''At a mayor^s court held in Westchester, December, 1734, Present, William Leggett, Esq., mayor, William Firster, recorder, Nathaniel Underbill, Thomas Hunt, Joshua Hunt and Gabriel Leggett, aldermen, <fcc. The recorder presented the freedom of the town to the Hon. James de Lancey, Esq., and John Chambers, attorney at law, which was read and approved : and thereupon it was ordered that the mayor, recorder and aldermen do forthwith wait on the said James de Lancey, Esq., and John Chambers, at the house of William Burnett, and deliver the same

a Smith's Hist, of N. Y. The daily wages of the representatives, were regulated by sundry acts of Assembly, b Town Rec. c Town Rec. ... .

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unto them, and desire their acceptance of the same. Accordingly the court adjourned. "a

The town properly'' is at present managed by a board of three trustees^ who represent the mayor, aldertnen and commonalty of the ancient borough of Westchester. The following act was passed by the legislature of this state, on the 19th of March, 1813, entitled "an act relative to the duties and privileges of towns." The 28th section of which directs,

"That the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Westchester, in the county of Westchester, may, on the day of their annual town meeting, under the usual manner of electing town officers, choose six freeholders resident in this town for trustees, and the said trustees or a majorily of them, shall and may order and dispose of, all or any part of the undivided lands within the said town, as fully to every purpose, as trustees have been used to do, under any patent or charier io the said town, and may continue to lease out the right and privilege of setting and keeping a ferry across the East river from the said town of Westchester to the town of Flushing, in Queens county, in like manner, at the same rates of ferriage, under the same rules and regulations, and for the like purposes, as they have lawfully been accustomed to do, since the eighteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five.""^