758                                   Appendix I.

Notice of submission of proposed constitutional amendments or other
propositions or questions.

§ 6. Every amendment to the constitution proposed by the legislature,
unless otherwise provided by law, shall be submitted to the people for
approval at the next general election, after action by the legislature
in accordance with the constitution; and whenever any such proposed
amendment to the constitution or other proposition, or question provided
hy law to be submitted to a popular vote, shall be submitted to the
people for their approval, the secretary of state shall include in his
notice to the county clerk and the police board of The City of New York,
of the general election, a copy of such amendment, proposition or ques¬
tion, and if more than one such amendment, proposition or question is to
be voted upon at such election, .such amendment, proposition or question,
respectively, shall be separately and consecutively numbered. If such
amendment, proposition or question is to be submitted at a special elec¬
tion the secretary of state shall, at least tvpenty days before the election,
make and transmit to each county clerk and the police board of The
City of New York a like notice. Each county clerk shall, forthwith, upon
the receipt of such notice, file and record it in his office, and shall cause
a copy of such notice to be published once a week until the election
therein specified, in the newspapers designated to publish election
notices.

§ 3. Section eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:

Creation, division and alteration of election districts.

§ 8. Every town, or ward of a city, not subdivided into election dis¬
tricts shall be an election district. The town board of every town con¬
taining more than four hundred electors, aiid the common council of
every city except New York, in which there shall be a ward containing
more than four hundred electors, shall, on or before the first day of
July in each year, whenever necessary so to do, divide such town or
ward respectively into election districts, each of which shall be compact
in form, wholly within the town or ward, and shall contain respectively
as near as may be, four hundred electors, but no such ward or town shall
be again divided into election districts until, at some general election,
the number of votes cast in one or more districts thereof shall exceed
six hundred; and in such a case the redivision shall apply only to the
town or ward in which such district is situated. If any part of a city
shall be within a town, the town board shall divide into election districts
only that part of the town which is outside of the city. No elec¬
tion district including any part of a city shall include any part of
a town outside of a city. A town or a ward of a city containing less
than four hundred electors may, at least thirty days before the election
or appointment (where appointment is directed to be made by law) of
inspectors of election of such town or ward, be divided into election dis¬
tricts by the board or other body charged with such duty when, in the
iudgment of such board or body, the convenience of the electors shall
be promoted thereby. The creation, division or alteration of an election
district outside of a city shall take effect immediately after the next
town meeting,  and  at such next town meeting inspectors of election