Proceedings of the Corporation of the City of Albany.

A special meeting of the board was held yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock. The mayor addressed the meeting as follows:

GENTLEMEN – The melancholy event that has induced me to call this special meeting, is already known to you all. The death of Governor Clinton, which occurred last evening, is a public calamity.

I presume I have merely anticipated your wishes in affording an opportunity publicly to express our grief on this solemn occasion, and to sympathize with his family, his friends, and our fellow-citizens in their great affliction.

The recorder then offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

The death of Governor Clinton having deprived the nation of one of its most eminent citizens, our state of a public benefactor, and this city of a benevolent inhabitant, who was endeared to us as well by a sense of his public usefulness, as by the knowledge of his private virtues, and the ties of social intercourse –

The Common Council of the city of Albany, under the dispensation of Providence, deeply deploring the death of Governor Clinton as a public calamity, and sympathizing with the afflicted family and relations of the deceased,

RESOLVE –

That this board will conform to such arrangements as may be made by the committees of the two branches of the legislature, and will attend the funeral on Thursday next, at two o’clock P.M. with its officers, wearing the usual badge of mourning, and continue to wear the same for thirty days.

That the several religious, literary and charitable societies in the city, be requested to unite with the municipal and state authorities, in paying the last tribute of respect to the deceased.

That the bells of the churches in the city be tolled during the moving of the procession.

That it be recommended to the citizens generally to close their usual places of business during the time of the funeral solemnities.

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