30S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Chester may or ought to do, by the laws and statutes of our realm of Eng- 

 land and this our province of N. York. And we do further, for us, our heirs, 

 and successors, give and grant unto the s f l mayor, aldermen, and common coun- 

 cil of ye s 1 ' borough for the time being, and to their successes forever, full power 

 and authority to nominate and appoint, from time to time, one Serjeant of the 

 mace, and all other inferior officers and ministers which they shall think to be 

 convenient and neccessar}', and which are customary in any of our corpora- 

 tions in our realm of England, for ye service of the s ( l borough and town ; all 

 which officers being from time to time appoint by the s d mayor and alderman 

 as afores'di we do, for us, our heirs and successors, by these presents, constitute 

 and establish in their several offices, and do give them and every of them full 

 power and authority to use and exercise ye same within sd borough and town, 

 and within the limits and franchises thereof during ye will and pleasure of the 

 s d mayor and alderman as fully and freely as any other the like officers in or of 

 any of the like corporations in our realm of England lawfully may or ought to 

 do, and the s d office of mayor shall from thenceforth forever be annual, and 

 that the s' 1 mayor, alder", and common council shall from henceforth forever 

 have frank and free election of the s d mayor, to be chosen yearly out of the 

 number of the s' 1 aldermen, and that by the votes of the greatest number of the 

 said freeholders and inhabitants of the said corporation, and all other the said 

 officers and ministers out of the rest of the number of the s f l freeholders and 

 inhal litants by ye greater number of the s d mayor, alderman, and common council, 

 and when and so often as any of the aforesa'd* alderman and common council 

 who are hereby nominated and created for their limetime, or until they or any 

 of them shall be lawfully removed, or volluntarily remove themselves from the 

 s d corporation ; ye said aldermen to be elected and chosen out of the number of 

 the s d common council, and the number of the common council t"> be chosen 

 and made up out of the freemen of the s d corporation by the grater vote of the 

 s cl freeholders and inhabitants thereof, and that always within fourteen days 

 after the death or removal of any of them as afors'd. And farther our will and 

 pleasure is that the first Monday in the month of May, yearly, shall be forever 

 the day of election of the s d mayor and all other s d officers and ministers which 

 shall yearly succeed in the s'l borough, unless the s cl mayor for the time being 

 happen to die or be lawfully remov d within the year, in which case our pleasure 

 is that the afores'd freeholders and inhabitants shall within fourteen days after 

 the death or removal of any such mayor for the time being, as afores'd. proceed 

 to election to some other of the s d aldermen to supply the place of the s<i mayor, 

 being void as afores ,f i ; and that Coll. Caleb Heathcott, the present mayor, shall 

 immediately, before he take upon him the said office and place, take the oaths 

 lately appointed by act of Parliament instead of the oaths of alliegiance and 

 supremacy, and that the same be administered to him in the presence of our s d 

 cap' n and gener'l and govor'r in chief of our s d province of New York ; and the 

 s d Coll. Caleb Heathcott having taken ye said oaths, shall cause the same to be 

 given in his presence as well to such persons as ye s' 1 Coll. Caleb Heathcott, shall 

 at any time during his mayoralty leave to be his deputy in his absence as afores'd* 

 as to the aldermen and common council created as afores' d > and to the recorder 

 and all such other officers and ministers as shall be chosen in the said borough 

 for the better government of the same, and that before they or any of them shall 



