The sixty counties of the State were awarded Assemblymen upon the basis of a ratio of 57,909. Thirty-five of them on this basis were granted only one Assemblyman, while Fulton and Hamilton, as before, had to share one Assemblyman between them. The three exhibits given below show the principle of the division of the Assemblymen and the population of each county: EXHIBIT 1-ASSEMBLY. Statement showing population of counties having less than 57,909, or a ratio and a half: [Ratio, 38,606.] Population. 42,644 Otsego 45,845 Putnam 37,121 Richmond 44,548 Rockland.. 43,990 Saratoga 27,955 Schenectady 44,985 Schoharie.. 32,002 Schuyler 37,025 Seneca.... 42,069 Sullivan 82,328 Tioga. 30,843 Tompkins 45,769 Warren .... ... .. ... 29,414 Washington Yates... 43,831 46,974 28,732 Average population to a district, 36,280. Total...... Population. 49,862 13,325 46,592 31,325 54,909 31,630 28,668 16,326 25,928 31,438 29,365 33,159 28,157 45,144 46,538 30,253 20,316 1,306,083 Broome Niagara... EXHIBIT 2-ASSEMBLY. Statement showing population of counties having more than 57,909, or a ratio and a half, and having each two members: [Ratio, 38,606.] Population. 61,591 Oswego...... 59,700 St. Lawrence.. 73,884 Suffolk. 66,345 59,161 93,271 Average population to a district, 35,572. .... .... Kings. New York...1,423,984 ... EXHIBIT 3-ASSEMBLY. Statement showing population of counties having more than two ratios and a half and each having three or more members: Population. Members. 304,718 868,983 181,280 [Ratio, 38,606.] ... Total....... 85 3 4 Onondaga... 8 Queens... 21 Rensselaer... 123,974 121,679 129,224 Totals...8,569,798 Population. 69,023 Average population to a district, 49,566. 80,679 81,400 Population. Members. 142,058 4 58,872 85,392 924,875 8 8 88 GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK. GEORGE CLINTON. GEORGE CLINTON, first Governor of New York, was born in 1739, in what was then called "Little Britain," in Orange county, New York. He was probably son of the Earl of Lincoln, and Colonial Governor of New York from 1743 to 1753. He was educated to be a lawyer, and in 1765 was elected a member of the Colo nial Legislature from Ulster county. He took an active part among the patriots who brought about the American Revo lution and as a member of the Provincial GEORGE CLINTON. named after Admiral George Clinton, | Congress in 1775, voted for the Declara tion of Independence. The invasion of New York by a British army led him to return to his home in Ulster county and there organize a force of militia for ser vice in the American army. He was appointed a general of brigade and assumed a leading position as a defender of the infant State. A Provincial Gov. ernment was formed and Mr. Clinton, in 1777, was chosen Governor, and was Bworn into office at Kingston, which was then the Capital of the State and the place of meeting of its Legislature. Gov. ernor Clinton was then in command of the militia of the State and continued to hold this position until after the sur. render of General Burgoyne at Saratoga. He fought at the head of the State troops at Fort Montgomery, on the Hudson river, when that fort was captured by Sir Henry Clinton. George Clinton was re-elected as Governor in 1780, 1783, 1786, 1789, 1792, and in 1801. It was under his chief direction that the first Constitution of the State was adopted in 1777. He also had a strong Influence over the convention which amended the Constitution in 1801. This convention said that the number of State Senators should be thirty-two, and the number of Assemblymen one hundred. It was also during Governor Clinton's long administration that the citizens liv. ing in what was known as "the Hampshire Grants" were permitted to separate themselves from the State of New York and to organize the present State of Vermont. New York thus lost one of its | JOHN JOHN JAY, the second Governor of New York, and the descendant of a Huguenot family, was born in New York city on December 12, 1745, and was graduated from Kings College, now Columbia College, on May 15, 1764. He then entered a law office and was admitted to practice law in 1768, forming a partnership with Robert R. Livingstone, the future Chancellor. From the first Mr. Jay sympathized with the American patriots in their resistance to English tyranny, and in 1774 he became one of a counties Cumberland which now forms Windham and Windsor counties, Vermont. Governor Clinton took the lead in internal improvements and in building up the public schools. It was in pursuance of his recommendations that the Board of Regents of the Univer. sity was established in 1784. In 1789 lands were by law set aside in each new township for the support of the common schools and the literature fund, which still exists. Governor Clinton also recom. mended, in 1791, the organization of a society for the promotion of agriculture. He further suggested, in 1792, that canals be constructed between the Hud. son and Lake Ontario and the Hudson and Lake Champlain. Legislative acts were therefore passed, organizing two canal companies, the Northern Canal Company and the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company. These companies were authorized to improve the naviga. tion of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and to form connections between the upper waters of the Mohawk and Oneida and Ontario lakes, as well as between the Hudson river and Lake Champlain. Such were the first steps toward a grand system of canals. In 1804 Governor Clinton was elected Vice-President of the United States, and it was while holding that office that he died in Washington, on April 20, 1812. JAY. committee of fifty formed especially to link together the colonies by correspond. ence into a united effort for the common cause. He was elected a member of the first Continental Congress, and as such drafted the address to the people of Great Britain. He also was a member of the second Continental Congress, and took an active part in prepar. ing the United States for war. In 1777 he drafted the first Constitution of the State and under was him. self appointed Chief Justice of the |