Legislature.

Senate and Assembly.

Senatorial districts.

Census, when to be taken.

Districts, when to be altered.

SENATE DISTRICTS.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE THIRD.

SECTION 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly.

§ 2. The Senate shall consist of thirty-two members, and the Senators shall be chosen for two years. The Assembly shall consist of one hundred and twenty-eight members, who shall be annually elected.

§ 3. The State shall be divided into thirty-two districts, to be called Senate districts, each of which shall choose one Senator. The districts shall be numbered from one to thirty-two inclusive.

§ 4. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the State shall be taken, under the direction of the Legislature, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and the said districts shall be so altered by the Legislature, at the first session after the return of every enumeration, that each Senate district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed; and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all times consist of consucceeding tiguous territory; and no county shall be divided in

To remain unaltered until next

census.

the formation of a Senate district, except such county shall be equitably entitled to two or more Senators.

SENATE DISTRICTS

AS ORGANIZED BY CHAP. 805, LAWS OF 1866.

1st District.

Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Richmond.
First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, 2d District.

Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the
county of Kings.

Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, 3d District. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second *wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots and New Utrecht, of the county of Kings.

First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, 4th District. Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards of the city and county of New York.

Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards of 5th District. the city and county of New York..

Eleventh, Tenth and Seventeenth wards of the city 6th District. and county of New York.

Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first wards of 7th District. the city and county of New York.

Twelfth, Nineteenth and Twenty-second wards of 8th District. the city and county of New York.

Counties of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland. 9th District.

Counties of Orange and Sullivan.

Counties of Dutchess and Columbia.

Counties of Rensselaer and Washington.

County of Albany.

Counties of Greene and Ulster.

10th District

11th District

12th District

13th District

14th District

Counties of Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Ham- 15th District

ilton and Schenectady.

Counties of Warren, Essex and Clinton.

Counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.

Counties of Jefferson and Lewis.

16th District

17th District 19th District

County of Oneida.

20th District

Counties of Herkimer and Otsego.

21st District

22d District.

23d District.

24th District

25th District

26th District

27th District

28th District

29th District

30th District

81st District

32d District.

Counties of Oswego and Madison.

Counties of Onondaga and Cortland.

Counties of Chenango, Delaware and Schoharie

Counties of Broome, Tioga and Tompkins.

Counties of Cayuga and Wayne.

Counties of Ontario, Yates and Seneca.

Counties of Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben.

County of Monroe.

Counties of Niagara, Orleans and Genesee.

Counties of Wyoming, Livingston and Allegany.

County of Erie.

Counties of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus.

Members of Assembly to be apportioned.

Supervisors to divide counties Into Assem

ASSEMBLY.

SECTION 5 OF ARTICLE 3 OF THE CONSTITUTION. To which is annexed a List of the Assembly Districts into which counties were divided by the Boards of Supervisors in 1866.

SECTION 5. The Members of Assembly shall be apportioned among the several counties of this State, by the Legislature, as nearly as may be, according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed, and shall be chosen by single districts.

The several Boards of Supervisors, in such counties of this State as are now entitled to more than one bly districts. Member of Assembly, shall assemble on the first Tuesday of January next, and divide their respective counties into Assembly districts equal to the number of Members of Assembly to which such counties are now severally entitled by law, and shall cause to be filed in the offices of the Secretary of State and the Clerks of their respective counties, a description of such Assembly districts, specifying the number of each district and the population thereof, according to the last preceding State enumeration, as near as can be ascertained. Each Assembly district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory; but no town shall be divided in the formation of Assembly districts.

be re-appor

The Legislature, at its first session after the return Members t of every enumeration, shall re-apportion the Members tioned. of Assembly among the several counties of this State, in manner aforesaid, and the Boards of Supervisors in such counties as may be entitled, under such

re-apportionment, to more than one member, shall assemble at such time as the Legislature making such re-apportionment shall prescribe, and divide such counties into Assembly districts, in the manner herein Districts to directed; and the apportionment and districts so to be made, shall remain unaltered until another enu- To remair.

be altered.

unaltered

census.

meration shall be taken under the provisions of the until next preceding section.

entitled to

Every county heretofore established and separately organized, except the county of Hamilton, shall Each county always be entitled to one Member of the Assembly, one Memand no new county shall be hereafter erected, unless Hamilton. its population shall entitle it to a member.

ber, except

The county of Hamilton shall elect with the county of Fulton, until the population of the county of Hamilton tu Hamilton shall, according to the ratio, be entitled to Fulton. a member.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS. *APPORTIONED BY LEGISLATURE (CHAP. 607), APRIL 16, 1866.

ALBANY COUNTY-FOUR DISTRICTS.

First District. Towns of Bethlehem, Coeymans, Westerlo, Rensselaerville, Berne, Knox, Guilderland and New Scotland. Second District. First, Ninth and Tenth wards of the city of Albany.

Third District. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth wards of the city of Albany.

Fourth District. Town of Watervliet and city of Cohoes.

ALLEGANY COUNTY-ONE DISTRICT.

BROOME COUNTY-ONE DISTRICT.

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY-TWO DISTRICTS.

First District. Towns of Allegany, Ashford, Ellicottville, Farmersville, Franklinville, Freedom, Hinsdale, Humphrey, Ischua, Lyndon, Machias, Olean, Portville and Yorkshire.

Second District. Towns of Carrolton, Conewango, Coldspring, Dayton, East Otto, Great Valley, Leon, Little Valley, Mansfield, Napoli, New Albion, Otto, Perrysburgh, Persia, Randolph, South Valley and Salamanca.

CAYUGA COUNTY-TWO DISTRICTS.

First District. Towns of Sterling, Victory, Ira, Conquest, Cato, Mentz, Brutus, Sennett, and the First and Fourth wards of the city of Auburn, and towns of Throop and Montezuma. Second District. Towns of Aurelius, Owasco, Fleming, Ledyard, Springport, Scipio, Niles, Venice, Moravia, Sempronius, Genoa, Locke, Summer Hill, and the Second and Third wards of the city of Auburn.

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY-TWO DISTRICTS.

First District. Busti, Chautauqua, Clymer, Ellery, French