Provisions
III.22 proposed for 1870 • Certain offices abolished.
REJECTED
The Text
No office shall be created for weighing, gauging, culling or inspecting any merchandise, manufactures, produce or commodity whatever ; but nothing in this section shall affect any office created for the purpose of protecting the public health or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, tolls or purchases, or of supplying the people with correct standards of weights and measures, or shall prevent the creation of any offices for such purposes.
A Few Facts
• Has 73 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 III:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-V.8
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