Ballot Questions
1894
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 1894 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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55.64% |
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410,697 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
44.36% |
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327,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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738,099 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
VIII.4 proposed for 1895
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 4: Charters for savings banks and banking purposes.
The Legislature shall, by general law. conform all charters of savings banks, or institutions for savings, to a uniformity of powers, rights, and liabilities, and all charters hereafter granted for such corporations shall be made to conform to such general law, and to such amendments as may be made thereto. And no such corporation shall have any capital stock, nor…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 5: Specie payments.
The Legislature shall have no power to pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or indirectly, the suspension of specie payments by any person, association, or corporation, issuing bank notes of any description.
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 6: Registry of bills or notes.
The Legislature shall provide by law for the registry of all bills or notes, issued or put in circulation as money, and shall require ample security for the redemption of the same in specie.
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 7: Individual responsibility of stockholders.
The stockholders of every corporation and joint-stock association for banking purposes shall be individually responsible to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in any such corporation or association, for all its debts and liabilities of every kind.
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 8: Insolvency of banks, preference.
In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking association, the billholders thereof shall be entitled to preference in payment over all other creditors of such bank or association.
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 9: Credit or money of the State not to be given or loaned.
Neither the credit nor the money of the State shall be given or loaned to or in aid of any association, corporation, or private undertaking. This section shall not, however, prevent the Legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper. Nor shall…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 10: Counties, cities, towns and villages not to give money or property or loan their money or credit — Their power to contract debts limited.
No county, city, town, or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association, or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town, or village be allowed to incur any…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 11: State Board of Charities.
The Legislature shall provide for a State board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether State, county, municipal, incorporated, or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory character, excepting only such institutions as are hereby made subject to the visitation and inspection of either of the commissions hereinafter mentioned, but including all reformatories…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 12: Same subject.
The members of the said board and of the said commissions shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and any member may be removed from office by the Governor for cause, an opportunity having been given him to be heard in his defense.
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 13: Inspection of institutions.
Existing laws relating to institutions referred to in the foregoing sections and to their supervision and inspection, in so far as such laws are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution, shall remain in force until amended or repealed by the Legislature. The visitation and inspection herein provided for shall not be exclusive of other visitation and inspection now…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 14: Maintenance of charitable institutions.
Nothing in this Constitution contained shall prevent the Legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper; or prevent any county, city, town, or village from providing for the care, support, maintenance, and secular education, of inmates of orphan asylums, homes for dependent…
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Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 15: Commissioners, terms of office, etc.
Commissioners of the State board of charities and commissioners of the State commission in lunacy, now holding office, shall be continued in office for the term for which they were appointed, respectively, unless the Legislature shall otherwise provide. The Legislature may confer upon the commissions and upon the board mentioned in the foregoing sections any additional powers that are not…
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Article IX: Education • Section 1: Provision for maintenance of free schools.
The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
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Article IX: Education • Section 2: University of the State of New York.
The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, under the name of The Regents of the University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the name of The University of the State of New York. It shall be governed, and its corporate powers, which may be increased, modified, or diminished by the Legislature,…
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Article IX: Education • Section 3: Common school, literature and United States deposit funds.
The capital of the common-school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund, shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenue of the said common-school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenue of the said literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies; and the sum…
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Article IX: Education • Section 4: Property, credit or public money, not to be used.
Neither the State nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its property or credit or any public money, or authorize or permit either to be used, directly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance, other than for examination or inspection, of any school or institution of learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in…
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 1: Sheriffs, clerks of counties, register and clerk of New York, coroners and district attorneys — Governor may remove.
Sheriffs, clerks of counties, district attorneys, and registers in counties having registers, shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, once in every three years, and as often as vacancies shall happen, except in the counties of New York and Kings, and in counties whose boundaries are the same as those of a city, where such officers shall…
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 2: Officers, how chosen or appointed.
All county officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties or appointed by the boards of supervisors, or other county authorities, as the Legislature shall direct. All city, town, and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected…
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 3: Duration of office.
When the duration of any office is not provided by this Constitution it may be declared by law; and if not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment.
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 4: Time of election.
The time of electing all officers named in this article shall be prescribed by law.
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