II.  The party or his attorney, on whose application the order was granted, shall first strike one from the list, and then the opposing party or agent, alternating until twelve shall have been stricken from the list by each party.

III.  The clerk shall certify the names of the twenty-four persons whose names have not been stricken off, who shall be summoned, and from which number a jury shall be impaneled as in other juries.

VII.—­STATE.

Q. Upon what is the state government based?

A. Upon a constitution adopted by the people.

Q. How many departments are provided for by the constitution?

A, Three; the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

Q. What are the divisions of the Legislative department?

A. The Assembly and the Senate.

Q. What is the number of members in each body, and their term of office?

A. One hundred and twenty-eight members of the Assembly, elected for one year.  Thirty-two senators elected for two years.  Art.  Ill., Const.

Q When, and how is the number of members of the Assembly apportioned among the several counties?

A. Once in ten years by the Legislature immediately after taking the state census, and as nearly as can be, according to population, excluding aliens, but giving to every county except Hamilton at least one member.

Q. When and how is the number of members of the Senate apportioned in the State?

A. At the same time, by the Legislature; and as nearly as possible according to population.  A Senatorial district sometimes embraces a portion of a county, sometimes a whole county; at other times two or more counties; but no county can be divided, unless it can be equitably entitled to two or more members.

The following apportionment was made in 1879: 

Senate districts.

I. Queens and Suffolk.

II.  The First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Twelfth, and Twenty-second wards of Brooklyn, and the towns of
Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht.

III.  The Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-third wards of Brooklyn.

IV.  The Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth wards of Brooklyn, and New Lots and Flatlands.

V. Richmond, First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Fourteenth, and parts of the Fourth and Ninth wards of New York, and Governor’s, Bedloes, and Ellis Islands.

VI.  The Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, and a part of the Fourth wards of New York.

VII.  The Tenth, Seventeenth, and portions of the Fifteenth, Eighteenth, and Twenty-first wards of New York.

VIII.  The Sixteenth, and parts of the Ninth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, and Twentieth wards of New York.