THE

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

OF

NEW YORK

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE
YEAR 1905, SHOWING THE ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, AND
JUDICIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION

BY CHARLES Z. LINCOLN

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1894, AND FOR SIX
YEARS (1895-1900), CHAIRMAN of the Statutory RevisION COMMISSION AND
Legal Adviser to Governors Morton, Black, and Roosevelt

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOL. II.
1822-1894

THE LAWYERS CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY

ROCHESTER N, Y.

1906

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year nineteen hundred six, by

CHARLES Z. LINCOLN,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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