Provisions
XI.2 proposed for 1870 • Prison manager board appointments.
REJECTED
The Text
The board shall appoint the warden, clerk, physician and chaplain of each state prison, and shall have power to remove them for cause only, after opportunity to be heard, upon written charges. All other officers of each prison shall be appointed by the warden, and be removable at his pleasure.
A Few Facts
• Has 50 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 XI:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-V.4
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