INDEX TO NEW-YORK MUNICIPAL GAZETTE. SERIES OF NUMBERS, EMBRACING Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. ISSUED MAY 28th, 1847. Of the Series composed of Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48.....June 1, 1846, to May 1, 1847. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Strong.... 580 Equalization of Taxation. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Morris.... 578 Debates thereon by 9 members.. 610 and 593 Taxation of Personal Property. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Murphy... 599 Debates thereon by 3 members. Royal Charters and Grants. Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Murphy.. 581 Titles to Bills and Acts. Royal Charters and Franchises. 575 Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers... 562 List of members of the Council of Appointment, 758 United States Public Stocks, exempt from taxa- Annual Tax Bill of 1846, and remarks thereon.. 553 Act authorizing a City Convention.. 553 556 Mayor Havemeyer says petitions and Remon- Mayor Havemeyer's Veto of Resolution to open 563 568 Expenses of Registry Law, remarks upon...... 596 property in the city of New-York. Arbitrary and Inquisitorial Taxation, report of a Remarks thereon 609 622 622-3 Draft of a Remonstrance of Chamber of Com- Draft of bills to alter the law for the assessment Draft of tax bill presented the Legislature by the Names of assessors for 1846.... 759 657 698 577 557 Injunction of Supreme Court of Massachusetts 760 Cities and Villages. Prerogative of mercy 685 Resolution in relation thereto by Mr. Murphy.. 609 Legislative power 685 STREET DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT. 686 Proceedings in relation to Houston and Leroy 613 Remonstrances against the amendments of the streets.. Proceedings in relation to the Bloomingdale 687 Judiciary. Speech of Hon. James Tallmadge.. 619 to 621 and 658 A bill to amend the amendments to the Charter .687-8 A bill in relation to the Seamen's fund and retreat 688 Municipal Corporations. Speaker of the House of Assembly....... 695 696 New-York City Charter, second amendments Road... 576.680 ...576.602. 603.678 to 680 Taxes in Barbary en by the New Constisution, Art. 6, sec. 8... 626 Draft of Tax assessment law by the New-York SAFETY FUND General Banking Law, reported NOTICE OF PERSONS. Speech of Hon H. C. Murphy.........581 and 581 Corporations other than Banking and Municipal. Speech of Hon. H. C. Murphy........611 and 612 by Mr. Hadley, in the House of Assembly..698-9 Stephen Allen; Burtis Skidmore.. 593 J. P. Phoenix 759 ..595-6 Joseph Slocomb.. 594 596 Professor Olmsted 671 NOTICES. 695 Myndert Van Schaick's petition in relation to McCulloughs Geographical Dictionary. 575 Valentine's Corporation Manual. 575 695 Memoir of Eli Whitney, by Prof. Olmsted.. 575 Boston public documents... .575,682 Earthquakes, Remarks upon by Eben. Meriam, And their connection with volcanoes, thunder, lightning, snow, hail, wind, rain, cold, heat, calms and equilibriums affecting the atmosphere over vast sections of the Globe and producing changes of great magnitude as confirmed by observations made simultaneously on Brooklyn Heights and published in the Brooklyn Star before hearing of the earthquakes.. 624 554, 694, 689, 690, 651, 592, 570, 755, 555, 569, 571, 586, 589, 593, 596, 598, 603, 630, 640, 650, 652, 661, 662, 668, 674, 675, 676, 682, 695, 700 to 756 Suggestion that an earthquake had taken place on the 22d of April, 1846, made prior to June 1, 555 gestion by an arrival from Sicily, July 7, 1846. 592 Great Earthquake in South America... Earthquakes in New Hampshire. Simultaneous convulsions in the East 1846 Confirmation of the correctness of the above sug Earthquakes at Marseilles, France.. Hudson River Railroad 682 dus Bay Salt well 587 Earthquakes at New-Madrid Letter from Teunis G. Bergen, ex-member of the State Convention... Earthquake at Caraccas,.. 693, 694 Steamers and Earthquakes. 690 Earthquake Ruins.... 676 Connection of earthquakes and storms. 674 660, 661 661 656 624 598 695 Remarks upon earthquakes, by Hon. Josiah Butler; and by Dudley Leavitt, Esq........ 661 Do. by a native of Deerfield.. Mammoth steam engine for pumping out Harlem Lake in Holland. .634,635 Earthquakes at Martinique in 1727 660 760 Coal ashes a protection against Potato Rot.. 639, 695 Grates for burning coal.. 640 Hoops for large tubs and vats 640 Eruptions of Mount Heckla......569. 591, 596, 630 Salt Petre Mines in South America.. 675 At Valparasio, S. A., March 18, 1846 690 Volcanic action, extensive in its operations...... 675 Graham Volcanic shoal 598 At Maysville, Ky., March 23,1846...... 555 Volcanoes in the Red Sea. At Cuba, Island of Cuba, March 23, 1846...... 555 At Catania, April 22d and 28, 1846 661,662 592 MORTALITY. A cloud of locusts 675 At Santa Cruz, Cuba, April 28, 1846 ...... 555, 592 At Memphis, Ten., May 8, 1846 569 Rock Mills... 635 At Newburyport, Ma s., May 30, 1846. Mortality in Boston.... 682 661 in New York 757, 596 At Guadaloupe and Martinique, June 16, 1846.. 598 At Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 21, 1846... The solemn knell-Steamer Atlantic bell tolling 596 the requiem of 42 persons-moved by the ocean swell 673, 644 At Messina and Catania, June 1846 ...... 598, 592 At Deerfield, N. H., July 10, 1846.... 757,758 660 At Cologne and in Southern Germany, July 29, 690 1846, ::: 598 taneously an earthquake of great severity throughout the province of Tuscany in Europe, August, 14, 1846.... Death of an infant in its mother's arms, written by Mrs. Sigourney. 672 Obituary notice of Mrs. Mary S. M. Seaman,. 672. 691 Lines written upon the death of Mrs. Mary Strong 651 Meriam Seaman, by Miss Cornelia Loomis. .673, 691 Miss Julia C. Ringwood 691 Miss Margaretta McNary 691 W. H. Starr, Esq.. 691 661, 662, 663 Letters from Mary S. Meriam to her sister..... 691 York, April 20, 1846 558 Remarks upon the quality of American salt..... 558 Analyses of Salt... 633 Temperature of salt water 659 Specific graaity of salt water at Syracuse 659 At the Island of Iceland, Aug. 22, 1846.....630, 631 At the sea-port and river towns in Maine, Massachusetts and New-Hampshire and in the River towns in Vermont, Aug. 25, 1846 .......661, 689 At Leghorn, Tuscany, Aug. 27, 1846 At Gunang Marrippa, Java, Sept. 2, 1846 ...... 704 Letter from Miss Cornelia Loomis to Mrs. M. S. M. Seaman. 673 Lines written by Mary S. Meriam in her sister's 703 album-selected.. Letter from Mrs. M. S. M. Seaman to her sister 691 672 Specific gravity of salt water at Saltville, 659 At Trinidad, St. Vincents, and Grenada, Sept. 6, Import of salt into the port of New-York in 1846, 695 Foreigu Salt, letters in relation to, from Am. At Trinidad, Sept. 10, 1846.. England... 705 Consuls.... 562 At Deerfield, N. H., Sept 12, 1846 Obituary notice of Jonathan Thompson, Esq.... 672 705 Onondaga State Salines.... "The Hour Glass," 695 At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, Sept. 15, 1846.. 705 written by John Quincy Sterility and Salt. South America 699 At St. Domingo City, Sept. 16, 1846.. 705 Saline Incrustations.... 675 At Trinided, Sept. 1846 Adams, Esq.. President of the United States.. 672 Notice of an ancient copy of the Bible......672.690 631 Lake of salt water changed into a field of salt... 675 At Boonsboro', Md., Oct. 19, 1846. Obituary notice of Preserved Fish.... 596 631 Salt for manure 633 At Talahassee, Florida, Oct. 23, 1846.... Greenwood Cemetery; Vocal Willow; Prayers 640 At Algiers, Africa, in Oct. 1846.. 644 for Rain; Birds in the Cemetery 757 New mode of constructing salt furnaces 664 At Deerfield, N.H., Oct. 29 and 31, 1846..... The Adirondack Solitary.. 560 A series of letters from a gentleman residing in the State of Tennessee, upon various scientific subjects....624, 631, 636, 637, 644, 652, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668, 666, 667, 668, 682 and 692. Letters from Thomas Spencer, former State Superintendant of the Onondaga Salines, written from Saltvilla, southwestern mountains of Virginia 559, 560, 575, 587, 606,631, 643, 659, 673,683 Letters from W. P. Milnor, written from the fossil salt mines of southwestern Virginia, situate 1782 feet above the level of the sea. 605, 606, 642 659, 664, 682 At Deerfield, N.H., Nov. 12, 1846.....709, 651, 661 At several places in Scotland, Nov. 25th, 1846.. 668 Village destroyed by lightning... 656 At Porto Rico, Nov. 28, 1846..... 650 Packet ship Thomas P. Cope and cargo destroy 640 592 At Deerfield, N.H., Dec. 2, 1846713, 651, 661 At Trinidad, Dec. 17, 1846..... ed by lightning Nov, 29, 1846... 650 750 At Grafton Harbor, Jan. 8, 1847,... 652 Brig Oscar destroyed by lightning Sept. 15, 1846.727 Ship Christopher Columbus and cargo destroyed At Albany, Jan. 11, 1847.. 652 by lightning Feb. 11. 1847. 719 At Rice Lake, Jan. 14, 1847.. 682 Ship Hugenot struck by lightning and cargo set on fire June 12, 1846.. 571 At Bangor, Maine, in January, 1847,. 753 " At Deerfield, N.H. Feb. 2d, 1847 754 and 756 At Meredith. N.H., Feb. 14, 1847. 756 Silicious lightning tubes At Belfast, Me., Feb. 19, 1847. 754 At Deerfield, N.H., Feb. 21, 1847. 755 At Capiaco, South America in 1847.. 755 At Green Bay, and Fox River, March 9, 1847... 755 At Limington, Maine, April 1, 1847.. 755 Telegraph wires and thunder storms At Mount Morris, N. Y., April 27, 1847 755 Lightning wires a complete protection. 554 572, 635 Thunder storms... 756, 757, 607, 608.755. 590. 632. 570, 571, 587, 588, 593, 598, 604, 605, 641, 650, 655, 656, 662, 674, 700 to 755, 586. 572.592.589. 573.642. 707, 604, 596, 608, 572 in South America, in 1793.......... 674 674 ...... Four horses killed by. lightning in an open field, Aug. 23, 1846; a man killed by lightning Aug. 23, 1846; church edifice struck by lightning in Beverly and several of the congregation prostra- ted; two dwelling houses struck in North Salem -the telegraph wires and posts struck in West- boro, a barn struck in Nantick, and with its con- August 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847.. 700 to 721 Dew, Snow and Rain for the year 1846 Aggregate fall of Rain and Snow at Syracuse for Temperature of the air and state of the weather 715 715 560 589 Temperature of the air, fall of rain, course of the wind, thunder and lightning, &c. as observed at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Milnor, July 1846.605 Meteorlogical observations made every hour from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. at Saltville, Va., by W. P. Mil- nor, from Aug. 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847.700 to 721 Meteorlogical observations made on Brooklyn Heights, hourly by E. M., 571, 588, 605,700 to 721 Barn in Dedham and its contents burnt by light- ning, July 12, 1846; Barn struck by lightning at Dedham same day; Vessel struck by light- ning same day at Newport, R. I.: Five men killed by lightning in the woods; Mansion Stable struck by lightning and horse killed; church edifice struck by lightning; Lightning struck Thunder storm at Baltimore, Aug. 7, 1846; brig Juliet, schooner Union, City Mills, a banking house, store, and hotel struck by lightning, one man killed by lightning under a bridge, and several persons loadinga vessel knocked down and stunned. The lightning took full possess- ion of the telegraph wires; several cattle in 604 Balloon struck by lightning; man killed by light- Man killed by lightning in Indiana; two men of whom did not recover.. Barn burnt by lightning at Killingworth, Conn.; dwelling house struck by lightning, and servant man killed, Aug. 30, 1846; house struck by lightning and three persons killed; militia cap- tain knocked down on parade by lightning Sept. 3, 1846; lady killed by lightning Sept. 3, 1846; man killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846 and a dwelling in St. Louis torn to atoms; two oxen killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846; three persons while in bed killed by lightning Sept. Ship Independence struck twice by lightning the same day 5 men knocked down and 2 disabled Railroad cars struck by lightning in Georgia, March 13, 1847; barn burnt by lightning near Union town, Md.; barn burnt by lightning near Chambersburgh, Pa. April 13, 1847; man kill- ed by lightning near Woodbrige, N. J., also 2 horses, March 26, 1847; hotel struck and man killed by lightning at Westport, same day; barn burnt by lightning in Hadley, Saratoga county, together with its contents, April 21, 1847 757 Two barns and contents burnt by lightning in Herkimer county, dwelling house struck by lightning and man knocked down in Madison county, April 12, 1847; horse killed by light- ning near Chelsea, Mass.; house struck by light- ning at Newburyport, Mass.; church edifice struck by lightning at Nashville, April 22, 1847; Rise and fall of Lake Ontario. Temperature of the Sea and of the Gulf Stream 608 Opening and closing of Erie Canal and H. River, 633 Looking Glasses struck by lightning Electric, magnetic and meteoric wires.. Long Island in the electric current.... Suggestion of the cause of the Lightning striking so frequently at New-Haven.... 573 573 573 573 624, 573 Ærolites Meteors Shower of Grubs in winter. Diseased Vegetation METEORLOGICAL. 719 607 NOTE. The present series of numbers, 41 to 48 inclusive, are bound up under one cover in order to place in the hands Municipal Gazette. PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY. EDITED BY E. MERIAM.] The MAY No. of the Gazette containing the Constitution of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, &c. pg. 81 to 96 of the volume both inclusive, is issued to supply a vacant number in the volume in order that we may be able to place the entire volume complete in the hands of each of the members of the Convention as soon as they shall be organised for business. The present number contains some important facts in relation to the Montgomerie charter, copied from the volumes of copies of documents obtained in England, by Mr. BROADHEAD, and now in the State archieves. ANNUAL TAX BILL. We give below the annual Tax Bill. It authorises the assessment of the heaviest tax ever before imposed in the city of New-York. The necessity for such a tax does not exist. One half the sun authorised, properly expended, would be far more useful to the City than this great waste of money lavished upon political favorites. A question of great importance arises under this act with respect to what particular personal property is assessable. The act is special-has a local and not a general operation, and differs in that respect from the State Tax act. The act has been bunglingly drawn. It provides as follows: “to be collected according to law." As to the assessment of it, the provision is specialand no personal property is authorised to be assessed except of freeholders and inhabitants of the city and county whose real and personal estate is situate within the county. The question then arises under section 5 of page 381 of the 1st volume of the Revised Statutes as to the oath. If the person taxed declares that he is worth only a certain sum named in the affidavit over and above his just debts and property exempted from taxation, and he includes in this exemption all his personal estate without the county of Neu New-York, whether such a construction is right? The counsel of the corporation, Mr. Brady (whose course so far in office has been greatly approbated on account of his honesty of purpose and careful compliance with law) should instruct the assessors in this. No. 282. IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 1846. Introduced by Mr. ALBERTSON. AN ACT To enable the supervisors of the city and county of The People of the State of New-York, represented in SEC. 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of New-York, as the supervisors of the city and county of New-York, of whom the mayor or recorder shall be one, are hereby empowered, as soon as conveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax, on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, a sum not exceeding nine hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and sixtytwo dollars, to be applied towards defraying the various contingent expenses legally chargeable to the said city and county, and such expenses as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York may in any manner sustain or be put to by law. Such portion of the contingent expenses of the said city of New-York as relates to re-paving and cleaning streets in that part of the said city lying south of a line running through the centre of Thirty-fourth street, shall be assessed only that part of the said city lying south of the said line. And also the further sum not exceeding four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, NEW-YORK, JUNE 1, 1846. by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the free- CITY CONVENTION. No. 341. IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 1846. To provide for the calling of a convention to amend The People of the State of New-York, represented in New-York. § 2. The delegates chosen to this convention shall be chosen as representatives from each ward, each delegate representing ten thousand inhabitants; and if any ward have, in addition to this ratio, a fraction of six thousand and upwards, one representative shall be allowed to be chosen for said fraction: but each of the present wards of the city of New-York, without regard to its population, shall be allowed one representative in said convention. § 3. Notice of such election shall be given, and the same shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law in regard to the charter elections in the city of New-York, and the name of each delegate voted for shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed upon each ballot, and the ballot shall be endorsed "Delegates to the Convention," and a separate box for the deposite of such ballots shall be kept by the inspectors of each election district in the several wards of the said city. The result of such election shall be ascertained and certified in the manner now provided in the act regulating charter elections in said city. § 4. All the provisions of law for the purity of elections in the city of New-York shall apply to the election held under this act; and all false swearing at said election shall be deemed and punished as perjury. §5. The delegates to be chosen under this act, shall meet in the city of New-York on the first Monday of July next, at the chamber of the board of aldermen, and shall then, or as soon after as may be practicable, organize and adopt rules for their government. They shall complete their business so that any charter or amendments adopted by them, may be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New York, as in the next section provided. [VOL. I....No. 41 § 6. The charter or amendments adopted by the convention to be organized under this act, shall be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New-York, each provision separately at the election to be held in the said city on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; and such amendments as may be approved by a majority of said electors at said election, shall thenceforth be incorporated in, and form a part of the charter of the city of New-York. And if an entirely new charter be submitted to the electors at said election, the same shall, upon being adopted by a majority of said electors, become the charter of the city of New-York. The tickets to be used at the election to be held under this section, shall be prepared in such form as the said convention may direct. § 7. The expenses of the election of delegates held under this act, and all expenses attending the convention, shall be paid out of the treasury of the city of New-York. The proceeding of the convention shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county, when duly certified to by the pressding officer and secretary or secretaries of said convention. § 8. The members of the convention shall have power to provide for their own pay, which shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day actually in session. [Amended...See page 556.] TAX UPON ACTUAL CAPITAL. The following bill was reported in the Senate. The same bill has been three times reported in the same form, and yet remains dormant. No. 16. IN SENATE, January 16, 1846. [Reported by Mr. Porter, from the Committee on Finance.] An Act to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to the exemption of incorporated companies from taxation, and for other purposes. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section nine of title four, of chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, which authorizes the exemption of incorporated companies in certain cases from taxation, is hereby repealed. § 2. All banks established under the act entitled "An act to authorize the business of Banking," passed April 18, 1838, shall be subject to taxation on the amount of capital paid in or secured to be paid, in the same manner as incorporated banks; and the proper officer or officers of such banks shall make an annual statement to the Comptroller and the assessors in the manner provided by the second section of title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Stat utes. § 3. The provisions of the fifteenth section of the second title of the thirteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, shall be extended to all such banks, and to all incorporated companies subject to taxation, and the affidavit in such case may be made by the president, cashier, secretary, or treasurer thereof; and such banks and incorporated companies shall be assessed on the actual value of all their real and personal estate at the time of making such assessment; and all provisions of law which are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. The proper officer or officers of such banks and incorporated companies shall make and deliver to the assessors an annual statement of the amount of all their real and personal estate in the manner required by section two, title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Statutes. |