NEW YOKE. 



NEW YORK CITY. 



important decision concerning the right of the 

 Governor to surrender a person charged with 

 crime in a foreign state, 589; case of Carl 

 Vogt, 589; finances, 590; receipts and ex- 

 penditures of canals, 590; bounty debt, 590, 

 591 ; public expenditures, 591 ; finances of the 

 State-prisons, 591 ; -State Reformatory^ 591 ; 

 rate of taxation in the State, 591; savings- 

 banks, 591 ; insurance statistics, 592 ; public 

 schools, 592 ; immigration, 592 ; militia, 592 ; 

 production of salt, 592 ; fisheries, 592 ; statis- 

 tics of occupations, 592 ; of agriculture, 592 ; 

 of manufactures, 593; of newspapers and 

 periodicals, 593 ; of libraries, 593 ; of churches, 

 593 ; of pauperism and crime, 593. 



XIII. Receipts and expenses, 639, 540 ; 

 State debt, 540; reduction, 540; valuation, 

 540 ; rate of taxation, 540 ; debts of the cities, 

 towns, villages, and counties of the State, 540 ; 

 causes, 540 ; canal debt, 541 ; time of maturity, 

 541 ; receipts and expenditures of each canal, 

 541 ; profit and loss, 542 ; value of transports, 

 542 ; steam on the canals, 542 ; prize offered, 

 542; sinking-fund, 542; deficit tax, 542; de- 

 clared unconstitutional, 542; opinion of the 

 court, 543; banks, 543; savings-banks, 543; 

 schools, 543 ; insane asylums, 544 ; prisons, 

 544 ; new Capitol, 544 ; salt-works, 544 ; acts 

 of the Legislature, 544; veto of the "local- 

 option" bill, 545; civil-rights bill, 545; pro- 

 posed amendments to the constitution, 545; 

 the Adirondack Park, 547 ; Cheap Transporta- 

 tion Convention, 547 ; resolutions, 547 ; Tem- 

 perance Committees' Convention, 548 ; resolu- 

 tions, 548 ; National Temperance Convention, 

 548; Republican Convention, 549; nomina- 

 tions, 549 ; resolutions. 549 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 549; nominations, 549; resolutions, 

 550 ; Liberal Republican Committee, 550 ; res- 

 olutions, 550 ; Liberal Republican Convention, 

 551 ; resolutions, 551 ; election, 551 ; Legisla- 

 ture, 552. 



XIV. The compulsory education bill, 604 ; 

 its provisions, 604 ; statistics of common 

 schools, 605; colleges, 605; academies, 605; 

 funded State debt, 606; finances, 606; State 

 debt, 606 ; canal debt, 606 ; State appropria- 

 tions, 606; Board of Charities, 607; the prison 

 system, 607; taxation and value of taxable 

 property, 607; National Guard, 608; State 

 banks, 608 ; national banks, 608 ; State canals, 

 608; details in full, 609; salt-works, 609; 

 Prohibition Convention, 609; platform, 609; 



nominations, 610 ; opposition to the renomina- 

 tion of Governor Dix, 610; Liberal Republi- 

 can Convention and platform, 610 ; Democrat- 

 ic Convention, 611 ; resolutions and nomina- 

 tions, 611; Republican Convention and nom- 

 inations, 611; platform, 611; results of the 

 election, 612 ; election in New York City, 613 ; 

 State officers, 613 ; ratified amendments to the 

 constitution, 613-615; decision of the Court 

 of Appeals in the "Ring Suits," 615 ; Adiron- 

 dack region, 616 ; survey, 616 ; height of 

 mountains, 616; animals, 616; features of the 

 region, 617; sketch of Governor Tilden, 617; 

 sketch of Senator Kernan, 618. 



XV. Legislature, 555 ; election of Senator, 

 555 ; important acts passed, 555 ; investigations 

 ordered, 556 ; question of canal management, 

 556; message of the Governor, 556; method 

 of making contracts, 557; frauds, how com- 

 mitted, 557 ; legislative committee, report of, 

 557 ; Commissioners of Investigation, 558 ; re- 

 ports of, 558 ; State Auditor, 558 ; his proceed- 

 ings, 558 ; action on, 559 ; income and expenses 

 of the canals, 559 ; comparative statement, 

 560 ; work to be done, 560 ; length of railroad 

 and water lines, 560 ; debts of the State, 560 ; 

 tax levy, 561 ; appropriations, 561 ; debt of 

 counties, 561; banks, 561; insurance com- 

 panies, 561 ; State Capitol, 561 ; State-prisons, 

 561 ; common-school statistics, 562 ; Republi- 

 can Convention, 562 ; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 562 ; Democratic Convention, 562 ; nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 562 ; Liberal Republi- 

 can Convention, 563 ; resolutions, 563 ; results 

 of the election, 564; Secretary of State, 564; 

 Commission of Appeals, 564 ; decision relative 

 to a colored pupil in school, 564 ; decision in 

 case of arrest for contempt of court, 565 ; de- 

 cision in the Tweed case, 565 ; State census, 

 566 ; voters, 566. 



NEW TORE CITY. I. Its importance, 524; 

 population, 525 ; value of property, 525 ; 

 changes in the population, 526 ; city railroads, 

 526 ; lots improved and unimproved, 527 ; 

 tenant-houses, 527 ; number of dwellings, 

 527; property, tax, and population, 628; tax 

 of, in 1861, 529 ; debt of, 529 ; loans for war 

 purposes in 1861, 529; political bias of, 529; 

 patriotism of, 530; Mr. Seward's speech in, 

 December 22, 1860, 530 ; effort for compromise 

 in, 530 ; patriotic excitement of, after the fall 

 of Sumter, 530, 531 ; Mayor Wood's proclama- 

 tion, 531 ; departure of the Seventh Regiment 



