PUBLIC PAPERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT GOVERNOR 1899// ALBANY, N. Y. BRANDOW PRINTING COMPANY DEPARTMENT PRINTERS 1899 PUBLIC PAPERS OF GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT 1899 DESIGNATION OF PRIVATE SECRETARY. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent To all to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting: KNOW YE That we have nominated constituted and appointed and by these presents do nominate constitute and appoint WILLIAM J. YOUNGS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE Governor hereby giving and granting unto him all and singular the powers and authorities to the said office by law belonging or appertaining. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said office together with the fees profits and advantages to the same belonging for and during the time limited by the Constitution and Laws of our said State. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We have caused these our letters to be made patent and the great seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed. [L. S] Witness THEODORE ROOSEVELT Governor of our said State at our City of Albany the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Attested by JOHN T. MCDONOUGH Secretary of State DESIGNATION OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF QUEENS COUNTY STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, January 2, 1899 APPOINTED: District Attorney of the county of Queens: GEORGE W. DAVISON of Wantagh to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of William J. Youngs. DESIGNATION OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF KINGS COUNTY STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, January 2, 1899 APPOINTED: District Attorney of the county of Kings: HIRAM R. STEELE of Brooklyn, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Josiah T. Marean. ANNUAL MESSAGE STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber TO THE LEGISLATURE: Albany, January 2, 1899 The people of New York, like the people of every other State in the Union, are to be congratulated, because during the past year the nation has carried to a brilliant. triumph one of the most righteous wars of modern times. When last spring it became evident that the interests of humanity and of national honor alike demanded that we should drive Spain from the Western Hemisphere and free from her tyranny the subject peoples of the islands of the sea, New York responded with eager zeal to the call for volunteers, and in the Cabinet, in Congress, and in camp, her representatives did all they could to ensure the |