CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. ARTICLE I. Section 1. No person to be disfranchised. 2. Trial by jury. 3. Religious liberty. 4. Writ of habeas corpus. 5. Bail, fines. 6. Grand jury. 7. Private property.-Private roads. 8. Freedom of speech and of the press. 9. Two-third bills. 10. Right of petition.-Divorces. Lotteries. 11. Right of property in lands. Escheats. 12. Feudal tenures abolished. 13. Allodial tenure. 14. Certain leases invalid. 15. Fines and quarter sales abol ished. 16. Sale of lands. 17. Old colony laws and acts of the Legislature.-Common law.- -their duties. 18. Grants of land since 1775.-Prior grants. Section ries thereof. Board of super- to be filed. 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 insert ing it therein. 18. Private and local bills, in what cases they may not be passed. -General laws to be passed.Street railroads, condition upon ARTICLE II. 1. Qualification of voters. 2. Persons excluded from right of suffrage.-Challenge.-Laws to be passed excluding from right of suffrage. 3. Certain employments not to af fect residence of voters. 4. Laws to be passed. 5. Election to be by ballot. ARTICLE III. 1. Legislative powers. 2. Senators, number of.-Members of Assembly, number of. 3. State divided into thirty-two Senatorial districts.-Bounda Section 4. Superintendent of Prisons, pow. ers and duties of. 5. Commissioners of the Land Ot. fice.-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 Ap peals to be referred to Com. missioners of Appeals. 5. Commissioners of Appeals.-Va cancies, 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 Section which they may be author ized. 19. The Legislature not to auditor allow any private claim. 20. Bill imposing a tax, manner of passing. 21. Same subject. 22. Board of supervisors. 23. Local legislative powers con ferred on boards of supervis ors. 24. No extra compensation to be granted to a public officer, ser vant, agent or contractor. 25. Sections seventeen and eighteen not to apply to certain bills. + ARTICLE IV. 1. Executive power, how vested. 2. Requisite qualifications of Goy ernor. 3. Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Gov ernor. 4. Duties and power of Governor. His compensation. 5. Pardoning power vested in the Governor. 6. Powers of Governor to devolve upon Lieutenant-Governor. tenant-Governor.-To be Presi- as Governor in certain cases. Governor. ernor for signature.-If re- for the time being. 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.-Re striction as to age. 14. Compensation of Judges or Jus tices.---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 ARTICLE V. 1. State officers, how elected and terms of office. 2. State Engineer and Surveyor, how chosen and term of office. 3. Superintendent of Public Works, powers and duties: |