SECTION 1. Legislative powers. SEC. 2. Senate, number of-Assembly, numb SEC. 3. State divided into thirty-two senator boundaries thereof - Board of supervisors of th York to divide the county into four senate dis ficate, etc., to be filed. SEC. 4. Census to be taken in 1855, and ever Senate districts, how altered. SEC. 5. Members of Assembly, number of, an tioned and chosen- Boards of supervisors in ties and board of aldermen in New York city same into Assembly districts-Description of tricts to be filed - Contents of Assembly distri ture to re-apportion members of Assembly entitled to one member-Hamilton countytowns may be divided and new ones erected. SEC. 6. Pay of members. SEC. 7. No member to receive an appointment SEC. 8. Persons disqualified from being memb SEC. 9. Time of election fixed. SEC. 10. Powers of each house. SEC. 11. Journals to be kept. SEC. 12. No member to be questioned, etc. SEC. 15. Assent of a majority of all the membe etc. SEC. 16. Restriction as to private and local bills. SEC. 17. Existing law not to be made a part of cept by inserting it therein. SEC. 18. Private and local bills, in what cases th be passed-General laws to be passed-Street condition upon which they may be authorized. SEC. 19. The legislature not to audit or allow claim. SEC. 20. Bill imposing a tax, manner of passing. SEC. 21. Same subject. SEC. 22. Board of supervisors. SEC. 23. Local legislative powers conferred on bo pervisors. SEC. 24. No extra compensation to be granted to a public officer, servant, agent or contractor. SEC. 25. Sections seventeen and eighteen not to apply to certain bills. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. Executive power, how vested. SEC. 2. Requisite qualifications of Governor. SEC. 3. Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. SEC. 4. Duties and power of Governor-His compensation. SEC. 5. Pardoning power vested in the Governor. SEC. 6. Powers of Governor to devolve on Lieutenant-Gov ernor. SEC. 7. Requisite qualifications of Lieutenant-GovernorTo be President of the Senate, and to act as Governor in certain cases. SEC. 8. Compensation of Lieutenant-Governor. SEC. 9. Bills to be presented to the Governor for signatureIf returned by him with objections, how disposed of - Bills to be returned within ten days-After adjournment, bills must be approved in thirty days, else cannot become lawGovernor may object to items of appropriation in any bill. ARTICLE V. SECTION 1. State officers, how elected and terms of office. SEC. 2. State Engineer and Surveyor, how chosen and term of office. SEC. 3. Canal Commissioners, how chosen and terms of office. SEC. 4. Inspectors of State Prisons, how elected and terms of office. SEC. 5. Commissioners of the Land Office-Commissioners of the Canal Fund - Canal Board. SEC. 6. Powers and duties of Boards, etc. SEC. 7. Treasurer may be suspended by Governor. SEC. 8. Certain offices abolished. ARTICLE VI. - Effect SECTION 1. Impeachment - Assembly has power of — of judgment. SEC. 2. Court of Appeals - Judges how chosen - Appoirtment of clerk. to Commissioners of Appeals. SEC. 5. Commissioners of Appeals-Vacanc Chief Commissioner to be appointed. SEC. 6. Supreme Court- Jurisdiction-Just Districts, number of justices in; may be a increasing number. SEC. 7. Terms of Supreme Court. SEC. 8. Judge or Justice may not sit in revie made by him, etc. SEC. 9. Vacancy in office of Justice of Supre filled. SEC. 10. Judges of Court of Appeals, or Justic Court, to hold no other office. SEC. 11. Removals - Proceedings in relation t SEC. 13. Justice of Supreme Court or Judges how chosen-Term of office-Restriction as to SEC. 14. Compensation of Judges or Justice diminished during term of office. SEC. 15. County Courts. SEC. 16. Local judicial officers. SEC. 17. Judge of Court of Appeals, or Justic Court, election or appointment of - Question to to people. SEC. 18. Justices of the Peace. SEC. 19. Inferior local courts. SEC. 20. Clerks of Supreme Court and Court of SEC. 21. No judicial officer, except Justice of t receive fees. SEC. 22. Judgments, etc., may be ordered dire of Appeals for review. SEC. 23. Publication of Statutes to be provided free to all. SEC. 24. Judges, first election of- When to duties. SEC. 25. Local judicial officers -Term of office incumbents. SEC. 26. Courts of Special Sessions. SEC. 27. Surrogates' Courts. SEC. 28. Court of Appeals may order causes to Commission of Appeals. ARTICLE VIL SECTION 1. Canal debt- Sinking Fund-June 1, 1846, $1,300,000-June 1, 1855, $1,700,000. SEC. 2. General Fund Debt-Sinking Fund, $350,000; after certain period, $1,500,000. SEC. 3. $200,000 of the surplus canal revenues annually appropriated to General Fund, and the remainder to specific public works-Certain deficiencies in the revenues not exceeding $2,250,000, annually to be supplied from the revenues of the canals -Contractors, no extra compensation to be made to. SEC. 4. Loans to incorporated companies not to be released or compromised. SEC. 5. Legislature shall, by equitable taxes, increase the revenues of the Sinking Fund in certain cases. SEC. 6. Certain Canals of the State not to be leased or soldExpenditures, for collections and repairs, limited - - Funds from leases or sale, how applied. SEC. 7. Salt springs. SEC. 8. Appropriation bills. SEC. 9. State credit not to be loaned. SEC. 10. Power to contract debts limited. SEC. 11. Debts to repel invasion, etc., may be contracted. SEC. 12. Limitation of the legislative power in the creation of debts. SEC. 13. Sinking funds to be separately kept and safely invested. SEC. 14. Claims barred by lapse of time-Limitation of ex isting claims. ARTICLE VIII. SECTION 1. Corporations, how created. SEC. 2. Debts of corporations. SEC. 3. "Corporations" defined. SEC. 4. Charters for savings banks and banking purposes. SEC. 5. Specie payments. SEC. 6. Registry of bills or notes. SEC. 7. Individual responsibility of stockholders. SEC. 8. Insolvency of banks, preference. SEC. 9. Legislature to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages, and to define powers thereof in certain cases. SEC. 10. The credit or money of the State not to be given or loaned. SEC. 11. Counties, cities, towns and villages not to give money or property or loan their money or credit — Their power to contract debts limited. ARTICLE IX. SECTION 1. Common School, Literature and United States Deposit Funds. ARTICLE X. SECTION 1. Sheriffs, Clerks of counties, Register and Clerk of New York, Coroners and District Attorneys-Governor may remove. SEC. 2. Officers, how chosen or appointed. SEC. 3. Duration of office. SEC. 4. Time of election. SEC. 5. Vacancies in office, how filled. SEC. 6. Political year. SEC. 7. Removal from office. SEC. 8. When office deemed vacant. SEC. 9. Compensation of certain officers. ARTICLE XI. SECTION 1. Militia. SEC. 2. Manner of choosing or appointing militia officers. SEC. 3. Officers to be appointed by Governor and Senate Commissary-General. SEC. 4. Election of militia officers. SEC. 5. Officers, how commissioned. SEC. 6. Election of militia officers may be abolished, ARTICLE XII. SECTION 1. Oath of office prescribed. ARTICLE XIII. SECTION 1. Amendments. SEC. 2. Future conventions, how called. ARTICLE XIV. SECTION 1. Election-Term of office of Senators and Mem bers of Assembly. SEC. 2. First election of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor when. |