For the development and extension of other state parks and the acquisition 

 and development of additional parks, including the further develop- 

 ment of the State Reservation at Saratoga Springs and of the John 

 Boyd Thacher Park 750,000 



Section IV. — The monies for the State Forest Preserve shall be expended and 

 lands acquired under the direction of the conservation commissioner by and with the 

 advice and consent of the commissioners of the land office. The monies for the 

 extension and improvement of the Palisades Interstate Park shall be expended by the 

 commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park. Lands shall be acquired by the 

 commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park under the provisions of chapter one 

 hundred and seventy of the laws of nineteen hundred, as amended. The monies for 

 the extension and improvement of the Allegany State Park shall be expended by the 

 commissioners of the Allegany State Park. Lands shall be acquired by the com- 

 missioners of the Allegany State Park under the provisions of chapter four hundred 

 and sixty-eight of the laws of 1921, as amended. The monies for the extension and 

 improvement of the New York State Reservation at Niagara shall be expended by 

 the commissioners of that Reservation. The monies for the Bronx Parkway exten- 

 sions and connections shall be expended by the Bronx Parkway Commission or other- 

 wise as the legislature may determine. The monies for the Roosevelt Memorial 

 Park and Parkway shall be expended by a commission constituted by the legislature, 

 to be known as the Roosevelt Memorial Park Commission. The monies for the 

 extension and improvement of the Letchworth Park shall be expended by the 

 American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; the monies for the extension 

 and improvement of state parks in the Finger Lakes region shall be expended by a 

 commission to be constituted as the legislature may determine and the remaining 

 monies for other park extensions and for new parks, including the further develop- 

 ment of the State Reservation at Saratoga Springs, shall be expended under the 

 direction of the conservation commission by and with the advice and consent of the 

 commissioners of the land office, or otherwise as the legislature may determine. 

 The legislature may at any time hereafter provide that the monies as to which it is 

 hereinbefore provided that the expenditure shall be made under the direction of the 

 respective commissions or societies in this section specified, may be expended by any 

 other commissioners that it may designate. 



Section V. — The monies appropriated for the acquisition of lands under this act 

 shall be available for the payment of the purchase price where lands are acquired 

 by contract or for payments of judgments and awards in case of purchase by con- 

 demnation. Monies appropriated for the acquisition of forest preserve lands shall 

 also be available for the payment of judgments and awards in case of proceedings 

 by entry and appropriation. 



Section VI. — The term " lands " as used in this act includes the improvements 

 thereon, if any. All lands acquired under and the state park system contemplated by 

 this act shall be for the use of all the people. 



Section VII. — Submission of law to people. This law shall not take effect until 

 it shall at a general election have been submitted to the people and have received a 

 majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election ; and the same shall 

 be submitted to the people of this state at the general election to be held in November, 

 nineteen hundred and twenty-three. The ballots to be furnished for the use of the 

 voters upon the submission of this law shall be in the form prescribed by the election 

 law and the proposition or question to be submitted shall be printed thereon in sub- 

 stantially the following form, namely : " Shall chapter (here insert the number of 

 the chapter) of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three entitled 'An Act 

 making provision for issuing bonds to the amount of not to exceed fifteen million 

 dollars for the extension and improvement of existing state parks and the establish- 

 ment of new state parks and parkways in order to create a comprehensive and unified 

 state park system for the promotion of the recreation, instruction and health of the 

 people, and providing for a submission of the same to the people to be voted upon 

 at the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be 

 approved ? ' " 



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