Chautauqua, 2,000 1,600 Cayuga, 2,000 2,000 Columbia, 2,000 2,500 Ontario, 2,000 1,500 Cattaraugus, 1,500 1,500 Oswego, 1,500 1,500 Jefferson, 1,500 1,500 Niagara, 1,500 1,500 Orange, 1,500 2,500 Otsego, 1,800 1,500 St. Lawrence, 1,750 1,750 Washington, 1,200 1,500 Suffolk, 1,000 1,500

The following are counties in which county judges act as surrogates, receiving the one salary for both offices;

$2,000 Salary

Franklin,
Greene,
Rockland,
Schenectady,
Warren,
Wayne,
Delaware
Orleans,

$3,000 Salary

Broome,
Chemung,
Chenango,
Herkimer,
Livingston,
Madison,
Clinton,

$3,500 Salary

Richmond,
Steuben,

$2,500 Salary

Cortland,
Essex,
Genesee,
Schoharie,

$2,500 Salary

Tioga,
Tompkins,
Wyoming,
Montgomery,

$1,500 Salary

Putnam,
Schuyler,
Yates,

$1,750 Salary

Allegany,

$2,250 Salary

Fulton,

$1,200 Salary

Sullivan,
Lewis,

$1,000 Salary

Seneca,

$800 Salary

Hamilton,

V.—­THE CITY.

Q. What is a city?

Q. By what authority organized?

A. By an act of the legislative.

Q. What instrument defines its powers?

A. A charter.

Q. What are the divisions of a city called?

A. Wards.

Q. Name the cities in New York State, when incorporated, and the number of wards in each?

Answer: 

Pop. in 1800
New York,     1680, has 24 wards, 1,206,590
Brooklyn,     1834, has 25 wards,   566,689
Buffalo,      1832, has 13 wards,   155,137
Albany,       1832, has 16 wards,    90,903
Rochester,    1686, has 16 wards,    89,363
Troy,         1816, has 13 wards,    56,747
Syracuse,     1847, has  8 wards,    51,791
Utica,        1832, has 12 wards,    33,913
Auburn,       1848, has  7 wards,    21,924
Oswego,       1848, has  8 wards,    21,117
Elmira,       1864, has  7 wards,    20,541
Poughkeepsie  1854, has  6 wards,    20,207
Cohoes,       1869, has  4 wards,    19,417
Yonkers,      1872, has  4 wards,    18,892
Kingston,     1872, has  9 wards,    18,342
Newburg,      1865, has  4 wards,    18,050
Binghamton,   1867, has  5 wards,    17,315
L. I. City,   1870, has  5 wards,    17,117
Schenectady,  1798, has  5 wards,    13,675
Lockport,     1865, has  4 wards,    13,522
Rome,         1870, has  5 wards,    12,045
Watertown,    1869, has  4 wards,    10,697
Ogdensburg,   1868, has  4 wards,    10,340
Hudson,       1785, has  4 wards,     8,828

The census for 1880 is not fully completed, but gives substantially the above figures.