Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York for the Year ...Secretary of State, 1878 |
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... Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November , unless otherwise directed by the Legislature . SEC . 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business . Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings ...
... Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November , unless otherwise directed by the Legislature . SEC . 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business . Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings ...
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... Tuesday in Jan- uary , unless a different day shall be appointed by law . SEC . 7. Provision shall be made by law for the remo- val for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers ( except judicial ) whose powers and duties are ...
... Tuesday in Jan- uary , unless a different day shall be appointed by law . SEC . 7. Provision shall be made by law for the remo- val for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers ( except judicial ) whose powers and duties are ...
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... Tuesday suc- ceeding the first Monday of November , one thousand eight hundred and forty - seven . The Senators and Members of Assembly who may be in office on the first day of January , one thousand eight hundred and forty . seven ...
... Tuesday suc- ceeding the first Monday of November , one thousand eight hundred and forty - seven . The Senators and Members of Assembly who may be in office on the first day of January , one thousand eight hundred and forty . seven ...
Page 101
... Tuesday of April and the second Tuesday of June , one thousand eight hundred and forty - seven , as may be prescribed by law . The said courts shall re- spectively enter upon their duties on the first Monday of July , next thereafter ...
... Tuesday of April and the second Tuesday of June , one thousand eight hundred and forty - seven , as may be prescribed by law . The said courts shall re- spectively enter upon their duties on the first Monday of July , next thereafter ...
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... Tuesday after its first meeting , to elect a successor , each House nominating viva voce , and then convening in Joint Assembly to compare nominations . In case of agreement , such person shall be declared duly elected ; and if they do ...
... Tuesday after its first meeting , to elect a successor , each House nominating viva voce , and then convening in Joint Assembly to compare nominations . In case of agreement , such person shall be declared duly elected ; and if they do ...
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Page 90 - Act ; 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.
Page 53 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 35 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 35 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 33 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 56 - State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people...
Page 95 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.
Page 99 - Legislature and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: " I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
Page 99 - Senators, and shall be published for three months previous to the time of making such choice, and if in the Legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments, shall be agreed to...
Page 14 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.