§ 121. The number of members of assembly of this state hereafter to be chosen in the several counties thereof shall be as follows:

In the county of Albany, three.
In the county of Allegany, one.
In the county of Broome, one.
In the county of Cattaraugus, one.
In the county of Cayuga, one.
In the county of Chautauqua, two.
In the county of Chemung, one.
In the county of Chenango, one.
In the county of Clinton, one.
In the county of Columbia, .one.
In the county of Cortland, one.
In the county of Delaware, one.
In the county of Dutchess, two.
In the county of Erie, nine.
In the county of Essex, one.
In the county of Franklin, one.

In the county of Fulton-Hamilton, one.
In the county of Genesee, one.
In the county of Greene, one.
In the county of Herkimer, one.
In the county of Jefferson, two.
In the county of Kings, twenty-three.
In the county of Lewis, one.
In the county of Livingston, one.
In the county of Madison, one.

In the county of Monroe, five.
In the county of Montgomery, one.
In the county of Nassau, one.

In the county of New York, thirty-five.

In the county of Niagara, two.
In the county of Oneida, three.
In the county of Onondaga, three.
In the county of Ontario, one.
In the county of Orange, two.
In the county of Orleans, one.
In the county of Oswego, one.
In the county of Otsego, one.
In the county of Putnam, one.
In the county of Queens, four.
In the county of Rensselaer, two.
In the county of Richmond, one.
In the county of Rockland, one.
In the county of Saint Lawrence, two.
In the county of Saratoga, one.
In the county of Schenectady, one.
In the county of Schoharie, one.
In the county of Schuyler, one.
In the county of Seneca, one.
In the county of Steuben, two.
In the county of Suffolk, two.
In the county of Sullivan, one.
In the county of Tioga, one.
In the county of Tompkins, one.
In the county of Ulster, two.
In the county of Warren, one.
In the county of Washington, one.
In the county of Wayne, one.
In the county of Westchester, four,
In the county of Wyoming, one.
In the county of Yates, one.

THE LEGISLATIVE LAW

CHAP. 37, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT in relation to legislation, constituting chapter thirty-two of the consolidated laws.

II. Members, officers and employees of the legis lature (§§ 1-24).

III. The enactment

(§§ 40-49).

IV. Legislative committees; testimony in legislative proceedings (§§ 60-66).

V. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 90, 91).

ARTICLE I.

Short Title.

§ 1. Short title.— This chapter shall be known as the "Legislative Law."

ARTICLE II.

Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature. Section 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest. 3. Expulsion of members.

4. Contempts of either house.

5. Payment of salaries of members.

6. Officers and employees of the senate.
7. Officers and employees of the assembly.

8. Appointments to be entered on journals.
9. Stenographers to special committees.
10. Compensation of officers and employees.

11. Compensation during extra sessions and im-
peachment trials.

Section 12. Attendance of officers of each session at opening

of next session.

13. Officers remaining after adjournment.

14. Undertaking of clerk of each house.

15. Duties of clerks.

16. Supplies furnished by clerks.

17. Accountability of clerks to comptroller.

18. Duties of postmasters and assistants.

19. Duties of stenographers.

20. Detail of officers and employees for special duties.

21. Limitation of legislative expenses.

22. Custody of legislative papers and documents.
23. Appropriation bills, how referred.

24. Drafting and revising of bills.

§ 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest.— A member of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust in public office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen days before and after each session, or while absent for not more than fourteen days during the session with leave of the house of which he is a member.

An officer of either house shall be privileged from arrest in such a civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance upon the house. Either house shall have the power to discharge from arrest any of its members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest.

§ 3. Expulsion of members. Each house has the power to expel any of its members, after the report of a committee to inquire into the charges against him shall have been made.

§ 4. Contempts of either house.- Each house may

punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the same session of the legislature, as for a contempt, for the following offenses only:

1. Arresting a member or officer of either house in violation of his privilege from arrest;

2. Disorderly conduct of its members, officers or others in the immediate view and presence of the house, tending to interrupt its proceedings;

3. The publication of a false and malicious report of its proceedings, or of the conduct of a member in his legislative capacity;

4. Giving or offering a bribe to a member, or attempting, by menace or other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, to influence a member in giving or withholding his vote, or in not attending meetings of the house of which he is a member;

5. Neglect to attend or to be examined as a witness before the house or committee thereof, or upon reasonable notice to produce any material books, papers, or documents, when duly required to give testimony or to produce such books, papers, or documents in a legis. lative proceeding, inquiry, or investigation.

§ 5. Payment of salaries of members.— The salary of a member of the legislature shall be payable during the session, from time to time, at the rate of ten dollars per day, at any time during the session, for the number of days then expired, not exceeding in the aggregate fourteen hundred dollars, before the final adjournment of the legislature. The balance of such salary shall be payable at the final adjournment of the legislature.