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denborg's "Apocalypse Revealed," under which 

 one edition of one thousand copies had been 

 exhausted, and a second thousand were being 

 distributed. The trustees reported that in no 

 instance had the faculty of any theological 

 school opposed the reading of these works by 

 students. The Executive Committee were di- 

 rected to take steps to revive the liturgy of 

 the convention, with a view to making it ac- 

 ceptable to the whole Church, and with this 

 object to confer with the commission appoint- 

 ed by the conference of ministers, who had 

 taken steps in the preparation of a liturgy. 

 Appropriate resolutions were adopted in refer- 

 ence to the retirement of the Rev. Thomas 

 Worcester, D. D., of Waltham, Mass., from 

 the office of President, on account of the in- 

 firmities of age, and to the resignation of the 

 Hon. J. Young Scammon, Vice-President. 

 A report was made of the Theological School 

 at Waltham, Mass. An address was received 

 from the Convention of the New Church in 

 Great Britain, and a reply to it adopted. The 

 Board of Publication reported progress in the 

 publication of the "True Christian Religion," 

 the " Compendium," and the " Doctrine of 

 Charity," works by Emanuel Swedenborg. 

 Their financial statement showed that the 

 subscriptions had been $3,099.48 ; that the 

 total subscriptions to the "fifty-dollar fund" 

 were $43,515.08, of which $26,366.14 had 

 been paid in, and $19, 017.54 had been distrib- 

 uted, leaving a balance in hand of $8,294.65. 

 The publication of the New Jerusalem Messen- 

 ger had resulted in a deficit of $1,811.54 for 

 the year. 



NEW YORK. The annual session of the 

 Legislature of New York began on the 5th 

 of January, and came to a final adjournment 

 on the 22d of May. Early in the session, Francis 

 Kiernan was elected to the United States Sen- 

 ate, to succeed Reuben E. Fenton. There were 

 420 bills signed by the Governor during the 

 session, and 212 after adjournment ; two were 

 allowed to become law by lapse of time with- 

 out the Governor's signature, 16 were vetoed 

 during the session ; 38 of those in the hands 

 of the Governor after adjournment were left 

 unsigned; 27 items in the supply bill, 15 in 

 the reappropriation bill, and 41 in the ex- 

 traordinary repairs bill, were vetoed. Among 

 the acts passed was a general law for uniform- 

 ity in the organization and administration of 

 savings-banks. It provides that the Superin- 

 tendent of the Banking Department shall have 

 the power of chartering savings-banks, after 

 certain forms and proceedings shall have been 

 complied with, and gives him authority to 

 change the names of these institutions, and 

 remove them from one locality to another in 

 the same county. It limits the amount of de- 

 posits in the name of one person to $5,000, 

 and the rate of interest to six per cent., and 

 permits a surplus fund amounting to ten per 

 cent, of deposits to be accumulated, after which 

 all the net earnings must be divided among the 



depositors. Deposits may be invested in bonds 

 and mortgages on real estate, in the bonds of 

 the United States, or the State of New York, 

 and in those of other States which have not 

 defaulted in payment of principal or interest 

 within ten years, or in the city, county, and 

 town bonds of the State, and in real estate and 

 buildings necessary for the transaction of the 

 business of the banks. Not more than fifty 

 per cent, of the surplus shall be invested in 

 the last-mentioned form. Loaning deposits 

 upon notes, bills of exchange, drafts, or other 

 personal securities, dealing in merchandise, 

 buying or selling exchange or gold and silver, 

 and collecting or protesting promissory notes, 

 are prohibited. Surplus and available funds 

 must be invested in the same manner as de- 

 posits. Each bank is required once a year to 

 make a full statement to the Superintendent, 

 of the transactions of the preceding twelve 

 months, and he must make an examination of 

 every bank once in two years, or at any time 

 when circumstances seem to call for it. All 

 existing savings-banks are required to conform 

 their charters and regulations to this law, but 

 existing investments are not disturbed by it. 



An act to prevent bribery at elections pro- 

 vides that "no person shall be permitted to 

 vote at any election in the State who previous 

 thereto shall have been convicted of bribery 

 or of any infamous crime, unless he shall have 

 been pardoned and restored to all the rights 

 of a citizen," and " any person so disqualified 

 who shall vote at any election shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 

 thereof shall be imprisoned in the county jail 

 for the term of six months." A person chal- 

 lenged at the polls, for disqualification under 

 this act, shall be required to take an oath that 

 he has not been convicted of bribery or other 

 infamous crime, or has been pardoned and re- 

 stored to all the rights of a citizen, and false 

 swearing in such case shall be deemed perjury 

 and punished as such. A bill which occupied 

 a good deal of time and attention, and elicited 

 much discussion, provides for the removal of 

 the Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, 

 Attorney-General, State Engineer, Canal Com- 

 missioner, and State-prison Inspector, by the 

 Senate, on the recommendation of the Gov- 

 ernor, for misconduct or malversation in office, 

 the cause being entered on the journals, and 

 the accused having an opportunity to be heard. 

 During the investigating of charges against an 

 accused official, the Governor may suspend 

 him from office and appoint a suitable person 

 to perform his duties. If the Senate is not in 

 session at the time of such suspension, it must 

 be summoned to convene within thirty days to 

 hear the case. The removal may be made by 

 a majority of all the Senators, and the vacancy 

 must be filled by appointment of the Governor, 

 with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

 Another act created the office of Inspector of 

 Public Works, to be appointed and removed 

 by the Governor, whose duty it is to inspect. 



