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tituled an Act for the better laying out regulating clearing and 

 preserving publick comon High Ways in this Colony and for the 

 Erecting and building a County Goal and County House in the 

 County of Richmond passed in the Third Year of Queen Anne it 

 was amongst other things Enacted that the Justices of the peace 

 of the Said County Should build a County Goal which said Goal 

 being built Accordingly is now in Such a Condition that it is 

 highly necessary to build a new one and Some Doubts and 

 Scruples being made whether the same can be done and money 

 raised for that and other purposes mentioned in the Act Afore- 

 said, 



BE it ENACTED . . . that the Justices of the peace of the 

 Said County or the Major part of them Shall be and hereby are 

 fully Authorized and Impowered to raise within the Said County 

 a Sum of mony not exceeding the Sum of Two Hundred pound 

 for the building of a Goal & County House if the Major part of 

 the JUSTICES of the peace of the Said County Shall think it 

 necessary. . . , (Col, Laws N. Y. 2 : 467, 468.) 



148. 1729. March the 22**^ day, 1728/9. . . . "beginning by the 

 Gole or gaile at Richmond town /o Running north /ide of a Cer- 

 tain pond In the /aid town and from thence Ea/terly. ... [in 

 place of] the Rode that now Runs one the /outh /ide of the above 

 /aid pond that Leads from Richmond town to /toney Brook for- 

 merly Laid out by Mr. Joseph billopp Jaquas pillion & nicholas 

 Manning" . . . (Record 1 680-1 760 Richmond County; Stillwell 

 I :^ 44.) 



149. " The precise date of the removal of the county seat from Stony 

 Brook to Richmond cannot now be ascertained. There is 1 

 record of a court held in the court-house, at Stony Brook on the 

 5th day of September, in the second year of the reign of George 

 II — 1728. On the 6th day of March, 1729, a court was held in 

 the court-house at Richmond Town." (Clute 459.) 



150. "The eariiest mention of the Court of sessions being held in 

 Richmond is dated Sept. 2, 1729." (Morris i : 80.) 



151. "In the Book of Records of the Court of Sessions the earHest 

 mention of the Court being held at 'Richmond town' is dated 

 Sept. 2nd, 1729. The First mention of its being held at Stony 

 Brook is March 5th, 1717." (Anthon, Book A, p. 4.) 



152. I74I. " An Act to Enable the Justices of the Peace in the Col- 

 ony of Richmond to Finish and Compleat their Court House. 

 (Passed Nov. 7th, 1741.) 



