INDEX TO THE NEW-YORK MUNICIPAL GAZETTE. SERIES OF NUMBERS, EMBRACING Nos. 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. ISSUED JANUARY 1, 1848. Of the Series composed of Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48......June 1, 1846, to May 1, 1847. CONSTITUTIONAL STATE CONVENTION. 578 to 580 Double Taxation. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Strong.... 580 Equalization of Taxation: Taxation of Personal Property. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Murphy... 599 580 to 581 610 and 593 Governor Cosby's letters to the Home Govern- 563 568 557 553 583 Remarks thereon 599 Names of the members of the State Senate for 622-3 684 Standing Committees of the Senate for 1847... 684 State officers.. 685 Officers of Assembly 585 Officers of Senate 581 566 685, 695 567 Prerogative of mercy 685 Legislative power 685 Draft of a Remonstrance of Chamber of Com- Draft of bills to alter the law for the assessment Injunction of Supreme Court of Massachusetts 759 .... 657 698 577 ...... City Charter-extraordinary petition to the legis- COURT. Remonstrances against the amendments of the streets.. 687 613 A bill to amend the amendments to the Charter 576. 680 A bill in relation to the Seamen's fund and retreat Taxes in Barbary .. Assessment case of Doughty vs. Hope..600, 601, 602 574 Assembly bill 132.. ....697-8 COURTS. Draft of Tax assessment law by the New-York 698 Royal Charters. Speech of Hon H. C. Murphy.........581 and 582 SAFETY FUND General Banking Law, reported ..595-6 Report thereon... 611 Amendments suggested 596 Speech of Hon. H. C. Murphy. .611 and 612 Amended City Charter-letters from Hon. James Remarks upon the Constitution........ 629 and 630 Report on petition of inhabitants of Hastings, Os- Memoir of Eli Whitney, by Prof. Olmsted..... 575 .575, 682 MISCELLANEOUS. 759 608 Notice of the Constitution of 1847 and 1821... 609 629. 562 Auction duties Grave Yards Private responsibility clause in charters....613. 598 Public Ferries, freedom of...... Amended Bills.. Bill relative to expenses of incorporated compa- 759 759 Decision in court of Queen's Bench in 1846, in 584 758 562 586 Letters from Lyman W. Conkey, Syracuse Onondaga Salines, New-York..587, 605, 633, 659, 663 Letter from Professor Henry of Princeton College, in relation to lightning, and also in relation to the telegraph wires 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 Butler, of So. Deerfield, 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 Earthquakes, Remarks upon by Eben. Meriam, and their connection with volcanoes, thunder, lightning, snow, hail, wind, rain, cold, heat, calms and equilibriums affecting the atmosphere over vast sections of the Globe and producing changes of great magnitude as confirmed by observations made simultaneously on Brooklyn Heights and published in the Brooklyn Star before hearing of the earthquakes.. 624 554, 694, 689, 690, 651, 592, 570, 755, 555, 569, 571 586, 589, 593, 596, 598, 603, 630, 640, 650, 652 661, 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 1846 Confirmation of the correctness of the above suggestion by an arrival from Sicily, July 7, 1846. 592 Great Earthquake in South America... Steamers and Earthquakes... Earthquake Ruins.. Connection of earthquakes and storms.. 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 Letter from H. E. Pierrepont, Brooklyn, relative to winged Ants 693, 694 690 590 676 Extract from a letter from Ozem Strong, dated Colborne, Upper Canada.......... 674 575 Hudson River Railroad.... 682 607 Letter from J. E. Bloomfield, of Oswego, N. Y.. 605 Letter from Levi Disbrow in relation to Little Sodus Bay Salt well Earthquakes in New Hampshire.... Simultaneous convulsions in the East 660, 661 661 587 Earthquakes at New-Madrid ....... 624 Letter from Teunis G. Bergen, ex-member of the State Convention.... Earthquake at Caraccas,... 598 695 648 Letter from Dudley Leavitt, Meredith, N. H... 756 Remarks upon earthquakes, by Hon. Josiah Butler; and by Dudley Leavitt, Esq.. 661 649 .634, 635 640 Hoops for large tubs and vats Salt Petre Mines in South America.. Darwin's Mountain tour in S. A.... 640 675 699 At Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 24, 1845 661 Earthquakes at Martinique in 1727 760 SALT. At Ningpoo, China, Aug. 4, 1846.. At Fincastle, Va., Aug. 12, 1846.. Volcanic action in the Red Sea in Asia and simultaneously 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, Massachusetts and New-Hampshire and in the River towns in Vermont, Aug. 25, 1846 .......661, 689 At Leghorn, Tuscany, Aug. 27, 1846 At Gunang Marrippa, Java, Sept. 2, 1846 At Trinidad, St. Vincents, and Grenada, Sept. 6, 672 Obituary notice of Mrs. Mary S. M. Seaman,. 672. 691 Lines written upon the death of Mrs. Mary Strong 598 Meriam Seaman, by Miss Cornelia Loomis... .673, 691 Miss Julia C. Ringwood 691 Miss Margaretta McNary 691 W. H. Starr, Esq.. 691 Import of salt into the port of New-York in 1846, 695 Foreign Salt, letters in relation to, from Am. Extract from a letter written by a lady in New England... 673 Consuls... 562 At Deerfield, N. H., Sept 12, 1846 705 At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, Sept. 15, 1846.. 705 At St. Domingo City, Sept. 16, 1846.. Obituary notice of Jonathan Thompson, Esq.... 672 "The Hour Glass," written by John Quincy 705 Saline Incrustations.... 675 At Trinidad, Sept. 1846. 631 Lake of salt water changed into a field of salt... 675 Salt for manure Adams, Esq., President of the United States.. 672 Notice of an ancient copy of the Bible......672, 690 Obituary notice of Preserved Fish.. 596 633 Reverbatory salt furnace... 587 New mode of constructing salt furnaces A series of letters from a gentleman residing in the State of Tennessee, upon various scientific subjects....624, 631, 636, 637, 644, 652, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668, 682 and 692. Letters from Thomas Spencer. former State Superintendant of the Onondaga Salines, written from Saltville, southwestern mountains of Virginia 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 1782 feet above the level of the sea..605, 606, 642 659, 664, 682 ...... At Antigonish, Jauuary 29, 1847 Telegraph wires and thunder storms 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.. Packet ship Thomas P. Cope and cargo destroyed by lightning Nov, 29, 1846.... 650 750 652 652 Brig Oscar destroyed by lightning Sept. 15, 1846, 727 Ship Christopher Columbus and cargo destroyed by lightning Feb. 11, 1847.. 719 682 718 Ship Hugenot struck by lightning and cargo set on fire June 12, 1846... 571 753 Lightning wires a complete protection, 554, 572, 635 in South America, in 1793.. Silicious lightning tubes... 674 674 Three persons and two horses killed by lightning, 572 Thunder storm at Goshen, Vt... Brig Columbia struck by lightning, set on fire, Dwelling house near Brooklyn, L. I., struck by Dwelling House and barn destroyed by lightning at Abington, Mass. July 12, 1846.. Barn in Dedham and its contents burnt by light- ning, July 12, 1846; Barn struck by lightning at Dedham same day; Vessel struck by light- ning same day at Newport, R. I.: Five men killed by lightning in the woods; Mansion House, Washington, Dutchess County, burnt by lightning July 5, 1846, loss $7000........ 586 Stable struck by lightning and horse killed; church edifice struck by lightning; Lightning struck the surface of the water of the Hudson river astern of the steamer Maria... Man killed by lightning; barn burnt by lightning Thunder storm at Baltimore, Aug. 7, 1846; brig Juliet, schooner Union, City Mills, a banking house, store, and hotel struck by lightning, one man killed by lightning under a bridge, and several persons loading a vessel knocked down and stunned. The lightning took full possess- ion of the telegraph wires; several cattle in Balloon struck by lightning; man killed by light- ning, July 27, 1846; house struck by lightning in Richmond, Va. and 4 persons in the street opposite the building knocked down; 2 houses, 1 brewery and the telegraph wires struck by lightning in Phila., Aug. 9, 1846, bed set on fire and man knocked down; child killed by lightning July 30 1846, at Somersworth, N. H. 607 Main killed by lightning in Indiana; two men killed by lightning, June 10, 1846, under a tree Several persons killed by lightning in Spain in 1846; house burnt by lightning in North Caro- lina in Oct. 1846 and two persons killed...... 632 Young Lady struck by lightning in Wisconsin... 642 Thirty-seven places struck by lightning in one House struck by lightning Feb. 3, 1847... Three persons killed by lightning, and eight per- sons injured at Marshall, Texas, Aug. 2; barn burnt by lightning near Alton, Ill., Aug. 7; boy struck by lightning near Rockville, Md., Aug. 7, and so severely shocked that he bit his tongue Man killed by lightning at Winslow, Maine, Aug. 10, 1846; barn burnt by lightning one per- son and two horses killed and one person injured, near Huntingdon, Pa. Aug. 14, 1846. 701 Barn burnt by lightning in Stark, Maine, Aug. 14 1846; church edifice struck by lightning, Aug. 14, 1846; young lady killed by lightning, Aug. 17, 1846; dwelling house struck by lightning at Martha's Vineyard, Miss., and set on fire Four horses killed by lightning in an open field," Aug. 23, 1846; a man killed by lightning Aug. 23, 1846; church edifice struck by lightning in Beverly and several of the congregation prostra- ted; two dwelling houses struck in North Salem -the telegraph wires and posts struck in West- boro, a barn struck in Nantick, and with its con- tents consumed, all on the 27th of Aug. 1846; man killed by lightning, August 28, 1846.... 703 Barn burnt by lightning at Killingworth, Conn.; dwelling house struck by lightning, and servant man killed, Aug. 30, 1846; house struck by lightning and three persons killed; militia cap- tain knocked down on parade by lightning Sept. 3, 1846; lady killed by lightning Sept. 3, 1846; man killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 and a dwelling in St. Louis torn to atoms; two 25, 1846 Temperature of the air. fall 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 Aug. 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 Meteorlogical Records of New-York Hospital, by 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 Railroad cars struck by lightning in Georgia, March 13, 1847; barn burnt by lightning near Union town, Md.; barn burnt by lightning near Chambersburgh, Pa. April 13, 1847; man kill- ed by lightning near Woodbrige, N. J., also 2 horses, March 26, 1847; hotel struck and man killed by lightning at Westport, same day; barn burnt by lightning in Hadley, Saratoga county, together with its contents, April 21, 1847 757 Two barns and contents burnt by lightning in Herkimer county, dwelling house struck by lightning and man knocked down in Madison county, April 12, 1847; horse killed by light- ning near Chelsea, Mass. ; house struck by light- ning at Newburyport, Mass.; church edifice struck by lightning at Nashville, April 22, 1847; Telegraph Wires struck by lightning, March 30, Looking Glasses struck by lightning Temperature of the Sea and of the Gulf Stream 608 Opening and closing of Erie Canal and H. River, 633 GEOLOGICAL. ..690, 644 755 Specimens of rock, sand, ore, &c., from the Gold .... 590 Geological formations of the regions round about 659 659 632 NOTE.-The present series of numbers, 41 to 48 inclusive, JW85IN +196 Municipal Gazette. PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY. EDITED BY E. MERIAM.] The 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. 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 sum 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 special— and 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 within 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. 232. IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 1846. To enable the supervisors of the city and county of 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 exceeding four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, NEW-YORK, JUNE 1, 1846. by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the free- mentioned. CITY CONVENTION. IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 1846. To provide for the calling of a convention to amend The People of the State of New-York, represented in in each ward of said city, to a county convention for § 2. The delegates chosen to this convention shall 3. 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 election shall be deemed and punished as perjury. 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, as in the next section provided. [VOL. I....No. 41 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. 7. 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 duly certified to by the pressding officer and secretary or secretaries of said convention. 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.] 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 taxation, 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 theen of part one of the Revised Statutes, which authorizes the exemption of incorporated companies in certain cases from taxation, is hereby repealed. § 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 Stat utes. § 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. |