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Provisions

III.6 of 1875 • Compensation of members of legislature.

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The Text

Each member of the Legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel, in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each sessio, on the most usual route. Senators, when the Senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the Court for the Trial of Impeachments, and such members of the Assembly, not exceeding nine in number, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1875

• In Article III:

• Has 110 words

• Was proposed by the Commission / Legislature

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1874

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1847-III.6

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