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.

counted towns, villages, or cities, the Company shall give orders respecting the subaltern government, magistrates, and ministers of justice, who shall be nominated by the said towns and villages in a triple number of the best qualified, from which a choice and selection is to be made by the Governor and Council ; and those shall determine all questions and suits within their district.

The Patroons who will send colonies thither, shall furnish them with due instruction agreeably to the mode of government, both in police and justice,' established, or to be established by the Assembly of the XIX, which they shall fir.«t exhibit to the Directors of the respective chambers, and have approved by the Assembly of the XIX."

The possession of the land, with everything, in, upon, or produced by it, as well as all matters of every kind, within the bounds of the patroonship, was first granted. Then follow the powers, rights, and privileges, the first of which was the high, middle, and low jurisdiction within the patroonship; a power necessarily appertaining to the ownership of the land, as requisite to the orderly government of the patroonship, the due protection of the tenants in their rights, and the determination of all controversies between themselves, or between themselves and the Patroon, or his agents, as well as the trial and punishment of criminal ofi'enses.