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MATTER OF BLAIKIE v. POWER

19 A.D.2d 779 (1963)

In the Matter of Robert B. Blaikie, Individually and On Behalf of Others Similarly Situated, Respondent, v. James M. Power et al., Constituting The Board of Elections of the City of New York, et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

August 21, 1963

Order, entered on August 13, 1963, unanimously reversed on the law, without costs, and the proceeding dismissed.

The provisions for limiting voting for councilmen at large contained in section 22 of the New York City Charter, enacted as a local law of the city, are fully in accord with rather than in contravention to constitutional provisions. The city was expressly empowered by section 12 of article IX of the State Constitution "to adopt and amend local laws not...

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