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Provisions

I.15 proposed for 1870 • Restraints on alienation prohibited.

REJECTED

The Text

All fines, quarter sales, or other like restraints upon alienation, reserved in any grant of land hereafter to be made, shall be void.


A Few Facts

• Has 23 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1870

• Been in Article I:

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1847-I.15


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