of January 1851, and at the end of every two years thereafter by resolution of the board determine, to be appointed in and for said cities respectively. Commissioners of deeds for the city and county of New York. 300 commissioners of deeds. Notaries public By the laws of 1883, chap. 508, no more notaries public should be appointed in any county, except in the county of Kings, the city of Buffalo, and the city and county of New York, than one for every 2000 of population residing in said county, as shown by the census taken in the state next preceding any appointment thereafter to be made. In 1864 the governor of the state was authorised to appoint an additional number in each county, including the city of New York, equal to the number of banks located therein, on the application of each bank. In 1867 the governor was empowered, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint in and for the city and county of New York 100 notaries public, and in each assembly district of the state other than the county of New York, 2 additional notaries public, in addition to the number then provided by law. Since then there have been numerous increases to the number of those in the city and county of New York, and in each assembly district. In 1876, the increase was "in each county except the city and county of New York, notaries public equal to 10 for each assembly district, and in the said city and county, 250 notaries public, in addition to the number now allowed by law; provided, however, that in each county which is a single States deposit still existing was State prison officers- To each of the state prisons an 2 instructors for each of the prisons Regents 19 regents of the university, in addition to those who are regents ex officio. Miscellaneous— An inspector of public works. A superintendent of the Adirondack survey. 6 commissioners of emigration. Superintendents of the poor in each county except Albany, Kings, New York, and Putnam. School commissioners in each county. A superintendent of the Onandaga salt-springs. (The office of superintendent of salt-springs at Montezuma, and of inspector of salt in the county of Onondaga, abolished in 1846.) A captain of the port of New York. Harbour-masters A harbour-master for the port of 11 harbour-masters for the port of Port wardens 9 wardens of the port of New York. 2 special wardens to reside at the quarantine ground. Health officers A health officer A resident physician A health commissioner For the city and A health officer of every city, incorporated village, and town. Bank directors So many directors of incorporated banks as the state may be authorised, by the acts of incorporation, to appoint. Wreck-masters (This office existed at the adoption of the Revised Statutes, was abrogated in 1841, and re-established in 1843. His salary was fixed in 1851 at $100). A superintendent of the Brothertown Indians. An attorney of the Seneca nation Receiver for pier, Sag Harbour— Surrogates, supreme court commissioners, commissioners of deeds, and justices in cities, are local officers, and each officer is confined in the execution of his duties to the district or county for which he is appointed. Justices of the peace must reside in the town for which they were chosen, and shall not try a civil cause in any other town, except in cases otherwise provided for by law. With some modifications, notaries public must re 15 wreck-masters in the county of side in the respective cities or coun Suffolk. ties for which they are appointed, but may exercise the duties of their office at any place within the state. Sheriffs, clerks of counties, coroners, district attorneys, marshals of cities, the clerk of the court of oyer and terminer and general sessions in New York, the register and clerk of that city, police justices and assistant justices in that city, and their clerks, are so far local as to require the residence of every person holding such office within the county or city in which the duties of his office are required by law to be executed. Every officer included in the class of administrative officers is confined in the execution of his duties to the district, county, city, town, or village for which he is appointed, except where otherwise provided by law. No person is capable of holding a civil office who, at the time of his election or appointment, has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and is not then a citizen of this state. No person elected to the common council of any of the cities in the state shall, during his term of office, be appointed to any office of profit in the gift of such common council; but this does not extend to any officers whose appointment is by the constitution vested in the common council of any city. All officers elected by the people, unless elected to supply vacancies then existing, enter on the duties of their respective offices on the first day of January following their respective elections. Every officer, the mode of whose appointment is not prescribed by the constitution, or is not prescribed by law, is nominated by the governor, and appointed by him with consent of the senate. All assistants, deputies, and other subordinate officers of every description whose appointment is not specially provided for, are appointed by the body, board, or officer to which or to whom they are respectively subordinate. Where the number of such subordinate officers is not directed by law, it is limited at the discretion of the appointing power. In all cases not otherwise provided for, each deputy possesses the powers and performs the duties attached by law to the office of his principal, during a vacancy in such office, and during the absence of his principal. Every office, of which the duration is not prescribed by the constitution or is not declared by law, is held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment. Every officer duly appointed, except the justices of the supreme court and circuit judges, who has duly entered on the duties of his office, continues to discharge the duties thereof, although his term of office has expired, until his successor is duly qualified. Sheriffs and clerks of counties, including the register and clerk of the city and county of New York, in like manner continue to discharge the duties of their offices until their respective successors are duly qualified. ELECTIONS OTHER THAN FOR MILITIA AND TOWN OFFICERS. No person who has been convicted of bribery, or of any infamous crime deemed by the laws of this state a felony, at any time previous to an election, is permitted to vote thereat, unless he has been pardoned before or after his term of imprisonment has expired, and restored by pardon to all the rights of a citizen; nor is a person permitted to vote who makes any bet or wager, or is directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election at which he offers to vote. In time of war, every elector of the state in the actual military service of the United States, in the Army or Navy thereof, who is absent from the state on the day of election, is entitled to vote at any general or special election held in the state in this manner :-He, by an instrument executed by him not more than sixty days previous to such election, authorises and empowers any elector of the town or city where he resides, on the day of the election, to cast for him his vote or ballot, in the manner prescribed by chap. 253 of the laws of 1864, for all officers for whom he would have a right to vote if he were present at such election. This instru If vote or ballots contained in it duly ment is signed by the absent elector, | inspectors publicly opened, and the attested by a subscribing witness, and sworn to before any field-officer, captain, adjutant, or commandant of any company or detachment on detached service in the service of the United States, and commissioned as officers in the volunteer force of the state, or the captain or commandant of any vessel in the naval service of the United States to which the said absent elector may belong or be attached; and such officers are authorised to administer oaths for the purposes of said Act, and they attach to their signatures their official designations. The elector prepares and folds the ballot or ballots he designs to cast at such election and encloses the same, together with the instrument referred to, in an envelope duly sealed, having on the outside thereof, either written or printed, the affidavit, the form of which is given in the Act, sworn to and duly subscribed. This envelope, prepared as stated, is enclosed by him in another envelope marked "soldier's vote," sealed and directed to the elector empowered by the said instrument to cast the ballot; and it may be transmitted by mail, or otherwise, to the person to whom it is addressed. The affidavit mentioned is a combination of the two oaths as to residence and betting, &c., administered to persons offering to vote and challenged, with an additional statement as to his military position, &c. The elector who receives this letter from the absent elector may open the outer, but shall not open the inner envelope thereof. On the day of the election he delivers the inner envelope to the inspectors of elections of the proper election district at the polls thereof; and if the name of the person signing the affidavit on the outside of the envelope is found entered upon the register of electors as a duly qualified voter, the envelope is by the Any person residing on the lands of any nation or tribe of Indians in the state, being a qualified voter, is entitled to vote in the election dis |