Chester, where the sd mayor, aldern and common council shall and may from henceforth for ever lawfully assemble themselves to deliberate and consult touching the publick welfare of the sd borough and town of Westchester, and that they and their successors shall and may from henceforth be a free guild meicaturie, and that they or the greater part of them and their successors of which the mayor to be one, shall and may from lime to time in their public councels freely and lawfully make and establish all such ordinances, statutes, orders or by-laws as may tend to the good and wholesome government of the said borough and town and to ye public benefit of the inhabitants of the same, not being repugnant to the common laws and statues of our realm of England, and this our province of N. York, and such ordinances, by-laws, statutes, orders, and decrees as shall be made by them as aforesaid, we do by these presents, for us our heirs and successors, ratify, confirm and allow as good and effectual to bind all the inhabitants of the sd borough and town, and do expressly will and command by these presents that the same be duly put in execution, and that

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the sd mayor, aldern and common councel shall at any time or times hereafter have full power to establish a ferry over the Sound, between the said corporation and the island of Nassau, in such convenient place or places as to the sd mayor and to the greater part of the said aldern shall seem meet and convenient, and to take such fees and perquisites for the same for the use of the sd corporation, as is now paid for the fferidge between N.. York and the sd island.