History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . tant-General, chosen by joint ballot ofthe Senate and Assembly once in every three years. Sheriffs,county clerks, and coroners were to be elected by the peopleof the several counties for a term of three years. 10. After adopting these various provisions, and also a sec-Judicial system. — Legislative and executive departments. — County and State officers. 14 210 SIXTH PERIOD. tion requiring the call of future conventions for the amendmentof the Constitution
History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . tant-General, chosen by joint ballot ofthe Senate and Assembly once in every three years. Sheriffs,county clerks, and coroners were to be elected by the peopleof the several counties for a term of three years. 10. After adopting these various provisions, and also a sec-Judicial system. — Legislative and executive departments. — County and State officers. 14 210 SIXTH PERIOD. tion requiring the call of future conventions for the amendmentof the Constitution on the expiration of each period of twenty-years thereafter, and authorizing the Legislature, in the meantime, by a two-thirds vote, to submit any amendment deemedrequisite to a popular vote for its ratification, the Conventionfinally adjouraed on the 10th of November; and at a specialelection, held in the ensuing February, the new Constitutionwas approved and adopted by a majority of thirty-four thousandvotes. Provisions for fiatnre amendments. — Adjournment of the ConTentioa— Ratification of the Constitution by the Aqueduct Bridge on the Erie Canal at Little Falls. SEVENTH PERIOD. FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF 1821 TO THE CON-STITUTION OF 1846. CHAPTER I. Admixistratiox of Goternor Yates. — Third Administration ofGovernor Clinton. — The Electoral Law.—Peoples of Governor Clinton as Canal Commissioner. — Re-election as Governor. — Visit of General Lafayette. — StateRoad. — Completion of the Canal. — Grand Celebration. 1822. 1. The Legislature assembled on the 2d of January,1822. Governor Clinton, in his address, after advertingto the importance of protection to the domestic manufactures ofthe State, congratulated the Legislature on the rapid progiessof the canals, and the probability of their early completion, — ~ Meeting of the Legislature. — Governors address. 212 SEVENTH PERIOD. and recommended various modifications of the civil
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