Cattaraugus,

Cayuga,.

Chautauqua,

Chemung,

Chenango,..

Clinton,...

Columbia,

40,834

44,176

68,593 77,268 93,279 103.681 113,916 115,504 133,108
30,266 31,402 37.808 42,910 41,881 40,285
22,338 25,808 30,660 36,650 35,906 37,933
28,872 30,169 38,950 39,530 43,886 42,205 43.855
50,338 49.663 55,458 53,571 55,767 55,730 59,524
47,975 46,548 50,493 53,380 58.418 58,528
15,483 17,742 21,737 27,288 26,917 31,923
40,785 39.900 40,311 39,915 40,934 38.360 40,603
28,157 31,278 40.047 42,482 45,735 45,713 48,622
43,252 41,976 43,073 44,391 47,172 44,995 47,994

*Name changed from China to Arcade, in 1866.

59,179

35,341

Totals,...... 2,428, 9212,

12, 604, 495 3,097, 394 3, 466, 118 3,880, 735 3, 831.777 4,880,765

VOTERS IN STATE OF NEW YORK, CENSUS OF 1865.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES

ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF

1840, 1850, 1860 & 1870.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

CONCERNING THE ERECTION AND ALTERATION OF COUNTIES CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS.

[Title 6, chap. 2, part 1st, Revised Statutes.]

SECTION 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 by law, and shall also procure an accurate survey and map of the territory described in such application.

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

SEC. 3. In case any law shall be passed by the legislature, pursuant to such application, the aforesaid survey and map shall be filed in the office of the [state engineer and surveyor]

of this state.

SEC. 4. No town in this state shall be divided or altered in its bounds; nor shall any new town be erected, without an application to the legislature by the inhabitants of such town so to be divided or altered, 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 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.

SEC. 5. A copy of such notice shall also be read at the town meeting of every town to be affected thereby, to the electors there assembled, by the clerk of the town, immediately before proceeding to the election of town officers.

SEC. 6. The persons applying for the division or alteration of the bounds 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. 194 of the Laws of 1849, as amended by chap. 18 of the Laws of 1871, confers the same powers, as to towns, upon boards of supervisors.)

SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the several counties in the state, the county of New York excepted, at their annual meeting, shall have power, within their respective counties by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected,