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property of such bank or institution for savings. The legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special chartetr for banking purposes; but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.

SEC. 10. Neither the credit nor the money of the State shall be given or loaned to or in aid of any association, corporation or private undertaking. This section shall not, however, prevent the Legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper. Nor shall it apply to any fund or property now held, or which may hereafter be held, by the State for educational purposes.

SEC. 11. No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes. This section shall not prevent such county, city, town or village from making such provision for the aid or support of its poor as may be authorized by law. No county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city, shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment-rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for State or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness; and all indebtedness in excess of such limitation, except such as may now exist, shall be absolutely void, except as herein otherwise provided. No such county or such city whose present indebtedness exceeds ten per centum of the assessed valuation of its real estate subject to taxation shall be allowed to become indebted in any further amount until such indebtedness shall be reduced within such limit. This section shall not be construed to prevent the issuing of certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes for amounts actually contained, or to be contained in the taxes for the year when such certificates or revenue bonds are issued and payable out of such taxes. Nor shall this section be construed to prevent the issue of bonds to provide for the supply of water, but the term of the bonds issued to provide for the supply of water shall not exceed twenty years, and a sinking fund shall be created on the issuing of the said bonds for their redemption, by raising annually a sum which will produce an amount equal to the sum of the principal and interest of sand bonds at their maturity. The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this State, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt.

« As amended by vote of the people. November 3. 1874.

Sections 10 and 11 added by vote of the people, November 3, 1874, and section 11 amended by vote of the people, November 4, 1884.

ARTICLE X

SEC. 9. No officer whose salary is fixed by the Constitution shall receive any additonal compensation. Each of the other State officers named in the Constitution shall, during his continuance in office, receive a compensation, to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed; nor shall he receive to his use any fees or perquisites of office or other compensation.

ARTICLE XII

SECTION 1. Members of the Legislature (and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as shall be by law exempted) shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according

to the best of my ability;" and all such officers who shall have been chosen at any election shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation above prescribed, together with the following addition thereto, as part thereof:

"And I do further sloemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not directly or indirectly paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, or offered or promised to contribute any money or other valuable thing as a consideration or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected to said office, and have not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote," and no other oath, declaration or test shall be required as a qualification for any office of public trust.

ARTICLE XV ©

SECTION 1. Any person holding office under the laws of this State, who, except in payment of his legal salary, fees or perquisites, shall receive or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, any thing of value or of personal advantage, or the promise thereof, for performing or omitting to perform any official act, or with the express or implied understanding that his official action or omission to act is to be in any degree influenced thereby, shall be deemed guilty of a felony. This section shall not affect the validity of any existing statute in relation to the offense of bribery.

SEC. 2. And person who shall offer or promise a bribe to an officer, if it shall be received, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and liable to punishment, except as herein provided. No person offering a bribe shall, upon any prosecution of the officer for receiving such bribe, be privileged from testifying in relation thereto, and he shall not be liable to civil or criminal prosecution therefor, if he shall testify to the giving or offering of such bribe. Any person who shall

a Section 9 added by vote of the people, November 3, 1874.
As amended by vote of the people, November 3, 1874.
c Article 15 added by vote of the people, November 3, 1874.
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offer or promise a bribe, if it be rejected by the officer to whom it was tendered, shall be deemed guilty of an attempt to bribe, which is hereby declared to be a felony.

SEC. 3. Any person charged with receiving a bribe, or with offering or promising a bribe, shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf in any civil or criminal prosecution therefor.

SEC. 4. Any District Attorney who shall fail faithfully to prosecute a person charged with the violation in his county of any provision of this article which may come to his knowledge shall be removed from office by the Governor, after due notice and an opportunity of being heard in his defense. The expenses which shall be incurred by any county, in investigating and prosecuting any charge of bribery or attempting to bribe any person holding office under the laws of this State, within such county, or of receiving bribes by any such person in said county, shall be a charge against the State, and their payment by the State shall be provided for by law.

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SECTION 1. All amendments to the Constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January succeeding the election at which the same were adopted, except when otherwise provided by such amendments.

Done in Convention, at the Capitol in the city of Albany the ninth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fortysix, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventy-first.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.
JOHN TRACY,

President and Delegate from County of Chenango.

JAMES F. STARBUCK,

H. W. STRONG,

FR. SEGER,

Secretaries

VOTE OF THE PEOPLE UPON THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS AMENDMENTS-1845-1886.

Nov. 4, 1845. For a convention to consider and alter Constitution_____ 213, 257 Against.

Nov. 3, 1846. For amended Constitution_.

Against

Feb. 15, 1854. For amendment of section 3 of article 7, for speedy com

pletion of canals...

Against__

33,860

221, 528

92,436

185, 771 60.526

Nov. 6, 1866. For a convention to revise Constitution.

Against

a Article 16 added by vote of the people, November 3, 1874.

352, 854 256, 364

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For a uniform rule of assessment and taxation of real

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Nov. 5, 1872. For amendment of article 6, relating to Commission of

Appeals --
Against ---

176, 038 9.196

Nov. 4, 1873. For appointment of Judges of Court of Appeals and of
Supreme Court

Against

115, 337 319,979

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Nov. 2, 1880. For amendment of article 6, sections 12 and 13.

221, 903

Against

111, 225

Nov. 7, 1882. For amendment of section 3 of article 7

486, 105

Against

163, 151

For amendment of article 6

248, 784

Against

Nov. 4, 1884. For amendment of section 11 of article 8.

Against

Nov. 2, 1886. For a convention to revise the Constitution and amend
the same
Against

75.644

499, 661

9, 161

@574.993

b30, 766

• Including 218,376 informal votes. Including 3,735 informal votes.

THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW YORK-1894 * a

PREAMBLE

We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessing, do establish this Constitution.

ARTICLE I

Section 1. No member of this State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights and privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers. [Section 1 of article I of the amended constitution of 1846, without change.]

§ 2. The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law.

[Section 2 of article I of the amended constitution of 1846, without change.]

§ 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.

[Section 3 of article I of the constitution of 1846, without change.]

§ 4. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require its suspension.

[Section 4 of article I of the amended constitution of 1846, without change.]

§ 5. Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor shall cruel and unusual punishments be inflicted, nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained.

[Section 1 of article V of the amended constitution of 1846, without change.] § 6. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service, and the land and naval forces in time. of war, or which this State may keep with the consent of Congress in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature), unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury, and in any trial in any court whatever the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person and with counsel as in civil actions. No person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case

*The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Forms and Laws for the Regulation of Business in the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York. Published pursuant to section 15 of the legislative law. Lafayette B. Gleason, Clerk of the Senate; A. E. Baxter, Clerk of the Assembly. Albany: The Journal Company, Printers. 1907. 662 pp.

a As proposed by the Constitutional Convention, September 29, 1894, at Albany, N. Y., and adopted by the people of the State, November 6, 1894.

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