Report of Committee on Historical Tablet 57 



VIII. COUNTY seat CHANGED TO RICHMOND AND SECOND 

 COURTHOUSE BUILT 



1729. County seat changed to Richmond and second court house 



built 



is the inscription on the tablet. 



" 1728. Erection of second Court House at Richmond," and 

 " 1729. County Seat removed to Richmond," were selected and 

 approved by the committee of 1906 as printed in Proc. Staten 

 Is. Assoc. 1 : 83. Oct.-Dec. 1906. 



1704. CHAPTER 144 Laws of 1704. Confirmed by the 

 Queen May 20th, 1708. 



" A Bill for the better Laying out Regulating Clearing and Pre- 

 serving Publick, Comon Highways in this Colony and for the 

 Erecting and Building a County Jaile and County House in the 

 County of Richmond. (Passed June 27th, 1704.) 



. . . And whereas there is wanting in the said County of Rich- 

 mond a County Jaile and County House which the Inhabitants 

 thereof are not Enabled by a particular Law to Assess Levy & 

 Collect money for the building & Erecting the same. Be it fur- 

 ther Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Justices of the 

 Peace for the said County or the Major Part of them at their 

 Quarter Sessions or otherways shall have full power to order Di- 

 rect and appoint under their hands the Building & Erecting Such 

 County Jaile & County House aforesaid on Such Convenient place 

 or places neer the middle of the said County (saveing the Prop- 

 erty of others) & to Calculate, Settle, agree. Estimate & Examine 

 the Charge of Such Erections & buildi'ngs hereinbefore menconed 

 which said Calculacon & Estimate of the Charges Provided the 

 Same do not Exceed the Sum of Two hundred pounds shall be 

 Delivered with a Warrant under the hands of the Justices into the 

 respective Assessors of each Division of the said County who shall 

 equally, Justly & Impartially Rate & Assess the ffreeholders & 

 Inhabitants of the Said County. . . . (Col. Laws N. Y. i : 573, 



574-) 



" Ellius Duxbury Joseph Billopp, Daniel Locke Ephraim Tayler 

 and Abraham Lakeman, five of Her Maje/ties Ju/tices of the 

 peace for the County of Richmond being met togather on the 

 Eighteenth Day of September & in the Third year of the Reign 



