REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE. Value of Real and Personal Estate; amount of State, County, and Town Taxess &c. (See page 67.) The number of acres of land assessed in the whole state, is 27,176,934. The following is a comparative statement of the valuation of real and personal estate, and the rate and amount of taxes, from 1835 to 1842. Comparative Statement from 1835 to 1842. The amount of taxes has more than doubled since 1835, while the aggregate valuation of 1842, is only $89,157,065 more than in 1835. Comparing 1842 with 1836, the diminution in the valuation of per sonal estate is ......... And of real estate,. Total diminution since 1836, $16,020,380 35,502,845 $51,523,225 In a single year, from 1835 to 1836, there was an increase in the assessed value of the property of the state, as follows: The following statement shows the counties in which the principal part of this increase on the real estate, from 1835 to 1836, took place, and the decrease in the same counties from 1836 to 1842, viz: MILITIA OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The following general summary of the Militia force of the State, as at present organized, is derived from the Adjutant-General's last annual report, dated Dec. 27, 1842. Cavalry and Horse Artillery,-Embraces 4 Divisions, 8 Brigades, 81 Companies, and the aggregate number, including officers of all ranks, and privates, of 5,651. Artillery, Embraces 4 Divisions, 9 Brigades, 33 Regiments, 77 Companies, and including officers of all ranks, and privates, an aggregate of 10,090. Infantry,-Embraces 33 Divisions, 66 Brigades, 275 Regiments, 1,020 Companies, and of officers of all ranks, and privates, an aggregate of 164,033. Riflemen,-Embraces 3 Divisions distinctly organized, and 1 Division at. tached to the 18th Infantry Division; 19 Regiments; 110 Companies, and an aggregate, as before, of 6,025. Uniform Companies. Of these there are 42, including Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry corps, attached to various regiments of Infantry. General Staff-The officers of the General Staff are 9 in number. Recapitulation.-General Staff 9; Cavalry 5,651; Artillery 10,090; Infantry 164,033; Riflemen 6,025; Uniform companies attached to Infantry 2,545; making the aggregate of officers and men of all arms 188,353. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. William C. Bouck, Commander-in-Chief. Lyman Sanford, Adjutant-General. Henry Storms, New-York, Commissary-General. Robert H. Pruyn, Albany, Judge-Advocate-General. Spencer S. Benedict, Albany, Quarter-Master-General. James McNaughton, Albany, Surgeon-General. Day Otis Kellogg, Troy, Paymaster-General. David Hamilton, Wm. Horace Brown, and John U. Nelson, Aids de-Camp. MAJOR-GENERALS.-Infantry. 1st Division, Henry Floyd Jones,. Beekman M. Van Buren, James I. Jones, Aaron Ward, Gilbert Ogden Fowler,. Joseph S. Smith,. John Brush, ..... John C. Johnson,. Leonard G. Ten Eyck,.. Orville Clark.,... St. John B. L. Skinner, Asher N. Cross, Lewis Averill,. Edmund B. Bigelow, 66 2d 3d 4th John Floyd, John J. Viele, Jehiel Hill,. S. Oyster Bay, Queens co. Castleton, Richmond co. New-York. Sing-Sing, Westchester co. Newburgh, Orange co. Kingston, Ulster co. Poughkeepsie, Dutchess co. Catskill, Greene co. Albany. Sandy-Hill, Washington co. Olcott, Niagara co. Norfolk, St. Lawrence co. New-York. Lansingburgh, Rens. co. BRIGADIER-GENERALS.-Infantry. Rensselaer W. Robinson,.. Thomas S. Cummings, Isaac A. Verplanck,. Marvin B. Converss, Chandler Ball,. John K. Porter,. ......... Painted Post, Steuben co. La Fargeville, Jefferson co. Pekin, Niagara co. Auburn, Cayuga co. Hoosick Falls, Rens. co. Waterford, Saratoga co. New-York. Fonda, Montgomery co. Elizaville, Columbia co. Deerfield, Oneida co. Schenectady. Sing-Sing, Westchester co. Esperance, Schoharie co. Sag-Harbor, Suffolk co. Romulus, Seneca co. Sparta, Livingston co. Fulton, Oswego co. Ellicottville, Cattarau. co. Adams, Jefferson co. Hornellsville, Steuben co. New-York. New-York. Cuba, Allegany co. New-York. New-York. Williamsburgh, Kings co. Schodack, Rensselaer co. The Commissary-General is appointed by the Senate and Assembly, in the same manner as the Secretary of State and the other chief officers of the civil Executive Department, and in like manner holds his office for three years, unless sooner removed by a concurrent resolution of those two bodies. His salary is $700 a year, payable, as in all other cases, quarterly; and his necessary disbursements in the discharge of his official duties, are also paid cut of the treasury, but he receives no fees. He has the general charge and oversight of the arsenals and magazines of the State, which he is required to keep in good repair; and he must attend to the preservation and safe-keeping, cleaning, and repairing of the ordnance, arms, and all munitions of war belonging to the State, for which purpose he has at all times, the control and disposal of them. He must sell out of the arsenals to privates in the militia, on their producing the certificates of their commandants, muskets, rifles, and other arms and accoutrements, proper to the branch of service with which they are respectively connected, at the prices paid for them by the State; he must dispose, on the best terms in his power, of all such arms, ammunition, and other military implements and property, as are deemed unfit for use, make report thereof to the Governor, and pay the proceeds into the Treasury; he must, with the approbation of the Governor, and on the certificate of the commanders of brigades, issue colors and instruments of music to battalions, provided the expense thereof does not exceed the amount of fines actually paid into the Treasury by such brigades; he must issue to the several artillery companies such powder and ball as are needed for practice; and he must make annual report to the Governor of all his doings, and of the amount and condition of the military property of the State, which reports are to be transmitted by the Governor to the Legislature. From the Commissary-General's last Annual Report, dated January 20th, 1843, and transmitted to the Legislature by the Governor on the 27th of the same month, the following statements are derived. The State Arsenals and Magazines are situated in the City of New-York; at Fort Richmond and Tompkins, on Staten Island; at Albany; at OnondagaHollow, in Onondaga county; at Canandaigua, in Ontario county; at Batavia, in Genesee county; at Buffalo; at Watertown, in Jefferson county; at Russell, in St. Lawrence county; at Malone, in Franklin county; and at Elizabethtown, in Essex county; and each is under the immediate care and custody of a local agent called a Keeper. The pieces of Ordnance belonging to the State, in number, kind, and condition, are as follows: |