Ballot Questions
1869
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, except for certain provisions with separate ballot questions - as proposed by the 1867 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
43.53% |
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223,935 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
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56.47% |
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290,456 New Yorkers voted No |
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514,391 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
IV.10 proposed for 1870
• Section 10: Legislature to present bills to governor for his action.
Every bill before it becomes a law shall be presented to the governor. If he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated, which house shall enter the objections at large on its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the…
Read moreV.1 proposed for 1870
• Section 1: State officers; elections.
The secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general, shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term as governor, except that the secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general, elected at the general election held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall hold their respective offices until and…
Read moreV.2 proposed for 1870
• Section 2: Suspension of treasurer.
The treasurer may be suspended from office by the governor, during the recess of the Legislature, and until thirty days after the commencement of its next annual session, whenever it shall appear to him that such treasurer has violated his duty. The governor shall appoint a competent person to discharge the duties of the office during such suspension.
Read moreV.3 proposed for 1870
• Section 3: State officers; compensation.
The officers named in this article shall receive for their services a salary to be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their official term. They shall not receive, to their own use, any fees, costs, perquisites of office, or other compensation. The moneys received by any such officers, except their salary, and all costs or…
Read moreV.4 proposed for 1870
• Section 4: State officers as canal commissioners.
The comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general shall be the commissioners of the canal fund. They shall have power to appoint and remove all officers intrusted with the ascertainment, collection and safe-keeping of the revenues derived from the tolls on the canals of the State ; and, with the superintendent of public works, shall determine the rates of toll, which shall not,…
Read moreV.5 proposed for 1870
• Section 5: Superintendent of public works.
The governor shall nominate, and with the consent of the Senate, appoint a superintendent of public works, who shall hold office for five years, and whose salary shall be determined by law. He shall be required by law to give security for the faithful execution of his office before entering on the duties thereof. He shall be charged with the…
Read moreV.6 proposed for 1870
• Section 6: Canal appropriations limited.
No money shall be appropriated or paid by the State, or out of the canal revenues, for the construction or maintenance of any bridge, except for the use of the State, over any of the completed State canals or feeders, at any point where a bridge was not maintained at the expense of the State prior to the first of…
Read moreV.7 proposed for 1870
• Section 7: Canal contracts.
In all contracts for materials or work upon the canals, no bid shall be rejected for informality until the party or parties making it shall have had notice to correct such informality ; and no alteration of the plan or of any specification shall be made before or after the execution of any contract, except with the consent of the…
Read moreV.8 proposed for 1870
• Section 8: Court of claims.
There shall be a court of claims, composed of three judges appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate, in which shall be adjudicated such claims against the State as the Legislature shall by general laws direct. Such claims shall be tried without a jury ; but the facts found by the court shall be stated in each…
Read moreV.9 proposed for 1870
• Section 9: Solicitor of claims.
There shall be a solicitor of claims appointed in the same manner and for the same term as the judges of the court of claims, whose duty it shall be to take charge of the interests of the State in all matters depending in the court of claims ; and who shall receive for his services a compensation to be…
Read moreV.10 proposed for 1870
• Section 10: Canal oversight bodies abolished.
The canal board, and the contracting board, and the office of canal commissioner and canal appraiser are abolished from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine ; but until the appointment and qualification of a superintendent of public works and the organization of a court of claims, as provided by this article, said boards and officers…
Read moreVII.1 proposed for 1870
• Section 1: Election and removal of certain county officers.
Sheriffs, county treasurers, clerks of counties, the register of the city and county of New York, and the registers of deeds in all the counties where such registers are or may be authorized by law, coroners and district attorneys, shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties once in every three years, and as often as vacancies shall…
Read moreVII.2 proposed for 1870
• Section 2: Local officers, how chosen.
All county officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, shall be chosen by the electors of the counties, or appointed by the boards of supervisors or other county authorities, as the Legislature shall direct.
Read moreVII.3 proposed for 1870
• Section 3: Boards of supervisors.
There shall be in each county a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law : said boards shall have such powers as are or may be conferred by law, until revoked or modified by the Legislature ; and, subject to legislative…
Read moreVII.4 proposed for 1870
• Section 4: Local officers.
There shall be chosen by the electors of every city a mayor, who shall be the chief executive officer thereof, and who shall see that the duties of the various city officers are faithfully performed. He shall have power to investigate their acts, have access to all books and documents in their offices, and may examine them and their subordinates…
Read moreVII.5 proposed for 1870
• Section 5: Local officers.
All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate. All other officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, and…
Read moreVII.6 proposed for 1870
• Section 6: Cities and villages.
The Legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, shall pass such laws as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this article. General laws shall be passed for the organization and government of cities ; and no special act shall be passed, except in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the…
Read moreVII.7 proposed for 1870
• Section 7: Cities and villages.
Nothing in this article shall affect the power of the Legislature over quarantine, or in regard to the port of New York, or the interest of the State, in the lands under water and within the jurisdiction or boundaries of any city, or to regulate the wharves, piers or slips in any city.
Read moreVII.8 proposed for 1870
• Section 8: Cities and villages.
The restrictions on the power of the Legislature contained in section seventeen, article three, of this constitution shall apply to common councils or cities and to boards or supervisors of counties.
Read moreVIII.1 proposed for 1870
• Section 1: Canal sinking fund.
The canal debt of one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, amounting on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to three millions, two hundred and forty-seven thousand, nine hundred dollars ; the general fund debt, amounting at the same time, to five millions, six hundred and forty-two thousand, six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents…
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