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Rooms are assigned the students in the same edifices that are occupied by the President and Professors, and their respective families.

Instruction.

The classes are divided into Sections, according to attainment, or choice of studies, and the several Sections are instructed by the President and Professors.

Government.

The government is, for the most part, parental and preventive, and devolves on the President and resident Professors. Those students who do not cheerfully submit to it, are silently dismissed. No student is allowed to visit taverns or groceries; to be out of his room at night or to go out of town at any time, without permission; nor is any society allowed to hold its meetings at night.

Exercise.

Gymnastics and other athletic exercises are encouraged, and ample grounds are furnished free of expense, for those who prefer devoting their hours of recreation to agricultural pursuits.

Commencement.

Commencement is on the 4th Wednesday in July; after which there is a vacation of six weeks.

Vacations.

There are two other short vacations, the one sometime in December, the other in April. The Seniors have no additional vacations, nor are there any holydays. It is desirable that students should either return home, or visit their friends during the vacations. And when parents can not provide for this, the faculty should be apprized of it, that provision be made for their instruc tion and government at college.

Merit Roll

An accurate and daily account of the delinquencies of every student, and also of the degree of his attainment, in conduct, scholarship and attendance, is kept, and the summing up of these items determines the place of each upon the Merit Roll; a copy of which items is transmitted to the parent.

Examinations.

A committee is annually appointed, who examine the several classes publicly, at the close of each term, and make a written report thereof.

IN SENATE,

February 6, 1833.

REPORT

Of the committee on the judiciary on the report of the Secretary of State, in reference to the publication in the several counties, of the amendments to the Constitution, recommended by the Legislature of 1832.

Mr. Beardsley, from the committee on the judiciary, to which was referred the report of the Secretary of State in reference to the publication in the several counties, of the amendments to the Constitution, recommended by the Legislature of 1832,

REPORTED:

That from the report of the Secretary of State, it appears that copies of the several resolutions for amending the Constitution, "were transmitted for publication to each of the counties in the , State, in which there was a newspaper printed, in time to be published three months previous to the last general election, in pursuance of the resolutions of the last Legislature.".

It also appears from his report, and from affidavits submitted, that publication for three months preceding the election, were made in a great majority of the counties of this State, as well as in the State paper.

That in all cases where affidavits of publication have been neglected, except in the case of the Oneida Observer, papers have been furnished at his office containing the publication of the amendments.

It therefore appears that in all the counties in which newspapers are printed, except in the county of Oneida, the proposed amend[Senate, No. 45.]

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ments have been published, although it does not appear that publications were had in all for three months.

From the fact that the publishers were requested to make publication for three months, and that the resolutions proposing amendments were actually inserted in papers in all counties except Oneida, the committee are of opinion that without affidavits to that ef fect, they may reasonably presume that notice was given for three months agreeably to the request of the Secretary of State, in the few counties from which affidavits have not been received.

In relation to the county of Oneida, the committee have no reason to doubt that notice was also given.

But even if it was omitted, they are of opinion that sufficient notice has been given to justify the action of the Legislature.

The Constitution of this State requires three months notice to be given of all proposed amendments, but does not prescribe how that notice shall be given. (See 8th Article.)

The resolutions of the last Legislature, proposing amendments, directed notice to be given in each of the counties where a newspaper was printed.

Although there is no evidence before the committee that notice was given in Oneida, still they believe the provisions of the Constitution have been complied with.

To concede that an omission to publish notice in a single county would defeat the object of the Legislature in the proposed amendments, might concede the power of a single printer to defeat the amendments by refusing to publish.

The committee, however, have already stated that they have no reason to doubt that the requisite notice was given in Oneida. They therefore assume, that the notices are sufficient.

In this assumption, they find themselves sustained by precedents in each branch of the Legislature in 1826.

On propositions to amend the constitution that year, it will be found by referring to the Journals, that evidence of publication of notice was much more defective than at present, (see report of

judiciary committee, in Senate Journals of 1826, pages 30 and 31,) and yet the notices were held sufficient.

The committee, therefore, recommend the consideration of the proposed amendments. The first is in the following words:

"That the duties on the manufacture of salt, as established by the act of the fifteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and by the tenth section of the seventh article of the Constitution of this State, may at any time hereafter be reduced by an act of the Legislature of this State, but shall not, while the same is appropriated and pledged by the said section, be reduced below the sum of six cents upon each and every bushel, and the said duties shall remain inviolably appropriated and applied as is provided by the said tenth section.

"And that so much of the said tenth section of the seventh article of the Constitution of this State as is inconsistent with this amendment, be abrogated."

In reference to this proposition, the committee submit the following resolution.

Resolved, That the Senate do agree to the said amendment.

The second resolution for amending the constitution is in the following words:

"At the end of the tenth section of the fourth article of the said constitution, add the following words: "Except in the city of NewYork, in which the mayor shall be chosen annually by the electors thereof qualified to vote for the other charter officers of the said city, and at the time of the election of such officers."

To this the committee submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Senate do agree to the said amendment.

The third resolution for amending the constitution is in the following words:

"The duties on the manufacture of salt, as established by the act of the fifteenth of April, eighteen hundred and seventeen, or as may be established by any amendment to the constitution, and the duties on goods sold at auction, as now established, excepting therefrom the sum of thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars,

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