The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Statutes, Procedures and Precedents Applicable to the Ordinary Business of the Legislature of the State of New York1896 |
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Page 223 - If any member in speaking or otherwise transgresses the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order ; in which case, the member so called to order shall immediately sit down and shall not rise unless to explain or proceed in
Page 365 - ARTICLE XIII. Section I. Members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as shall be by law exempted shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or
Page 357 - Section I. 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. Sec. 2. The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, under the name of The Regents of the University of
Page 296 - ultimate property in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the State ; and all lands the title to which shall fail, from a defect of heirs, shall revert, or escheat to the people. Sec. 11. All feudal tenures of every description, with all their incidents, are declared to be abolished, saving, however,
Page 351 - or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued in all courts in like cases as natural persons. Sec. 4. The Legislature shall, by general law, conform all charters of savings banks, or institutions for
Page 86 - The President having taken the chair at the hour to which the Senate shall have adjourned, and a quorum being present, the journal of the preceding day shall be read, to the end that any mistakes therein may be corrected. 2. After the reading and approval of the journal
Page 300 - All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be preserved. Sec. 6. All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards
Page 296 - Sec. 15. No purchase or contract for the sale of lands in this State, made since the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five ; or which may hereafter be made, of, or with the Indians, shall be valid, unless made under the authority, and with the consent of the Legislature. Sec.
Page 339 - Sec. 10. The judges of the Court of Appeals and the justices of the Supreme Court shall not hold any other office or public trust. All votes for any of them, for any other than a judicial office, given by the Legislature or the people, shall be void.
Page 352 - Sec. 8. In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking association, the billholders thereof shall be entitled to preference in payment, over all other creditors of such bank or association. Sec. 9. Neither the credit nor the money of the State shall be given or loaned to or in