New York Convention Manual: Prepared in
Pursuance of
Chapters 194 and 458, of the Laws of 1867
New York Convention Manual: . . . of 1867
Names of Delegates. Page ix
Twenty-first Senatorial District - the Counties of Oswego and Madison.
Leslie M. Case ... Cazenovia, Madison county.
Loring Fowler ..... Canastota, Madison county.
Standing Committees of the Convention.
Page xiv.
On industrial interests, except those already referred.
Mr. Case, Madison.
Page xiii.
On counties, towns and villages, their organization, government and powers.
Mr. Fowler, Madison.
INDIAN TRIBES. p. 185.
A few remnants of the native races still reside in the State, mostly
occupying Reservations of lands in common, and receiving annuities
under treaties by which their original territory was ceded to the State.
The Reservations are as follows:
. . . .
The Oneidas, now reduced to 155 persons (in 1865), reside on farms
owned as individual freeholds, in the towns of Lenox, Madison County, and
Vernon, Oneida county. The greater part of these people emigrated over thirty
years since, to the neighborhood of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they own
about 800 aces of land, and now reside.
Madison county, town debts of. p. 358:
No debt, in Cazenovia, Eaton, Fenner, Georgetown, Lenox, Madison, Nelson,
Smithfield and Stockbridge -- 9.
Brookfield. $60,000, 6 per cent. (railroad debt), payable in twenty years.
Bonds not issued.
DeRuyter. $102,800 (railroad debt) conditioned to the location of a
railroad on a certain line, or, if not, to be voided. Bonds not issued.
Hamilton. $100,000 (railroad debt), pledged but no bonds issued yet.
Lebanon. $125,000 (railroad debt), conditioned to the location of Midland
railroad in town, with six miles and a station in town. No bonds yet issued.
Also $200 to defend a suit for town.
Sullivan. $1,400 (repairing roads and bridges), due. Also $109.79 to be paid
to different individuals for taxes illegally assessed and collected in 1865 and
1866.
POPULATION AND REPRESENTATIONS. (p. 389.)
Madison county, population of
| TOWNS. | Population. | Aliens. |
Colored persons not taxed. |
Whole number of persons of color. |
Number, deducting aliens and colored persons , not taxed. |
Population, excluding aliens only. |
Population, excluding persons not taxed only | Population, excluding all persons of color. | Voters. |
| Brookfield | 3593 | 92 | 1 | 7 | 3500 | 3501 | 3592 | 3586 | 997 |
| Cazenovia | 4157 | 127 | 9 | 33 | 4021 | 4030 | 4148 | 4124 | 1094 |
| DeRuyter | 1820 | 33 | -- | 2 | 1787 | 1787 | 1820 | 1818 | 502 |
| Eaton | 3861 | 240 | 11 | 14 | 3610 | 3621 | 3850 | 3847 | 965 |
| Fenner | 1387 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 1362 | 1369 | 1380 | 1380 | 383 |
| Georgetown | 1479 | 15 | -- | -- | 1464 | 1464 | 1479 | 1479 | 396 |
| Hamilton | 3434 | 84 | 26 | 26 | 3324 | 3350 | 3408 | 3408 | 960 |
| Lebanon | 1557 | 71 | 13 | 17 | 1473 | 1486 | 1544 | 1540 | 409 |
| Lenox | 8456 | 334 | 32 | 52 | 8090 | 8122 | 8424 | 8404 | 2170 |
| Madison | 2414 | 116 | -- | -- | 2298 | 2298 | 2414 | 2414 | 611 |
| Nelson | 1717 | 42 | -- | -- | 1675 | 1675 | 1717 | 1717 | 462 |
| Smithfield | 1366 | 25 | 42 | 85 | 1299 | 1341 | 1324 | 1281 | 353 |
| Stockbridge | 1925 | 91 | 13 | 13 | 1821 | 1834 | 1912 | 1912 | 559 |
| Sullivan | 5340 | 286 | 60 | 69 | 4994 | 5054 | 5280 | 5271 | 1299 |
| Oneida Indians | 101 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total | 42607 | 1574 | 214 | 325 | 40718 | 40932 | 42292 | 42181 | 11160 |
Source: Franklin Benjamin Hough. New York Convention Manual:
Prepared in Pursuance of
Chapters 194 and 458, of the Laws of 1867,... Part II. Albany, N.Y.: Weed
Parsons &
Company, Printers. 1867.
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