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of the Appellate Division of the Third Department, at Albany, for the term of said Division commencing on November 14, 1899, and also for the next succeeding term to be held in January, 1900, in the place of the Honorable John R. Putnam, who will be absent at those terms. GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this ninth day of September in the year of our Lord, 1899.

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IN ACCORDANCE with section two of article six of the Constitution the

Honorable WALTER LLOYD SMITH

of the city of Elmira who is a justice of the Supreme Court of the Sixth Judicial District is hereby designated as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme. Court in and for the Fourth Judicial Department, in the place of the Honorable David L. Follett, deceased, late an

Associate Justice of said Appellate Division, for and during the term of five years from the date hereof.

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GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

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In the matter of the charges preferred against Thomas Hutson, treasurer of the county of Chautauqua

TO THOMAS HUTSON, county treasurer of the county of Chautauqua:

You are hereby notified that charges of misconduct and malfeasance in office have been preferred against you by Herman Sixbey and Seth Scriven both of Mayville in this State, and a copy of such charges is herewith served upon you.

You are therefore required to show cause why you should not be removed from the office of county treasurer of the county of Chautauqua, and to answer the said

charges within eight days after service of this order and a copy of said charges upon you.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand

and affixed the Privy Seal of the State at the [LS] Capitol in the city of Albany this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

By the Governor:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

WILLIAM J. YOUNGS

Secretary to the Governor

PROCLAMATION APPOINTING HOLIDAYS FOR THE DEWEY CELEBRATION

State of New York

Executive Chamber

Proclamation of public holidays in honor of the return of Admiral Dewey to the United States

WHEREAS by chapter seven hundred and fourteen of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine provision was made by the Legislature "for the due and apppropriate participation by the State in the celebration to be given in the city of New York in honor of the return of Admiral George Dewey to the United States," and

WHEREAS Friday September twenty-ninth and Saturday September thirtieth have been set apart by the proper authorities as the dates for such celebration, and

WHEREAS the National Guard of this State and citizens

from different parts of this State are anxious to participate in said celebration;

THEREFORE in pursuance of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of chapter six hundred and seventyseven of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, being "An Act in relation to the construction of the statutes" and constituting chapter one of the General Laws, I hereby appoint and set apart Friday September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and Saturday September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, as public holidays to be observed throughout the State as days of general thanksgiving.

DONE at the Capitol in the city of Albany this [LS] eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

By the Governor:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

WILLIAM J. YOUNGS

Secretary to the Governor

MATTER OF THOMAS HUTSON, TREASURER OF CHAUTAUQUA APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER

STATE OF NEW YORK

Executive Chamber

In the matter of the charges preferred against Thomas Hutson, county treasurer of the county of Chautauqua Charges having been preferred against Thomas Hutson, county treasurer of the county of Chautauqua, by Herman

Sixbey and Seth Scriven of the village of Mayville in the county of Chautauqua, and a copy thereof having been served upon the said county treasurer with notice to show cause why he should not be removed from such office, and the said Hutson having filed his answer to the charges preferred therein;

I do hereby appoint

WINFIELD S. THRASHER

of the village of Dayton in the county of Cattaraugus the commissioner to take the testimony and the examination of witnesses as to the truth of said charges and to report the same to me, and also the material facts which he deems to be established by the evidence.

It is hereby further ordered that the said examination before such commissioner proceed with all convenient speed.

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GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

By the Governor:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

WILLIAM J. YOUNGS

Secretary to the Governor.

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