To the honorable the Legislature of the state of New-York, in Senate and Assembly convened. The petition and remonstrance of the subscribers, inhabitants of the city of Albany--respectfully sheweth, that your petitioners have noticed a bill now before the hon. the Assembly, entitled "An act relative to the city of Albany," purporting to confirm certain powers and privileges already vested in the corporation of said city, and further to extend such powers and privileges in a manner which your petitioners conceive to be calculated to prove destructive to the future interest and prosperity of said city, and most insufferably oppressive to its inhabitants. ...