Provisions
I.11 proposed for 1916 • Feudal tenures abolished.
REJECTED
The Text
All feudal tenures of every description, with all their incidents, are declared to be abolished, saving however, all rents and services certain which at any time heretofore have been lawfully created or reserved.
A Few Facts
• Has 33 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article I: Civil rights
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-I.11
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