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Appropriating 1800,000 to continue work on the new 

 Capitol. 

 Appropriating $25,000 to make improvements at tin- 



itivc MiUiMon. 



lit'yinir tin- laws in regard to Indians. 

 c..,lii\ in;r the lii\\.> ivlatin^ to salt Bprings. 



Census. During February a State census 

 was taken, with the following results : 



The following is the population of cities: New 

 York, 1,801,7:59; Brooklyn. 980,633; Buffalo, 

 278,796; Rochester, 144,834; Albany, 97.rjo : 

 Syracuse, 91,944; Troy, 64.986; Utic'a, 46,608; 

 Long Island City. 35,745; Binghamton, 34,514 ; 

 Yonkers, 31,419; Elmira, 29,911; Auburn, 24,- 

 737: New! HI r- 24,536; Cohoes, 23,234; Pou-h- 

 kerpsie, 23,196; Schnectady, 22,858; Os\\.-i_'... 

 21. !)(><; Kindlon. 21.4!)."); "Jamestown, 18,617; 

 Amsterdam, 18,542; Watertown, 16,982; Lock- 

 port, 16,088; Gloversville, 14,694; Rome, 13,- 



638; Ithaca, 13,450; Ogdenuburg, 11,955; II., r- 

 nellsville, ii,n.; Middletown, 11,612; Dunkirk, 

 10,040; and Corning, 10,025. 



Apportionment. In the execution of the 

 new apportionment law, the deprivation of rep- 

 resentatives to strong Republican districts, with 

 the increasing representation accorded to Ji.n. 

 ocratic cities, led to various appeals to the 

 courts. Thus St. Lawrence county, which ha* 

 had :5 Assemblymen constantly from 1846, wa 

 given but 1 ; the effect of this reduction would 

 naturally tend to lessen the influence of the 

 voters of that county. In similar fashion, Cat- 

 taraugus, Jefferson, Washington, Chautauqua, 

 and half a dozen other counties which have 

 had 2 members each since 1846, were to have 

 1 ; and Ulster County, which has had 3 mem- 

 bers since 1857, was to have but 2. 



Several decisions in the general term of the 

 Supreme Court were given, and the matter car- 

 ried to the Supreme Court of Appeals, where, on 

 Oct. 16, the apportionment act of 1892 was de- 

 clared constitutional. Judge Rufus W. Peck- 

 ham wrote the prevailing opinion and Judge 

 Gray a supplemental opinion upholding -the 

 law. A dissenting opinion was written by Judge 

 Charles Andrews and concurred in by Judge 

 Finch, excepting to tho stand taken by the other 

 five judges as to the question of inequality in the 

 apportionment. In the People ex ret. Pond, ap- 

 pellant, against the Board of Supervisors of 

 Monroe County, and the People ex rel. Horn, ap- 

 pellant, against the Board of Supervisors of 

 Oneida County, order reversed in both cases and 

 motions for a mandamus were granted with 

 costs in all courts. Those were cases in which 

 the court was asked to issue 6rders "for Vrits of 

 mandamus compelling the boards of super- 

 visors of Monroe and Oneida counties to redis- 

 trict the Assembly districts in those counties, in 

 compliance with tho apportionment law passed 

 by tne last Legislature. The order of the lower 

 court was affirmed with costs in all courts in 

 the case of the People ex rel. George E. Carter, 

 of Utica. appellant, against Frank Rice, Secre- 

 tary of State. In this case the court was asked 

 to grant an injunction order restraining the 

 Secretary of State from recognizing the new ap- 

 portionment law, or sending out notices of elec- 

 tion of members of Assembly to county clerks 

 except under the apportionment law of 1879, 

 the lower court having refused to grant such 

 an order. 



The World's Fair. Under the authority 

 conferred by the World's Fair act, Gov. Flower, 

 in April, appointed as general managers of tin- 

 New York exhibit at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition Louis M. Howland, of New York, 

 Walter L. Sessions, of Jamestown, and Charles 

 A. Sweet, of Buffalo, who will act with the com- 

 missioners appointed by the President of the 

 United States, namely, Chauncey M. I>epow, of 

 New York, John Boyd Thacher,'<>f Albany, and 

 Gorton W. Allen, of Auburn. John Foord. of 

 New York, was apfx>inted secretary of the Board 

 of General .Managers. Likewise (M.V. Flower 

 appointed three commissioners from each judi- 

 cial district to manage the exhibits from the 

 territory comprised in their districts. 



Organization was promptly effected on April 

 20, when Chauncey M. Depe'w was made 



