84 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



No. 14. A New and Correct Map of the County of Rich- 

 mond Made in the Year 1797. Agreeable to an Act 

 Passed by the Legislature of the State of New York 

 Passed the 28th Day of March 1797. Scale 40 Chains 

 to an Inch. 



This map of the County of Richmond was executed in com- 

 pliance with the following legislative act : 



Laws of New York, Twentieth Session 

 John Jay, Esq., Governor 

 Chap LIV. 



" An act in addition to an act entitled an act for the further 

 direction of the Commissions of the Land Office and for other 

 purposes therein mentioned 



Passed the 28th March 1797. 



And Whereas as it will be of great utility to have the divisions 

 of this state into counties and towns accurately delineated on a 

 general map thereof, which cannot be done without surveys still to 

 be made of many of them, either wholly or in part ; Therefore, 



Be it further enacted That the Surveyor General shall cause to 

 be surveyed and marked such or so much of the bounds of any 

 of the counties in this state, as have not heretofore been surveyed 

 and marked, and that it shall be the duty of the supervisors of 

 each town in the counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond, 

 Westchester, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Albany and 

 Saratoga, to cause an accurate map to be made of the town of 

 which he is the supervisor, and for that purpose to cause so much 

 of the outlines of such town to be surveyed as may be necessary 

 in addition to the surveys heretofore made, and which have 



