or directions of any riding, township or townsliips, j)lacc or jurisdiction, either upon the main or upon Long Island, but shall in all cases, things and nnatters, be deemed, reputed, taken and held, as an absolute, entire, enfranchised townsliip, manor and place of itself in this government, and shall be ruled, ordered and directed, in all matters as to government accordingly, by the governor and his council, and the general courts of assizes only, always provided, that the inhabitants on the said tract of land granted as aforesaid, shall be obliged to send forwards to the next towns, all ])ublic packets and letters, or Hue and Cries, coming to this place or going from it, to any other of his maj(3Sties colonies, to have and to hold the said tract of land and grant, with all and singular the appurtenances, premises, together with the privileges, immunities, franchises, and advantages herein given and granted, unto the said Thomas Pell, his heirs and assigns, to the proper use and behoof of the said Thomas Pell, forever, iirmly, freely and clearly, in so large and ample manner and form and with such full and absolute immunities and j)rivileges as before is expressed, as if he had held the same immediately from his majesty the King of England, &c., &c.. 6cC., &c., &c., his successors, as of the manor of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in free and common socage and by fealty only, yielding, rendering and paying, yearly and every year, unto his royal highness, the duty forever, and his heirs, or to such governor as shall from time to time, be by him constituted and appointed, as an acknowledgment, one lamb upon the first day of ^lay, if the same shall be demanded. Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, in New York, on the island of Manhattan, the sixth day of October, in the 18ih year of the reign of our sovereign, Lord Charles the second, by the grace of God, of Englaiid, Scotland, France and Ireland, Kino^, Defender of the faith, c^c, SiC, ifcc, and in the year of our Lord Cfod, 1666.