OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. AT THEIR ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF ALBANY, ON JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. STATE OF NEW YORK: SENATE CHAMBER, IN THE CITY OF ALBANY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897. Pursuant to the sixth section of the tenth article of the Constitution of the State of New York, designating the first Wednesday in January of each year, for the time of the meeting of the Legislature, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, Lieutenant-Governor, and the Senators whose names are given in the following list appeared in the Senate Chamber. The said list contains the names of the Senators elected from the several districts as certified by the State Board of Canvassers: Hon. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate. District Number One... District Number Two.. District Number Three District Number Four District Number Fourteen District Number Seventeen. Richard Higbie. ... ... District Number Eighteen. ... ... District Number Thirty-seven. District Number Thirty-eight District Number Thirty-nine District Number Forty. District Number Forty-one District Number Forty-two District Number Forty-three.. District Number Forty-four District Number Forty-five District Number Forty-six. District Number Forty-seven. District Number Forty-eight. District Number Forty-nine.. District Number Fifty ... ... ... ..... ...... Maurice Featherson. John Ford. Jacob A. Cantor. Charles Lewis Guy. James Irving Burns. Charles Davis. John Grant. Hobart Krum./ Edgar T. Brackett. Myer Nussbaum. LeGrand Cannon Tibbits. George Chahoon. George R. Malby. Walter L. Brown. Horace White. The President presented the following certificate: STATE OF NEW YORK, 88.: We, the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, AttorneyGeneral and State Engineer and Surveyor of said State, having formed a Board of State Canvassers, and having canvassed and estimated the whole number of votes given for Senator in the Twenty-sixth senate district of said State, at the general election held in said State on the third day of November, 1896, according to the certified statements of the said vote received by the Secretary of State, in the manner directed by law, do hereby determine, declare and certify that John Grant was, by the greatest number of votes given at the said election in the Twenty-sixth senate district of said State, duly elected Senator of the said State. Given under our hands at the office of the Secretary of State of said State, in the city of Albany, the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. JNO. PALMER, Secretary of State. JAMES A. ROBERTS, Comptroller. A. B. COLVIN, Treasurer. T. E. HANCOCK, Attorney-General. C. W. ADAMS, State Engineer and Surveyor. I certify that I have compared the foregoing with an original certificate filed in this office, and that the same is a correct transscript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. Given under my hand, and seal of office, at the city of Albany, this 18th day of December, 1896. [L. 8.] J. B. H. MONGIN, Second Deputy Secretary of State. Prayer by the Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane. By direction of the President, the Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: In ascending, for the first time, this tribune of the Senate of the Empire State, on this day, designated to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Capitol at Albany, |