Convention manual

CONVENTION MANUAL

PREPARED IN PURSUANCE OF

CHAPTERS 194 AND 458, OF THE LAWS OF 1867,

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

FRANCIS C. BARLOW, SECRETARY OF STATE,
THOMAS HILLHOUSE, COMPTROLLER, and
JOHN H. MARTINDALE, ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

BY FRANKLIN B. HOUGH.

PART II.
STATISTICS.

ALBANY, N. Y. :

WEED, PARSONS & COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1867.

Duties; Appointing Power; Notaries Public in each County; Commissioners of Deeds in

other States; Statistics of Pardons,

SECRETARY OF STATE.

Duties of Office; Criminal Statistics; Tabular Summary of Crime since 1846; Statistics of

Pauperism since 1846; Depositions of Resident Aliens; Corporations formed under Gene-

ral Laws; Plank Roads; Turnpikes; Gas Companies; Manufacturing, Mining, Mechani-

cal and Chemical Companies; Railroad Companies; Telegraph Companies; Benevolent,

Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies; Ocean Navigation Companies; Building

Companies; Ferry Companies; Free Churches; River and Lake Navigation Companies;

Companies for Improving Breed of Horses; Agricultural and Horticultural Societies;

Roman Catholic Churches; Agricultural Companies; Clubs; Masonic Lodges and Chap-

ters; Mineral Claims; Fees since 1846,..

COMPTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT.

Duties of Office; Explanations of Tables; State Debt, 1845 and 1866; Funds of the several

Classes since 1846; Receipts and Payments on account of Funds, and for various specific

objects, by years, since 1846; Losses in Funds; Financial Statements of Prisons by years;

Valuation and Tax, by years and Counties; Capital Valuation and Tax of Moneyed or

Stock Corporations, in detail; Preliminary Summary of Local Debt; Principal and

Interest on School Fund Loans,

STATE TREASURER.

Duties of Office; Receipts and Payments, by years, since 1846, on account of the several

Funds; Recapitulation,..

120

STATE ASSESSORS.

Appointments and Duties of Office,..

124

COMMISSIONERS FOR EXAMINING TREASURER'S ACCOUNts.

Appointment and Duties of Office,.

124

CANAL DEPARTMENT.

Historical Notice of Financial Office; Explanation of Tables; Tolls, expenses, revenues and

tonnage of each Canal, by years since 1846; Comparison of estimated and actual results;

Progress of Canal debt and payment on funds; Operation of Sinking Fund under the

Constitution; Canal debt in 1867; Taxes on account of Canal Fund,..

CANAL APPRAISERS.

Duties of Office; Statistical Summary of business,..

CANAL COMMISSIONERS.

Duties of Office; Supervision of Canals; Boats, their number and tonnage,.

Historical Statement of Banking system in New York; Statistics of number of Banking Asso-

ciations formed; Savings banks,..

158

Historical Sketch of Department; Statistics of Insurance Companies of the several classes,

with date of incorporation, location, capital and assets; Grand aggregates,..

STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.

Duties of Office; State Canals, their length, dimensions and capacity; Railroads; Tabular
Statements of Canals and Railroads,.

LANDS OF THE STATE.

Location and quality belonging to the several Funds; Sale of Mortgaged Lands....................

ONONDAGA SALT SPRINGS.

166

176

182

Statement of Management; Table of quantity of salt, by years,

Relations of to the Public Welfare; Synopsis of services rendered by organization and duties

of Staff Department; Reserved and Uniformed Militia; Commutation Fees; Summary of

laws passed since 1846, with reference to Military Affairs; Department of Commissary-

General of Ordnance; Quartermaster-General's Department; Aid afforded by New York

to her Soldiers in the Field; Bureau of Military Record; Statement of Moneys paid for

Bounties and for other War Expenses,

188

UNIVERSITY OF THE State of New York.

Historical Notice; Regents of the University, their powers and duties; Literature Fund and

its distributions; State Library; State Cabinet; State Normal School; Lists of Colleges

and Academies with location, dates of incorporation and remarks,.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

Historical Sketch of Common Schools; Detailed Statement of the Present Organization;

Tables of Attendance; Progress of School System; What is a Common School,.

QUARANTINE,

Reference to acts relating to Quarantine; Present system and duties of Commissioners, and

of Health Officer,

COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION.

Objects of Commission, and mode of operation; Names of Commissioners; Statistics of

operation since 1846,

STATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

Utica Asylum, historical notice and statistics; Asylum for Insane Convicts; Willard Asylum;

Hudson River Asylum,...

Location, capacity and cost of buildings,...

NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR DEAF AND DUMB.

Historical Sketch; Statistics since 1818; State and county pupils; Buildings and Grounds;

Debt; Method of Instruction; Financial condition,

NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR THE Blind.

Historical Sketch, Statement of Receipts and Expenditures,.

STATE PRISONS.

Number and location of Prisons; Inspectors and their Duties; Prisons at Sing Sing, Auburn

and Clinton, particularly described, with annual statements of Earnings and Expenditures;

Statistics of prisoners received and discharged; Abstracts of Finances and Appropria-

tions;

Statistics of Asylum for insane convicts,.

NEW YORK PRISON ASSOCIATION.

Page.

284

Organization and Objects; Methods of Operation,....

STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Historical Sketch of early Societies; Record of State Fairs,

Origin and Objects,..

AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

Duties of Clerk of Court of Appeals; Statistics of business of Court of Appeals since 1847;

Fees; Library Fund; Chancery Fund; Lands of which the title is held by the Clerk;

Statistics of business of Supreme Court in thirty counties since 1846,..

FINANCIAL CONDITION OF CITIES.

Summary of debts, taxes, and expenditures of the several cities,...

VILLAGE DEBTS.

List of villages reporting debts, and of those free from debt,..

COUNTY DEBTS.

Statement of present debt of each county, with the object for which contracted and date of

Summary of debts of each town, with the object for which incurred, and time of maturity;

Recapitulation by counties, with the years when these debts become due; Consolidated

summary of county, city, town, and village debts,.

346

POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION.

Total population, aliens, colored persons not taxed, total colored, etc., by towns and counties;

Recapitulation by counties and cities; Comparative view of Senatorial and Assembly

districts since 1846,....

LAWS AND BILLS.

Dates of passage of laws; Sessions of Legislature; Printed Bills,.......

379

406

COUNTIES AND SUPERVISORS.

Dates of Organization; Number of Towns and Cities; Town-Meeting Days; Boards of Super-

visors and their Sessions,.

415

APPENDIX.

Voters under First Constitution,.

416

...

Voters who have exercised the privilege annually since 1826, and percentage to total Popu-

ulation,

417

Supplementary Canal Tables, showing details of Cost, Income and Disbursements of each

Canal, with Grand Totals, and Balance Sheet of net Cost and Profit,..

418

INDEX,.

453

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