Public Papers of Levi P. Morton, Governor, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Public Papers of Levi P. Morton, Governor, 1896 By the first Constitution of 1777, an Assembly was created to consist of at least seventy members, and a Senate to consist of twenty-four members, and provision was made for an increase in both branches by a reapportionment to be made once in seven years, and the Assembly was limited to three hundred, and the Senate to one hundred members. This scheme of legislative organization continued several years but it was not satisfactory. In 1801 a convention was called for the special purpose of revising that part of the Constitution relating to the Legislature. At that time the Assembly had increased to 108 and the Senate to 43 members. The Convention of 1801 provided for an Assembly of 100, with a possible increase to 150, but the Senate was fixed permanently at 32 members. When the Constitutional Convention of 1821 met, the Assembly had increased to 126 members. The Constitution then adopted fixed the number of Members of Assembly at 128, and continued the Senate with 32 members. No change was afterwards made in the membership of the Legislature until the Constitution of 1894. The Convention which revised the Constitution in that year was of the opinion that a more equitable distribution of legislative representation could be secured by slightly increasing the number of members in each branch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.