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Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48.

ISSUED MAY 28th, 1847.

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INDEX

Of the Series composed of Numbers 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48.....June 1, 1846, to May 1, 1847.
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586

Letters from Lyman W. Conkey, Syracuse, Onondaga Salines, New-York..587, 605, 633, 659, 663 Letter from Professor Henry of Princeton College, in relation to lightning, and also in relation to the telegraph wires Letter from Prof, Olmsted, Yale College, in relation to lightning, earthquakes, &c... Letters from Benjamin F. Thompson, Historian of Long Island....... ..663, 695 Letters from Hon. Josiah Butler, of So. Deerfield, N. H., in relation to the earthquakes in New-Hampshire ... ...660, 661, 756 Extracts from a letter written by a clergyman in the state of Georgia.... 683

Committee of aid to Ireland.

591 695, 696 758 758

Seamen's friend society; seamen's saving bank. 688

Fruits of industry.....

633

Charitable Societies, remarks upon

635

Savings of Labor....

635

Letter from a young physician on a visit to Scotland

692

635

Railroad stocks should be exempt from Taxation 696 Currency and Exchanges...

696

Prosperity of the People of Massachusetts

Public Policy requires that Marine and Fire Insurance companies should be exempt from Taxation... 681 and 688

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Extract from a letter from Ozem Strong, dated
Colborne, Upper Canada..
Letter from J. E. Bloomfield, of Oswego, N. Y.. 605
Letter from Levi Disbrow in relation to Little So-

Earthquakes, Remarks upon by Eben. Meriam, And their connection with volcanoes, thunder, lightning, snow, hail, wind, rain, cold, heat, calms and equilibriums affecting the atmosphere over vast sections of the Globe and producing changes of great magnitude as confirmed by observations made simultaneously on Brooklyn Heights and published in the Brooklyn Star before hearing of the earthquakes.. 624 554, 694, 689, 690, 651, 592, 570, 755, 555, 569, 571, 586, 589, 593, 596, 598, 608, 630, 640, 650, 652, 661, 662, 668, 674, 675, 676, 682, 695, 700 to 756 Suggestion that an earthquake had taken place on the 22d of April, 1846, made prior to June 1,

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Connection of earthquakes and storms. Earthquakes in New Hampshire.... Simultaneous convulsions in the East Earthquakes at Marseilles, France.. Earthquakes at New-Madrid.....

674

660, 661

661

656

624

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Letter from Teunis G. Bergen, ex-member of the State Convention....

Earthquake at Caraccas,...

598

695

Artesian Wells

648

Ventilation

649

Letter from Dudley Leavitt, Meredith, N. H... 756 EARTHQUAKES.

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Earthquakes at Martinique in 1727

VOLCANOES.

Eruptions of Mount Heckla......569. 591, 596, 630

Volcanic action, extensive in its operations...... 675

760

Graham Volcanic shoal

555

Volcanoes in the Red Sea.

598

..661, 662

555

592

MORTALITY.

675

Pigeons...

.666 643

Rock Mills..

635

591

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Butterflies; The Butterfly; The Humble Bee; Product of Labor; Adirondack Gems...

A Blind Sailor and his faithful Dog.
Canine and Feline Sagacity
Birds....

American Salt. remarks upon in the Senate of this State, March 20, 1846, by Hon. A. C. Hand. 558 Remarks upon the manufacture of salt at the Onondaga salines, in this State, by Thos. L. Preston, Esq., one of the proprietors of the fossil salt mines in Virginia in a letter dated Syracuse, N. York, April 20, 1846..

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Temperature of salt water

659

At Leghorn, Tuscany, Aug. 27, 1846

.661, 689 703

Specific graaity of salt water at Syracuse

659

Letter from Mrs. M. S. M. Seaman to her sister 691 Lines written by Mary S. Meriam in her sister's album-selected..

672

Specific gravity of salt water at Saltville,

659

Import of salt into the port of New-York in 1846, 695

At Gunang Marrippa, Java, Sept. 2, 1846 At Trinidad, St. Vincents, and Grenada, Sept. 6, 1846

704

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Foreigu Salt, letters in relation to, from Am.

Extract from a letter written by a lady in New Eugland...

673

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Consuls....

562

At Deerfield, N. H., Sept 12, 1846

705

Onondaga State Salines..

695

Sterility and Salt. South America

699

At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, Sept. 15, 1846.. 705 At St. Domingo City, Sept. 16, 1846...

Obituary notice of Jonathan Thompson, Esq.... 672 "The Hour Glass," written by John Quincy

705

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At Trinided, Sept. 1846

631

Adams, Esq., President of the United States.. 672 Notice of an ancient copy of the Bible...... 672. 690

Lake of salt water changed into a field of salt... 675 Salt for manure

Obituary notice of Preserved Fish....

596

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At Algiers, Africa, in Oct. 1846.

644

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At Deerfield, N.H., Oct. 29 and 31, 1846.

Greenwood Cemetery; Vocal Willow; Prayers for Rain; Birds in the Cemetery The Adirondack Solitary...

757

560

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A series of letters from a gentleman residing in the State of Tennessee, upon various scientific subjects....624, 631, 636, 637, 644, 652, 664, 665, 666, 667, 663, 666, 667, 668, 682 and 692. Letters from Thomas Spencer. former State Superintendant of the Onondaga Salines, written from Saltvilla, southwestern mountains of Virginia 559, 560, 575, 587, 606, 631, 643, 659, 673,683 Letters from W. P. Milnor, written from the fossil salt mines of southwestern Virginia, situate 1782 feet above the level of the sea..605, 606, 642 659, 664, 682

At Rice Lake, Jan. 14, 1847.
At Antigonish, Jauuary 29, 1847
At Bangor, Maine, in January, 1847,
At Deerfield, N.H. Feb. 2d, 1847..
At Meredith. N.H., Feb. 14, 1847.
At Belfast, Me., Feb. 19, 1847.

669 to 671

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592

At Deerfield, N.H., Dec. 2, 1846......
At Trinidad, Dec. 17, 1846..
At Grafton Harbor, Jan. 8, 1847,

650 .713, 651, 661

750

652

At Albany, Jan. 11, 1847.

652

Packet ship Thomas P. Cope and cargo destroyed by lightning Nov, 29, 1846.. Brig Oscar destroyed by lightning Sept. 15, 1846. 727 Ship Christopher Columbus and cargo destroyed by lightning Feb. 11, 1847..

650

719

682

Ship Hugenot struck by lightning and cargo set

718

on fire June 12, 1846....

571

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in South America, in 1793...

674

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Thunder storms... 756, 757, 607, 608. 755. 590. 632. 570, 571, 587, 588, 593, 598, 604, 605, 641, 650, 655, 656, 662, 674, 700 to 755, 586. 572.592. 589. 573. 642.

755

Telegraph wires and thunder storms

755

707, 604, 596, 608, 572

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Balloon struck by lightning; man killed by light-

ning, July 27, 1846; house struck by lightning

in Richmond, Va. and 4 persons in the street

opposite the building knocked down; 2 houses,

1 brewery and the telegraph wires struck by

lightning in Phila., Aug. 9, 1846, bed set on

fire and man knocked down; child killed by

lightning July 30 1846, at Somersworth, N.H. 607

Man killed by lightning in Indiana; two men
killed by lightning, June 10, 1846, under a tree
in Indiana; house burnt by lightning June
26, 1846, near Niagara, also a barn; 3 horses,
2 cows, 5 sheep, and several pigs killed, a man
killed by lightning at the same time 5 miles
distant; bark Hortensia, struck by lightning
May 30, 1846; 74 sheep killed by lightning at
Wells, Eug., 1846; barn burnt by lightning in
Warren, Mass. Aug. 8, 1846; horse killed by
lightning; barn burnt by lightning at Spring-
field, Otsego co., N. Y. July 11, 1846, same
time a boy was killed by lightning while under
a tree in the same neighborhood; Steamer
Citizen struck by lightning in river Thames,
Aug. 1, 1846, but no person injured. House
struck by lightning near Mercersburg, Pa.,
and every person in the house prostrated one
of whom did not recover..

Man killed by lightning near Kingston, Upper

Canada, Oct. 2, 1846.............

ter, course of the wind, dew-point, fall of
Rain and snow, thunder, lightning, hail and frost,
as observed at the State Salines at Syracuse, New-
York, by L. W. Conkey, March and May 1846. 570

April, 1846.

695

Temperature of the air and state of the weather
at Saltville, Washington county, Va., for May,
1846, by W. King, Jr....

April, 1846

House struck by lightning Feb. 3, 1847.

Three

persons killed by lightning, and eight per-

sons injured at Marshall, Texas, Aug. 2; barn

burnt by lightning near Alton, Ill., Aug. 7 ; boy

struck by lightning near Rockville, Md., Aug.

7, and so severely shocked that he bit his tongue

nearly off...

Man killed by lightning at Winslow, Maine, Aug.

10, 1846; barn burnt by lightning one per-

son and two horses killed and one person

injured, near Huntingdon, Pa. Aug. 14, 1846. 701

Barn burnt by lightning in Stark, Maine, Aug. 14

1846; church edifice struck by lightning, Aug.

14, 1846; young lady killed by lightning, Aug.

17, 1846; dwelling house struck by lightning

at Martha's Vineyard, Miss., and set on fire

702

Aug. 19, 1846..

Four horses killed by. lightning in an open field,

Aug. 23, 1846; a man killed by lightning Aug.

23, 1846; church edifice struck by lightning in

Beverly and several of the congregation prostra-

ted; two dwelling houses struck in North Salem

-the telegraph wires and posts struck in West-

boro, a barn struck in Nantick, and with its con-

tents consumed, all on the 27th of Aug. 1846;

man killed by lightning, August 28, 1846.... 703

Barn burnt by lightning at Killingworth, Conn.;

dwelling house struck by lightning, and servant

man killed, Aug. 30, 1846; house struck by

lightning and three persons killed; militia cap-

tain knocked down on parade by lightning

Sept. 3, 1846; lady killed by lightning Sept.

3, 1846; man killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846

and a dwelling in St. Louis torn to atoms; two
oxen killed by lightning Sept. 4, 1846; three
persons while in bed killed by lightning Sept.
25, 1846

Ship Independence struck twice by lightning the

same day 5 men knocked down and 2 disabled

N. lat. 49, W. long. 23, Jan. 14, 1847; house

struck by lightning at Gravesend, L.I., Feb. 3,

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NOTE. The present serios of numbers, 41 to 48 inclusive,
are bound up under one cover in order to place in the hands
of the members of the Legislature on the adjournment of
that body. The State Constitution, commencing with page
625, is accompanied by an INDEX of four pages all marked
with the same folio, this index is more ample and extensive
than any index yet published, and will be found of great con.
venience. The meteorlogical records are not accompanied
with detailed remarks as the preparation of these require
more leisure and more time than I had at my disposal-they

will, however, be found more ample than any meteorlogical
records (that I have ever seen) published, and being made
simultaneously at three different stations several hundred
miles apart, will afford information in reference to the changes
of temperature rarely to be met with. The record in this
series embraces observations made hourly for nine consecu-
tive months.-ED.

Meteors

608

624,714, 754. 640
..586, 718, 720, 640, 624, 631
Shower of Grubs in winter..
719
Diseased Vegetation
607

631 Temperature of the atmosphere, state of the Barome-

Municipal Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY.

EDITED BY E. MERIAM.]

The MAY No. of the Gazette containing the Constitution of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, &c. pg. 81 to 96 of the volume both inclusive, is issued to supply a vacant number in the volume in order that we may be able to place the entire volume complete in the hands of each of the members of the Convention as soon as they shall be organised for business. The present number contains some important facts in relation to the Montgomerie charter, copied from the volumes of copies of documents obtained in England, by Mr. BROADHEAD, and now in the State archieves.

ANNUAL TAX BILL.

We give below the annual Tax Bill. It authorises the assessment of the heaviest tax ever before imposed in the city of New-York. The necessity for such a tax does not exist. One half the sum authorised, properly expended, would be far more useful to the City than this great waste of money lavished upon political favorites.

A question of great importance arises under this act with respect to what particular personal property is assessable.

The act is special-has a local and not a general operation, and differs in that respect from the State Tax act. The act has been bunglingly drawn. It provides as follows: "to be collected according to law." As to the assessment of it, the provision is special— and no personal property is authorised to be assessed except of freeholders and inhabitants of the city and county whose real and personal estate is situate within the county.

The question then arises under section 5 of page 381 of the 1st volume of the Revised Statutes as to the oath. If the person taxed declares that he is worth only a certain sum named in the affidavit over and above his just debts and property exempted from taxation, and he includes in this exemption all his personal estate without the county of New-York, whether such a construction is right?

The counsel of the corporation, Mr. Brady (whose course so far in office has been greatly approbated on account of his honesty of purpose and careful compliance with law) should instruct the assessors in this.

No. 282.

IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 1846.
Introduced by Mr. ALBERTSON.
AN ACT

To enable the supervisors of the city and county of
New-York to raise money by tax.
The People of the State of New-York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of New-York, as the supervisors of the city and county of New-York, of whom the mayor or recorder shall be one, are hereby empowered, as soon as conveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order and cause to be raised by tax, on the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of and situated within the said city and county, and to be collected according to law, a sum not exceeding nine hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and sixtytwo dollars, to be applied towards defraying the various contingent expenses legally chargeable to the said city and county, and such expenses as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York may in any manner sustain or be put to by law. Such portion of the contingent expenses of the said city of New-York as relates to re-paving and cleaning streets in that part of the said city lying south of a line running through the centre of Thirty-fourth street, shall be assessed only that part of the said city lying south of the said line. And also the further sum not exceeding four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars,

NEW-YORK, JUNE 1, 1846.

by tax on the estates, real and personal, of the free-
holders and inhabitants of and situated within the said
city and county, and to be collected according to law,
to be applied towards defraying the expenses of po-
lice in said city and county. And also a further sum
of one hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred
and ninety-three dollars eighty-two cents, by tax on
the estates, real and personal, of the freeholders and
inhabitants of and situated within the said city and
county, and to be collected according to law, to be
applied to supplying the deficiency in taxation in said
city and county for the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and forty-five. And also a further sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine
hundred and sixty eight dollars, by tax on the estates,
real and personal, of the freeholders and inhabitants of
and situated within that pars ef the said city and coun-
ty of New-York, which is or may be designated by a
resolution or ordinance of the common council of the
said city of New-York as the "Lamp district," to be
dollected according to law, and applied towards de-
fraying expenses of such parts of the said city last
mentioned.

CITY CONVENTION.
No. 341.

IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 1846.
Introduced by Mr. STEVENSON.
AN ACT

To provide for the calling of a convention to amend
the charter of the city of New-York.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. An election shall be held in the city of
New-York on the first Monday of June ensuing the
delegates
passage of this act, for the selection of

in each ward of said city, to a county convention for
revising and amending the charter of the said city of
New-York.

2. The delegates chosen to this convention shall
be chosen as representatives from each ward, each
delegate representing ten thousand inhabitants; and
if any ward have, in addition to this ratio, a fraction of
six thousand and upwards, one representative shall be
allowed to be chosen for said fraction: but each of
the present wards of the city of New-York, without
regard to its population, shall be allowed one repre-
sentative in said convention.

§ 3. Notice of such election shall be given, and the same shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law in regard to the charter elections in the city of New-York, and the name of each delegate voted for shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed upon each ballot, and the ballot shall be endorsed "Delegates to the Convention," and a separate box for the deposite of such ballots shall be kept by the inspectors of each election district in the several wards of the said city. The result of such election shall be ascertained and certified in the manner now provided in the act regulating charter elections in said city.

4. All the provisions of law for the purity of elections in the city of New-York shall apply to the election held under this act; and all false swearing at said election shall be deemed and punished as perjury.

5. The delegates to be chosen under this act, shall meet in the city of New-York on the first Monday of July next, at the chamber of the board of aldermen, and shall then, or as soon after as may be practicable, organize and adopt rules for their government. They shall complete their business so that any charter or amendments adopted by them, may be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New York, as in the next section provided.

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6. The charter or amendments adopted by the convention to be organized under this act, shall be submitted to the electors of the city and county of New-York, each provision separately at the election to be held in the said city on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; and such amendments as may be approved by a majority of said electors at said election, shall thenceforth be incorporated in, and form a part of the charter of the city of New-York. And if an entirely new charter be submitted to the electors at said election, the same shall, upon being adopted by a majority of said electors, become the charter of the city of New-York. The tickets to be used at the election to be held under this section, shall be prepared in such form as the said convention may direct.

7. The expenses of the election of delegates held under this act, and all expenses attending the convention, shall be paid out of the treasury of the city of New-York. The proceeding of the convention shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county, when duly certified to by the pressding officer and secretary or secretaries of said convention.

8. The members of the convention shall have power to provide for their own pay, which shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day actually in session.

[Amended...See page 556.]

TAX UPON ACTUAL CAPITAL. The following bill was reported in the Senate. The same bill has been three times reported in the same form, and yet remains dormant.

No. 16.

IN SENATE, January 16, 1846. [Reported by Mr. Porter, from the Committee on Finance.]

An Act to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to the exemption of incorporated companies from taxation, and for other purposes.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section nine of title four, of chapter thirteen of part one of the Revised Statutes, which authorizes the exemption of incorporated companies in certain cases from taxation, is hereby repealed.

2. All banks established under the act entitled "An act to authorize the business of Banking," passed April 18, 1838, shall be subject to taxation on the amount of capital paid in or secured to be paid, in the same manner as incorporated banks; and the proper officer or officers of such banks shall make an annual statement to the Comptroller and the assessors in the manner provided by the second section of title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Stat

utes.

3. The provisions of the fifteenth section of the second title of the thirteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, shall be extended to all such banks, and to all incorporated companies subject to taxation, and the affidavit in such case may be made by the president, cashier, secretary, or treasurer thereof; and such banks and incorporated companies shall be assessed on the actual value of all their real and personal estate at the time of making such assessment; and all provisions of law which are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. The proper officer or officers of such banks and incorporated companies shall make and deliver to the assessors an annual statement of the amount of all their real and personal estate in the manner required by section two, title four, chapter thirteen, of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

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