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SEC. 2. All county officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties, or appointed by the Boards of Supervisors, or other county authorities, as the Legislature shall direct. All city,
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town, and village officers, whose election or appointment is not pro- vided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns, and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers whose election or appointment is not pro- vided for by this Constitution, and all officers whose offices may here- after be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed as the Legislature may direct.
SEC. 3. When the duration of any office is not provided by this Constitution, it may be declared by law; and if not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment.
SEC. 4. The electing all officers named in this article shall be pre- scribed by law.
SEC. 5. The Legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and, in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy.
SEC. 6. The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January; and the Legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Tuesday in January, unless a different day be appointed by law.
SEC. 7. Provision shall be made by law for the removal, for mis- conduct or malversation in office, of all officers (except judicial) whose powers and duties are not local or legislative, and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal.
SEC. 8. The Legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant, when no provision is made for that purpose in this Constitution.
ARTICLE XI.
SECTION 1. The militia of this State shall, at all times hereafter, be armed and disciplined, and in readiness for service; but all such inhab- itants of this State, of any religious denomination whatever, as from scruples of conscience may be averse to bearing arms, shall be excused therefrom, upon such conditions as shall be prescribed by law.
SEC. 2. Militia officers shall be chosen or appointed as follows : Captains, subalterns, and non-commissioned officers shall be chosen by the written votes of the members of their respective companies; field officers of regiments and separate battalions, by the written votes of the commissioned officers of their respective regiments and sepa- rate battalions; brigadier-generals and brigade inspectors by the field
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officers of their respective brigades; major-generals, brigadier-gen- erals, and commanding officers of regiments or separate battalions shall appoint the staff officers to their respective divisions, brigades, regiments, or separate battalions.
SEC. 3. The Governor shall nominate, and, with the consent of the Senate, appoint all major-generals, and the commissary-general. The adjutant-general and other chiefs of staff departments, and aides-de- camp of the Commander-in-Chief, shall be appointed by the Governor, and their commissions shall expire with the time for which the Gov- ernor shall have been elected. The commissary-general shall hold his office for two years. He shall give security for the faithful exe- cution of the duties of his office, in such manner and amount as shall be prescribed by law.
SEC. 4. The Legislature shall, by law, direct the time and manner of electing militia officers, and of certifying their elections to the Governor.
SEC. 5. The commissioned officers of the militia shall be commis- sioned by the Governor ; and no commissioned officer shall be re- moved from office, unless by the Senate on the recommendation of the Governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recom- mended, or by the decision of a court-martial, pursuant to law. The present officers of the militia shall hold their commissions subject to removal as before provided.
SEC. 6. In case the mode of election and appointment of militia /officers hereby directed, shall not be found conducive to the improve- ment of the militia, the Legislature may abolish the same and provide by law for their appointment and removal, if two thirds of the mem- bers present in each House shall concur therein.
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION 1. Members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation :-
" I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability."
And no other oath, declaration, or test shall be required as a quali- fication for any office or public trust.
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ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate and Assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be en- tered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature to be chosen at the next general election of senators, and shall be published for three months previous to the time of making such choice; and if in the Legislature so next chosen as aforesaid such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amend- ment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe ; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become part of the Constitution.
SEC. 2. At the general election to be held in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and in each twentieth year thereafter, and also at such time as the Legislature may by law provide, the question, "Shall there be a Convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?" shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature; and in case a majority of the electors so qualified, voting at such election, shall decide in favor of a Con- vention for such purpose, the Legislature at its next session shall provide by law for the election of delegates to such Convention.
Done in Convention at the capitol in this city of Albany the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-first.
JOHN TRACY, President, and Delegate from the county of Chenango.
JAMES F. STARBUCK, - Secretaries.
H. W. STRONG, FR. SEGER,
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ADOPTED NOVEMBER 3, 1846.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1. No person to be disfranchised.
SEC. 2. Trial by jury.
SEC. 3. Religious liberty.
SEC. 4. Writ of habeas corpus.
SEC. 5. Bail, fines.
SEC. 6. Grand jury.
SEC. 7. Private property - Private roads.
SEC. 8. Freedom of speech and of the press.
SEC. 9. Two-third bills.
SEC. 10. Right of petition - Divorces - Lotteries.
SEC. 11. Right of property in lands - Escheats.
SEC. 12. Feudal tenures abolished.
.SEC. 13. Allodial tenure.
SEC. 14. Certain leases invalid.
SEC. 15. Fines and quarter sales abolished.
SEC. 16. Sale of lands.
SEC. 17. Old colony laws and acts of the Legislature - Common
law - Commissioners to be appointed - their duties.
SEC. 18. Grants of land since 1775 - Prior grants.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION 1. Qualification of voters - Freehold required for a man of color.
SEC. 2. Persons excluded from right of suffrage.
SEC. 3. Certain employments not to affect residence of voters.
SEC. 4. Laws to be passed.
SEC. 5. Election to be by ballot.
ARTICLE IIL
SECTION 1. Legislative powers.
SEC. 2. Senate, number of - Assembly, number of.
SEC. 3. State divided into thirty-two senatorial districts - bounda- ries thercof - Board of Supervisors of the city of New York to 23
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divide the county into four Senate districts - Certificate, &c., to be filed.
SEC. 4. Census to be taken in 1855, and every ten years - Senate districts, how altered.
SEC. 5. Members of Assembly, how apportioned and chosen - Boards of Supervisors in certain counties to divide the same into Assembly districts - Description of Assembly districts to be filed - Contents of assembly districts - Legislature to reapportion members of Assembly - Each county entitled to one member - Hamilton County.
SEC. 6. Pay of members - Additional compensation to Speaker.
SEC. 7. No member to receive an appointment.
SEC. 8. Persons disqualified from being members.
SEC. 9. Time of election fixed.
SEC. 10. Powers of each House.
SEC. 11. Journals to be kept.
SEC. 12. No member to be questioned, &c.
SEC. 13. Bills may originate in either House.
SEC. 14. Enacting clause of bills.
SEC. 15. Assent of a majority of all the members required, &c.
SEC. 16. Restriction as to private and local bills.
SEC. 17. Local legislative powers conferred on Boards of Super- visors.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION 1. Executive power, how vested.
SEC. 2. Requisite qualifications of Governor.
SEC. 3. Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant- Governor.
SEC. 4. Duties and power of Governor - His compensation.
SEC. 5. Pardoning power vested in the Governor.
SEC. 6. Powers of Governor to devolve on Lieutenant-Governor.
SEC. 7. Requisite qualifications of Lieutenant-Governor -To be President of the Senate, and to act as Governor in certain cases.
SEC. 8. Compensation of Lieutenant-Governor in certain cases.
SEC. 9. Bills to be presented to the Governor for signature - If re- turned by him with objections, how disposed of - Bills to be returned within ten days.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION 1. State officers, how elected, and terms of office.
SEC. 2. State Engineer and Surveyor, how chosen, and term of office.
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SEC. 3. Canal Commissioners, how chosen, and terms of office.
SEC. 4. Inspectors of State Prisons, how elected, and terms of office.
SEC. 5. Commissioners of the Land Office - Commissioners of the Canal Fund - Canal Board.
SEC. 6. Powers and duties of Boards, &c.
SEC. 7. Treasurer may be suspended by Governor.
SEC. 8. Certain offices abolished.
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION 1. Court of Impeachment.
SECS. 2, 3. Court of Appeals, and vacancies in, how filled.
SECS. 4, 5. Commissioners of Appeal to hear pending causes, powers of, and vacancies in, how filled.
SEC. 6. Supreme Court how composed, jurisdiction of.
SEC. 7. General Terms.
SEC. 8. What judges or justices may sit on Appeals and Writs of Error - Equity cases.
SEC. 9. Vacancies in Supreme Court, how filled.
SEC. 10. Judges of Court of Appeals and Supreme Court to hold no other office.
SEC. 11. Judicial officers how removable.
/ SEC. 12. Superior Courts and Courts of Common Pleas in New York, Brooklyn, and Buffalo.
SEC. 13. Justices of Supreme Court how chosen and official terms.
SEC. 14. Compensation of judges and justices.
SEC. 15. County Courts, Courts of Sessions, Justices of the Peace, and Surrogates.
SEC. 16. Vacancies in County and Surrogate Courts.
SEC. 17. Election or appointment of judges of Court of Appeals and Supreme Court to be determined by people in November, 1873.
SEC. 18. Justices of the Peace, how elected and removed.
SEC. 19. Inferior local courts, how to be constituted.
SEC. 20. Clerks of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
SEC. 21. Fees and perquisites not to be received by any judicial officer except Justices of the Peace - Judges and Justices of Courts of Record not to practise as attorneys, counsellors, or referees.
SEC. 22. Removal of judgments, orders, or decrees in city courts to Court of Appeals for review.
SEC. 23. Publication of laws and decisions of courts.
SEC. 24. Time of election of Judges of Court of Appeals and Com- mon Pleas in New York, and commencement of their official term.
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SEC. 25. Surrogates, Justices of the Peace, and local judicial of- ficers, to hold over until expiration of their term.
SEC. 26. Jurisdiction of courts of special session.
SEC. 27. Powers of Surrogate Courts in certain cases to be con- ferred upon Courts of Record. .
ARTICLE VII.
SECTION 1. Canal debt -Sinking Fund - June 1, 1846, $ 1,- 300,000 - June 1, 1855, $ 1,700,000.
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SEC. 2. General Fund debt - Sinking Fund, $ 350,000 ; after certain period, $ 1,500,000.
SEC. 3. $ 200,000 of the surplus canal revenues annually appro- priated to General Fund, and the remainder to specific public works - Certain deficiencies in the revenues, not exceeding $ 250,000, an- nually to be supplied from the revenues of the canals.
SEC. 4. Loans to incorporated companies not to be released or compromised.
SEC. 5. Legislature shall, by equitable taxes, increase the revenues of the Sinking Fund in certain cases.
SEC. 6. Canals of the State not to be leased or sold.
SEC. 7. Salt springs.
SEC. 8. Appropriation bills.
SEC. 9. State credit not to be loaned.
SEC. 10. Power to contract debts limited.
SEC. 11. Debts to repel invasion, &c., may be contracted.
SEC. 12. Limitation of the legislative power in the creation of debts.
SEC. 13. Manner of passing bills imposing a tax.
SEC. 14. Same subject.
ARTICLE VIII.
SECTION 1. Corporations, how created.
SEC. 2. Debts of corporations.
SEC. 3. " Corporations " defined.
SEC. 4. Charters for banking purposes.
SEC. 5. Specie payments.
SEC. 6. Registry of bills or notes.
SEC. 7. Individual responsibility of stockholders.
SEC. 8. Insolvency of banks, preference.
SEC. 9. Legislature to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages, and to define powers thereof in certain cases.
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ARTICLE IX.
SECTION 1. Common School, Literature, and United States Deposit Funds.
ARTICLE X.
SECTION 1. Sheriffs, County Clerks, Register and Clerk of New York, Coroners, and District-Attorneys - how elected and removed.
SECS. 2, 3, 4, 5. Other county, town, city, village, or other officers, how elected or appointed - Duration of official term, and vacancies, how filled.
SEC. 6. Political and legislative year.
SECS. 7, 8. Provision for removal of public officers, and vacancies.
ARTICLE XI.
Provision for arming and disciplining the Militia of the State - Elec- tion and appointment of officers - Commissary-General, Adjutant- General, and Staff of Commander-in-Chief.
ARTICLE XII.
Oaths of office prescribed.
ARTICLE XIII. .
Amendments to Constitution, how to be made - Provision for future State Conventions.
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COUNTIES AND POPULATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
COUNTIES.
1835.
1840.
1845.
1850.
1855.
1860.
1865.
Albany, .
59,762
68,593
77,268
93,279
103,681
113.916
115,504
Allegany,
27,295
30,266
31,402
37,808
42,910
41.881
40,285
Broome, .
20,190
22,338
25,808
30,660
36,650
35,906
37,933
C'attaraugus,
24,936
28,872
30,169
38,950
39,530
43.896
42.205
Cayuga, .
49,202
50,333,
49,6631
55,458
53,571
55.767
55,730
Chautauqua,
44,869
47,975:
46,548
50,493
53,380
58,418
58,528
Chemung,
14,439
15.483
17,742
21.737
27,288
26.917
31,923
Chenango,
40.762
40,785:
39,900
40,311
39,915
40.934
38,360
Clinton. .
20,742
28,157
31,278
40,047
42,482
45,735
45,713
Columbia,
40,746
43,252
41,976
43,073
44,391
47,172
44,905
Delaware,
34,192
35,398
31,990
39,834
39,749
42,465
41.638
Dutchess,
50,704
52,398
55,124
58.99%
60,635
64,941
65,192
Erie, .
57,594
62,465
78,635
100.993
132.331
141,971;
157.1501
E-sex,
20,699
23,634
25.102
31.14%!
28,539
28.214
28,644
Franklin,
12,501
16,518
18,692
25,102
25.477
30.837
28.575
Fulton,
21,597
18,049
18,579
20,171
23,284
24,162
24,512
tienerce, .
20,145
28,705
28,845
28.495
31,034
32,189
3: 728
Greene,
30,173
30,446.
31,957
33,126
31,137
31.930
31,710
Hamilton,
1,654
1,907:
1,882
2.188
2,543
3,024
2,653
Herkimer,
35,201
37,447|
37,424
38,244
38,546
40,561
39,154
Jefferson,
53,088
60,984;
64,999
68,153
65,420
69,825
65,448
Kings,
32,057
47,613,
78,691
138,882
216.355
279,122
310,824
Lewis,
16,093
17,830
20,218
24,564
25.229
28,580,
27,840
Livingston,
31,092
37,777
38.389
40,875
37,943
39.546
37,555
Madison,
41,741
40,008
40,987
43,072
43,687
43,545
42,6607
Monroe,
58,085
64,902
70,859
87,250
96.324
100,648
104,285
Montgomery,
48.359
35.818
29,643
31,932
30,808
30,863
31,447
New York,
268,089
312,710
371.223;
515.547
629,810
813,669
726,886
Viagara, .
26,430
31,122
31.550
42.276
48,282
50,399:
49.655
Oneida.
77,518
85,310
84.776
99.566
107,749
105,2021
102,713
Onondaga,
60,908
67,911
70,175
85,890
86,575
90,688
93.332
Ontario, .
40,870
43,501
42,592
43,929|
42,672
44,503
43,3161
Orange,
45,096
50,739
52.227
57,145|
60,868
63.812
70,165
Orleans,
22,893
25,127
25.845
28.501
28,435
28,717
28,603
Oswego,
38,245
43,619
48,441
62,19
€9.898
75.958
76,200
Otsego,
50,428
49.628
50,509
48,034
49,735
50,157
48,616
Putnam, .
11,551
12,825|
13,258
14.138
13,934
14,002
14.8451
Queens,
25,130
30.324
30.849
36,833
46.266
57,391
57,997
Rensselaer,
55.515
60,259
62.838
73,3 3;
79.234
86,328
88,210
Richmond,
7,691
10,955
13,673
15,061
21.359
25,492
28,209
Rockland,
9,696
11,975
13.741
16.952
19,511
22,492
20.738
St. Lawrence,
42,047
56,706
62,354
68.617
74.977
83,689
80.924
Saratoga,
38,012
40.553
41.477
45.646
49,379
51,729
49,892
Schenectady,
16,230
17,387
16.430
20,054
19,572
20,002
20,848
"choharie,
28,509
32.359
32.488
33.548!
33,519|
34,469
33,33
Schuyler,
15,163
16,3-S:
17,327
18.519!
18,777
18,840
15.441|
Seneca,
22,627
24, 74
24,972
25.441
25,258;
28.133
27,653
Steuben, .
34,911
40,651
44,203
58.3-8
62.955
66.690
66.192
suffolk,
28.274
32,4 9
34,579
34.922
40.916
43.275
42.800
Sullivan,
13,7551
15,629
18.727
25,088
20,487
32,3-5
32,741
Tioga,
16.531.
20,527
22.456|
24.880
21,962
28,748
28,1/3
Tompkins,
32,815|
32,296
32,264
32,694|
31,516
31.409
Warren, .
12/91
13.422
14,9081
17,199
19,669
21.431
21,128
Washington,
39.326
41.080
40,554
44,750
44.405
45,904
41,244
Wayne,
37,788
42,057
42.5151
44.953
46,700
47.762
47.19%
Westchester,
33,749
48. 18;
47.204
5-23
80,678
99.497
101,197
Wyoming,
32,771
31.215|
30,601
31,991
32,118
31,989
Yates,
19,796
20,044
20,777
20,590
19.812
29,200
19,338
Cortland,
24,168
24,607
25,081
25,140
24,575
26.294
24,815
Ulster,
39,940
45.822
48,907
59.394
67,936
76.3-1
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Total, .
2,174,517 2,428,921 2,604,495 3,007,304 3,466,118 3,880,735 3,831,777
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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS,
A& ESTABLISHED BY CHAP. 454, LAWS OF 1862, PASSED APRIL 23, 1862.
DISTRICT.
I. - The counties of Suffolk, Queens, and Richmond shall com- pose the first district.
II. - The sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, six- teenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots, and New Utrecht in the county of Kings, shall compose the second district.
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III. - The first. second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, and nineteenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, shall compose the third district.
IV. - The first ward (including Governor's Island), second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth wards of the city and county of New York shall compose the fourth district.
V. - The seventh, tenth. thirteenth, and fourteenth wards of the city and county of New York shall compose the fifth dis- trict.
VI. - The ninth, fifteenth, and sixteenth wards of the city and county of New York shall compose the sixth district.
VII. - The eleventh and seventeenth wards of the city and county of New York shall compose the seventh district.
VIII. - The eighteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first wards of the city and county of New York shall compose the eighth district. IX. - The twelfth ward (including Randall's Island and Ward's Island), nineteenth ward (including Blackwell's Island), and twenty-second ward of the city and county of New York shall compose the ninth district.
X. - The counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam shall compose the tenth district.
XI. - The counties of Orange and Sullivan shall compose the eleventh district.
XII. - The counties of Dutchess and Columbia shall compose the twelfth district.
XIII. - The counties of Ulster and Greene shall compose the thir- teenth district.
XIV. - The counties of Albany and Schoharie shall compose the fourteenth district.
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DISTRICT.
XV. - The counties of Rensselaer and Washington shall compose the fifteenth district.
XVI. - The counties of Warren, Essex, and Clinton shall compose the sixteenth district.
XVII. - The counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin shall compose the seventeenth district.
XVIII. - The counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, and Schenectady shall compose the eighteenth district.
XIX. - The counties of Delaware, Otsego, and Chenango shall compose the nineteenth district.
XX. - The counties of Jefferson, Lewis, and Herkimer shall compose the twentieth district.
XXI. - The county of Oneida shall compose the twenty-first dis- trict.
XXII. - The counties of Madison and Oswego shall compose the twenty-second district.
XXIII. - The counties of Onondaga and Cortland shall compose the twenty-third district.
XXIV. - The counties of Cayuga, Wayne, and Seneca shall com- pose the twenty-fourth district.
XXV. - The counties of Ontario, Livingston, and Yates shall com- pose the twenty-fifth district.
XXVI. - The counties of Tioga, Tompkins, Broome, and Schuyler shall compose the twenty-sixth district.
XXVII. - The counties of Chemung, Steuben, and Allegany shall compose the twenty-seventh district.
XXVIII. -- The counties of Monroe and Orleans shall compose the twenty-eighth district.
XXIX. - The counties of Genesee, Niagara, and Wyoming shall compose the twenty-ninth district.
XXX. - The county of Erie shall compose the thirtieth district.
XXXI. - The counties of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus shall com- pose the thirty-first district.
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SENATE DISTRICTS.
SENATE DISTRICTS,
AS ORGANIZED BY THE LEGISLATURE, APRIL 25, 1866.
DISTRICT.
I. - Counties of Suffolk, Queens, and Richmond.
II. -- First, second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thir- teenth, fifteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings.
III. - Sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth wards of the city of Brook- . lyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots, and New Utrecht, of the county of Kings.
IV. - First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth wards of the city and county of New York.
V. - Eighth, ninth, fifteenth, and sixteenth wards of the city and county of New York.
VI. - Tenth, eleventh, and seventeenth wards of the city and county of New York.
VII. - Eighteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first wards of the city and county of New York.
VIII. - Twelfth, nineteenth, and twenty-second wards of the city and county of New York.
IX. - Counties of Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland.
X. - Counties of Orange and Sullivan.
XI. - Counties of Dutchess and Columbia.
XII. - Counties of Rensselaer and Washington.
XIII. - County of Albany.
XIV. - Counties of Greene and Ulster.
XV. - Counties of Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Hamilton, and Schenectady.
XVI. - Counties of Warren, Essex, and Clinton.
XVII. - Counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.
XVIII. - Counties of Jefferson and Lewis.
XIX. - County of Oneida.
XX. - Counties of Herkimer and Otsego.
XXI. - Counties of Oswego and Madison.
XXII. - Counties of Onondaga and Cortland.
XXIII. - Counties of Chenango, Delaware, and Schoharie.
XXIV. - Counties of Broome, Tioga, and Tompkins.
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APPENDIX.
GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK. COLONIAL.
Cornelius Jacobzen May, .
1624
William Verhulst,
1625
Peter Minuit,
May
4, 1626
Wouter Van Twiller,
April,
1633
William Kieft, .
March
28, 1638
Petrus Stuyvesant,
May
11, 1647
Richard Nicolls,
September
8, 1664
Francis Lovelace, .
August
17, 1668
Cornelis Evertse, Jr., and a council of war,
Aug. (N. s.)
12, 1673
Anthony Colve,
September 19, 1673
Edmund Andros,
Nov. (N. s.) 10, 1674
Anthony Brockholles, Commander-in-Chief, .
November 16, 1677
Sir Edmund Andros, Knt.,
August 7, 1678
Anthony Brockholles, Commander-in-Chief, .
Jan. (N. S.)
13, 1681
Thomas Dongan,
August
27, 1683
Sir Ed. Andros,
August
11, 1688
Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor, .
October
9, 1688
Jacob Leisler,
June
3, 1689
Henry Sloughter,
March
19, 1691
Richard Ingoldesby, Commander-in-Chief,
July
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