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continue to hold their said offices, until new appointments or elections shall take place under this constitution.

SEC. 2. The existing laws relative to the manner of notifying, holding and conducting elections, making returns, and canvassing votes, shall be in force, and observed in respect to the elections hereby directed to commence on the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, so far as the same are applicable. And the present legislature shall pass such other and further laws as may be requisite for the execution of the provisions of this constitution in respect to elections.

Done in convention, at the capitol, in the city of Al

bany, the tenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and of the independence of the United States of America, the forty sixth.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our

names.

DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, President.
Secretaries.

John F. Bacon,

[The foregoing constitution was ratified by the people, at an election held in the several towns and wards of this state, on the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth days of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.]

AMENDMENTS.

[The following amendmen's to the constitution were proposed by the legislature in 1825, were referred to the legislature of 1826, agreed to by two thirds of the mem

bers elected to each house of that legislature, submitted to the people, and approved and ratified at an election held on the sixth, seventh, and eighth days of November, 1826.]

First Amendment.

That the people of this state, in their several towns, shall, at their annual election, and in such manner as the legislature shall direct, elect by ballot their justices of the peace; and the justices so elected in any town, shall immediately thereafter meet together, and in presence of the supervisor and town clerk of the said town, be divided by lot into four classes, of one in each class, and be numbered, one, two, three and four; and the office of number one shall expire at the end of the first year, of number two at the end of the second year, of number three at the end of the third year, and of number four at the end of the fourth year, in order that one justice may thereafter be annually elected: and that so much of the seventh section of the fourth article of the constitution of this state as is inconsistent with this amendment, be abrogated.

Second Amendment.

That so much of the first section of the second article of the constitution as prescribes the qualifications of voters, other than persons of color, be, and the same is hereby abolished, and that the following be substituted in the place thereof:

Every male citizen of the age of twenty one years, who shall have been an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding any election, and for the last six months a resident of the county where he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote in the town or ward where he actually resides, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people.

Third Amendment.

[The following amendments, having been previously proposed by the legislature, were ratified by the people at the annual election in November, 1833.]

That the duties on the manufacture of salt, as established by the act of the fifteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and by the tenth section of the seventh article of the constitution of this state, may at any time hereafter be reduced by an act of the legislature of this state, but shall not, while the same is appropriated and pledged by the said section, be reduced below the sum of six cents upon each and every bushel, and the said duties shall remain inviolably appropriated and applied as is provided by the said tenth section; and that so much of the said tenth section of the seventh article of the constitution of this state as is inconsistent with this amendment, be abrogated.

Fourth Amendment.

At the end of the tenth section of the fourth article of the said constitution, add the following words: "Except in the city of New York, in which the mayor shall be chosen annually by the electors thereof qualified to vote for the other charter officers of the said city, and at the time of the election of such officers."

CHAPTER III.

Executive State Officers-their Powers and Duties-and their Compensation.

THE governor and lieutenant governor are the two highest executive officers in the state. Their principal powers and duties are prescribed by the constitution; and correspond, very nearly to the powers and duties of the president and vice president of the United States. The salary of the governor, as established by law, is four thousand dollars a year; that of his private secretary, six hundred dollars. The lieutenant governor has six dol lars a day for his attendance as president of the senate, or president of the court for the trial of impeachments, and the correction of errors; and also as commissioner of the land office and canal fund, when not attending the session of the senate, or of the court of errors, or impeachments. He is also allowed six dollars for every twenty miles travelling, in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting in the discharge of these duties.

The governor also, like the president, is aided, in the administration of the government, by numerous subordinate officers. The principal of these executive officers are, the secretary of state, the comptroller, the treasurer, the attorney general, and the surveyor general.

The secretary of state has the custody of all the books, records, deeds to the state, parchments, maps and papers

What are the highest executive officers of the state? What are their duties? What is their compensation? What are the other principal executive officers? What are the duties of the secretary

to be deposited in his office. He receives from the legis lature bills that have become laws, and causes them to be published. He distributes the printed laws and journals of each session, among the members of the legislature, the executive and judicial officers, the county and town clerks, and other officers entitled to receive them. Four copies are also sent to the secretary of state of the United States. The secretary of state has a deputy, who may perform the ordinary duties of the office. The secretary of state performs the duties of superintendent of common schools. For the duties of both these offices, he has a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars. The deputy secretary receives one thousand dollars: he serves as clerk, also, of the commissioners of the land office.

The comptroller superintends the fiscal or pecuninary matters of the state. He exhibits to the legislature, at its annual meeting, a statement of the funds of the state, of its revenue, and of the expenditures during the preceding year, with an estimate of the expenditures to be defrayed from the treasury for the ensuing year, specifying the objects to be provided for by law. He also suggests plans for improving and managing the revenues; keeps and settles all the accounts of the state; and draws warrants on the treasurer for the payment of all moneys directed by law to be paid out of the treasury: and he may, in behalf of the people of the state, when necessary, borrow money to pay demands-against the state. Leases, mortgages, bonds, and other securities given to the state, are kept in his office. He has a deputy who may perform most of the duties of his office. The salary of the comptroller is two thousand five hundred dollars; that of his deputy, one thousand five hundred dollars.

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