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Provisions

XI.9 proposed for 1916 • Credit or money of the State not to be given or loaned.

REJECTED

The Text

Neither the credit nor the money of the state shall be given or loaned to or in aid of any association, corporation or private undertaking. This section shall not, however, prevent the legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper. Nor shall it apply to any fund or property now held, or which may hereafter be held, by the state for educational purposes.


A Few Facts

• Has 81 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 XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-VIII.9


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