und INDEX TO NEW-YORK MUNICIPAL GAZETTE. SERIES OF NUMBERS, EMBRACING Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. ISSUED MAY 28th, 1847. Han. بدن انسان را در امر زب INDEX LIBRARY ✓ Assessment abuses...... 575 posed...... .618. 686 and 687 For a council of the constitution for defining ex- 561 NEW YORK CITY CORPORATION. Montgomery Charter, extracts from....... 563 574 List of members of the Council of Appointment, Corporation Comptroller's report in relation to 574 758 the unliinited powers of the New-York City 563 599 tion by States and Corporations....., 681 and 696 Letter from Gov. Cosby to the Board of Trade, 609 556 Letter from Gov. Cosby to the Board of Trade, Sept. 18, 1732, and Aug. 29, 1733. .555, 556 555 Governor Cosby's letters to the Home Govern. ment repudiating the New-York City Charter. 563 553 Remarks thereon.... .582, 657. 563 556 Mayor Havemeyer says petitions and Remon- strances should be reported upon.. 563 Mayor Havemeyer's Veto of Resolution to open 557 a street through Trinity Church Yard, remarks thereon 568 596 Expenses of Registry Law, remarks upon.. New-York City Courts, remarks in relation to... 608 Assessors' valuation of Real Estate and Personal 553 609 property in the city of New-York.... Arbitrary and Inquisitorial Taxation, report of a bly... 585 Special committee of Board of Assistants in Naturalization, in the olden times 583 622 583 622-3 599 Draft of a Remonstrance of Chamber of Com- 684 merce agains a Wharf Tax 759 age; and for a passenger lax, by the special 685 committee of the Board of Assistants, remarks 685 thereon 657 685, 695 Draft of tax bill presented the Legislature by the 684 Corporation, for a new system of assessment, re- marks thereon... 698 Names of assessors for 1846.. 577 581 An act to abolish distress for rent, passed May Injunction of Supreme Court of Massachusetts 566 restraining the treasurer of the town of Charles- town from paying money to Volunteers for 567 760 685 STREET DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPREME 685 COURT. lature and remarks thereon... Proceedings in relation to Houston and Leroy 576. 680 Proceedings in relation to the Bloomingdale .576. 602. 603. 678 to 680 Taxes in Barbary. 576 .....687-8 of the City of New-York,. Assessment case of Doughty vs. Hope..600, 601, 602 William street and Fourth avenue. 577. 608 Street Department of the Supreme Court abolish- 695 en by the New Constisution, Art. 6, sec. 8... 626 696 Assessment abuses to be prevented. See Con- 574 stitution, sec. 9, Art. 8, and sec. 8, of Art. 14 627-8 Assembly bill 132..... 697-8 COURTS. 585 Superior Court assessment case. 698 585 NOTICE OF PERSONS. 593 759 .595-6 Joseph Slocomb.. 594 Amendments suggested 596 Professor Olmsted. 671 NOTICES. 695 575 573 629 695 Memoir of Eli Whitney, by Prof. Olmsted.. 575 .575, 682 MISCELLANEOUS. belonging to a citizen by owners of a mill, Undermining neighbor's houses by sinking deep 760 foundations.. 562 759 608 Decision in court of Queen's Bench in 1846, in relation to neighbor's rights as to the light of 759 day ... 584 759 Governor Toucey's Veto Message to the Legisla- 758 ture of Connecticut in relation to building a 562 bridge for a railroad over the navigable waters of Connecticut River 583 562 Extract from a Proclamation of Gen. Taylor to 575 the Mexicans 608 577 Life Jasurance, remarks upon.. 590 682 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 635 Savings of Labor.. 635 Prosperity of the People of Massachusetts 635 Railroad stocks should be exempt from Taxation 696 Currency and Exchanges.. 696 Public Policy requires that Marine and Fire Insu rance companies shonld be exempt from Taxa- 681 and 688 Assessors' valuation of real and personal property in Boston .575 Hudson River Railroad. 682 Color of soils important as to solar heat. 695 Coal Ashes for Manure.... 642 Artesian Wells 648 Ventilation 649 Mammoth 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 640 Salt Petre Mines in South America. 675 Darwin's Mountain tour in S. A.. 699 The Galapagos Archipelago 699 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 Birds.. .633, 560,757, 591 SALT 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, 558 Remarks upon the quality of American salt. 558 Analyses of Salt... 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... 587 New mode of constructing salt furnaces 664 ASTRONOMY. Thoughts on the discovery of the planet Le Verrier, by Professor Olmstead........669 to 671 Comet .. 640 Eclipses and temperature... 592 CORRESPONDENCE. A series of letters from a gentleman residing in the State of Tennessee, upon various scientific bubjects....624, 631, 636, 637, 644, 652, 664, 665, 666, 667, 168, 666, 667, 668, 682 and 692. Letters from Thomas Spencer, foriner State Su perintendant of the Onondaga Salines, written ginia 559, 560, 575, 587, 606, 631, 643, 659, 673,4683 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- 586 Letter from Prof, Olmsted, Yale College, in relation to lightning, earthquakes, &c... 586 Letters from Benjamin F. Thompson, Historian of Long Island... ...663, 695 Letters from Hon. Josiah Buller, of So. Deer field, N. H., in relation to the earthquakes in ..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.... 590 590 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 690 At Maysville, Ky., March 23, 1846.. 555 At Cuba, Island of Cnba, 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 s., 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. A., 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.. 598 Volcanic action in the Red Sea in Asia and simul taneously an earthquake of great severity 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 705 At Trinidad, Sept. 10, 1846. 705 At Deerfield, N. H., Sept 12, 1846 705 At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, Sept. 15, 1846.. 705 At St. Domingo City, Sept. 16, 1846.. 705 At Trinided, Sept. 1846. 631 At Boonsboro', Md., Oct. 19, 1846. 631 At Talahassee, 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,.. At Albany, Jan. 11, 1847. 652 At Rice Lake, Jan. 14, 1847 682 Al Antigonish, January 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, 676, 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. Sosial Butler; and by Dudley Leavitt, Esq.. 661 Do. by a native of Deerfield.. 660 Earthquakes at Martinique in 1727 760 VOLCANOES. Eruptions of Mouut 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... 672 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.... 560 LIGHTNING Village destroyed by lightning..... 656 Packet ship Thomas P. Cope and cargo destroyed by lightning Nov, 29, 1846.. 650 Brig Oscar destroyed by lightning Sept. 15, 1846. 727 Ship Christopher Columbus and 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, 572 652 7 years Steamboats a protection froin injury by lightning. 554 Several persons killed by lightning in Spain in No person ever killed in a vessel or building 1846; house burnt by lightning in North Caroprotected by a metalic rod of any kind reared lina in Oct. 1846 and two persons killed 632 for the parpose of protection.. 554 Young Lady struck by lightning in Wisconsin ... 642 Feathers not a protection against injury by light Thirty-seven places struck by lightning in one ning.... 554 thunder storm in 1793 and 19 persons killed.. 674 Lightuing always takes the inside of tin spouts Lightning in winter 695 and not the outside 554 House struck by lightning Feb. 3, 1847 695 Carburetted hydrogen gas ignited by lightning and Three persons killed by lightning, and eight perthe lightning extinguished.... 554 sons injured at Marshall, Texas, Aug. 2 ; barn Warehouses filled with iron never injured by burat by lightning near Alton, 111., Ang. 7; boy lightving. 554 struck by lightning near Rockville, Md., Aug. Buildings with metalic roofs afford protection 7, and so severely shocked that he bit his tongue against lightning, .. 554 nearly off.. 700 I rou wire sufficient for lightning rods, costing Man killed by lightuing at Winslow, Maine, Aug. less than one dollar per lightning rod. 554 10, 1846 ; barn burnt by lightning one perLightning rods should terminate in water or very son and iwo horses killed and one person moist ground 554 injured, near Huntingdon, Pa. Aug. 14, 1846. 701 Tin spouts should be straight otherwise they will Barn burnt by lightning in Stark, Maine, Aug. 14 obstruct the water and thus prevent the light 1846; church edifice struck by lightning, Aug. ning in descending from passing out at the lower 14, 1846; young lady killed by lightning, Aug. end of the spout. 554 17, 1846 ; dwelling house struck by lightning Iron ships and iron buildings protection against at Martha's Vineyard, Miss., and set on fire injury by lightning 554 Aug. 19, 1846... 702 Schooner Á. Š. Cranston struck by lightnfng, one Four horses killed by. lightning in an open field, man killed and several severely stunned, June Aug. 23, 1846 ; a man killed by lightning Aug. 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 prostraFactory burnt by lightning 572 ted; two dwelling houses struck in North Salem Three persons and two horses killed by lightning; 572 - the telegraph wires and posts struck in WestThunder storm at Goshen, Vt... 573 boro, a barn struck in Nantick, and with its conBrig Columbia struck by lightning, set on fire, tents consumed, all on the 27th of Aug. 1846 ; and six persons thrown into the sea and lost, man killed by lightning, August 28, 1846.... 703 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 lightning, July 11, 1846.. 586 man killed, Aug. 30, 1846 ; house struck by Dwelling House and barn destroyed by lightning lightning and three persons killed ; militia capat Abington, Mass. July 12, 1846.. 581 tain knocked down on parade by lightning Barn in Dedham and its contents burnt by light Sept. 3, 1846 ; lady killed by lightning Sept. ning, July 12, 1846 ; Barn struck by lightning 3, 1846 ; man killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 at Dedham same day ; Vessel struck by light- and a dwelling in St. Louis torn to atoms; two ning same day at Newport, R. I.: Five men oxen killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 ; three killed by lightning in the woods; Mansion persons while iu bed killed by lightning Sept. House, Washington, Dutchess County, burnt 25, 1846 706 by lightning July 5, 1846, loss $7000. 586 Ship Independence struck twice by lightning the Stable struck by lightning and horse killed ; church same day 5 men knocked down and 2 disabled edifice struck by lightniug; Lightning struck N. lat. 49, W. long. 23, Jan. 14, 1847 ; house the surface of the water of the Hudson river struck by lightning at Gravesend, L.I., Feb. 3, astern of the steamer Maria. 589 716 Man killed by lightning; barn burnt by lightning Railroad cars struck by lightning in Georgia, March in New Jersey, loss $3,000.... 598 13, 1847 ; barn burnt by lightning near Union Thunder storm at Baltimore, Aug. 7, 1846 ; brig town, Md.; barn burnt by lightning near Juliet, schooner Union, City Mills, a banking Chambersburgh, Pa. April 13, 1847 ; man killhouse, store, and hotel struck by lightning, one ed by lightuing near Woodbrige, N. J., also 2 mau killed by lightning under a bridge, and horses, March 26, 1847 ; hotel struck and man several persons loading a vessel knocked down killed by lightning at Westport, same day : and stunned. The lightning took full possess barn burnt by lightuing in Hadley, Saratoga ion of the telegraph wires ; several cattle in county, together with its contents, April 21, 1847 757 the neighborhood of Baltimore killed by light Two barns and contents burnt by lightning in ning. 604 Herkimer county, dwelling house struck by Balloon struck by lightning; man killed by light lightning and man knocked down in Madison ning, July 27, 1846 ; house struck by lightning county, April 12, 1847 ; horse killed by lightin Richmond, Va. and 4 persons in the street ning near Chelsea, Mass.; house struck by light. opposite the building knocked down; 2 houses, ning at Newburyport, Mass.; church edifice i brewery and the telegraph wires struck by struck by lightning at Nashville, April 22, 1847 ; lightning in Pbila., Aug, 9, 1846, bed set on Telegraph Wires struck by lightning, March 30, fire and man knocked down; child killed by 1847, at Rochester, N.Y. 756 Lightning and Snow.. .650, 651, 757 lightning July 30 1846, at Soinersworth, N.H. 607 Persons killed by lightning 755 Man killed by lightning in Indiana ; two men Vessels struck by lightning: 755 killed by lightning, June 10, 1846, under a tree Looking Glasses struck by lightning .586, 674 in Indiana ; house burnt by lightning June Electric, magnetic and meteoric wires. 689 26, 1846, near Niagara, also a barn ; 3 horses, Long Island in the electric current.. 689 2 cows, 5 sheep, and several pigs killed, a man Suggestion of the cause of the Lightning striking killed by, lightning at the same time 5 miles so frequently at New-Haven.... 689 distant ; bark Hortensia, struck by lightning Persons struck by lightning should be showered May 30, 1846 ; 74 sheep killed by lightning at with cold water 757 Wells, Eug., 1846; barn burnt by lightning in Warren, Mass. Aug. 8, 1846 ; horse killed by NATURAL PHENOMENA. lightning; barn burnt by lightning at Spring Magnetic Rocks. 573 field, Otsego co., N. Y. July 11, 1846, same Magnetic Island. 573 time a boy was killed by lightning while under Magnetic Cove.... 573 a tree in the same neighborhood ; Steamer Magnetic Pole..... 573 Citizen struck by lightwing in river Thames, Magnetic attraction 624, 573 Aug. 1, 1846, but no person injured. House Ærolites 624,714, 754, 640 struck by lightning near Mercersburg, Pa., Meteors. .586, 718,720, 640, 624, 631 and every person in the house prost rated one Shower of Grubs in winter.. 719 of whom did not recover.. Diseased Vegetation 608 607 Man killed by lightning near Kingston, Upper METEORLOGICAL. Canada, Oct. 2, 1846... 631 | Temperature of the atmosphere, state of the Barome ter, course of the wind, dew-point, fall of Rain and snow, thunder, lightning, hail and frost, as observed at the State Salines at Syracuse. New York, by L. W. Conkey, March and May 1846. 570 April, 1846. 560 June, 1846 588 July, 1846. 605 August 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847. 700 to 721 De Snow and Rain the year 1846 715 Aggregate fall of Rain and Snow at Syracuse for 715 Temperature of the air and state of the weather at Saltville, Washington county, Va., for May, 1846, by W. King, Jr.... 570 April, 1846 560 June, 1846 589 Temperature of the air, tall of rain, course of the wind, thunder and lightning, &c. as observed at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Milnor, July 1846. 605 Meteorlogical observations made every hour from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Mil. nor, from Ang. 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847.700 to 721 Meteorlogical observations made on Brooklyn Heights, hourly by E. M., 571, 588, 605,700 to 721 Meteorlogical Record kept by Dr. Strong, at Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, Long Island 571,588,605, 700 to 721 Meteorlogical Records of New-York Hospital, by Mr. Dacey, 709 to 721 Accounts in detail of storms on sea and on the 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 Cuba 649 Hurricane in Oct. 1846, 639 Nov. 1846.. 642 at Brownsville, Pa. 575 at Wilmington, Del.. 570 Hail Storms in 1738 633 Hail Storm in South America 676 Storm at Alexandria 635 Great Snow Storm in 1777 755 Hurricane in Sicily and also in Russia. 586 Comparison of Climate.... 593 Comparative meteorology and Freemont's Rocky Mountain tour 641 Hail Storm at Natchez 573 Great flood in France, in Oct. 1846 643 Great flood in the Kiskimauites... 573 Drought 570, 572, 674, 635, 624 The weather..652, 655, 656, 633, 644, 640, 650. 651, 555, 592, 589, 758 Rain.... 741, 715,721, 607, 633, 640, 649 Icebergs. 586, 570 Snow storms 650 Baro dieter.. 643 Rise and fall of Lake Ontario.. *651 Temperature of the Sea and of the Gulf Stream 608 Opening and closing of Erie Canal and H. River, 633 Meteorlogical Record for March and April 1847, 758 Shipwreck of steamers .690, 644 Mountain Morning 755 590 Geological formations of the regions round about Saltville, south western mountains of Virginia, 667 Deep Cavern in Onoudago county 659 Volcanic Lake, Onondago County.. 659 Virgin (ron.. 632 NOTE.—The present serios of numbers, 41 to 48 inclusive, are bound up under one cover in order to place in the hands of the members of the Legislature on the adjournment of that body. The State Constitution, commencing with page 625, is accompanied by an Index of four pages all marked with the same folio, this index is more ample and extensive than any index yet published, and will be found of great convenience. The meteorlogical records are not accompanied with detailed remarks as the preparation of these require more leisure and more time than I had at iny disposal--they will, however, be found more ample than any meteorlogical records (that I have ever seen) published, and being made simultaneously at three different stations several hundred miles apart, will afford information in reference to the changes of temperature rarely to be met with. The record in this series embraces observations made hourly for nine consecutive months.-ED. Municipal Gazette . PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-ASSESSMRNT COMMITTER AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY. EDITED BY E. MERIAM.] NEW-YORK, JUNE 1, 1846. [VOL. I....No. 41 FThe MAY No. of the Gazette containing the Constitution of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, &c. pg. 81 to 96 of the volume both inclusive, is issued to supply a vacant number in the volume in order that we may be able to place the entire volume complete in the hands of each of the members of the Convention as soon as they shall be organised for business. The present number contains some important facts in relation to the Montgomerie charter, copied from the volumes of copies of documents obtained in England, by Mr. BROADHEAD, and now in the State archieves: by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, to be applied towards defraying the expenses of police in said city and county. And also a further sum of one hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars eighty-two cents, by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, to be applied to supplying the deficiency in taxation in said city and county for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. And also a further sum not exceeding one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine hundred and sixty eight dollars, by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within that pars ef the said city and county of New-York, which is or may be designated by a resolution or ordinance of the common council of the said city of New-York as the " Lamp district,” to be dollected according to law, and applied towards defraying expenses of such parts of the said city last mentioned. R 6. The charter or amendments adopted by the convention to be organized under this act, shall be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New-York, each provision separately at the election to be held in the said city on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six ; and such amendments as may be approved by a majority of said electors at said election, shall thenceforth be incorporated in, and form a part of the charter of the city of New-York. And if an entirely new charter be submitted to the electors at said election, the same shall, upon being adopted by a majority of said electors, become the charter of the city of New-York. The tickets to be used at the election to be held under this section, shall be prepared in such form as the said convention may direct. 97. The expenses of the election of delegates held under this act, and all expenses attending the convention, shall be paid out of the treasury of the city of New-York. The proceeding of the convention shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county, when dnly certified to by the pressding officer and secretary or secretaries of said convention. Ø 8. The members of the convention shall have power to provide for their own pay, which shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day actually in session. (Amended... See page 556.] ANNUAL TAX BILL. We give below the annual Tax Bill. It authorises the assessment of the heaviest tax ever before imposed in the city of New-York. The necessity for such a tax does not exist. One half the sun authorised, properly expended, would be far more useful to the City than this great waste of money lavished upon political favorites. A question of great importance arises under this act with respect to what particular personal property is assessable. The act is special-has a local and not a general operation, and differs in that respect from the State Tax act. The act has been bunglingly drawn. It provides as follows: “to be collected according to law." As to the assessment of it, the provision is specialand no personal property is authorised to be assessed except of freeholders and inhabitants of the city and county whose real and personal estate is situate with in the county. The question then arises under section 5 of page 381 of the 1st volume of the Revised Statutes as to the oath. If the person taxed declares that he is worth only a certain sum named in the affidavit over and above his just debts and property exempted from taxation, and he includes in this exemption all his personal estate without the county of New-York, whether such a construction is right? The counsel of the corporation, Mr. Brady (whose course so far in office has been greatly approbated on account of his honesty of purpose and careful compliance with law) should instruct the assessors in this. No. 282. AN ACT New-York to raise money by tax. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as folloros : Sec. 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of New-York, as the supervisors of the city and county of New-York, of whom the mayor or recorder shall be one, are hereby empowered, as soon as conveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax, on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, a sum not exceeding nine hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and sixtytwo dollars, to be applied towards defraying the various contingent expenses legally chargeable to the said city and county, and such expenses as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York may in any manner sustain or be put to by law. Such portion of the contingent expenses of the said city of New-York as relates to re-paving and cleaning streets in that part of the said city lying south of a line running through the centre of Thirty-fourth street, shall be assessed only that part of the said city lying south of the said line.' And also the further sum not exceedmg four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, CITY CONVENTION. No. 341. AN ACT the charter of the city of New-York. The People of the State of Nero-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. An election shall be held in the city of New-York on the first Monday of June ensuing the passage of this act, for the selection of delegates in each ward of said city, to a county convention for revising and amending the charter of the said city of New-York. ♡ 2. The delegates chosen to this convention shall be chosen as representatives from each ward, each delegate representing ten thousand inhabitants; and if any ward have, in addition to this ratio, a fraction of six thousand and upwards, one representative shall be allowed to be chosen for said fraction: but each of the present wards of the city of New-York, without regard to its population, shall be allowed one representative in said convention. 03. Notice of such election shall be given, and the same shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law in regard to the charter elections in the city of New-York, and the name of each delegate voted for shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed upon each ballot, and the ballot shall be endorsed “ Delegates to the Convention," and a separate box for the deposite of such ballots shall be kept by the inspectors of each election district in the several wards of the said city. The result of such election shall be ascertained and certified in the manner now provided in the act regulating charter elections in said city. 4. All the provisions of law for the purity of elections in the city of New-York shall apply to the election held under this act; and all false swearing at said Ø 5. The delegates to be chosen under this act, shall meet in the city of New-York on the first Monday of July next, at the chamber of the board of aldermen, and shall then, or as soon after as may be practicable, organize and adopt rules for their government. They shall complete their business so that any charter or amendments adopted by them, may be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New York, es in the next section provided. TAX UPON ACTUAL CAPITAL. The following bill was reported in the Senate. The same bill has been three times reported in the same form, and yet remains dormant. No. 16. IN SENATE, January 16, 1846. [Reported by Mr. Porter, from the Committee on Finance.] An Act to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to the exemption of incorporated companies from taxa tion, and for other purposes. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section 1. Section nine of title four, of chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, which authorizes the exemption of incorporated companies in certain cases from taxation, is hereby repealed. V 2. All banks established under the act entitled “ An act to authorize the business of Banking," passed April 18, 1838, shall be subject to taxation on the amount of capital paid in or secured to be paid, in the same manner as incorporated banks; and the proper officer or officers of such banks shall make an annual statement to the Comptroller and the assessors in the manner provided by the second section of title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Statutes. 3. The provisions of the fifteenth section of the second title of the thirteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, shall be extended to all such banks, and to all incorporated companies subject to taxation, and the affidavit in such case may be made by the president, cashier, secretary, or treasurer thereof; and such banks and incorporated companies shall be assessed on the actual value of all their real and personal estate at the time of making such assessment; and all provisions of law which are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. The proper officer or officers of such banks and incorporated companies shall make and deliver to the assessors an annual statement of the amount of all their real and personal estate in the manner required by section two, title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Statutes. |