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engraven with such form and inscription as shall be devised by the mayor, alder- 

 men and common council of the sd borough and town ; that the sd mayor, 

 alder" and common council shall and may build, or cause to be built in some 

 convenient place of the sd town a common hall or town house to be called by the 

 naniL- of the town hull of the borough and town of W. Chester, where the sd 

 mayor, alder ami cuminon council shall and may from henceforth for ever law- 

 fully assemble themselves to deliberate and consult touching the publick welfare 

 of the sd borough and town of Westchester, and that they their successors shall 

 and may from henceforth be a free guild mercaturie, and that they or the greater 

 part of them and their successors of which the mayor to be one, shall and may 

 from time to time in their publick councels freely and lawfully make and estab- 

 lish all such ordinance's, statutes, orders or by-laws as may tend to the good and 

 wholesome government of the said borough and town and to ye public benefit of 

 the inhabitants of the same, not being repugnant to the common laws and statues 

 of our realm of England, and this our province of X. York, and such ordinances, 

 by-laws, statuses, orders, and decrees as shall be made by them as aforesaid, we 

 do by these presents, for us our heirs and successors, ratify, confirm and allow 

 as good and effectual to bind all the inhabitants of the sd borough and town, and 

 do expressly will and command by these presents that the same be duly put in 

 execution, and that the sd mayor, alder 11 and common council shall at any time 

 or times hereafter have full power to establish a ferry over the Sound, between 

 the said corporation and the island of Nassau, in such convenient place or places 

 as to the sd mayor and to the greater part of the said alder 11 shall seem meet and 

 convenient, and to take such fees and perquisites for the same for the use of the 

 sd corporation, as is now paid for the fferidge between N. York and the sd island. 

 And farther, for the more orderly government of the said borough and town, 

 according to the form of the best governed towns and corporations of our realm 

 of England, Wee do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and 

 grant unto the B d mayor, alder' 11 , and common council of the s a borough and 

 town of Westchester, full power to elect and nominate one discreet and sufficient 

 person, learned in ye law, to be recorder and town clerk of the sd borough and 

 town of W. Chester, during the pleasure of the sd mayor, alder'n, and common 

 council, and such person or persons as they the sd mayor, aider' 11 , and common 

 council shall choose to be recorder and town clerk of the sd borough and town, 

 Wee do, for us, our heirs and successes, make, ordain, and constitute recorder 

 and town clerk of the sd borough and town, and that the sd person or persons 

 may execute their s d offices, b}- themselves or lawful deputy or deputies, so that 

 the same be first approved of by the sd mayor and the major part of the said 

 alder'", and wee do hereby authorize the said recorder and town clerk, his or 

 their lawful deputy or deputies, to use and exercise such jurisdictions and au- 

 thority as the recorder and town clerk doth or ought to do in the like corpora- 

 tions iu our realm of England. And further, we do by these presents, for us, 

 our heirs and successors, make ordain and constitute the sd mayor and aldermen 

 of the sd borough and town of W. Chester to be justices of the peace within the 

 sd bounds and limits of the sd town, and do hereby give them full power and 

 authority to do and execute all and every act and acts, thing and things whatso- 

 ever, within the sd bounds and limits of the s d borough and town, in as absolute 

 and ample manner as any justice of the peace within the sd county of W. 



