38,012 40,553 41,477 45,646 86,328 88,210 15,081 21,389 25,492 16,952 19,511 22.492 20,788 74,977 83,689 49,379 51,729 28,209 80,994 49,892 Schenectady, 20.054 Schoharie, 33,518 16,230 17,387 16,630 25,358 28,138 27,653 62,965 66.690 66,192 36,922 40,906 43,275 42,859 29,487 32,385 32,741 Total,. 2,174,517 2,428,921 2,604,495 3,097,394 3,466,118 3,880,735 3,831,777 GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE ERECTION AND ALTERATIONS 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,1 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. [From Chap. 194, Laws of 1849.] SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the several counties in this 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, to divide or alter in its bounds any town or erect a new town but they shall not make any alterations that shall place parts of the same town in more than one assembly district upon application to the board, as hereinafter provided, of at least twelve freeholders of each of the towns to be affected by the division, and upon being furnished with a map and survey of all the towns to be affected, showing the proposed 1 See chap. 7, first part R. S., title 3, sec. 1. |