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![handle is hein.beal/csnyalp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK
As Proposed by the Constitutional Convention Sep-
tember 29, 1894, at Albany, N. Y., and Adopted by
the People of the State November 6, 1894; and as
Amended and-in Force January 1, 1930.
(The Origin of the State Government was April 20, 1777, becoming
New York State's birthday.]
ARTICLE I.
I 1. Persons not to be disfranchised.
2. Trial by jury.
3. Freedom of worship; religious liberty.
4. Habeas corpus.
5. Excessive bail and fines.
6. Grand jury - bill of rights.
7. Compensation for taking private property; private roads; drain-
age of agricultural lands; excess condemnation.
8. Freedom of speech and press; criminal prosecutions for libel.
9. Right to assemble and petition; divorce; lotteries, pool-selling
and gambling; laws to prevent.
10. Escheats.
11. Feudal tenures abolished.
12. Allodial tenures.
13. Leases of agricultural lands.
14. Fines and quarter-sales abolished.
15. Purchase of lands of Indians.
16. Common law and acts of the colonial and state legislatures.
17. Grants of land made by the king of Great Britain since 1775;
prior grants.
IS. Damages for injuries causing death.
19. Workmen's compensation.
ARTICLE II.
J 1. Qualification of voters.
1-a. Absentee voting.
2. Persons excluded from the right of suffrage.
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