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Provisions

III.6 proposed for 1920 • Pay of members.

REJECTED

The Text

Each member of the senate shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars. Each member of the assembly, except the speaker thereof, shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand dollars. The speaker of the assembly shall receive for his services an annual salary of five thousand dollars. Senators, when the senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the court for the trial of impeachments, and such members of the assembly, not exceeding nine in number, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day.


A Few Facts

• Has 109 words

• Was proposed by the Legislature

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 3 of 1919

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1920

• Been in Article III: Legislature

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-III.6


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