STATE OF NEW YORK (State)

-Gouernor.

PUBLIC PAPERS

OF

DAVID B. HILL,

GOVERNOR.

1887.

ALBANY, N. Y.

1888.

The Constitution of our State requires that the Governor "shall communicate by message to the Legislature at every session the condition of the State, and recommend such matters to them as he shall judge expedient."

This duty I proceed to discharge this year in the briefest manner possible, having, in previous annual messages, very fully, and at considerable length, expressed my views upon the various questions affecting the State. I may, however, take occasion during the session to communicate with you by special message more frequently than has heretofore been the custom, upon such matters as may arise from time to time, or upon subjects in relation to which some suggestions may hereafter be deemed especially desirable and expedient.