extension and improvement of existing state parks in order 

 to create a comprehensive and unified state park system 

 for the promotion of the recreation, instruction and health 

 of the people. The bonds shall be issued for the acquisi- 

 tion of lands for state park purposes, for permanent im- 

 provements and betterments within state parks and for 

 parkway and boulevard connections between state parks 

 and between state parks and neighboring centers of popu- 

 lation. This proposed law shall be submitted to the peo- 

 ple at the general election of 1923 and shall not take effect 

 unless it is approved by a majority of all the votes cast 

 for and against it. 



(2) The proceeds of such bonds, after appropriation by 

 the Legislature, shall be applicable to the acquisition of 

 park lands and to the making of permanent improvements 

 thereon as follows, excepting that no part of the sum set 

 aside for the State Forest Preserve shall be used for any 

 other purpose than the acquisition of land: 



For the State Forest Preserve $5,000,000 



For the Palisades Interstate Park 3,500,000 



For the Allegany State Parle 2,000,000 



For the Niagara State Reservation 1,000,000 



For the Letohworth Park 500,000 



For the Watkins Olen and Enfield Falls Parks and for other 



parks and parkways in the Finger Lakes region 250,000 



For parkway connections between the Bronx River Park- 

 way, and the Bridge from Peekskill to Bear Mountain 



in Westchester County 1,000,000 



For the extension and development of the Roosevelt Memo- 

 rial Parle as a state park and for a parkway connection 



hetween this park and the Gity of New York 1,000,000 



For the development and extension of other state parks 

 and the acquisition and development of additional parks, 

 including the further development of the State Reserva- 

 tion at Saratoga Spri/ngs 150,000 



Total $15,000,000 



(3) It is provided that expenditures for land and other 

 purposes shall, in the case of each project, be made by the 

 commissioners in charge of the existing park which is to 

 be extended or improved. In the case of the Forest Pre- 

 serve and Saratoga Reservation the usual provision is of 

 course also made for the consent of the commissioners of 

 the land office. In the case of the Westchester, Finger 

 Lakes and Eoosevelt Memorial projects, the controlling 

 commissions are to be constituted by the legislature. There 

 is also a general provision that the legislature may make 

 changes in the administrative authorities to have charge 

 of the expenditures of funds. 



