State of New York 



No. 22 



IN ASSEMBLY 



Jabtttakt 18, 1915 



FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



CONSERVATION COMMISSION 



To the Legislature: 



The near approach of a convention to revise the Constitution 

 of the State must focus attention upon the major problems of 

 conservation as never before. 



The trend of legislation, not only at the session of 1915, but 

 for years to come, will largely be determined by the debates of the 

 Constitutional Convention and the popular discussions incident 

 thereto. 



Twenty-one years have elapsed since last the State of New 

 York undertook a general revision of its organic law. Boys who 

 were in the cradle then, are voters now. Ideas which were in 

 their infancy then, are in their maturity now ; on the other hand 

 policies then considered wise, are now abandoned and forgotten. 

 At the present juncture in the world's affairs, twenty-one years 

 is a long time, and during such a period great changes occur in 

 circumstance, in condition and in popular thought. Nowhere has 

 this been more manifest than in the conservation movement ; and 

 nowhere is there greater opportunity for wise modification of 



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