ARTICLE XV-Continued. incurred by any county, in investigating and prosecuting any charge of bribery or attempting to bribe any person holding office under the laws of this State, within such county, or of receiving bribes by any such person in said county, shall be a charge against the State, and their payment by the State shall be provided for by law. *ARTICLE XVI. Amendments, when to take effect. SECTION 1. All amendments to the Constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January succeeding the election at which the same were adopted, except when otherwise provided by such amendments. An amendment to the Constitution takes effect upon the date of the declaration by the canvassers of the result of the popular election and its adoption, unless a different intention appears in the amendment; but where amendments were submitted containing a clause specifying a certain day for their going into effect, and only a part thereof was adopted, and that not including the clause fixing the day, it was held that the clause, although not adopted, was indicative of intention, and should control as to the time of taking effect. Real v. People, 42 N. Y. 270. Done, in Convention, at the Capitol in the city of Albany, the ninth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventy-first. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. JOHN TRACY, President and Delegate from the County of Chenango.] * Article 16, added by vote of the people, Nov. 3, 1874. Vote of the People upon the Constitution and its Amend ments. Nov. 4, 1845. For a convention to consider and Feb. 15, 1854. For amendment of section 3, of article 7, for speedy completion of canals... Against.. 185,771 60,526 Nov. 6, 1866. For a convention to revise Consti tution.. Against... 352,854 256,364 Nov. 2, 1869. For the amended Constitution... 223,935 Nov. 5, 1872. For amendment of article 6, relating to Commission of Appeals. 176,038 Against.. 9,196 Nov. 3, 1874. For amendment of article 2. 357,635 |