CONTENTS OF VOL. II. Education-Libraries—the Press-Religion—the Clergy—the Medical Profession — Political History-Slavery--the Judiciary-Convention of 1821—Internal Improvements — Canals — Railroads — Agriculture — Horticulture — the Croton ANNUAL MESSAGES of 1839, of 1840, of 1841, of 1842.. Agriculture--Anti-Rent difficulties–Banks—Canals—Common Schools—Chari- table Institutions—Currency-Debt of the State Education-Elective Franchises -Finances of the State-Geological Survey-Internal Improvements--Law Re- form -- Militia — Naturalization Laws — Penitentiaries — Prisons — Railroads - Reforms—Slavery—Tolls on the Canals-Universal Suffrage-Universal Educa- Death of Stephen Van Rensselaer—Colonial History—the Northern Boundary- Abuses in the State Prisons—Anti-Rent Troubles—National Bankrupt Law—the Children of Aliens-Madame D'Hautville's Case-Suppressed Veto Message of the New York Registry Law–Virginia Controversy-Proclamations—Removal of the Recorder of New York-Death of President Harrison-Judicial Abuses in Madison County-Naturalization Laws-Manufacture of Silk in Prisons—Case of Alex. MʻLeod-Receivers of Banks—Rights of the Executive-Public Lands—Monu- ment to Gen. Herkimer-New York and Erie Railroad-Criminal Courts of New York, Veto—the State Printer, Veto-Removal of the Sheriff of Schoharie- Letters to the Executive of Georgia—the Extradition of Fugitives from Justice- The Aiding and Abetting in the Escape of a Female Slave—the Carrying away on her Person of Clothing and Trinkets, not an Act of Larceny-&c. Letters to the President of the United States—the Secretary of State-Secretary of War-Attorney-General-General Scott—Lord Sydenham-Sheriff of Oneida Course of President Tyler—the Rights of the State of New York-Cause for War on the part of Great Britain-Positions of the British Minister-Reasons for Declining to Surrender M‘Leod without a Trial—A United States District- Attorney, Counsel for M‘Leod-His Trial and Acquittal—&c. MISCELLANEOUS. 589 Letters to Thomas D. Gilson-Godfrey J. Grosvenor, Appointments to Office- Charles Marriott-Colored Seamen in South Carolina-Sheriff of Lewis County, Clerical Visitation of Prisoners—Thomas G. Talmage, Reception of President Van Buren-Messrs. Baylis, Woodbull, and Others, Removal of the Recorder of New York—Governor Porter of Pennsylvania, Imprisonment for Debt-Gov. King, of Rhode Island, the Dorr Case—Daniel Webster, Release of Prisoners at Van Dieman's Land-&c. PARDON PAPERS. APPLICATIONS FOR Pardon... 615 The Case of Patrick Conway-Catherine Wilkins-Samuel Burns~Juvenile De- linquents — Lawrence M'Carthy-W. L. M.Kenzie-Jabez Fuller-Benjamin 1 See INDEX at the close of the volume. NOTES ON NEW YORK* NEW YORK is situated between 400 30' and 45° of north latitude, and between 5° 5' of east and 2° 55' of west longitude from the city of Washington. The state includes an area of 46,200 square miles, divided into fifty-nine counties, and subdivided into nine cities, eight hundred and thirty-five towns, and one hundred and forty-five incorporated villages; and contains 2,428,921 inhabitants ; t of whom 2,378,890 are free white persons, and 50,031 are free colored persons. The government is a representative republic, with a written constitution, which was framed by a convention in 1821, and approved by the people in a popular election in 1822. The few remaining descendants of the aborigines are neither enumerated, nor admitted to citizenship. Persons of African descent, possessing freeholds worth two hundred and fifty dollars, enjoy the right of suffrage. Aliens are excluded until they become naturalized according to the laws of Congress, after five years' residence in the United States. All male citizens who have attained the age of twenty-one years, and , resided in the state one year, vote for all officers elected by the people, and may be chosen or appointed to places of trust or profit; but the governor must be a native citizen of the United States, and a freeholder, aged not less than thirty years, and must have been an inhabitant of this state five years previously to his election, unless absent on public business; and only freeholders can be elected senators. Elections are conducted by ballot. The constitution guaranties the franchises of citizenship to every member of the state, unless he be deprived of them by * This work constitutes the Introduction to the Natural History of New York published by the legislature in 1842.- Ed. * In 1850, the total population was 3,097,394.- Ed. U. S. census, 1840. See Note on page 665. |
