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Grants by the king after a certain period to be void.

SEC. 14. All grants of land within this state, made by the king of Great Britain, or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void: but nothing contained in this constitution, shall affect any grants of land within this state, made by the authority of the said king or his predecessors, or shall annul' any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or them made, before that day; or shall affect any such grants or charters since made by this state, or by persons acting under its authority; or shall impair the obligation of any debts contracted by the state, or individuals, or bodies corporate, or any other rights of property, or any suits, actions, rights of action, or other proceedings in courts of justice.

ARTICLE EIGHTH.

How this constitution may be amended.

SEC. 1. Any amendment, or amendments, to this constitution, may be proposed in the senate or assembly, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment, or amendments, shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature then next to be chosen; and shall be published, for three months previous to the time of making such choice; and if, in the legislature next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment, or amendments, shall be agreed to by two thirds of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit to such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner, and at such time, as the legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment, or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the legislature, voting thereon, such amendment or amendments, shall become part of the constitution.

ARTICLE NINTH.

When this constitution to take effect..

SEC. 1. This constitution shall be in force from the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. But all those parts of the same, which relate to the right of suffrage; the division of the state into senate districts; the number of members of the assembly to be elected in pursuance of this constitution; the apportionment of members of assembly; the elections hereby directed to commence on the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo; the continuance of the members of the present legislature in office, until the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; and the prohibition against authorizing lotteries; the prohibition against appropriating the public monies or property for local

or

private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering, or renewing, any body politic, or corporate, without the assent of two thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature, shall be in force, and take effect from the last day of February next. The members of the present legislature, shall, on the first Monday of March next, take and subscribe an oath, or affirmation, to support the constitution, so far as the same shall then be in force. Sheriffs, clerks of counties, and coroners, shall be elected at the election hereby directed to commence on the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; but

they shall not enter on the duties of their offices, before the first day of January then next following. The commissions of all persons holding civil offices on the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, shall expire on that day; but the officers then in commission, may respectively 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 Albany, 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.

DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, President.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, Secretary's office. }

Albany, November 10, 1821.

I, JOHN V. N. YATES, Secretary of the state of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the engrossed Constitution of the said State, as adopted in Convention this day, and deposited on record in this office.

J. V. N. YATES, Secretary of State.

NOTE. In 1826 the 7th section of the 4th article of this constitution was amended; the appointment of Justices of the peace given to the people, and the elective franchise extended.

QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

PREAMBLE.

By whom was the state constitution framed, and what is its preamble? ARTICLE 1.

SEC. 1. To what does the first sec. of the first article refer, and what are its provisions?

Sec. 2. Of what does the senate consist?

What their term of office?

Of what does the assembly consist,

and how often elected? SEC. 3. What forms a quorum for business?

What are the powers of each house

in relation to its officers? SEC. 4. What are the provisions of this section?

SEC. 5. How many senatorial districts have we?

How are the senators classed?

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SEC. 16. To what does this section relate?

ARTICLE 2.

SEC. 1. Who may vote at elections? Who of colour may vote?

SEC. 2. To what does this sec. refer? SEC. 3. To what does this sec. refer? SEC. 4. To what does this sec. refer? ARTICLE 3.

SEC. 1. With whom is the executive power lodged, and what is the term of his office?

SEC. 2. Who is eligible to the office of governor?

SEC. 3. When and by whom are the governor and lieutenant governor chosen, and under what modifications?

SEC. 4. What are the governor's powers and duties?

SEC. 5. What of his powers to pardon, &c.?

Sec. 6. When may the lieutenant

governor act as governor? Sec. 7. Relate the powers of the lieutenant governor. What modifications?

ARTICLE 4.

Sec. 1. How are captains, and infe

rior officers of the militia chosen? How are field officers chosen? How are the staff officers, &c. chosen?

How are the staff officers appointed?

Sec. 2. What military officers does

the government appoint? Sec. 3. What power directs the manner of choosing militia officers?

Sec. 4. By whom are the officers commissioned?

By what power removed?

Sec. 5. How may the above be abolished?

Sec. 6. How are the secretary of state and other officers, named in this section, chosen? How long does the treasurer hold his trust?

For what time do the other officers

hold their appointment? Sec. 7. How are the judicial officers of the state appointed?

How are justices of the peace chosen? (see note at the end of the constitution.)

Sec. 8. How are sheriffs and county clerks appointed?

How long do they hold their office? What are the restrictions to the sheriff's office?

How may these officers be removed? Sec. 9. To what does this sec. re

late, and what are its provisions? Sec. 10. By what power are the mayors of cities in this state appointed?

Sec. 11. How many coroners for each county? How appointed? What the term of their office? Sec. 12. To what does this section refer, and what are its provisions?

Sec. 13. How are the justices and

clerks appointed for the city and county of New-York?

Sec. 14 How are the special justices, &c. appointed?

Sec. 15. To what does this sec. refer, and what are its provisions? Sec. 16. To what does this sec. refer, and what are its provisions? ARTICLE 5.

Sec. 1. What composes the court of errors, &c.?

What in case of impeachment? What in case of an appeal from chancery?

What in a writ of error from the supreme court?

Sec. 2. What of the power of impeachment?

What of the oath of the court?
How far may judgment extend?
What further liability?

Sec. 3. What the chancellor's term of office?

Sec. 4. How is the supreme court constituted?

Sec. 5. Relate the provisions made

for the circuit courts of the state? What of their equity powers, &c.? Sec. 6. What the term of office of

judges and recorders of cities? Sec. 7. What of the chancellor and judges office, and the votes they receive?

ARTICLE 6.

Sec. 1. What of the oath of office? ARTICLE 7.

Sec. 1. what rights does this sec. secure?

Sec. 2. What of the trial by jury? Sec. 3. The exercise of religion? Sec. 4. The regulation respecting ministers?

Sec. 5. Of the militia, being armed, &c.?

Equivalent paid for refusing to train? Sec. 6. The writ of Habeas Corpus? Sec. 7. Trial by jury, and other rights?

Sec. 8. Freedom of speech and press?

What of libels, &c.?

Sec. 9. What of the vote for appropriation?

Sec. 10. Lands pledged for common schools?

The school fund?

The interest arising from it?
What of the tolls, &c.
What of the duty on salt?
What of the salt springs?
Sec. 11. What of lotteries, &c.?
Sec. 12. What of Indian lands, &c.?
Sec. 13. What constitutes the law
of the state?

What laws are abrogated?

Sec. 14. What of the lands granted by the king?

ARTICLE 8.

Sec. 1. Relate the mode of effecting an amendment of this constitution.

ARTICLE 9. Sec. 1. Relate the manner in which this constitution is to take effect? Sec. 2. To what does this section refer, and what are its provisions? Where was this constitution framed? When was it framed? Who presided?

Who certifies to its identity? What part of it has already been amended?

Questions on Conversation, page 580,

and page 640, Governments, &c. What is the meaning of government? How distinguished? How many kinds are there, and what?

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What a democracy?
How made a republic?
Whence comes the supreme power!
How is the sum total formed?
How much does man give up?
What is the form of government of

the United States, and why? Why is it a federal government? What is the bond of union? What is remarked of the construction of the constitution? (See page 640.)

What is meant by constitution?
For what does it provide?
How does it dispose of the delega-
ted power?

By whom is the supreme power exercised?

What limits his powers, and how

long does he hold his office? How is the executive branch of gov ernment divided?

What are the heads of these departments styled?

What composes the legislative branch? What are its powers and duties? When recorded?

Whence comes our revenue?
What the annual expense of gov
ernment?

What is said of the judicial branch
of government?
What is it styled?
Where does it meet?

Where is the impeaching power? Where the power to try impeachments?

What is the government of the state of New-York?

Who holds the executive power? Who the legislative power? Who the judicial power? What determines the duties and powers of all the state officers? When shall we cease to be a presperous and happy people?

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RATABLE FEES CHARGED BY THE COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICERS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK-AS FIXED BY STATUTE.

A bill of Sheriff's fees in the Supreme Court, state of New

For serving a writ,

York.

Travelling fees, per mile, (charged one way only,

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A copy of the panel of the jurors,

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0.375

0.125

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Serving execution for, or under, $250, for each dollar, 0.024
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over $250, for each dollar, 0.014
Advertising property for sale on execution, 6 weeks, 1.875
Execution stayed or settled after advertising and be-

fore sale,

Serving a writ of possession or restoration (no posse

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Milage one way only,

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Committing to prison,

0.375

Discharge from prison,

0.375

Writ of inquiry, and summoning a jury for same,

1,50

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Summoning a jury to inquire of forcible entry, &c.

Attending and receiving a prisoner into custody, sur

Copy of a writ when demanded,

Bill of Sheriff's fees in the Common Pleas of the state of New

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Going and returning, per day,

Serving an execution for, or under $250, per dollar,

And for every $2.50 more than $250

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0.12

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