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up for the south-west corner of Bennington; then north seven degrees and thirty minutes east, forty-six miles forty-three chains and fifty links to a bunch of hornbeam saplings on the south bank of Poultney river, the northernmost of which was marked by said last mentioned commissioners, and from which a large butternut tree bears north seventy degrees west, thirty links, a large hard maple tree south two chains and eighty-six links, and a white ash tree on the north side of said river, north seventy-seven degrees east; which said several lines from the monument erected for the south-west corner of the state of Vermont, were established by said last mentioned commissioners, and were run by them as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; then down the said Poultney river through the deepest channel thereof, to East Bay; then through the middle of the deepest channel of East Bay and the waters thereof, to where the same communicate with Lake Champlain; then through the middle of the deepest channel of Lake Champlain to the eastward of the islands called the Four Brothers, and the westward of the islands called the Grand Isle and Long Isle, or the two Heroes, and to the westward of the Isle-La-Mott, to the line in the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, established by treaty for Northern. the boundary line between the United States and the British dominions; then west along said line to the river St. Lawrence; then along the line established by the commissioners appointed under the sixth article of the treaty of Ghent, into and up the said river St. Lawrence to the waters of Lake Ontario; then along the said line through the waters of said lake and of the Western. Niagara river to the waters of Lake Erie; then westerly through the same, and along the said line, until intersected by a meridian line drawn through the most westerly bent or inclination of Lake Ontario; then south along said meridian line to a monument in the beginning of the forty-third degree of north latitude, erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by Abraham Hardenburgh and William W. Morris, commissioners on the part of this state, and Andrew Ellicott and Andrew Porter, commissioners on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of marking the termination of the line of jurisdiction between this state and the said state of Pennsylvania; then east along the line established and marked by said last mentioned commissioners to the ninetieth milestone in the same parallel of latitude, erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eightysix, by James Clinton and Simeon De Witt, commissioners on the part of this state, and Andrew Ellicott, commissioner on the part of Pennsylvania, which said ninetieth milestone stands on the western side of the south branch of the Tioga river; then east along the line established and marked by said last mentioned commissioners, to a stone erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four on a small island in the Delaware river, by Samuel Holland and David

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Rittenhouse, commissioners on the part of the colonies of New- TITLE 2 York and Pennsylvania, for the purpose of marking the beginning of the forty-third degree of north latitude; then down along said Delaware river to a point opposite to the fork or branch formed by the junction of the stream called Mahackamack with the said Delaware river, in the latitude of forty-one degrees twenty-one minutes and thirty-seven seconds north; then in a straight line to the termination, on the east bank of the Delaware river, of a line run in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, by William Wickham and Samuel Gale, commissioners on the part of the then colony of New-York, and John Stevens and Walter Rutherford, commissioners on the part of the then colony of NewJersey; then along said line to a rock on the west side of Hudson's river, in the latitude of forty-one degrees north, marked by said commissioners; then southerly along the west shore, at low water mark, of Hudson's river, of the Kill Van Kull, of the sound between Staten Island and New-Jersey, and of Rariton Bay, to Sandy Hook; and then to the place of beginning, in such manner as to include Staten Island, and the islands of meadow on the west side thereof, Shooter's Island, Long Island, the Isle of Wight, now called Gardiner's Island, Fisher's Island, Shelter Island, Plumb Island, Robin's Island, Ram Island, the Gull Islands, and all the islands and waters in the bay of New-York, and within the bounds above described.

(NOTE.) In 1834 the boundary line between New-York and New-Jersey was established. See Laws of 1834, p. 8.

TITLE II.

OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION OF THE STATE.

SEC. 1. To what places they extend.

2. Duty of governor and subordinate officers to defend them.

3. Governor to employ counsel to defend suits.

4. District attorney to report to governor persons intruding upon lands.

5. Such persons to be removed by sheriff.

$1. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this state extend Extent. to all the places within the boundaries thereof, as declared in the preceding Title; but the extent of such jurisdiction over places that have been or may be ceded to the United States, shall be qualified by the terms of such cession.

Compiled from documents in the office of the secretary of state.

$2. It shall be the duty of the governor, and of all the To be main subordinate officers of the state, to maintain and defend its tained. sovereignty and jurisdiction.

Founded on 1 R. L., 127; Ib., 238; and Laws of 1819, p. 302.

defended.

S3. If any suit shall be instituted against this state, or Suits to be against any person deriving title therefrom, to recover any lands within this state, under pretence of any claim inconsistent with its sovereignty and jurisdiction, the governor, at

TITLE 1. the expense of this state, shall employ counsel and provide for the defence of such suit.

Founded on 1 R. L., 127; Ib., 238; and Laws of 1819, p. 302.

S4. If any person, under such pretence, shall intrude upon any of the waste or ungranted lands of this state, it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the county, immediately to report the same to the governor, who shall, thereupon, by a written order, direct the sheriff of the county to remove from said lands the person so intruding.

Founded on 1 R. L., 127; Ib., 238; and Laws of 1819, p. 302.

$5. The sheriff shall execute such order; and in case of resistance made or threatened, he may call to his aid the power of the county, as in cases of resistance to the writs of the people.

TITLE III.

OF THE PLACES CEDED TO THE UNITED STATES.

[A particular description of these places, as well those enumerated in the Revised Statutes, as those since ceded will be found in volume 5, page]

TITLE 6.- General provisions concerning the erection and alteration of counties, &c.

TITLE I.

OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE.

SECTION 1. The state shall be divided into fifty-six counties. called Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond, New-York, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, Columbia, Albany, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Schenectady, Saratoga, Montgomery, Hamilton, Washington, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Cortland, Tompkins, Tioga, Steuben, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Yates, Wayne, Livingston, Monroe, Genesee, Orleans, Niagara, Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauque.

[The residue of this Title, containing the boundaries of the counties above enumerated, and of the counties of Chemung, Fulton, Schuyler and Wyoming (crected since the Revised Statutes were enacted,) will be found in volume 5, page 307.]

TITLE II.

OF THE SENATE DISTRICTS.

SEC. 1. Division of the state into eight senate districts.

2. Districts to be altered at the first session after every census.

3. To consist of contiguous territory and of whole counties.

[The whole arrangement of senate districts being altered under the constitution of 1846, the first section of this title is omitted. See vol. iii, p. 8.]

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how altered.

S2. At the first session after the return of every enumera- when and tion to be made of the inhabitants of the state, the senate districts are to be so altered by the legislature, that each district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, paupers, and persons of color not taxed.

S3. Each senate district is required at all times to consist Territory. of contiguous territory; and no county can be divided in the formation of a senate district.

TITLE III.

OF THE CONGRESS DISTRICTS.

[The arrangement of congress districts as existing in 1862, renders it useless to publish this title. See vol. iii, p. 10.]

TITLE IV.

OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS IN THIS STATE.

[This title contains a description of each town in the state, and some general provisions concerning the boundary lines between towns. It will be published, vol. v, p. 353.]

TITLE V.

OF THE SEVERAL CITIES OF THIS STATE.

[This title contains the boundaries of the several cities in this state and of their respective wards. It will also be published, vol. v, p. 479.]

TITLE VI.

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

SEC. 1. Applicants for new counties, cities or villages, or the alteration of their bounds,
to publish notice and furnish a map.

2. Map to be verified by the oath of the surveyor.

3. If application granted, map to be filed with surveyor-general.

4. Applicants for new towns, or alterations or divisions of towns, to affix notice.

5. Notice to be read at town meeting.

6. Surveys and maps to be furnished.

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51. All persons intending to apply to the legislature for Certain apthe erection of a new county, or for the incorporation of a publish nocity or village; or for any alteration of the bounds of any nish map. county, city, or village, shall cause notice to be published of [87] such intended application, as required by law; and shall also procure an accurate survey and map of the territory described in such application.

See chap. vii, 1st part of R. S., title 3, sec. 1, post p. 154.

CHAP. 4. Map, how verified.

Where filed.

Notice of applications to erect towns,

affixed.

S2. 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.

$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 surveyor-general of this state.

$ 4. No town in this state shall be divided or altered in its bounds, nor shall any new town be erected, without an &c., where 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 next 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.

To be read at town

$5. A copy of such notice shall also be read at the town meetings. 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.

Map and survey.

$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. This title is taken chiefly from 1 R. L., p. 269, § 2, and 2 R. L., 135, § 25.

CHAP. III.

Of the Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the

State.

[By ch. 140, Laws of 1845, this chapter was repealed, and new regulations for taking the census adopted; but the new law, not being made a part of the Revised Statutes, it is not inserted in this place. See vol. 3, pp. 11, 22, 25; vol. 6, p. 439.]

Of the Rights of the Citizens and Inhabitants of this State.

(Took effect 1 January, 1830.)

SEC. 1. All authority derived from the people.

2. Taxes, how levied.

3. Right to keep arms.

4. When citizens may be compelled to perform military service.

5. Certain persons to be excused from service.

6. Quartering of soldiers.

7. Rights of citizens secured.

8. Trial by jury preserved; new courts to proceed according to the common law.