TAXATION-Cities and villages to be restricted in...... state debts, for interest and principal of. exemption from, not to be granted. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES-frank- ing privileges by, prohibited, etc... TOWN-debts, except for town purposes, not to con- tract..... debts for improvement of highways, sinking money or credit, not to loan. stocks or bonds, not to become owner of.. TOWN OFFICERS-to be elected or appointed.. TREASON-execution of sentence for, governor may suspend. legislature may pardon. TREASURER-canal board, member of. canal fund, commissioner of.. compensation of, not to receive fees.. election and term of office of.. first election of.. governor, may be suspended by. land office, commissioner of.. vacancy, how filled.. TREASURY-no money to be paid from, without TWO-THIRDS-of all elected to pass certain bills..... UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND-income of, officers, not to hold seat in legislature.. UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK-corpora- tion continued, etc..... how governed.. VACANCY IN OFFICE-judge of court of appeals. VILLAGES-bonds and stock, not to become owners 20534 8 154 5 154 18 789 121 108 116 VOTES-certain, for members of legislature, void... WATERS OF STATE-on forest preserve lands... WEIGHTS AND MEASURES-standard of, how supplied. criminal cases, not to testify against himself. persons offering bribe, not privileged from testi- WORLD religious belief, not incompetent on account of.. YEAR-political and legislative terms.. YEAS AND NAYS, see Ayes and Noes. 10 6 154 CHRONOLOGY. 1492 Columbus discovers America. 1497 Conjectured voyage of the Cabots. 1498 1524 Discovery of Verrazano. 1525 Gomez calls the Hudson River " San Antonio." 1609 Champlain enters New York from Canada; Hudson enters 1611 1614 New York Bay. Christiansen and Block sail for Manhattan. Fort Nassau built on Castle Island below Albany; the " Onrust " launched; Amsterdam merchants given a trading charter for "New Netherland." 1615 Champlain invades New York a second time. Treaty of Tawasentha near Albany. Puritans refused right to settle in New Netherland. 1617 1620 1621 Dutch West India Company chartered. 1624 Mey sent out as Director; Dutch and Walloons settle Albany; 1625 1626 Minuit arrives as the first Director-General of New Netherland; "Manhattan Island bought for $23; block house and palisades built and called Fort Amsterdam. 1627 Friendly relations with Plymouth established. 1629 Charter of Privileges to "Patroons Company. granted by West India 1630 Patroonship of Rensselaerwyck at Fort Orange established by Kilian van Rensselaer; Patroonship of Pavonia created. 1632 Patroons quarrel with Company; England claims New Nether 1633 land. Van Twiller made Director-General. 1634 West India Company buys back Pavonia. 1638 Kieft arrives as Director-General. 1639 New Charter of Privileges granted colonists. 1640 English purchase tracts in Kings and Queens counties from Indians; Kieft sends armed force against Raritan Indians. 1641 Council of people called by Governor Kieft; Twelve Men " appointed first-representative assembly; war declared against savages. 1642 1643 1644 Kieft dismisses " 'Twelve Men;" church built in the fort at Massacre of Indians by whites; colonists attacked in turn; New Haven helps New Amsterdam in war on Indians; massacre 1645 General peace concluded on Bowling Green; Flushing settled 1646 1647 by English. Yonkers started. 44 Kieft replaced by Stuyvesant as Director-General; Nine Men" organized; Dutch and English boundaries settled. 1652 Esopus settled by Thomas Chambers. 1653 City government at Manhattan, earliest within U. S.; "Re monstrance" of the eight towns called at New Amsterdam. 1654 English intrigue to conquer the Dutch; Oswego settled. 1655 General Indian outbreak quelled. 1658 1659 1661 Kingston (Esopus) begun. War with the Esopus Indians. Schenectady settled-land purchased from Indians. 1663 Second Esopus War. 1664 1665 1668 1670 1672 1673 New Netherland granted to the Duke of York by Charles II; Popular Assembly called; New Netherland surrenders to the English. Duke's Laws" promulgated by Nicolls, first English Governor of New York; powers of taxation in Governor and Council. Lovelace succeeds Nicolls. First New York exchange established. War between England and Holland. Dutch reca are New York; first postal service in America. 1674 By treaty England regains New York; Andros appointed Governor. 1678 The Bolting Act" gives New York the flour monopoly. 1679 Indian slavery abolished; Fort Niagara built by La Salle. 1683 Dongan made Governor; first elected representative Assembly called; "Charter of Liberties" granted; ten counties created within present New York. 1686 New York and New England consolidated; City of Albany incorporated, Peter Schuyler first Mayor. 1688 Dongan replaced by Andros. 1689 Union of England and New York dissolved. |