nection with the publication of the article referred to in the aforesaid petition, which may appear or be made to appear, and

"I hereby further require that you, the Attorney-General of this State, attend in person or by one of your deputies, said term of said court and at such later term or terms of said court as may be appointed or fixed, for the purpose of managing and conducting in and before said court all criminal actions and proceedings under or by virtue of any and all indictments which may be found by the aforesaid grand jury for or by reason of any of the matters or things hereinbefore specified, mentioned or referred to, and

"That in person or by your deputy in the place and stead of the district attorney of Broome county, you exercise all the powers and perform all the duties conferred upon you under the provisions of said section 52 and this requirement made thereunder."

THEREFORE, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by section 55 of the Executive Law, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it, I do hereby designate and employ Edgar T. Brackett of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga county, N. Y., as attorney and counsel to assist in the transaction of the legal business mentioned in the requirement hereinbefore set forth, and to assist in the management, presentation, conducting and prosecution of the inquiries, criminal actions, proceedings and prosecutions therein mentioned and in the trial thereof, and to perform all such services with reference to said business as may be necessary or proper.

Given under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

[L. S.]

(Signed)

By the Governor :

CHARLES E. HUGHES

GEORGE CURTIS TREADWELL

Acting Secretary to the Governor

Designation of Attorney-General to Represent the People in Erie County at a Term of the Supreme Court and Conduct Proceedings Against Arthur E. Appleyard and Paul Werner

STATE OF NEW YORK - EXECUTIVE CHAMBER

Albany, October 31, 1907

HON. WILLIAM SCHUYLER JACKSON,

Attorney-General of the State of New York,

Capitol, Albany, N. Y.:

SIR. Pursuant to the provisions of section 52 of chapter 683 of the Laws of 1892, I hereby require that you, the Attorney-General of this State, attend, in person, or by one of your deputies:

1. A term of the Supreme Court, appointed to be held in and for the county of Erie, on the first Monday of November, 1907, and at such later term or terms as may be appointed or fixed, for the purpose of managing and conducting, in and before said court, all criminal actions and proceedings therein pending against Arthur E. Appleyard and against Paul Werner, the charge in the indictment against the said Appleyard being grand larceny, and the charge in the indictment against said Werner being perjury;

2. Any session or sitting of the grand jury of the county of Erie, whenever and as the same may be or become necessary or proper, for the purpose of managing and conducting, in and before said grand jury, any and all proceedings, examinations or inquiries which may be had or taken, by or before said grand jury, upon, concerning or relating to any criminal charge against any person growing out of the insolvency of the German Bank (formerly a domestic corporation or association located at Buffalo, Erie county, N. Y.), or arising or growing out of the business, transactions or affairs of the said German Bank, or of its officers or directors or other persons with said bank;

And that, in person, or by your deputy, in the place and stead of the district attorney of Erie county, you exercise all the powers and perform all the duties conferred upon you by said section 52 and this requirement made thereunder.

(Signed)

CHARLES E. HUGHES

Designation of Members of the Land Purchase Board to Act with the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner

Martin H. Glynn, Comptroller, January 28, 1907. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Speaker of the Assembly, January 28, 1907.

Designation of Special Counsel

Job E. Hedges, New York, February 19, 1907.

To assist the Board of Railroad Commissioners in the investigation of the accident on February 16, 1907, on the Harlem Division of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.