the Governor and Senate; is invested with the powers and duties formerly belonging to the Comptroller in relation to the canals; draws warrants on the Treasurer for all canal payments; audits all canal accounts; instructs canal collecting and distributing officers; keeps accounts of canal receipts and expenditures, &c., is ex-officio Secretary of the Canal Board, and of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund. Office in the State Hall, first floor.

CANAL APPRAISERS.

Appointed by the Governor and Senate; hold office two years; their duties are the appraisal of damages to individuals growing out of the construction of the Canals; salary $4 per diem, and 5 cents per mile for travel.

COMMISSIONERS OF THE CANAL FUND.

They have the superintendence of the Canal Fund and of the Canal Debt; advertise for and negotiate loans, &c.

Office in Canal Department, State Hall, first floor.

CANAL BOARD.

Meets at the Canal Department; fixes the rates of tolls; appoints the Engineers, Collectors of Tolls, Superintendents of Repairs, Weigh-masters; hears appeals from Canal Appraisers; remits penalties, and regulates police of the Canals, &c.

CONTRACTING BOARD.

Advertises for proposals and makes contracts for work to be done on the Canals.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

THE SENATE Consists of thirty-two members, who are elected in November of each year ending with an odd number, and hold their offices for two years, from the 1st of January next succeeding. The State is divided into thirty-two districts, each choosing one Senator. The Senators receive a compensation of $3 per diem during the session, but not for more than one hundred days. The Lieutenant-Governor is ex-officio President of the Senate.

THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY consists of one hundred and twenty-eight members, elected annually by single districts. Each county has at least one member. They receive a compensation of $3 per diem during the session, but not for more than one hundred days. Their officers are chosen by vote at the opening of the session.

MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY,

Elected November 3, 1857, with the Counties and Assembly Districts in

County & District.
Lewis

Name.

Homer Collins.

Livingston 1 John H. Jones.

4 Charles H. Adams. Madison

Allegany 1 John M. Hammond.
2 William F. Jones.
John S. Palmer.

Broome
Cattaragus 1 Henry Van Aernam.

Cayuga

Monroe

New York

2 Wm. Buffington, Jr. Montgomery 1 David B. Baldwin. 2 Chauncey M. Abbott. Chautaque 1 Henry Bliss.

Chemung
Chenango

Clinton

2 Charles B. Green.

John Haggerty.
1 Truxton G. Lamb.
2 William Kales.
Zephaniah C. Platt.

Columbia 1 David Miller.
2 Lorenz Gile.

2 Alfred Bell.

1 Lester M. Case.
2 Robert Stewart.
1 Jarvis Lord.
2 Thomas Parsons.
3 Robert Staples.

Hezekiah Baker.
1 Jacob L. Smith.
2 Michael Fitzgerald.
3 Richard Winne.
4 John G. Seeley.
5 Arthur J. Delaney.
6 George A. Jeremiah.
7 Philip W. Engs.
8 James H. Lynch.
9 Thomas Jones, Jr.
10 John W. Chanler.
11 Noah D. Childs.
12 William Gage.
13 David J. Chatfield.
14 Dunham J. Crain.
15 Edward A. Moore.
16 George Weir.
17 Garret Dyckman.
1 Burt Van Horn.
2 John W. Labar.
1 Henry R. Hart.
2 William J. McKown.
3 Thomas G. Halley.
4 Reuben Knight.
1 James Frazee.

2 Thomas G. Alvord.
3 Levi S. Holbrook.
1 Volney Edgerton.
2 Ira R. Peck.

1 Stephen W. Fullerton
2 Chas. J. Stephenson.

Alm'zor Hutchinson.

1 William Baldwin.
2 John J. Wolcott.
3 Chauncey S. Sage.
1 Charles McLean.
2 David M. Hard.

John Garrison.

Thomas G. Alvord, Speaker, Syracuse. P. H. Lasher, Sergeant-at-Arms. David Wilson, Clerk, Albany.

Peter J. Cooke, Doorkeeper.

FUNDS OF THE STATE.

GENERAL FUND DEBT.

State Stock.

Amount issued for the Astor debt, chap. 302, Laws of 1827,
and 86, of 1832, redeemable at pleasure,
Amount issued on account of deficiency in the General
Fund Debt Sinking Fund, per chap. 216, Laws of 1848, 5
per cent, viz:

Redeemable at pleasure,..

Redeemable in 1868,.

$561,500 00

$348,107 00
442,961 05

791,068 05

Amount issued to the New York and Erie Railroad Company, per chap. 226, Laws of 1838, and chap. 196, Laws of 1840, redeemable as follows:

4 per cent in 1859,.

5 per cent in 1860,. 5 per cent in 1861,.

6 per cent in 1861,.

6 per cent in 1862,

$300,000 00

400,000 00

1,200,000 00

200.000 00

900,000 00

3,000,000 00

Amount issued to the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, per chap. 295, Laws of 1838, and chap. 344, Laws of 1840, viz:

4 per cent, redeemable in 1864,. 5 per cent, redeemable in 1865,..

$287,700 00

28,000 00

315,700 00

Amount issued to the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad Company, per chap. 178, Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1865, 5 per cent,.

Amount issued to the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad Company, per chap. 240, Laws of 1835, 5 per cent redeemable as follows:

$150,000 00

5 per cent, issued per Revised Statutes, in 1844, for loans from the Railroad Sinking Funds, payable on demand,..

$28,697 94

53 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1842, for a loan to the treasury, payable on demand,....

11,000 00

9,387 74

6 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, for loans to the treasury in 1846, from the Railroad Sinking Funds, payable on demand,..

6 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1845, for loans from the School Fund, payable on demand,..

6 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1848,
for loans from the U. S. Dep. Fund, payable
on demand,

6 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1845,
from the Comm's of the U. S. Dep. Fund of
Columbia county, payable on demand,.
6 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1846,
for a loan of moneys held by the Comptrol-
ler, in trust for the Delaware Academy, pay-
able on demand..

6 per cent, issued in 1848, per chap. 366, Laws
of 1848, for a loan from the U. S. Dep. Fund,
payable at pleasure,.....

6 per cent, issued per chap. 225, Laws of 1849, to discharge the claim of the Canal Fund upon the General Fund, redeemable 1st July, 1866,..

6 per cent, issued per chap. 37, Laws of 1850, and chap. 208, Laws of 1848, for the benefit of the Stockbridge Indians, payable at pleasure,

451,645 49

428,739 44

3,395 84

4,825 00

6,000 00

385,000 00

Indian Annuities.

36,000 00

$1,364,691 45

Amount required, if invested at 6 per cent, to produce the the sum of $7,361 69 being the amount of the annuities payable to sundry Indian tribes,...

122,694 87 $6,505,654 37

Auburn and Rochester Railroad Company, per chap. 195,
Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1860 and 1861, 5 per cent,
Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company, per chap. 293,
Laws of 1838, redeemable in 1858, 5 per cent,
Tonawanda Railroad Company, per chap. 200, Laws of 1840,
redeemable in 1865, 53 per cent,

Amount of State Stock issued and loaned to the following Railroad Companies, viz:

$200,000 00

200,000 00

100,000 00

Long Island Railroad Company, per chap. 193, Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1861, 6 per cent,

100,000 00

Schenectady and Troy Railroad Company, per chap. 299,
Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1867, 6 per cent,
Tioga Coal Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company, (now
the Corning and Blossburg Railroad Company,) per chap.
296, Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1865, 52 per cent,...

100,000 00

70,000 00

$770,000 00