ANNUAL RETURN Of companies of Artillery, &c. attached permanently, or for inspection, to the different brigades of Infantry, for the year 1832. Total, officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, present and absent. Number of companies. Captains. 1st Lieutenants. 2d Lieutenants. Cornets. Present. Absent. Present. Absent. Present. Sergeants Corporals Musi' ans. 35 31 33 33 5 115 24 109 19 127 RECAPITULATION. 15/1201 532 2244 Horse artillery,. Cavalry,..... Artillery,.... Infantry, (including light infantry and riflemen,)....... inspection, Total, Adjutant-General's Office, 31st December, 1832. 1,694 7,289 12,120 165,150 2,244 188,497 JOHN A. DIX, Adj. Gen. IN ASSEMBLY, February 5, 1833. REPORT Of the select committee on the petitions of the sheriffs of Oneida and Madison counties, relative to the transportation of convicts. Mr. Wager, from the select committee to whom were referred the several petitions of Samuel M. Mott, sheriff of Oneida county, and Joseph S. Palmer, sheriff of Madison county, praying compensation for transporting convicts, REPORTED: That prior to the first of April last, the Governor of this State, in pursuance of the provisions of sec. 68, title 2, chapter 3, of the fourth part of the Revised Statutes, by his warrant, ordered the sheriffs of Oneida and Madison, (among others) to transport convicts from those counties to the state prison at Mount-Pleasant. On the 25th of April last, the Legislature passed a law requi ring all male convicts in all the senate districts of this State, except the 1st, 2d and 3d, to be confined in the state prison at Auburn, which was a revocation of the order made by the Governor as aforesaid. On or about the middle of June last, Charles C. Kinney, Urgat Utley and Daniel W. Hallenbeck, were severally convicted at a court of general sessions, held at the court-house in the town of Rome, in and for Oneida county, and sentenced to confinement in the state prison. An order was thereupon made by the said court, requiring the said convicts to be transported to, and confined in the state prison, generally without designating which. That said sheriff of Oneida, in the discharge of his duty as such sheriff, transported said convicts on the way to the prison at Mount-Pleasant, as far as Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess, where he was for the first time informed that the keeper of the prison at Mount-Pleasant, would not receive convicts from the 5th senate district, in consequence of the said act of the 25th of April last, above referred to. On receiving said information, the said sheriff of Oneida, re-transported said convicts to the county of Oneida, and from thence to the state prison at Auburn, where they were received and confined. And your committee further report, that at a court of general sessions held at the court-house in Morrisville, Madison county, in the month of June last, Loring L. May and James Murdock were severally convicted, and sentenced to the State Prison at SingSing; that said sheriff of Madison transported said last named convicts, by his deputy, on the way to the prison at Mount-Pleasant, as far as the city of Albany, where the deputy was informed by the Attorney-General of this State, of the existence of the law of the 25th of April last, and that said convicts would not be received at the Sing-Sing prison. Upon receiving such information, said deputy re-transported said last named convicts to Morrisville, in the county of Madison, and the said sheriff of Madison caused them to be taken from thence to the prison at Auburn, where they were received. Your committee are satisfied that at the time the said petitioners transported said convicts, as above stated, neither the said petitioners or the judges of the said courts, were informed of the existence of the said law of the 25th of April last, and that said sheriffs transported said convicts on the way to Mount-Pleasant, as above stated, in perfect good faith. The accounts of said sheriffs for transporting said convicts cannot be audited without the production of the certificate of the keeper of the prison, that the convicts are received by him; the petitioners cannot therefore be compensated for transporting said convicts on the way to Mount-Pleasant and back, as above stated, without the interference of the Legislature. Believing, as your committee do, that the said petitioners have an equitable claim for relief in the premises, they have come to the |