DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL COUNSEL IN THE MATTER OF CANAL INVESTIGATION STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, January 25, 1899 The canal investigating commission appointed under chapter 15 of the laws of 1898 having filed with the Governor its report and the testimony taken by it; and such report and testimony having been transmitted by the Governor to the Attorney-General with the request that he examine them for the purpose of determining whether judicial proceedings should be instituted against any of the persons referred to therein; and Honorable Edwin Countryman having been designated as counsel to assist the Attorney-General in such examination; and he having filed his report as such counsel, recommending that criminal proceedings by indictment be commenced against the State Engineer and Surveyor and the Superintendent of Public Works; and on such report the Attorney-General having been requested by the Governor to take immediate charge of such proceedings on behalf of the State, and institute and prosecute to their conclusion such criminal actions or proceedings against any person as may be warranted by such reports and testimony; and also having been required to attend in person or by one of his deputies the Supreme Court, and appear before the proper grand jury thereof, for the purpose of managing and conducting such criminal actions or proceedings: THEREFORE, in pursuance of the authority conferred on the Governor by section 55 of the Executive Law, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it, I do hereby designate and employ AUSTEN G. Fox of New York City, as counsel to assist the Attorney-General in the prosecution and trial of such criminal actions or proceedings, and to perform such services therein as may be necessary or proper. [L S] By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Private Secretary DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL COUNSEL IN THE MATTER OF CANAL INVESTIGATION STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, January 25, 1899 The canal investigating commission appointed under chapter 15 of the laws of 1898 having filed with the Governor its report and the testimony taken by it; and such report and testimony having been transmitted by the Governor to the Attorney-General with the request that he examine them for the purpose of determining whether judicial proceedings should be instituted against any of the persons referred to therein; and Honorable Edwin Countryman having been designated as counsel to assist the Attorney-General in such examination; and he having filed his report as such counsel recommending that criminal proceedings by indictment be commenced against the State Engineer and Surveyor and the Superintendent of Public Works; and on such report the Attorney-General having been requested by the Governor to take immediate charge of such proceedings on behalf of the State, and institute and prosecute to their conclusion such criminal actions or proceedings against any person as may be warranted by such reports and testimony; and also having been required to attend in person or by one of his deputies the Supreme Court, and appear before the proper grand jury thereof, for the purpose of managing and conducting such criminal actions or proceedings: THEREFORE, in pursuance of the authority conferred on the Governor by section 55 of the Executive Law, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it, I do hereby designate and employ WALLACE MACFARLANE of New York City, as counsel to assist the Attorney-General in the prosecution and trial of such criminal actions or proceedings, and to perform such services therein as may be necessary or proper. It appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it and by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of chapter seventy-eight of the Laws of 1897, I hereby remove from the office of Capitol Commissioner, ISAAC G. PERRY of Binghamton, who was heretofore appointed to such office. GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this [LS] fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Private Secretary CERTIFICATE OF SENATOR DEPEW STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, GREETING: In obedience to the statute of the United States the Executive of the State of New York certifies that CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW an inhabitant of said State and of the age of thirty years and upward and who had been nine years a citizen of the United States was by the concurrent vote of the two branches of the Legislature of the State of New York on the eighteenth day of January 1899, duly elected in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution and the laws of the United States a Senator to represent the State of New York in the Senate of the United States for the term of six years commencing on the fourth day of March 1899. GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this [LS] eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Attest: JOHN T. MCDONOUGH Secretary of State APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNOR STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, February 21, 1899 APPOINTED: Secretary to the Governor: WILLIAM J. YOUNGS of Oyster Bay, pursuant to the provisions of chapter II of the laws of 1899. (This law changed the title of "Private Secretary," to 'Secretary to the Governor.") |