Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, 1915: Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Albany on Tuesday the Sixth Day of April, Temas1-54J. B. Lyon Company, printers, 1915 - 724 páginas |
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A. E. Smith administration adopted amount appellate division appointed appropriation bills Attorney-General bonds budget bureau Cabinet canal Catskill parks Cattaraugus reservations Chairman civil Commission commissioners Committee compensation Comptroller Congress consist of seventeen CONSTITUTION OF 1915 Constitutional Convention CONVENTION DOCUMENT copies Court of Appeals debate debt delegates Doctor GOODNOW elected electors employees enacted estimates executive expenditures FITZGERALD forest Governor head House of Commons increase judges judicial jurisdiction justices lature legislative Legislature living wage LOWELL matter ment minority report mittee motion party person political present President printed Proposal 850 proposed amendment proposed constitutional amendment question recommended referred relating resolution revenues revision Rule Secretary Section SENATE DISTRICT session sinking funds statute STIMSON submitted supreme court TAFT term thereof thing third reading tion Treasury vote whole York York City
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Página 29 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Página 12 - ... and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied ; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Página 10 - Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed. Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks. Granting to any private corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Página 15 - But when the Governor shall, ,with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State, in time of war, at the head of a military force thereof, he shall continue Commander-in-Chief of all the military force of the State.
Página 16 - If after such reconsideration, twothirds of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
Página 68 - The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
Página 29 - ... that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late Civil War, who are citizens and residents of this State, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section.
Página 3 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Página 22 - Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section, may be altered from time to time or repealed.