§ 6. a. The state shall be divided into eleven judicial districts. The\nfirst judicial district shall consist of the counties of Bronx and New\nYork. The second judicial district shall consist of the counties of\nKings and Richmond. The third judicial district shall consist of the\ncounties of Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan,\nand Ulster. The fourth judicial district shall consist of the counties\nof Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, St. Lawrence,\nSaratoga, Schenectady, Warren and Washington. The fifth judicial\ndistrict shall consist of the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis,\nOneida, Onondaga, and Oswego. The sixth judicial district shall consist\nof the counties of Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware,\nMadison, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins. The seventh judicial\ndistrict shall consist of the counties of Cayuga, Livingston, Monroe,\nOntario, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates. The eighth judicial district\nshall consist of the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua,\nErie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming. The ninth judicial district\nshall consist of the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and\nWestchester. The tenth judicial district shall consist of the counties\nof Nassau and Suffolk. The eleventh judicial district shall consist of\nthe county of Queens.\n b. Once every ten years the legislature may increase or decrease the\nnumber of judicial districts or alter the composition of judicial\ndistricts and thereupon re-apportion the justices to be thereafter\nelected in the judicial districts so altered. Each judicial district\nshall be bounded by county lines.\n c. The justices of the supreme court shall be chosen by the electors\nof the judicial district in which they are to serve. The terms of\njustices of the supreme court shall be fourteen years from and including\nthe first day of January next after their election.\n d. The supreme court is continued. It shall consist of the number of\njustices of the supreme court including the justices designated to the\nappellate divisions of the supreme court, judges of the county court of\nthe counties of Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond and judges of the\ncourt of general sessions of the county of New York authorized by law on\nthe thirty-first day of August next after the approval and ratification\nof this amendment by the people, all of whom shall be justices of the\nsupreme court for the remainder of their terms. The legislature may\nincrease the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial\ndistrict, except that the number in any district shall not be increased\nto exceed one justice for fifty thousand, or fraction over thirty\nthousand, of the population thereof as shown by the last federal census\nor state enumeration. The legislature may decrease the number of\njustices of the supreme court in any judicial district, except that the\nnumber in any district shall not be less than the number of justices of\nthe supreme court authorized by law on the effective date of this\narticle.\n e. The clerks of the several counties shall be clerks of the supreme\ncourt, with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by law.\n
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