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Title: Actual government of New York..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Boynton, Frank D. (from old catalog)
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ople in exactly thesame way, and the qualifications for membership in both are the same. The term of the senator IS, to be- sure,longer than that of the assemblyman, but this differencein time is not sufficient to give added weight or dignityto the upper house. The chief difference lies in the factthat the senator represents a constituency three time-large as does the assemblyman. There is an importantadvantage in the two-chamber plan, however, in thatmore time is required for the passage of a bill through thetwo houses than through one. In this way the publicsometimes able to express its opinion in such a materialway as greatly to influence legislation. The Assembly. The number of assemblymen is fixed bythe constitution at 150. These are apportioned through-out the state on the basis of population, aliens excluded.At the conclusion of each census the legislature immedi-ately defines the boundaries of the new assembly dis-tricts ; thus at each census the boundaries of the assembly 104
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i Xi.v. York State, showing (above) ihe Forty tcree f \l District- nn \i\i. Ji dkial Districts 105 106 ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF NEW YORK districts may be changed. Each county except Hamiltonis entitled to one assemblyman. The number of peoplerepresented by an assemblyman is ascertained by divid-ing the total population entitled to representation by150. If a county contains a population equal to oneand one half times the number represented by an assembly-man, the county is given two members. The remainingmembers are apportioned among those counties having apopulation equal to or greater than that represented bytwo assemblymen. Assemblymen are elected annuallyby the direct vote of the qualified voters of the district.The annual salary is Si 500. If more than one assembly-man is assigned to a county, the county is divided intoassembly districts (see map. p. 87). The Speaker: his Election. The first step in the elec-tion of the speaker is the calling of a caucus, or meeting,of all the assembl

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