aliens. Every county heretofore established and separately organized, except the county of Hamilton, shall always be entitled to one member of assembly, and no county shall hereafter be erected unless its population shall entitle it to a member. The county of Hamilton shall elect with the county of Fulton, until the population of the county of Hamilton shall, according to the ratio, entitle it to a member. But the Legislature may abolish the said county of Hamilton and annex the territory thereof to some other county or counties. The quotient obtained by dividing the whole number of inhabitants of the State, excluding aliens, by the number of members of assembly, shall be the ratio for apportionment, which shall be made as follows: One member of assembly shall be apportioned to every county, including Fulton and Hamilton as one county, containing less than the ratio and one-half over. Two members shall be apportioned to every other county. The remaining members of assembly shall be apportioned to the counties having more than two ratios, according to the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens. Members apportioned on remainders shall be apportioned to the counties having the highest remainders in the order thereof respectively. No county shall have more members of assembly than a county having a greater number of inhabitants, excluding aliens. Until after the next enumeration, members of the assembly shall be apportioned to the several counties as follows: Albany county, four members; Allegany county, one member; Broome county, two members; Cattaraugus county, two members; Cayuga county, two members; Chautauqua county, two members; Chemung county, one member; Chenango county, one member; Clinton county, one member; Columbia county, one member; Cortland county, one member; Delaware county, one member; Dutchess county, two members; Erie county, eight members; Essex county, one member; Franklin county, one member; Fulton and Hamilton counties, one member; Genesee county, one member; Greene county, one member; Herkimer county, one member; Jefferson county, two members; Kings county, twenty-one members; Lewis county, one member; Livingston county, one member; Madison county, one member; Monroe county, four members; Montgomery county, one member; New York county, thirty-five members; Niagara county, two members; Oneida county, three members; Onondaga county, four members; Ontario county, one member; Orange county, two members; Orleans county, one member; Oswego county, two members; Otsego county, one member; Putnam county, one member; Queens county, three members; Rensselaer county, three members; Richmond county, one me nber; Rockland county, one member; St. Lawrence county, two members; Saratoga county, one member; Schenectady county, one member; Schoharie county, one member; Schuyler county, one member; Seneca county, one member; Steuben county, two members; Suffolk county, two members; Sullivan county, one member; Tioga county, one member; Tompkins county, one member; Ulster county, two members; Warren county, one member; Washington county, one member; Wayne county, one member; Westchester county, three members; Wyoming county, one member, and Yates county, one member. In any county entitled to more than one member, the board of supervisors, and in any city embracing an entire county and having no board of super visors, the common council, or if there be none, the body exercising the powers of a common council, shall assemble on the second Tuesday of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and at such times as the Legislature making an apportionment shall prescribe, and divide such counties into assembly districts as nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, as may be, of convenient and contiguous territory in as compact form as practicable, each of which shall be wholly within a senate district formed under the same apportionment, equal to the number of members of assembly to which such county shall be entitled, and shall cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and of the clerk of such county, a description of such districts, specifying the number of each district and of the inhabitants thereof, excluding aliens, according to the last preceding enumeration; and such apportionment and districts shall remain unaltered until another enumeration shall be made, as herein provided; but said division of the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings to be made on the second Tuesday of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall be made by the common council of said city and the board of supervisors of said county, assembled in joint session. In counties having more than one senate district, the same number of assembly districts shall be put in each senate district, unless the assembly districts can not be evenly divided among the senate districts of any county, in which case one more assembly district shall be put in the senate district in such county having the largest, or one less assembly district shall be put ia the senate district in such county having the smallest number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, as the case may require. No town, and no block in a city inclosed by streets or public ways, shall be divided in the formation of assembly districts, nor shall any district contain a greater excess in population over an adjoining district in the same senate district than the population of a town or block therein adjoining such assembly district. Towns or blocks which, from their location, may be included in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to make said districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens; but in the division of cities under the first apportionment, regard shall be had to the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts according to the State enumeration of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, so far as may be, instead of blocks. Nothing in this section shall prevent the division, at any time, of counties and towns, and the erection of new towns by the Legislature. An apportionment by the Legislature, or other body, shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court, at the suit of any citizen, under such reasonable regulations as the Legislature may prescribe; and any court before which a cause may be pending involving an apportionment, shall give precedence thereto over all other causes and proceedings, and if said court be not ir session it shall convene promptly for the disposition of the same. THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. CHAP. 295. AN ACT dividing the state into Congressional districts. APPROVED by the GOVERNOR April 13, 189. Passed, three-fi'ths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. For the election of representatives in congress of the United States this state shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-four districts, namely: First district.-The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first district. Second district. The first. second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh and twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the second district. Third district.-The fourth, third, tenth, twenty-second, ninth and twentythird wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the town of Flatbush, shall compose the third district. Fourth district.-The twelfth, eighth, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend and Flatlands, shall compose the fourth district. Fifth district.--The eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the fifth district. Sixth district.-- The thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compɔse the sixth district. Seventh district.-The county of Richmond, together with the first to twentyeight election districts of the first assembly district; first to fourth election districts of the second assembly district; first to eighteenth and twenty-third and twenty-fourth election districts of the third assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the seventh district. Eighth district.-The fifth to twelfth and nineteenth to thirty-sixth election districts of the second assembly district; twenty-fifth to twenty-eighth election districts of the third assembly district; third, ninth to thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth to thirty-ninth election districts of the fifth assembly district; fourth to eleventh, fifteenth to twenty-fifth, and thirty-second to thirty-fourth election districts of the sixth assembly district; eighteenth, nineteenth, twentythird and twenty-fourth election districts of the seventh assembly district; eighteenth and nineteenth election districts of the eighteenth assembly district; first to thirteenth election districts of the twenty-fifth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the eighth district. Ninth district.-The thirteenth to eighteenth election districts of the second assembly district; first to forty-first election districts of the fourth assembly district; first to third, and twelfth to fourteenth election districts of the sixth assembly district; first to twenty-fourth election districts of the eighth assembly district; first to fifth election districts of the tenth assembly district; first to thirty-third election districts of the twelfth assembly district; first to sixth election districts of the sixteenth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the ninth district. Tenth district.—The nineteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-ninth to thirtyeighth election districts of the third assembly district; first, second, fourth to eighth, fourteenth to sixteenth, and eighteenth election districts of the fifth assembly district; first to seventeenth, twenty to twenty-second, and twenty |