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YORK CITY. 



4707. Effort* have Wn made pcri.li.-ally b\ <ni> 

 parties uOUil to hav<- ill.- M.I:.- di\ide I lie l.ind.- in 

 MWaltjr aiMMM the Indian*, the <mt.~i.lrrs Kiln: ill 

 wait lo Stem UM property. This ha> iiul l>c. n done. 

 Ull aCUMUlisHOn has berli appointed lo examine nil.. 

 llic U*t method of dixpuMng of the rescission- ..:i.| 

 in.- tor (ho Indian.* jri-Dcrally. 



/'. The Constitution of the Stale NQoim a 

 eeMU erery tea years, whk-h shall IN- taken midway 

 l.-iwccn the doocoaiml censuses of the I'mied Stato 

 The UstSut* ocranis was taken in 187ft population, 

 4.098,958. The U. tv o-n-us of I SMI g.i\. 



.siw was taken in 1-V,. Uv.iiisc (lie governor re 

 ii a dill relating I" tin 1 census presorted In 

 I. in by tin- U-gisl.iturc i.t' that ye.ir. The governor 

 i- ill.-.! the IjpfriMatiirc together in extraordinary 



< another hill. The LefUttOn gave him llie 

 MIIIC hill, which ho omv more refused l.i .-i.mi. anil mi 

 lull has been presented to him since that dale. The' 

 |>n>lability is ihat there will IK; no Slate census till 

 A new census would give the cities .it New 

 York. Brooklyn, and Bufl'.iio a much larger representa- 

 tion in the legislature, and the opposition to any cen- 

 sus is led by the rural districts, which fear a reduced 

 representation. The Senatorial districts still number 

 3'A and the Assembly (or popular branch) <li>in. i> 

 numbcr 120. If the [senatorial and Assembly districts 

 were U8ni all as they are in the States of New Kngland. 

 the legislature would have about 12<>o or l.Vm mem 

 hers, instead of the 160 established by the cunstitu- 

 lion. 



Itiiumiiirif*. Slight controversies relative <o the 

 outlines of the State KM! the Legislature of lM',7 t.i 

 direct the regents of the university to examine and 

 ascertain the true loeati'>n of its boundaries. A law 

 of Is7.~> empowered the regents to act in accordance 

 with the re-.l'ition. ami also (in connection with the 

 authorities of Pennsylvania and New .1. TSCV) to replace 

 any monuments that had been removed. In 1880 the 

 regenUt were authorized to select three of their number 

 to confer with commissioners empowered to act for the 

 States named. 1'nder the provisions of this law the 

 1-niiidary line with New Jersey was complete.il in 1882, 

 and that with Pennsylvania in 1885. 



('it if* nn:I fiiiintir*. There are 30 cities in tlic 

 State, as follows: Albany. Amsterdam, Auburn, 

 Hinirhauit'in. Brooklyn. Buffalo, Cohoes, Dunkirk, 

 Klmira, llornell.sville. Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestown, 

 Kingston, Ix>ck|Hirt. l,>ni^ Island City, Middlelown, 

 Newburgh. New York. t)>.'dcnsliur!:h, Oswe.go, Pough- 

 keepsic. Kochcstcr. Koine. Sehenectady. Syracuse, 

 Tr..y, I'tica. Watcrtown. Yonkers. The city of Ani- 

 hterdam was incorporated by the Legislature in |s*7, 

 and the citi ( -s ol Ilornellsville, Ithaca, and Middle- 

 town in IHKS. All of t!ie cities, with the exceptjon 

 ol llorn.'IL-ville and Middlelown. have a imputation 

 of over l'i.(KK). The counties still number tit); but 

 tin-re is a movement to create Lincoln county out of 



JMirtion-* of .-4'\eral counties to the south and west of 

 liiche.-tcr. and Sus<|uchanna county near the head 

 waters ol' the river of that name to ihc west of Coop 

 entlown. The county of the larL'e.-t area is St. Law- 

 rence, -VMI v|iiare miles; and the county of the 

 Miiallcst area is Richmond (Slaten Island, in New- 

 York harlnir), .V.I square miles. 



(Jentrnniiu Cdebratin**. Appropriate notice was 

 taken of the several battles and the leading civic 

 evi-nt.H of the war ol the American Iievolution that 

 took place within the ImiimUries of the State. The 

 centenary of the adoption ol the Constitution of the 

 State was cclclirated at Kindlon, where the lirst State 

 Kovcrtiinenl w:vs tormcd, on .Inly 30, 1877. The on 

 pinal Senate honsi- is still in cxislem-e. A celebration 

 of the battle of Uriskany (wherein the American ceil 

 er.il. Nicholax llerkimer. slopped the British advance 

 l/eircr and the Six Nation Indians to meet l!ur 

 Alban\) took place upon the battle iM'"<iml 

 Ulica, Aug. C, 1^77, and a luoniuni nl wa.s un 



veiled. < n < )ct. 1 7 of the same year the centennial of 

 the battle of Saratoga (</. r.) tiH.k place on the battle- 

 ground, and a monntncnt has l en ere"tcil upon the 

 >|H,I. 'i'lie one hundreilth anniver.-ary of the battle of 

 Benin* Heights was celebrated Sept. I'.ith. A monu- 

 ment to mark the mawacre W;L> unveiicd at Cherry 

 Valley, Aug. 15, 1S77. During the year l*7!Mhe ecu 

 (ennials of the advances and victories of Sullivan s 

 ex|Hilition against the Seneca Indians w. re celebrated 

 at Klmira, Waterloo. iJene.-eo, and Aurora. At tlie 

 nteiinial of the promulgation of the Federal Consti- 

 nioii in I'hilailclphia, Sept. 17, 1>S7, N. w York was 

 iied officially, and it will give especial attention 

 to the centennial, in !'.. of the inauguration of 

 lieorge Washington as the first President of Hie. 

 I'liitcd Stati\s. The 3nth of April in that year has 

 already Urn made a legal holiday. The centennial of 

 the adoption of the Constitution of the I'nited States 

 by i lie State of New York was celebrated, at Pough- 

 kcepsie, July 26, 1-^. 



After the completion of the Senate chamber of the 

 new capitol at Albany in ls*i (sic AI.IIAXYI the Senate 

 staircase was completed and progress made -ipon the 

 lower, but for several years no appropriations WOK made 

 owingtOafK)litical<|iiarrel between tliegovei nor and tho 

 Legislature. In 1888 >27. r ).tKKl were appropriated to 

 take down the stone ceiling of the Assembly chamber 

 (which had become unsafe owing to faulty construc- 

 tion) and to replace it with a ceiling of iron and wood; 

 s| III.IKKI were also appropriated to finish the rooms set 

 apart for the State library. The cost of the building 

 lo 1888 is $18,000,111X1. 'The old eaiiitol and Stale 

 library were removed in 1SS3-4, and tlic Capitol Park 

 has been laid out in harmony with the Academy 1'ark 

 adjoining. 



Uecently strict laws forbidding the manufacture or 

 sale of oleomargarine have been enacted. Safeguards, 

 have IK'CII thrown about deer. lish. and other game in 

 the Adirondacks and Catskills. ('onces.-ions have been 

 made to the laboring men in various ways, including 

 shorter hours on State work and the requirement that 

 (for such work) stone must IK- cut where it is placed in 

 position. A new law forbids (he sale of lic|tiors at or 

 near county-fairs. Hanging is superseded by death 

 from electricity, in capital cast's, alter Jan. 1,1 



(K. o. .M.) 



NEW YORK CITY. The province of New York 



was divided into II! counties immcdi- 



Se Vol XVII , 1[( ,| v )(m | (s g nil ] ,.,, ll(1 i u . st |, v ,1,,, 



Am Ac .') K'^ 1 '"!' '" 1( ' S:i ". "'' tlle '-. w: ! s 



New York. The original area of this 



county was much larger than the 39 square miles cred- 

 ited to it by the Stale census of l>7.">. A recent law 

 has made the boundaries of the city of New York co- 

 extensive with those of tin' county, and still mure re- 

 cent additions north of the Harlem Kiver (known as 

 "the annexed district") make the present area -lit 

 square miles. The State census of IS7"> made the 

 (vopulation 1,01 1, ssr, ; that of the 1'niled Slat.-, in 

 I SMI, l.iiiM'i.'J'.i'.i. No State census was taken in ISS.'i; 

 but a fair estimate gives the population in INSS aliout, 

 I..MM,IKKI. A.'c'ording to the census of 1>SO. 7_'7,C.-J'.I 

 of the inhabitants were American Uirn, and 47s, o70 

 of foreign birth. ()f these. l'.is..V.i.-, were from In- 

 land, 29,767 from KnglaTid :n Scotland, and 

 'f.-.i from Wales. Cermany OOntriboted IS 

 Italy. 1 1.'.'-'."..'!; France. W\0; I!n-.-i:i, .(.Vd ; Spain, 

 f.ii'.i.' 'I'l.ere were 17. '.1.17 New .lei-.y born New Work- 

 ers; ll.n.V) from Pennsylvania; lo.. r ),V.I from Mussa- 

 cliusctts. Voters rcL-istered Oct.. 1 ^s, i'M',,547. 



,/H;.'/^.--The present charter is_a law of 1 >sj, 

 known as the "Consolidation Act.'' I'W u long timo 

 the mayor had almost absolute power of a|i|>oinlment, 

 but lal<-r his power was very much restricted. A com- 

 mittee ol the 1/eL'islature. in Issl. made a tb ; 

 examination of the goveiiiinent ol'lbccily. and i 

 meiiiled that the power and responsibility of the mayor 

 .dioiilJ be inci-ciLM'd , bill the n commendation w.J 



