Provisions
Signature of 1847 • Signature
APPROVED
The Text
Done in convention, at the capitol in the city of Albany, the ninth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the seventy-first.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.
JOHN TRACEY,
President and delegate from the county of Chenango.
JAMES F . STARBUCK,
H. W. STRONG,
FR. SEGER,
Secretaries.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1847
• In Article Signature:
• Has 62 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1822-Signature
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