Chester, and to their heirs and assigns forever, full power and authority annually and once every year, and that upon the first Monday in the month of May, that they the said ffreeholders and inhabitants shall and may as formerly hath been accustomed in the sd town, to elect and choose twelve freeholders for their trustees, who shall have full power and authority, or the major part of them, to order and dispose of all or any part of the undivided land within sd town limits and precincts thereof, as fully and amply to all intents, constructions, and purposess as formerly they have used and been accustomed to do. And farther of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, we do, for us, our heirs, and succesors, grant, constitute, ordain, and appoint, by this our present charter, that all and eincrular the lands, tenements, and hereditaments herein before in this our sd royal charter and grant granted and confirmed, mentioned or intended to be granted and confirmed, shall from henceforth forever be a free borough and corporation, excepting and always reserring out of the sd borough or corporation all that tract of land scituate and being upon the east side of Harlem river aforesd, and which did formerly belong to Coll. Lewis Morris, deced, and which now is in the tenure and occupation of James Graham, Esqr., and to be

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and remain out of the jurisdiction of the sd corporation. And farther of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, do, for us. our heirs, and successors, grant, constitute, ordain, and appoint, by this our present charter, that the sd town of W. Chester and all and singular the lands and tenements thereunto belonging and appertaining may forever hereafter be a free borough and town corporate, and shall be. called the borough and town of W.