The New York Journal, And Daily Patriotic Register

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
Of the state of New-York.

POUGHKEEPSIE, February 4, 1788.

[Continued.]

The house met pursuant to adjournment.

A petition from Caleb Gardiner and thirteen others, concerning lands they had purchased of the Indians, was read and referred to the same committee, as the petition of Roger Pollock.

A petition from B. B. Benson, and John W. Watkins, concerning Harlem commons, was read and referred to Mr. Benson, Mr. Verplank and Mr. Gilbert.

The bill to take the paper money out of circulation, and issue new money, was read a third time and passed the house.

The bill for defraying the public and necessary charges of the respective counties, was read a second time and committed.

The house went into a committee on the bill to repeal the act for the relief of insolvent debtors: Mr. Doughty in the chair.

The committee went through the bill and agreed to the same: when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

The house went into a committee on the bill for dividing the state into counties: Mr. Powers in the chair.

The committee made some progress in the business, when they rose and asked for leave to sit again.

Then the house adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Tuesday, February 5, 1788.

The house met pursuant to adjournment.

A petition from a number of Mohawk Indians, concerning their lands, was read and referred to Messrs. Benson, Brooks and Savage.

A petition from William Seely, of Orange county, stating, that he purchased cattle for the army, during the war, for which the public have given him certificates; and that the people from whom he had purchased the said cattle were now suing him, and demanding payment in money; and praying relief from the legislature—was read and referred to Mr. Tompkins, Mr. Bloom, and Mr. Van Ingen.

The bill to repeal the insolvent act, was read a third time, and passed the house.

A message was received from the senate, with amendments to the bill for restraining all persons from marrying, &c. The bill as sent to them from the house, prohibited all persons from marrying till their husbands or wives had been seven years absent; the senate proposed to make it four years.

This was non-concurred by the assembly; and both houses at length agreed to make it five years.

The house went again into a committee on the bill for dividing the state into counties: Mr. Powers, chairman.

The committee, in proceeding in the bill, took up the petitions from the inhabitants of Washington county, living near Lake Champlain, praying for the erection of a new county in that part of the state, whereupon it was agreed to erect a new county by the name of Clinton, and that the said county should be divided into towns, one by the name of Crown-Point, and the other by the name of Plattsburgh: that Plattsburgh be the county town, and that a court should be opened there in September next; and that, till the further order of the legislature, there be two terms held in the said county, one in September, and the other in March in each year: the inhabitants of the said county of Clinton to vote for members of the legislature as a part of the county of Washington, till the first Census shall be taken.

The committee having gone through the bill, rose and reported the same: when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

[Continued.]