have discharged the duties of presiding officer of this Senate. I have endeavored to discharge those duties fairly and impartially, and I am conscious that I owe much to your kindness and courtesy while occupying this chair. The journals of the Senate afford abundant evidence that you have been vigilant and industrious in the discharge of your duties as Senators, and that many of the subjects presented for your consideration as legislators, have involved questions of great difficulty and embarrassment-particularly those relating to our State revenues, and the distribution of the burthens of government-and, although the provisions you have made for that purpose may not meet the public expectations-it could not be reasonably anticipated in the embarrassed situation of our State finances and the decreased amount of our canal and other revenues, that the taxes imposed by this Legislature for the support of government and to replenish the State treasury, could be so distributed by you as to meet the approval of all and yet be unjust to none of the great industrial, moneyed, commercial or other interests of the State. The laws of this session, when published, will show that a large portion of your time in this Senate chamber has been devoted to the consideration of bills of purely a local character, and of bills for the incorporating of companies and associations—the former of which could have been enacted into laws by local authorities to whom legislative powers have been given, and the latter could have been created under general laws-and it must be as evident to you from the great number of bills that remain upon your files unacted upon, that additional powers of legislation and administration must be conferred upon the local authorities of counties, or the ordinary session of the Legislature will not suffice to enable you properly to consider and enact such laws as may be necessary to protect the rights of persons and property, and develope and extend the resources of this great and prosperous State. The period has arrived when associations as members of this body must terminate-with some of us the separation may be final-and in parting I beg you to be assured that I shall ever gratefully remember your kindness to me while occupying this chair, and I tender to each of you, and to every officer of the Senate, my best wishes for his future happiness and prosperity. And now, in pursuance of the concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assembly, I pronounce this Senate adjourned, without day. And then the Senate adjourned. JAMES TERWILLIGER, Clerk. INDEX TO THE JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. A. Academy of music, in New York city. (See New York.) at New Paltz. (See New Paltz.) Adams, Alson, act for relief of, 502, 579, 626, 627, 641, 679, 731 of Legislature, concurrent resolutions relative to, 218 do port of, petition of, for relief, 193, 200 act in relation to,.....245, 278, 279, 303, 307, 642, 729 New York State, invitation from, to attend annual 186 meeting,.. -- 819, 872 Albany city, common council, remonstrance of, against modifi- 264 National Bank in, act to reduce capital stock of, 177, 197 Albany city, police in, acts to amend act for government and corporate,.. petition for, remonstrances against, 473, 754 529, 562 .489, 515, 607, 631 act to form separate road district of all that part of 851, 921 landholders in, petitions for laws to protect them in poor in, bill to provide for care, supervision, &c., ... 897 terms of, ..533, 537 341 Albany Evening Journal, act to legalize certain notices pub- 60 bill to facilitate construction of, 108, 150, 155, 157, 200 202, 718, 721, 948, 965 message from Governor vetoing,. 948 and Troy, resolution relative to papers for steam ferry 155 bill to authorise John C. Bard to establish steam ferry 214 and Watervleit Turnpike company, bill to allow to construct railroad on, ....177, 266 Albion plankroad, act to amend act in relation to toll gate on, 393 438, 460, 471, 480, 542 village of, act authorising trustees of, to raise money by tax, .142, 160, 187, 192, 235 Alden, Bradford R., act to confirm leases to. (See Allegany.) Aldrich, George, act to legalise official acts of,. 177, 273, 398, 416 Allegany and Cattaraugus reservations. (See Cattaraugus.) remonstrances against, 472 districts,... 470, 471 jail of, act in relation to,.. .191, 198, 216, 234 and Oil Spring reservations, act to confirm leases of, report of committee on,.. (See Carrollton.) 305 533 Allis, C. W., and others, act for relief of,..503, 579, 593, 614, 731 292, 343 Institute, Transactions of, resolution to print,.. 714, 771 Museum, bill to incorporate, 823, 836, 860 .152, 239, 294, 460 414 Musical Fund Society, bill to incorporate, Zoological and Botanical Society, act to incorporate, 347 Ancram, town of. (See Copake.) 357, 554, 564, 565, 757, 831 45 Anderson, Graham K., appointed messenger for library,.. ...502, 507, 522, 543 of,..... Lumber Manufacturing company, petition for dissolu- tion of, ----- 100 Annsville, town of, act to annex to 4th school commissioner's for paying interest on temporary loan, act for,... 98, 102 126, 134, 179 for support of Government for fiscal year commencing 975 |