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Provisions

III.6 proposed for 1922 • Pay of members.

REJECTED

The Text

Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each session on the most usual route. 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 108 words

• Was proposed by the Legislature

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1921

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

• Joined the Constitution in 1922

• Been in Article III: Legislature

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-III.6


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