Provisions
XIV.8 of 1847 • Certain judicial offices abolished.
APPROVED
The Text
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).
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1847
• In Article XIV:
• Has 59 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846
• Is a new addition
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1822-IV.12
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