And also, that there shall be in each Town, Mannor, and Precinct, by the Freeholders and Inhabitants hereof, in every respective County annually two Assessors, and one Collector, which Supervizors, Assessors, and Collectors, shall be annually chose in every Town on the first Tuesday in April, or such days as is appointed bj' their Charters or Patents, which Supervizors so chosen shall annually meet at the County Town in each respective County, on the first Tuesday in October, and at such other time and times as the said Supervizors shall judge and find necessary and Convetiient," to j)erform the duties of their office.^

In 1722 the number of Supervizors was increased in the County of Westchester by a special Act, passed on the 6th of November in that year, as the former Act which applied to the whole Province, worked unc(iually in some respects in Westchester. It provided " for such Mannor or Mannors as (in their Rates and Taxes) have usually been or hereafter nuiy be divided into two or more Divisions. That a Supervizor may in like manner be chosen for each of such Divisions by the Freeholders and Inhabitants thereof. And wliere the said Inhabitants shall omit to make such annual choice in any of the said Divisions, or in such Mannor or Mannors, where not above twenty Inhabitants do dwell or reside, the Owner or Owners of such Mannor or Mannors, or of such Division thereof as aforesaid, or their Stewards or De[)uties, shall be deemed and esteemed the Supervizors thereof respectively, and have the same Powers, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, whatsoever as those chosen by virtue of the Act above mentioned.^