Section V. Senate districts
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Senate districts
The state shall be divided into thirty-two districts, to be called senate districts, each of which shall choose one senator. The districts shall be numbered from one to thirty-two, inclusive.
District number one (1) shall consist of the counties of Suffolk, Richmond, and Queens.
District number two (2) shall consist of the county of Kings.
District number three (3), number four (4), number five (5), and number six (6), shall consist of the city and county of New York; and the board of supervisors of said city and county shall, on or before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, divide the said city and county into the number of senate districts to which it is entitled, as near as may be of an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed, and consisting of convenient and contiguous territory; and no assembly district shall be divided in the formation of a senate district. The board of supervisors, when they shall have completed such division, shall cause certificates thereof, stating the number and boundaries of each district and the population thereof, to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and of the clerk of the said city and county.
District number seven (7) shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland.
District number eight (8) shall consist of the counties of Duchess and Columbia.
District number nine (9) shall consist of the counties of Orange and Sullivan.
District number ten (10) shall consist of the counties of Ulster and Greene.
District number eleven (11) shall consist of the counties of Albany and 5chenectady.
District number twelve (12) shall consist of the county of Rensselaer.
District number thirteen (13) shall consist of the counties of Washington and Saratoga.
District number fourteen (14) shall consist of the counties of Warren, Essex, and Clinton.
District number fifteen (15) shall consist of the counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.
District number sixteen, (16) shall consist of the counties of Herkimer, Hamilton, Fulton, and Montgomery.
District number seventeen (17) shall consist of the counties of Schoharie and Delaware.
District number eighteen (18) shall consist of the counties of Otsego and Chenango.
District number nineteen (19) shall consist of the county of Oneida.
District number twenty (20) shall consist of the counties of Madison and Oswego.
District number twenty-one (21) shall consist of the counties of Jefferson and Lewis.
District number twenty-two (22) shall consist of the county of Onondaga.
District number twenty-three (23) shall consist of the counties of Cortland, Broome, and Tioga.
District number twenty-four (24) shall consist of the counties of Cayuga and Wayne.
District number twenty-five (25) shall consist of the counties of Tompkins, Seneca, and Yates.
District number twenty-six (26) shall consist of the counties of Steuben and Chemung.
District number twenty-seven (27) shall consist of the county of Monroe.
District number twenty-eight (28) shall consist of the counties of Orleans, Genesee, and Niagara.
District number twenty-nine (29) shall consist of the counties of Ontario and Livingston.
District number thirty (30) shall consist of the counties of Allegany and Wyoming.
District number thirty-one (31) shall consist of the county of Erie.
District number thirty-two (32) shall consist of the counties of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus.
Senate districts
The state shall be divided into eight districts, to be called senate districts, each of which shall choose four senators
The first district, shall consist of the counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond, and New-York.
The second district, shall consist of the countries of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Sullivan
The third district, shall consist of the counties of Greene, Columbia, Albany, Rensselaer, Schoharie, and Schenectady.
The fourth district, shall consist of the counties of Saratoga, Montgomery, Hamilton, Washington, Warren, Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and St. Lawrence
The fifth district, shall consist of the counties of Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Oswego, Lewis, and Jefferson.
The sixth district, shall consist of the counties of Delaware, Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Cortland, Tompkins, and Tioga
The seventh district, shall consist of the counties of Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Ontario
The eighth district, shall consist of the counties of Steuben, Livingston, Monroe, Genesee, Niagara, Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua.
And as soon as the senate shall meet, after the first election to be held in pursuance of this constitution, they shall cause the senators to be divided by lot, into four classes, of eight in each, so that every district shall have one senator of each class; the classes to be numbered, one, two, three, and four. And the seats of the first class, shall be vacated at the end of the first year; of the second class, at the end of the second year; of the third class, at the end of the third year; of the fourth class, at the end of the fourth year; in order that one senator be annually elected in each senate district.
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