The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-12

hhpAl1e represented hlnRS county, where they
have streets and places nam ed after them now:
Queens. suiSif. and kichmond counties fSg We're
counties Dutch or Huguonots THIS IongAs.
se@f Ply fitps az and o. from n, l e d5s
Fey Of the napes q the last Colonial AS As
iivngstonwas President. The Morrises and the
Liyngst2ns are found there as in the Colonial
Abnny nstead Of e
other aristocratlc Ep iish families are seantiiy
blies they had controlled heir counties There
are many names In this list which never APP
peared r. the list of members of the Colonial
The deputies from New York to the, first Pro-
ylncial Congress were Isaac Low, Peter vap
Leonard Lespinarj.. Joseph Hallctt. abraham
Walton. Abraham Brasher Isaac Roosevelt,
Planck. Richaid Yates. v'i b"Sid " ciarkson.
Thomas Smith. benjamin. Nissan. John .MNPrin
Scott. John Van CortlanIt, Jacobus Van Iahdt.
lin. Isaac Sears, and James Van Cortlandt.
me names OF j2hn Iay and lanes Duane E 40
gress Thirteen counties were represented.
IN the last, Provincial Congress the member
n e eo
=. The, ,hrst Assembly of the present State Of
Walter L WINSTON was Speaker. There were
sSupts and SsW YqTk ten sssf I'm Thcss wore
coster counties, The counties in this lrst As
changed In IN to wsshSgton
Dutchess. Z: Kings. ,: New York. 8: Orange,4:
Queens.,t Richmond. 2: suffolk, 81, Tryon.
and Wcstchestcr. 5-twelve counties. with a
total Of 10. Cumberland mud Gloucester were
New York delegation. in the first Assembly
were EvHrt Banckrr. John Berrien, who sue
G n.. led Henry Rutgers. resigned; Abraham
Frederick Jay. Abraham p. Lott. Jacobus Van
Zandt. and Peter I. Van Zandt.
The second apportionment was male in
l79l when the represents tion, was not altered
Of the counties Of Cumberland and Gloucester
sSsI that Ssw Y"rE tH Hs pGP ssemby% Hss
Montgomery counties. which had seven apiece.
Kings lost one of its two. H"rkimer. OtseEo.
ana p"Sa committee Under
member apiece. which they. took from Mont
Eomery county Columbia had already taken
Albany county or Albany county would have
had the greatest representation as it had
Of counties in the second apportionment was
seventeen at first and twenty afterward. the
Representation staying at seventy.
the third apportionment. and it leads with
thirteen D9tch chez; wa. SECOND with ten. and
hna Sa ssn htm
Otsego. Eockland. Cayuga. OnondaGa. Che
mango. Oneida and Greene There were
superintendent. with a total OF los members:
y itn new counties were en-, out OF old ones
This was the tin" of the besinnng Of the great
growth of the Mohawk VALLEY and the interior
farming country; II Albany county had re-
most hall the representation Of the State.
Kings county had not begun to grow: it did
was not until the ninth apportionment. In 1896,
that It got back to the wo Assemblymen which
1t had under the first apportionment.
In 1901 the Constitution was amended. re-
ducinG the number OF Assembymen to 100.
with provision that tho number should be
year until there we're i50. Under this - Con- on
r%5sS SeW the
that in tho, Eightf Assembly the ' name OF Of
:. The fifth apportionment in 1908 gives New
York eleven and Kings still only one. There
were forty.four counties, represented under
Of II members. Albany and Duchess were
the SECOND largest counties. with representa-
The sixth apportionment, in 1915. retains
New York $ representation at eleven and in
ties. making an Assembly Of io8 members.
Kings still had one and the counties OF Erie
and Monroe. which are now the third and
fourth largest counties OF the State. were not
organized In 1921 Monroe was cut out from
Genesee and Ontario with one Assemblyman,
and two weeks after Erie was formed from
Niagara county.
These were the times when the rural part Of
the state was growing faster than tho cities
The Fri" Canal had not been finished. and
there was no concentration OF business and
capital in a few large centres.
The Constitution OF 1921 fixed the number
OF the Assemblymen permanently at 1913: the
members from county were elected on Il
general ticket unit il. under the Constitution OF
1896, they were elected by districts. appearing
first session OF the State Assembly in lS4S.
Since the eighth apportionment. in 1926. the
number Of counties and the representation OF
the counties have been much the same except
that New York. Brooklyn. and Buffalo have
been steadily ga ming at the expense OF the
rest Of the State. Monroe county. in which
Rochester Is. had then the same represent
tation OF three which it has had since 1922.
Since. that time the growth OF New York and
their representation at every apportionment.
Under the ninth apportionment. in 1926. Kings
had its first increase to two. and New York q
gain from eleven to thirteen. Under the tenth
appOrtonment. in lS4H. Kings got three and
New York sixteen. The eleventh apportion-
ment. in 1857. gave Kings seven. New y rk sew
enteen; the twelfth apCortionment. in 1873.
thirteenth. In 1870. gave Kings twelve New
York twenty-four: the fourteenth. in 1902.
gives Kings eighteen. New York thirty. The
representation in Erie county has been one in
1922. two IN 1926. three In 1885. four in 1916.
five in 1856. and six in 1892.