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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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ries thereof. Board of supervisors of the city of New York to divide the county into Senate districts.-Certificate, etc., to be filed.

4. Enumeration to be taken in 1855, and every ten years.-Senate districts, how altered.

5. Members of Assembly, number of, and how apportioned and chosen.-Boards of supervisors in certain counties and board of aldermen in New York city to divide the same into Assembly districts.-Description of Assembly districts to be filed.Contents of Assembly districts. -Legislature to reapportion members of Assembly.-Each county entitled to one member.-Hamilton county.-Counties and towns may be divided and new ones erected.

6. Pay of members.

7. No member to receive an ap

pointment.

8. Persons disqualified from being members.

9. Time of election fixed.

10. Powers of each house.

11. Journals to be kept.

12. No member to be questioned,

etc.

13. Bills may originate in either house.

14. Enacting clause of bills. 15. Assent of a majority of all the members required, etc. 16. Restriction as to private and local bills.

17. Existing law not to be made a part of an act except by inserting it therein.

18. Private and local bills, in what cases they may not be passed. -General laws to be passed.Street railroads, condition upon

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4. Superintendent of Prisons, powers and duties of.

5. Commissioners of the Land Office.-Commissioners of the Canal Fund.-Canal Board. 6. Powers and duties of boards, etc. 7. Treasurer may be suspended by Governor.

8. Certain offices abolished.

ARTICLE VI.

1. Impeachment.

Assembly has power of.-Effect of judgment. 2. Court of Appeals.-Judges, how chosen.-Appointment of clerk. 3. Vacancies in office of Judge of Court of Appeals.-How filled. 4. Causes pending in Court of Appeals to be referred to Commissioners of Appeals.

5. Commissioners of Appeals.-Vacancies, how filled.-Chief Commissioner to be appointed. 6. Supreme Court.-Jurisdiction.Justices. Judicial districts, number of Justices in; may be altered without increasing number. Seven Justices to be designated to act as Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals for the time being.

7. Terms of Supreme Court. 8. Judge or Justice may not sit in review of decisions made by him, etc.

9. Vacancy in office of Justice of Supreme Court, how filled.

10. Judges of Court of Appeals, or Justices of Supreme Court, to hold no other office.

11. Removals.-Proceedings in rela

tion to.

12. City courts.

13. Justice of Supreme Court or Judges of City Courts, how chosen.-Term of office.-Restriction as to age.

14. Compensation of Judges or Justices. Not to be diminished , during term of office.

15. County Courts.

16. Local judicial officers. 17. Judge of Court of Appeals, or Justice of Supreme Court, election or appointment of.-Ques

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