Geoiuje the Second, by the Grace of (rod, of Great Uritain, France, and Ireland, KlX(i, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all Our loving subjects inhabiting or being in our Province of Xew York, and to all others whom it doth or may concern, Greeting,

'Anil John Pcll who was tho nicnihcr for the County in 1691, and vote*! for tho art of t!uit year, was of that old family which then JWB- •easeil the Manor of I'elliani.

Whereas since the passing of the Acts of Assembly in the year 1683, and 1691, for dividing this Province and its Dependencies into Shires and Counties, there are several acquisitions of Lands by New Settlements, and otherwise, particularly the Equivalent Lands Surrendered by the Colony Connecticut, whereby this Colony has became larger than it was before. And Wlierenx notwithstanding that the Counties lying on the West side of Hudson'!^ River, were by the said Acts intended to be parted and divided by a West Line to be drawn from IfiidKon's River, at the respective Stations and Places on the said River, mentioned in the said Acts, to the utmost extent of Our said Province on the West side of the said River ; and that the Counties lying on the East side of the said ffudsnii's River were likewise, by the said Acts, intended to be parted and divided by an lOast Line to be drawn from IIud.'<on'>i ff/ye/- at the respective Places and Stations on the said River, mentioned in the said Acts, to the utmost extent of Our said Province, on the East side of the said River, Yet the People living on the Borders of the said Counties, or some of them, for want of the said actual Running and Surveying of the said Partition Lines, protest sometimes that they are in one County, and sometimes within another, and on that pretence have committed several Abuses, and endeavored to elude all Process issuing from the Courts of Judicature, to the great hindrance of Justice, encouragement of Fugitives and Vagabonds, and to the disturbance of our Peace.