An Abridgment of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York: Together with the Other Statutory Provisions of a General and Permanent Nature, Except the Code of Civil Procedure, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Penal Code, Passed From... 1778 to Feb. 1, 1889, and Now in Force, Being Selections from Said Statutes..

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Banks, 1890

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Page 2247 - No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at...
Page 2250 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy.
Page 2254 - If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
Page 2245 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service ; and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep •with the consent of Congress in time of peace...
Page 2253 - Lieutenant-Governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the Assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor shall be...
Page 2230 - ... 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Page 2295 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions...
Page 2589 - ... unless the same be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and be followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Page 2232 - To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States ; reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by congress.
Page 2514 - ... shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being, at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.

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