Sec. 9. allowed. Sec. 10. Private property - Private roads-Drainage. Right of property in lands-Escheats. Right of petition-Divorce - No form of gambling to be Sec. 16. Old colony laws and acts of the Legislature - Common law Commissioners and their duties. Sec. 17. Damages for death injuries not to be limited by statute. ARTICLE II. Section 1. Qualification of voters. Sec. 2. Persons excluded from right of suffrage-Challenge-Laws to be passed excluding from right of suffrage. Sec. 3. Certain employments not to affect residence of voters. Laws to be passed - Registration of voters. Sec. 4. Sec. 5. Election to be by ballot - Or as prescribed by law. ARTICLE III. Section 1. Legislative powers. Sec. 2. Senate, number of Assembly, number of. Sec. 3. State divided into fifty senatorial districts - Boundaries thereof. Sec. 4. Census to be taken in 1905, and every ten years - Senate districts, how altered - Ratio of apportionment. Sec. 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 and in the city of Brooklyn the aldermen and supervisors of Kings county, to divide the same into Assembly districts-Legislature to reapportion members of Assembly - Each county entitled to one member-Hamilton county-Supreme Court may review apportionment. Sec. 6. Pay of members. Sec. 7. Sec. 8. Sec. 9. Sec. 10. Senate. Sec. 11. Sec. 12. Sec. 13. No member to receive an appointment. Powers of each house-Temporary president of the Journals to be kept. No member to be questioned, etc. Bills may originate in either house. Sec. 14. Enacting clause of bills. Sec. 15. Passing of bills-On members' desks three days beforeNo amendment on final passage. Sec. 16. Restriction as to private and local bills. Sec. 17. Existing law not to be made a part of an act except by inserting it therein. Sec. 18. Private and local bills, in what case they may not be passed-General laws to be passed - Street railroads, conditions upon which they may be authorized. Sec. 19. The Legislature not to audit or allow any private claim. When two-thirds necessary. Sec. 20. Sec. 21. Sec. 22. Appropriations to be specified. No "rider" to be in an annual appropriation bill. Sections seventeen and eighteen not to apply to certain bills. Section 1. Executive power, how vested. Sec. 2. Requisite qualifications of Governor. Sec. 3. Governor. Sec. 4. Sec. 5. Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant Duties and power of Governor-His compensation. Sec. 6. Powers of Governor to devolve on Lieutenant-Governor. Sec. 7. Requisite qualifications of Lieutenant-Governor- To be President of the Senate, and to act as Governor in certain casesWhen Speaker of Assembly shall act as Governor. Sec. 8. Compensation of Lieutenant-Governor. Sec. 9. Bills to be presented to the Governor for signature-If 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 law- Governor may object to items of appropriation in any bill. ARTICLE V. Section 1. State officers, how elected and terms of office. Sec. 2. Terms of State officers adjusted. Sec. 3. Superintendent of Public Works, powers and duties. Sec. 4. Superintendent of Prisons, powers and duties of. 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. Sec. 9. Appointments to office to be made upon ascertained fitness and merit-Civil war veterans exempt from competitive examinations. |