The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards of Buffalo. XXXVIth-The Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twentysecond, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth wards of Buffalo as now constituted and the VIIth and VIIIth Assembly districts of Erie County. XXXVIIthAllegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.

GOVERNORS OF NEW-YORK STATE.

The following table gives the names and politics and the terms which the Governors of New-York State have served since the first election. Those marked with an asterisk served three year terms and the others served two year terms. On February 13, 1787, an act was passed for regulating elections, which provided that the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor should enter on the duties of their respective offices on July 1 succeeding their election. The Constitution of 1821 provided that the terms should begin on January 1 succeeding the election. Those with "D. R." following the name were, elected as Democratic Republicans, the leaders of that party being of the Thomas Jefferson class of politics, and from which the Democratic party claims direct descent. The present Republican party at its beginning enrolled most of the old Whigs.

Name.

Name. Politics. Years served. *George Clinton.... ..D. R......1777-1795 Silas Wright. John Jay... .Federal....1795-1801 John Young. *George Clinton.......D. R......1801-1804 Hamilton Fish. *Morgan Lewis.. ..D. R......1804-1807 *D. D. Tompkins.....D. R......1808-1817 (John Taylor, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded D. D. Tompkins when he became Vice-President, March 4, 1817, and filled out the term.)

Name. Politics. Years served. "De Witt Clinton.....D. R......1817-1823 Joseph C. Yates......D. R.. ....1823-1826 De Witt Clinton.... ..D. R......1826-182S (Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded Governor Clinton at his death, February 11, 1828, and filled out term.)

Name.

the

Politics. Years served. Martin Van Buren.....D.........1829 (Enos T. Throop, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeded Governor Van Buren, who was elected United States Senator and resigned March 12, 1829.)

Name.

Enos T. Throop..

William L. Marcy.

....D.

Politics. Years served.
D. .......1845-1847
Whig.....1847-1849
. Whig.....1849-1851
Whig. 1851-1853
.D..

Washington Hunt......
Horatio Seymour.
Myron H. Clark..
John A. King...
Edwin D. Morgan.
Horatio Seymour.
Reuben E. Fenton..
John T. Hoffman...
John A. Dix....
Samuel J. Tilden..
*Lucius Robinson.
Alonzo B. Cornell.
*Grover Cleveland.

1853-1853

..R..
.D.

1865-1869

.1869-1873

(David B. Hill,

Lieutenant-Governor,

succeeded Governor Cleveland January 6, 1885, the latter resigning to accept the Presidency.)

Politics. Years served .D. 1831-1833 Theodore Roosevelt....R........1899-1901 .....1833-1839 B. B. Odell, jr........R..... William H. Seward.... Whig.....1839-1843 Frank W. Higgins.....R........1905 William C. Bouck......D. .......1843-18-15

NEW-YORK NATIONAL GUARD.

1901-1905

The National Guard consists of two companies of signal corps, one squadron of cavalry of three troops, and three separate troops of cavalry, four batteries of light artillery, one regiment of heavy artillery, one regiment of engineers and thirteen regiments, five battalions and forty-four separate companies of infantry, forty-three of the separate companies constituting the 1st and 2d regiments and the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th battalions.

The strength of the Guard September 30, 1904, was as follows: General and staff officers.

The National Guard is commanded under the orders of the Governor by Major General Charles F. Roe, with headquarters at the Capitol, Albany, and an office at No 280 Broadway, New-York City, to whose headquarters are attached the First and Second companies, signal corps, Squadron A, Troops B, C and D, cavalry, the 1st, 2d, 3d and 6th batteries, light artillery, the 13th Regiment, heavy artillery, and the 22d Regiment, engineers.

The infantry is organized in four brigades, as follows:

First Brigade, Brigadier General George Moore Smith, headquarters, No. 50 East Fifty-ninth-st., New-York City, composed of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 69th and 71st

regiments; Second Brigade, Brigadier General James McLeer, headquarters, Municipal Building, Brooklyn, N. Y., composed of the 14th, 23d and 47th regiments and the 17th Separate Company; Third Brigade, Brigadier General James Horace Lloyd, headquarters, No. 72 Chapel-st., Albany, N. Y., composed of the 1st and 2d regiments and the 4th and 10th battalions, and Fourth Brigade, Brigadier General Lauren W. Pettebone, headquarters, No. 474 Main-st., Buffalo, N. Y., composed of the 65th and 74th regiments and 1st, 2d and 3d battalions.

The Naval Militia is commanded, under the orders of the Governor, by Captain Jacob William Miller, with headquarters on board the New-Hampshire, foot of East Twenty-fourth-st., New-York City, and is composed of the 1st and 2d battalions and 2d Separate Division. The strength of the Naval Militia is 50 officers and 556 enlisted men, a total of 606.

SHERIFFS AND COUNTY CLERKS OF NEW-YORK STATE. (Term three years except in Kings and New-York Counties. Term ends Dec. 31 in years given.)

County.

Albany.

County seat.

Albany.

Belmont.
Binghamton.
Little Valley...
Auburn.
Mayville.

Plattsburg.
Hudson.

Sheriff.
Term ends. County Clerk. Term ends.
Sebastian W. Pitts (R.)1906 John Franey (R.).
1907
Win. H. Bellamy (R.). 1906 Clarence Ricker (R.)...1906
H. P. Worthing (R.)...1905 Allyn K. Marean (R.).1906
Edgar E. Waite (R.).1906 Elmer E. Kelley (R.)..1906
Geo. S. Fordyce (R.)..1907 Geo. W. Benham (R.).1906
John C. Jones (R.)...1906 James D. Gallup (R.)..1906
John M. McDowell (R.)1906 F. Schornstheimer (R.) 1905
George L. Page (R.)..1906 W. A. Shepardson (R.).1906
Chauncey D. Allen (R.)1907 J. W. H. Holcombe (R.)1906)
W. Judson Alvord (R.)1903 Robert Storn (D.).....1906
Eber J. Bowdish (R.).1906 Otis D. Patrick (R.)..1906
Wm. R. Kilpatrick (D.)1906 William T. Black (R.). 1906
Poughkeepsie.. James H. Kipp (R.)..1906 Fred'k Bostwick (R.)..1906
Buffalo..
Harry M. Kaiser (D.).1905 John H. Price (R.)....1906
Elizabethtown. Sidney W. Barnard (R.)1906 Victor W. Prime (R.).1905
Malone..
F. S. Steenberge (H.).1905 Harvey J. Dudley (R.). 1906
Johnstown..... Jason Cook (R.)., .1907 Chauncey Heagle (R.). 1907
David Clark (R.). ..1905 Charles B. Pivley (R.).1908
Charles A. Post (D.)..1906 D. G. Green (R.). 1906
Lake Pleasant..B. Frank Kathan.....1905
Herkimer.

Cortl'd Village.
Delhi.

Batavia.

Catskill.

Watertown..

Elmira.

Chenango.

Norwich.

Clinton..

Brooklyn.

Lewis.

Lowville.

1907

John M. Richard (R.). 1906 Ivan T. Burney (R.)..1906
E. J. Tallman (R.)....1905 Eug. A. Chapman (R.). 1906
Henry Hesterberg (D.) 1905 Edward Kaufmann (D.)1905
John L. Beach (D.)...1905 Milton W. Holt (R.)...1906
Isaac B. Knapp (R.)..1906 Henry B. Curtis (R.)..1907
A. L. Cameron (R.)...1905 Wm. A. Northry (R.).1906
Chas. H. Bailey (R.)..1905 Jas. L. Hotchkiss (R.). 1906
Wm. O. Dodds (R.)...1906 F. E. Hufnail (D.)...1906
W. Gildersleeve (R.)..1907 Thos. S. Cheshire (R.). 1907
M. L. Erlanger (D.)...1905 Thos. L. Hamiltou (R.)1905
John S. Reardon (R.)...1905 Hector M. Slocum (R.). 1905
Samuel H. Jones (D.)..1906 Hermon Clarke (D.)...1905
Wm. H. Turner (R.)..1906 Jas. E. Hubbell (R.)..1906
Francis Flynn (R.)....1906 Porter F. Leech (R.)..1906
Peter E. Gumaer (R.). 1906 James J. Leonard (D.). 1906
Weston Wetherbe (R.). 1907 Geo. H. Rolph (R.)...1907
Elden H. Cook (R.)....1905 William E. Lewis (R.).1906
Elias C. Mather... .1905 S. J. W. Reynolds (R.)1905
Leonard Jaycox (R.)...1906 Edw. C. Weeks (R.)..1905
Joseph Meyerrose (D.). 1906 D. L. Van Nostrand (D.)1906
Victor M. Allen (R.)..1906 Jacob V. Jacobs (R.)..1906
Chas. McCarmack (D.). 1906 C. L. Bostwick (D.)..1905
William Dewey (R.)...1906 Cyrus M. Crum (D.)..1907
Chas, C. Caldwell (R.). 1906 J. F. Hammond (R.)..1906
F. W. Kavanaugh (R.)1906 Geo. H. West (R.).....1905
Merritt Hammond (R.). 1906 Geo. M. Bostwick (R.).1906
Adee V. Baldwin (D.). 1905 Clarke_Shaule (D.)....1906
George W. Ely (R.)...1906 Chas. R. Watkins (R.)1905
Thos. E. Mills (D.)....1906 H. J. Feehan (R.).....1907
W. O. Feenaughty (R.)1906 John D. Wheeler (R.). 1907
Henry H. Preston.. 1905 Solomon Ketcham (R.)1906
William F. Royce (R.). 1906 Gabriel F. Currey (R.)1905
J. Parmalee (D.)......1907 William B. Smith (R.). 1900
Grant Curry (R.).....1905 L. H. Van Kirk (R.)..1908
Grove Webster (R.)...1936 John D. Fratsher (R.). 1906
Wm. W. Bowyer (R.)..1906 Edward C. Sisson (R.). 1906
Forest E. Kenyon (R.). 1906 Ezra H. Snyder (R.)..1906
Albert Yeomans (R.)..1906 Ledyard S. Cuyler (R.)1905
James C. Merritt (R.). 1906 Leslie Sutherland (R.).1907
W. H. Richardson (R.)1905 Edw. M. Jennings (R.). 1906
Elias F. Pulver (R.) ..1906 Henry T. Read (R.)...1906

STATE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

The merit system of appointment in the Civil Service was established in New-York by Chapter 354 of the Laws of 1883, which was amended from time to time in various important respects until, finally, a new act (Chapter 370 of the Laws of 1899) was passed, codifying and uniting all previous acts and extending the area of their operation.

The original act followed closely the form of the federal act. It provided for the classification of all State offices and for the various departments of cities of 50,000 and over. The application of the system to cities, however, was permissive merely. In 1884 the latter provision was made mandatory and was amended to include all cities in the State. This, with various amendmentsprincipal among which were the reactionary provisions of the so-called "Black Act" of 1897-remained in force until suspended by the act of 1899. The general Civil Service statutes of the State were reinforced very materially by an amendment to the State Constitution prepared by the Constitutional Convention of 1894 and adopted by the people.

This provision, which embodies in the concisest terms the essential principles of the reform, is as follows: "Appointments and promotions in the Civil Service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including towns and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained so far as practicable by examinations which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which appointments or promotions shall be made." The original rules and classification of New-York City were drawn under the permissive act of 1883. and under the supervision of a commission of experts appointed by Mayor Edson in 1884. Rules were adopted in the same manner and at about the same time in Buffalo and Brooklyn. In 1896, through the action of the Commission appointed by Mayor Strong, the application of the rules was greatly extended, until, excepting heads of departments, not more than sixty positions were omitted from the competitive classification. The system of labor registration was also adopted.

There were approximately 40,000 positions in the New-York municipal Civil Service on January 1, 1898, of which number 9,000 in the educational department were subject to a separate system. The classifications included 7,000 in the police force, 6,000 in the labor service under the registration system, and the remainder, for the most part, in the general competitive schedules. The competitive schedules embraced positions of every character, both clerical, technical and professional.

Examinations were conducted by a board of nine examiners, chosen with especial reference to their expert ability, and the examinations generally were of the most practical character. The rules required that the higher places should be filled by promotion, unless the appointing officer certified to the Civil Service Commission that none in the lower grades were fit for the higher duties to be performed. Through careful work the system had been well developed and placed on a highly satisfactory basis. During the period from January, 1898, until the passage of the general act of 1899, these rules were very much modified, 'under authority claimed to be derived from the greater New-York charter.

Much laxity was permitted in the matter of temporary appointments in the absence of eligible lists; persons dismissed at any time within the previous three years were permitted to be appointed without examination; the scope of selection from the eligible list was materially broadened. On July 11, 1899, the charter rules were superseded by rules framed in pursuance of the new law, which were put in force by the State Board after the failure of the Mayor to promulgate

them.

These restore all of the essential features of the genuine merit system omitted from the charter rules, and are expected in future to keep the city service on a fairly competitive basis, open to all citizens. Stringent inhibitions upon payment of salaries to persons improperly appointed, reinforcing those previously in Since the adoption of the act of force, add to the effectiveness of the system. 1899 new rules have been framed for Buffalo, Albany and other large cities, which are well calculated to give effect to the existing constitutional and statutory provisions, and that will firmly maintain the "merit system" in these other parts of the State, and on June 16, 1900, through the action of the State Board and Governor Roosevelt, the offices in five of these New-York, Kings, Queens, Richmond and Erie.

were included:

THE STATE LIBRARY.

The State Library, established by the Legislature in 1818, was made an integral part of the University of the State of New-York in 1889. It includes general, sociology, law, medical, education and history libraries. Its field covers, besides the usual work of a great reference library, compilations of catalogues, bibliographies, indexes, reference lists and other aids and guides for readers of the State not having direct access to the library; lending books to students and the promotion of the general library interests of the State. The total number of books, including travelling libraries and duplicates, is 504,525, In its home education department, which is carried on through travelling libraries and annotated book lists and the organization end maintenance of free libraries, the State expends about $60,000 yearly. The etor of the State Library is Melvil Dewey.

NEW-YORK STATE COMMITTEES.

REPUBLICAN.

Chairman, B. B. Odell, jr., Newburg: secretary, Reuben L. Fox, Oneonta; treasurer, Louis Stern, New-York, Headquarters, Fifth Avenue Hotel

Additional member, C. W. Anderson, New-York,

Executive Committee-William Barnes, jr., chairman; B. B. Odell, fr.; Reuben L. Fox, secretary; Louis Stern, George W. Aldridge, George W. Dunn, William C. Warren, Francis Hendricks, John T. Mott, Michael J. Dady, Thomas Wheeler, Lauis F. Payn, John F. O'Brien, William L. Ward, Charles H. Murray and Edward Lauterbach.

DEMOCRATIC.

Chairman, Cord Meyer, Great Neck; secretary, John N. Carlisle, Watertown; treasurer, William F. Balkam, Rochester.

Executive Committee-P. H. McCarren, chairman; Hugh J. Grant, W. S. Rodle, Victor J. Dowling, William F. Sheehan, New-York; George Hall, Ogdensburg; J. J. Kennedy, Buffalo; Frederick Cook, Rochester; Cord Meyer and John N. Carlisle, ex officio.

POPULIST.

Chairman, J. W. Forrest, Albany; vice-chairman, Gustav W. Thompson, Brooklyn; secretaries, H. C. S. Stimson, New-York, and James J. Mahoney, Brooklyn; treasurer, John R. Waters, New-York, Executive Committee-Melvin G. Palliser, chairman J. W. Forrest, James J. Mahoney, H. C. S. Stimson and Simon G. Levy.

VOTE OF NEW-YORK STATE.

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