MEMBERS AND OFFICERS COMPOSING THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE Districts, Classes, and Places of Residence. SIXTIETH SESSION, 1837. Hon. JOHN TRACY, President, Congress-Hall. NAMES. .... Thomas Armstrong,. John Beardsley,. Levi Beardsley, Abijah Beckwith,.. Daniel S. Dickinson,. Coe S. Downing, Samuel L. Edwards, Chauncey J. Fox, John Hunter, George Huntington, Noadiah Johnson,. Henry Floyd Jones, John P. Jones, Isaac Lacy,.. Abraham L. Lawyer, Charles L. Livingston, Chester Loomis,. John McLean, Ebenezer Mack, Leonard Maison, .... 2 first, 3 first, J. K. Paige, 151 State-st. James Powers,.. 3 third, Congress Hall. Francis Seger, 5 first, Congress Hall. David Spraker,. 4 third, Congress Hall. 5 third, 1 fourth, Mr. French, 63 Chapel-st. Congress Hall. 8 first, Misses Carter, 8 6N. Pearl-st Micah Sterling, Samuel Young, 2 fourth, Mansion House. 5 fourth. Congress Hall. 8 fourth, La Fayette House. 4 fourth, Mansion House. JOHN F. BACON, Clerk, 75 State-st. W. C. SCHUYLER, First Dep. Clerk, 99 S. Pearl-st, JAMES LIVINGSTON, Sergeant-at-Arms, Congress Hall. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS, COUNTY, AND NEAREST POST-OFFICE. SIXTIETH SESSION, 1837. Hon. JOHN TRACY, Lieut. Gov. and President, Oxford, Chenango. No. 10. IN SENATE, January 18, 1837. PETITION For a repeal of the restraining laws, and for a general banking law. To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York, in Senate and Assembly convened. The undersigned, inhabitants of Onondaga county, most respectfully beg leave to represent to your Honorable Body, that they recognize in the simplicity and beautiful structure of our system of government, principles of justice and equality, which elevate it far above the most favored and enlightened of European governments; and which, if carried into practice as they exist in theory, would justly and emphatically entitle it to the noble name it bears -of republican government: But our own observation satisfies us of the truth of the maxim, that eternul vigilance is the only security the people have for the perpetuity of these just and equal principles. We have witnessed with alarm a system of legislation in the creation of moneyed corporations, with special and exclusive powers and privileges, which we regard as being contrary to, and inconsistent with the genius and principles of our republican institutions; and which, if persisted in, will, in our opinion, sooner or later leave us nothing to boast of but the empty name, while we are stripped of the essence and substance of such a government. Among the encroachments on the equal and natural rights of the people, there is none that more sensibly affects their interest, or that is more alarming in its tendency; and certainly none that so directly and palpably contravenes the principles of our government, which professes to secure equal justice to all, as the system of [Senate No. 10.] 1 |