within this State, made by the authority of the said king or his predecess or shall annul any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or thị made before that day; or shall affect any such grants or charters since m by this State, or by persons acting under its authority; or shall impair obligation of any debts, contracted by the State or individuals, or bodies porate, or any, other rights of property, or any suits, actions, rights of act or other proceedings in courts of justice.

SEC. 18. The right of action now existing to recover damages for inju resulting in death, shall never be abrogated; and the amount recoverable. not be subject to any statutory limitation,

SEC. 19. Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be construed to the power of the Legislature to enact laws for the protection of the health, or safety of employees; or for the payment, either by employers, employers and employees or otherwise, either directly or through a State other system of insurance or otherwise, of compensation for injuries to ployees or for death of employees resulting from such injuries without re to fault as a cause thereof, except where the injury is occasioned by the: ful intention of the injured employee to bring about the injury or dea himself or of another, or where the injury results solely from the inte tion of the injured employee while on duty; or for the adjustment, deter tion and settlement, with or without trial by jury, of issues which may under such legislation; or to provide that the right of such compens and the remedy therefor shall be exclusive of all other rights and re for injuries to employees or for death resulting from such injuriesz provide that the amount of such compensation for death shall not ex fixed or determinable sum; provided that all moneys paid by an emplo his employees or their legal representatives, by reason of the enactmeir of the laws herein authorized, shall be held to be a proper.' charge cost of operating the business of the employer.2

SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, whe have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this State o next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people; and all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, providy in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of b by reason of his absence from such election district; and the Legislatu have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their in the election districts in which they respectively reside.

SEC. 2. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to a to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensat reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote, or whe make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager ing upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election; and challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authe for that purpose shall receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before officers that he has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, b paid, offered or promised to pay, contribute, offered or promised to conte to another, to be paid or used any money or other valuable thing as pensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such electio

2 Section 19 is a new section; it was proposed and adopted by the legislat 1912, re-adopted by the legislature of 1913, and ratified at the election of Nov. 4.1

not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager nding upon the result of such election. The Legislature shall enact laws

ding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of infamous crime.

SEC. 3. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained st a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in ervice of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the s of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while dent of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any almshouse, or asylum, or institution wholly or partly supported at públic expense or arity; nor while confined in any public prison.

EC. 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citiwho shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for gistration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town illage elections except by express provision of law. In cities and villages ; five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding State ration of inhabitants, voters shall be registered upon personal application but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required dy in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having of the registry of voters.

c. 5. All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by such other I as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be pre

c. 6. All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards of officers charged he duty of registering voters, or of distributing ballots at the polls to or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections, shall secure representation of the two political parties which, at the general election receding that for which such boards or officers are to serve, cast the and the next highest number of votes. All such boards and officers e appointed or elected in such manner, and upon the nomination of such ntatives of said parties respectively, as the Legislature may direct. g laws on this subject shall continue until the Legislature shall otherrovide. This section shall not apply to town meetings, or to village ARTICLE III.

CTION 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in the Senate sembly.

C. 2. The Senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter d. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and five shall hold their offices for three years, and their successors shall sen for two years. The Assembly shall consist of one hundred and embers, who shall be chosen for one year.

c. 3. The State shall be divided into fifty 8, each of whom shall choose one senator. from one to fifty, inclusive.

districts to be called senate The districts shall be num

strict number one (1) shall consist of the counties of Suffolk and Rich

strict number two (2) shall consist of the county of Queens. strict number three (3) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings sing the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth wards of the city oklyn.

istrict number four (4) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings ising the seventh, thirteenth. nineteenth and twenty-first wards of the f Brooklyn.

istrict number five (5) shall consist of that part of the county of Kings ising the eighth, tenth, twelfth, and thirtieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, e ward of the city of Brooklyn which was formerly the town of Gravesend,

District number six (6) shall consist of that part of the county of Ki comprising the ninth, eleventh, twentieth and twenty-second wards of city of Brooklyn.

District number seven (7) shall consist of that part of the county Kings comprising the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards the city of Brooklyn.

District number eight (8) shall consist of that part of the county of Ki comprising the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-ninth wa of the city of Brooklyn, and the town of Flatlands.

District number nine (9) shall consist of that part of the county of K comprising the eighteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wa of the city of Brooklyn.

District number ten (10) shall consist of that part of the county of York within and bounded by a line beginning at Canal street and the Hu river, and running thence along Canal street, Hudson street, Dominick Varick street, Broome street, Sullivan street, Spring street, Broadway, street, the Bowery, Division street, Grand street, and Jackson street, to East river and thence around the southern end of Manhattan island, to place of beginning, and also Governor's, Bedloe's and Ellis islands.

District number eleven (11) shall consist of that part of the county New York lying north of district number ten, and within and bounded line beginning at the junction of Broadway and Canal street, and ru thence along Broadway, Fourth street, the Bowery and Third avenue, St. M place, Avenue A, Seventh street, Avenue B, Clinton street, Rivington Norfolk street, Division street, Bowery and Canal street to the place ginning.

District number twelve (12) shall consist of that part of the count New York lying north of districts numbers ten and eleven, and within bounded by a line beginning at Jackson street and the East river and rus thence through Jackson street, Grand street, Division street, Norfolk Rivington street, Clinton street, Avenue B, Seventh street, Avenue A, St. M place, Third avenue, East Fourteenth street to the East river, and along East river, to the place of beginning.

District number thirteen (13) shall consist of that part of the cou New York lying north of district number ten, and within and bounded line beginning at the Hudson river at the foot of Canal street, and ru thence along Canal street, Hudson street, Dominick street, Varick Broome street, Sullivan street, Spring street, Broadway, Fourth street Bowery and Third avenue, Fourteenth street, Sixth avenue, West Fitt streef, Seventh avenue, West Nineteenth street, Eighth avenue, West Twe street, and the Hudson river, to the place of beginning.

District number fourteen (14) shall consist of that part of the count New York lying north of districts numbers twelve and thirteen, and within bounded by a line beginning at East Fourteenth street and the East river running thence along East Fourteenth street, Irving place, East Ninet street, Third avenue, East Twenty-third street, Lexington avenue, East third street, Third avenue, East Fifty-second street, and the East river. të place of beginning.

District number fifteen (15) shall consist of that part of the count New York lying north of district number thirteen, and within and bout by a line beginning at the junction of West Fourteenth street and Sixth ave and running thence along Sixth avenue, West Fifteenth street, Seventh ave West Fortieth street, Eighth avenue, and the transverse road across (41 park at Ninety-seventh street. Fifth avenue, East Ninety-sixth street. I ington avenue, East Twenty-third street, Third avenue, East Nineteenth st Irving place and Fourteenth street, to the place of beginning.

District number sixteen (16) shall consist of that part of the county New York lying north of district number thirteen, and within and beg by a line beginning at Seventh avenue and West Nineteenth street, and r ning thence along West Nineteenth street, Eighth avenue, West Twe street, the Hudson river, West Forty-sixth street, Tenth avenue. West F

third street, Eighth avenue, West Fortieth street and Seventh avenue, to the place of beginning.

District number seventeen (17) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of district number sixteen, and within and bounded by a line beginning at the junction of Eighth avenue and West Forty-third street, and running thence along West Forty-third street, Tenth avenue, West Forty-sixth street, the Hudson river, West Eighty-ninth street, Tenth or Amsterdam avenue, West Eighty-sixth street, Ninth or Columbus avenue, West Eighty-first street and Eighth avenue, to the place of beginning.

District number eighteen (18) shall consist of that part of the county of New York lying north of district number fourteen, and within and bounded ya line beginning at the junction of East Fifty-second street and the East iver, and running thence along East Fifty-second street, Third avenue, East ifty-third street, Lexington avenue, East Eighty-fourth street, Second avenue. last Eighty-third street and the East river, to the place of beginning; and Iso Blackwell's island.

District number nineteen (19) shall consist of that part of the county of ew York lying north of district number seventeen, and within and bounded a line beginning at West Eighty-ninth street and the Hudson river, and nning thence along the Hudson river and Spuyten Duyvil creek around e northern end of Manhattan island; thence southerly along the Harlem ver to the north end of Fifth avenue; thence along Fifth avenue, East le Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, Fourth or Park avenue, East One Huned and Tenth street, Fifth avenue, the transverse road across Central park Ninety-seventh street. Eighth avenue, West Eighty-first street, Ninth or lumbus avenue, West Eighty-sixth street, Tenth or Amsterdam avenue and st Eighty-ninth street, to the place of beginning.

District number twenty (20) shall consist of that part of the county of w York lying north of districts numbers eighteen and fifteen and within and mded by a line beginning at East Eighty-third street and the East river, ming thence through East Eighty-third street, Second avenue, East Eightyrth street, Lexington avenue, East Ninety-sixth street, Fifth avenue, East Hundred and Tenth street, Fourth or Park avenue, East One Hundred and leteenth street to the Harlem river, and along the Harlem and East rivers to place of beginning; and also Randall's island and Ward's island. All of the above districts in the county of New York bounded upon or along boundary waters of the county, shall be deemed to extend to the county line. District number twenty-one (21) shall consist of that part of the county New York lying north of districts numbers nineteen and twenty, within bounded by a line beginning at East One Hundred and Nineteenth street the Harlem river, and running thence along East One Hundred and Nineith street, Fourth or Park avenue, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, th avenue and the Harlem river, to the place of beginning; and all that t of the county of New York not hereinbefore described.

District number twenty-two (22) shall consist of the county of Westchester. District number twenty-three (23) shall consist of the counties of Orange Rockland.

District number twenty-four (24) shall consist of the counties of Dutchess. umbia and Putnam.

District number twenty-five (25) shall consist of the counties of Ulster Greene.

District number twenty-six (26) shall consist of the counties of Delae. Chenango and Sullivan.

District number twenty-seven (27) shall consist of the counties of Montery, Fulton, Hamilton and Schoharie.

District number twenty-eight (28) shall consist of the counties of Sara1. Schenectady and Washington.

District number twenty-nine (29) shall consist of the county of Albany. District number thirty (30) shall consist of the county of Rensselaer. District number thirty-one (31) shall consist of the counties of Clinton, ex and Warren.

District number thirty-two (32) shall consist of the counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.

District number thirty-three (33) shall consist of the counties of Otsego and Herkimer.

District number thirty-four (34) shall consist of the county of Oneida. District number thirty-five (35) shall consist of the counties of Jefferson and Lewis.

District number thirty-six (36) shall consist of the county of Onondaga. District number thirty-seven (37) shall consist of the counties of Osweg and Madison.

District number thirty-eight (38) shall consist of the counties of Broome, Cortland and Tioga.

· District number thirty-nine (39) shall consist of the counties of Cayuga, and Seneca.

District number forty (40) shall consist of the counties of Chemung Tompkins and Schuyler.

District number forty-one (41) shall consist of the counties of Stenbe and Yates.

District number forty-two (42) shall consist of the counties of Ontari and Wayne.

District number forty-three (43) shall consist of that part of the county Monroe comprising the towns of Brighton, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Mendon, Per field, Perinton, Pittsford, Rush and Webster, and the fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteent wards of the city of Rochester, as at present constituted.

District number forty-four (44) shall consist of that part of the coun of Monroe comprising the towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Ham Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and Wheatland, and the first, second, third, fift ninth, tenth, eleventh, fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards of the c of Rochester, as at present constituted.

District number forty-five (45) shall consist of the counties of Niagen Genesee and Orleans.

District number forty-six (46) shall consist of the counties of Allegan Livingston and Wyoming.

District number forty-seven (47) shall consist of that part of the count of Erie comprising the first, second, third, sixth, fifteenth, nineteenth, twentiet twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards of the ef of Buffalo, as at present constituted.

District number forty-eight (48) shall consist of that part of the count of Erie comprising the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleve twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and sixteenth wards of the city of Buffalo at present constituted.

District number forty-nine (49) shall consist of that part of the coun of Erie comprising the seventeenth, eighteenth and twenty-fifth wards of t city of Buffalo, as at present constituted; and all the remainder of the s county of Erie not hereinbefore described.

District number fifty (50) shall consist of the counties of Chautang and Cattaraugus.3

SEC. 4. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the State shall be taka under the direction of the Secretary of State, during the months of May June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and five, and in the same mont every tenth year thereafter; and the said districts shall be so altered by Legislature at the first regular session after the return of every enumerati that each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be an equal numbe of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact form as practicable and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and sha at all times consist of contiguous territory, and no county shall be divide in the formation of a senate district except to make two or more senate districts wholly in such county. No town, and no block in a city inclosed ne

Senators have been re-apportioned by law since the adoption of this constitution