee that this should be the final hearing, on...
Page 551 - Commission; and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever: And We do by these Presents authorize and empower you, or any three or more of you...
Page 308 - Every county heretofore established and separately organized except the county of Hamilton shall always be entitled to one member of assembly, and no county shall hereafter be erected unless its population shall entitle it to a member. The county of Hamilton shall elect with the county of Fulton, until the population of the county of Hamilton shall, according to the ratio, entitle it to a member.