16 who have been voluntarily engaged in rebellion against the 17 United States, unless pardoned by the President of the United 18 States or the Governor of the State of New York. Laws shall 19 be passed for punishing and for depriving of the right of suf 20 frage, and excluding on challenge, persons who shall pay or 21 contribute, or agree to pay or contribute, or who shall receive 22 or agree to receive any money, property or valuable thing to 23 promote the election of any particular candidate or ticket, or 24 who shall make or be interested in any bet or wager dependent 25 upon the result of any election.

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The payment of the expenses of printing, of the circulation 27 of papers and documents previous to any election, are excepted 28 from the operation of this section.

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§ 3. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed 2 to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or 3 absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor 4 while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, of 5 the United States, or of the high seas, nor while kept in any 6 almshouse or other asylum, at the public expense, nor while 7 confined in any public prison. And the Legislature shall pre8 scribe the manner in which electors absent from their homes in 9 time of war, in the actual military or naval service of this State, 10 or of the United States, may vote, and shall provide for the 11 canvass and return of their votes.

1 84. Laws shall be made for ascertaining by proper proofs 2 the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby 3 established. And the Legislature shall provide that a register 4 of all citizens entitled to the right of suffrage in each election 5 district, shall be made and completed at least six days before any 6 election; and no person shall vote at such election who shall 7 not have been registered according to law; but such laws shall 8 be uniform in their requirements throughout the State.

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§ 5. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot, except 2 for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise 3 chosen.'

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§ 6. No person who is not, at the time of taking the oath 2 of office, an elector, shall hold any office under this Constitu3 tion. All officers shall, before they enter on the duties of their 4 respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or 5 affirmation:

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"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the 7 Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of 8 the State of New York; and that I will faithfully discharge

9 the duties of (the office he is to hold) according the best of my 10 my ability."

No. 42.

IN CONVENTION

July 24, 1867.

REPORT

OF THE CANAL APPRAISERS RELATIVE TO UNSETTLED CANAL CLAIMS.

STATE OF NEW YORK:

CANAL APPRAISERS' OFFICE,

ALBANY, N. Y., July 24th, 1867.

To HON. WILLIAM A. WHEELER, President of the Constitutional Convention:

SIR-The Canal Appraisers, in answer to the following resolution of the Convention, passed June 13, 1867, viz:

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Resolved, That the Canal Appraisers be requested to report to this Convention a list of the claims against the State still undecided and pending before them for adjudication, specifying the general nature of the claim, and the amount as demanded by the claimant, and particularly designating such as are pending by virtue of a special statute, and giving reference to the statute;" respectfully submit the following

REPORT AND STATEMENT

Which exhibits separately the canal upon which it is alleged that the claims respectively arose; it also presents, in alphabetical order, the name and residence of each claimant, and the general nature of the claim, the amount demanded, designating such as are pending by virtue of special statutes; also such as have been referred to the Appraisers by the Commissioner in charge, as well as those cases in which the Appraisers have a general jurisdiction.

The Appraisers have taken the liberty of presenting herewith, more in detail the information sought than the resolution seems to require, in the belief that the same would be more satisfactory to your honorable body.

They also beg leave to suggest that it is highly probable that some of the cases pending are not valid and just ones, while others are for amounts much larger than can be established on the hearing. Prior to the act of April 27, 1866 (chap. 836, Laws of 1866), claimants were not required to "file a detailed statement of their claim, verified by oath," and it appears to have been the custom to file claims for gross sums, in the seeming expectation that the claim would be "cut down," and that it was necessary to furnish a margin sufficiently large for that purpose. Now, however, under the act referred to, it is requisite that claims should be made out "in detail, and verified in the same manner that pleadings are required by law to be verified."