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Identifier: civicsfornewyo00hoxi (find matches)
Title: Civics for New York State
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hoxie, Charles De Forest
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Publisher: New York : American Book Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ies also have minor civil and criminal courts speciallyallowed them by State law.1 The surrogates court, countycourt, supreme court and court of appeals are Courts ofRecord. That is, each has its official seal and an officialclerk, who keeps a detailed record of its proceedings.Courts of justices of the peace, coroners courts, and mostminor courts of cities, are designated as Courts Not ofRecord. The Court for the Trial of Impeachments.2—Differingfrom the law courts above described, is the court for thetrial of impeachments. This court tries, and if foundguilty, removes from office high public officials, especiallyjudges, who, by reason of their offenses, are no longer fitto serve the people in the offices which they hold. Im-peachment cases are brought by the assembly and are triedbefore the State senate and its president, and the judges of The courts of the city of New York are described in Chapter VI.,Greater New York. aSee also Chapter XIV., The Legislature.Hoxies N. Y —12 iS6
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CIVIL SUITS AT LAW. 1S7 the court of appeals, sitting together as a court of impeach-ment. A two-thirds vote of this court is necessary to con-vict and remove an official from office. When the governoror lieutenant governor is tried before the court for the trialof impeachments, the latter official does not, for obviousreasons, sit as a member of the court. Court of Claims.—A State cannot be sued in a court oflaw by one of its own citizens, or by the citizens of anotherState ; but any one having a claim against the State maytake it to the court of claims, and if the court finds the claimto be valid, it must be paid after deducting any just claimof the State. This court consists of three judges of claimsappointed by the governor, by and with the advice andconsent of the senate, for terms of six years each, at annualsalaries of $5,000 each. The court of claims holds four ses-sions a year at the State capitol at Albany.1 Appeals fromits decisions may be made to the appellate division o

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