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A. M. and 3 to 9 P. M. He also proposed a law 

 requiring the Railroad Commissioners to ex- 

 amine and ascertain the cash capital actually 

 expended in the constructing and equipping 

 of each surface railroad in the State, including 

 street railways. Neither bill was passed. 



A general act regulating the establishment 

 of street railways was passed, but encountered 

 a veto after the close of the session. The ob- 

 jection to it was that it secured special privi- 

 leges for certain projects already existing in the 

 city of New York. 



A bill providing for submission to a vote of 

 the people of a constitutional amendment pro- 

 hibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors was discussed in the Senate, and de- 

 feated by a vote of 13 yeas to 18 nays, only 

 one Democrat voting in the affirmative, and 

 two Republicans in the negative. The only 

 change made in the excise laws was one affect- 

 ing the cities of New York and Brooklyn 

 alone. This was effected by a bill prepared 

 by the delegations of those two cities, modified 

 on suggestions made by the Governor after it 

 had been submitted for his approval. The 

 changes suggested by the Governor were in 

 the direction of careful restriction, but the act 

 as passed was much more liberal toward the 

 liquor-traffic than the existing law which ap- 

 plied to the State generally. It abolished the 

 requirement that holders of licenses should be 

 hotel-keepers, permitted their removal from 

 one place to another without losing their li- 

 censes, and forbade their arrest for violation of 

 the law, except upon a warrant based on affi- 

 davits, unless engaged in selling on Sunday. 



An act was passed regulating the conduct of 

 receivers in winding up the business of insolv- 

 ent corporations. Its chief features were that 

 applications for the appointment of receivers 

 should be made at a special term of the Su- 

 preme Court in the judicial district in which 

 the principal office of the corporation was situ- 

 ated, that the compensation of receivers should 

 be limited to 5 per cent, on the first $100,000 

 received and paid out, and 2^- per cent, on all 

 sums in excess of that amount ; that the funds 

 received should be deposited at one or more 

 designated places, and that reports should be 

 made to the court every six months, with de- 

 tailed accounts of receipts and expenses. Re- 

 strictions were also put upon the employment 

 of counsel, and a limit was fixed to the time 

 for closing up the business of receiverships. 



A proposition to submit to the people a con- 

 stitutional amendment making legislative ses- 

 sions biennial was defeated in the Assembly by 

 a majority of one. 



A bill apportioning the congressional repre- 

 sentation of the State into thirty-four districts 

 was passed, against the opposition of the Re- 

 publican minority, who claimed that it was 

 unfair, especially in the city of New York. 



The first district was made to include the 

 counties of Suffolk, Queens, and Richmond ; 

 Kings county was divided into four districts ; 



New York county below the Harlem river was 

 divided into eight districts; that portion lying 

 north of the river was joined to Westchester 

 county to form the fourteenth district. 

 The other districts are as follow : 



Fifteenth District. The counties of Orange, Rock- 

 land, and Sullivan. 



Sixteenth District. The counties of Putnam, 

 Dutchess, and Columbia. 



Seventeenth District. The counties of Ulster, 

 Greena, and Delaware. 



Eighteenth District. The counties of Eensselaer 

 and Washington. 



Nineteenth District. -The county of Albany. 



Twentieth District. The counties of Saratoga, 

 Schenectady, Montgomery, Fulton, and Hamilton. 



Twenty -first District. The counties of Clinton, Es- 

 sex, Warren, and Franklin. 



Twenty-second District. The counties of St. Law- 

 rence and Jefferson. 



Twenty-third District. The counties of Oneida and 

 Lewis. 



Twenty-fourth District. The counties of Otsego, 

 Herkimer, and Schoharie. 



Twenty-fifth District. The counties of Onondaga 

 and Cortland. 



Twenty-sixth District. The counties of Broome, 

 Chenango, Madison, and Tioga. 



Twenty-seventh District. The counties of Oswego, 

 Wayne, and Cayuga. 



Twenty-eighth District. The counties of Tomp- 

 kins, Chemung, Seneca, and Schuyler. 



Twenty-ninth District. The counties of Ontario, 

 Steuben, and Yates. 



Thirtieth District. The county of Monroe. 



Thirty-first District. The counties of Livingston, 

 Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming. 



Thirty-second District. Ihe First, Second, and 

 Third Assembly Districts of the county of Erie. 



Thirty-third District. The county of Niagara and 

 the Fourth and Fifth Assembly Districts of the county 

 of Erie. 



Thirty-fourth District. The counties of Chautau- 

 qua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany. 



A bill extending the scope of investment for 

 the funds of savings-banks met with strong 

 opposition, in which the trustees of a majority 

 of the savings-banks in the State united, and 

 was vetoed by the Governor. Among other 

 important measures which failed was one reg- 

 ulating charges for elevating grain, one reduc- 

 ing the fees of pilots in New York Harbor, and 

 one increasing the number of surrogates in 

 New York county to three. 



New Offices and Officials. A number of bills 

 were passed during the session, providing for 

 new offices and making changes in those pre- 

 viously existing, and a number of new appoint- 

 ments were made. At the beginning of the 

 session, the Governor appointed as Railroad 

 Commissioners, under the act of 1882, William 

 E. Rogers, John D. Kernan, and John O'Don- 

 nell. The last mentioned was designated by 

 the commercial organizations named in the 

 act, and was the candidate of the so-called anti- 

 monopolists. There was considerable opposi- 

 tion to him exhibited in the 'Senate, but the 

 appointment was finally confirmed by a vote of 

 23 to 8, the confirmation in the other cases 

 being unanimous. Later in the session, on the 

 expiration of the term of office of Insurance 

 Superintendent Charles G. Fairman and Bank 



