the center line of Vail street to its point of junction with the boundary line separating the counties of Kings and Queens; thence along said boundary line in all its directions to its junction with the boundary line of the County of Kings on the East River; thence southerly along said boundary line to the place of beginning.

The said Fourteenth Assembly District, herein before described, comprises part of the Fourteenth Ward and part of the Seventeenth Ward of the City of Brooklyn.

Number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts, according to the State enumeration of 1892, so far as may be, forty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-one (45,631).

Fifteenth Assembly District.

Beginning at a point formed by the junction of the center line of Rodney street with the center line of Broadway, running thence southeasterly along Broadway to its intersection by the center line of Flushing avenue; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Bushwick avenue; thence northerly along the center of Bushwick avenue or road, as the same was originally laid own on the Commissioners' Map of the Town of Bushwick to its point of junction with the center line of Ten Eyck street; thence westerly to its intersection by the center line of Leonard street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Maujer street; thence northerly along the center line of Maujer street and South First street to its junction with the center line of Hooper street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Grand street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Union avenue; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of North Second street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Rodney street; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Ainslie street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Marcy avenue; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of North Second street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Havemeyer street; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Grand street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Rodney street; thence southerly along the center line of Rodney street to the place of beginning.

The said Fifteenth Assembly District, hereinbefore described, comprises the Sixteenth Ward, part of the Fifteenth Ward and part of the Fourteenth Ward of the city of Brooklyn.

Number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts, according to the State enumeration of 1892, so far as may be, forty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine (45,759.)

The New York Supreme Court by order entered in Kings County on September 11, 1895, further required the Board of Supervisors of Kings County and the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn to reconvene and describe more accurately the boundary between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Assembly Districts, and accordingly these bodies met on September 23, 1895, and passed the following resolution filed in the Kings County Clerk's office Nov. 11, 1895, viz.:

Resolved, This twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in obedience to a writ of mandamus issued out of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Edgar M. Cullen, J. S. C., of date September 11th, 1895, and, pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of New York, the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Kings, re-assembled in joint session, hereby describe “more accurately the boundary between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Assembly Districts" of the County of Kings, and that the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of each of said Assembly Districts, according to the State enumeration of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two (1892) so far as may be, are ascertained and declared to be as hereinafter stated in the following description of each of said Assembly Districts of the Seventh Senate District so divided, viz.:

Thirteenth Assembly District.

Beginning at a point formed by the junction of the center line of Ten Eyck street with the center line of Bushwick avenue, running thence northerly along the center line of Bushwick avenue to its junction with the center line of North Second street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Humboldt street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Richardson street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Meeker avenue; thence northeasterly along the center line of Meeker avenue to its junction with the boundary line between the Counties of Kings and Queens; thence along said boundary line to its point of junction with the center line of Vail street; thence southwesterly to its junction with the center line of Colyer street; thence westerly along the center line of Colyer street to its point of junction with the center line of Oakland street; thence northerly to the center line of Greenpoint avenue; thence westerly to its point of junction with the center line of Manhattan avenue; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Kent street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Franklin street; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Noble street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Manhattan avenue; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Norman avenue; thence southwesterly to its junction with the center line of Banker street and Wythe avenue; thence southwesterly along the center line of Wythe avenue to its intersection with the center line of North Fourteenth street; thence southeasterly to its junction with the center line of Driggs avenue; thence southwesterly to its junction with the center line of Union avenue: thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Grand street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Hooper street; thence southerly along the center line of Hooper street to the center line of South First street; thence easterly along the center line of South First street and Maujer street to its junction with the center line of Leonard street; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Ten Eyck street; thence easterly along the center line of Ten Eyck street to the place of beginning.

The said Thirteenth Assembly District, hereinbefore described, com

prises part of the Seventeenth Ward and part of the Fifteenth Ward of the City of Brooklyn.

Number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts, according to the State enumeration of 1892, so far as may be, forty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-eight (45,198).

Fourteenth Assembly District.

Beginning at a point on the boundary line of the County of Kings, on the East River, opposite the center of Grand street, running thence easterly along the center of Grand street to its junction with the center line of Havemeyer street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of North Second street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Marcy avenue; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Ainslie street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Rodney street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of North Second street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Union avenue; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Driggs street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of North Fourteenth street; thence northwesterly to its junction with the center line of Wythe avenue; thence northerly to its junction with the center lines of Banker street and Norman avenue; thence northeasterly along the center line of Norman avenue to its junction with the center line of Manhattan avenue, thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Noble street; thence westerly to its junction with the center line of Franklin street; thence northerly to its junction with the center line of Kent street; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Manhattan avenue; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Greenpoint avenue; thence easterly to its junction with the center line of Oakland street; thence southerly to its junction with the center line of Colyer street; thence easterly along the center line of Colyer street to its junction with the center of Vail street; thence along the center line of Vail street to its point of junction with the boundary line separating the Counties of Kings and Queens; thence along said boundary line in all its directions to its junction with the boundary line of the County of Kings on the East River; thence southerly along said boundary line to the place of beginning.

The said Fourteenth Assembly District, herein before described, comprises part of the Fourteenth Ward and part of the Seventeenth Ward of the City of Brooklyn.

Number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts, according to the State enumeration of 1892, so far as may be, forty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-one (45,631).

APPENDIX IV.

WARDS INCLUDED WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY HERETOFORE KNOWN AS THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CONTINUED AND DESIGNATED AS THE WARDS OF THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX, BY CHARTER § 1578, ante.

Division into wards. First ward.

I. The city of New York contains all that part of this state comprehended within the bounds of the county of New York, and is divided into twenty-four wards, in the manner following, that is to say:

The first ward shall begin in the middle of Broadway, at a point where it is intersected by the middle of Liberty street, and run from the said point of intersection, through the middle of Liberty street, south-easterly, to the middle of Maiden lane; then down the middle of Maiden lane, and from thence in a straight line running in the same direction across the East river, to low-water mark on Nassau or Long Island; and thence along Nassau or Long Island shore, at low-water mark, to the south side of Red Hook; and then across Hudson river, so as to include Nutten or Governor's Island, Bedloe's Island, Bucking or Ellis Island and the Oyster Islands, and all the waters of this state in the bay of New York, and to the southward thereof, and which are not comprehended in any other county, to low-water mark on the west side of Hudson river, or so far as the bounds of this state extend; then up along the west side of Hudson river, at low-water mark, or along the limits of this state, to a place due west from the middle of the west end of Liberty street; then to the middle of Liberty street; then through the middle of Liberty street to the middle of Broadway, at the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 2.)

Second ward.

II. The second ward shall begin at the south-easterly corner of the first ward, and run thence along the easterly bounds thereof, across the East river to the middle of Broadway; then up the middle of Broadway to a point opposite the middle of Park row; then through the middle of Park row to a point opposite to the middle of Spruce (formerly George) street; then down the middle of Spruce street to the middle of Gold street; then through the middle of Gold street to a point opposite to the middle of Ferry street; then through the middle of Ferry street, in a line running in the same direction across the East river to Nassau or Long Island, to low-water mark; then along Nassau or Long Island, at low water, to the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 3.)

Third ward.

III. The third ward shall begin on the west side of Hudson river, at the north-westerly corner of the first ward, and running thence due east to the middle of Liberty street; then through the middle of Liberty street to the middle of Broadway; then through the middle of Broadway to a point opposite to the middle of Reade street; then through the middle of Reade street, in a line running in the same direction across Hudson river, to low-water mark, on the west side thereof, or so far as the bounds of the State extend; then down the west side of Hudson river, at lowwater mark, or along the limits of this state, to the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 4.)

Fourth ward.

IV. The fourth ward shall begin at the northerly corner of the second ward, and run thence through the middle of Chatham street to a point opposite to the middle of Catharine street; and then through the middle of Catharine street, in a line running in the same direction across the East river, to low-water mark, on Nassau or Long Island; then along Nassau or Long Island shore, at low-water mark, to the bounds of the second ward; and then north-westerly along the bounds of the second ward, to the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 5.)

Fifth ward.

V. The fifth ward shall begin at the north-westerly corner of the third ward, and run thence along the northerly bounds thereof, to the middle of Broadway; then through the middle of Broadway to the middle of Canal street; then through the middle of Canal street to Hudson river; then due west to low-water mark, on the west side of Hudson river, or so far as the bounds of this State extend; then down along the west side of Hudson river, at low-water mark, or along the limits of this State, to the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 6.)

Sixth ward.

VI. The sixth ward shall begin at a point in the middle of Broadway, where it is intersected by the middle of Canal street, and run thence through the middle of Canal street to where it is intersected by the middle of Centre street; then through the middle of Centre street to the middle of Walker street; then through the middle of Walker and Canal streets to the middle of the Bowery road; then through the middle of the Bowery road to the middle of Chatham street; then through the middle of Chatham street and Park row to the middle of Broadway, and then through the middle of Broadway to the place of beginning. (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 7.)

Seventh ward.

VII. The seventh ward shall begin at the south-easterly corner of the fourth ward, and run thence along the easterly boundary of the fourth ward to the middle of Division street; then through the middle of Division street to the middle of Grand street; then through the middle of Grand street, in a line running in the same direction across the East