N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 6: Exemption from military service

§ 6. Exemption from military service. All such inhabitants of this

state of any religious denomination whatever, as from scruples of

conscience may be averse to bearing arms, are to be excused therefrom by

paying to the state an equivalent in money; and the legislature is

required to provide by law for the collection of such equivalent, to be

estimated according to the expense, in time and money, of an ordinary

able-bodied militiaman.