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• >• -s - v •a& ^^^ ^>rr«:^.^~r.:;i^.^!3'?i^^w;!*.i^*«-,, -^-y^-^-^r V l# THE WATEETOW EE-UNiOWT. The Real j Man •< •.. . < > By <: FRANCIS LYNDE ;; < > • < > : < *• • • i •. < '. • . o <> '< » • '•» ' <>' <> ! [ | Illuitritioni b T IRW1S MYERS | I 1 A. : * Copyright by Chas. Scrlbner'a Sons CHAPTER IX—Continued. \That is precisely what I was driv- ing at. Our banker can't run witli the hare and hunt with the hounds. You'll excuse me i f I say that you haven't been altogether fair with Timanyoni Ditch, or with Colonel Baldwin, Mr. Uinzie. A friendly banker doesn't help sell out his customer. You know that, as weU as I do. Still, you did it.\ Kinzie threw up his hands and tried to defend himself. \It was a straight business transaction, Mr. Smith. As long as we're in the banking business, we buy and sell for anybody who comes along.\ \No we don't, Mr. Kinzie; we \pfo- tect our customers first. In the pres- ent instanee you thought your cus- tomer was a dead one, anyway, so it wouldn't make much difference if you should throw another shovelful of dirt or so onto the coffin. Wasn't that the way of it?\ The president was fairly pushed to the ropes, and he showed it. \Answer me one question, both of you,\ he snapped. \Are you big enough to fight for your own against Stanton's crowd?\ \You'll see; and the sight is going to cost you something,\ said Smith, and the blandest oil could have been no smoother than his tone. \Is that right, Dexter?\ \That's the way it looks to me, •Dave,\ said the ranchman capitalist, who, whatever might be his limitations in the field of high finance, was not lacking the nerve to fight unquestion- ing in any partner's quarrel. The president of the Brewster City National turned back to Smith. \What do you want, Mr. Smith?\ he asked, not too cordially. \Nothing that you'd give us, I guess; a little business loyalty, for one thing—\ \And a checking balance for imme- diate necessities for another?\ sug- gested the banker. With all his trained astuteness— trained in Kinzie's own school, at that—Smith could not be sure that the •gray-faced old Westerner was not set- ting a final trap for him, after all. But he took the risk, saying, with a decent show of indifference: \Of course it would be more convenient here than in Denver or Chicago. But there is no hurry about that part of it.\ The president took a slip of paper from a pigeonhole and wrote rapidly upon it. Once more his optimism was locking horns with prudent caution. It was the optimism, however, that was driving the pen, Baldwin's word was worth something, and it might be dis- astrous to let these two get away with- out anchoring them solidly to the Brewster City National. \Sign this, you two,\ he said. \I don't know even the name of your new outfit yet, but I'll take a chance on one piece of two-name paper, anyhow.\ Smith took up the slip and glanced at it. It was an accommodation note for twenty thousand dollars. With the money fairly in his hands, he paused to drive the nail of Independence squarely before he would begin. \We don't want this at all, Mr. Kin- zie, unless file bank's goodwill comes with it,\ he said with becoming grav- ity. \I'll stand by you,\ was the brusque rejoinder. \But it's only fair to you both to say that you've got the biggest Ikind of a combination to buck you— a national utilities corporation with the strongest sort of political backing.'' \I doubt if you can tell us anything that we don't already know,\ said Smith coolly, as he put his name on the note; and when Baldwin had signed: \Let this go to the credit of Timanyoni Ditch, if you please, Mr. Kinzie, and we'll transfer it later. It's quite possible that we sha'n't need it, ' but we are •willing to help out a little pn your discount profits, anyway. Fur- ther along, when things shape them- selves up a bit more definitely, you shall know\ all there is to know, and we'll give you just as good a chance to make money.as you'll giv.e us.\ . When they were' safely out of the bank and half a square away from It, Dexter Baldwin pushed his hat back % and mopped, his forehead.' \They say \a man can't sweat at this altitude,\ he remarked. •< \I'm here to tell you, Smith, that I've lost ten pounds in the last ten minutes. Where in the name of jumping Jehoshaphat did you get your nerve, boy? You made him be- lieve we'd got outside backing from somewhere.\ \I didn't say anything like that, did 1?\ \No; but you opened the door and he walked in.\ ' \That's all right; I'm not respon- sible for Mr. Klnzie's imagination. We were obliged to have a little ad- vertising capital; we couldn't turn a seheel 'witfesu* tfe Put me In touch JOHNWTH BLUFFS A CRAFTY BANKER AND GETS HOLD OF SUFFICIENT WORKING CAPITAL TO GO AHEAD WITH THE GREAT IRRIGATION DAM PROJECT Synopsis.—J. Montague Smith, cashier of Lawrenceville Bank and Trust company, society bachelor engaged to marry Verda Eiehlander, heiress, knocks his employer, Watrous Dunham, senseless, leaves him for dead and flees the state when Dunham accuses Smith of dishon- esty and wants him to take the blame for embezzlement actually com- mitted by Dunham. Several weeks later, Smith appears as a tramp at a town in the Rocky mountains and gets a laboring; job in an irriga- tion ditch construction camp. His intelligence draws the attention of Williams, the superintendent, who thinks he can use the tramp, John Smith, in a more important place. The ditch company Is in hard lines financially because Eastern financial interests are working to under- mine the local crowd headed by Colonel Baldwin and take over valu- able property. Smith finally accepts appointment as financial sec- retary of Baldwin's company. He has already struck up a pleasant acquaintance with Corona Baldwin, the colonel's winsome daughter. He goes to interview a crafty banker while the financial enemies plan ruin for Baldwin's company. with a good business lawyer, and I'll start the legal machinery. Then you can get into your car and go around and interview your crowd, man by man. I want to know exactly where we stand with the old stockholders be- fore we make any move in public. Can you do that?\ Baldwin lifted his hat and shoved Ms fingers through his hair. \I reckon I can; there are only sixty or seventy of 'em. And Bob Stllllngs is your lawyer. Come around the cor- ner and I'll introduce you.\ CHAPTER X. The Rocket and the Stick. , For a full fortnight after the pre- liminary visit .to the Brewster City National bank Smith was easily the busiest man in Timanyoni county. Es- tablishing himself in the Hophra House, and discarding the working khaki only because lie was shrewd enough to dross the new part becom- ingly, he flung himself into what Colonel Baldwin called the \miracle- working\ campaign with a zest that knew no flagging moment. Within the fourteen-day period new town offices were occupied on the sec- ond floor of the Brewster City Na- tional building; Stllllngs, most efficient of corporation counsels, had secured the new charter; and the stock-books of Timanyoni High Line had been opened, with the Brewster City Na- tional named as the company's deposi- tory and official fiduciary agent. At the dam the building activities had been generously doubled. An elec- tric light plant had been Installed, and Williams' was working day and night shifts both in the quarries and on the forms. Past this, the new financial manager, himself broadening rapidly as his field broadened, was branching out in other directions. After a brief conference with a few of his principal stockholders he had instructed Stilllngs to include the words \Power and Light\ in the cataloguing of the new com- pany's possible and probable charter activities, and by the end of the fort- night the foundations of a powerhouse were going in below the dam, and ne- gotiations were already on foot with the Brewster city council looking to- ward the sale of electric current to the city for lighting and other purposes. Smith had made the planting of his financial anchor securely to windward his first care. Furnished with a select- ed list by Colonel Baldwin, he had made a thorough canvas of possible in- vestors, and by the time the new stock was printed and ready for delivery through Kinzie's bank, an ironclad pool of the majority of the original Timan- yoni Ditch stock had been organized, and Smith had sold to Maxwell, Star- buck, and other local capitalists a suf- ficient amount of the new treasury stock to give him a fighting chance; this, with a promise of more If it should be needed. Not to Maxwell or to any of the new Investors had Smith revealed the full dimensions of the prize for which Tim- anyoni High Line was entering the race. Colonel Baldwin and one Wil- liam Starbuck, Maxwell's brother-in- law, by courtesy, and his partner in the Little Alice mine, alone knew the wheel within the wheel; how the great eastern-utility corporation represented by Stanton had spent a million or more in the acquisition of the Bsea- lante grant, which would be practical- ly worthless as agricultural land with- out the water which could be obtained only by means of the Timanyoni dam and canal system. With all these strenuous stirrings in the business field, It may say itself that Smith found little time for social in- dulgences during the ' crowded fort- night. Day after day the colonel begged him to take a night off at the ranch, and It was even more difficult to refuse the proffered hospitality at the week- end. But Smith did refuse it. It was not until after Miss Corona— driving to town with ner father, as she frequently did—had thrice visited the new offices that Smi€h began to con- gratulate himself, rather bitterly, to be sure, upon his wisdom In staying away from Hlllcrest. . For one thing, he was learning that Corona Baldwin was able to make him see rose-colored. When she was not with him, he was a man in daily peril of meeting the sheriff. But when she was present, calm sanity had a way of losing its grip. Miss Corona's fourth Visit to the handsome suite of offices over the Brewster City National chanced to fall\ upon a Saturday. Her father, president of the new company, as he had been of the old, had a private of- fice of his own, but Miss Corona soon drifted out to the. railed-off end of the larger room, where the financial sec- retary, had his desk. . \Colonel-daddy tells me that you are coming out to Hillerest for the week- end,\ was the way in which she in- terrupted the financial secretary's brow-knittings over a new material contract. \I have just wagered him a nice fat little round iron dollar of my allowance that you won't. How about it?\ Smith looked up with his best-na- tured grin. \You win,\ he said shortly. \Thank you,\ she laughed. \In a minute or s o I'll go back to the presi- dent's office and collect.\ Then: \One dinner, lodging and breakfast of us was about all you could stand, wasn't it? I thought maybe It wrfuld be that .way.\ \What made you'thlnk so?\ She had seated herself in the chair reserved for inquiring investors. There was a little interval of glove-smooth- ing silence, and then, like a flash out of a clear sky, she smiled across the desk end at him and said: \Will you forgive me If I ask you a perfectly ridiculous question?\ \Certainly. Other people ask them every day.\ \Is—is your name really and truly John Smith?\ \Why should you doubt it?\ It was just hero that Smith was given to see another one of Miss Co- rona's many moods—or tenses—and It was a new one to him. She was visibly embarrassed. \I—I don't want to tell you,\ she stammered. \All right; you needn't.\ \If you're going to take it that easy, I will tell you,\ she retorted. \Mr. Williams thought your name was an alias; and I'mnot sure that he doesn't still think so.\ \The Smiths never have to have aliases, It's like John Doe or Blchard Hoe, you know.\ \Haven't you any middle name?\ \I have a middle initial. It is 'M.'\ He was looking her fairly in the eyes as he said it, and the light in the new offices was excellent. Thanks to her horsebnek riding. Miss Corona's small oval face had a touch of healthy out- door tan; but under the tan there came, for just a flitting Instant, a flush of deep color, and at the back of the gray eyes there was something that Smith had never seen there before. \It's-it's just an initial?\ she queried. \Yea; it's just an initial, and I don't use it ordinarily. I'm not a'shamed of the plain 'John.'\ \I don't know why you should be?' she commented, half absently, he thought. And then: \How many 'John M. Smiths' do you suppose there are In the United States?\ \Oh I don't know; a million or so, I guess.\ \I should think you would be rather glad of that,\ she told him. But when he tried to make her say why he should be glad, she talked pointedly of other things and presently went back to her father's office. There were fine little headings of perspiration standing on the fugitive's forehead when she left him. After the other members of the ofe flee force had taken their departure, he still sat at his desk striving to bring himself back with some degree of clear- headedness to the pressing demands of his Job. Just as ho was about to give It up and go across to the Hophra House for his dinner, William Starbuck drifted in to open the railing gate and to come and plant himself in the chair of privilege at Smith's desk end. \Well son; you've got the animals stirred up good and plenty, at last,\ he said, when he had found the \mak- ings\ and was deftly rolling a cigar- ette—his one overlapping habit reach- ing back to his range-riding youth. \Dick Masrwell got a wire today from his kiddie's grandpaw—and my own respected daddy-in-law—Mr. Hiram Falrbalrn; you know him—the lumber king.\ \I'm listening,\ said Smith. \Dick's wire was an order; instruc- tions from headquarters to keep hands off of your new company and to work strictly In cahoots—'harmony' was the word he used—with Crawford Stanton. How does that fit you?\ The financial secretary's smile was tha self-congratulatory face-wrinkling of the quarry foreman who has seen his tackle hitch hold to land the big stone safely at the top of the pit. \What is Maxwell going to do about it?\ he asked. \Dick is all wool and a yard wide) and what he signs his name to is what he is going to stand by. You won't lose him, but the wire shows us just about where we're aiming to put our leg into the gopher hole and break it, doesn't it?\ 'I'm not borrowing any trouble. Mr, o few infcurtes too late, Starbuck. We've got our footing—inside of the corral.\ The ex-iCowpuncher, who was now well up on the middle rounds of for- tune's ladder, shook his head doubt- fully. \Don't you make any brash breaks, John. Mr, Hiram Fairbairn and his crowd can swing twenty millions to your one little old dollar and a half, and they're not going to leave any of the pebbles unturned when it comes to saving their investment in the Bsca- lante. That's all; I just thought I'd drop in and tell you.\ Smith went to his rooms in the hotel a few minutes later to change for din- ner. He found the linen drawer in his dressing-case overflowing. Opening 'another, he began to arrange the over- flow methodically. The empty drawer was lined with a newspaper, and a sin- gle headline on the upturned page sprang at him like a thing living and venomous. He bent lower and read the nnderrunning paragraph with a dull rage mounting to his eyes and serving for the moment to make the gray of the printed lines turn red. Lawrenceville, May 19.—The grand jury has found a true bill against Montague Smith, the absconding cashier of the Lawrencovlllo Bank and Trust, charged with embezzling the hank's funds. The crime would have been merely a broach of trust and not actionable but for the fact that Smith, by owning stock in the bankrupt Wostfall Industries lately taken over by the Richlander company, had so made himself amenable to the law. Smith disappeared on the night of the 14th and is still at large. He Is also wanted on another criminal count. It will be remem- bered that he brutally assaulted President Dunham on the night of his disappear- ance. Tho reward of $1,000 for his appre- hension and arrest has been Increased to $3,000 by the bank directors. CHAPTER XI. The Narrow World. At the fresh newspaper reminder that his sudden bound upward from the laboring ranks to the executive headship of the irrigation project had merely made him a more conspicuous target for the man-hunters, Smith scanted himself of sleep and redoubled his efforts to put the new company on a sound and permanent footing. In the nature of things he felt that his own shift must necessarily be short. The more or less dramatic coup in Timanyoni High Line had advertised him thoroughly. He was rapidly com- ing to be the best-known man In Brew- \How About It?\ ster, and he cherished no illusions about lost Identities, or the ability to lose them, in the land where time and space have be n wired and railroaded pretty well out of existence, It was needful that he should work while the day was his In which to work; and he did work. There was still much to be done. Williams was having a throat of labor troubles at the dam, and Stllllngs had unearthed another possible flaw In the land titles dating back to the promotion of a cer- tain railroad which had never gotten far beyond the paper stage and the ac- quiring of some of its rights of way. Smith flung himself masterfully at the new difficulties as they arose, and earned Ills me d of praise from the men for whom he overcame them. But under the surface current of the hurry- ing business tide a bitter undertow was beginning to set In. He took his first decided backward step on the night when he went into a hardware store and .bought a pistol. The free, fair- flghting Bplrit which had sent him bare- handed against the three claim-jump- ers was gone and In its place there was a fell determination, undefined ns yet, but keying itself to the barbaric pitch. Try as hard as he may, Smith finds that he cannot keep senti- ment out of his life. His fear of discovery and arrest Increases. Important developments come In the next Installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Sea Gives Up Eatables. Early strollers on the beaches ns far north as Belmar recently recov- ered from the surf enough food to stock a country grocery, says a Seu Girt, N. Y.. dispatch to the New York Times. The flotsam included cniinetl goods of many sorts, but mostly tomatoes and asparagus; one man carried home three tubs of good butter and many clothesbaskets full of lemons, all of which were fresh and hard, Submarine activity was scouted as a cause for iho pickings, but one guess as to their origin was that some vessel, a warship or possibly a big yacht, returning from a long cruise hud passed up the coast and her crew had emptied the larder overboard so as to be certain of abso- lutely frtwh provisions when next tliey Fairbairn an4 M&. ^IJeajjues are austiput to sea, THE WHIPPOORWILLS. In the deep and dark woods, where there were many rocks, and where people seldom went, lived Mr. and Mrs. Whip- poorwlll and tho two small Whip- ponrwlll children, 1+tJ who only a short j 13= time ago had been little eggs. They had been creamy a Sound white eggs with Did He Make. dark spots, and they had been lying In some dry leaves. The whippoorwllls guard their young If danger is near, but when they are little eggs they are not sheltered by a home-nest—the ground does well enough for them. Perhaps Mother Whippoorwill thinks it is a mistake to begin by spoiling her children, but she Is not a hard-hearted mother, -as this would seem. No, she is always ready to defend them from enemies. Now, Mr. Whippogrwili Is about tho size of a robin, but he looks longer be- cause he has great, long wings. He Is covered with reddish-brown feathers, and sometimes grayish-white. He has a fino white collar and his quills are decorated with white. He has bristles all about his beak, which is very large. Mrs. Whippoorwill is just about the same in looks, except she has a tan collar instead of a white one, and her tail is tan, too. One. night—for the whippoorwllls love the night-time, a boy thought ho would like to catch a whippoorwill and have him for a pet. He loved the won- derful song of tho whippoorwill— which Is a beautiful, rather snd note. The whippoorwllls only sing when away from people, and they love to be by themselves. That Is why they choose their homes where people will not come. At first the boy heard the whip- poorwllls singing their sad, lovely note over and over ngain. Then he tried to catch them, but they fly off so si- lently he could not do it. In the daytime they were always asleep, and no one could have found them, because their wings look liko the rocks In color. But one night he caught Mr. Whip- poorwill. \Ah ho said, \I will be very good to you. You may have a big place to fly about In, for I have made It with wire in the yard. And yon will have a little home of your own. I will not keep you In a small cage. That would be cruel.\ The little boy hadn't thought that It would be cruel to keep the whip- poorwill In any way—the bird who lovos solitude—or being alone. At night ho listened to hear his whippoorwill sing, but never a sound did he muke. Thi-n he thought It was because Mr. Whippoorwill was with- out Ills mate, nnd after a long time he caught Mrs. Whippoorwill, Now he would surely have thn glo- rious whippoorwill singing every eve- ning, he thought. But not a sound did ho hear. In fact they seemed to have forgotten their note—they had left It behind In the woods. You see, the whippoorwill will not sing in captivity. He Is utterly mis- erable then, and he longs to be back where he can be alone and away from creatures. Then, at night, when It Is quiet and dark, we can sometimes hear his glorious note. Tho boy did not know what to make of it, but at last ho let them go. Oh I The joy of spreading their wings towards the dark woods 1 How- wonderful It was! And to see the whippoorwill children! To feel the dark, cool woods, to sleep all day, to work all night. For the whippoorwllls do a great deal of good work. They catch bad Insects when they are flying. The whippoorwllls en- joy eating the in- sects for break- fast and dinner, and they do away with Insects which would In- jure trees and shrubs. \Ah said Mr. Whippoorwill, when he was back in the woods, \I must see If I can And my note. I left it in the woods behind me,\ \So did I,\ said Mrs. Whippoorwill. And to their great delight they found their notes again—thpy had just been quiet deep down in their throats, for they had left the woods, and their little bird hearts had been too snd for singing. Tlie children joined In too. And (lie boy heard them all. \They sing now,\ he said. \They don't like to be caught.\ And how- glad the Whippoorwllls were that the boy understood. / CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS Not Advertised. \Mamma said Utile Elsie, \Euth says her name is in the Bible,\ \So It i«, dear.\ \Isn't my name In It?\ \No dear.\ \Didn't God make me, mamma?\ \Why yes, of course.\ \Then why didn't he say something about it?\ ONB EXPLANATION.—-Matter In italics Is new ; mut- ter iu brackets [ 3 is oltl mutter t o be omitted. STATE . O F NE W YOItK , OFFIC E OIT THE SEOHKTARY OF STATE ALBANY, July 12, 101T. Pursuan t to tb e provisions of section one of article fourteen of tb e Constitution of the State of Ne w York, an d section two hundre d ninety- ar e o'f the Election Law , notice i s hereby given tha t th e followiUK proposed amendmen t to Beo- tlon one of article two of the Constitution of tho Stat e of Ne w Xork wilt lie submitte d to tile people for tbe purpose of voting thereon, a t tlio next general election to be bold o n tbe sixth day of November, 1917. l'BANCI S M. 13000. Secretary of Statu. AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. CONOUHHENT ItKSOLUTION OP TUB SENATR ANP ASSKilULY ritOFOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SEC- TION ON E O P AHTIOL B :PWO o r THE CONSTI- TUTION , IN HELATIO N TO QUALIFICATIO N OF VoTKns. , Section 1. Resolved tlf the Senat e concur). Tha t section one of article two of tb e Constitu- tion b e amended t o road ns follows: Section 1. Ever y imaiel citizen of the ape of twenty-one yours, wh o shall have been a citizen for ninety days, mid an iuhnbltunt of this state one yea r next preceding an election, ami for the Inst four month s a resident o f the county and for tbe Inst thirty days a resident of the election district In which he or she may offer his or hot- vote, shall he entitled t o vote al such election in tbe election district of which he or she shall a t th e time be a resident, and net elsewhere, for all officers that no w ar e or here- of ter muv bo elective by th e people til, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vole of tb o people, iirovUled however that a citizen by 7)inrrbwe shall have been an inhabitant of the United States ft\ fnc (»»; nnd provider tha t In time of wa r no elector In the actual military service of the state, or o f the T.nlted Slates , in the nnu y or navy thereof, shall ho deprived of his nr her vote hy reason of his or her absence from such election district ; and tho legislature shal l have power t o provide the manner In which nnd tbe lime nn d place nt which such absent electors may vote , and for tbe return and canvass of their votes In the election districts in which they respectively '§ 2 . Ilosolved li t tho Senate concur) , That the fovocoinn- amendment: he submitted to ti e people for approval nt the general election to he held In the yea r nineteen hundred and seven- teen, in accordance with the provisions of the election law, STAT E O P NE W YORK , I N ASBKMBI.Y, „ ,„,„ Feh. 20. WIT . Thi s resolution wa s duly passed, n majority of all tb e nii'Ulhcvs elected tn the Assembly voting In favor thereof, three fifths brin g present. By order nf the Assembly. TIIADDErS C. SWEET , N»t liter. STAT E O F NE W YORK , I N SENATE, ^ ]gjiinTi Thi s resolution wa s duly passed, a mnjorlly nf nil the Senators elected votin g In favor thereof. three-Ilftlts being present. By order of the Senate. JYt'UliICIlf. STATE O E NE W YOItK. fH'I-'I.'E OP THE Srji'UETAItY OP STATE, ss. : I have c.mpnro.1 Iho prorodtnr copy ..f ,'cn current resolution with Iho orlflnul roiiourroul resolution on llle In this oUlee. an d I do hereby certify that tb e same is a correc t transcript therefrom nnd of tb e whole thereof. tllVK.N under my hand anil the sent nr nrtloe of tb e Secretary o f State at the ft . s. l city of Albany, this twelft h day of July in tbe year of on e lord , one thousand nine hundred nn d seventeen. intANi'iK st. nrno. Neereltiry nf Mate. EoBSI OP SUBMISSION HP ASIENOMENT NlUllUUl ONE. \Khali the proposed amendment t o section one of article live e t the I'owilliullou, conferring eillial sua'rngo upon women,\ be approved* TWO. EXPLANATION.— Mutter In Holies Is now ; mut- ter In brackets [ ] Is \hi matter t o he omitted. STAT E O F NEW YORK , OFFIC E O F THE KroiiErAiiY oi ' STATE. AI.IIANI, July 12, 11)1,. I'ursunnt tn th n provisions of .section one of article fourteen t.f the fonslltutl.ui of the .state of Ne w York, nm l section lv,o hundred ninet y live of the Election l.nw. nmlee I s hereby given tha t th e following proposed amendment to section leu of nrllile eight of..the I'onstltutlou of the Btule of N peopl e for at th e next held o n the pro niny Yor k will he submitte d t o the tho purpoHe of votin g thereon [enernl election 111 tilts state to he tb da y of November, 11117- L'llANlUS M mum. Xteretmy tif Mate. AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. CoNi-l UltnM' Hl.SOI.lTloN OP THE SENATE ANIt AxXUlllIA IMtiilMISISH AN AMKM'MIAT TO SEC- TION TEN HI AltTiel.B EHJIII OF HI E LoNSTI- T11ION, IN ItM.AUoN lO LIMITATION OP IS PL'IITEI'NKSH OF TlTIEM. Kectb.u 1. Resolved li t the Assembly concur), Tha t section te n of artlilu eight ••! the Loustl- lotion ho amended lo rend as f-.liows: 6 10. No county, city, town o r Ullage shall hereafter giie 1111} money or pr..pctij . or loan Its in .y or credit to „ r Iu ai d of any indi- vidual, association or iiil \oration or become diieetly or Indirectly the owner of sloek In, or bonds of, any ussoelnlb.ii or e..ri»irnlliiu; \or shall uny soeii ..unity, ell) , town or village In- nllow.il to Incur UIIJ llnlel.teilm-ss except fur county, ell.v, I..wo •.! i . ln b e poll..™* , ll.l» section sluill not prevent suel my. elij , town or village from making such piovlsl.,11 for the nl.l o r support of Its poor as tuny lie authorize, by low . No county or elly shal l he allowed t„ become indebted for uoy puri-.-M or In any mm r to an 11 unt which. In. hiding exlsllug Inilebl.-bless. shall exiee.l HI. per i inn ml of tile lose.^c l vnluallon \f lh e real eslut e nf such county or ell) sul.Jeel lo Inxulloll. n s It appeared by tb e iiHwssIllelil lolls of sllhl lolllitj ..r elly \II tile lost nssesonent for slnle ,.r •••unity tuxes prior t» the incurring of so. I. lli.b l.le.l.e--s, nod a 1 Indil.le.lniss Iu ex. i~.s of aud i limitation, except such ns no w may exist, ahull lie IIIIMI- lut. It IUI.I, rtofl as In rein ..il..riil»e provided No county or elly who.,e pro-cut indebtedness eXOenls Ion per centum of the nsM-ssed Valuation ,,'f ll s mi l estate suhje.-l 0. tututloii , shall he allotted to he. 01110 bidcbled In any further 1,10 ,t until aud i ln.lel.li din «• shal l be r.-b. 1 ivilhln siiih limit. This section shal l not I in. Stilled to prevent the Issuing of .•elllllcnlcS of ll.'Iebteillless or revenue bonds b-s.HiI Iu anticipa- tion of the coli.ctlon of taxes or nun.nuts nelu- alls ci.iilaluc.l or In be ...nlnhied In lhe taxes for the tea r when such cerrllleates o r rev b Is are •issued ami pi.jnl.lo mil of su.h lutes , nor to IUeteld lhe ill } of New S'»l'Ii fr l-sulng bonds to be redeemed nut of th e nix ev.y for the y.lir lieXt Mil . l-illng the )W1I of llll-lr IsMle. bled thill th e illlloiltll of Midi bunds which . issued In any one year In excess of ,„,. ItnliiOis herein eonlllined shull IHO eteee.l mil. n-iiih of .me per Iran \'/'»• ossc-wil ta'mill.ni ..f th e real email- \f said .Hy sul.Joo lo taxation. Nor shall this section I .listened lo prevent the Issue of bonds t.i provide for llie supply \f wuter ; Inn the ter m of the I Is bsne.l to provide for th e supply of water, hi excess of lhe llmiliill f liol. lilcllicss llxed herein, shall not ex d tweiny years, and a Milking fmid sb.ut he . rcalcl o n 111!- l-iouis of th e said bonds for their rc.leii.pl I by rnls. lux an illy n su m which will produce an luiiouul eipml lo th e sum of th e principal ami li.leiesl of snhl bim.lB n t their muliirlty. All certltlentes of llldehleilm-^s or revenue bonds Issued III ulitlolpallou of lhe o..Modioli of tinea, which are not retired within live years after thetr date of issue, and bonds l.-st..sl lo protl-le for th o supply of water, and any deb t hereafter Incurred by any purllnii or port of a ••Its'. If there shall be co y sil.li ilel.l. sluill lie Included In useerlub.liiB th e power of lhe ill y to become otherwise Indebted, cxiept Hint •Icl.ls ij.i iirred by I the] 0.11/ elly [of New York ] nf the first class after th e llrst day of January , lilneleea hundred nnd four, and debts Incurred by any city of the seeoinl class atler tin- llrst day of January , nineteen hundred and olglit, and del.is Incurred by nn j city \ t the M'lr.1 class after the tlrst day of January , nmcleeii lioodied and ion. t o provide for lhe supply o f water, shall not be so included: and except further that any debt hereafter Incurred hy th e elly of New York for a public Improvement owned or to be owned by the city, which yields to the rliy current net rev-iiue. afi. r making an y necessary nllotvanee for repairs and maliitouuueo for which the city is Ibib.e, In cxi ess of tb e lulercsl on said debt and of the annual instalments neces. sary for lls amortization may b e excluded Iu aseertali.lag th e power of said i-lty lo become otherwise Indebted, provided Hint a sinking fund for It s nmortlzalioi. shall hate bee n established and iiiillululncd nnd that the Imlebte.hicss shall not be so exelu.lcl during any period „[ lime when the revenue aforesaid shall not he sulll- den t to oipuil th e said lulercsl am i amortization iiisraliuouls, ami ex. opt further Hint any Indelil- ciluess heretofore Incurred by th e elly of o.eiv York for anv ruphl iransit or doc k Investment may be Ho cxi lulled (inipol tlounle.y to llle extent to which the current net revenue received by siild cllv therefrom shall meel ttie interest imi] nmorllzalloo liistnlnnnls thereof, provl-led that anv increase Iu lh e debt incurring power of the cll'v of New York ulih-h shall resul t from the e\elu-lon of debts heretofore lip-mri'il shall he available only foe the u-.pll. llluii o r eollslrilotloll of properties to b e ost-d for rnj.l.I transit or d..ek purposes. Th e legislature shal l proscribe tin- in. tliu.l by tibl, li ami the term s and com I tlous under which rhe amount of an y debl to be to excluded Shllll be lleterillhled, Ulld 11\ SO'dl debt Klo.ll I Xi-lllili-l l-v-opt 111 ue.ordlime tilth the ilelermlnalb.tl Ho pl-CM-rlbed. i lie leclslillure III-IT In lls discretion muni nppr.ilui.ile Juilmlle- lluil on the upiellul e .lltbloii nf the supreme c.ur r In lhe lirsl lu.lichil depari nl for the poll me of delernillilng Hie an. .nu t of any debt lo be So etelildeil. N» imlelil.slIH-s of a city talbl at lhe lime of lis tin i [ili'.i, shall there- after 1 me Inviillil l.l reason of the operation of nuv of lie- protbloo s of ilu* Dillon . When- ever tin- houoduries of any elly or e lhe siime as fhn*o of a ciiimiv, or v.l.eu any .it y shall In- chide within It s hoiuehirles to.in- than one eoiuitv, tin- power of tiny .'.unity wholly Included ttllhli. Sliell \Hy I \ hecui e Unlet.led shall ei'ilHe. hut th e debt of lb \ •' •only, herelofore exlsllug, shall not. f.lT lh e piirii.seB of tills section. 111! re. honed a s A part of the d' y del,l. ill.; amount Jicrciittcr to bo nils. y tux tit county or city purposes, In an y county containing n city of over ouo hundred thousuml inbubitnnts, or uny such city of this state, in udditloh to providing for th e principal and interest of tho existing debt, shall no t i n the aggregat e exceed in an y one yea r tw o per centum of th e assessed valuation of tb e real and personal estat e of such county or elly, to h e ascertained ns prescribed iu this section in respect to county or city debt. § 2. Resolved (if th e Assembly concur) , That th e foregoing amendmen t be submitte d lo tho people for approval a t the genernl election to be held in lhe yea r nineteen hundred nn d seven, teen, In accordance wit h th e provisions of the election law. ^ STAT E OF NE W YORK , I N SENATE , Alir. S, 101T. Th e foregoing resolution wn s duly passed, a majority of all th e Senators elected voting In fuvor thereof. By ordor of th e Senate, E . R. BROWN , Temporary President. : STAT E OF N18W YORK , IN ASSEMBLY, Hay 2 , 1917. The foregoing resolution wa s duly passed, n majority of all tb o members elected to the Assembly voting in favor thereof. B y order of th e Assembly. THADDEU S 0 . SWEET , .Speaker. STATE O F NEW YORK, OFFIC K OP TU B SECKETARY O F STATE , as. ; I hnve eompnred tb e preceding copy of eon- current resolution wit h the original concurrent resolution on file In thi s ollice, an d I d o hereby certify that tb e sam e is a correct transcript therefrom and of th e whole thereof. GIVEN under m y band an d th e seal of- ollice of th e Secretary of Stat e a t tho [L. fl.j city of Albany, this twelfth da y of July in tb e year of ou r Lord, ouo thousand nin e hundred an d seventeen. FRANCI S M. HUGO , Secretary of Mate. 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