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.

For the next thirty-five years the Bounds of the County remained unchanged, no other Ordinance or Act relating to the limits of Westchester was made or enacted. The division line in the Hudson River and in the Sound, however, became questioned in criminal Proceedings. To settle all questions on ihis subject of every kind, whatsoever, on the 30th of December, 17(58, the very last day of that year, an Act was passed, "To ascertain Part of the Southern and Western Boundaries " of the County of Westchester, the Eastern Boundaries of Orange County, and Part of the Northern Bounds of Queens County." ' It settled the jurisdiction over, and also the title to, all the islands and inlets in the Sound, many of tbem mere masses of naked rock, rising from its waters. It is in these words ;

" Whereas there are many Islands lying and being in the Sound, to the Eastward of Frog's Neck, and Northward of the main channel, opposite to the County of Westchester, several of which are not included in any county in this Province.