History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . ion of Dutch andYankees, and the question naturally arose regarding the permanentname. At the town meeting in that year the assembled voters deter-mined to decide the question by ballot, and as it resulted in a tie. Su-pervisor James Allen, being the presiding officer, cast the decisive votein favor of Amsterdam. The village then had
History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . ion of Dutch andYankees, and the question naturally arose regarding the permanentname. At the town meeting in that year the assembled voters deter-mined to decide the question by ballot, and as it resulted in a tie. Su-pervisor James Allen, being the presiding officer, cast the decisive votein favor of Amsterdam. The village then had not more than one hundred inhabitants, andeven in 1813 it was only reported to have about one hundred and public buildings at the latter date were the school-house and Pres-byterian church, added to which were the mill, a number of small shopstwo or three stores and about twenty-five dwellings. From this time,however, the growth in population and industries must have beenmore rapid, for in 1830 the village was incorporated by the legisla-ture, but it was not until 1831 that the people availed themselves ofthis privilege. The act authorizing the election of five trustees and gave to theformer hamlet the name of Village of Amsterdam, creating it a. /yx^^c^^d«-»»i^^$^t>*^^>^*t,— CITY OF AMSTERDAM. 185 body politic and corporate, though with the limited powers usual tosuch villages. Ten years later another act provided for the electionof a clerk, treasurer, collector, pound-master, and other officers nec-essary to its government, and also constituted the village a separateroad district. A farther advance was obtained by an act passed April 17, 1854,which granted Amsterdam a charter, with increased powers, andthe village was described at that time as containing one square mileof land, divided into two wards, all the territory east of Bridge- andMarket streets and the Union road forming the First ward, wliile allwest of that boundary constituted the Second ward.
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