370 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OK WESTCHESTER. 



hereby assign, constitute and appoint Isaac Willett and Nathaniel Underbill, the 

 rider, to be the present church-wardens, and Peter De Lancey, James Graham, 

 James van Cortlandt, Lewis Morris, John Smith, Thcophilus Bartow, Cornelius 

 Willett and Thomas Hunt, to be the present vestrymen of the said church, who 

 shall hold, possess and enjoy their respective offices until Tuesday in Easter week 

 now next ensuing, and for the keeping of the succession in the said offices our 

 royal will and pleasure is, aud we do hereby establish, direct and require, that on 

 the said Tuesday in Easter week now next ensuing, and yearly and every year 

 thereafter, for ever on Tuesday in Easter week in every year, the Rector and in- 

 habitants of the Borough Town of Weschcster in Communion of the Church of 

 England, as by law established, shall meet at the paid church, and there by the 

 majority of voices of such of them as shall so meet, elect and choose two of their 

 members to be church-wardens, and eight others of their members to be vestry- 

 men of the said church for the ensuing year, which said church-wardens and 

 vestrymen so elected and chosen, shall immediately enter upon their respective 

 offices, and hold, exercise and enjoy the same respectively, from the time of such 

 elections for and during the space of one year, aud until other fit persons shall be 

 elected and chosen in their respective places ; and in case the church-wardens or 

 vestrymen, or either of them, by these presents named and appointed, or which 

 shall hcri after lie elected and chosen, shall die or remove from the said Borough 

 Town of Westchester, before the time of their respective appointed services shall 

 be expired, or refuse or neglect to act in the office for which he or they is or are 

 herein nominated and appointed, or whereunto he or they shall or may be elected 

 and chosen, then our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby direct and ordain 

 and require the rector and inhabitants of the borough town of Westchester in com- 

 munion as aforesaid, for the time being, to meet at the said church and choose 

 other or others of their numbers in place and stead of him or them so dying, re- 

 moving or refusing to act within thirty days next after such contingency; and in 

 this case for the more due and orderly conducting the said elections, and to pre- 

 vent any undue proceedings therein, we do hereby give full power and authority 

 to, and ordain and require that the rector and the church-wardens of the said 

 church for the time being, or any two of them, shall appoint the time for such 

 election or elections, and that the rectcr of the said church, or in his absence one 

 of the church-wardens for the time being, shall give public notice thereof by 

 publishing the same at the said church immediately after divine service, on the 

 Sunday preceding the day appointed for such elections, hereby giving aud grant- 

 ing that such person or persons as shall be chosen from time to time by the rector 

 aud inhabitants of the said borough town of Westchester in communion as afore- 

 said, or the majority of such of them as shall in such case meet in manner here- 

 by directed, shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy such the office or offices to 

 which he or they shall be so elected and chosen from the time of such election 

 until the Tuesday in Easter week thence next ensuing, and until other or others 

 be legally chosen in his or their place instead, as fully and amply as the person 

 or persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen might or could have done 

 by virtue of these .presents, and we do hereby will and direct that this method 

 shall for ever hereafter be used for the filling up all vacancies that shall happen 

 in either the said offices between the annual elections above directed; and our 

 royal will and pleasure further is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and sue- 



