DRAWING FOR SEATS.

The drawing for seats is usually conducted in the following manner:

1. A list of all the names is carefully prepared by the Clerk. The name of each member is on a separate piece of paper and folded in the form of a ballot. Every ballot is of the same size and appearance.

2. A Committee is appointed to compare them with the list of members, to see that there are no mistakes.

3. They are then put in a box and well shaken, in the presence of the whole body, so as to thoroughly inix the ballots.

4. The members, excepting the Speaker, and all other persons, except reporters and those whose official duties require their presence in the Assembly Chamber, retire to the rooms adjoining the Assembly Chamber, or to the adjacent space allotted to spectators.

5. The Speaker designates a person other than a member or an officer, who proceeds to draw one ballot from the box which, without opening, he hands to the Speaker. The Speaker opens the ballot and hands it to the Clerk, who announces the name drawn. The Sergeant-at-Arms calls the name at the Cloak Room door, when the member called enters the Assembly Chamber and chooses his seat, which he must occupy until the drawing

is completed, under the penalty of its forfeiture, unless he has previous leave of absence from the Speaker.

The drawing being completed, the House usually adjourns for several days.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY AND THEIR COMPENSATION.

The officers and employes of the Legislature, as pro vided by chapter 682 of the Laws of 1892, amended by chapter 24 of the Laws of 1893, are as follows.

86 OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE SENATE.-The President of the Senate may appoint a Clerk, a Stenographer and a Messenger, to be known as the President's Clerk, the President's Stenographer and the President's Messenger. The Senate may choose a Clerk, a Sergeantat-Arms, a Stenographer, a Postmaster, who shall also act as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, an Assistant Postmaster, a Post-office Messenger, a Principal Doorkeeper, and four Assistant Doorkeepers, a person to act as Janitor of the Senate Chamber and its ante-rooms, and one Assistant Janitor, ten persons to serve as Clerks to the Committees, one of whom shall be designated to serve as Clerk to the Committee on Finance, one to the Committee on Judiciary, one to the Committee on General Laws, one to the Committee on Cities, one to the Committee on Railroads, one to the Committee on Canals, and the others to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Senate upon the remaining Standing Committees of the Senate. The Clerk of the Senate may appoint one Assistant Clerk, a Journal Clerk, an Assistant Journal Clerk, four Deputy Clerks, an Index Clerk, an Assistant Index Clerk, a Clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, a Librarian, an Assistant Librarian, a Financial Clerk, a Superintendent of Documents, two Assistant Superintendents of Documents, such Superintendent of Documents and his assistants to also perform the work of the Wrapping Department; three Messengers and ten Pages, who shall be appointed for the session, and who shall not be under fourteen years of age, to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Senate as Messengers to Committees.

§ 7. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE ASSEMBLY.-The Speaker of the Assembly may appoint a Clerk, a Stenographer and a Messenger, to be known as the Speaker's Clerk, the Speaker's Stenographer and the Speaker's Messenger respectively. The Assembly may choose a Clerk, a Sergeant-at-Arms, a Stenographer, a Principal Doorkeeper, who shall act as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, a First and Second Assistant, and six Assistant Doorkeepers, a Postmaster and an Assistant Postmaster, a Post-office Messenger, a Janitor of the Assembly Chamber and its ante

rooms, one Assistant Janitor, three General Messengers and thirteen Clerks of Committees, one of whom shall be designated to serve as Clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means, one as Clerk to the Committee on General Laws, one as Clerk to the Committee on Judiciary. one as Clerk to the Committee on Cities, one as Clerk to the Committee on Railroads, and the others to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Assembly. The Clerk of the Assembly may appoint an Assistant Clerk, a Journal Clerk, an Assistant Journal Clerk and nine Deputy Clerks, one of whom shall act as Clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, and one as Clerk to the Committee on Revision, who shall be an expert in matters pertaining to that position, an Index Clerk, an Assistant Index Clerk, an Assistant Clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills. a Librarian, an Assistant Librarian, a Financial Clerk, an Assistant Financial Clerk, a Superintendent of the Wrapping Department, a Mail and Document Carrier, a Superintendent of Documents, three Messengers, one of whom shall have the charge of the Pages under the direction of the Clerk of the Assembly, three Messengers to Committees, and twenty-five Pages.

§ 8. APPOINTMENTS TO BE ENTERED ON JOURNALS.All appointments made under this chapter shall be entered on the Journal of the House wherein made, with a statement of the date of appointment, and the length of time the same is to continue.

$9. STENOGRAPHERS ΤΟ SPECIAL COMMITTEES.- No additional officers or employes shall be elected or appointed by the Senate or Assembly, except that either House, by a majority vote, may employ a Stenographer for a Committee of Investigation cr other Special Committee.

$10. COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES.-The following compensation shall be paid to the officers and employes of the Senate and Assembly for the annual session of the Legislature:

To the Clerk of each House three thousand five hundred dollars, to the Clerk of the Senate five hundred dollars, and to the Clerk of the Assembly seven hundred and fifty dollars for indexing the journals, bills and documents of the Senate and Assembly; to the Clerk of the Senate not to exceed five hundred dollars, and to the Clerk of the Assembly not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars for the extra clerical service and engrossing; to each Assistant Clerk and Journal Clerk two thousand dollars; to each Assistant Journal Clerk one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Deputy Clerk one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Financial Clerk fifteen hundred dollars; to the Assistant Financial Clerk of the Assembly ten dollars per day; to each Index Clerk one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Assistant Index Clerk ten dollars per day; to the Clerk of the President of the Senate, and to the Speaker's Clerk, each seven dollars per day; to the Stenographer of the President of the Senate and to the Speaker's Stenographer, each five dollars per day; to each Sergeant-at-Arms, Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Postmaster, Assistant Postmaster and Principal Doorkeeper. six dollars per day; to each Assistant Doorkeeper, Janitor, Assistant Janitor and Superintendent of Documents, and to the Assistant Superintendent of Documents of the Assembly five dollars per day; to each Stenographer of each House one

housand five hundred dollars each; to each Clerk of the Committee of Ways and Means, General Laws, Railroads, Judiciary and Affairs of Cities of the Assembly, and the Finance, Judiciary, General Laws and Affairs of the Cities of the Senate, seven dollars per day; to the Clerk of the Committee on Engrossed Bills of the Senate six dollars per day; to each Clerk of the other Committees of each House five dollars per day; to the Assistant Clerk of Committee on Ergrossed Bills of the Assembly five dollars per day; to each Post-office Messenger of each House three dollars per day; to the Messenger of the President of the Senate and the Speaker's Messenger, each three dollars per day; to the Superintendent of the Wrapping Department, the Mail and Document Carrier of the Assembly, and the Assistant Superintendent of Documents of the Senate, each five dollars per day; to the General Messenger of each House three dollars per day; to each Clerk's Messenger of each House, and to each Messenger of the Committees of the Assembly, three dollars per day; and to each page two dollars per day. The pay of officers or employes who receive by this chapter a per diem compensation shall commence at the date of the appointment.

§ 11. COMPENSATION DURING EXTRA SESSIONS AND IMPEACHMENT TRIALS. An employe of the Senate or Assembly, during an extra session of the Legislature, or an officer or employe of the Senate designated to attend upon the Senate when sitting as a court for the trial of impeachments, or upon the trial of public officers on the recommendation of the Governor, shall receive the same per diem allowance during such term or extra session as his compensation or per diem allowance would give per day of the regular session of the same year.

§ 12. ATTENDANCE OF OFFICERS OF EACH SESSION AT OPENING ON NEXT SESSION.-The following officers only of each session shall attend and receive compensation for their services upon the opening of the next succeeding session of the Legislature:

The Clerk of each House, or in his absence or disability, the Assistant Clerk and the Journal Clerk, Speaker's Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Postmasters, Librarian and principal Doorkeeper of the Senate and Assembly, an Assistant Doorkeeper and four Pages in the Senate, and three Assistan: Doorkeepers, two Messengers and six Pages in the Assembly, the Assistant Doorkeepers, Messengers and Pages to be designated by the presiding officer of the House for which appointed before the close of the session and entered upon the Journal of the House. The officers named in this section shall receive for services, upon the opening of a succeeding session of the Legislature, the same per diem compensation as they were entitled to receive at the preceding session for like services.

13. OFFICERS REMAINING AFTER ADJOURNMENT. The presiding officer of each House may designate three officers thereof to remain after the adjournment of the Legislature to perform duty under the direction of the Clerk of each House, respectively, for not to exceed ten days. Such officers shall receive the same per diem compensation, respectively, as they were entitled to receive during the session, to be paid upon the warrant of Comptroller, on the certificate of the Clerk of the House for which appointed.

§14. UNDERTAKING OF CLERK OF EACH HOUSE.-The Clerk of each House before entering on the duties of his office, shall execute an official undertaking in the sum of five thousand dollars

§ 15. DUTIES OF CLERKS.-The Clerks of the Senate and Assembly shall, annually, without extra compensation, revise and send to the members of the Legislature, before the organization thereof, the Clerk's Manual, and shall, within thirty days after the organization of the Legislature, prepare a statistical list of the members and officers, with their boarding places or place of residence while in the city of Albany.

The Clerk of each House shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each session, prepare and deliver to the legislative printer the indexes to the journals, bills and documents of such House.

16. SUPPLIES FURNISHED BY CLERKS.-The Clerk of each House shall purchase all stationery, printed blanks and other articles necessary for use in his official work or in the work of the Sergeant-at-Arms; and shall furnish its members, officers and reporters with necessary stationery and writing materials, and the Clerk of the Assembly shall prepay the postage upon all letters deposited with him for transmission through the mails by members of the Assembly. The Clerk of each House shall, under the direction and subject to the approval of the Comptroller, purchase such furniture as may be necessary for the House of which he is Clerk.

§ 17. ACCOUNTABILITY OF CLERK TO COMPTROLLER.-The Clerk of each House at the end of each month during the session shall account to the Comptroller for all moneys received up to that time, and within ten days after the close of the session, shall file with the Comptroller an abstract in such form and containing such particulars as the Comptroller shall direct of all expenditures made by him, with the vouchers therefor; and shall give him satisfactory evidence that the expenditures were reasonable.

§ 18. DUTIES OF POSTMASTERS AND ASSISTANT POSTMASTERS.-The Postmasters and Assistant Postmasters and Post-office Messengers shell perform all the labors in the Post-office of their respective Houses.

§ 19. DUTIES OF STENOGRAPHERS.- The Stenographers shall attend at every session of the body for which they are appointed or elected and take stenographic notes of the debates of such body and in the committee of the whole thereof, and furnish a copy thereof, written out in long hand, to any member of such body.

COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS.

Each member is entitled by the Constitution to receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, and one dollar for every ten