...oath, declaration, or test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust. SEC. 2. When private property is taken for the use or benefit...commissioners, appointed by a court of record, as shall be prescribe^ by law; "Provided, The foregoing provision shall in 110 case be construed to apply to the...

...authorizes property to be taken for public use, and the compensation therefor to be ascertained by a jury, or by not less than three commissioners, appointed by a court of record. Constitution, art. 1, § 7. These conditions appear to have been observed. It ie not the province of...

...the constitution of New York it is provided that the compensation "shall be ascertained by a ;ury, or by not less than three commissioners appointed by a court of record." This language in respect to commissioners was considered by the Court of Appeals to imply that the...

...powers of taxation, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit. " ARTICLE XVIII, § 2. When private property is taken for the use or benefit...a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law. ' " § 14. The property -of no person shall be taken for public use without just compensation therefor....

...the compensation is not made directly by the state, such compensation .shall be ascertained by a jury or by NOT LESS THAN THREE commissioners appointed...by a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law (Art. I. § 7). The last named section then goes on to provide, in addition, that private roads may...

...New York declares that when private property is taken the compensation shall be ascertained by a jury or by not less than three commissioners appointed by a court of record, f This provision is not satisfied by a city charter which authorizes the common council to appoint...

...be made therefor, when such compensation is not made by the State, shall be ascertained by a jury, or by not less than three commissioners appointed...a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law," was held to abrogate a prior statute providing for a different mode of assessment of the damages. In...

...to be made therefor, when iuch compensation is not made by the State, shall be ascertained by a jury or by not less than three commissioners appointed by a court of record, as shall be proscribed by law. Private roads may be opened in th« manner to be prescribed by law ; but in every...

...compensation for land taken for public use, when not to be made by the State, shall be ascertained by a jury, or by not less than three commissioners, appointed by a court of record. The commissioners failed to comply with the provision of the act, which required them to state in their...

...Constitution (Detmold agt. Drake, 46 NY, 318). Matter of One Hundred and Twenty-seventl Street. a jury or by not less than three commissioners appointed...a court of record as shall be prescribed by law." This section vests in the commissioners the sole power of determining what is just compensation and...