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Provisions

V.1 proposed for 1870 • State officers; elections.

REJECTED

The Text

The secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general, shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term as governor, except that the secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, and attorney-general, elected at the general election held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall hold their respective offices until and including the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and no longer.


A Few Facts

• Has 75 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 V:

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1847-V.1


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