Provisions
III.20 proposed for 1916 • The Legislature not to audit or allow any private claim.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim or account against the state or against any civil division thereof, but may appropriate money to pay such claims and accounts against the state as shall have been audited and allowed according to law.
A Few Facts
• Has 44 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 III: Legislature
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-III.19
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