The Adirondack Deer Law 



A Convention to revise and amend the 

 Constitution of the State of New York was 

 held at the City of Albany in the summer of 

 1894. Among the changes proposed by the 

 Convention was the addition of the following 

 words, as Section 7 of Article VII. of the Con- 

 stitution : 



"The lands of the State, now owned or 

 hereafter acquired, constituting the Forest 

 Preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever 

 kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be 

 leased, sold or exchanged, or taken by any 

 corporation, public or private, nor shall the 

 timber be sold, removed or destroyed." 



At the election in the autumn of the same 

 year the new Constitution was approved and 

 ratified by a popular vote, and on the ist day 

 of January, 1895, it went into effect. This 

 action by the people through their delegates, 

 and at the polls, made plain the fact that the 



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