Provisions
VIII.23 proposed for 1916 • Clerks of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
REJECTED
The Text
Clerks of the several counties shall be clerks of the supreme court, with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by law. The justices of the appellate division in each department shall have power to appoint and to remove a clerk who shall keep his office at a place to be designated by such justices. The clerk of the court of appeals shall keep his office at the seat of government. The clerk of the court of appeals and the clerks of the appellate divisions shall receive compensation to be established by law and paid out of the public treasury.
A Few Facts
• Has 101 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 VIII: Judiciary
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VI.19
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