Provisions
VII.10 of 1895 • Improvements of canals.
APPROVED
The Text
The canals may be improved in such manner as the Legislature shall provide by law. A debt may be authorized for that purpose in the mode prescribed by section four of this article, or the cost of such improvement may be defrayed by the appropriation of funds from the State treasury, or by equitable annual tax.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article VII: State Finance; Forest Preserve; Canals
• Has 56 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 3 of 1894
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-VII.12
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