New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-10-14

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a s,o 0ao Immediately and 900 after tan
years to be appropriated from the Canal Revenues
nnri the State Debt is paid The balance OF the
Canal Revenues is to be sacredly appropriated 10
the prosecution and completion of the Erie En-
Iargeraent Black River and Genesee Valley Ca
nails
The Canals and Salt Springs OF the State are
never to be SOLD, Dor any farther loan OF state
credit or money lasde 70 any person or corporation
6. FUTURE DEgT.-The State shall contract no
debt exceeding al.00o,00G unless To meet the e1-
licences Of Instruction or War, except Tor some
single specified object, and with the express APP
provsl Of the People signihed by direct vote and
direct tax must at the time be levied sufficient 10
paw the annual interes, Of said debt and e1tnguish
the principal within eighteen years
VII. Corporations
!. BUSINESS Assoc1A TIoSs--These are To be
formed under general lavs onls, and not under
special acts Of incorporation. The payment OF their
debts is to be secured By such individual and other
liability as the Legislature may prescribe AL cor.
pora.ions or legal associations may and De suec
the same as natural persons.
Q BsvKIs6.-No special charter for BANKING
purposes IS to be granted but Banks may De e5tao
lished under general laws The Legislature shall
exact ample security for the payment Of Their notes
and obligations and shall in case sanction sus-
pension OF specie payments by them OF any OF 'e''
directly or Indirectly Stockholders in Banks to De
individually liable to the amount OF their several
shares therein, IN addition to those shares them
selves. In case of insolvency. bill-holders have
preference OF ali other creditors.
/ VIII. Education and Schools.
| !. FUSDs-The capitals respectively Of the
/ School. Literature and Z. 8 Deposit Funds are 10
be preserved inviolate and their revenues to be
| dulv appropriated The sum OF $4,000 per annum
is to be taken from the OF the L. s Deposit
Fund and added to the capital OF tie School Fund
THE noble idea Of having ali our Common Schools
free schoos-that is, supported BY tax on Proper
ty-failed, we perceive with so1ow
* Miscellaneous.
! Amendments TO the Constitution may be made
as heretofore, or the Legislature and People may
at any time unite to call a Convention as this one
was called md in l366 and in every twentieth
wear Thereafter. the People shall vote directly to
call or not to call Constitutional Convention.
. The Militia is left about as at present, but all
personss otherwise subject to Militia duty who en-
terrain religious scrupes against bearing arms shall
be excused thererom on terms to be prescribed by
law.
g. The first election of Judges under this Constr
tution shall take place between the first Tuesday
in April and the second Tuesday In June next
The Courts are to open on the first Monday IN July
next but the eight.year terms OF service of the
Judges shall be deemed to commence on the first
day of January following.
4 All the present State functionares will hold
till the st of January, 1913. when they will be
superseded by the successors chosen ut the State
Election OF 1877. The Governor and Lieut. Gov
ernor about to be chosen will hold through their
regular term of two years Sheritfs, Clerks, Coro
ncrs and Justices of the Pence in Office when tins
Constitution takes effect shall severay serve out
the full terms for which they will have been elect
ed District Attorneys are to be chosen for three
years by the People of the several Counties IN at-
dition to Sheriijs, Clerks, &c.
5 The new Constitution generally will take
effect on the LIST OF January next. Judicial officers
may continue to take fees and perquistes till the
LIST of July next The Local Courts established in
this CITY, and in other cities, shall remain until the
Legislature shall otherwise direct. We fear some
of them may try to make out that the fees are to
continue also. but these are expressly abolished
by Art. vi. $50.
Such are substantially the most important
changes proposed by the Amended Constitution
Though not all we could wish they are quite ms
good as we have for two months expected, and we
shall most heartily vote to raty and adopt them
The friends of Internal Improvement made gn
l.. tl. NE
too tardv completion of our unfinished Canals The
Judiciary is not all we could have wished. but we
trust it will work well The attempt to raise a
hue snd.cry against eecting Judges by the People
is preposterous Our Judges in the last resort as
in the first are now elected by the People and not
elected with any direct reference to their fitness for
Judges but with view TO their services as Legis-
lators The law making and the law-expounding
powers are united in our wretched Constitution Of
sol they are separated by the new Constitution
and more widely than in almost any other State
In short this Constitutions in almost every respect
great improvement that which it is to super
sede and we cannot doubt its adoption by a very
large majority, despite the struggles which those
whose personal profits or consequence 1t Will di-
minish will naturally make TO defeat it. Let US
again entreat every good citizen to fail not to at
tend the ensuing State Election and be sure to
offer and vote two ballots which Will read on the
inside
For The Amended Constuntion-YEs.
and
Equal Suffrage 10 Colorea Psrsons,-fEs
NorE-An important error occurred in the copy from
which we printed the New Constitution in Art l. &,
where directly after the parenthesis the words ileS
ed The foes OF the New Constitution have been chuck
ling this omission fatal presumng 70 be in thc