And be it Further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Town of Eastchester, in the County of Westchester, be, and is hereby declared to be and remain forever a distinct parish from the Parish of Westchester, Eastchester, Lower Yonkers, and the Manor of Pelham, by the name and style of the Parish of Eastchester, in the County of Westchester ; Provided, that the Freeholders and Inhabitants thereof do maintain a good orthodox Protestant minister in the said town of Eastchester ; any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof, iu any ways notwithstanding."

2 26 ' HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

The above Act was disannulled by Queen Anne in Council in 1702^ 3, as appears from the following in a letter addressed by the Lords of Trade to Lord Cornbury, dated Whitehall, Jan. 26th, 1702, occurs the following :

"P. S. -- Since the writing of this letter, upon consideration of the Act for declaring the town of Eastchester to be a distinct parish, «fcc, and of the reasons offered to us against it by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, we have prepared a report to be laid before Her Majesty with our humble opinion that the same be disallowed.""

Again their lordships writing to the same, dated Whitehall, April 7 th, 1703, say:

" We have told you in a former letter that we had prepared a report with our opiuion for disannulling the Act declaring the Town of East Chester to be a distinct Parish, &c. Which having accordingly been done, We likewise send you a Copy of Her Majesty's Order in Council for that effect."6