obligation of any debts contracted by the State, or indi viduals, or bodies corporate, or any other rights of prop erty, or any suits, actions, rights of action, or other proceedings in courts of justice.

ARTICLE II.

* SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the age of twentyone years who shall have been a citizen for ten days and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the Legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respec tively reside.

*SEC. 2. No person who shall receive, expect or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any

As amended by vote of the people, Nov. 3, 1874.

bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that purpose shall receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before such officers that he has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election, and has not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election. The Legislature, at the session thereof next after the adoption of this section, shall, and from time to time thereafter may, enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.

SEC. 3. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the naviga tion of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms-house, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any publie prison.

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SEC. 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining by proper proofs the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established.

SEC. 5. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal. lot, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen.

SECTION 1. The legislative power of th be vested in a Senate and Assembly.

SEC. 2. The Senate shall consist of th bers, and the Senators shall be chosen The Assembly shall consist of one hundre eight members, who shall be annually el

SEC. 3. The State shall be divided into tricts, to be called Senate districts, each o choose one Senator. The districts shall from one to thirty-two inclusive.*

District number One (1) shall consist o of Suffolk, Richmond and Queens.

District number Two (2) shall consist of Kings.

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District number Three (3), number Fo Five (5), and number Six and county of New York. ors of said city and county shall, on or be day of May, one thousand eight hundre seven, divide the said city and county int of Senate districts, to which it is entitle may be of an equal number of inhabitan aliens and persons of color not taxed, and convenient and contiguous territory; and district shall be divided in the formation district. The board of supervisors, whe have completed such division, shall cau thereof, stating the number and boundarie trict and the population thereof, to be filed of the Secretary of State, and of the clerk and county.

* For existing Senate districts, see chapter 805

District number Seven (7) shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland.

District number Eight (8) shall consist of the counties of Dutchess and Columbia.

District number Nine (9) shall consist of the counties of Orange and Sullivan.

District number Ten (10) shall consist of the counties of Ulster and Greene.

District number Eleven (11) shall consist of the counties of Albany and Schenectady.

District number Twelve (12) shall consist of the county of Rensselaer.

District number Thirteen (13) shall consist of the counties of Washington and Saratoga.

District number Fourteen (14) shall consist of the counties of Warren, Essex and Clinton.

District number Fifteen (15) shall consist of the counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.

District number Sixteen (16) shall consist of the counties of Herkimer, Hamilton, Fulton and Montgomery. District number Seventeen (17) shall consist of the counties of Schoharie and Delaware.

District number Eighteen (18) shall consist of the counties of Otsego and Chenango.

District number Nineteen (19) shall consist of the county of Oneida.

District number Twenty (20) shall consist of the coun. ties of Madison and Oswego.

District number Twenty-one (21) shall consist of the counties of Jefferson and Lewis.

District number Twenty-two (22) shall consist of the county of Onondaga.

District number Twenty-three (23) shall consist of the counties of Cortland, Broome and Tioga.

District number Twenty-four (24) shall consist of the counties of Cayuga and Wayne.

District number Twenty-six (26) shall counties of Steuben and Chemung.

District number Twenty-seven (27) shall county of Monroe.

District number Twenty-eight (28) shall counties of Orleans, Genesee and Niagara District number Twenty-nine (29) shall counties of Ontario and Livingston.

District number Thirty (30) shall consist ties of Allegany and Wyoming.

District number Thirty-one (31) shall c county of Erie.

District number Thirty-two (32) shall c counties of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus.

SEC. 4. An enumeration of the inhabi State shall be taken, under the direction of ture, in the year one thousand eight hundr five, and at the end of every ten years the the said districts shall be so altered by the at the first session after the return of ever tion, that each Senate district shall contain, may be, an equal number of inhabitants aliens, and persons of color not taxed; and s unaltered until the return of another enum shall at all times consist of contiguous territ county shall be divided in the formation of a trict, except such county shall be equitably two or more senators.

*SEC. 5. The Assembly shall consist of one h twenty-eight members, elected for one year. bers of Assembly shall be apportioned amor ral counties of the State, by the Legislatur

As amended by vote of the people, Novembe