Ballot Questions
1846
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution - as proposed by the 1846 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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70.56% |
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221,528 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
29.44% |
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92,436 New Yorkers voted No |
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313,964 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
VI.23 proposed for 1847
• Section 23: Tribunals of conciliation.
Tribunals of conciliation may be established, with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law; but such tribunals shall have no power to render judgment to be obligatory on the parties, except they voluntarily submit their matters in difference, and agree to abide the judgment, or assent thereto, in the presence of such tribunal, in such cases as…
Read moreVI.24 proposed for 1847
• Section 24: Commissioners to revise procedure.
The legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall provide for the appointment of three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to revise, reform, simplify, and abridge the rules of practice, pleadings, forms and proceedings of the courts of record of this state, and to report thereon to the legislature, subject to their adoption and modification…
Read moreVI.25 proposed for 1847
• Section 25: Legislature to organize court of appeals; transfer of business of other courts.
The legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall provide for the organization of the court of appeals, and for transferring to it the business pending in the court for the correction of errors, and for the allowance of writs of error and appeals to the court of appeals from the judgments and decrees of the…
Read moreVII.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Canal sinking fund.
After paying the expenses of collection, superintendence, and ordinary repairs, there shall be appropriated and set apart, in each fiscal year, out of the revenues of the state canals, in each year, commencing on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, the sum of one million and three hundred thousand dollars, until the first day of…
Read moreVII.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Canal appropriations; state debts.
After complying with the provisions of the first section of this article there shall be appropriated and set apart out of the surplus revenues of the state canals in each fiscal year, commencing on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, until the time when a sufficient…
Read moreVII.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Canal revenues.
After paying the said expenses of superintendence and repairs of the canals, and the sums appropriated by the first and second sections of this article, there shall be paid out of the surplus revenues of the canals to the treasury of the state, on or before the thirtieth day of September in each year, for the use and benefit of…
Read moreVII.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Enforcement of state claims against corporations.
The claims of the state against any incorporated company to pay the interest and redeem the principal of the stock of the state, loaned or advanced to such company, shall be fairly enforced, and not released or compromised; and the moneys arising from such claims shall be set apart and applied as part of the sinking fund provided in the…
Read moreVII.5 proposed for 1847
• Section 5: Appropriations for deficiency in canal revenues.
If the sinking funds, or either of them, provided in this article, shall prove insufficient to enable the state, on the credit of such fund, to procure the means to satisfy the claims of the creditors of the state, as they become payable, the legislature shall, by equitable taxes, so increase the revenues of the said funds as to make…
Read moreVII.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Canals not to be disposed of.
The legislature shall not sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, any of the canals of the state, but they shall remain the property of the state, and under its management forever.
Read moreVII.7 proposed for 1847
• Section 7: Salt springs not to be disposed of.
The legislature shall never sell or dispose of the salt springs belonging to this state. The lands contiguous thereto, and which may be necessary and convenient for the use of the salt springs, may be sold by authority of law, and under the direction of the commissioners of the land office, for the purpose of investing the moneys arising therefrom…
Read moreVII.8 proposed for 1847
• Section 8: State moneys not to be expended without appropriation.
No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law, making a new appropriation or…
Read moreVII.9 proposed for 1847
• Section 9: No state aid to individuals or corporations.
The credit of the state shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association, or corporation.
Read moreVII.10 proposed for 1847
• Section 10: When state may contract debt
The state may, to meet casual deficits or failures in revenues, or for expenses not provided for, contract debts; but such debts, direct and contingent, singly or in the aggregate, shall not at any time exceed one million of dollars; and the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which they were…
Read moreVII.11 proposed for 1847
• Section 11: Debts for state defense.
In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied for the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
Read moreVII.12 proposed for 1847
• Section 12: How other debts authorized.
Except the debts specified in the tenth and eleventh sections of this article, no debt shall be hereafter contracted by or on behalf of this state unless such debt shall be authorized by a law for some single work or object, to be distinctly specified therein; and such law shall impose and provide for the collection of a direct annual…
Read moreVII.13 proposed for 1847
• Section 13: Tax law to state amount and object of tax.
Every law which imposes, continues, or revives a tax, shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
Read moreVII.14 proposed for 1847
• Section 14: Three-fifths bills.
On the final passage, in either house of the legislature, of every act which imposes, continues, or revives a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues, or revives any appropriation of public or trust money or property, or releases, discharges, or commutes any claim or demand of the state, the question shall be taken by ayes and…
Read moreVIII.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Corporations, how formed.
Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time, or repealed.
Read moreVIII.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Dues from corporations, how secured.
Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual liability of the corporators and other means as may be prescribed by law.
Read moreVIII.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Corporation defined.
The term corporation, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue, and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts, in like cases as natural persons.
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