the next day ^Ir. de Lancey introduced the bill. 'The jury act referred to required all jurors to be possessed either in their own rights and names, or that of Trustees, or in that of their wives, of "a freehold in lands, messuages, or tenements, or rents, in fee, feetail, or for life, of the value of sixty pounds New York currency (S150) free of all incumbrances." In the City of New York alone personalty of sixty pounds value was permitted as a qualification. The object of Mr. de Lancey's bill was to make the tenants in the Manors, who were not freeholders, subject to jury duty. This legislative action proves that none of the leases in the manor of Philipsburgh were " fee-farm " leases, that is leases in perpetuity, for such leases were "freeholds," and the "tenants freeholders," by law; and that the same thing was true of a "great part " of the leases in the Manor of Cortlandt. Mr. de Lancey's attempt to aid his constituents was not successful. His bill failed to pass, but why, the journals of the House do not show. Probably the tenants of the Manors were in a majority sufficient to control their members in the House. The two members for the County had the tenants of Philipsburgh, and of the four smaller manors of Scarsdale, Pelham, Morrisania and Fordham among their constituents, and " The Manor of Cortlandt had its own representative. One of the county members was Frederick Pliilipse, the third, and the then, LordofPliilijiseburgh (the other being John Thomas of Harrison), and the member for the Manor of Coi'tlandt, was Pierre van Cortlandt, of Croton, of the second branch of that family, and subsequently the first Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York. Both the count}' members had a majority of Manor tenants in their constituency.