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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 302 words

The Court 01 ders that every Township & Constables jurisdiction -- The Con- Stables in their respective place shall take care under the penalty of five pounds for the neglect, that they cale together the Inhabitants & give notice that the Court of Sessions lia^e ordered & it is hereby ordered for the prevention of Damages done by wolves in this County, that the Inhabitants of every respective place shall make or cause to bo made two wolfe pitta in such places where the Inhabitants shall see most convenient : and that for every wolfe cateched kild or destroyed by the said pitts, or otherwise the heads shall be brought to the Constables who shall cutt of the earcs of from the said wolofes head and naile it up in some convenient Publick place : and that the said Constable shall pay or sattisfie for every such wolofes head soc brought to him it being made appeare that it was kild within his precints the sum of twelve shelhngs, and for the defraying of the charge of makeing of the said wolofe Pitts & killing the said wolves a rate shall be made upon the severall Inhabitants of the said Constableshipp for the defraying the said charge, and for the incurragem' of the Indians they shall have ten shillings a pice for every wolofe they kill within the severall Constableshipps, they bringing the heads first to the said Constables, and that such pitts be made between this and the twenty-fifth day of March next. And that annually a a rate be made before the first of Jan., paid before March next. The Constable having full power to see the same effected and done by virtue of this order, and to distraiue upon any that refuseth or neglecteth to pay his just proportion.'1