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 perdiem 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 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, $561,500 00 Amount issued on account of deficiency in the General per cent, viz: Redeemable at pleasure,.. $348,107 00 Redeemable in 1868,.... 442,961 05 791,068 05 Amount issued to the New York and Erie Railroad Com pany, per chap. 226, Laws of 1838, and chap. 196, Laws of 1840, redeemable as follows: 4 per cent in 1859,... $300,000 00 5 per cent in 1860,. 400,000 00 5 per cent in 1861,... 1,200,000 00 6 per cent in 1861,. 200.000 00 6 per cent in 1862, 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,....... $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,.. $150,000 00 Amount issued to the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad Company, per chap. 240, Laws of 1835, 5 per cent redeemable as follows: 5 per cent, issued per Revised Statutes, in 1844, for loans from the Railroad Sinking Funds, payable on demand,.. 5 per cent, issued per Rev. Statutes, in 1842, for a loan to the treasury, payable on demand,. 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 Comptroller, in trust for the Delaware Academy, payable 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 pleas $28,697 94 11,000 00 9,387 74 451,645 49 428,739 44 3,395 84 4,825 00 6,000 00 385,000 00 ure, Indian Annuities. $5,018,268 05 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 Amount of State Stock issued and loaned to the following Railroad Companies, viz: Auburn and Rochester Railroad Company, per chap. 195, $200,000 00 200,000 00 Tonawanda Railroad Company, per chap. 200, Laws of 1840, redeemable in 1865, 5 per cent, 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, 100,000 00 70,000 00 $770,000 00 SCHOOL FUND. Capital. This fund consists of the following items, viz: Bonds for lands, 6 per cent, Bonds for loans, 6 and 7 per cent,. Loan of 1840, 64 per cent, State Stock, viz: 5 per cent, issued on account of the Astor debt, redeemable at pleasure, $520,697 66 310,227 29 49,326 00 $41,755 91 |