Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole Assembly being renewed annually.

In 1818, Joseph Ellicott resigned from the Erie Canal Commission, due to ill health.

DeWitt Clinton appointed State Senator Ephraim Hart to fill the vacancy temporarily.

Gen. Martin Van Buren, and including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City).

Moses Austin (Middle D.), Levi Adams (Eastern D.), Perry G. Childs, David E. Evans (both Western D.), and Assemblymen George Rosecrantz (Eastern D.) and Gamaliel H. Barstow (Western D.) were also elected to the Senate.

The Legislature met at the Old State Capitol in Albany on January 5, 1819, and adjourned on April 13.

On January 6, the vote on the fifth ballot stood: German 55, Thompson 38, William A. Duer (Fed.)

Then Erastus Root offered a resolution that Thompson be appointed Speaker which was lost with a vote of 41 to 73.

offered a resolution for the call of a State "Convention with unlimited powers to revise, alter or modify the Constitution."

as Erie Canal Commissioner, and elected State Senator Henry Seymour (Buckt.)