e a properly constituted court.

t is the highest court belonging to this State? e court for the trial of impeachments. only called into existence after the Assemhas ordered the impeachment of a civil, ary, or judicial officer of the State by a of a majority of all the members elected. court consists of the President of the Senthe Senators or a majority of them, and judges of the Court of Appeals or a may of them.

Then the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor peached, the Lieutenant-Governor does not

The judgment of the court can only be acquittal, or for the removal of the person eached from office, or for such removal with additional penalty of disqualification from ling any office under the State.

at is the next court to the highest in the tate?

'he court of highest appellate jurisdiction in State is the Court of Appeals. It is comed of the Chief Justice and six Associate

Justices, all of whom are chosen by the electors of the entire State.

Five members form a quorum in the court, and four must concur to render a decision.

The term of office is fourteen years, but the judges are compelled to retire on the last day of December next after reaching seventy years of age. This court sits at Albany, and has a clerk, a deputy clerk, and a reporter. The term of any judge expires December 31, his successor having been elected the preceding November.

This court has exclusive jurisdiction in the review of civil actions and criminal cases appealed from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court may allow an appeal to the Court of Appeals upon any question which in its opinion ought to be passed upon by this court. This court may finally determine actions, and may give orders granting new trials, but it is limited to a review of questions of law, except where the judgment in a criminal case is for death, in which case the court can review the facts as well as the law.

Describe the Supreme Court of this State.

It is the highest court of original jurisdic

tion, and is composed of 76 judges, whose term of office is 14 years, and whose salaries are $7200, except in New York and Kings counties, where they receive additional compensation from those counties. They are elected at the general election, and paid from the State Treasury.

This court has general jurisdiction in law and equity. It is divided into three branches called the Appellate Division, the Trial Term, and the Special Term.

1. The State is divided into four Judicial Departments, each having its Appellate Divi

sion.

The First Department consists of the county of New York, and the court sits in Manhattan, with seven justices.

The Second Department consists of the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Rockland, Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Dutchess, and the court sits in Brooklyn, with five justices.

The Third Department consists of the counties of Columbia, Rensselaer, Sullivan, Ulster, Albany, Greene, Schoharie, Warren, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Washington, Essex, Franklin, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton, Sche

nectady, Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Tompkins, Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, and Cortland, and the court sits in Albany, with five justices.

The Fourth Department consists of the counties of Herkimer, Oneida, Lewis, Jefferson, Oswego, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Ontario, Yates, Steuben, Livingston, Monroe, Allegany, Wyoming, Genesee, Orleans, Niagara, Erie, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua, and the court sits in Rochester, with five justices.

In each department four justices constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of three is necessary to a decision. No more than five

justices sit in any case.

From all the justices elected to the Supreme Court, the Governor designates those who compose the Appellate Division in each department, and he also designates the presiding justice thereof, and such justice acts during his term of office, and is a resident of his department. The other justices are also designated by the Governor for terms of five years, or for the unexpired portions of their respective terms of office if less than five years. From time to time, as the terms of such designations expire, or when vacancies occur, he