Then another act was passed changing the annual meeting of the Supervisors " to the Court-House at Whiteplains on account of the increase of inhabjtants of the northerly part of said County," with a like liberty to adjourn to such time and place as they should please. ^ This building was the first Court-House in Whiteplains which was burned by the Americans a day or two after the battle of Whiteplains in 1776. It stood on the same site as its successor, the old wooden Court-House on Main St., which was pulled down after the erection of the present handsome stone edifice on Rail-Koad Avenue.

Another fact of interest which shows the upward march of population of the people, both of the manors and the towns is the change in the place holding the County elections which it j^roduced. The Colonial elections, it must be remembered, were not by ballot as ours are now, but like those in England, viva voce. The term " hustings " was, and is used in England to describe the place of election, but though the thing was the same in New York, the word does not seem to have been in use here. At least no instance of its employment has been met with by the writer.

The first law on the subject passed in 1()99 directed that the Sherifi' " shall hold his Court for the same Election at the 7nost publick and usual Place of Election within City or County where the same has most usually been made." This was usually at Westchester before it was chartered as a " Boroughtown " and after that at Eastcliester.