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
XI.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Method of choosing militia officers may be changed.
In case the mode of election and appointment of militia officers hereby directed shall not be found conducive to the improvement of the militia the legislature may abolish the same and provide by law for their appointment and removal, if two thirds of the members present in each house shall concur therein.
Read moreXII.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Oath of office.
Members of the legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States…
Read moreXIII.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Constitution, how amended.
Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to…
Read moreXIII.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Constitutional conventions.
At the general election, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and in each twentieth year thereafter, and also at such time as the legislature may by law provide, the question “Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and amend the same?” shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the…
Read moreXIV.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: First election of legislature under this Constitution.
The first election of senators and members of assembly, pursuant to the provisions of this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. The senators and members of assembly who may be in office on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, shall hold their…
Read moreXIV.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: First election of governor and lieutenant governor.
The first election of governor and lieutenant governor, under this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight; and the governor and lieutenant governor in office when this Constitution shall take effect, shall hold their respective offices until and including the thirty-first day of December of that year.
Read moreXIV.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: State officers continued until expiration of term.
The secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general, district attorneys, surveyor-general, canal commissioners, and inspectors of state prisons in office when this Constitution shall take effect, shall hold their respective offices until and including the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and no longer.
Read moreXIV.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: First election of judges.
The first election of judges and clerk of the court of appeals, justices of the supreme court, and county judges, shall take place at such time, between the first Tuesday of April and the second Tuesday of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, as may be prescribed by law. The said courts shall, respectively, enter upon their duties on…
Read moreXIV.5 proposed for 1847
• Section 5: Transfer of business of certain courts.
On the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, jurisdiction of all suits and proceedings then pending in the present supreme court and court of chancery, and all suits and proceedings originally commenced and then pending in any court of common pleas (except in the city and county of New York), shall become vested in the supreme…
Read moreXIV.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Chancellor and supreme court to complete certain business.
The chancellor and the present supreme court shall, respectively, have power to hear and determine any of such suits and proceedings ready, on the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, for hearing or decision, and shall, for their services therein, be entitled to their present rates of compensation until the first day of July, one thousand…
Read moreXIV.7 proposed for 1847
• Section 7: Governor to fill vacancies.
In case any vacancy shall occur in the office of chancellor or justice of the present supreme court previously to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, the governor may nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate appoint, a proper person to fill such vacancy. Any judge of the court of…
Read moreXIV.8 proposed for 1847
• Section 8: Certain judicial offices abolished.
The offices of chancellor, justice of the existing supreme court, circuit judge, vice chancellor, assistant vice chancellor, judge of the existing county courts of each county, supreme court commissioner, master in chancery, examiner in chancery, and surrogate (except as herein otherwise provided), are abolished from and after the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven (1847).
Read moreXIV.9 proposed for 1847
• Section 9: Incumbents of abolished offices eligible to new office.
The chancellor, the justices of the present supreme court, and the circuit judges, are hereby declared to be severally eligible to any office at the first election under this Constitution.
Read moreXIV.10 proposed for 1847
• Section 10: County officers to continue until expiration of term.
Sheriffs, clerks of counties (including the register and clerk of the city and county of New York), and justices of the peace, and coroners, in office when this Constitution shall take effect, shall hold their respective offices until the expiration of the term for which they were respectively elected.
Read moreXIV.11 proposed for 1847
• Section 11: Judicial officers may continue to receive certain fees.
Judicial officers in office when this Constitution shall take effect may continue to receive such fees and perquisites of office as are now authorized by law, until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, notwithstanding the provisions of the twentieth section of the sixth article of this Constitution.
Read moreXIV.12 proposed for 1847
• Section 12: Local courts continued.
All local courts established in any city or village, including the superior court, common pleas, sessions, and surrogates’ courts of the city and county of New York, shall remain until otherwise directed by the legislature, with their present powers and jurisdictions; and the judges of such courts and any clerks thereof, in office on the first day of January, one…
Read moreXIV.13 proposed for 1847
• Section 13: When Constitution to take effect.
This Constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, except as herein otherwise provided.
Read moreSignature proposed for 1847
• Section : Signature
Done in convention, at the capitol in the city of Albany, the ninth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the seventy-first. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. JOHN TRACEY, President and delegate from the county of Chenango. JAMES F . STARBUCK,…
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