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1. The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first dis- TITLE 3. trict, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

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2. The counties of Rockland, Richmond and Kings, shall compose Second. the second district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

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3. The city and county of New-York shall compose the third dis- Third. trict, and shall be entitled to elect three members.

4. The counties of Putnam and Westchester shall compose the Fourth. fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

5. The county of Dutchess shall compose the fifth district, and Fifth. shall be entitled to elect one member.

6. The county of Orange shall compose the sixth district, and Sixth. shall be entitled to elect one member.

7. The counties of Ulster and Sullivan shall compose the seventh Seventh. district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

8. The county of Columbia shall compose the eighth district, and Eighth. shall be entitled to elect one member.

9. The county of Rensselaer shall compose the ninth district, and Ninth. shall be entitled to elect one member.

10. The city and county of Albany shall compose the tenth district, Tenth. and shall be entitled to elect one member.

11. The counties of Greene and Delaware shall compose the Eleventh. eleventh district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

12. The counties of Schoharie and Schenectady shall compose the Twelfth twelfth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

13. The county of Otsego shall compose the thirteenth district, and Thirteenth. shall be entitled to elect one member.

14. The county of Oneida shall compose the fourteenth district, Fourteenth. and shall be entitled to elect one member.

15. The county of Herkimer shall compose the fifteenth district, and Fifteenthr shall be entitled to elect one member.

16. The counties of Montgomery and Hamilton shall compose the Sixteenth. sixteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

17. The county of Saratoga shall compose the seventeenth district, Seventeenth. and shall be entitled to elect one member.

18. The county of Washington shall compose the eighteenth dis- Eighteenth. trict, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

19. The counties of Franklin, Clinton, Essex and Warren shall Nineteenth. compose the nineteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one

member.

20. The counties of Oswego, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence, Twentieth. shall compose the twentieth district, and shall be entitled to elect two

members.

21. The counties of Chenango and Broome shall compose the Twenty-first. twenty-first district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

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22. The counties of Madison and Cortland shall compose the Twenty twenty-second district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

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TITLE 6. 23. The county of Onondaga shall compose the twenty-third dis

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trict, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

24. The county of Cayuga shall compose the twenty-fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

25. The counties of Tompkins and Tioga shall compose the twenty-fifth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

26. The counties of Seneca, Ontario, Yates and Wayne shall compose the twenty-sixth district, and shall be entitled to elect two members.

27. The counties of Monroe and Livingston shall compose the twenty-seventh district, and shall be entitled to elect one member. 28. The counties of Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben, shall compose the twenty-eighth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

29. The counties of Genesee and Orleans, shall compose the twenty-ninth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member. 30. The counties of Chautauque, Niagara and Erie shall compose the thirtieth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member.

TITLE IV.

OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS OF THIS STATE.

[This Title contains a description of each town in the state, and some general provisions concerning the boundary lines between towns. It will be published in the third volume of the Revised Statutes, with other local acts.]

TITLE V.

OF THE SEVERAL CITIES IN THIS STATE.

[This Title contains the boundaries of the several cities in this state and of their respective wards. It will also be published in the third volume.]

Certain ap plicants to

publish notice and fur

nish map.

TITLE VI.

GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE ERECTION AND ALTERA-
TION OF COUNTIES, CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS.

SEC. 1. Applicants for new counties, cities or villages, or the alteration of their bounds, to
publish notice and furnish a map.

2. Map to be verified by the oath of the surveyor.

3. If application granted, map to be filed with surveyor-general.

4. Applicants for new towns, or alterations or divisions of towns, to affix notice previous to town-meeting.

5. Notice to be read at town-meeting.

6. Surveys and maps to be furnished.

$1. All persons intending to apply to the legislature for the erection of a new county, or for the incorporation of a city or village; or for any alteration of the bounds of any county, city, or village, shall

cause notice to be published of such intended application, as required CHAP. 3. by law; and shall also procure an accurate survey and map of the territory described in such application.

verified.

2. Such survey and map shall be duly verified by the oath of Map bow the surveyor making the same; and shall be laid before the legislature, before any such application shall be acted on.

$3. In case any law shall be passed by the legislature, pursuant Where filed. to such application, the aforesaid survey and map shall be filed in the office of the surveyor-general of this state.

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$ 4. No town in this state shall be divided or altered in its bounds, Notice of apnor shall any new town be erected, without an application to the le- erect towns, gislature by the inhabitants of such town so to be divided or altered, affixed. or of the several towns out of which such new town is to be erected, or some of them; and notice in writing of such intended application, subscribed by at least five persons resident and freeholders in such town or towns shall be affixed on the outer door of the house where the next town-meeting is to be held in each of the towns to be affected thereby, at least ten days previous to the town-meeting in each of those towns.

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35. A copy of such notice shall also be read at the town-meeting To be read at of every town to be affected thereby, to the electors there assembled, ings. by the clerk of the town, immediately before proceeding to the election of town officers.

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$6. The persons applying for the division or alteration of the Map and surbounds of any town, or for the erection of a new town, shall also procure such survey and map as is required in the first section of this Title, which shall be laid before the legislature, and filed with the surveyor-general, as above provided."

CHAP. III.

Of the Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the State.

SEC. L Enumeration when to be taken.

2. Secretary of state to have certain blank returns and abstracts printed.

3. To transmit them to clerks of counties.

4 Marshals for each town and ward to be appointed, by whom.

5. County clerks to furnish marshals with blank returns.

6. Marshals to take enumeration; proceedings.

7. Form of returns by marshals.

8. What persons to be enumerated.

(5) See chap. vii. Ist part R. S. Title 3. sec. 1. (6) This Title is taken chiefly from Lp 269, § 2, and 2 R. L. 135, § 25.

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Census when to be taken.

Blank returns to be printed.

To be sent to

county clerks.

Marshals in each town and ward.

To be fur

nished with blank returns.

Duty of marshals.

Form of re

turns.

§ 9. Returns to be certified and sworn to.

10. To be delivered to county clerk, by what time.

11. County clerk to transmit abstracts to secretary of state.

12. Secretary to report to the legislature.

13. Expenses of marshals and county clerks, how audited and paid.

14. Penalty on persons refusing to give information to marshals, or giving it falsely. SECTION 1. An enumeration of the inhabitants of this state, is to be taken at the end of every tenth year, after the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.'

$ 2. The secretary of state shall, in every such tenth year, cause uniform blank returns and abstracts in conformity to the forms and provisions herein contained, together with copies of this Chapter, to be printed for the purpose of taking such enumeration, and obtaining other statistical information.

3. The secretary of state shall, on or before the first day of May, in every such tenth year, transmit by mail to the clerk of the city and county of New-York, and to each of the other county clerks, twice as many of such blank returns and copies of this Chapter, as there are wards and towns in their respective counties.

$4. The common council in each of the cities, and the supervisors, town clerks and assessors, in each of the towns in this state, shall respectively convene at some convenient place in each of such cities and towns, on or before the first Monday in July in every such tenth year, and shall appoint one person, to be called a marshal, in each town and ward, to enumerate the inhabitants therein, and to perform the other duties prescribed by this Chapter.

$5. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the city and county of NewYork, and of every county clerk in this state, to distribute such blank returns and copies of this Chapter, on or before the fifteenth day of July, in every such tenth year, among the several marshals thus appointed.

$6. Immediately on receiving such blank returns and copies of this Chapter, every such marshal shall proceed to enumerate, truly and accurately, the inhabitants residing in the town or ward for which he shall have been appointed, by making actual enquiry at every dwelling-house, or of the head of every family residing therein and to obtain the statistical information required by this Chapter, by such convenient means as may be in his power.

$7. Each marshal shall enter in the blank return received by him, the particulars of the enumeration so made, and of the statistical information so obtained, in the following manner and form;

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The number of male persons in the family, (the name of whose head is in the first column,) including its head, if male.

The number of female persons in the same family, including its head, if semale.

The number of male persons in the same family subject to militia duty. The whole number of male persons in the same family entitled by the constitution of this state to vote for all officers elective by the people

The number of male persons in the same family who are aliens not naturalized.

The number of persons in the same family who are paupers.

The number of persons in the same family who are persons of colour not taxed.

The number of persons of colour in the same family who are taxed.

The whole number of persons of colour in the same family who are taxed. and entitled by the constitution of this state to vote for all officers elective by the people, (and not to be included in the ninth column.)

The number of married female persons in the same family under the age of forty-five years.

The number of unmarried female persons in the same family, between the ages of sixteen and forty-five years.

The number of female persons in the same family, unmarried, under the age of sixteen years.

The number of marriages occurring in the married resided, during the year preceding. Whole number of births in

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FEMALE. preceding.

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same family, where the female

the same family during the year

Whole number of deaths in the same family during the year

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The number of acres of improved land occupied by the same family.

The number of neat cattle owned by the same family.

The number of horses owned by the same family.

The number of sheep owned by the same family. The number of hogs owned by the same family.

The number of yards of fulled cloth manufactured in the domestic way in the same family, during the preceding year.

The number of yards of flannel and other woollen cloths not fulled, manufactured in the domestic way in the same family, during the year preceding The number of yards of linen, cotton, or other thin cloths, manufactured in the domestic way in the same family, during the year preceding.

The number of grist-mills.

The number of saw-mills. The number of oil-mills.

The number of fulling-mills.

The number of carding-machines.

The number of yards of cotton cloth, manufactured in each factory, other than in the domestic way.

The number of yards of woollen cloth, manufactured in each factory, other than in the domestic way.

The number of yards of cotton and woollen cloth, manufactured in each factory, other than in the domestic way.

The number of iron works.

The number of trip-hammers.

The number of distilleries.

The number of asheries.

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