Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations, Part 32

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452

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In the year 1881 there was added to our assess-

ed valuation. $14,695,025

In the year 1880. 14,308,968

An apparent reduction of. $386,057

The increase in the assessed valuation of the whole State for 1880 was $24,935, 164, or .0107 per cent.

The increased assessed valuation of Albany County for 1880 was but $18,000, or .0004 per cent. It should have been quite as much as that of the State.

An article contained in the Evening Journal, signed "H.," containing alleged misstatements touching the acts of the Board relative to the print- ing of 250 copies of its rules, was made the subject of a question of privilege in order that the said statement should be promptly refuted. It was de- nounced and proven to have done injustice to the Board.

A communication was also received from Dr. John Swinburne asking to be relieved from taxes assessed on his private hospital, which was granted.

ARSENAL. - The estimates of the expense of fit- ting up for rooms in the arsenal for the benefit of the military of the city.

The contract was awarded by the proper Com- mittee. so far as building lockers, etc., was con- cerned, at $2,439.

ELECTION NOTICE. - The Argus and Morning Express were designated as papers to publish election notices.

THE TREASURER'S ACCOUNT, for the year ending November, 1881, was presented December 2, 1881, showing the receipts of his office for that time to be. $1,032,444 88

Disbursements $1,032,444 88

STATEMENT of real and personal property assessed in the County of Albany, 1881: Real. $61,422,635 7,507,755

Personal .

Total. $68,930,390

On December 8, on motion of Mr. Conger, a resolution was adopted authorizing the Finance Committee to borrow, on the credit of the County, the sum of $50,000 to pay bonds in like amount maturing March 1, 1882, and to issue therefor county bonds bearing interest, not to exceed 4 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, the prin-

cipal payable March 1, 1904. The said bonds were to be registered or coupon, and they were to be sold at public auction on February 15, 1882, after being advertised two weeks.

EQUALIZED VALUATION of Albany Co., 1881 :

ALBANY CITY.

Real estate. $48,886, 198 00

Personal. 7,507,755 00

Total $56,393,953 00

Cohoes City real estate. $9,455,072 00

66 personal estate. 336,644 00

Total 9,791,716 06

Albany City, Cohoes and towns, real estate ..

$81,453,069 25

personal. 8,889,220 18

Grand totals.

$90,342,289 43

STATE AND COUNTY TAX .- The rate of State and County tax was fixed by resolution at fifty-four cents on each $100 of the equalized valuation of this county.

SPECIAL MEETING .- Monday, December 12, 1881, a special meeting convened pursuant to a call pre- viously made for the purpose of fixing the rate of the city of Cohoes, and of the town of Watervliet. The rate of taxation for the city of Cohoes for 1881 was fixed at $1.25 upon each $100. The rate for Watervliet for 1881 was fixed as follows :

On each $100 of the assessed valuation: Watervliet, First District. $75

West Troy and Green Island. 68

DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT. - D. Cady Herrick presented his report of the costs received by him, and also a statement of the fines imposed since January 1, 1881, which by recapitulation shows as follows:

Costs and judgments. $1,526 26

Fines in Oyer and Terminer. 275 00

" " County Sessions. 409 00

" " Special Sessions. 954 00

$3,155 26

COHOES JAIL .- By resolution the County Treas- urer was authorized to pay the city of Cohoes $500 for rent of jail pursuant to Sec. 15, Chap. 60, Laws of 1881.

Previous to the adjournment of the Board, on December 20, 1881, Supervisor Geer, in a pleas- ing and finely worded speech, on behalf of the members of the Board, presented President Maher an elegant watchchain and charm. Mr. Maher received it with a very feeling and appropriate address. Supervisor Murray then arose, and, on behalf of the members of the Board, presented Mr. Thomas H. Craven, Clerk of the Board, with a valuable silver service.

In presenting it, Mr. Murray made some timely and exceedingly well received remarks touching the high esteem in which Mr. Craven was held by the Board. The latter thanked the Board in a very

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happy manner. The whole proceeding gave great satisfaction to the Board and public.

The Board of Supervisors of the city and county met at their Annual Session at their rooms in Music Hall, May 9, 1882.

The following members were present:

CITY OF ALBANY.

First Ward, Agustus Whiteman; Second Ward, Thomas Powers; Third Ward, Wm. Casey; Fourth Ward, Edward A. Maher; Fifth Ward, John Cook; Sixth Ward, John D. Capron; Seventh Ward, Edward Roark; Eighth Ward, Michael J. Hayden; Ninth Ward, Daniel J. Murphy; Tenth Ward, Mathew C. Clark; Eleventh Ward, Alfred Booth; Twelfth Ward, William H. McCall; Thirteenth Ward, Joseph C. Griffin; Fourteenth Ward, Robert Geer; Fifteenth Ward, James Skillicorn; Sixteenth Ward, Alonzo B. Voor- hees; Seventeenth Ward, Thomas J. Reilly.

COHOES.

First Ward, John Clark; Second Ward, Frank Rockwell; Third Ward, Charles M. Nadeau; Fourth Ward, John Groves: Fifth Ward, Neil Morris.

TOWNS.

Berne, Thomas J. Wood; Bethlehem, W. C. Hotaling; Coeymans, Estes H. Strevel; Guilderland, Aaron Fuller; Knox, Wm. J. Haverly; New Scotland, Hiram Becker; Rensselaerville, Hercules Sayre; Watervliet, Joseph Ander- son; Westerlo, Anson C. Requa.

President, Edward A. Mayer. Clerk, Thomas H. Craven.

Journal Clerk, John A. Lawless.

County Physician, Dr. R. D. Clark.

Doorkeeper, Bernard Ross.

Coroners' Physicians, Drs. H. R. Starkweather, P. H. Keegan, M. J. Lewi and G. H. Billings.

County Sealer of Weights and Measures, John Powers. Counsel for Overseers of the Poor, Mr. D). Conway. County Papers, Daily Argus and Daily Express.

After considerable business relative to peniten- tiary matters, of which we shall give an account in another place, the Board adjourned.

At a special meeting held May 24 the President announced the Standing Committees for the ensuing year.

At a meeting of the Board held July 27 it was re- solved that the office of the Coroners of Albany County should be located in the rooms of the Su- pervisors, and that John P Masterson be and he was appointed a clerk to said Coroners, his duties to assist as clerk to each of said Coroners in their official duties, and to keep a record of and file cach inquisition; also to act as Clerk to the Committee on Coroners and Physicians of the Board, the salary not to exceed $100 per month, the County Treasurer to pay the same.

At a meeting held November 14 the Clerk pre- sented the following statement :

The Board of Equalization of Taxes have fixed the aggregate valuation of property in the County of Albany at the sum of $74,051,676, upon which amount a State tax of $181,426.61 must he levied for the current fiscal year begin- ning October 1, 1882, as provided in chapter 312, laws of 1859, and amendments thereto, by chap. 351, laws of 1814, being 2 5% mills on the dollar, for the following purposes: For schools 10 mills, chap. 296, laws 1882 For general purposes. 93 66 296 1882

For canals. 100 15 mills.

208 4 1882

Total.

Non-resident taxes credited to Albany County for 1881 amounted to $19.74.

On November 21 Mr. Weaver, from the Com- mittee on State Equalization, presented the follow- ing statement :

Equalized valuation of real estate of Albany County for the year 1881 ... $63,460,776 Amount the County should have increased to retain its relative proportion with other coun- ties in the State ... 1,906,772

The amount it would then have been equalized on real estate for 1882 $65,367,548 The amount it is equalized for 1882 65, 162,456

Amount of reduction. $205,092

Amount of Albany County's increase. $1, 906,772 Amount added by State Board of Equalization. 1,701,680

Difference in favor of Albany County . .. $205,092

The amount of State tax for this year is $29,837.94 greater than last year, and is accounted for as follows : Increase of personal estate. $4,977,260 Increase of real estate 1,701,680

$6,678,940

This amount, multiplied by last year's rate, 24 mills on the dollar, produces. . . . $15,027.61

Total amount of equalized real and personal ($74,051,676) for 1882, multiplied by one-fifth of a mill, the increase over 1881 14,810.33

$29,837.93 On November 28 the Clerk presented the Annual Report of the Coroners.

The report of Richard Scully shows that from October 16, 1881, to November 10, inclusive, there were 33 post mortem examinations with juries con- ducted before him. Peter Lasch reports 44 inquests held by him during the years of 1881-2 with jurors.

The first annual report of James McCann states that he held 30 inquests during the year 1882, from January 22 to November 24.

Richard Johnson reported 19 inquests held by him since November 24, 1881, to September 26, 1882. On December 4 Mr. Sayre, from the Committee on Assessment Rolls, presented the following:

STATEMENT OF THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROP- ERTY in Albany County as assessed in 1882.

Total real in City of Alhany . . $61, 117,810 00 Total personal " 6,432,332 00 - $67,550,342 00

Real in City of Cohoes. $3,410,079 00

Personal « 361,500 00

Towns, real estate $17,076,329 73

3,771,579 00

personal 1,053,334 93

18, 129, 664 66

Grand total $89,451,585 66

It was also resolved to raise by tax on property in the City of Albany the sum of $720, 789. 37 for the several contingent expenses of the city for hospitals, nurseries and temporary out-door relief of the poor, and for rebuilding Beaver Creek arch, at Philip street.

On December 8 Mr. Requa, from the Committee on Equalization, presented the following report, which, on the next meeting, December 9, was adopted:

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EQUALIZED VALUATION OF 1882.

City of Albany, real ..

$48,977,620 00

personal. 6,432,532 00 -$55,410, 152 00

City of Cohoes, real.

$9,472,697 00

personal 361,500 00

9,834, 197 00

Towns, real ..

$1,604,218 73

personal .

7,847, 366 93

Grand total, including towns. $89,451,585 66

On December 14 a special session of the Board met at two P. M., pursuant to a call of the Presi- dent.

The object of this call was "for the purpose of taking suitable action regarding the death of the wife of Supervisor Geer, of the Fourteenth Ward."

A motion was made to appoint a committee of three to draft resolutions to be reported at evening session. Messrs. Voorhees, Capron and McCall were named by the President as such committee.

On motion the Board adjourned.

At the evening session Mr. Voorhees reported the following:

Resolved, That the members of this Board most sincerely sympathize with their associate, Robert Geer, in the irre- parable loss he has sustained in the death of his wife, and extend to him the assurance of their heartfelt sorrow.

At the meeting of the Board, held December 22, that body tendered their most cordial thanks to their efficient President, Edward A. Maher, for the impartial manner in which he had presided over their deliberations; and they collectively and individually conveyed to him in the resolution the official and personal assurance of esteem and regard.

It was further resolved that the members of the Board "not only recognize but fully appreciate the invaluable services of the attentive, courteous and competent Clerk, Thomas H. Craven, and that we not only deem it a pleasure, but feel it to be a duty, to thus publicly and officially recog- nize our obligations to him for the faithful and conscientious performance of his important duties."

After a very pleasant but brief address from the President the Board adjourned sine die.

1883 .- Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Albany County at their annual meeting, May 8, 1883. Members present :

ALBANY CITV.

First Ward, George J. Goetz; Second Ward, Thomas Powers; Third Ward, Wm. Casey; Fourth Ward, Patrick Cuddy ; Fifth Ward, Peter J McGowan ; Sixth Ward, Andrew Vanderzee; Seventh Ward, Edward Roark; Eighth Ward, Michael J. Hayden; Ninth Ward, Daniel J. Murphy; Tenth Ward, Frederick Stackman; Eleventh Ward, Alfred Booth; Twelfth Ward, Wm. H. McCall; Thirteenth Ward, Joseph C. Griffin; Fourteenth Ward, Robert Geer; Fifteenth Ward, James Skillicorn; Sixteenth Ward, Edwin Ellis; Seventeenth Ward, Thomas Reilly.

CITY OF COHOES.

First Ward, Marcus Kennedy; Second Ward, Truman W. Reynolds; Third Ward, Charles M. Nadeau; Fourth Ward, Jared H. Blair; Fifth Ward, Neil Morris.

TOWNS.

Berne, Thomas J. Wood; Bethlehem, John L. Winne; Coeymans, Lansing Shear; Guilderland, Aaron Fuller; Knox, Charles G. Frink; New Scotland, Hiram Becker;

Rensselaerville, Hercules Sayre; Watervliet, Nicholas Kane; Westerlo, Anson C. Requa.

President, Anson C. Requa; Clerk, Thomas H. Craven; Journal Clerk, John J. Dunphy; Doorkeeper, John J. Mc- Caffrey; County Physician, U. B. La Moure; Counsel to Overseer of Poor, George Parr; County Scaler of Weights and Measures, Jacob S. Scrafford.

At a meeting of the Board, held May 24, the President announced the Standing Committees.

At the next meeting, November 14, the balloting for coroners' physicians resulted as follows :

Dr. J. H. Moore, Dr. F. L. Classen, Dr. D. P. Shevelin and Dr. G. H. Billings.

The Argus and Journal were declared as County papers.

Charles L. Pease was appointed Committee Clerk to this Board.

It was resolved that the regular sessions of the Board should be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8. 15 P. M.

The Clerk presented the following statement :

The Board of Equalization of Taxes, in pursuance of chapter 312 of the laws of 1859, fixed the aggregate valua- tion of property in Albany County at the sum of $76,442,516, upon which amount a State tax of $248,438.18 must be levied for the current year, commencing October 1, 1883, as provided in said act and amendments thereto, by chapter 351, laws of 1874, being 312% mills on the dollar, for the following purposes:

Schools. 1000 mills, per chapter 376, laws 1883. General purposes. . 1.124 Tong mills, per chapter 376, laws 1883. For Canals 4 7

I1807 mills, per chapters 373, 471, 495,

laws 1883. Total mills.

The non-resident taxes credited to the County for 1882 amount to $273.50.

CORONERS' REPORTS .- The Second Annual report of James J. McCann gives the number of inquests held by him during the years 1882-3 to be 44. The Third Annual report of Richard Scully for the same years shows 16 cases.

Coroner Thomas Nolan reported 12 inquests held by him during the year 1883, from January 8 to October 30.

The Third Annual report of Coroner Peter Lasch shows that 40 inquests were held by him during the years 1882-3, from December 2, 1882, to No- vember 16, 1883.

At the meeting of the Board held November 12 the President presented the

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STATE EQUALIZA- TION .- There had been two tables presented by the State Assessors to the State Board of Equaliza- tion for adoption, but neither were accepted. On October 10 a table was presented which was further amended, and the Committee adopted ; it was as follows :

Assessed valuation of real estate. $81,604,218 Deduction made from real estate .. 13,009,069

Equalized real estate. $68,595,149

Personal estate 7,847,367

Total equalized real and personal, as corrected . $76,442,516

Making a reduction, as between the tables of October 4 and 10, of. $912,879

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The Clerk presented the following :

Bonds of the City of Albany to the amount of $100,000, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent., were issued for the construction of the High School building, the prin- cipal of which is payable in ten annual installments of $10,000 each. There will be required for the said annual payment $10,000, and for interest on bonds $1,050, as fol- lows : Six months' interest on $20,000, $700, and six months' interest on $10,000, $350.

THE COMMITTEE ON ASSESSMENT ROLLS presented the following report :

Statement of the Real and Personal Property of Albany County as Assessed in 1883.

City of Albany, real estate $60,750,120 CO " personal. 6,480,735 00

Total.

$67,230,855 00

City of Cohoes, real.

$3,403,827 00

personal. 399,990 00

Total.

$3,803,817 00

Towns, real estate. $20,338,235 18

personal.

1,107,896 00

Total.

$21,446,131 18

Grand total. .$92,480,803 18

Mr. Fuller, from the Committee on Equalization of Taxes, presented the following report :

Total.

$57,297,283 00

1, 189,939 00

2,282,882 00

2,059,863 00 |

751,875 00 1

2, 635,936 00 |

1,314,230 00

1, 273,224 00 .

4,946, 133 97

4,674, 114 21

$92,480,803 18

Personal.

$6,480,735 00

399,990 00

58, 116 00

82,750 00

64,100 00

37,225 00

101,300 00

144,100 00

386,000 00

142,800 00

$8,988,621 00

Real.

$50,816,548 co

9,851,789 00

1, 161,634 00

3,745,428 00

2,200, 132 00

1,995,763 00 1

714,650 00

2, 534,636 00

1, 170, 130 00

1,210,024 00

4,560, 133 97

4,531,314 21

$84,492, 182 18

Acres.

38,942

31,583

29,946

36,829

25,505

35,679

36,578

35,568

33,560

304, 190

CITY OR TOWN.

City of Albany.

City of Cohoes.

Town of Berne

Town of Bethlehem

Town of Coeymans,

Town of Guilderland ..

Town of Knox ..

Town of New Scotland.

Town of Rensselaerville.

Town of Westerlo .. .

Town of Watervliet, Ist district. .!

Town of Watervliet, Green Island

and West Troy

Total ..

At a meeting of the Board December 7 the following was adopted :

Resolved, That the rate of taxation be fixed as follows for the following towns and the City of Cohoes for the year 1883 on each $100 of the assessed valuation :

Berne, $1.04; Bethlehem, $1.36; Coeymans, $1.42; Guil- derland, $1.34; Knox, $1.44; New Scotland, 82 cents; Rensselaerville, 86 cents; Westerlo, 66 cents; Watervliet, Ist district, 86 cents; Watervliet, 2d district, West Troy and Green Island, 78 cents; City of Cohoes, $1. 76.

COUNTY TREASURER'S REPORT .- Robert Gallup, County Treasurer for the County of Albany, states in his report that the amount on hand at last re- port was $1,050.53. This amount, together with all receipts of the office for the year ending No- vember 30, 1883, amounts to $928,229.81. The disbursements for the same time amount to $928,229.81, including a balance on hand of $19,591.61.

The Board adjourned January 11, 1884, after lendering sincere and heartfelt thanks to President Anson C. Requa, and the Clerk, Thomas H. Craven, who replied in very eloquent addresses.

1884 .- ANNUAL SPRING SESSION held at their rooms in the New City Hall, in the City of Albany, May 13, 1884. Members present:

ALBANY CITY.

First Ward, George J. Goetz; Second Ward, Michael J. Nolan; Third Ward, William Casey; Fourth Ward, Patrick C'uddy; Fifth Ward, Peter J. McGowan; Sixth Ward, Thomas C. Jeffers; Seventh Ward, Marshall Tebbutt; Eighth Ward, Michael J. Hayden; Ninth Ward, Wm. F. Recdy; Tenth Ward, Frederick Stackman; Eleventh Ward, Meredith Burke; Twelfth Ward, James J. Wise; Thirteenth Ward, Joseph C. Griffin; Fourteenth Ward, Robert Geer; Fifteenth Ward, John T. Brady; Sixteenth Ward, James Stackhouse; Seventeenth Ward, George Holler.

COHOES.

First Ward, Marcus Kennedy; Second Ward, Truman W. Reynolds; Third Ward, Charles M. Nadeau; Fourth Ward, John P. Weber; Filth Ward, George W. Smith.

TOWNS.

Berne, Thomas J. Wood; Bethlehem, Jolin L. Winne; Coyemans, Richard S. Blodgett; Guilderland, Aaron Fuller; Knox, Charles G. Frink; New Scotland, Charles Wood; Rensselaerville, Jacob B. Norwood; Watervliet, Nicholas T. Kane; Westerlo, Anson C. Requa.

Chairman, Anson C. Requa; Clerk, Thomas H. Craven; Journal Clerk, Elbert E. Richmond; Doorkeeper, Joseph Jolinson; County Physician, Dr. U. B. La Moure; Counsel to Overseer of Poor, Thomas F. Connor; Sealer of Weights and Measures, Jacob S. Scrafford.

A recess was taken till the afternoon, when a joint meeting was called.

The committee appointed introduced Hon. A. Bleecker Banks, Mayor, and Anthony Gould, Recorder.

The Mayor acted as Chairman and the Recorder as Secretary of the meeting, and Mr. T. H. Craven Clerk.

Nr. Greer offered a resolution in which the Superintendent of the Penitentiary should be re- quested to furnish the Board with copies of all con- tracts made by him for the labor of prisoners; also for copies of contracts made with the United States and with counties in regard to the terms on which

CORRECTED EQUALIZATION TABLE FOR THE YEAR 1883.

10,251,779 00

3,803,544 00

28,305 00

63, 200 00

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their prisoners are maintained in that institution, etc.

It was also resolved that the Superintendents and Inspectors of the Penitentiary be and are pro- hibited from renewing existing contracts, or making any new ones, for the maintenance of prisoners of other counties or of the United States.

WORKING MEN'S ASSEMBLY. - This organization, one of the most important in the City of Albany, often memorialized the Board in regard to matters touching the interests of the laboring classes, always respectfully. They were always given a respectful hearing.

SPECIAL MEETING .- On August 18 the Board met to take action relative to the death of William Casey, Supervisor of the Third Ward, City of Albany. A committee of five, consisting of Messrs. Brady, Nolan, Goetz, Cuddy and Stackman, was appointed to draft suitable resolutions.

Mr. Brady addressed the Board in touching and appropriate language, and at the close of his ad- dress the Committee presented their resolutions, which were adopted. The address and resolutions are in every respect worthy the character of Mr. Casey, while they reflect great credit upon their authors and are embellishments to the records of the Board of Supervisors of the County.

The Board thereupon adjourned.

REGULAR SESSION of the Board of Supervisors met at the City Hall, November 12, 1884, for the fall session. All members present.

The election of Coroners' Physicians then took place. The following were elected:

Drs. S. C. Healey, Frederick L. Classen, J. H. Billings, Wm. Hagedorn.

COUNTY PAPERS. - The ballot for the County papers for the ensuing year resulted in the election of the Argus and Express.

On motion the salary of the Coroners' Physicians was fixed at $600 per annum, their term of office to begin November 20, 1884.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CORONERS. - The an- nual account of Michael H. Murray shows 29 in- quests held by him during 1884; James C. Mc- Cann shows 28 inquests; Richard Scully, 17; Thomas Nolan, 9; Peter Lasch, 2; total, 85.

An Unconstitutional Law relative to Grand Jurors. - -By chapter 532 of the laws of 1881, an impor- tant innovation was made relative to the selection of Grand Jurors in Albany and one or two other cities in the State. It provided :

That the duties assigned the Supervisor, Town Clerk or Assessors by the Revised Statutes in regard to Grand Jurors should be performed by the Recorder of the City of Albany. It provided that in Albany County Grand Jurors should, after the passage of that act, be drawn from the box containing the names of Petit Jurors selected for said County, in the same manner as Petit Jurors, and that there- after no separate list of Grand Jurors should be prepared for said County. Under this law a Grand Jury was drawn which convened for the May Term of the Albany Oyer and Terminer for 1882, at which Term, and by said Grand Jury, one James Dempsey, and two others, were indicted for

On that trial they were convicted, and the verdict was ap- pealed from to the General Term of the Supreme Court, where the conviction was affirmed. From the judgment of the Supreme Court an appeal was taken to the Court of Appeals, where the judgment of conviction was set aside on several points raised by the counsel for the prisoners, but chiefly on the ground that the Act of 1881, to which we referred, was unconstitutional, in that the bill resulting in the act was a private or local bill and against the provisions of Article 3, Sec. 18, of the Constitution as amended No- vember 3, 1874, which provides that the Legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases:

* *

Selecting, Drawing, Summoning or Impaneling Grand or Petit Jurors .- As this provision is qualified by Section 25 of the same article, which provides :

" Sections 17 and 18 of this Article shall not apply to any bill or the amendments to any bill which shall be reported to the Legislature by Commissioners who have been ap- pointed pursuant to law to revise the Statutes ; that the Statutes show that there had been no such officers as 'Com- missioners who had been appointed pursuant to law to re- vise the Statutes' subsequent to May 1, 1878, and, there- fore, said chapter 532 could not have been reported as pro- vided for in said section 25 ;"

The counsel for the defendants, Mr. E. J. Meegan, brought all the Acts of 1870, 1873, 1874, 1876 and 1877 in regard to the amendment of the Code and of the various constitutional amendments touching the Political Code, the Penal Code, the Code of Civil Procedure and the Civil Code into consideration against the constitutionality of the Act of 1881, to which we have alluded, and, as we have said, the Act in regard to the drawing of Grand Jurors in the County of Albany was declared unconstitutional. It therefore be- came the duty of the Supervisors of Albany County for 1884 to select Grand Jurors for the then ensuing year, under the general law, which requires that the Board shall prepare a list of 300 men between the ages of twenty-one and sixty, owners of real estate either in their own names or in that of their wives, or assessed on personal property for at least the sum of $250, and inhabitants of the town or ward in which they were selected.

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Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations, Part 32

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888 Publication date: 1886 Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1452

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452