Provisions
IX.12 proposed for 1916 • Improvements of canals.
REJECTED
The Text
The canals may be improved in such manner as the legislature shall provide by law. A debt may be authorized for that purpose in the mode prescribed by section four of this article, or the cost of such improvement may be defrayed by the appropriation of funds from the state treasury, or by equitable annual tax.
A Few Facts
• Has 56 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article IX: State debts
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VII.10
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