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.
