INDEX TO NEW-YORK MUNICIPAL GAZETTE. SERIES OF NUMBERS, EMBRACING Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. ISSUED MAY 28th, 1847. An. د نیازتان را در امور پر LIBRARY Ecort 579258,2 F: NDEX CONSTITUTIONAL STATE CONVENTION. Page. Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers... 562 ecutive legislative and judiciary powers...... 561 odol mes............ ........... 622 ......... 657 Organization of Convention; Names of Officers, 561 574 574 599 Rights of Citizens. 584 Double Taxation. Equalization of Taxation: 610 and 593 Taxation of Personal Property. 16 « Mr. Ruggles... 599 Royal Charters and Grants. Titles to Bills and Acts. Royal Charters and Franchises. New-York Registry Law. Cities and Villages. Incorporated Dompanies liable personally-in Judiciary. Education. Municipal Corporations. Royal Grants and Franchises. Royal Charters. Corporations other than Banking and Municipal. C. Murphy ........611 and 612 Constitution Miscellaneous. 608 .... 629. 562 562 608 562 575 List of members of the Council of Appointment, from 1777 to 1822 ........................ 758 STATE LEGISLATURE. this State by Mr. Stevenson to authorize a Con- York ................................... 553 Porter, March 27, 1846, against taxing non-resi- ••:............ 557 clause to a bill of another title ............. 557 actual capital, bill reported in the Senate by Mr. 553 585 583 583 ............ 684 for 1847................................. 685 ...................... 685 ...................685, 695 ............. 684 Schaick in the Senate in 1835.........564 to 566 13, 1846 ............................ 685 685 686 New-York City Charter ................... 687 of the City of New-York,................687-8 in the city of New York, and to reduce and equalize the tax on Seamen,............... 688 .697-8 ............... 698 by Mr. Hadley, in the House of Assembly..698-9 ..........595-6 695 695 wego county. for authority to overflow lands made in the Senate by Hon. A. C. Hand..... 760 759 759 759 .......... 758 vention and rejected by the People....614 to 618 Remarks thereon and upon the amendments pro- NEW YORK CITY CORPORATION. the unliinited powers of the New York City Corporation ... dated, New-York, May 6, 1728............. 556 Sept. 18, 1732, and Aug. 29, 1733. ......555, 556 ............. 555 ment repudiating the New-York City Charter. 563 ......582, 657. 563 strances should be reported upon. ........... 563 a street through Trinity Church Yard, remarks ............ 568 property in the city of New-York.......... 609 Special committee of Board of Assistants in favor of........... .........622-3 merce agains a Wharf Tax ................. 759 and collection of Taxes; for collecting wharf- thereon ....... Corporation, for a new system of assessment, re- 698 restraining the treasurer of the town of Charles- COURT. streets.............................. 576. 680 Road..................576. 602. 603. 678 to 680 ............ .. 576 en by the New Constisution, Art. 6, sec. 8... 626 COURTS. 585 NOTICE OF PERSONS. 759 594 671 MISCELLANEOUS. 562 relation to neighbor's rights as to the light of ............. 584 ture of Connecticut in relation to building a of Connecticut River ..................... 583 608 VUOOMUNIVULIN..................... Speech of Hon. H. C. Mon ...............575 .......... .. ...... ...... 640 .......... 682 State of the country, war with Mexico, by David Hale, Esq., one of the Editors of the Journal .......... 594 Extracts from letters written in the Southern Hemisphere........ .........: 607 Capt. Fremont's visit to a snow capped mountain 13,570 feet above the ocean, on the pinnacle of 591 War and Famine... ........ 695, 696 Famine in Ireland.... 758 Committee of aid to Ireland .... 758 Seamen's friend society ; seamen's saving bank. 688 Fruits of industry......... 633 Charitable Societies, remarks upon ........... Savings of Labor.... 635 Prosperity of the People of Massachusetts ..... Railroad stocks should be exempt from Taxation 696 Currency and Exchanges .................... 696 Public Policy requires that Marine and Fire Insu rance companies shonld be exeinpt from Taxa tion................... .... 681 and 688 Assessors' valuation of real and personal property in Boston .... Hudson River Railroad........ 682 Color of soils important as to solar heat........ 695 Coal Ashes for Manure...................... 642 Artesian Wells .... 648 Ventilation .........., Mainmoth steam engine for pumping out Harlem Lake in Holland........... ........634, 635 Coal ashes a protection against Potato Rot.. 639, 695 Grates for burning coal...................... 640 Hoops for large tubs and vats ... Salt Petre Mines in South America............ 675 Darwin's Mountain tour in S. A............... 699 The Galapagos Archipelago ..... The Potatoe, in its natural soil growing wild 682 676 A cloud of locusts ................ ......... 675 Pigeons ................................666 643 Rock Mills....................... .......... 635 Butterflies; The Butterfly; The Humble Bee ; Product of Labor; Adirondack Gems....... 591 Talcose earth..... 587 A Blind Sailor and his faithful Dog............ 635 Canine and Feline Sagacity ........ .757, 758 ............633, 560,757, 591 SALT. american Salt. remarks upon in the Senate of this State, March 20, 1846, by Hon. A. C. Hand. 558 Remarks upon the manufacture of salt at the On ondaga salines, in this State, by Thos. L. Preston, York, April 20, 1846 ...... 633 Temperature of salt water .................. 659 Specific graaity of salt water at Syracuse ...... 659 Specific gravity of salt water at Saltville, ...... 659 Import of salt into the port of New-York in 1846, 695 Foreigu Salt, letters in relation to, from Am. Consuls........ 562 Onondaga State Salines...... 695 Sterility and Salt. South America ............ 699 Saline Incrustations................ 675 Lake of salt water changed into a field of salt. 675 Salt for manure ........ 633 Reverbatory salt furnace..................... 5 587 New mode of constructing salt furnaces ....... 664 ASTRONOMY. Verrier, by Professor Olmstead........669 to 671 Comet .................................... ... 640 Eclipses and temperature.......... CORRESPONDENCE. the State of Tennessee, upon various scientific 666, 667,668, 666, 667, 668, 682 and 692. Letters from Thomas Spencer, former State Su perintendant of the Onondaga Salines, written ginia 559,560, 575, 587, 606, 631, 643, 659, 673,683 Letters from W. P. Milnor, written from the fossil salt mines of southwestern Virginia, situate 659, 664, 682 Letters from Lyman W. Conkey, Syracuse, On ondaga Salines, New-York..587, 605, 633, 659, 663 Letter from Professor Henry of Princeton Col lege, in relation to lightning, and also in rela tion to the telegraph wires ................ 586 Letter from Prof. Olmsted, Yale College, in rela tion to lightning, earthquakes, &c............ 586 Letters from Benjamin F. Thompson, Historian of Long Island.... .......663, 695 Letters from Hon. Josiah Butler, of So. Deer field, N. H., in relation to the earthquakes in New Hampshire ..... ..........660, 661, 756 Extracts from a letter written by a clergyman in the state of Georgia....................... 683 Letter from a young physician on a visit to Scotland .........:::: ........... 692 : Letter from J. B. Wick of Villa Rica, Georgia, relative to the Gold mines of his vicinity.... 590 etter from H. E. Pierrepont, Brooklyn, relative to winged Ants ...... .......... 590 Extract from a letter from Ozem Strong, dated Colborne, Upper Canada...... Letter from J. E. Bloomfield, of Oswego, N. Y.. 605 Letter from Levi Disbrow in relation to Little Sodus Bay Salt well .... .......... 587 Letter from Teunis G. Bergen, ex-member of the State Convention...... 695 Letter from Dudley Leavitt, Meredith, N. H... 756 EARTHQUAKES. At Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 24. 1845 ........... 661 At Memphis, Ten., Dec. 23. 1845... 554 At Santo Tomas. Jan. 30, 1846 ......... 555 At Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1846....... 555 At Valparasio, S. A., March 18, 1846 ........ At Maysville, Ky., March 23, 1846... At Cuba, Island of Cuba, March 23, 1846.... 555 At Catania, April 22d and 28, 1846 ....... 592 At Santa Cruz, Cuba, April 28, 1846 ...... 555, 592 At Memphis, Ten., May 8, 1846 ......... 569 At Newburyport, Ma B., May 30, 1846........ 661 At Guadaloupe and Martinique, June 16, 1846.. .. 598 At Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 21, 1846........ 596 At Smyrna, Asia, June 25, 1846..... 608 At Messina and Catania, June 1846 ....... 598, 592 At Deerfield, N. H., July 10, 1846............ 660 At Cologne and in Southern Germany, July 29, 690 1846,................. . At Ningpoo, China, Aug. 4, 1846.............. 651 At Fincastle, Va., Aug. 12. 1846.............. Volcanic action in the Red Sea in Asia and simul taneously an earthquake of great severity throughout the province of Tuscany in Europe, August, 14, 1846..................661, 662, 663 At the Island of Iceland, Aug. 22, 1846.....630, 631 At the sea-port and river towns in Maine, Mass achusetts and New-Hampshire and in the River towns in Vermont, Aug. 25, 1846 .......661, 689 At Leghorn, Tuscany, Aug. 27, 1846 .......... 703 At Gunang Marrippa, Java, Sept. 2, 1846 ...... 704 At Trinidad, St. Vincents, and Grenada, Sept. 6, 1846 ................................... At Trinidad, Sept. 10, 1846......... At Deerfield, N. H., Sept 12, 1846 ......... 705 At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, Sept. 15, 1846.. 705 At St. Domingo City, Sept. 16, 1846.. At Trinided, Sept. 1846 ..... 631 At Boonsboro', Md., Oct. 19, 1846... 631 At Talabassee, Florida, Oct. 23, 1846... 640 At Algiers, Africa, in Oct. 1846........ 644 At Deerfield, N.H., Oct. 29 and 31, 1846... 709, 651, 661 At Deerfield, N.H., Nov. 12, 1846.....709, 651, 661 At several places in Scotland, Nov. 25th, 1846.. 668 At Porto Rico, Nov. 28, 1846...... .. 650 At Deerfield, N.H., Dec. 2, 1846......713, 651, 661 At Trinidad, Dec. 17, 1846...... 750 At Grafton Harbor, Jan. 8, 1847,... 652 At Albany, Jan. 11, 1847.... At Rice Lake, Jan. 14, 1847........ 682 At Antigonish, Jauuary 29, 1847 ... 718 At Bangor, Maine, in January, 1847,... 753 At Deerfield, N.H. Feb. 2d, 1847... ... 754 and 756 At Meredith. N.H., Feb. 14, 1847........ 756 At Belfast, Me., Feb. 19, 1847............ 754 At Deerfield, N.H., Feb. 21, 1847........ 755 At Capiaco, South America in 1847..... 755 At Green Bay, and Fox River, March 9, 1847... 755 At Limington, Maine, April 1, 1847........ 755 At Mount Morris, N. Y., April 27, 1847 ....... 755 Earthquakes, Remarks upon by Eben. Meriam, lightning, snow, hail, wind, rain, cold, heat, 661, 662, 668, 674, 675, 670, 682, 695, 700 to 756 Suggestion that an earthquake had taken place on the 22d of April, 1846, made prior to June 1, ........ 555 Confirmation of the correctness of the above sug. gestion by an arrival from Sicily, July 7, 1846. 592 Great Earthquake in South America........693, 694 Steamers and Earthquakes................... 690 Earthquake Ruins.......................... 676 Connection of earthquakes and storms.... 674 Earthquakes in New Hampshire......... 660. 661 Simultaneous convulsions in the East ....... 661 Earthquakes at Marseilles, France........... 656 Earthquakes at New-Madrid ..... 624 Earthquake at Caraccas,....... 598 Remarks upon earthquakes, by Hon. Josiah Butler; and by Dudley Leavitt, Esq........ 661 Do. by a native of Deerfield........ ... 660 Earthquakes at Martinique in 1727 ........... 760 VOLCANOES. Eruptions of Mount Heckla......569. 591, 596, 630 Volcanic action, extensive in its operations...... 675 Graham Volcanic shoal ................ 598 Volcanoes in the Red Sea.................661, 662 MORTALITY. Death of aged persons... .................... 651 Mortality in Boston. " in New York ......757, 596 The solemn knell—Steamer Atlantic bell tolling the requiem of 42 persons—moved by the ocean ........ 673, 644 Death of an infant in its mother's arms, written by Mrs. Sigourney........ ............. 672 Obituary notice of Mrs. Mary S. M. Seaman,. 672. 691 Lines written upon the death of Mrs. Mary Strong Meriam Seaman, by Miss Cornelia Loomis. .........673, 691 Miss Julia C. Ringwood 691 Miss Margaretta McNary .... 691 W. H. Starr, Esq....... 691 Letters from Mary S. Meriam to her sister..... 691 Letter from Miss Cornelia Loomis to Mrs. M. S. M. Seaman..... ...................... 673 Letter from Mrs. M. S. M. Seaman to her sister 691 Lines written by Mary S. Meriam in her sister's album-selected................ Letter from Thomas Spencer....... 673 Extract from a letter written by a lady in New Eugland................................. 673 Obituary notice of Jonathan Thompson, Esq.... 672 “ The Hour Glass," written by John Quincy Adams, Esq., President of the United States.. 672 Notice of an ancient copy of the Bible......672. 690 Obituary notice of Preserved Fish............. 596 Greenwood Cemetery ; Vocal Willow; Prayers for Rain ; Birds in the Cemetery ........... 757 The Adirondack Solitary ....... LIGHTNING. Village destroyed by lightning................ 656 Packet ship Thomas P. Cope and cargo destroy ed by lightning Nov, 29, 1846.............. 650 Brig Oscar destroyed by lightning Sept. 15, 1846. 727 Ship Christopher Columbus aud cargo destroyed by lightning Feb. 11, 1847................. 719 Ship Hugenot struck by lightning and cargo set on fire June 12, 1846........ ......... 571 Lightning wires a complete protection. 554 572, 635 " in South America, in 1793.......... 674 Silicious lightning tubes ..................... 674 Thunder storms... 756, 757, 607, 608. 755. 590. 632. 570, 571, 587, 588, 593, 598, 604, 605, 641, 650, 655, 656, 662, 674, 700 to 755, 586. 572. 592. 589. 573. 642. Telegraph wires and thunder storms 707, 604, 596, 608, 572 Birds....... 598 .......... 560 .. 554 ...... 605 ter, course of the wind, dew-point, fall of No person ever killed in a vessel or building 1846; house burnt by lightning in North Caro- Rain and snow, thunder, lightning, hail and frost, protected by a metalic rod of any kind reared Jina in Oct. 1846 and two persons killed ...... 632 as observed at the State Salines at Syracuse. New- for the parpose of protection.......... Young Lady struck by lightning in Wisconsin ... 642 York, by L. W. Conkey, March and May 1846. 570 thunder storm in 1793 and 19 persons killed.. 674 June, 1846 ........ ................. 588 House struck by lightning Feb. 3, 1847........ 695 August 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847........ 700 to 721 Carburetted hydrogen gas ignited by lightning and Three persons killed by lightning, and eight per Dew, Snow and Rain for the year 1846 ....... 715 the lightning extinguished.... sons injured at Marshall, Texas, Aug. 2 ; barn Aggregate fall of Rain and Snow at Syracuse for Warehouses illed with iron never injured by burat by lightning near Alton, Ilí., Ang. 7 ; boy 7 years ................................. 715 struck by lightning near Rockville, Md., Aug. Temperature of the air and state of the weather Buildings with metalic roofs afford protection 7, and so severely shocked that he bit his tongue at Saltville, Washington county, Va., for May, nearly oft ................................ 700 1846, by W. King, Jr...................... I rou wire sufficient for lightning rods, costing Man killed by lightning at Winslow, Maine, Aug. less than one dollar per lightning rod........ 554 10, 1846 ; barn burnt by lightning one per June, 1846 ........ Lightning rods should terminate in water or very son and iwo horses killed and one person Temperature of the air, fall of rain, course of the moist gronnd ............................ injured, near Huntingdon, Pa. Aug. 14, 1846. 701 wind, thunder and lightning, &c. as observed Tin spouts should be straight otherwise they will Barn burnt by lightning in Stark, Maine, Aug. 14 at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Milnor, July 1846. 605 obstruct the water and thus prevent the light- 1846; church edifice struck by lightning, Aug. Meteorlogical observations made every hour from ning in descending from passing out at the lower 14, 1846; young lady killed by lightning, Aug. 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Mil- 17, 1846 ; dwelling house struck by lightning nor, from Ang. 1, 1846, to March i, 1847.700 to 721 Iron ships and iron buildings protection against at Martha's Vineyard, Miss., and set on fire Meteorlogical observations made on Brooklyn injury by lightning ....................... 554 Aug. 19, 1846............................ Heights, hourly by E. M., 571, 588, 605,700 to 721 Schooner H. $. Cranston struck by lightnfng, one Four horses killed by.lightning in an open field, Meteorlogical Record kept by Dr. Strong, at man killed and several severely stunned, June Aug. 23, 1846 ; a man killed by lightning Aug. Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, Long Island 7. 1846 ................................. 570 23, 1846 ; church edifice struck by lightning in Lightning Rods—Remarks upon by Clark Rich.. 572 Beverly and several of the congregation prostra Meteorlogical Records of New-York Hospital, by ted; two dwelling houses struck in North Salem Mr. Dacey......................... 709 to 721 land from Sept. 6, 1846 to March 1, 1847,722 to 755 Tornado at Grenada, Miss. 21 persons killed, 62 wounded and town destroyed ..568, 573 July 3, 1856. ........................... 586 Barn burnt by lightning at Killingworth, Conn.; Dwelling house near Brooklyn, L. I., struck by dwelling house struck by lightning, and servant Hurricane in Oct. 1846, ........... lightning, july 11, 1846.................... 586 man killed, Aug. 30, 1846 ; house struck by Dwelling House and barn destroyed by lightning at Brownsville, Pa................ 575 at Abington, Mass. July 12, 1846........... 581 tain knocked down on parade by lightning at Wilmington, Del................ Barn in Dedham and its contents burnt by light- Sept. 3, 1846 ; lady killed by lightning Sept. Hail Storms in 1738 ... 3, 1846 ; man killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 Hail Storm in Soulh America ................ 676 at Dedham same day ; Vessel struck by light- and a dwelling in St. Louis torn to atoms; two Storm at Alexandria ........................ 635 ning same day at Newport, R. I.: Five men oxen killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 ; three Great Snow Storm in 1777... House, Washington, Dutchess County, burnt 25, 1846 ................................ by lightning July 5, 1846, loss $7000........ 586 Comparative meteorology and Freemont's Rocky same day 5 men knocked down and 2 disabled Mountain tour ........................... ......... 573 the surface of the water of the Hudson river struck by lightning at Gravesend, L.I., Feb. 3, Great flood in France, in Oct. 1846 ........... 643 astern of the steamer Maria................ 589 Great flood in the Kiskimauites............... 573 Man killed by lightning; barn burnt by lightning Railroad cars struck by lightning in Georgia, March Drought ................. 570, 572, 674, 635, 624 in New Jersey, loss $3,000................. 598 13, 1847 ; barn burnt by lightning near Union The weather..652, 655, 656, 633, 644, 640, 650, 651, Thunder storm at Baltinore, Aug. 7, 1846 ; brig town, Md.; barn burnt by lightning near Juliet, schooner Union, City Mills, a banking Chambersburgh, Pa. April 13, 1847 ; man kill- Rain ............. 741, 715,721, 607, 633, 640, 649 house, store, and hotel struck by lightning, one ed by lightuing near Woodbrige, N. J., also 2 Icebergs....................... man killed by lightning under a bridge, and horses, March 26, 1847 ; hotel struck and man Snow storms ........................ several persons loading a vessel knocked down killed by lightning at Westport, same day ; Baronieter................................. 643 and stunned. The lightning took full possess- barn burnt by lightuing in Hadley, Saratoga Rise and fall of Lake Ontario.. ion of the telegraph wires ; several cattle in Herkimer county, dwelling house struck by ning .................................... 604 Meteorlogical Record for March and April 1847, 758 lightning and man knocked down in Madison Shipwreck of steamers ....... county, April 12, 1847 ; horse killed by light- steamers ..................690, 644 ning, July 27, 1846 ; house struck by ligbtning Mountain Morning ......................... 755 in Richmond, Va. and 4 persons in the street ning near Chelsea, Mass. ; house struck by light- GEOLOGICAL. struck by lightning at Nashville, April 22, 1847; Specimens of rock, sand, ore, &c., from the Gold . Telegraph Wires struck by lightning, March 30, Mines of Villa Rica, Georgia................ 590 1847, at Rochester, N.Y.... fire and man knocked down; child killed by ......... 756 Geological formations of the regions round about Lightning and Snow................650, 651, 757 Saltville, south western mountains of Virginia, 667 755 Deep Cavern in Onondago county ............ 659 755 Volcanic Lake, Onondago County........ 674 Virgin (ron... 689 NOTE.-The present serios of numbers, 41 to 48 inclusive, are bound up under one cover in order to place in the hands 80 frequently at New-Haven.... ... 689 of the members of the Legislature on the adjournment of May 30, 1846; 74 sheep killed by lightning at ............... 757 625, is accompanied by an INDEX of four pages all marked Wells, Eug., 1846; barn burnt by lightning in NATURAL PHENOMENA. with the same folio, this index is more ample and extensive than any index yet published, and will be found of great con- 573 Magnetic Island...... 573 venience. The meteorlogical records are not accompanied Magnetic Cove............ 573 with detailed remarks as the preparation of these require more leisure and more time than I had at iny disposal--they Magnetic attraction ....... ......... 624, 573 will, however, be found more ample than any meteorlogical Ærolites ................. ... 624,714, 754. 640 records (that I have ever seen) published, and being made Meteors .. simultaneously at three different stations several hundred Shower of Grubs in winter.. 719 miles apart, will afford information in reference to the changes of temperature rarely to be met with. The record in this Man killed by lightning near Kingston, Upper series embraces observations made hourly for nine consecu- Canada, Oct. 2, 1846.. ........ 631 Temperature of the atmosphere, state of the Barome-| tive months.-Ed. Itunicipal Gazette. PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY. EDITED BY E. Meriam.] NEW-YORK, JUNE 1, 1846. [VOL. I....No. 41 The May No. of the Gazette containing the Con- | by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the free Ø 6. The charter or amendments adopted by the stitution of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, holders and inhabitants of and situated within the said convention to be organized under this act, shall be &c. pg. 81 to 96 of the volume both inclusive, is issued city and county, and to be collected according to law, submitted to the electors of the city and county of to supply a vacant number in the volume in order that to be applied towards defraying the expenses of po New-York, each provision separately at the election to we may be able to place the entire volume complete lice in said city and county. And also a further sum be held in the said city on the first Tuesday after the in the hands of each of the members of the Conven of one hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred first Monday of November, in the year one thousand tion as soon as they shall be organised for business. and ninety-three dollars eighty-two cents, by tax on eight hundred and forty-six ; and such amendments The present number contains some important facts in the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and as may be approved by a majority of said electors at relation to the Montgomerie charter, copied from the inhabitants of and situated within the said city and said election, shall thenceforth be incorporated in, and volumes of copies of documents obtained in England, county, and to be collected according to law, to be form a part of the charter of the city of New-York. by Mr. BROADHEAD, and now in the State archieves. applied to supplying the deficiency in taxation in said And if an entirely new charter be submitted to the city and county for the year one thousand eight hun electors at said election, the same shall, upon being ANNUAL TAX BILL. dred and forty-five. And also a further sum not ex adopted by a majority of said electors, become the ceeding one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine charter of the city of New-York. We give below the annual Tax Bill. It authorises The tickets to be hundred and sixty eight dollars, by tax on the estates, used at the election to be held under this section, shall the assessment of the heaviest tax ever before imposed real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of in the city of New-York. The necessity for such a be prepared in such form as the said convention may and situated within that pars ef the said city and coun direct. tax does not exist. One half the sun authorised, ty of New York, which is or may be designated by a Ø 7. The expenses of the election of delegates held properly expended, would be far more useful to the resolution or ordinance of the common council of the 1 City than this great waste of money lavished upon under this act, and all expenses attending the convensaid city of New-York as the “ Lamp district," to be tion, shall be paid out of the treasury of the city of political favorites. dollected according to law, and applied towards de New-York. The proceeding of the convention shall A question of great importance arises under this act fraying expenses of such parts of the said city last be filed in the office of the clerk of the county, when with respect to what particular personal property is mentioned. duly certified to by the pressding officer and secretary assessable. The act is special-has a local and not a general or secretaries of said convention. CITY CONVENTION. $ 8. The members of the convention shall have powoperation, and differs in that respect from the State Tax act. The act has been bunglingly drawn. It pro No. 341. er to provide for their own pay, which shall not exvides as follows: “to be collected according to law." IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 1846. ceed one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day As to the assessment of it, the provision is special actually in session. Introduced by Mr. STEVENSON. and no personal property is anthorised to be assessed (Amended... See page 556.) except of freeholders and inhabitants of the city and AN ACT county whose real and personal estate is situate within To provide for the calling of a convention to amend TAX UPON ACTUAL CAPITAL. the county. the charter of the city of New-York. The following bill was reported in the Senate. The The question then arises under section 5 of page The People of the State of New York, represented in same bill has been three times reported in the same 381 of the 1st volume of the Revised Statutes as to Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : form, and yet remains dormant. the oath. If the person taxed declares that he is Section 1. An election shall be held in the city of worth only a certain sum named in the affidavit over No. 16. New-York on the first Monday of June ensuing the and above his just debts and property exempted from passage of this act, for the selection of delegates IN SENATE, January 16, 1846. taxation, and he iucludes in this exemption all his in each ward of said city, to a county convention for [Reported by Mr. Porter, from the Committee on personal estate without the county of New York, revising and amending the charter of the said city of Finance. whether such a construction is right? New-York. An Act to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to The counsel of the corporation, Mr. Brady (whose 2. The delegates chosen to this convention shall the exemption of incorporated companies from taxacourse so far in office has been greatly approbated on be chosen as representatives from each ward, each tion, and for other purposes. account of his honesty of purpose and careful com delegate representing ten thousand inhabitants; and The People of the State of New-York, represented pliance with law) should instruct the assessors in this. if any ward have, in addition to this ratio, a fraction of in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: No. 282. six thonsand and upwards, one representative shall be Section 1. Section nine of title four, of chapter IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 1846. allowed to be chosen for said fraction : but each of thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, which authorizes the exemption of incorporated companies Introduced by Mr. ALBERTSON. the present wards of the city of New-York, without in certain cases from taxation, is hereby repealed. 2. All banks established under the act entitled To enable the supervisors of the city and county of 3. Notice of such election shall be given, and the " An act to authorize the business of Banking," passed New-York to raise money by tax. same shall be conducted in the manner now provided April 18, 1838, shall be subject to taxation on the The People of the State of New-York, represented in by law in regard to the charter elections in the city of amount of capital paid in or secured to be paid, in the Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : New-York, and the name of each delegate voted for same manner as incorporated banks; and the proper Sec. 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly officer or officers of such banks shall make an annual city of New York, as the supervisors of the printed upon each ballot, and the ballot shall be en- statement to the Comptroller and the assessors in the county of New-York, of whom the mayor or recorder dorsed “Delegates to the Convention," and a separate manner provided by the second section of title four, shall be one, are hereby empowered, as soon as con box for the deposite of such ballots shall be kept by chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Statveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order || the inspectors of each election district in the several utes. and cause to be raised by tax, on the estates, real and wards of the said city. The result of such election 0 3. The provisions of the fifteenth section of the personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and shall be ascertained and certified in the manner now second title of the thirteenth chapter of the first part situated within the said city and county, and to be provided in the act regulating charter elections in of the Revised Statutes, shall be extended to all such collected according to law, a sum not exceeding nine said city. banks, and to all incorporated companies subject to hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and sixty 04. All the provisions of law for the purity of elec taxation, and the affidavit in such case may be made two dollars, to be applied towards defraying the vari. tions in the city of New York shall apply to the elec by the president, cashier, secretary, or treasurer thereous contingent expenses legally chargeable to the said tion held under this act; and all false swearing at said of; and such banks and incorporated companies shall city and county, and such expenses as the mayor, al- || election shall be deemed and punished as perjury. be assessed on the actual value of all their real and dermen and commonalty of the city of New-York may 5. The delegates to be chosen under this act, shall personal estate at the time of making such assessment; in any manner sustain or be put to by law. Such meet in the city of New York on the first Monday of land all provisions of law which are inconsistent with portion of the contingent expenses of the said city of || July next, at the chamber of the board of aldermen, this act are hereby repealed. The proper officer or New-York as relates to re-paving and cleaning streets and shall then, or as soon after as may be practicable, officers of such banks and incorporated companies in that part of the said city lying south of a line run- ||| organize and adopt rules for their government. They shall make and deliver to the assessors an annual statening through the centre of Thirty-fourth street, shall shall complete their business so that any charter or ment of the amount of all their real and personal be assessed only that part of the said city lying south amendments adopted by them, may be submitted to estate in the manner required by section two, title of the said line. And also the further sum not exceed || the electors of the city and county of New York, es in | four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised ing four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, ll the next section provided. Statutes. |