Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved William Cosby, £stj., Captain General and Governour-in Chief of Our said Province of New York and the Territories depending/ thereon in America, Vice-Adniiral of the same, and Colonel in his Majesty's Army, &c. in and by and with the Consent and Advice of Our Council of Our said Province, at Fort George in Our City of New York, the Twenty nineth Day of August, in the Seventh Year of Our Reign Annoq; Dom. 1733."

This Ordinance really established the boundaries, not only of Westchester County but of the whole Province outside of Long Island, Staten Island, Manhattan Island and the County of Orange at its date. Its description of the County of Albany is believed to be the largest and fullest of that County extant, practically including in itthe whole Indian territory of the Six Nations westward, wherever they ruled in 1733. By it the southern portion of the "Oblong" was formally annexed to, and made apart of the County of Westchester as it has ever since remained. It did not however extend the lines of the Manors and Patents granted before its date, and bounded by the original Colony line to the new one. The manor of Cortlandt was not thereby extended to the new Colony line established in 1731. Mr. Robert Livingston a few years after the date of this ordinance, undertook

to claim that his Manor of Livingston was by implied intendment extended to the new Colony line, and instituted an ejectment suit against tlie then owners of the part of the Oblong adjoining his manor, but he did not succeed. Some of the papers in this matter which the writer has examined show, however, that the "Oblong" owners were exceedingly alarmed at this claim. This Ordinance is also of interest as being a good admirable example of an instrument of royal rule confined to the British Crown Colonies in America.