"The Patroons shall forever possess all the lands situate within their limits, together with the produce, superficies, minerals, rivers, and fountains thereof, with high, low, and middle jurisdiction, hunting, fishing, fowling, and milling, the lands remaining allodial, but the jurisdiction as of a perpetual hereditary fief, devolvable by death as well as to females as to males, and, fealty and homage for which is to be rendered to the Company, on each of such occasions, with a pair of iron gauntlets, redeemable by twenty guilders within a year and six weeks at the Assembly of the XIX here, or before the Governor there; with this understanding, that in case of division of said fief or jurisdiction, be it high, middle, or low, the parts shall be, and remain, of the same nature as was originally conferred upon the whole, and fealty and homage must be rendered for each part thereof by a pair of iron gauntlets, redeemable by twenty guilders as aforesaid.

And should any Patroon, in course of time, happen to prosper in his colonie to such a degree as to be able to found one or more towns, he shall have authority to appoint officers and magistrates there, and make use of his Colonie, according to the pleasure and the quality of the persons, all saving the Company's regalia.^

And should it happen that the dwelling places ot private Colonists become so numerous as to be ac-

1 Charter of l''2n, art. XVIII. -Rigbts of Sovereignty.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.