THE TOWN" QF WESTCHESTER. 37 I 



cessors, give and grant that as well the church-wardens and vestry, or those 

 present nominated and appointed as such, as shall from time to time be hereafter 

 elected and chosen as is herein directed, shall have, and they are hereby invested 

 with full power and authority to execute their several and respective offices in 

 as full and ample manner as any church-wardens or vestrymen in that part of 

 our kingdom of Great Britain called England, or in this our province of Xtw 

 York, can or lawfully may execute their said respective offices ; and farther our 

 royal will and pleasure is, and we do by these presents for us, our heirs and suc- 

 cessors, give, grant, ordain and appoint, that the rector and church-wardens of 

 said church for the time being, or any two of them, shall and may from time to 

 time as occasion shall require, summon and call together at such day and place 

 as they shall thiuk proper the said rector, church-wardens and vestrymen for the 

 time being to meet in vestry, giving them at the least one day's notice thereof, 

 and we hereby require them to meet accordingly; and we do hereby give, grant 

 and ordain, that the said rector, and one of the said church-wardens for the time 

 being at least, together with the majority of the said vestrymen of the said 

 church, for the time being, being met in vestry as above directed, shall for ever 

 hereafter, have, and they are hereby invested with full power and authority by a 

 majority of their voices to do and execute in the name of the rector and inhabit- 

 ants of the borough town of Westchester, in communion of the Church of Eng- 

 land as by law established, all and singular powers and authorities herein before 

 given and granted to the said rector and inhabitants of the borough town of 

 "Westchester in communion of the Church of England as by law established, 

 any wise touching or relating to such lands ; messages, tenements, real and per- 

 sonal estate whatsoever, as they the said rector and inhabitants of the borough 

 town of Westchester, in communion as aforesaid, shall or may acquire for the 

 use of the said church, and also in like manner to order, direct, manage, and 

 transact the general interest, business and affairs of our said corporation, and 

 also shall have full power and authority in like manner to make and ordain such 

 rules, orders, and ordinances as they shall judge convenient for the good govern- 

 ment and discipline of the members of said church, provided such rules, orders 

 and ordinances be not repugnant to the laws of that part of our kingdom of 

 Great Britain called England, or this our province of New York, but as near as 

 may be agreeable thereto, and that the same be fairly entered in a book or 

 books to be kept for that purpose, and also in like manner to appoint the form 

 of the common seal herein before granted, and the same to alter, break, and re- 

 make at their direction ; and also in like manner to appoint such officer or officers 

 as they shall stand in need of, always provided that the rector of the said church 

 for the time being shall have the sole power of nominating and appointing the 

 clerk to assist him in performing divine service, as also the sexton — anything here- 

 in contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding — which clerk and sexton 

 shall hold and enjoy their respective offices during the will and pleasure of the 

 rector of the said church for the time being ; and in case of any avoidance of the 

 said church either by the death of the rector thereof or otherwise, then our royal 

 will and pleasure is that the powers and authority hereby vested in the rector, 

 church-wardens, and vestrymen, in vestry to meet as above mentioned, shall, until 

 the said church he legally supplied with another incumbent, vest in and be exe- 

 cuted by the church-wardens of the said church for the time being, provided al- 



