ALMANAC FOR THE YEARS 1845-1846; THE LATTER BEING COMPILED EXPRESSLY FOR THE NEW-YORK STATE REGISTER, By GEORGE R. PERKINS, A. M., Prof. of Math. in the State Normal School; CONTAINING ALL THE NECESSARY ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS, &c. NAVIGATION OF THE HUDSON RIVER. Table of the Periods when the Hudson River opened and closed at Albany, so far as the same can now be ascertained. Winters. Riv. closed or obst'd by ice. River open or free of ice. No. days closed Remarks on the Preceding Table, [Taken from the Regents' Report for 1842.] NOTES.-1817-18. This winter was long and intensely cold. On the third of March, 1818, the ice moved in a body downwards for some distance, and there remained stationary. The river was not clear until March 25th. 1820-21. The river closed on the 13th, opened on the 20th, and finally closed December 1. This was one of the four winters during a century, in which the Hudson between Powles' Hook and New-York was crossed on the ice. The other three being 1740-41, 1764-65, and 1779-80. Jan. 11, 1824. The river was clear of ice, and remained so for several days. 1827-28. The river opened and closed repeatedly during this winter. December 21 it closed a second time. 1830-31. Opened in consequence of heavy rains, and closed again on the 10th of January, 1831. As the river throughout to New-York has not always been clear of ice, on the day stated above, the time at which the first steamboat passed from New-York to Albany, or vice versa ; is also added for a few years. 1835, March 25; 1836, April 10; 1837, March 31, Robert L. Stevens ; 1838, March 10, Útica; 1839, March 25, Swallow; 1840, February 25, Mount Pleasant; 1841, March 26, Utica; 1842, February 6, Telegraph; 1843, April 13, Útica; 1844, March 18, Útica; 1845, February 24, Norwich. TABLE, Showing the commencement and close of Canal Navigation for each year since 1824. OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. THE State is divided into 59 counties, which are subdivided into 841 towns, and 9 cities containing 64 wards. These are the municipal divisions, and they are civil corporations, with powers more or less extensive according to their charters as granted and modified from time to time by the Legislature. There are other divisions more properly termed political. These are the Eight Senate Districts; the counties considered in relation to their representation in the 2d branch of the Legislature; and the Congressional Districts. The Senate Districts are arranged, every ten years, by the Legislature, acting under a provision for that purpose in the State Constitution, on the basis of a census taken under the same authority; and at the same time and under the same authority, the Members of the Assembly are apportioned among the counties. The counties respectively comprised in the several Senate Districts are as follow, in the numerical order of the Districts. First Senate District.-New-York, Kings and Richmond. Second Senate District.-Queens, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster. Third Senate District.-Columbia, Rensselaer, Greene, Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie and Delaware. Fourth Senate District.-Saratoga, Washington, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Montgomery, Fulton and Hamilton. Fifth Senate District.-Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, Oneida, Madison, Otsego. Sixth Senate District.-Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Tompkins, Chemung Steuben, Livingston, Allegany and Cattaraugus. Seventh Senate District.-Onondaga, Cortland, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Ontario and Yates. Eighth Senate District.-Monroe, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Niagara, Erie and Chautauque. These Senate Districts, each represented by four Senators, one of whom is elected every year, are intended by the Constitution to be as nearly equal in the number of souls as may be, without dividing counties, in order that the people may be represented as equally as possible in the State Senate; and for the same reason the apportionment of Members of Assembly among the counties is made on a uniform ratio of the number of souls to each Member. The number of Members of Assembly to which each county is entitled under the existing apportionment, is as follows: The Senate Districts, moreover, respectively constitute the regular bounds of the several jurisdictions of the Circuit Judges, as do the counties the jurisdictions of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace. The Congressional Districts, by which the representatives of the State in the Congress of the United States are elected every two years, are arranged every ten years, according to the apportionments of the national representatives among the states, made by Congress on the basis of the national census. The state is now divided into thirty-four districts, each electing one member of Congress according to the apportionment of the census of 1840, being in a ratio of one representative for every 70,680 persons in each state, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. The following are the Congressional Districts, formed by an act of the Legislature, September 6, 1842: First District-Queens and Suffolk counties. Second District.-Kings and Richmond. Third District.-First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Wards of the city and county of New-York. Fourth District.-Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Thirteenth Wards, do. Sixth District.-Eleventh, Twelfth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards, do. Seventh District.-Westchester and Rockland counties. Eighth District.-Putnam and Dutchess. Ninth District.-Orange and Sullivan. Eleventh District.-Columbia and Greene. Thirteenth District.-Albany county. Fourteenth District.-Washington and Essex. Fifteenth District.-Warren, Franklin, Clinton and north part of Hamilton. Sixteenth District.-Saratoga, Schenectady, Fulton and the south part of Hamilton. Seventeenth District.-Herkimer and Montgomery. Eighteenth District.-St. Lawrence and Lewis. Nineteerth District.-Jefferson county. Twentieth District.-Oneida county. Twenty-First District.-Otsego and Schoharic. Twenty-Second District.-Chenango, Broome and Tioga. Twenty-Third District.-Madison and Oswego. Twenty-Fourth District.-Onondaga county. Twenty-Fifth District.-Cayuga and Cortland. Twenty-Sixth District.-Tompkins, Chemung and Yates. Twenty-Seventh Dictrict.-Seneca and Wayne. Twenty-Eighth District.-Monroe county. Twenty-Ninth District.-Ontario and Livingston. Thirtieth District.-Steuben and Allegany. Thirty-First District.-Cattaraugus and Chautauque. Thirty-Second District.-Erie county. Thirty-Third District.-Genesee and Wyoming. Thirty-Fourth District.-Orleans and Niagara. The following Table shows the ratio and the number of the House of Representatives under each apportionment: Year 1759,-Fixed by the Constitution, 65 Members |