Provisions
V.3 proposed for 1870 • State officers; compensation.
REJECTED
The Text
The officers named in this article shall receive for their services a salary to be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their official term. They shall not receive, to their own use, any fees, costs, perquisites of office, or other compensation. The moneys received by any such officers, except their salary, and all costs or allowances recovered by the attorney-general in legal proceedings, shall be paid into the treasury.
A Few Facts
• Has 74 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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