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1 Henry Wayland Hill, Development of Constitutional Law in New York State and the Constitutional Convention of 1894 163 (1896)

handle is hein.cow/dclnys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN NEW YORK STATE AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1894- READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY, APRIL 13, 1896. BY HON. HENRY WAYLAND HILL, Of the Buffalo Bar, and Member of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1894. The development of civil institutions in the territory now comprised within the State of New York, from 1609 to the present time, under three successive sovereign powers, must be traced through four different forms of government. These were: (I) The government of the Dutch West India Company, a commercial corporation, in subordination to the paramount sovereignty of the States-General of Holland, which from 1623 to 1664 exercised local sovereignty through a Director-General and a Council of not exceeding five members of his appointment with the approval of the company, under restrictions contained in a charter granted by the States-General, and also under instructions and ordinances issued by the same company. (2) The Proprietary government under the Duke of York, extending from 1664 to 1685, and the Royal government, extending from 1685 to April i9, 1775, these two latter under the Crown, being considered as one government. (3) The Provincial gov- ernment from April x9, 1775, to the latter part of 1777, when the State government was instituted; and (4), the State govern- 163

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