If your honorable body, or others interested in the matter, desire to suggest any particular amendment of the law, I shall be very glad indeed to give it the most careful consideration; and if in the course of the coming legislative session any bill shall come before me involving any amendment of the law, it will be carefully examined. But while I shall be glad to study any specific proposal which may be presented, I do not think the time has arrived for the appointment of a commission, as suggested by the resolution.

With assurance of my respect, I have the honor to remain,
Very respectfully yours,

(Signed)

CHARLES E. HUGHES.

Letter to William Schuyler Jackson, Attorney-General, in Relation to Mayor McClellan's Title to Office STATE OF NEW YORK - EXECUTIVE CHAMBER.

Albany, February 14, 1908.

Governor Hughes to-day sent to the Attorney-General the following letter:

"HON. WILLIAM SCHUYLER JACKSON, Attorney-General, Albany, N. Y.:

SIR. Replying to your application under date of the 5th instant for the appointment of an extraordinary Trial Term of the Supreme Court in the county of New York, and for the designation of a justice to hold such term, for the purpose of making provision for the trial of the action in the nature of quo warranto brought in the name of the People of the State of New York against George B. McClellan, I have the honor to say:

"I have consulted with the presiding justice of the Appellate Division of the First Department and am informed that there are regularly designated Trial Terms which have no justices assigned to them at present, and that the action referred to can be tried at one of these terms to which it has been and

is intended that a Supreme Court justice from outside New York city shall be assigned.

"It is important that the trial should be had promptly and that the controversy to which you refer should be settled with the least possible delay. It appears that there is adequate provision for this purpose without the appointment of an extraordinary term, and I understand that the trial can proceed as soon as your appeal from the order for a struck jury has been decided.

"I remain, very respectfully yours,

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' (Signed)

CHARLES E. HUGHES."

Approval of a Site for the New York State Training School for Boys

STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER.

Pursuant to the provisions of section 1 of chapter 268, Laws of 1908, I hereby approve as a site for the New York State Training School for Boys the lands selected by the commission, appointed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 665 of the Laws of 1907, to select a site for the New York State Training School for Boys, and submitted to me by the said commission in a communication dated September 22, 1908, together with a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the State Board of Charities, September 19, 1908, pursuant to the provisions of section of chapter 268, Laws of 1908, approving the said

site.

(Signed) CHARLES E. HUGHES,

Governor of the State of New York.

Albany, N. Y., September 22, 1908.

APPENDIX.

I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter addressed by me to Messrs. A. B. Hepburn, Edwin S. Marston, Edward W. Sheldon, Algernon S. Frissell, Stephen Baker and Andrew Mills requesting them to collate facts, receive suggestions and express their views with reference to advisable changes in the law of the State relating to the incorporation, conduct and supervision of banks and trust companies,and also the report made by them, referred to in my message of this date.

CHARLES E. HUGHES.