The work of creating a democratic and free independent state continued by the Convention through the bitter winter with the British quartered in the City of New York and Washington's few thousand troops camped in winter quarters to the southwest in Morristown, New Jersey. The first Constitutional Convention in New York's history terminated its labors at Kingston, New York, on Sunday evening, April 20, 1777, when the new Constitution was adopted with but one dissenting vote, and then adjourned. The site is now Senate House State Historic Site. The constitution was not submitted to the people for ratification, however because of the war situation. It was drafted by John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, (new Chancellor of the State of New York), and Gouverneur Morris, noted financier for the Revolutionary Colonial war effort. This Constitution was a combination document, containing its own "Declaration of Independence" from Great Britain, and its Constitutional Law. It called for a weak bicameral legislature (Assembly and State Senate) and a strong executive branch with a governor. It retained provisions from the Colonial Charter such as the substantial property qualification for voting and the ability of the Governor to prorogue (dismiss) the Legislature. This imbalance of power between the branches of state government kept the elite firmly in control, and disenfranchised the majority of the male New York population. Slavery was legal in New York until 1827. Under this Constitution, the lower chamber Assembly had a provision for a maximum of 70 Members, with the following apportionment: For the City and County of New York (that is, Manhattan Island), nine. The City and County of Albany (Now Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Greene, Schoharie, and Schenectady Counties), ten Dutchess County (now Dutchess and Putnam counties), seven. Westchester County (now Bronx and Westchester counties), six. Ulster County, (now Ulster and Sullivan Counties, and the northern part of Orange County) six. Suffolk County, five. Queens County (now Queens and Nassau Counties), four. Orange County (now the southern part of Orange County, as well as Rockland County), four. Kings County, two. Richmond County, two. Tryon County (now Montgomery County; included all of New York State to the west, to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie). Charlotte County (now Washington County; included the present Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and St. Lawrence counties), four. Cumberland County (seceded January 15, 1777, to the Vermont Republic), three. Gloucester County (seceded January 15, 1777, to the Vermont Republic),