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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
Adams, village of, act to provide for rebuilding bridge in, 895, 898
900, 973
Adamson, John, act for relief of,.....670, 701, 710, 712, 743, 830
Adjournments of Senate, resolutions in reference to,....6, 45, 69
99, 143, 166, 231, 336

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of Legislature, concurrent resolutions relative to, 218
256, 539, 822, 836, 918, 963, 970, 972
from April 20 to May 4, resolution for, 917
Agricultural college, New York State, resolution to print re-

do

port of,

petition of, for relief,

193, 200
211

act in relation to,.....245, 278, 279, 303, 307, 642, 729
and Horticultural purposes, act to amend act in rela-
tion to,..
.640, 642, 648, 649, 682, 771, 831
Insurance company, act to amend charter of, &c., ... 142
159, 233, 237, 240, 840, 850, 975

New York State, invitation from, to attend annual

186

meeting,..
resolution to print Transactions of, 792, 823, 836, 860
Society, Western New York, act to incorporate, 776, 802

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819, 872

Albany city, common council, remonstrance of, against modifi-
cation of law establishing compensation of supervi-
sors of city and county of Albany,.
justices' court in, bill to amend act in relation to,... 230
260, 294, 510, 511, 517, 523

264

National Bank in, act to reduce capital stock of, 177, 197
271, 276, 341

Albany city, police in, acts to amend act for government and
organization of, 171, 199, 262, 265, 268, 394, 399, 408
671, 694, 731, 842, 846, 967, 976
Turnverein in, act to incorporate,... 777, 781, 818, 871
Young Men's Association in, bill to amend act to in-

corporate,..

petition for,

remonstrances against,

473, 754

529, 562

.489, 515, 607, 631

act to form separate road district of all that part of
city lying west of Allen street, 445, 489, 557, 560, 564
570, 964, 975
bill to annex part of, to town of Guilderland,... 187, 206
Albany county jail, act in relation to salary of keeper of,. 828, 834

851, 921

landholders in, petitions for laws to protect them in
rights of property. (See Landholders.)

poor in, bill to provide for care, supervision, &c., ... 897
Supreme court in, bill to regulate place of holding

terms of,

..533, 537
treasurer of, act in relation to fees of, 186, 212, 284, 299

341

Albany Evening Journal, act to legalize certain notices pub-
lished in,
661, 673, 708, 730
Post road, act to McAdamise. (See Yonkers.)
Schoharie and Rensselaerville plankroad, bill to au-
thorise to erect toll gate on their road,.. 705, 758, 778
813, 845, 923
and Susquehanna railroad, petitions for aid to, 52, 56, 61
66, 71, 74, 75, 80, 85, 86, 92, 93, 100, 101, 106, 107
112, 113, 121, 127, 139, 144, 145, 151, 152, 158, 164
169, 170, 175, 181, 196, 197
resolution for appointment of select committee on, 52
appointment of,..

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60
108
111, 116

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
between,

155

bill to authorise John C. Bard to establish steam ferry
between,.

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.)
county, act to divide into two jury

remonstrances against,

472

districts,... 470, 471
722, 837, 912, 976
507, 612

jail of, act in relation to,..

.191, 198, 216, 234

and Oil Spring reservations, act to confirm leases of,
made by Seneca Nation of Indians to Bradford R.
Alden,.... ..479, 490, 609, 610, 613, 617, 965, 974
river bridge across, petition for,.

report of committee on,..

(See Carrollton.)

305

533

Allis, C. W., and others, act for relief of,..503, 579, 593, 614, 731
Amenia Rural Cemetery, act to change name of, 706, 712, 745, 830
American Female Guardian Society, petition of, for relief, 236, 280

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,
prisoners in Wallabout bay. (See Wallabout.)

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,..
Animals, domestic, act for encouragement of the improvement

...502, 507, 522, 543

of,.....
Anti-Slavery Convention, invitation from, to attend session,... 167
Anti-Rent Law. (See laws of 1805, Landholders, and Revised
Statutes, to amend relative to rent and demised premises.)
Antwerp Liberal Literary Institute, petitions for relief of,. 62, 75
79, 92, 121, 686
act for loaning certain monies to, &c.,..63, 639, 717, 722
786, 852, 923

Lumber Manufacturing company, petition for dissolu-

tion of, -----

100
act to dissolve, ... 102, 108, 114, 144, 147, 149, 221, 350
965, 974

Annsville, town of, act to annex to 4th school commissioner's
district of Oneida county,
-.638, 654, 659, 660, 695, 829
Appropriations for Canal debt. (See Canals.)

for paying interest on temporary loan, act for,... 98, 102

126, 134, 179

for support of Government for fiscal year commencing
October 1, 1860, act making,..663, 754, 762, 763, 764
765, 774, 798, 799, 835, 873, 926, 972
for certain expenses of Government for the year 1860,
act making,.. 777, 840, 852, 863, 889, 896, 929, 965

975

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