Provisions
III.5 proposed for 1870 • Compensation of members.
REJECTED
The Text
The members of the Legislature shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars, and ten cents for every mile they shall travel in once going to and returning from their place of meeting, by the most usual route.
The speaker of the assembly shall receive an additional salary of five hundred dollars ; but the Legislature shall provide by law for a deduction from the salary of members for non-attendance.
A Few Facts
• Has 71 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• Been in Article III:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-III.6
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